Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1940 — Page 4

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Miss Mary Ellen Wheeler to Be Wed To Robert Sorenson This Afternoon

Miss Mary Ellen Wheeler, daughter of P. M. Wheeler, Monticello, I1l., will become the bride of Robert Sorenson of New York, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Sorenson, of Indianapolis, at the Indianapolis Athletic Club at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon. The ceremony will be performed by Dr. John FE, Edwards, pastor of the Broadway Methodist Church, before an improvised altar banked with fall flowers and greenery, Tall white tapers in two seven-branch candelabra will light the scene,

Miss Mary Catherine Stair, harpist, will play Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority and Phi Delta Theta Fraternity songs preceding the ceremony and at the reception to follow. During the ceremony she will play a program of bridal airs. The bride will wear a street-length dress of aqua wool crepe with brown velvet trim. The dress will have a notched collar of brown velvet and the bracelet-length sleeves will be edged with the same material. The dress will be fashioned with front fullness and she will wear a brown velvet pompadour hat. Her flowers will be a spray of brown orchids.

Couple to Leave for Motor Trip Mrs. Shelton Downey, of Monticello, Ill, will be her sister's only attendant. She will be gowned in a dress fashioned like that of the bride in gold wool crepe with brown velvet trim. Her flowers will be Talisman roses and bronze chrysanthemums, She also will wear a brown velvet pompadour hat. John Thurston, a fraternity brother of the bridegroom, will be best man. The couple will leave immediately after the reception for a motor trip through New England and Canada. They will be at home Sept. 3 at 116 Park Lane South, Kew Gardens, Long Island, N. Y. For traveling the bride will wear a navy blue jacket dress accented with white and navy accessories. Her corsage will be of orchids,

Both Attended Butler University

The bride is a graduate of Butler University where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. The bridegroom is also a graduate of Butler University and attgnded Northwestern University, He is a member of Phi Delta Theta and Blue Key Fraternities. Among out-of-town guests who will attend the wedding will be Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler and their son, Lewis, Monticello; Mr. Downey and his son Jerry, Monticello, Ill; Mr. and Mrs, Ralph Sorenson, Evanston, and William Thomas, Kansas City.

“Back-to-Scehool’ Dance I's Sept. 6 Invitations were issued this week-end for a ‘“Back-to-School” dance to be given at the Woodstock Club Sept. 6 by the Indianapolis Wellesley Club. The dance, like the one given by the club last vear, will be attended by recent graduates of preparatory schools as well as students returning to colleges this fall, Mrs. Arthur Medlicott is chairman for the event. In charge of dinner reservations will be Mrs. Maxwell Coppock, and Mrs, F. W. Dunne is decorations chairman, Mrs. John Kitchen and Mrs, W. H. Krieg compose the invitations committee and Mrs. W. A. G, Webber heads the printing committee, Mrs. BE. Francis Bowditch’ is the Wellesley Club president for

the coming vear, succeeding Mrs. Karl Koons

Tosca Guerrini Will Be Married Tomorrow to Kenneth Smart In Garden Geremony at Home

The garden of the Guerrini home, 924 N. Graham Ave, will be the | scene of the marriage of Miss Tosca Guerrini, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | Vv. A. Guerrini, and Kenneth M. Smartz, son of Mr. and Mrs, E. M, Smartz, tomorrow at 3:30 p. m. - The Rev. Fr. Louis T. Gootee will perform the double-ring ceremony before an improvised altar of palms and flowers banked before a flowerentwined trellis, Miss Victoria Montani, harpist, groom, and his cousins, the Misses | will play bridal selections preceding | Mary Jane Smartz, Marjorie and | and following the Yerencby, MIS. | Dorothy Arnold. Avanelle Dixon will sing “Because,'| he couple will leave for a wed“Ah Sweet Mystery of Life” and "I|ging trip through Michigan, Canada Love You Truly ia and Wisconsin and will live in The bride's father will give her in gyencer Ind, after Sept. 5. For marrifige. She will wear a dress of |{,,yeling the bride has chosen a jvory satin fashioned with a tight}, on ik tailored crepe dress with bodice buttoned to the waistline. 5 pwn felt hat and alligator acThe full skirt will end in a train. |.accories. Her corsage will be yel-Leg-0'-mutton sleeves will fall in), gladioli. : points over the wrist. Orange blos-| mhe pridegroom is a graduate of | soms across the front will form the rndiana University and was a mem- | cap for the finger-tip-length veil. hep of Phi Delta Kappa, honorary | She will wear a strand of pearls eqyucational fraternity. He is a which belonged to her mother and teacher in the Spencer schools will carry a shower of white roses,| Qyt-of-town guests at the wedand lilies-of-the-valley. |ding will be Mrs. B. B. Castaldi, M» Miss Helen Guerrini, sister of the ang’ Mrs. Lawrence Castaldi and bride, will be maid of honor and their son David, Mr. and Mrs. Harry will wear a pink organdy dress em-| castaldi and their son Thomas, and pbroidered in white with a shirred pry and Mrs. William Smith Loganswaist; short puffed sleeves and a full| port, Ind, and Mr. and Mrs. R. G skirt. She will wear a strand of Smartz and their daughters, Mary pearls, gift of the bride, and will jane and Nancy Ann, Sheldon, Ill.

carry pink roses and delphinium. Mrs. Guerrini will wear a dress of T bronze green crepe with black acces- | avel« sories and a corsage of yellow gladi- | M av el Study Clubs oli. Mrs. Smartz will wear a dress] of Dubonnet silk crepe with black| eet Tuesday accessories and a corsage of white] The season's first meeting of the gardenias and blue delphinium. Federation of International TravelA reception will follow the cere-| Study Clubs, Ine., will be held at mony. Young women who will as-|/8 p. m. Tuesday in the Palm Room sist will be dressed in pastel after-|of the Claypool Hotel. noon frocks. They are Miss Char-| Mrs: R. J. Roller will preside. The

accessories roses. lace with whi red spoon will be best man.

lotte Smartz, sister of the bride-|1940-41 yearbook will be available.

Smith-Hanley Wedding Ceremony Is Performed at Bride's Home; Couple ‘to Take Canadian Trip

The home of Mr. and Mrs, William A. Hanley, 4050 Washington Blvd, will be the scene, at 4:30 p. m. today, of the marriage of their daughter, Jean, to Robert W. Smith, son of Mr, and Mrs. D. I. Smith, Anderson, Ind. The ceremony will be performed in the drawing room before a full length antique gold mirror banked at either side with southern smilax a _——_— = ==1and seven-branch candelabra with . H garlands of Bermuda lilies and N- v v white gladioli. Gibbs artman Before the ceremony, Miss Vir v . ginia Byrd, organist, will play a proWw dd no Today gram of bridal airs and during the C 1 > ¢ ceremony she will play Gounod's x y | “Ave Maria.” The Rev. Fr. Clement Miss Lorene Hartman, daughter Bosler," pastor of St, Joan of Arc i; ‘ , +. Churhr, will officiate, of Mr. ahd Mrs. Robert H. Har The bride, entering on the arm of man, will become the bride of Free- op father. will wear white chiffon man R. Gibbs, son of Mr. and Mrs.| fashioned with an Alencon lace bodFreeman Gibbs, at 2:30 o'clock this ice with bracelet length sleeves, Her . ddete Ainger-tip-length veil of illusion will afternoon at the home of the bride's be caught with a coronet of Roseparents, 2637 Allen Ave. point lace, and she will carrry a The Rev. Norman Shultz wiil per-| shower of white orchids and valley form the ceremony before the firey jes, tv i Rtendantd ‘it : . er only rdant, her sister, place decorated with palms, ferns/, Go... "Col wear white chiffon and and gladioli. lace made like the bride's gown and The bride will wear a brown crepe will carry wine and white rubrum dressmaker suit made with a long lilies, bloused back jacket and braceletlength sleeves. She will wear blue Cousin Is Best Man

accessories and a corsage of white] William Diven, Anderson, cousin Re H 0 mo ¢ helt the bridegroom, will be best man. Mrs, Henry Coombs, sister o : dat . bride, will be matron of honor and Mrs. Hanley, the brides mother, has will wear a tailored print dress with chosen a gown of pistachio crepe pleated skirt and brown accessories.| with which she will wear green ora Sorshae will be Bristeuy Fuses. chids and Mrs, Smith will wear Mrs artman will wear a blac k ‘ beige lace with purple orchids. Mrs. and white crepe ensemble with black| I Robert H. McGrath, Lafayette,

and a corsage of red| : Mrs. Gibbs will wear white 8randmother of the bride, will wear

te accessories and a|® black and white printed sheer Hugh Wother-| With a corsage of white camellias, A reception at the hom will folAn informal reception will be held low the ceremony. The table holding at the home after the ceremony and |the tiered wedding cake will be the couple will take a short wed - | decorated with stephanotis, camelding trip. They will be at home in| lias and valley lilies. Indianapolis Sept. 2. Both the bride and bridegroom Mr. Gibbs attended Butler Uni-| Were graduated from Purdue Uni-. versity and Hanover College, He is| versity, She is a member of Kappa a member of Phi Gamma Delta Alpha Theta Sorority and Mr. Fraternity, Smith is a member df Phi Kappa Mr. and Mrs, Walter J. Hartman, | Psi Fraternity.

Detroit, Mich., will attend the wed- The couple will leave for a motor ding. trip to Quebec and Montreal, the

bride traveling in a costume suit of promenade green wool with mink trim and brown accessories, Her corsage will be of white orchids. Upon their return they will be at home in Oxford Gables.

rose corsage.

William Craigle Takes Bride Out-of-Town Guests

The wedding of Miss Evelyn Anne Out-of-town guests will include Stephens, only daughter of John| Mrs. Robert H. McGrath and Miss Frederick Stephens, Evansville, Ind J Bessie Bane, Lafayette, Ind.; Robto William Robert Craigle Jr, son of |ert N. Voigt, John D. Cole, Miss Mr. and Mrs. William Robert| Dorothea Vanatta and Mrs. Robert Craigle, Indianapolis, will take place, W. Bailey, Chicago; Miss Betty tonight in Chicago. Voigt and John F. Voigt, JeffersonThe couple will make their home|ville, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. at 6865 Crandon Ave., Chicago. Both | Hanley and their children, Mr. and the bride and the bridegroom are Mrs. Leo Hanley and their daughgraduates of DePauw University. | ter, Patricia, Dr. and Mrs. William Miss Stephens is a member of!J. Molloy and M. T. Hanley, all of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority and Muncie, Ind. Mr. Craigle of Delta Kappa Epsilon| Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Stone, CinFraternity. The bride has been ac- cinnati; Miss Marian Willoughby, tive in the Evansville Junior League.| Hillsdale, Mich.,, and the following Guests who will attend the wed- | from Anderson, Ind.; Messrs. and ding from Indianapolis are the Mesdames George T. Hitz, George bridegroom’s parents, his grand-|T. Hitz Jr, T. C. Fisher, G. A. mother, Mrs. Joseph Wright, Mr.!| Cheney, Gerald Shine, John and Mrs. J. E. Craigle, Dr. J. Wil- | Vaughn, L. A. Parker, Murro Van liam Wright and his son, J. Wil-| Meter, Newell Gaddis, T. C. Werbe liam Wright Jr, and Mrs, Alex|/and T. C. Werbe Jr.; Misses Edith Beck, Diven, Betty Smith and Florence Other Indiana guests will be Miss| Brock; Albert Diven, Robert Watts, Pearl O'Hair, Greencastle, Ind.,, and | Murro Van Meter Jr. Catlin WhiteMiss Clara Stephens, Gary, Ind. |head, Philip Welsh, Thomas Funk, both aunts of the bride, and her|Dan Fisher, Mrs. Wade Free an father, > Mrs. Vic Rose.

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1. The engagement of Miss Dorothy Virginia Shepperd to Bert

Kingan Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Kingan, has been announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Keely Shepperd. The wedding will be Sept. 18. (Porter Photo.) 2. Mrs. William LeRoy Clinkscales was Miss Mary Louise Lee before her marriage vesterday afternoon at “Wallywood,” country home of her parents, Mr, and Mrs, Wallace O. Lee, (Ashby Photo.)

3. Before her marriage Aug, 11, Mrs. David B. McQuinn was Miss Lucille Camp, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Joseph L. Camp, Wabash, Ind. (Porter Photo.) 4. The marriage of Miss Rosemary Highsmith, daughter of Dr, and Mrs. L. B. Highsmith, Fl: trock, Ill, to Wilson L. Fcrd, Indianapalis, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Ford, also of Flatrock, will be tomorrow in the Flatrock Methodist Church. (Ramos-Porter Photo.)

5. Miss Marcia Kathleen Shank will be married to Robert Pierson Brant, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Brant, Sept. 4 at the home of her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Lilly. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Shank, Olean, N, Y. (Photo Craft Photo.)

6. Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Hagedon announce the engagement of their daughter, Joan, to Harold W. Creasser, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Creasser. The wedding will be in the Central Christian Church Sept. 27. (Porter Photo.) ! 7. A Sept. 2 wedding will be that of Miss Mildred Roell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Roell, to Joseph T. Huesing, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Huesing. The ceremony will be at Our Lady of Lourdes

McKee Chapel to Form Setting For Ittner-Price Nuptials;

Couple to Live in Brendonwood

The Rev. Stewart Hartfelter will officiate at the ceremony, at 4 o'clock tomorrow evening in the McKee Chapel of Tabernacle Preshy= |terian Church, uniting Miss Ruth Price and Ernest E. Ittner Jr, Miss Price is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Price, and Mr, Ittner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Ittner Sr. The altar will be decorated with palms and two seven-branch cane delabra will light the scene. The Ee couple will kneel on a white satin |

kneeling bench, EF l 3 R . d Miss Donna Alles, organist, will| at 1Cr to Ca “1 Marriage Rite by her father, will wear a dress of t

play “At Dawning,” Love You mousseline de soie with a low,| The Rev. H. L. Henderson, of

Truly” and “Faithful Forever.” The bride, to be given in marriage square neck, leg-o’-mutton sleeves pittsburgh, will officiate at the mars falling in points over the wrists, and

Church. (Ramos-Porter Photo.) 8. St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Mr, and Mrs. William F. Paul. 9. Miss Martha Elizabeth Kays’

of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Pierle.

wedding of Miss Jeanette Ruth Edw daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Edwards, and Mr, Paul's parents are (Photoreflex Photo.)

will be the scene, Aug. 30, of the ards to Wilbur E. Paul. She is the

marriage to Christopher Lee Pierle

will be in the rectory of Sacred Heart Church at 3:30 p. m. Sept. 7. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo E. Kays. (Holland Photo.)

carried her mother’s prayer bodk o'clock to Arthur W. Kiemeyer, son

The bride, given in marriage by a white net and lace gown with a fitted bodice topping a bouffant | skirt which flowed into a wide, full train. The sweetheart neckline and long net sleeves were appliqued with stitched lace. She wore a gold necklace, gift of the bridegroom. Sisters of the bride were attendants. Miss Winifred was matd of honor and bridesmaid and junior bridesmaid were Misses Mary Catherine and Ann. They wore gowns of pink embroidered organdy with bodices of | moire tapering to fitted girdles and full, circular skirts. Folds of blu# net formed their headdresses. They carried colonial bouquets of baby | roses and wore gold lockets, gifts of the bride.

Mrs. Hemelgarn wore a Dubonnet

Mother's Bridal Veil Is Worn By Miss Hemelgarn at Wedding

Miss Elizabeth Hemelgarn wore her mother's wedding veil and

at her wedding this moning at 9 of Mr. and Mrs. August Etter.

The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Michael Lyons performed the ceremony in Our

Lady of Lourdes Church before the altar banked with white gladioli. | : Hemelgarn, wore [Horace Price, will be gowned in| gajicate pink taffeta topped wit

her father, Leo G.

costume with a gardenia corsage.

with a gardenia corsage. Jerome Etter, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. August

Etter, another brother, and Thomas |

Hemelgarn, brother of the bride, ushered. After the ceremony the wedding party and immediate families attended a breakfast at Joslin’s. A reception was to be held at the Hemelgarn home, 114 Drexel Ave, at 2 p. m. Mrs. E. W. Lyons was to assist with Mrs. Albert Hemelgarn, the Misses Mary Jane Viehman, Evelyn Hemelgarn and Patricia Harrigan. After a wedding trip to Detroit the couple will live at 15 N. Riley Ave, ’

Mr. Pierle is the son *

a fitted bodice. The dress is made in princess style with a full skirt. The bottom of the skirt will be edged with a wide band of accordion pleats. A Juliet cap with lilies-of-the-valley in front and tied with a net bow in the back will hold the hem-length veil. Her bouquet will be white roses. Miss Katherine Price, sister of the bride, will be maid “of honor, and will wear a dress of pale blue marquisette made on princess lines with short puffed sleeves and a square neck. Her colonial bouquet will be of deep pink asters and blue del- | phinium.

Bridesmaids Wear Blue

The bridesmaids, Mrs. Larry Price, Miss Zilpha Price and Mrs.

| darker blue. net dresses fashioned the same as that of the maid of

(Mrs. Kiemeyer wore a brown dress |honor, Their Bouquets will be like

that of the maid of honor. Mrs. Price will wear a black and white afternoon ensemble with black accessories. Mrs. Ittner also will wear black and white. Both will wear gardenia corsages. Nearly 50 guests will attend the reception to follow the ceremqQny at the home of the bride's parents, 2825 {N, New Jersey St. After a wedding trip through New York, Niagara Falls, the Great Lakes, Cleveland, Toledo and Chicago, the couple will live in Brendonwood. The bride will travel in a royal blue and white jacket ensemble with white accessories. Miss Price attended Butler University.

riage of his son, the Rev. Harry

| Paul Henderson, to Miss Lois Thomas, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Earl A, Thomas, at 4:30 o'clock to [morrow in the North Methodist Church. The bride will wear a gown of white taffeta foundation topped [with a double bodice of net and tlace in a floral pattern, The very [full Skirt has an over-skirt of [marquisette, Leg-0'-mutton sleeves will fall in points over the hands and the neck will be high and rounded. Buttons down the back go to the end of the pointed waist, The finger-tip length veil of ile lusion * will fall from a tiara of orange blossoms. Her bouquet will {be of white roses and white orchids, | Miss Mary French will be maid of honor and will wear a gown of

|short puff taffeta Sidevem Tire bridesmaids, Miss Betta Helen Jones and Miss Betty Kerbox, will wear dresses fashioned like that of the maid of honor in delphinium blue. Mrs. Thomas will wear powder blue with navy accessories while Mrs. Henderson will wear a grey, dress with rose accessories. Alex Fleming, Rochester, N. Y., will be his brother-in-law’s best man and Forrest Dukes, Indiane apolis, and George Henderson, Pittsburgh, will usher. There will be a reception at the bride's home at 5425 Winthrop Ave. . The bride will wear a blue and white print ' redingote dress for the wedding trip to northern Michigan and Canada. With it she will wear navy accessories.