Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1941 — Page 11

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FIRST ANNUAL GIRLS’ ST

More than 140 girls registered Saturday for the first annual Girls’ Stale sponsored "by the Indiana Department of the American Legion Auxiliary on the campus of Indiana Ceniral College.

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Returning Students and Summer Plans

Claim the Attention of Local Society,

PROMINENT IN THE MID-JUNE social scene are

oe the return of students from schools and early plans for /

opening summer homes.

G. Barret Moxley and his daughter, Irving, already are planning their trip, late in July, to Kemah Lodge, at

: Brockville, Ontario, Canada.

_ This week will see the arrival of Irving's brothers, David and Scott, from their eastern schools. On Wednesday David will come from Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., and on Saturday Scott will ‘arrive home from Northwood School at Lake Placid, N. Y. -- . . Miss Nancy McCown has returned from Sarah Lawrence College - at. Bronxville, N. Y., to be with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. P. E. McCown. Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge Sr. is at her Beverly Farms, Mass.

- home for the summer.

. Mrs. W. Richardson Sinclair and her daughter, Letitia, and Mrs. D. Laurance Chambers are returning Wednesday from Hyannisport, Mass., where they have been at the Sinclairs’ summer home

for several weeks.

‘Theodore . B. Griffith ‘was to leave. today for Radcliffe College where he will join Mrs. Griffith and their daughter, Sylvia, for the graduation of another daughter, Helen, from the college on Wednes-

day.-

. Griffith has been attending her class reunion at Smith

College from which Sylvia will be graduated next year. Mr. Griffith will return to Indianapolis Thursday while Mrs. Griffith and the girls remain at their summer home in Little Boars

Head, N. H. yo Owsleys Return from East -

~MRS. ALVIN' M. OWSLEY and her daughter Constance re=turned last night from New York. -Constance met her mother, in New York after visiting with one of her classmates at St. Catherine's * School at Richmond, Va. While in New York last week, Mrs. Owsley and her daughter were honor guests at a luncheon in the Viennese

Roof of the Hotel

St. Regis given by Mrs. Walter Crosley of Bfonx-

Last night Col. Owsley and his sons, Alvin Jr. and David, met Constance and Mrs. Owsley in Muncie where they stopped before

returning home.

Miss Barbara J. Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Johnson, received her master of arts degree at the 104th commencement ceremonies held at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,

Mass., last week.

Degrees were conferred upon 226 seniors and 33

graduate students at the exercises for which Christopher Morley

was guest speaker.

Miss Johnson did her graduate study in the department of zoology after heing graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1939. She will be home the middle of next month and returns to the school next

fall as a member of the faculty.

Margaret Becker Wins Scholarship

AN INDIANAPOLIS GIRL was the highest ranking member of -the junior class at Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Va., this year. Miss Margaret Anne Becker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles

Stedman Becker, was awarded the honor scholarship for the class, according to announcement of Dean Mary Ely. Lyman at the 32d

‘commencement exercises.

Scholarships are awarded each year to, the highest ranking - member of each class at the school.” During her first year Miss Becker was included in the freshman list and has been named on the dean’s list each semester during’ the past two: years. i Mrs. George Lilly and Mrs. Harry Campbell entertained Saturday _afternoon at their home for studepts, alumnae and prospective Sustenss of Western College at Oxford, O. There were approximately

Attending. from Oxford were Mrs. Alexander Thomson, new interim president of the college; Miss Alice Hill Byrne and Miss Helen Tappan, retiring and incoming academic deans, respec-

vely; Dr. John Molyneaux.

_D, A. R.Board to Be Guests

A 1 P. M. LUNCHEON Thursday at the Propylaeum will honor

Molyneaux, board of trustees president, and Mrs.

-members of the Caroline Scott Harrison D. A. R. Chapter’s board of management, Mrs. William Dobson, chapter regent, will be the

hostess

Guests with board members wil be Mrs. Gustavus B. Taylor,

former chapter regent; Mrs. Jasper P. Scott, chapter parliamen-

tarian; Mrs. Henry Chapin Ketcham, state president of the Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America; Mrs. Ray T. Fatout, senior

president of the Old Glory Society, Children of the American -Reévolution; Mrs. James A. Sutherland and Mrs. L. H. Millikan. . A Short business meeting will follow luncheon. \

“Dor is Griffith Becomes Bride | Of William H, Grauel

Following their md vinge yesterday afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Grauel left on a wedding trip through the Smoky Mountains and will be at home after June 23: in Indianapolis. Mrs. Grauel was Miss Doris Griffith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Griffith, 7031 Washington Blvd. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Grauel, 4050

Ruckle St. ~The Rev. Julius Grauel of Baltimore, uncle of Mr. Grauel, read the the 2:30 o'clock ceremony in the First Evangelical and Reformed “Church, assisted by the Rev. C. J. . Russom of the local church. Mrs. yra Clippinger, organist, played dal music before and during the service, Palms, ferns and two vases of. lilies decorated the altar.

“Attendants of the couple

bridesmaids; the. Misses Nancy and Shirley Koehler, flower girls; Norman Grauel, Corydon Nuerge, Miss Grifiith’s cousin, and Mr. Oberlies, .ushers, Mr. Grauel stood with his son as best man. . Miss Griffith’s attendants wore er blue marquisette dresses

of blush pink down

a square neckline banded with lace, a lace-trimmed bodice and lace inserts in the long train. She wore a long veil, edged with lace and falling from a tiara of pearls ahd orange klossoms, which was worn

re {by ‘her sister, Mrs. Oberlies, at her

wedding. The bridal bouquet was of white roses with an orchid center. Assistants at a reception in the Griffith home were Miss Madonna Warner of Loogootee and Miss Elaine Aukerman of Union City. Out-of-town guests were Miss Jane Blankschein of LaPorte, Miss Jane of Monticello, Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Griffith of ‘Newar!

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Federation Has New Defense Department

Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, new

president of the General Federation

of Women’s Clubs, has announced the organization of a new national

"| department of National Defense and

has appointed Mrs. George * W. Jaqua of Winchester, past Indiana Federation president, as state chairman. Mrs. Jaqua is a member of the Governor's Defense Commission.

The National department and each state department will have divisions of organization, registration, Americanization, housing, nutrition; nursing, vocational training, agriculture, recreation, consumer problems, aviation and U. 8. stamps and bonds. Mrs. Jaqua will appoint a co-chairman and district chairmen at a meeting of Indiana district presidents Thursday at the Columbia Club. Mrs. Whitehurst met recently in New York with heads of more than 50 national organizations enrolling 40 million women to discuss lans for an “all-out” volunteer deense. effort. National G, F. C. department appointments - released by Mrs. Whitehurst include Mrs. J. D. Atwood of Roswell, N. M., American citizenship head and dean of departments; Mrs. Edwin I. Poston of - Martinsville, Ind., American home department; Mrs. H, C. Houghton Jr., Red Oak, Iowa, education; Mrs. Nancy Rupley Armstrong, Houston, Tex., international relations; Mrs. J. Warren Burgess, Tulsa, Okla., fine arts; Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley of Washington, legislation; Mrs. Harold V, Milligan, New York, national defense, and Mrs. Horace B. Ritchie, Athens, Ga. public welfare,

Change Organization

Changes made in the General Federation structure by the executive committee include the. discontinuance of separate divisions in all departments except national defense and the placing of publicity and junior club women work under standing committee chairmen rather than department heads. Special activities for younger women will be directed by an extension secretary for junior clubs, to be a member of such a club and a representative on the Board of Directors.

Nursery Unit Lists New Members

The Junior Auxiliary to the Day Nursery will entertain its new members at a luncheon tomorrow in the Propylaeum. \

Mrs. John E. Messick, president of the Day Nursery Association board, will talk on the nursery history and Addison A. Howe, retiring president of the junior group will review that organization’s work during the past year. . New members announced toda are the Mesdames Richard T. Hill, William N. Wishard, Philip A.

| Sweet, H. Rogers Mallory and the

Misses Jane Leasure, Catherine Cunningham and Helene Petri. |

Betty Adams Reigns Over Rose Festival

Queen of the fifth annual rose festival yesterday at Hillsdale Nur-

series. was Miss Betty Adams, 4210 Carrollton Ave. She ‘was crowned by Judge He O. Goett ina ceremony held at the edge of the nursery’s swimming pool following. a parade of all Rose Queen contestants. ; .. Col. Roscoe Turner spoke at a patriotic ceremony io urge complete backing of the Government in the national defense program. Homer T. Gratz, local executive, responded to his address for Indianapolis Boy Scouts, who distributed allegiance pledges to the 8000 persons at the festival: . The Pendleton Garden Club won the © attendance contest for such organizations and received for’ each member a potted rosebush. Miss Virginia Hunt, Miss Patty Aspinall and Camp Pire Girls of the city took part in a swimming and dive ing carnival and water ballet. i er——————————

Sorority Elects New officers of Phi Chi Epsilon convention here yesterday, are Miss

: *:1Jane ‘Miller of Kokomo, president;

vice aerts MISS Brin Te Feiomer po » . : rn : gis f

and Niles;

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES — . . < ... INCLUDES MEDICAL EXAMS . . .

Miss Jean Peek, Pendleton, was among those who received a

medical examination by Mrs. William A. Doeppers. *

Numerous Box Parties Planned For Tennis Championships;

Committees Are

Announced

"Miss Ann Atkins will‘ serve asichsairman of the ushers committee

for the Western Tennis Championships to be. held at the Woodstock Club July 7 to’13 under sponsorship: of’ the Central Indiana Tennis

Association. i ; Assisting her will

be Misses Phyllis Behringer, Joan Boozer, Virginia

Brown, Lillian Fletcher, Emily Flickinger, Mary’ Higgins, Nina Lockwood, Alice O'Neal, Ann Sayles and :‘Heberton Weiss.

Among box ‘parties : planned for

‘the event: is that of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert A. Adams and their family. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad: Ruckelshaus and Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge Jr. also will occupy a box. A

"| group attending together will in-

clude Mr. and Mrs. David Laurance Chambers Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ruckelshaus, Mrs. Richard M. Fairbanks Jr. and Frederic M. Ayres Jr. : With Mr. and Mrs... Lyman S. Ayres will be Mr. and Mrs. David P. Williams Jr. Messrs. and Mesdames J. P. Frenzel, Otto N. Frenzel Jr. and William C. Griffith will occupy a: box. 3 Other boxholders are Messrs. and Mesdames William A. Atkins, J. S. Holliday, Frank L. Binford, Austin Brown, Shirley D. Murphy, R. W. Boozer and Henry Ridgeley. G. Barret Moxley, Miss Irving Moxley. Scott and David Moxley will have a box at the matches. In another will be Mr. and Mrs. Elias C. Atkins, Mr. and Mrs. Donald McLeod and Miss Marjorie Cowan. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Holliday and Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson will attend together as will Messrs. and Mesdames Fisk Warrack Wallace and Thomas A. Hendricks.

» Additional Boxholders

With Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Brown will be Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harvey Cox and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hensel. The Francis W. Dunns and the C. Harvey Bradleys will be together. Mr. and Mrs.

{William M. Rockwood will share

a box with Mrs. William C. Bobbs. Mr, and Mrs. Garvin Brown, Miss Nina Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius O. Alig will see the matches from a box and Mr. and Mrs. Herman C. Wolff will be with Joseph J. Daniels. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Rupel have taken a box for their family. With Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Sheerin will be Mr. and Mrs. Harry S. Shepard. Officials for the event, announced by chairman William A. Atkins, include Frederick W. Hunt, referee, and Jack Rogers, clerk. On Mr. Atkins’ executive committee are Mesdames Elias C. Atkins, Conrad Ruckelshaus, Thomas Ruckelshaus and David P. Williams Jr. and Messrs. Eugene H. Brown, David L. Chambers Jr., Frank S. Dowling, Hunt, Rogers, Sylvester Johnson, Fisk Landers, Wallace O. Lee, Donald McLeod, and Comm. R. T. B: Mathews. Mr. Chambers is treasurer for the project. Other committees are: Advisory— Frederick G. Appel, Lyman S. Ayres, FP. L. Binford, Jeremiah L. Cadick, J. P. Fgenzel -Jr., Wilson Mothershead, Samuel R. Sutphin, William H. Trimble, Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall Mrs. W. GC. Bobbs and Mrs. J. A. Goodman. Reception: Messrs. and Mesdames Prederick G. Appel, Ernest R. Baltzell, Austin H. Brown, Jeremiah L. Cadick, David L. Chambers Jr., Frank 'S. Dowling, Dan W. Flickinger, Dudley R. Gallahue, Nicholas H. Noyes, Conrad Ruckelshaus and Herman C. Wolff. Invitations—Frederick W. ‘Hunt, chairman, Charles A. Greatho Jr, Thomas A. Hendricks, Sylvester ‘Johnson, Shirley D. Murphy, Jack Rogers and Stanley W. Ship

nes. Loan : Committees Listed } ‘Players Assignment and ‘Official Tent—Comm. R. T. B. Mathews; Jack Rogers, Tom Wilson and Howard T. Wood. Umpires and Linesmen—Frank S. Dowling, chairman, Harley Anderson and Jack. Miller. Ball Boys-—Jack Behringer, chairman, and George Buschman, ' Boxes—Mrs. Carl R. Vonnegut, chairman, Mrs, Elias C. Atkins and Mrs. Frank S, Dowling.- Entertainment—Mrs. Conrad Ruckelshaus, chairman, Mesdames William A. Atkins, Albert J. Beveridge Jr. Howard W. Fieber, Frederick T. Holliday and Miss Irving Moxley. Housing — Mrs. Thomas Ruckelshaus, chairman, Mesdames William Ray Adams, F. L. Binford, David L. Chambers Jr. Johnson. Meals — Mrs. Austin Brown. :

- Newspaper Publicity—Mrs. David

P. Jr., chairman,

Sorority, chosen at the national|Wa

and Sylvester|

Florence Wolff, chairman, Miss Virginia Binford, Miss Ann Spalding, James French and John Lathrop. Transportation—James French,. chairman, Misses Carolyn Culp, Catlerine Cunningham, Jane Johnston, Peggy Lockwood, Martha Rupel, Polly Smith and Betty Weiss, Tom Binford, Fred Jr. and John Holliday and Jack McLeod.

I.U. Host for Theta Sigma Phi Convention

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. June 16. —Women journalists and embryo women journalists will gather at Indiana University June 26-28 for the annual convention of the Theta Sigma Phi professional journalistic ; sorority. Approximately 125 delegates from some -38 active and 28 alumnae chapters: will attend the convention for which Miss -Naomi Osborne is general chairman. Miss Osborne has served as president of ihe Bloomington umnae chapter . Miss Osborne for two years and is being succeeded by Mrs. John E. Stempel, who is assisting with the convention. . The DePauw, Butler and Indianapolis. alumnae chapters of Theta Sigma Phi will be assisting hostesses fér the convention and the Indiana Press Club will assist the Butler chapter with the June 28 luncheon. National offi‘cers of the sorority will arrive here Tuesday, June 25, for preliminary meetIngs, with Salley RO Ainswor Moore, National Mrs Stempel President of Theta Sig, and society editor of the Los Angeles HeraldExpress, in charge. Other national officers who will attend are: Muriel Crothers Henry, Forest Hills, New York, vice president; Betty Hinckle Dunn, Chicago, secretary; Helen Jo Scott Mann, Alton, Ill, treasurer, and Lucy Rogers Hawkins, Chicago, Matrix editor. : On Wednesday evening, June 25, there will be an informal buffet supper in order that all delegates may get acquainted. Officially, the convention will open Thursday morning, June 26, at which time President Herman B Wells will welcome the tion guests. With Mrs. Stempel charge, Mrs. Jeannette Covert Nolan of Indianapolis, au-

The Bridal Scene—

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. AND INSTRUCTION. IN

Instruction in flag raising is one of the items on the program for the study of the various phases of democratic government in action. The Girls’ State wil] continue through Saturday morning.

Lois Morton Announces Attendants

Selection of wedding attendants is claiming the attention of young women who soon will become brides. Miss Harriet Leonard of Columbus, O., will be maid of honor at the wedding of Miss Lois Marie Morton to Olven McCammon Bowe of Evansville on June 29 in the Second Presbyterian Church. . The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Morton, 4012 Central Ave, and Mr. Bowe is the on of Maj. Dennis J. Bowe, Salem,

, Bridesmaids will be Miss Carolyn Hawekotte, Mrs. Mark McDonald, Miss. Florence Schulz and Mrs. Fleming Roach of Augusta, Ga. John Alfoff, Evansville, will be best man and ushers will be Howard Morton, brother of the bride-to-be, Charles Sparrenberger, Evansville; Reuben Burnham, Pontiac, Mich., Robert A. Stewart -and Harold Manifold, Ingalls. : A number of parties have been planned for Miss Morton. Mrs. Roach and Miss Hawekotte will entertain with a linen shower Thursday and Mrs. Harry B. Millspaugh will give a pantry shower tomorrow. A miscellaneous shower will be given by Mrs. Frank Manifold at her home in Ingalls on Wednesday, and Mrs. McDonald will have a personal shower at her home in Lawrence, June 24. : foe Entertaining recently for the bride-to-be have been Mrs. Clayton Ridge, Miss Schulz and Miss Betty Lou Wright, Mrs. Mauriee Merriman and Mrs. Charles Myers, Mrs. Harry E. Morton and Mr. and Mrs. Bert C. McCammon. » 8 8

Attendants for her wedding to Eugene Maurey Jr. next Sunday evening in the Broadway Evangelical Church have been named by Miss Patricia Louise Keiser, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. V. D. Keiser. -The Rev. Ernest Roesti is to officiate. Miss Virginia Keiser will be her sister’s maid of honor and bridesmaids will be Miss Georgianna Stearns, Winchester; Miss Maryella Wilson, Bloomington; Miss Betty Maurey and Mrs. Joseph Maurey, Chicago. The bride-to-be’s cousin, Marjorie Hole, Winchester, will be ring bearer. The bridegroom’s attendants will be his brother. Joseph, best man; John Chapin, Wilmette, Ill.,' Charles Johnson, John Oerther and George Lobell, all of Chicago, ushers. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene urey, Chicago, are the prospective bridegroom's

yyw : Mrs. Carr Marshall, who before her marriage yesterday afternoon was Miss Barbara Crise, was honor guest at a miscellaneous shower ‘and

Preceding the ceremony, Mrs, Robert Blake sang the Alpha Chi Omega sweetheart song and the Phi Delta Theta pin song, accompanjed by Miss Louise Swan, organist, who played a program of bridal airs. Dr. F. Marion Smith read the service before an altar decorated with palms and ferns. Baskets of pastel spring flowers and seven-branch candelabra were on either side of the altar. Matron of honor at the ceremony was Mrs. Harry Browning of Huntington, W. Va. Bridesmaids were Miss Charlotte Moor of Knightstown, cousin of the bride; Mrs. William Schneidér and Miss Mary Lucille Marshall, sister of the bridegroom. Mr. Marshall's best man was James Hayes and ushers were brothers of the bride, Grover Jr. David Crise of Miami, Fla, and Roger Crise of Kankakee, Ill. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a .gown of white mousseline. de soie over taffeta, made with a fitted bodice and a full skirt and train. A wide pleated ruffle came from the waist over the shoulder and down the front of the gown on either side. Miss Crise’s full-length veil fell from a small pleated ‘cap of illusion. She carried a bouquet. of white roses and gardenias. ; Mrs. Browning’s' gown of yellow organdy had ruffles around a square neckline and down the front of the skirt and short puffed sleeves. Her ruffied flower-trimmed hat matched her gown and she carried a French basket of daisies, delphinium and baby’s breath. The bridesmaids had similar costumes of blue and identical flowers. : The mother of the bride, Mrs. Crise, wore a powder blue organdy long gown with a corsage of gardenias and Mrs. Marshall had similar flowers with a long gown of navy blue silk.

Carr Marshalls are on Wedding = Trip to New York Following Rite In North Methodist Church

: Mr. and Mrs. Carr Marshall are on a wedding trip to New York following “their marriage in the North Methodist Church yeste: afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The former Miss Barbara Crise, the bride. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grover W. Crise, 3005 Broadway. Mrs Marshall's parents are Dr. and Mrs. T. J. Marshall, 3360 N. Meridian St,

following the church service, ) wedding cake was placed on a ne decorated with candles and flowers in blue and yellow. Assistants wer Mrs. Kendrick Sinnock, Miss Lela Cfise, cousin of the bride, and the Misses Rosemary Newman, Helen Waters and Emily Wilson of Pitts burg. The bride’s traveling costume is a rose silk dressmaker suit, worn with white accessories and a corsage of gardenias. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall will be at home after June 30 Indianapolis. They are both grad: uates of Butler University.

Arrange Dinner for Sunnyside Patients

A fried chicken supper in the

Sunnyside Guild’s last program of the year for patients there tomor row at 3 p. m. Charles Payne's or= chestra, featuring Miss Jane LaVelle as solojst, will play, and Miss Burrows and Miss Charlene Clore Mrs. Alonzo B. Chapman and ‘Thomas E. Booth will be in charge of the entertainment and Mesdames Carrie Hamill, J. Hart Laird and Earl Cox of the supper. All mem: bers will assist with the serving. The Guild’s Red Cross Unit will meet today rather than the sched= uled Tuesday at the summer home of Mi art Martin on the Nobles= ville Rd. : | x

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Dance Is Tomorrow

A dance and card party will held by the O-Dell Club at 8 p. m. tomorrow in the 50-50 Cluk rooms at 211 N. Delaware St. Billy

Banta’s orchestra will play for danc=

At a reception in the Crise home ing.

dessert bridge given recently by Mrs. Harry Browning of Huntington, W. Va., Miss Betty Jane Ewen and Mrs. G. 'M. Center at the latter’s home, 5236 College Ave. : ! Guests were Mesdames Kenny Sinneck, Charles Richards, Betty Lou Hamilton, William Schneider, Grover Crise, Robert Williams and ‘William Church; Misses ‘Rosemary Newman, Helen Waters, Jane Johnson, Dorothy Jones, Mary Edith Lawson, Jane Howe, Eleanor Flick, Charlotte Moor .of Knightstown, Mary Lou Marshall, Amy Sebern, ‘Dorothy and Lela Crise, Catherine Zimmerley and Florence Schulz. # ® 8&8 +

“A miscellaneous shower given re-

:| cently: by Miss Betty Jane Ewen and

Mrs. G. M. Center at the latter's home, 5236 College -Ave.;- honored Miss Mariann Kohl whose marriage

.|to Robert Sharp will be Saturday in

Meridian Heights Presbyterian urch. : .

Schmidt, Katherine Williams, Betty | Ann Rockford, e DeValtz

, Emily Engelan, Luand Irene Winings. .

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IT'S HERE TO STAY!

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