Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1941 — Page 4

Betty Hamerstedt Is Engaged: Marylee Porter to Be Wed Feb. 23

NEWS OF WEDDINGS which will occur in the late winter and spring is claiming the social spotlight. Mr. and Mrs. William Diehl Hamerstadf announce the engagement. of their daughter, Katherine Lizette (Betty), to Paul Wertz Scheuring, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Scheuring. : The wedding will be in the spring. The bride-to-be’ attended Semple School in New York and Mr, Schetring is a graduate of Butler University and attended the University of Pennsylvania. ” 2 ” 2 8 8 Among February weddings will be that of Miss Marylee Porter to John Robert Morehouse on Feb. 23. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mrs. E. D. Porter Jr. and Mr. Morehouse is thie son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Morehouse. The marriage ceremony will be read by Dr. William A. Shullenberger in the home of Mrs. Porter’s son and daughter-in-law, Mr, and Mrs. William H. Thompson. Miss Porter has chosen her cousin,

Miss Cynthia Test, as her only attendant. Harvey Morehouse will serve as his brother's best man. ¢ on. 2 8 ‘ # = =» Members of the bride and bridegroom's families will attend the wedding of Miss Nahoma Cecilia Schneider and Charles B. Feibleman at€5:30 o'clock this afternoon at the home of Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Schneider and Mr. Feibleman is the son of Isidore Feibleman. 2 After a short wedding trip the couple will be at home at 26 E. 14th St., Apartment 504. Miss Schneider attended John Herron Art School and Mr. Feibleman is a graduate of Harvard arid the Harvard University Law School. : i Among out-of-town guests for the ceremony will be Mrs. Henry L. Weil of Lowell, Mass., the bridegroom’s sister. Mrs. Weil was Miss Rachel Kahn Feibleman before her marriage Sept. 4. Also

attending the wedding will be Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schroeder, Cincinnati, an uncle and aunt of the bride. |

Committees Named for Day Nursery Lunchaon

COMMITTEES assisting Mrs. Clarence F. Merrell, general chairman, with arrangements for the annual meeting of the Indianapolis Day Nursery Assocaition include Mrs. Eli Lilly and Mrs. Q. G. Noblitt, program. Patrick Murphy Malin, director of the American Branch of the International Migration Service in New York, will speak on “International Migration—A. Problem of Democracy” at the luncheon to be held Tuesday noon in the Columbia Club,

Also assisting Mrs. Merrell are Mesdames Harper Ransburg, W. A. Huntsinger, Arthur Gilliom and Ralph Hudelson, invitations; A Mrs. Walter Krull and Mrs. James L. Murray, tickets; Mrs, Fred Dickson and Mrs. R. W. Spiegel, table arrangements and hojtesses, and Mesdames M. J. Spencer, James T. Cunningham and Harold West, general arrangements. The meeting is aggn to the public and reservations may be made with Mrs. John 'E. Messick, the Association’s president,

Orchard School Mothers to Meet

HOSTESS for Study Group 2 of Orchard School mothers at a 1 p. m. meeting Monday will be Mrs. Raymond F. Mead, 407 Hampton Drive, :

Carleton Washburne’s book, “A Living Philosophy of Education,” will be reviewed -and discussed by Mesdames Leslie $8. Lee, Thomas C. Batchelor, Weber D. Donaldson, Wendell\ Barret, and Elvan Y. * Tarkington and the school director, Gordon H. Thompson. 3 Mrs. Tarkington is program chairman of ‘the study group formed by mothers of primary and intermediate grade children.

D. A. R. to Hear Dr. Burdette

CITIZENSHIP DAY of the Daughters of the American Revolution will be observed by the Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter Thursday afternoon in the chapter house, 824 N. Pennsylvania St. A business meeting, program and tea are being planned. Dr. Franklin Burdette of Butler University will make the address of the afternoon, speaking on “Citizenship.” Music ky Mrs. Lorena Moore Aughinbaugh,. soprano, accompanied hy Mrs. Agnes Helgesson, will open the 2:30 o'clock program. Both Mrs. Aughin- . baugh and Mrs. Helgesson are members of Mu Phi Epsilon Sorority. Tea hostesses will be Mrs. William H. Coleman and Mrs. James Lathrop Gavin, former regents of the chapter. The tea committee consists of Mrs. Daniel S. Robinson, chairman; Mrs. Frank LaFoe Link, vice chairman; Mesdames Robert N. Fulton, | John L| Goldthwaite, Herbert R. Hill, John S. Lloyd, Charles W. Merrill, ‘Robert L. McKechnie, Edward B. Raub and Obie J. Smith, the | Misses Josephine B. Herron, Florence W. Morrison, Sarah T, Sisson and Corinne Welling, The business meeting will begin at 2 ternates will be chosen for the National Congress April 14 to 19 in Washington. The finance committee willl report on plans for a Valentine Bridge, Friday, Feb. 14, in the chapter house.

Garvin Brown to Speak

p. Delegates and al-

“7 A LADIES’ NIGHT program of the Indianapolis Literairy Club .

Monday in the D. A. R. chapter house will . Brown on “John 8. Mosby.”

Benefit Tea Is Tomorrow

ADDITIONAL patrons and patronesses for the musicale and tea to be given tomorrow afternoon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club by the American Theater Wing for British War Relisf have been announced. John Mason Brown. theatrical critic of the New York Post, will be the honor guest. T. M. Reddick is bririging Miss Barbara Johnson and Tommie Wright, pianists and students at ana University, to present a musical program. i . The additional sponsors include Governor and Mrs. Henry P, ‘Schricker, Col. and Mrs. Alvin M. Owsley, Dr. and Mrs, Frederick » McMillan, Messrs. and Mesdames Robert A. Adsms, Raymond Crom, C. Norman Green, Henry Rogers Mallory, V. M. Ray, A. Witt, Frank Binford, C. D. Alexander and the Mesdames H. Metcalf, W. A. Atkins, John Lang, Howard Pelham, Philip Adler, CG Lazarus, Edwin Craft and MissgNancy Bellinger,

include a talk by Garvin

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business meeting to make plans jor ing in February. The committee in charge of fhe luncheon consists of Mrs. Robert Bryce, chairman, assisted by Masdames Carson, Ray B. Dorward, Ralph I. Thompson, V. V. Smith and Mo:rritt E. Woolf, At a program following luncheon, a resume will be presented of the guxiliary’s work since its founding in 1923. Its philanthropic activities heve included the sponsorship of a music director, the donating of books and magazines for the nurses’ home, programs for special occasions, schglarships, loan furids, luncheons and trips to city parks. ” ” ” Tea will follow the Literature and Drama Department’s program Wednesday afternoon at the clubhouse, with Mrs .Oscar Matthews in charge and Mrs. Wayne Reddick, vice chairman. Mrs. Edward A. Brown and Mrs. C. Eugene Wolcott are to be on the program. Assistants will be Mesdames H. Alden Adams, Melissa J. Cornish, Russel. Grey Fortune, Harvey L. (Grimes, Charles T. Hanna, S. J. Hensley, E. Preston Jones, Howard J. Lacy, Robert Lambert, Frank E. Malott, Arley E. McNeely and VVilliam A. Smith. ” ” ” The February meeting of the Art Department will be held Monday at 2:30 p. m. in the clubhouse, [702 N. Meridian St. Miss Betty Foster will speak on “Through Castle Keyholes” and illustrate her talk with originel water colors of art shrines and scenes she visited while traveling abroad in 1936. Mrs. W. C. Bartholomew and Mrs. Howard D. Spurgeon are in charge af tea to be served in the Mary Q. Burnet Room, which is exhibiting paintings by Carl Graf this month. Their assistants will be Mesdames Charles W. Field, James E. Hughes, J. B. Phillips, D. R. Randolph and John 17. Shoaf, Miss- Mary M. Bryce and Niss Dorothy Phillips.

‘The Man Liszt’ To Be Reviewed

A Franz Liszt program has heen arranged by Mrs. Paul E. Dorsey

{Nu Zeta Alumnae Chapter

for th: meeting Monday evening of Sigma

Alpha Iota, national professional

- music sorority. Mrs. Dorothy Knight

Green, 4624 N. Pennsylvania St. will be hostess for a 6 o'clock dinner. Preceding Mrs. Russell J. Sanders’ review of “The Man Liszt” (Ernest Newman), Mrs. Willlam A. Devin will sng several of the composer's songs. Her accompanist will be (Mrs. Arthur Monninger. | Assisting hostesses will be lMesdames Charles C. Martin, .L. T. Sogard, Paul Duckwall, O. R. Tcoley and Dezwn Snyder, Miss: Mary Zried

‘and Mss Bdna Phinney,

City Hospital Auxiliary of W. D.C. Will Have Luncheon Tuesday At the Nurses’ Home

Woman's Department Club groups have released plans for meetings next week to-include teas and a |uncheon. : The Community Welfare Department’s City Hospital Auxiliary will meet for a 12:30 o'clock luncheon Tuesday at the nurses’ home in honor of Lincoln’s birthday. Mrs. E. A. Carson, chairman, will preside at a

activities of freshman nurses enter-

Gille-Schaler

Rite Tomorrow

The marriage of Miss Mildred Louise Schaler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Stamm, 1234 N. Linwood Ave., to Donald H. Gille, will take place at 4 p. m. tomorrow in the Irvington Presbyterian Church with Dr. John B. Ferguson officiating. Mr. Gille is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Gille, 964 N. Lesley Ave.

The altar at which the service is read will be decorated with palms, candelabra and sprays of flowers. Miss Jeane Adele Schaffer, organist, will play for the ceremony. Gowns of the bride's attendants will be fashioned of net in colonial style with full skirts and high, round necklines. The bolero jackets of the frocks will have short, puffed sleeves. They will wear gardenias in their hair. Miss Vivian Prost, maid of honor, will be in champagne net and the bridesmaids, Miss Betty Westlund and Mrs. Donald Kelso, will be in blue and pink, respectively. Their French bouquets will be of gardenias, roses and forget-me-nots. A basket of rose petals will be carried by Barbara Joyce Wagner, flower girl, who will wear blue net. The bridal gown is of white slipper satin made with sweetheart neckline, leg-o’-mutton sleeves and a full skirt forming a slight train. The veil, held by a cluster of orange blossoms, will reach the floor. Roses, gardenias and forget-me-nots will form the bride’s bouquet. She will be given in marriage by her father. Mrs. Stamm, mother of the bride, will ‘wear a dusty rose gown with black accessories and a gardenia corsage. Jet sequins trim the black jacket dress which Mrs. Gille will wear. Her accessories will be black and she will wear red roses. Following the ceremony a reception will be held at the home of the bride’s parents, with Mrs. J. L. Frost assisting. For a motor trip to New Orleans the bride has chosen a muted plaid cashmere suit in beige and brown tones with - which she will wear brown alligator shoes and purse and a large, off-the-face hat of brown felt. Her flowers will be gardenias. The couple will be at home after Feb. 15 in the Linwood Apartments. Attending the wedding from out of the city will be Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gille and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Gille, Quincy, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schafer, St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mack, Wheeling,

W. Va.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sny-

der and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keithly, Dayton, O., and Miss Phyl-

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1. The city’s children are doing their bit to relieve the suffering of children overseas in the war

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Mayflower Decendants Plan ‘Plymouth Program’ Friday

Members of the Indiana Society of Mayflower Descendants will be entertained with a “Plymouth Program” Friday night at the Propylaeum

by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Albert Gall.

Euvola Club To Have Tea

The upswing in junior social activity will begin this month. Euvola Club members at Shortridge High School will entertain tomorrow with a formal tea at the home of Miss Jane Barbara Williams, 4747 N.- Meridian St. Tea assistants will be the Misses Nancy Jefferson, Kathryn Jackson, Rosemary Wilmeth and Patty Smith. Club guests will be the Misses Mildred Balke, Marny Baxter, Patsy Bishop, Veronica Bower, Patty Bowser, Maxine Bridgeman, Pat Burnett, Jean Clark, Susan Countryman, Carolyn and Virginia Coxen, Mary Em Crunk, Jane Curle, Phyllis Dell, Jane and Joan Denham, Jean Faulkner, Doris Fessler Lillian Fletcher, Betty Gant, Jean Gates, Mary Jo Gray, Patty Hagedon, Betsy Harding, Ruth Heady, Rose Ann Heidenreich, Barbara Hess, Lois Hilkene, Carolyn Hiller, Mary Hinshaw, Jean Hixon, June Hoatson and Marny Home. Others will be Phyllis‘ Jordan, Katherine Kixmiller, Peggy Lanahan, Emily Lewis, Jolyn Lyda, Ann McGinnis, Betty Jo McIlvaine, Kathryn Nema, Nancy Niven, Marian Osburn, Joyce Overbay, Barbara Patterson, Jane Pettijohn, Marjorie Powers, Helen Reis, Isabel Remy, Jean Richoff, Frances and Joan Robinson, Marilyn Rogers, Jean Rybolt, Jean Scaf, Margaret Shively, Jesse Lou Small, Eileen Smith, Jean Stackhouse, Barbara Starrett, Sally Waddington, Margaret Waldo, Betty

Lee Washburn, Joan Wilson, Nancy | Wilcox and. ;

Mrs. Paul Whipple will present musical numbers. Mr. and Mrs. Gall will be assisted by the Junior Committee: Norman

-| Titus, chairman, Mesdames Morris

L. Brown, Henry A. Lohse, Perry Ratcliff, Herman Selka, Leo M. Stadtmiller, W. Mitchell Taylor, Ronald Updike, Charles H. Zalac, Jess Pritchett and John W. Templeton; Misses Martha Lou Cleaver, Mary Margaret Dyar, Claribelle Hall, Wenonah Hatfield, Carolyn Ruth Kendall and Emily Louise Posson; Dr. Nicholas Hatfield, Charles Grinnell Cleaver, William J. Cleaver, Samuel O. Dungan II, Dwight Posson, John F. Townsend, John S. Williams, Earl C. Townsend Jr. and Joseph A. Wythe. Also assisting will be Mrs. Titus, Mrs. Hatfield ‘and Messrs. Brown, Lohse, Ratcliff, Selka, Stadtmiller, Taylor, Updike, Zalac, Pritchett and Templeton. Mrs. Tilden F. Greer, governor, will preside. Mrs. Gall is a member of the board of the general society as deputy governor general from Indiana, and has been on the state board since becoming a member soon after the society was founded in 1916. Burchard Davidson, winner of the Joseph Allen Minturn Award recently established by the society at Butler University, will read his winning manuscript. Out-of-town guests will include Mrs. Thomas Somner, Pendleton; Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pennington, Greenfield; Mr. and Mrs. Farr Waggener and Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, Franklin; Mr. and Mrs. Zalac and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Cleaver, Pt. Wayne; Mrs. Edmund Burke Ball and Mrs. Raymond Allen, Muncie; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley - Hayes,

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Richmond, and Mrs, Harry A, Walters, West. Lafayette. 'will

Consumer Talk Scheduled

Mrs. Sylvia Shiras of Milwaukee, Wis., will be presented by the Consumer Division of the Indianapolis Council of Women as guest speaker at the council’s monthly meeting Tuesday in Ayres’ auditorium. Division members will be special hostesses for the all-day meeting. “The Consumer Up to Date” will be discussed in the afternoon by Mrs. Shiras, director of the Houeshold Finance Corporation’s Houeshold Research Center in Milwaukee. She is a former director of home economics in Minnesota’s rural rehabilitation program and an extension instructor at the University of Minnesota. Mrs. Lowell S. Fisher, program chairman, will introduce her. At the 10 a. m. session Mrs. J. Malcolm Dunn, consumer chairman, will report on the work of her committee. Miss Meta Gruner of the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home will be presented by Mrs. George P. Ruth, welfare chairman, and will’ speak on ‘Caring for Other People’s Children.” ‘ Other speakers will' be Mrs. James L. Murray, president of the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers, whose talk on. “Current Bills of Interest to Women’s Groups” has been arranged by Mrs. Guy O. Byrd, legislative chairman, and J. Patrick Rooney, assistant director of city parks. Following introduction by Mrs. Thomas Sheerin, chairman of the Mayor's Committee on ~ Recreation, Mr. Rooney will discuss “Public Gains and Future Plans.” Mesdames Eleanor Miller, Frieda S. Robinson and Claude Potts will be special guests at the meeting. The president, Mrs. Laura E. Ray,

areas. One group, which meets at the home of Mrs. Howard Foltz, sews regularly each week on petticoats and baby nightgowns, Erla Mae Poe, Ann Henshaw, Jean Zuckerberg and Louise Ann Cade ick are shown arriving for work with their Bundles for Britain bags. 2. The Camp Fire Girls of the city are helping to entertain the soldiers stationed at Ft. Harrison by the contribution of reading material. Nancy Schultz (left) and Ann Clinehens present the magazines, which the various groups have collected, to Chaplain Arthur Dodgson (right), and Corporal William Robert Elms of the Fort. 3. Miss Betty Ruth Henry (left) and Miss Jean McKibbin are pres paring posters for the lecture. te be given by Henry Bowman, soCie ology professor at Stephens College, at the Banner-Whitehill auditorium Feb. 8. Local alumnae of Stephens are sponsoring the event. : 4. Mrs. Daniel S. Robinson is chairman of hostesses for the tea

to be given by the Carolihe Scott ~~

Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution Thurse day at the chapter house. (Priddy Photo.) 5. Mrs. Fred Luker is assisting with arrangements for the dinner to be given Monday night in cone nection with the Regional Asseme bly of the Women’s Field Army of the Society for the Control of Cancer. . Sessions of the two-day conference are to be at the Clay« pool Hotel. : 6. Mrs. George W. Jaqua, Wine chester Ind. is president: of the Indiana Federation of Clubs whose board will meet in Indiane: apolis Tuesday and Wednesday, (Smith Photo.) :

Dickey-D’Alton Service Read

Following their marriage (at 14 o'clock this morning, Mr. and Mrs. Ross Dickey left on a wedding. trip through the South. The bride is the former Miss Margaret D’Alton; daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William P. D’Alton, 1602 E. Washington St. The Rev. Fr. Victor Goossens read’ the marriage service in the of Holy Cross Catholic Church. The couple’s attendants were Miss Berniece: D’Alton of Chicago, sister of. the bride, and Harlan Laycock of Mishawaka. : Miss D’Alton’s bridal costume wa§ a heavenly blue crepe dress with i veiled off-the-face turkan: and: a corsage of bridal roses and- lilies-of-the-valley. Her sister wore rose crepe with matching accessories and a corsage of sweetheart roses. After Feb. 15 Mr, and Mrs. will be at home in Indianapolis. A: former resident of Memphis, Tenn., Mr. Dickey is a graduate of Purdue. University.

Hallie Powers to Be Wed Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Fowler ane

nounce the app: marriage of their daughter, Miss ‘POWe ers. Miss Powers will be married te * James E. Fowler, son of dr,