Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1938 — Page 6
. THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES . — ARRANGE BETA BETA SIGMA DANCE
: ; Times Photos. are (left to right) the Misses Mary Hartmann, Josephine Welch and
Mary Ellen Kennedy.
Members of Beta Beta Sigma Sorority will entertain tonight at the
guests will be (left to right) the Misses Dorothy Jacobs, Priscilla er .Indianapolis Athletic Club with a dance. Assisting with SrTangements
Johnson and Susan Gatch.
The Wellesley Club will entertain Wednesday at the Marott Hotel
for students ‘of the college who are home for the holidays. Among the
Yule Gaiety Continues; McClennen and Alig
Tea Dances Set Today
200 To Be Guests at Event in I. A. C. Venetian Room ; Younger Set to Be Feted at Woodstock Club; Griffith Sisters to Be Hostesses.
By VIRGINIA MOORHEAD MANNON
While everyone’s been doing his best for 48 hours to follow the dictum of the ancient saw, “At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year,” the frosting of frivolity prodigally spread over the holiday season is rising to new pinnacles on Christ-
mas Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis McClennen will entertain 200 guests at a tea-dance this afternoon in the Venetian Room of the Indianapolis Athletic Club for Miss Mary Elam and E. Howard Roorbach, who are to be married Saturday at the home of Miss Elam’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Elam. Mr. and Mrs. McClennen arrived yesterday from Cambridge, Mass., for a week’s visit with the latter’s par‘ents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ray Adams. The tea table, upon which a gold tree with purple ornaments will be used as a centerpiece, will be laid with a gold and purple cloth. Gilded Christmas trees also will screen the orchestra. Assisting the hostess will be her parents and her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Elder Adains. Mrs. McClennen will wéar an ankle-length gown of® honey and beige crepe and a corsage of orchids. Miss Elam will-wear pearl and gold accessories with her long gown of royal blue crepe with front panel of cherry red. She, too, will wear orchids. Mrs. William Ray .Adams will wear a purple hat and orchids with her street-length gown of gray sheer wool accented with a silver belt and silver slippers.
The Misses Katharine Fulton and Jane Rauch wil] give a luncheon and bridge party tomorrow at Woodstock Club for Miss Elam. Guests will include Mrs. Charles Edward Test of Chicago, who is visiting her parents, Mr: and Mrs. D. Laurance Chambers; Mrs. John
Clinton Lasher of New York, who is the holiday guest of her par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Morrison Jr.; Mrs. William Spiegel
and Miss Mary DePrez of Shelbyville, Mrs. Ronald Woodard, Mrs.
- William H. Thompson, the Misses Helene Petri, Ruth Zinn, Helen’ Taggart, Betsy Home, Estelle Rauh Burpee, Esther Jane Throekmorton, Louise Vonnegut, Virginia Layman and ‘Martha Coleman.
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius O. Alig will entertain 150 members of the younger set, home from school for the Christmas vacation, at a teabo nce at Woodstock Club this afternoon for their daughter, Selena, ). who is here from Ethel Walker School at Simsbury, Conn, and their |= gon, Cornelius Jr., who has returned from St. Paul's School, Concord, \ H. Friends of the host and hostess who will assist will include Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, Judge and Mrs. ‘Russell J. Ryan, Mrs. Post Milliken and Mrs. Alig’s g mother, Mrs. Frank D. Stalnaker.
. Pfafflins to Ertertain at Tea
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Pfafilin will entertain a few friends for
"tea this afternoon for Mrs. Joseph M. Dixon of Pittsburgh, who is
"the holiday guest of Dr. and Mrs. Harry C. Kahlo. Mr. and Mrs. John Gordon Kinghan will entertain informally at 5 o'clock this afternoon. : Dr. and Mrs. Philip B. Reed are to give a “house-toasting” party from ‘5 to 7 o'clock next Monday.
~The Misses Helen and Sylvia Griffith will give luncheon parties morrow at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore B.
riffith. Miss Helen Griffith, who is home from Radcliffe College, .
~ will entertain members of the 1937 Tudor Hall graduating class. Her guests will include the Misses Jane Adams, Rosalind Barskin, Ann Davis, Ruth Fishback, Barbara Hadley, Dorothy Jean Hendrickson, izabeth Kade!, Harriet Patterson, Jané Rottger, Eleanor Winslow, Norma Ballard, French Lick; Ann Crume, Peru; Catherine Kemp, Frankfort; Jean Lang, Columbus; Marjorie McCullough, Anderson and Barbara Prentice, Terre Haute.
Guests of Miss Sylvia Griffith, who has returned from Smith College, will be members of the 1938 dor Hall graduating class, including the Misses Barbara Brown, Jane Crawford, Anne Elder, Anne Fox, Susannah Jameson, Ann Johnston, Elizabeth Kiger, Jane Leasure, Dorothy Metzger, Rosalie Lurvey, Jean Ottinger, Betty Porter, Martha Ann Schaf and Betsy Wolfe. :
Clarks Spend Holiday at Nice :
The Misses Martha Ellen and Rachel Clark and their brother, George Clark, who have been abroad since August, are spending the Christmas holidays with friends at a chateau in Nice. After New Year's, Miss Martha” Ellen Clark will accompany her sister to Grenoble, where she has been studying at the University of Grenoble. ‘George Clark will leave next week for a trip to the Scandinavian countries, England and Germany. The Misses Clark are planning to spend Easter in Turkey. Robert Ensminger, who has been visiting in Chicago en route ‘home from the University of Arizona at Tucson, returned Saturday to spend the holidays with his father, Dr. Leonard A. Ensminger. ‘Mr, and Mrs. Jack Daugherty of Louisville and their children, Betty ‘Dean, are the Christmas guests of Mrs. Daugherty’s mother, Mabel Taylor Dean. Mr..and Mrs. Ralph W. Lieber and their ghter, Betty, and son, Ralph Walther, are spending the holiday
Turkey Run with Mrs. Lieber’s sister, Mrs. C. Carroll Wilson, and .
. Wilson of Danville, Ill, and their daughters, Caroline, Miriam d Dorothy Aan.
Marybelle Neal, Mary #™
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colleges will attend and the S. T. A. at the club preceding the dance.
Euvola Club Will Entertain 400 at Formal Dance Tonight;
to Give. Dinner
Euvdla Club members will entertain 400 guests tonight at a formal dance at the Columbia Club. Several members home from school and
G. Club will entertain with a dinner
Guests at the dinner will be the Misses Peggy Trusler, Martha Jo Runyon, Marion Sturm, Patricia Denham, Sylvia Pittman, Vhginia Goodrich, Sue Christena ‘and Joan Dougan. Hosts will be Andrew Didel, Roger Sheridan, Edward Taylor, Robert Pitcher, Howard Burkholder, Jack Busch, Steve Minton, Robert Meyer and Robert Evans.
Messrs. and Mesdames H. H. Martin, H. G. Colwell and H. H. Wells will be chaperons at the dance,
Club members home for the holidays who are expected to gttend include Miss Peggy Lee Bridges,
tian College; Miss Jean Washington Junior College; Miss Eleanor Winslow, Knox School, and Miss Jean York, Stephens College.
Active members of the club at Tudor Hall and Shortridge who are assisting with arrangements. include the Misses Rose Jane Boggs, Martha Jo Runyan, Perkey Marshall, Joyce Lindsay, Jean Sims, Mary Stuart Socwell, Jackie Wells, Barbara. Martin, Sally Walker, Sally Evans, Betty Jane Mitchell, Peggy Clayton, Suzanne Calwell, Betsy Barlowe, Carol Kreusser, Norma Hyman, Suzannah Cook, Nancy Ragan, Mary Jane Shadinger and Virginia Wells,
Other members who are aiding include the Misses Martha Wynne, Nancy York, Jean West, Kathryn Jackson, Nancy Bell, Patty Smith, Eleanor Hazen, Helen Lingeman, Joyce . Pendergast, Mary Jane Hess, Joan Mumford, Caroline Hyman, Patty Hill, Jean Stewart, Jane Reynolds, Marge McAbee, Iorothy Street, Shirley St. Pierre anc Catherine Peet.
Meridian Hills Club Will Give
New Year’s Tea
Meridian Hills Country Club will greet 1939 with its annual New Year’s Day tea®from 4 to 8 p. m. Sunday. Officers and directors and their wives will be hosts and hostesses.
They include Messrs. and Mesdames Walter L. Brandt, Charlton N. Carter, M. G. Knox, Earl Beck, Ira A. Minnick, Austin V. Clifford, Howard R. Meeker, Henry Holt, I. W. Sturgeon and Roy Sahm. On New Year’s Eve, the club will entertain with a formal dinner bridge party. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Flood are chairmen, and their assistants are Méssrs. and Mesdames I. BE. Woodard, Francis P. Huston, Arthur E. Krick, Frank H. Langsenkamp, Hulbert J. Smith, A, D. Hitz and M. G. Knox. Both contract and auction sections will be arranged. Tommy , Parker’s orchestra will play for the junior dance for high school and college sons anc daughters of members and their guests 4Dec. 29. :
At Home in Chicago
Mr. and Mrs. Robert LeGrande are at home at the Milner Hotel in Chicago following their marriage Dec. 1. Mrs. LeGrande, the daughter of Robert W. Carden, Lexington, is a former resident of Indianapolis. She was Miss Christine before her marriage.
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DePauw; Miss Peggy Hussey, ChrisShirk, |
2 Engremerts Are Announced; Dinner Tonight
Engagements have been announced by the parents of two Indianapolis young women and a bridal dinner will be held tonight for a couple who will be married toMOITOW. The engagement and approaching marriage of Miss Nora Combs has been announced by her parents, Mr. and MrS. Elbert Combs. Miss Combs will become the bride of Kenneth Hobbs, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Hobbs, at 8 p. m. Saturday at the South Side Nazarene Church. ” » t Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Lee, Champaign, Ill, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, to John L. Campbell, Marion, son of Mrs. L. M. Campbell, Miss Lee is a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and a member of Sigma Kappa Sorority. Mr. Campbell attended DePauw and Indiana Universities and will be graduated from. the Indiana University School ‘of\ Dentistry in June. He is 8 Tester f Delta Upsilon Fratery .
” 2 8 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harvey Bolin, Willow Branch, will entertain tonight at the Canary Cottage with a bridal dinner for their daughter, ‘Miss Eloise Bolin, and her fiance, Gilbert Alan Kellberg, who will be married at 4:30 p. m. tomorrow at the McKee Chapel of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. Guests will include Dr. and Mrs. George Davis, Misses Ruth Kellberg, Elaine Bolin and Virginia Wilson, Greenwood; Dr. y Tharpe and Norman Phillips, all members of the bridal party; Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Tharpe, Miss Frances Wishard, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wilson, Greenwood, and Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Simmons, Toledo. :
Daniel Fritsch on
Jewish Program
Daniel Fritsch will be guest speaker at a meeting at 2 p. m. Wednesday of the Joseph and Annie Borinstein Home for the Jewish Aged at the Kirshbaum Center. Robert Tross, Columbus, Ind., will sing, accompanied by Mrs. Leon Adler, Mooresville. Mrs. Samuel Dorfman, president, will preside. Mrs. Harold Platt will give the invocation. The committee in charge of the social hour which will be held after the meeting will include Mrs. Charles Larman and Mrs. Ben Shalansky, cochairmen. Mrs. Herbert Kaufman and Mrs. I. J.! Zier will preside at the tea table. The membership drive, under the leadership of a committee headed by Mrs. Paul Scharfin and Mrs. Dee 31. Yaver, will continue until
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will sing a group of Christmas. songs and Miss Mary Ann Sohn will tell the Christmas story from the Bible. Miss Lillié Kerz, program chairman,
ay Planned By Zonta Club
Christmas playlet, “Santa ,” will be presented fomorrow t a Christmas party at the abia Club for members of the Club of Indianapolis. play, under the direction of Eleanor Theek, Shortridge pl hool, will include in its cast
ments.
ington, first vice president of Zonta International, was a recent guest of the local unit. One of the Christmas ‘activities of the organization was a party for the Zonta Girl Scout Troop from School 7, held at the Little House. Another project was the presentation’of 50 new books to US Permanent library at the IndianNursery. Miss | Eva Y.|
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SORORITIES
ol Omegs. KADDH. U9. Sve Mas: Miles, 903 N. Lasalle. bios tess. ppa pter, gma a. Tonight. Miss ose. re : he englen; hostess. Ckristmas _—y a igma Tau Delta. Tues. eve. Miss Dorothea Mack, . Ave., hostess. ; xl i Part cLuBs
Board of Indianapolis Council of Women. 10 a. m. Bann or Whitehill auditorium. Tues or Inter Nos. Wed. Mrs. Robert Clark, hostess. Mrs. Wallace Turpin to speak on “Philosophy and Religion—The Three Religions of
}| with seven-branch candelabz
700 Reserve Places for I.A.C.Dance
2 Orchestras to Play for New Year's’ Eve Supper Event.
More than 700 reservations have been made for the Indianapolis Athletic Club’s annual New Year's Eve supper dance. Dancing will be to Louie Lowe’s and Bob McKittrick’s orchestras in the ballroom and Lantern Room. Table decoragions will include hats and noisemakers. Favors will be presented women guests. Vocal and dance numbers will be included in the floor show entertainment scheduled for both floors at 11 p. m. and 12:15 p. m. Mr. and :Mrs. Charles T. Moreland have arranged for a party of twenty-two for the event. C. W Siniff has reservations for 19 and Dr. and Mrs. H. D. Leer will have a group of 18. Mr. and Mrs. George Davis and Mr. and Mrs. George Brinkworth will have 10 guests. Reservations for 14 each have been made by Mort Martin and William Bennett. Dance Set Today
A. E. Dorsey, Dr. R. V. Myers, J. H. Townsend, A. W. Rohlwing, W. A. Durkin, R. L. Gehrt and Frank Beck have parties of 12 each. Among members who have made reservations for 10 are C. C. Cooper, Anderson; Col. Robinson Hitchcock, Col. F. H. Spencer, William Sines, John Carr, Ralph Roberts, James M. Oliver, N. E. Smith, Ted Marbaugh, Clyde Bowers, Joe Mills, R. E. Snoberger, C. M. Reagan, William N. Wilson, V. E. Eilers, Robert Zaiser, R. C. Fox, F. W. Israel, A. E. Witt and William B. Ansted. Other holiday events at the club include the post-Christmas dinner and dance today and the annual New Year's dad dinner and dance Sunday. Louie Lowe’s orchestra is to play for dancing in the ballroom from 7 to 9:30 p. m., and special dinner service is to be from noon to 9 p. m. An event for members’ sons and daughters and their guests will be the Indac Junior holiday formal Friday.
Yule Dance Set By Gardens Club
The Municipal Gardens Woman's Department Club will hold a Christmas dance and party from 9 to 12 p. m. Wednesday at the clubhouse. Mrs. Theodore Petranoff is arrangements chairman and Mrs. Charles Everett is cochairman. Assisting the chairman will be a registration committee, headed by Mrs. Everett, and including William A. Oren and C. F. Kepler; Mrs. Emil Souffiot, candy chairman, Mrs. Louis Mader and Mrs. C. E. Orders; Mrs. Clyde Johnson, decoration chairman, Mrs. Thomas Walpole and Mrs. Florence McPheeters; Mrs. J. C. Kennedy, refreshment chairman, Mrs. Charles Bradley and Mrs. Anthony McRoan; Mrs. John Morrison, hostess committee head, Mesdames T. L. Roberts, A. J. Richard and Robert Shank.
relatives will be in the audience at
Around the Town.” In one party will be Miss Helene Petri, Richard Thompson, Messrs. and Mesdames. Paul B. Payne and Graydon Weaver. Messrs. and Mesdames Charles R. Weiss, Noble Deah, Walter Kuhn, A. Kiefer Mayer and Earl Barnes will aitend together. Mrs. Richard J. Kelsey, Pittsburgh, and Miss Eileen Driscoll, New York, will be in a party with their sisters, Mrs. Claude C. Jones and Mrs. John Wardrope, Mr. Jones, Mr. Wardrope, Charles Enders, New York, and Mr. and Mrs. John Heidt.
Danville Guests Included
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Vonnegut, with their sons, Walter and Ralph Jr., will be with Mr. and Mrs. Paul
: Pisher and their sons, William and
Robert, who is home from Kentucky Military Institute. In another group will be Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Shepard, Misses Helen and Ruth Sheerin, Francis Brosnan, Henry Severin and Mr. and Mrs. John W. Cannon, Danville, Ill. Mrs. Hugh Robinson’s sisters, Misses Mabel and Mary Dillon, Sidney, O., will attend with her and Mr. Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Q. Robbins, Miss Elysee Crosier and Theodore Lippincott. In another group will be Dr. and Mrs.- Wendell Shullenberger, Messrs. and Mesdames J. Russell Townsend Jr, David Vawter Burns, Royer Knode Brown and Newell C. Munson. 4 Among others having parties are Messrs. and Mesdames J. Perry Meek, J. Elder Blackledge, William C. Griffith, William McMurtrie, Severin Buschmann, William Ray Adams, Francis Dunn, Maxwell Coppock, Nicholas Noyes, Walter Zirpel, Dillon Huder, Eli Lilly, Frederic M. Ayres, Donald Gerking, Kenneth Griffith; Mrs. Post Milliken, Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Masters and Mrs. Billie Teel Tappan. One large group at the dance will include Messrs. and Mesdames Conrad Ruckelshaus, David IL. Stone, Charles A, Greathouse Jr., John K. Ruckelshaus, Thomas Ruckelshaus, Albert J. Beveridge Jr., Thomas R. Kackley, Irving M, Fauvre, Frederic M. Ayres Jr. Misses Jane Adams, Nina Brown, Barbara Haines and Betty Brown; Dudley and Samuel Suthpin, John Rockwood, Evans and Nicholas Noyes and Arne Fougner, cousin of Mrs. Frederic M, Ayres Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Runnells Harrell have arranged a large party for the show and dance to include Mrs. Julia Bretzman Shields, Herbert Reade, William Huggins, ‘Philadelphia, the club manager; J. Ferguson Mohr, Philadelphia, the club president; Dr. George McClellan, Philadelphia, the university vice provost; Messrs. and Mesdames Herbert M. Woollen, Booth T. Jameson, Henrick Mayer and Kurt Pantzer.
Old Prints Revived
Handsome service plates with an early Amerigan atmosphere would make a fine gift or an equally fine addition to a collection of choice china. Twelve famous Currier & Ives prints recently have been reproduced on fine china service
plates in their original full eolexing.
Advent.
A. I. Hawkins Jr. to Wed Helen E. Lowd i in Church Rite]
“The misrriage of Mrs. Helen! 1 Eiser Lowd to Andrew J. Hawkins Jr., Washington, will be at 4:30 p. m. Jouay at the Episcopal Church\of the The Rev. George S. Southw service before an altar banked with
perform the single 11g greens.
The church will be decorated wi vases of white flowers and Jgttiad
Mrs. Charles Russell, Cincinnati, | will be her cousin’s attendant. She will wear a starched lace gown of iavendar shades and will carry a colonial bouquet of Finch roses with a center of violets. , ‘Haskel Holman, St. Louis, will be best man and ushers will include W. C. ag
dinner at ne Marott” Hotel for membets of the
L. R.-Kroger, e; Mrs. J. F
Louisvill Sy Orgran and her daughter,
Osterman, Cincinnati, a rer
South and will be at home after Jan. 15 in Washington, Mr. Hawkins is the son of Mr. and Mrs, A. J. Hawkins, Eminence, Miss. ‘
Engagement Announced. . EE
‘bridal party and} : {out-of-town guests. Mr. and Mes,
The couple will leave on a trip|]
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Many Out-of-Town Visitors Will Be Guests at Parties For Mask and Wig Club Show
Many out-of-town visitors here for the holidays with friends and
the Murat Theater tomorrow night
when the University of Pennsylvania Mask and Wig Club Presents “All
‘Three Dances Today For Younger Set
Three dances are included on the calendars of the younger set for this afternoon and tonight. The Sub-Deb Club will hold. a Christmas dinner at the Woodstock Club tomorrow night. Miss Margaref Jameson is president. Among the members who are home from colleges and who will atiend are Miss Elizabeth Kiger, a student at Swarthmore; Miss Margaret Wohlgemuth and Miss Mary Scott Morse, Wheaton College students. Mrs. Nellie Alford Hill of Anderson is entertaining with a tea%dance this afternoon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club for her daughter, Miss
Barbara Hill. Darby Club members are to be hosts tonight at a dinner at the In-
New Year's Party Set At Columbia
500 err tons Made; Club to Celebrate | 50th Year.
gps Reservations for be annual New Year's Eve dinner-dance and frolic at the Columbia Club total 500 and additional tables will be reserved until 6 p. m. next Friday. A number of private dinner parties have been arranged for the club’s private dining rooms. Guests . will be entertained by eight acts of musical revue including Pritzi Wick, exotic dancer; Vesta. Helene, specialty dancer; the Moregus dancing team; the Rose- . buds, a girls’ chorus, and other numbers. Dinner will be served from 10 p. m. until midnight. The hlight of the club’s winter social activities will be the 10-day golden anniversary celebration beginning Feb. 4 and ending with the 50th annual beefsteak dinner Feb. 13, the date of the club’s founding. A round of social entertainment is being planned for members and
their®families as a part of the anniversary festivities.
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