Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1938 — Page 14
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~ Santa Monica’s Woman - Administrative Expert
Pays Visit
to Indiana
Doris Jones, Sole U. S. Feminine Consultant in Field, Climbs Into Furnaces to Show Men She Knows Her Business.
By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD. MANNON . When California city and county officials call in
Santa Monica’s administrative consultant to untangle problems of management they experience a double shock. For they don’t expect to see Doris Haney Jones, the only woman administrative consultant in the U. S., and still ‘less do they expect a woman to know much about admin-
istrative consulting. The young Californian
is spending a month here as field rep-
resentative of the Civil Service Assembly of the U. 8. and Canada conducting a survey of Indiana’s public personnel practices and policies for the purpose of determining what gives the taxpayer the most
efficient service.
Although she has installed personnel systems in the cities of
Beverly Hills and Santa Ana, drafted Santa Monica's merit the Santa Monica personnel | that until she meets with groups doubt of a woman’s ability to related to administration. Once and going over the operation of a city’s public works’
she
was chairman of the committee which system law and has been board since ifs beginning,
a member of shé. confesses of officials there is sometimes
handle all the technical problems
starts climbing through furnaces
incinerators and cooling systems in. department—processes familiar because of
her college chemical engineering training—she’s able to demonstrate that such supposedly masculine prerogatives are quite ‘within her
ken.
Surveys Merit System This ‘Week
Mrs. Jones, who is beginning a and Firemen’s merit system sionally surprised at her but she has done so many police are no bugbear.
The Indiana survey will also cover the Public Welfare, ) Division and Indiana State Employment Service. The rethe Indiana Bureau of Personnel,
system in the Department of pensation port is to
its legal
include the structure of
separations from nine states under a
this wee familiarity with
basis of operation, classification jurisdictional scope, recruitment process, in the service. Findings of the survey Spellman Foundation grant will be
sirvey of the Indianapolis Police
k, said public officials are océa-~ police administration, surveys that such assignments operation of the merit Unemployment Com=
and compensation plan, -service activities and being made in published
to establish standards for policies and practices for new jurisdic-
tions and for.
those which already are
operating under a merit
system, but whose administrators wish to effect structural reorgani-
zation, she said.
Being an administrative consultant is kind of research work means long hours, terested and start on a project you
Jones explained. While her work covers doing more on personnel practically all of her time half. She is secretary of geles Board of Supervisors to draft in the Los Angeles
County charter.
no eight-hour job. Any but once you become inhave to follow through, Mrs,
the entire field of administration she is now than ever before, having devoted to this phase during the last year and a the committee appointed by the Los An-
revision of the merit provisions She has already drafted a
number of city manager charters for California cities, which have
‘home rule.
The most interesting results are “The field is not overcrowded, perhaps beAsked how she happened to choose
istration work, she said. cause it is highly technical.” her profession Mrs. Jones replied: guess that’s bound
achieved in personnel admin-
“My father was a Hoosier. I
to make me interested in politicians.”
. Orchard School Students Await Excursion
Orchard School students are they go “railroading” Sunday on arranged by the school. teachers will leave for a day crammed
anticipating a thrilling outing when the second annual train excursion More than 200 children, parents and the Union Station at 8:30 a. m, rain or shine, full of gay adventure. Somewhere in southern Indiana at luncheon time the train will stop, picnic baskets will be
brought out and those who like may fish or wade in White Water
River. charge of the expedition. With the dual purpose Indiana history the party carried a passenger. train for years. Beech Grove shops the train’
Mrs. Thomas:A. Hendricks is chairman of the committee in
of teaching a little railroading and early is to be routed on a division that hasn't
Following the first stop at the
will leave the main line at Valley
EDITOR TO SPEAK . . .
Miss Ruth Wilson, - Louisville; speaker at Pi Beta Phi Sorority’s
eon. April 30 at the Columbia Club. She is chapter: letter -- editor of The Arrow, sorority publication.
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More Reservations Announced
For Symphony Society Benefit
Additional reservations for the Indiana State Symphony Society’s card party Monday afternoon were announced today by Mrs. Thaddeus B. Baker, reservations chairman. - The event is sponsored by the Women’s Committee at the Marott Hotel and proceeds will go to the orchestra.
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Marjorie Call Becomes Bride of Noted Harpist
Times Special ROACHDALE, Ind, April 22.— Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Salzedo are on a wedding trip to Atlantic City. They are to live at 160 Riverside Drive, New York. : The bride was Miss Marjorie Call, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Carl Elmo
Call before her marriage yesterday:
at the home of her parents here.
The Rev. Homer W. Weisbecker,:
pastor of the Reachdale Presbyter-
: |ian Church, read the ceremony in the presence of the immediate
families. A luncheon and informal reception followed. Miss Call formerly was first harpist with the Indianapolis Syniphony Orchestra. Graduated from the Curtis Institute ‘of ‘Music in Philadelphia, she attended DePauw
Junction, down- near Cincinnati, and switch over to a veritable
Toonerville trolley freight line Stops will be made at Harrison, views of the old White mounds. The forthcoming trek differs
known as the Brookville, Metamora and Laurel for Water: canal locks, grist mill and Indian
White Water division.
slightly from last year’s very suc-
cessful expedition to Cincinnati which was more strictly a railroading
experience. On that trip
attended a broadcast at WLW.
Club Meetings
Mrs. E. G. Driftmeyer was to entertain the Spade and Trowel Garden Club today at its monthly meeting. “Planning for the Succession of Bloom” was to be Mrs. Frank White's topic. ” FJ 8 Chapter S, P. E. O. Sisterhood will hold an 8 p. m. Tuesday meeting with Miss Mary Ann Tall, 3146 N. Ilinois St. C. B. Dyer is to speak on “Gems.”
® 8 8 Myron Green, secretary of the industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce, will be guest speaker at . the Woman's Rotary Club, 12:30 p. m. Monday meeting at the Columbia Club. His subject is to be “The Morning’s Mail.” ; Ce The Children’s Sunshine Club of Sunnyside will entertain with a 12:30 p. m. Wednesday luncheon pridge at the Spink-Arms Hotel. Decorations are to be spring flowers in blue vases and favors will be wrist corsages. Mrs. W. J. Overmire, chairman, is to be assisted by Mesdames Claud Geisendorf, W. B. Sequartz, Harry McHale, Lynn Williamson Jr., W. R. Beck and Charles
Maley. »
8 =» . Mrs. Willard Lockard recently was elected president at the covered dish luncheon of the Woodside Branch’s Mothers’ Club of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society. Mrs. Ray Harlan was elected secretary. Luncheon committee members included Mrs. Jack Crawley, chairman, assisted by Mesdames Harlan, Ralph Howery and Glen Shaw. The Indianapolis: Literary Club will hold a regular meeting Monday i at the clubrooms, 824 N. Pennsylvania St. “The American Character” ‘is to be Charles R. Bar-
ry’s topic. ‘ 8 ® ”
Mrs. William W. Knapp, 3243 Central” Ave., assisted by Mrs. Joseph S. Hubbard, will be hostess to -the Fortnightly Study Club at its Monday: meeting. Mrs. W. L. Holdaway’s subject is to be “Historic and Memorial Trees of Indiana,” and Mrs. R. P. Beightol will discuss #Northwest Territory.”
Miss Myrtle Miller to Take Vows Tonight
The marriage of Miss Myrtle E. Miller, daughter of Mrs. * Orville Miller, to Earl Lewis Topmiller will take place tonight at the home of the bride-to-be’s mother. : “The Rev. Fr. William F. Keefe will read the ceremony. Miss Mary Margaret Flick will be the bride's only attendant. Earl Mitchell will be best man. The couple will live
116 parents. and 96 children stopped ab the switch yards, saw a freight train made up and locomotives take' - on water. They visited the Cincinnati roundhouse,
Taft Museum and
University, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Mr. Salzedo, New York harpist and composer, is a native of France. He came to America in 1909 at the request of Arturo Toscanini to be solo harpist with the:Metropolitan
the National Association of Harpist.
.| Opera orchestra. He is president of
ervations are counted.
be purchased at the door, according to Mrs. Baker:
clude Mesdames H. H. dick, Fermor S. Cannon,
Efroymson, Edgar Hauser,
Page and C. D. Porter.
‘Spann, Cole Stickle, R. 8. Sinclair, Charles B. Sommers, Raymond F.
Clifton Taylor, C.. E. Whitehill
Macy Teetor, Newcastle.
Party Arranged ,
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Reservations for 800 already have been made and arrangements committee members expect to reach the 1200 ‘capacity when last-minute res-
A limited number of tickets may
The additional reservations inArnholter, August C. Bohlen, Earl B. Barnes, Linneas C. Boyd, Jeremiah L. CaD. Laurance Chambers, Ralph M. Drybrough, Noble Dean, Samuel Dowden, John Darlington, Clarence W. William T. Eisenlohr, Glenn O. Friermood, J. C. Ertel Jr, Jack M. Harding, Paul T. Hurt, D. W. Jungclaus, Alfred W. Kuerst, E. I. Larsen, Charles W. Latham, Uz McMurtrie, Alfred .| W. Noling, Horace Nordyke, James ‘'W. Noel, Frank Peltier, Lafayette
“At other. tables will be Mesdames | F. F. Powell, David Penman, Dudley Pfaff, D. B. Shimer, Ralph
Mrs. Guy O. Carpenter (above) will appear on the program at the Vesper Service at 4 p..m. Sunday at the Central Avenue Methodist Church. The event is sponsored by the Expression Club. : Sh
Benefit Dance =
+ Three additional parties attending the Stansfield Circle - benefit dance Saturday ( night were announced today. \The event will be held at the W tock Club. .Pro-
their home before:the dance. Guests will intlude Messrs. and Mesdames Addison Parry, Paul Fisher, Thomas Harvey Cox, Harold B. Sparks, Mrs. John Darlington and Stanley Hill. A party at the Woodstock Club for dinner and the dance. will include Mr. and Mrs. William 'R. Scaff, Merritt Fields, Thornton Sterrett, Paul W. Finney and George T. Landis. - Messrs. Mesdames Paul A. Schaffner, A, J.
dance. Another Messrs. ‘Campbell, Raub Emerson, Conlin
lom, Charles Jones, Dr. and Mrs.
Meridian Club|
and
Shoptaugh and Marvin E. Curle|" will join the party later "at the
group will include and. Mesdames Albert
Alexander, John Shirley, Paul Cul-
Sparrow, Thomas J. Scanlon, San- | ford Teter, M. Clifford Townsend, |
Harry V. Wade, Edgar Zimmer and |
Raymond Rice and George Dickson and Paul Starrett, Sr
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For Miss Pell
Among the many parties: being
; Arturo ‘Grassi, Florence, will arrive Sunday to visit his mother and father-in-law, Mr. and ‘Mrs. Ralpn Alexander Lemcke. He ‘landed a week ago on the S. S. Rex in New York. Since his marriage to Miss Cornelia Lemcke several years ago, both he and Mts, Grassi
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Alumnae Card | Party Saturday
Mrs. Henry M. Schmidt is general arrangements chairman for Delta Zeta Alumnae Association’s card party at 2 p. m. Saturday at Ayres auditorium. On the door prize committee are Mesdames R. W. Platte, Kenneth E. Lemons and Miss Florence Condre. Mrs. Harold Worth and Misses Mary Frances Litten, Maxine Scherrer and Charlyn Murray are on the table prize committee. Reservations are to be made with Miss Josephine Ready and Miss Katherine Rubush. A style show is to be presented under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Patrick, a local fashion direcTr. :
Artemus Club to Meet Mrs. Frank Frees, Lindeburg Highlands, is to be hostess at the Artemus Club card party and breakfast at 12:30 p. m. next Friday. - Proceeds will go to the Indianapolis Day Nursery.
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Duplicate ‘Bridge. ~ Winners Announced
Mrs. Dorothy Ellis, Block’s bridge forum instructor, “announces the duplicate
winners of Tuesday's game.
Section one, North and South:
Mrs. E. C. Ball and Mrs. M. E. Bowman, first; Mrs. F. A. Abraham and Mrs. R. C. Goodwine, second. East and West, Mrs. A. M. Hedge and Mrs. H. R. Ezernack, : first; Mrs. Jack Moore and Mrs. J. T. Cracraft,
second. ; Section two, North and South:
Mrs. Arthur Pratt and Mrs. J. E. Ittenbach, first; Mrs. L. H. Brink and Mrs. J. A. Conkey, second. East. and West, Mrs. M. A. Blackburn and Mrs. V. A. Newcomer, first, and Mrs. W. E. Cassidy and Mrs. B. J.
Nutter, second.
Mothers to Meet in ‘Block’s Auditorium
The meeting of the Delta Tau
Delta Mothers’ Club of Butler University will be held at 2 p. m. Mon-
day insBlock’s Auditorium. Previous announcements of the meeting place
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‘held for Miss Mary Elizabeth Pell,
May 6, will be a1 p. m. luncheon bridge tomorrow at the Woodstock Club with Mrs. Gayle B. Wolfe as hostess. Decorations will be in a spring motif with tulips, lilies of the valley and white tapers on the table. Guests with Miss Pell are to be her mother, Mrs. Glenn J. Pell, | Mesdames Hughes Patten, George Underwood, Herbert - Werkman,
C. L. Palin, Harold M. Cumberworth, Harry Harlan, Norman Babcock, John Hughes, Joe Rand Beckett, B. K.. Westfall, Elba Branigan Jr., Franklin, and Misses Jean Underwood, Virginia Fosler and Mercedes Hardee. :
Alumnae Units Plan Covered Dish: Supper
The Delta Alumnae Club of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Association will hold a covered dish supper at 6 p. m. Monday at the home of Miss Zerelda Frick, 3118 E. Fall Creek Blvd. Assistant hostesses will be Mesdames Harold Schaefer, Max: Fritz and W. H. Skinner.
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Mrs. Richard Sharpless; soprano, will s three numbers on the annual spring musicale program of Sigma Alpha Iota music sorority at 8:15:p. m. Sunday at the World War Memorial auditorium. :
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- Crooners
National Officers Elected Without Opposition at Capital Parley.
of the American Revolution president general. “Jazz. and crooners!” she ex“Oh, you can look at me
iland tell that I ‘don’t like them.
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~ Alpha Chapt., Alpha Beta Gamma. 8:30 p. m. today. Mrs. Lagrange, 738 Weghorst, hostess.
“Marion County Pocahontas Ass'n. 8 p.m. Sat. Music. Public invited. Mrs.’J. W. CLUB : Lula Hartzog Jr. 11, W. R.C. 2 p. m. Sat. Miss Alberta Blumberg,
Lulu Mrs. Ernest. Perker, 2946 College,
Red Men’s Hall,
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.at_ the Clubhouse.
Dr. Ralph K. Hickok. president
“Hobby.” ° Exhibits will consist of patch boxes, foreign and period dolls, dogs, antique salt. shakers, etchings, paintings} handmade laces and ‘costumes, toy elephants, a temple
{bell from India and pearls from | | Palestine.
| .At-1:30 p. m.,
ness’ meeting, the: Applied Educa‘tion Section will hear a talk on «The Soul of the Home” by Dr. Francis E. Smith. ; . Miss DeRuth Sage of Western College, numbers. tin. will
Miss ‘Mary B.- White-
Mrs. Charles R. Marsing a group of French
Mrs. Ira: M. Holmes will be in charge of the tea. “Assisting them will be Mesdames B. F. Cline, L. A. Cortner, Eva L. Hitz, Will C. Hitz,
Chester A. James, E. H. Katterhenry, William E. Kennedy, How-
‘lard E. Nyhart, Minnie P. Pound-
stone, Fred A. Sims, William Storen, Ralph E. Suits, Aimee A. Thay-
er, J. R. Ferrell, Charles F. Thomp-
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Home Show-Hobby Fair Is Set - By Woman's Department Club
A Home Show and Hobby Fair will be conducted by the Woman's Department Club American Héme Department at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday
of Western College, Oxford, O.; will
is to play a group of piano
songs. ; : a. Harold K. Bachelder ‘and
J. Frank Holmes, Claude T. Hoover,
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carry out the theme of the meeting in his address “Education as a
Mary Anna Butz Becomes Butler Queen Tonight
Cee i He Miss Mary Anna Butz, 5254 N. Pennsylvania St., will be crowned Butler University Prom Queen tonight in the Murat Temple Egyptian Room. : : Chester Jaggers is prom chairman. Miss Butz will be presented with a loving cup by William Connor, junjor class president. Two cups will be presented to winners in the decorations contests. Organizations competing are Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Omicroir Pi, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Zeta Tau Alpha, sororities; Delta Tau Delta, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Chi and Sigma Nu fraternities. : Special guests at the dance will be President and Mrs. James W. Putnam, Dean and Mrs. Gino A. Ratti, Dean and Mrs. William Richardson and Dean and Mrs. Frederick D. Kershner.
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. She emphasized that it is entirely a personal dislike. If any of the daughters want to dance the “big apple” and applaud their favorite crooner, they can still retain their good standing. Mrs. Robert, in her first: inter. view after her unopposed election at the 47th: Continental Congress, said ‘that music—good music—gar= dening and bridge were her hobbies. She likes to sing in church and is an active. member of a woman's chorus in her home town of Annapolis, Md. . Officers Unopposed All national officers were elected
ly after President Roosevelt had called upon the organization to teach American youth in the fune damentals that impelled “our revolutionary ancestors to throw off the Fascist yoke.” It was Mr. Roosevelt’s first ape pearance at a D. A. R. Congress during his Administration. . In addition to Mrs. Robert, the following .were elected to office on the unopposed ticket: Mrs. John S. Heaume, Springfield, O., recording secretary general; Mrs. Loren E. Rex, Wichita, Kas, chaplain general; Mrs. Frank L. Nason, Scituate, Mass., registrar general; Mrs. Vinton -E. Sisson, Winnetka, Ill, librarian general; Mrs. Leland S. Duxbury, Minneapolis, Minn., historian general; Mrs. George D. Schermerhorn, Reading, Mich., organizing secretary general; Mrs. Willlam K. Herrin, Clarksdale, Miss, corresponding secretary general; Mrs. Joseph T. Young, Piedmont, Cal., reporter general; Lake Mahopac, N. Y., treasurer general, and Mrs. Willard Steele, Chat= tanooga, Tenn., curator general. Vice President Generals The following seven of 10 candidates were chosen for three-year terms as vice president generals: Mrs. Charles C: Haig, Washington; Mrs. Keene Arnold, Versailles, Ky.; Mrs. Arthur Rowbotham, Altavista, Va.;’ Mrs, Clarence Henry Adams, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Val Taylor, Uniontown:, Aia.; Mrs. Chester Samuel McMartin, Phoenix, Ariz, and Mrs. H. D. Shepperd, Hanover, Pa. Mrs. Victor Abbot Binord of Roxbury, Me, was chosen as a vice
fill a vacancy created by the death of Mrs. William J. Ward of Summit, N. J. Selected from six candidates for positions as honorary vice president generals were. Mrs. ‘Charlotte Boothe, South Pasadena, Cal.; Mrs. Ellett G. Drake, Beatrice, Neb.; Mrs. Robert J. Reed, Wheeling, W Va, and Mrs. William W. Reynolds, Winston-Salem, N. C.
Church Youth Group "To Present 2 Plays
“Toast” and “We Touch the Stars,” two plays, are to be presented by the High School Youth of Riverside Park Methodist Church Sunday evening at the church. Charles Massie is directing Miss Dorothy Hopping, James Davis, Richard Nelson, Alfred Speck and George Richter in one play, while the Misses Mary Lou Wilkerson, Betty Jenkins, Jean McNealy, James Daniels, Jennie Williams, Donald Olsen, Robert Clark, Edna Mae Fullwider, Phyllis Stacks, Florence Daniels, William Herdrich and Robert Fears are appearing in the other under the direction of Mrs. J. PF. Small. Robert Pock is stage
electrician.
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