Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 January 1942 — Page 4

Society—

Engagements of Mary Jane Hamerstadt And Jean Rowan Elliott Are Announced

TWO ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS are highlights of the social scene this week-end. Miss Mary Jane Hamerstadt and Miss Jean Rowan Elliott are the young women joining the ranks of brides-to-be. Miss Hamerstadt's engagement to George Estes Bardwell is announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Diehl Hamerstadt. The wedding will be in the early

spring. Mr. Bardwell is the son of Mrs. R. MN. R. Bardwell of Atlanta, Ga., and the late Mr. Bardwell. The bride-to-be attended Stuart Hall at Staunton, Va., and was graduated from the Fairmont School in Washington. The prospective bridegroom is a graduate of the Georgia School of Technology. No date has been announced for the marriage of Miss Elliott to John Adam Larigan, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Larigan of Great Neck, Long Island, N. Y. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Elliott. Mr. Larigan was graduated from Dartmouth College and Miss Elliott will be graduated in June from Edgewood Park College, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y.

Orchard School Plans Twelfth Night Party

FOLLOWING AN ANNUAL CUSTOM, Orchard School girls and boys, their parents and the alumni of the school will observe Twelfth Night with a party beginning at 5:30 p. m. Tuesday. Christmas trees and wreaths will be burned on the school grounds while carols are Sung. This year the bonfire’s light will fall upon the new building for the upper grades which is under construction and which is expected to be ready for occupancy in the early spring. Following the burning of the Christmas greens, a buffet supper will be served in the Orchard School Playhouse, and the evening program will be concluded with an hour of games and dancing. Mrs. Victor R. Jose Jr. has planned the program and Mrs. Robert D. Robinson and Mrs. Egbert G. Driscoll are in charge of arrangements for the supper.

Artists’ Club Meets Monday

THE INDIANA ARTISTS’ CLUB will meet Monday evening at 8 o'clock in the Spink Arms Hotel to hear a discussion of special plans for the opening of the Hoosier Salon this month in Block's auditorium. Curry Bohm, Nashville, president of the club, will talk on the plans for the exhibition. Many of Indiana's artists will be in the city Monday, the last day for entry of paintings in the Salon.

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Mrs. William Dobson, regent of the Cargline Scott Harrison Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will preside at the business meeting preceding the 2:45 p. m. program held Thursday in the chapter house. At the tea hour following the program, Mrs. James Lathrop Gavin and Mrs. Gustavus B. Taylor will pour. Other hostesses will be Mesdames Wilbur Johnson, Charles F. Voyles, Frederick D. Stilz, Alexander IL. Taggart, Charles A. Pfafflin and Ernest DeWolfe Wales,

Norman Merrifield will direct the Crispus Attucks High School quartet as it appears on the program and S. J. Drayton, acting special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will speak on “The F. B. I. and National Defense.”

Barbara Jean Johnson ls Married

MR. AND MRS. James P. White are en route to South Hadley, Mass, following their marriage here in St. Paul's Episcopal Church on New Year's Day. They will be at home at 11 Park St. The ceremony, at 10 a. m., was read by the Rev. William Burrows, rector of the church. Mrs. White was Miss Barbara Jean Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Johnson, 417 N. Arsenal Ave, and the bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. White, Holyoke, Mass. Mrs. White will continue in her post as an instructor in the Mount Holyoke College zoology department. After being graduated from Shortridge High School, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Mount Holyoke, Mr. White attended the Springfield, Mass, branch of Northeastern College. There were no attendants for the wedding which was read before the immediate family. Before the ceremony, Mrs. Helen McPheetérs Rice, organist, played Schubert's “Ave Maria,” Greig’s “Ich Liebe Dich” and “The Evening Star.” The Lohengrin and Mendelssohn wedding marches were played for the processional and recessional. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore a white satin gown in princess style made with long sleeves and a sweetheart neckline outlined with pearls. She wore a pearl necklace and earrings given her by the bridegroom and a fingertip length veil held by a bandeau of seed pearis®and orange blossoms. The bridal bouquet was of American Beauty and white roses. The couple left by motor immediately after the ceremony for the East. Mrs. White traveled in a black ensemble worn with black accessories and a brown muskrat coat.

Ann Cantwell Has Guests

MISS ANN CANTWELL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Cantwell, has as her house guests two fellow students at Penn Hall, Chambersburg, Pa. The girls, who arrived New Years Day, are Miss Shirley Humeston of Newark, N. Y.,, and Miss Billie Feddery, Cleveland. The three will leave Monday for the re-opening of school. Ann’s sister, Martha Jo, will leave tomorrow to return to Hollins College, Va. Another Hollins’ student returning tomorrow to school will be Miss Peggy Trusler, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harold M. Trusler. Miss Mary Jane Hess, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Hess’ daughter, left yes terday afternoon for Hollins,

» . » - Mr. and Mrs. Burford Danner were expected end from & motor trip East. They have New York and while in Washington were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Wooley Acheson. Mrs. Acheson is the former | Jameson of this city.

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Mary Ellen Voyles

Will Become

Bride of Harry Blasingham In Ceremony This Evening

The home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Franklin Voyles, 4250 N. Meridian St., will be the scene of the marriage of their daughter, Mary Ellen, to Harry Richard Blasingham tonight at 8:30 o'clock. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Blasingham of Brendonwood. The candlelight ceremony will be performed by Dr. William F. Rothenburger in a Victorian archway of

greenery and gold leaves against a background of American Beauty drapes. Small bouquets of violets, white lilies, pink carnations, ash and American Beauty roses will catch the drapes at both sides of the arch, and in the center will hang a white cross of tiny roses and violets. Two gold seven-branch candelabra will accent the Victorian setting. Miss Mary Catherine Stair, harpist, will play “Ich Liebe Dich,’ “My Hero” and “Because,” preceding the bride's entrance with her father. The bride will wear her mother’s wedding gown of chiffon cloth made over a taffeta petticoat. The waist is shirred tight and the skirt full with a petticoat ruffie at the hem joined by three rows of tucking to the overdress. It has a short train and elbow-length puffed sleeves. The square neckline will be accented by a lace collar which belonged to the bride’s grandmother. It will be set on to the dress with seed pearls. The bride's full-length veil will fall from a tiara of lace matehing her collar. She will carry a crescent-shaped bridal bouquet of assorted white flowers.

Sister Attendant

Miss Priscilla Blasingham, sister of the bridegroom, will be the bride's only attendant. She will be in a gown of ash rose taffeta with full skirt, tight waist, sweetheart neckline and puffed sleeves. Her cres-cent-shaped bouquet will be pink

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low the ceremony, the dining room will be decorated with white flowers and gold candelabra. When the couple leaves on a short wedding trip, the bride will travel

in a Burgundy wool costume suit, with a Burgundy wool and Eastern mink turban and Eastern mink muff. After Jan. 20, the couple will be at home at 5347 College Ave.

The bride was graduated from DePauw University and Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. She is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority. Mr. Blasingham was graduated from Culver Military Academy and the Case School of Applied Science. He is a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity.

Out-of-Town Guests

Among the out-of-town guests who will attend are two aunts of the bride, Mrs. O, M. Sherman, Kansas City, Mo, and Mrs. Henley Eversole, Newman, Ill, and the bridegroom’s grandmothers, Mrs. F. M. Blasingham, Logansport, and Mrs. EB. M. Groh of Terre Haute. Other out-of-town guests will in clude Messrs. and Mesdames Prevo Whittakre, Kenneth Milligan and Lyman PF. Boling and daughters, Virginfa and Martha, Terre Haute; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Eversole, St. Louis; Br. and Mrs. J. F. Kirts, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Baker and the Misses Sue and Maude Blasingham, Logansport; Dr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Asman and Miss Mary Patricia Asman, Lotiisville;, Comm. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Coffin, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Myron T. Fouke, Alexandria, La.; Mr. and Mrs. Arch Olds, Crawfordsville; Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Wagner, Palacios, Tex.; Miss Constance Lewis, Evansville, and Mrs. O. F. Kwett, Canton, O.

Gifts to Service Men Mrs. Elsie Stone, president of the

1. Miss Mary Jane Hamerstadt is engaged to George Estes Bardwell. (Details in Society column). (Photo Craft Photo.) . % Mrs. Glenn E, Smith Jr. was Miss Phyllis Jean Juday, daughter of Mrs. Carrie Juday, before her marriage Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs, Smith are at home at 1129 Laurel St. (Kindred Photo.) 3. Miss Betty Lavon Richter and Russell Joyce were married Nov. 28. Mr. Joyce is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Joyce. The couple is at home at 2330 Nowland Ave. 4 Mr, and Mrs. Edward Lustgarten, 6145 Riverview Drive, announce the engagement of their daughter, Florence Muriel, to Philip Fogel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fogel, 4533 N. Pennsylvania St. The wedding will be early in February. Miss Lustgarten was graduated from Ward Belmont Junior Cellege, Nashville, Tenn. and attended Indiana University and the Arthur Jordan Conservatory Radio School. Mr. Fogel attended Indiana. (Porter\Photo.) 5. Mrs. Robert L. Slaughter was Miss Phyllis Pennington before her marriage Nov. 23. (Pratt Photo.) : 6. Miss Dorothy Louise Lloyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, C. G. Lloyd, and Robert W. Carr were married Christmas Day. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs, Louis H. Carr, Wilkinsburg, Pa. 7. Mr, and Mrs. Robert T. Howard are at home at 5756 Rosslyn Ave. Mrs. Howard was Miss Betty Ann Ritchie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alan A. Ritchie, before her marriage Dec. 27. (Photo Craft Photo.) 8. Mrs. Edward Cline Lidikay was Miss Dorothy Jane Blake, auugiitee 3 Be ya Mrs. Robert White Blake, before her marriage . . y is the son of Mrs. Edna B. Li of (Photo Craft Photo.) : ny atop.

Versatels Sub-Deb

Club to Have Party

Miss Mildred Manlove, 2150 Ray-|1 © IMStall Officers mond St, will entertain members| Mrs. Martin Towey will be inof the Versatels Sub-Deb Club with [stalled as president of the Bide-A-a theater and slumber party to-|Wee Club at its meeting Monday at night. 7:45 p. m. in the home of Miss Dora

barth, Doris Rogers, Anna Daum, Jane Stadfelt and Jean Sauter.

Contract Bridge

In the Claypool

Tournament Will Be Next Week-End

Hotel

The Indiana State Contract Bridge Tournament will be held at the Claypool Hotel, Friday through the following Sunday under the auspices of the Indianapolis Bridge Association and the American Contract Bridge League. The mixed pair event will be at 8 p. m. Friday and the open pair events are scheduled for 10 a. m,, 2 p. m, and 8 p. m. on Saturday,

Team-of-four events will be at 11:30 Individual engraved trophies will be presented to the winners and runners-up in each event. Top score winners in each session will have a choice of individual cups or other prizes,

Officers of the Indianapolis Bridge Association are Edson T. Wood, president; Mrs. Grace Buschmann and Mrs. Kay Coffin, vice presidents; Mrs. R. W. Lee, secretary; Miss Mary Crawford, corresponding secretary; Easley Blackwood, treasurer, and Mrs. E. J. Ittenbach, Joseph Cain and Walter Pray, directors. On the entertainmert committee ‘for the event are the Mesdames Larry Blackmore, Joseph Brower, E. N. Carlson, Dorothy Ellis, Howard Gay, C. A. Leatherman, Frances Tyler, R. G. Jenckes, M. E, A. McManus, W. A. Myers; Messrs. and Mesdames Thompson, Arthur Pratt and Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Hunt, Others on the committee are Miss Charlotte Pichel and F. Roland Buck, Fritz Du Relle, Alfred Eyerman, Franklin L. Inman, Paul Kelly, Herman Lackman, Phil Magin, John Parrish, Charles W. Rilling, Dan L. Street, J. Frank Taylor, Frank Walker and Lawrence J. Welch.

Fraternity Auxiliary Will Play Bridge

Mrs. Earl H. Blakley, 3156 N. New Jersey St., will be hostess for the luncheon and bridge party of the Delta Upsilon Auxiliary Tuesday at 12:45 p. m. Mrs. Harry Hooley and Mrs, Vera Mube will assist the hostess.

P.-T. A. Will Hear Book Review Mrs, J. Clifton Hirschman will

review “Snow Goose” (Paul Gallico) Wedriesday at 2:30 p. m. before the

Attending will be the Misses Jean |Montieth, Miss Adele Ginnss will

Broad Ripple High School Parent-

a. m. and 5:30 p. m. Sunday.

Lois Randolph,

Sergt. Meeks Exchange Vows

Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff Randolph, 3738 N. Denny St. announce . the marriage of their daughter, Lois Natalie, to Sergt. Joseph W. Meeks of Cleveland and Akron, O.

The ceremony, on Wednesday, Dec. 24, in the Randolph home, was read by the Rev. Ellis W. Hay of the First Congregational Church. The bride’s attendants were Miss June Tenby Larson and Miss Virginia Wilking and the bridegroom’s ate tendants were Robert W, Meeks, his brother, and Frank J. Breiner Br. . Sergt. and Mrs. Meeks were to return today from a wedding trip east. He was to report to Camp Perry, O., where he is stationed, and she was to be here with her parents. Mrs. Meeks attended Pure due University. - Mrs. Randolph was to entertain today with a luncheon at the Coe lumbia Club honoring Miss Larson, who returns tomorrow to New York where she is a student at the Kathe arine Gibbs Secretarial School. She has spent the holidays here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William

Other guests were to be Mrs. Lar son, Mrs. Meeks, Miss Wilking and Mrs. Roy J. Pile.

Olnosi Study Club To Hear Report ;

Mrs. L. M. Jackson, 3318 .

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