Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1942 — Page 4
Society—
Mary Jane Hamerstadt and Fiance Will Be Guests at Several Parties
A WHIRL OF PRE-NUPTIAL PARTIES fills the engagement calendars of young women who are to be married within the next two weeks. Miss Mary Jane Hamerstadt, whese marriage to George E. Bardwell will
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be Saturday, April 25, in the Advent Episcopal church, is one of the busier brides-to-be. Tonight she and Mr. Bardwell and a few friends will be entertained at an informal party given by Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell Robertson at their home. Tomorrow evening Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Stokely will entertain with a supper party for the couple. Next Saturday night, Mrs. Paul W. Scheuring and Mrs. William J. Hamerstadt, sister and sister-in-law of the bride-to-be, will entertain at the Indianapolis Athletic club and on the 24th Miss Hamerstadt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Diehl Hamerstadt, will give the bridal dinner. Mr. Bardwell is the son of Mrs. R. N. R. Bardwell, Atlanta, Ga.
Burrell Wrights Will Give Bridal Dinner
THE WEEK-END will be crowded, too, for Miss Mary Catherine Wright and Dr. William Lee Wissman, who are being married Tuesday night at the home of the bride-to-be’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Wright. Today Miss Ann Noble Johnston and Miss Elizabeth Kiger were to give a luncheon at Miss Johnston's home for Miss Wright. This evening, Mrs. Donald E. Vivian is giving a spinster party for her and tomorrow Mr. and Mrs. Edmund J. Shea will entertain with a tea at their home from 4 to 7 p. m. for the betrothed couple. Guests will include persons from Indianapolis and from Columbus, Ind, the home of Dr. Wissman's parents, Mr. and Mrs. William G. Wissman. The bridal dinner will be given by Mr. and Mrs. Wright Monday night at the Woodstock club. Guests with the couple and the prospective bridegroom's parents will include members of the bridal party—Miss Eliece Aiman, her sister's maid of honor: Miss Ann Johnston and Mrs. Wallace Crawford of Wilmette, Ill, bridesmaids; Richard Woolery, Bedford, best man; Dr. Donald E. Vivian of this city, William M. Lienberger and Albert E. Schumaker Jr, both of Columbus, ushers. Also attending will be Mrs. Vivian, Miss Margaret Wohlgemuth, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. White and George Mahoney Jr, all of Indianapolis; Mrs. Lienberger, Columbus; Mrs. John Wocolery, Detroit; Mrs. Lawrence H. Gerson, Cleveland, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Hare. Noblesville.
Dancing Party Is This Evening
FIFTY OR SO of the “young set” will get an early start for the festivities in connection with Mrs. William Byram Gates’ annual spring party tonight at the Marott hotel. They will attend a “Dutch treat” dinner in the hunters’ lodge of the Marott at 7 o'clock. The freshman committee, which worked with the sophomore and Junior assembly committees in planning the dance, is sponsoring the dinner. The group included Misses Ann Kennedy, Joan Pile, Marganne Ropkey and Gene Scheidenhelm, James Lodwick, Robert MacDaniel, Albert Rabb and Evans Woollen 1IT. Evans will be host at a dinner in his home for a group of friends before going.to Mrs. Gates’ party. n = = =
Miss Anna Hasselman, curator of John Herron Art museum. will speak on “Toiles de Jouy and Other French Prints” in the museum's assembly hall tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. French printed materials from the museum's permanent collection are on display in the textile room. There will be three outstanding exhibits at Herron tomorrow. The Salvador Dali paintings, Indiana's first surrealist show, are on view and in the stairway galiery is shown the work of Louis Betts, famed portrait painter. Tomorrow will be the last day for the exhibition of drawings and water colors oy French masters which has hung in the Indiana room for the past month. These pictures have been withdrawn from circulation by order of the French government and will be kept in the National gallery in Washington for the war's duration Mrs. James W. Fesler, president of the Art Association of Indianapolis, heads the organization's host committee to serve at the museum tomorrow. With her will be Herbert Foltz, Mesdames Addison Harris, Guy Wainwright, Roger G. Wolcott and Hiram MeKee.
D. A. R. to Honor Business Women
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERS of Caroline Scott Harrison chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will be honor guests at an 8 p. m. meeting next Friday night in the chapter house. The Golden Wheel committee will serve as hostesses. Meet - Ings for the business and professional members ate held twice each year. Mrs. William Dobson, chapter regent, will introduce Miss Eleanor Semans, Golden Wheel president, who will tell of the work of her committee. The group, sponsored by Mrs. G. B. Taylor, is directing a series of radio broadcasts over station WIRE as a defense project in educating children against war hysteria. The program chairman, Miss Mary Helen North, will present Mrs. Frieda Robinson, who is to talk on “A Smart Wardrcbe for a Defense Budget.” Miss Marjorie Breeden will sing Miss North will be assisted by Mesdames Emsley W. Johnson Jr., Francis B. Poe and Melvin F. Cranfill. Mrs. J. Edgar Rehm and Miss Ginevra MeCoy will be in charge of refreshments.
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Prelude Club Sponsors Recital
THE PRELUDE CLUB of Tudor Hall school will sponsor a recital April 17 at 3:30 p m. in the American United Life Insurance audirium. Proceeds will go to the Indianapolis Symphony orchestra. Appearing on the program will be the Misses Mary Boyd Higgins, Martha Frances Dunn, Emily Flickinger and Gene Scheidenheim. The young women are the winners in a recent piano competition held at the school under the club’s auspices. Judges were Miss I. Hilda Stewart, the principal; Miss Gladys Heathcock and Mrs. Wayne Ritter of the music department and Miss Ruth Ferguson of the faculty. The club's officers are Miss Anne Amelia Marmon, president; ss Higgins, vice president; Miss Alice Slappey, secretary, and Miss ptty Hahn, Michigan City, treasurer. The recital will bé opén to
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Dr. Roy Ewing Vale will officiate at the ceremony and Paul Matthews will be the organist. A sorority sister of the bride, Mrs. Richard Shores, is to sing. Her songs will be “Tri Delta True” and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity’s “The Loving Cup.” A bank of palms centered with an urn of white calla lilies flanked by candelabra will decorate the altar and the family pews will be marked by white satin ribbons. Gowns of the bride's attendants are of mousseline de soie with tight basques of matching Chantilly lace. The sweetheart necklines will be caught at the sides with pearline bow pins, gifts of the bride. The attendants will wear pompadour hats of roses and veiling matching their frocks and will carry cascade bouquets of pink roses. Miss Martha Jean Heiny, maid of honor, will be in opaline pink and pale aquatone will be worn by the bridesmaids, Misses Ruth Taylor, Eudora Clouser, Vida Seaman and Mrs. Donald E. Shafer, the bride's sister-in-law. Entering with her father, Miss Shafer will wear white mousseline de soie with ruffles of Chantilly lace forming a bustle effect in the bouffant skirt and outlining a low| shoulder yoke in the fitted basque. A crown of Chantilly ruffles will hold her fingertip: length veil of illusion and she will carry a bouquet of white roses centered with a white orchid.
Assist at Reception
The bridegroom's attendants will be Norman Eggers, Whiting, best man, and Jesse Eschbach, Warsaw; Carty Smith, Toledo, O.; John Krueger, Gary, and the bride's brother, Donald E. Shafer, ushers. Corsages of sweetheart roses and gardenias will be worn by mothers of the couple. Mrs. Shafer has chosen a light blue crepe redingote with which she will wear gray accessories and a toque covered with pale blue flowers. Mrs. Taylor will have navy accessories with a light blue gown. y
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Reception at Marott to Follow Taylor-Shafer Ceremony;
A reception in' the Marott hotel ballroom will follow the wedding of Miss Dorothy Marie Shafer to Lieut. Lyle Oberlin Taylor at 3 o'clock this afternoon in Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Miss Shafer is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Shafer, 5515 N. Pennsylvania st, and Lieut. Taylor, stationed at Camp Wheeler, Ga., is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben B. Taylor, Hamilton.
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Franklin; Miss Betty Ann Lavengood, Marion; Miss Jean Taylor, cousin of the bridegroom, Hamilton; Misses Jeanne Pierson, Suzanne Queisser, Harriett and Betty Krueger, Mary Jane Smith and LaVaun Reehling. Arter the reception the bridegroom's parents will entertain at a dinner for relatives in the Marott hotel. The couple will leave for Macon, Ga., where they will be at home. The bride’s traveling costume is a turquoise gabardine suit with matching coat and hat and pale beige accessories. She will wear a white orchid corsage. Guests attending the ceremony from out-of-town will include Mrs. Ida Bourne, Hamilton, O.; Robert Henry, Thorntown; Messrs. ahd Mesdames Fred Frederick, Gerald Seagly and Robert Stingle, Ashley; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Batton, Hartford City; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dickson and Mrs. Will Dickson, Cedar Grove. Coming from Hamilton will be Charles Hanes Jr., Miss Phyllis Stout, Messrs. and Mesdames John Taylor, Willis Taylor and Russell Taylor, the latter's children and Mrs. Oscar Taylor. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Taylor, Waterloo, also will be guests. The bride attended Indiana university, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Lieut. Taylor was graduated from Howe Military school and attended Denison and Indiana universities. He is a Beta Theta Pi fraternity member.
Rosemary Rolles Will Be Wed April 25
The engagement of Miss Rosemary Rolles to Richard C. Sauer is announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony F. Rolles, 218 N. 17th ave, Beech Grove. Mr. Sauer is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Sauer, 2305 S. Meridian st. The ceremony will bé Saturday, 1¢ Church in
1. Mrs. J. Wade Bailey announces the engagement of her daughter, Betty, to Cadet. Corp. Robert E. Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Hoffman. The wedding will be May 20 in Miami Beach, Fla., upon Corp. Hoffman's graduation from the Air Corps Officers’ Candidate school there. Both Miss Bailey and Corp. Hoffman are former Ft. Wayne residents. Miss Bailey attended Mt. Ida School for Girls, Newton, Mass, and the Ft. Wayne Art school and museum. Corp. Hoffman was graduated from Indiana university and is a Sigma Nu fraternity member. (W. Hurley Ashby photo.) 2. Mrs. James Laughlin Beck was Miss Opal Dawson, daughter of Mrs. James Dawson, Carmel, before marriage April 4. (W., Hurley Ashby photo.) 3. Miss Ellen Hamilton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Hamilton, will be married to Michael Lojinger Jr, Miami, Fla, son of Michael Lojinger, Cincinnati, next month in Miami. Miss Hamilton was graduated from Butler university and is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Mr. Lojinger attended the University of Cincinnati. (Emma Gene Tucker photo.) 4. Miss Mary Beth Oldham, dzughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Oldham, is engaged to Cadet Corp. William H. Troup, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Troup. Kankakee, Ill. Corp. Troup is attending the Air Corps Officers’ Candidate school in Miami Beach, Fla, and will be a second lieutenant upon his graduation. The couple will be married in May Miss Oldham attended the Indianapolis Academy of Commercial Art. Corp. Troup is a graduate of the Alabama Polytechnic institute and is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. (Photo Craft photo.) : 5. Mrs. George Rodgers Jr. was Miss Marjorie Jaqua, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Jaqua, Winchester, before her marriage March 28. (Hirshburg photo.) > 6. The engagement of Miss Wilma Gootee to Lieut. Roger J. Aull of Camp Shelby, Miss, is announced by her mother, Mrs. Mary A. Gootee. (Dexheimer-Carlon photo.) 7. Mrs. Albert W. Habermeyer was Miss Lucile Craigle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Craigle, before her marriage April & (W. Hurley Ashby photo.) 8. Mrs. Thomas A. Brady was Miss Jane Cooling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Parke A. Cooling, before her marriage Feb. 15. Lieut: and Mrs. Brady are at home at 320 Marsh road, Charlotte, N. C. Lieut. Brady
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Rev. Fr. Bauer Weds Brother
The bridegroom’s brother, Rev. Fr. Edward Bauer, officiated at the wedding of Miss Rosemary Keller and Josepn E. Bauer at 9 o'clock this morning in St. Patrick's Catholic church. Following the ceremony, the bride's mother, Mrs. Mary E. Keller, entertained with a wedding breakfast at Bluff Crest. Bridal music was provided by Miss Helen Colbert, organist, and Miss Julia Colbert sang “Ave Marie,” “On This Day O Beautiful Mother” and “Panis Angelicus.” The bride was gowned in white satin fashioned on princess lines with a sweetheart neckline outlined by seed pearls and a long train. Her fingertip veil was caught by a tiara of seed pearls and she carried a bridal bouquet of white gladioli. Miss Martina Keller, the bride's sister and maid of honor, and Miss | Rosemary Bauer, sister of the |bridegroom and the bridesmaid, wore identical dresses of blue and pink marquisette, princess style with square necklines. They also wore pearls, gifts of the bride, and shoulder length veils matching their gowns. Their colonial bouquets were of mixed flowers. Louis Bauer, brother of the bridegroom, was best man and another brother, Rober{ Bauer, and Alfred Schewmon served as ushers. Mrs. Keller was attired in a navy blue crepe jacket dress with navy and white accessories and a corsage of talisman roses. She entertained with a reception from 1 to 3 p. m. in her home, 1032 Leonard st. The couple was to leave on a wedding trip to Chicago following the reception. Mrs. Bauer's traveling costume was a beige suit with kelly green accessories and a corsage of yellow roses. From Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Bauer will go to ‘Washington, where they will be at home at 226 Eighth st, S. W. Out-of-town guests at the wedding were Messrs. and Mesdames W. L. Shoptaw, James Smith and family, John Raymond, Hugh Smith and family and Mrs. Flora MeTaggart; all of Washington, Ind.
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Democratic Women Will Meet Monday
The April meeting of the 17th Ward Democratic Women’s club will be held Monday at 8 p. m. at . the home of the Marion county vice chairman, Miss Hannah Noone, 7388 Pleasant Run pkwy., S. drive, Mrs. Roy Green, president, wij be in charge of the meeting, t@ which candidates for the May prie mary have been invited. Women of the seventh precinct will be im charge of entertainment and ree freshments.
F. J. Dearmin, Miss Straw To Be Married
The Rev. Hayes Webster will perform the wedding ceremony uniting his niece, Miss Catherine Straw, and Frank J. Dearmin in marriage tomorrow at 3:30 p, m, in the bride’s home in Odon. Miss Mary Jean Fields of Washe ington, Ind, will play the bridal music and Mrs. Gladys Webster will © sing,. “Oh Promise Me.” Greenery will decorate the home. Miss Straw will wear a mist blue crepe frock with navy accessories and a corsage of white camellias, Her sister and maid of honor, Miss’ Mary Elizabeth Straw, has chosen a dusty rose suit to be worn with navy accessories and a corsage of red roses. Dwight Cooper of Odon will be Mr, Dearmin’s best man. Foliowing the ceremony, the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Straw Sr, will entertain with a reception for the immediate family and guests. The couple will be at Bowie at 2043 N. Delaware st., Mone aay. Among out-of-town guests at the wedding will be two of the bride’s brothers, John A. Straw Jr. of Louisville, Ky., and Charles R, Straw of Clinton, and their wives; Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Webster and Mrs. Noah Webster of Washington, Ind, and Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Webster of Rollo, Mo.
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“Famous Flower . Gardens” and “Conservation of Wild Life” will be the subjects of Mrs. W. P.
Miss Kohl Hostess
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