Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1942 — Page 11

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VEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1042

Meet Mrs. Louise Conkle Vi

By ROSEMARY REDDING

“NOW DON'T CLIMB up on the garage roof while Pm gone. I wouldn't, you know.” “Naw, youre too old,” replied Eddie, 10, with a tease in his eye. Those were the parting words. And though Eddie is the apple of her eye, Louise Conkle just couldn't help “a-wondering.” It was only natural. Perhaps 700 other mamas were wondering at the same time how things were getting along back home while they were attending the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers convention this week in Indianapolis. But it was a little unusual for Louise Conkle to have time to think about it. After all, this was a big day in her life. She was being nominated to head 80.000 parents and teachers throughout the state. But that was just what she was doing when I found her and Lucy Murray hurrying through breakfast at the Claypool hotel. They welcomed me to a large suite on the seventh floor which they already had dubbed “the bridal suite.” = tJ = ® = 2 MRS. LUCY (JAMES L) MURRAY has headed the Congress for the past three years and it wasn’t hard to tell that she was pretty happy, in one way, to be giving the reins for the next three years over inte the hands of Lohse Conkle. Mrs. Frederick A. Conkle of Noblesville isn't a stranger to a large part of the P.-T. A. membership. She has served in various P.-T. A. capacities in her home town and has been a member of the state board for several years, although her apprenticeship is a comparatively short one. Shes about 5 foot 4, weighs about 130 pounds, has blue eyes and her blond, naturally curly hair is graying. Her modesty often

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makes her appear even smaller. But not as petite as when she stands beside “Freddie,” who is 6 foot 2 and weighs 240. “And I still think he’s handsome,” she said. “That should give you some idea of how I feel about him, even after 21 years.” 2 = = ss = =

SHE MET “FREDDIE” down at Indiana university where she was prestdent of the Kappa chapter there and was May queen during commencement activities. While a student at I. U, Mr. Conkle had enlisted and served overseas with the Rainbow division. He had come back te graduate. First there was commencement and soon their mage riage. . The Conkles lived in New England when they were first married. But as Louise Conkle puts it, “I'm a native of Noblesville.” Mr. Cor kle commutes between - Noblesville and Indianapolis to his position as sales manager for the William Lynn Chemical Co. Some Indianapolis P.-T. A. members claim her, too. sf 8.4 $f Hh 9 MRS, CONKLE'S FAMILY background is one of service. Her paternal grandfather was a Methodist eircuit rider preacher and her maternal grandfather built many of the covered bridges which Hamilton county residents still remember. She, herself, is an active member of the Methodist church and works in Tri Kappa. Her father, E. E. Neal, is editor of the Noblesville Ledger and her mother, too, worked at one time for the paper. The fact is that Liouise Conkle is quite a “family woman.” “I'm never happier,” she says, “than when I can look around the table and see the three generations gathered there.” She referred to her parents who share their home and her own

two sons. The elder son, Frederick Allen Jr, was in Butler university two

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years and now commutes with his father to his work’ at CurtissWright. Eddie is still very much at home. Friends who drop in any hour of the day may find Mrs. Conkle grubbing away in the flower beds. ’Tis true that gardening is one of her hobbies but she Just as often is digging some fishing worms for Eddie. She's quite as enthusiastic about fishing on the banks of White river as he is. She likes to bowl and with a little coaxing will modestly bring out a trophy for having the highest score in her league last winter. When she was asked if she would serve as president if nominated and elected, she had to confer ‘with “Freddie” and the family, Her husband said: “I'll go along with you.” She likes her father's philosophy that every job can be done a day at a time. She pledges “I'll do my best. I don’t expect to be a remarkable president naturally. I'm extremely interested in the work and wouldn't take anything for the contacts.” 2 8 ” » 2 2

SHE LIKES SIMPLE THINGS. She dresses that way. She thinks picnics are great. Likes ice cream cones. Those who have been privileged to be her guests say she is a “swell” cook. Lemon pie is her specialty. Lucy Murray says: “Her memory for historical data is uncanny. Ask her something.” : Mrs. Conkle laughed. She likes being kidded and often comes forth with a joke on herself. Reading is important to her. She can quote poetry by the hour. The convention theme this year, “Serve Where You Are,” came from her quotation of Angelo Patri's words: “Many people scramble for Plges. fortune and fame while others stand by serving quietly when needed.” They, somehow, fit Louise Conkle.

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In Operetta |Girl Scouts to

Sell Cookies

Downtown

On Cookie Day Saturday, 26 Girl Scout troops will operate booths in downtown centers, according to Mrs. Robert Stith, booth chairman. Downtown booths and troops in charge will be as follows: L. S. Ayres & Co., troop 4; William H. Block Co. and Chamber of Commerce building, 134; Merchants Bank building, 5; Guaranty building, 16; H. P. Wasson & Co, 123; Indianapolis Water Co., 36; Vonnegut Hardware Co. 24; Stewart's, Inc, and Hume-Mansur building, 135; State Life Building Co. and J. C. Penney Co, 12. Others include Victor Furniture Co, 28; Indiana Trust Co. and Marott Shoe Store, 112; SpinkArms hotel, 32; Circle Motor inn, 73; Peoples’ Bank building, 54; Hotel English, 2; Indianapolis News | building, 15; McCrory’s 5 & 10-Cent Store, 116; Underwriter’s building, 62; Indiana National bank, 3, and Traction Terminal building, 7. Also, Trimble Oil Co, 113; Consolidated building, 29: American National bank, 26; Fletcher Trust Co, 137, and Electric Building Co, Inc, 19. Other troops will operate neighborhood booths. All the girls working during the

Oppose Child

Labor in Resolution

Oppcsition to any program ex- | ploiting children under the guise of | a labor shortage was included in a resolution today presented to the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers. Over 700 representatives © | of 80,000 members are holding their convention in the Claypool hotel. Action on the child labor resolution, and others read this morning, will be taken tomorrow. It pointed out that the organization believes every child should be taught home and eivie responsibility and to work in any suitable occupation but put the group on record as opposing any legislation exploiting children,

Other Resolutions

Another resolution opposed federal interference in state measures which will decrease state funds, “thereby working a hardship on schools and other governmental services.” According to Mrs. Robert L.. Shank, the legislation chairman, this includes opposition to the Doughton bill (formerly the Cochran bill) which would exempt war contractors and subcontractors from various state taxes. She pointed out that the bill would lessen state srevenue and could in the end mean a curtailment of the school pro-

Chairman

Society—

Ballet Recital Will Be Presented Tomorrow by Mrs. William B. Gates

THE BALLET RECITAL which Mrs. William Byram Gates will present tomorrow night at the Woman's Department club will be directed by Miss Barbara Brown, assisted by Miss Nancy Briggs. Miss Brown was choreographer for the recital. Appearing in a “Mexican Fado” which opens the program will be Rosanne Borinstein and Sally McBride. Mary Heath will present a Strauss valse followed by an Indian dance in which Gloria Backer appears. Those in a sailor dance will be Suzanne Lamb, Betty and Hannah Rose Kessing, Betsy Blanton, Marjorie and Nell Becherer, Samuella Dingiey, Susan Hughey, Ann Starr Reed and Peggy Stout. = = = = = = After Miss Brown's interpretation of a Tschaikowsky concerto, there will be four solo dances: “Dance of the Swan,” by Carolyn Crom; “Gypsy,” by Miss Briggs: “Caucasian,” by Alice Greene, and ‘Scaramouche,” by Josephine Justice. A mazurka will be danced vy Helen Rogers, Jonelle Brown, Jane Stephenson and Katherine Koons and a Norwegian dance will be presented by Betsy Blanton, Marjorie and Nell Becherer, Suzanne Lamb, Betty and Hannah Rose Kessing, Samuelia Dingley, Susan Hughey, Ann Starr Reed and Peggy Stout. Misses Brown and Briggs will dance to a Rachmaninoff prelude preceding the final number of the program, “Ballet School.” Appearing in the latter will be Alice Greene, Carolyn Crom, Betty Lee Washburn, Gleria Baker, Rosanne Borinstein, Mary Heath, Sally McBride and Josepnine Justice.

D. A. R. 'Coffee’-Lecture Is Friday

MRS. ILIFF JONES, chairman of the Red Cross committee of

Mrs. Frederick Conkle

Sororities—

Delta Delta Delta Alliance to Give Guest Tea Sunday Afternoon; Gamma Beta Chis to Plan Dinner

A guest tea will be held Sunday from 2 to 5 p. m. by the Indiane apolis Alliance of Delta Delta Delta at the home of Mrs. Marvin L. Lugar, 35620 Washington blvd. Receiving with Mrs. Robert G. Renick, alliance president, will be Mrs. Owen M. Calvert, district president; Mrs. Otto K. Jensen, director of housing standards, and Miss Ruth McDowall, traveling secretary. At the tea table will be Mesdames Frederick I. Barrows, John A. Bruhn, Wendell M. Hicks and Kenneth F. Adair. During the afternoon music will be provided by Miss Mari Wagner, harpist; Miss Katherine Simmershied, violinist, and Mrs. G. William Rafiensperger

Miss Rosemary Mariutto (above) is chairman of the homecoming “victory dance” to be held by the St. Joseph’s Young People’s club at the church hall, 617 E. North st. Friday. Music will be provided by the Melody Makers from 9 p. m. to midnight.

Miss Joanne Lauber (above) will take one of the leading roles in the operetta, “The Forest Prince,” to be presented by the St. John’s academy giee club tonight and tomorrow evening at the academy.

at a 6:30 o'clock dinner tonight. The chairman, Miss Helen Tichenor, will be aided by Miss Miriam Vollmer and Mrs. John N. Ott.

Conference On Intant Care

Is Tonight

City Hospital Will Entertain For Nurses

Final plans for a dinner party to be held in the near future will be made by GAMMA BETA CHI at a

the Caroline Scott Harrison chapter, Daughters of the American gram

Revolution, has announced that the first of a series of three lectures by Mrs. Trevor R. Geddes will be at 11 o'clock Friday morning at the chapter house following a 10:45 a. m. “coffee.” The Red Cross committee is sponsoring Mrs. Geddes’ appearance. Mesdames James L. Gavin, Carl F. Maetschke and Alexander L. Taggart are in charge of tickets for the lectures which are open to the public. Mesdames James M. Gloin, Austin Flint Denny, Albert T. Bunch and Herbert R. Hill will pour. Girl Scout cookies will be served at the “coffee.” = = = = = = “The Greatest Thing in the World” will be Mrs. Eldo Wagner's topic when she speaks Friday afternoon at a meeting of the Government Science club. Mrs. Howard Griffith will be hostess at her home. = = = = = = Miss Sue Ann Knippenberg 1s one of 20 coeds at the University of Illinois who have been selected for membership in Mortar Board. honorary organization of women active in extra-curricular activities at the university.

To Honor Mothers Skating Party Friday

; | Plans for a formal dinner for] A benefit roller skating party will | n ofa > > ther speakers and their subjec pledges on April 3» and a Mothers ‘be sponsored by the Enimans| wit Do ye $ Ye kb Sbjechs day “spread” May 13 will be made Lutheran Parent-Teacher associa- Day Syphilis Therapy and Medical | by members of Alpha chapter, Sig- tion at Rollerland rink Friday eve. | Treatment,” and Mrs. Grace Eller ma Phi sorority, when they meet at| ning. The committee on arrange. | Wilbur, “Nursing Care.” 6:30 p. m. today with Mrs. Robert | ments includes Mrs. Carl Specker, | Luncheon will be served at 1:13 Hoefgen, 3023 S. Villa ave. A busi- chairman; Mesdames Henry Brandt | PM Following the afternoon pre-

ness meeting will follow an informal Jr, Edward Kruse and Leroy 3f2m 2 ds Sidi in Pe supper tonight. | nurses’ home. Lectures will be

given in the Lilly auditorium.

Approximately 300 graduate nurses of the Indianapolis City hospital are expected to attend a homecoming celebration, sponsored by the faculty of the School of Nursing and the City Hospital Alumnae association, tomorrow in the nurses’ home. Registration will begin tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Dr. Charles Myer, hospital superintendent, and Miss Marie Winkler, alumnae president, will extend greetings to the group at 11:30 a. m. Following, Miss Alice Greenleaf, acting superintendent of nurses, will discuss the “I. C. H. School of Nursing Today.” During the afternoon sessions, Dr. Lillian Mueller will talk on “New Types of Anesthesia” and Miss Claribel Schechter will speak lon “Blood Bank and New Equipment for Transfusion.”

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ponds. 6. Greater emphasis

physicals. Urges Members to Vote

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county commissioners and

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will know whom to vote for.

swer if we ever get it,” she said.

Other resolutions presented ask: 1. Support of an adequate school 2. Education of the public to the need for Kindergartens to take care of children whose mothindustries. 3. The teaching and practice of better nutrition habits and the promotion of the school lunch program. 4. Stress on safety. 5. Promotion of sale of war stamps and on mental hygiene, annual health examinations and careful followup on

Babies born in Indiana last year had an almost 2 per cent greater chance of reaching their first birthdays than those born in 1933. This decrease in the state's infant mortality rate is attributed to advancement in preventive medicine in preserving the lives of prematurely born infants. Tonight a conference on better care of the premature infant will be held to consider means of reduecing infant mortality still further. Sponsored jointly by the Marion County Medical society and the state health board, the meeting will

Mrs. Shank, in her eccnference, stressed the need for the exercise of one’s franchise in coming elecShe emphasized that the voters should be particularly interested in the individuals which they elected to offices in the lecal Units | oounty Will attend. of government as well as the bigger offices. She stressed particularly the prosecutor's office and he city

“I don’t know exactly how you The

shortened ballot would be the an-

Other legislation in which the ‘congress is interested include the

be held at 8 p. m. at the health |board. Representatives of the medlical society, the Public Health Nurs|ing association, city, county and (state health boards and public and private hospitals of the city and

| Mobilization of medical resources { for better medical, nursing and hospital care of premature infants | will be discussed. The speakers 'will be Dr. Howard B. Mettel, chief of the maternal and child health bureau of the state health board; (Dr. Carl P. Huber, director of post'graduate education of the state health board and associate professor in obstetrics, Indiana University

sale are intermediate scouts, with the exception of troops 123, 112, 19, 7 and 113 with senior scouts as meinbers. Assisting Mrs. Stith with booth reservations were Mesdames Montgomery Lewis, Robert Gray and Hugh Dillin. ‘ The “emergency squad” transportation committee which will aid the booth committee Saturday includes Mrs. Charles Grinslade, chairman; Mesdames Frank Fairchild, J. W. Little, M. I. Hall, Gaylord Wood, Burke Nicholas, Howard Morrison, T. C. Mauch and Miss Constance Drake. This group will keep the downtown and neighborhood booths supplied with cookies and will aid troops with deliveries as well. The cookie clock on the balcony of Hotel English was moved up from 26,000 to 34,000 by Miss Helen Hodges and Miss Priscilla Groves, members of troop 1, yesterday.

To Elect Officers

A meeting of the Willing Workers 4-H club was to be held this afternoon in the sewing room of school 69 under the direction of Mrs. Lester Roush, Officers were to be elected; projects were to be discussed and plans for summer work were to be made.

and Miss Ruth Duckwall, pianists. Assistant hostesses at the tea will be Mesdames J. Byron Beasley, James E. Allen, William H. Walker, Wallace Wadsworth, R. P. Frey, William L. Hart, Bernard F. Lacy, Drexel A. Boyd, F. V. Davis, Dennis Hill, William T. Smith Jr., Seward Baker and Gordon Thompson, Also, the Misses Jean Woods, Sara Baird, Lillian Martin, Frances Longshore, Helen Tichenor, Julia Ann Pennington and Louise Padou. The chairman, Mrs. Foster Montgomery, will be aided by Mesdames Ralph K. Simpson, J. Russell Townsend, John L. Thorngren, Harry D. Hooley, James S. Browning, John N. Ott, Kennedy Miller, John A. McConnell, Miss Ruth Hale and Miss Marjorie Pyke.

This afternoon, Mrs. Elbert R. Gilliom was to be hostess at a luncheon for the afternoon group of the alliance. Mrs. Bert C. McCammon, guest speaker, was to discuss “Two Wheeling Along the ByWays.” Mrs. Seward Baker, chairman, was to be assisted by Mrs. Dumont Ranstead and Mrs. John L. Thorngren. Mrs. Renick, 4144 Carrollton ave.,

will entertain the evening group

business session tonight in Hotel Antlers. Miss Mary Scott will be acting hostess.

A buffet supper has been planned by ALPHA chapter, DELTA SIGMA CHI, for tomorrow evening at the home of Mrs. Rowena Brehob, 807 Edwards ave. Members will meet at 7:30 p. m.

Mrs. Paul Blessing, 3330 N. Meri= dian st., entertained BETA chapter, THETA DELTA SIGMA, in her home last night.

Election of officers will be held by ALPHA PI SIGMA sorority at the home of Miss Betty McGuire, 839 Leland st., tonight.

Buy Girl Scout

COOKIES

« » . help support Camp Delle wood. Girl Scout Cookie Day, Saturday, April 25.

lengthening of the term of the state superintendent of schools and the allowing of $100 per teaching; unit throughout the state. J Raymond Schutz told the group in his address that “children must ‘have priorities on everything,” !stressing the physical, mental, social and spiritual aspects of their life. Mrs. J. W. Bingham, Palo Alto, | the infant mortality rate, entirely Cal.,, vice president of region 8 of | too many prematurely born infants the national congress, described the, being lost because of lack of work of the P.-T. A. groups on the proper medical, nursing and hosWest coast during the present emer- pital facilities. cd Dr. Ferree points out that while Conferences Scheduled the 85 portable incubators in Ine A luncheon for state and life |diana have been of great value in

. (caring for premature babies, “the DL i iow, Ivar: incubator is not all that is necession and Miss Mary L. Matthews, health. It is necessarv that spedean of home economics at Purdue cialists be trained in this field of university, was to lead, a discussion | Medicine and nursing and be kept of "How Can the Home Serve Beste» [Mobilzed for emergency hospital Special conferences and their lead- calls. ers scheduled include program service and founders’ day, Mrs. Wilbur Dickinson; Riley hospital project, Mrs. Frank Lentz; homemaking, Miss Matthews; music, Miss Mary Ruth Palmer, and safety, Paul F. Boston. Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, Providence, R. I., will speak at tonight's banquet. The publicity breakfast tomorrow morning will be followed by the following conferences: Standards of excellence, led by Mrs. Glen Bowen; summer roundup, Mrs. O. E. Furr; budget, Mrs. Robert W. Gehres; kindergarten extension, Miss Ruth Patterson, and parliamentary procedure, Mrs. Homer J. Miller. Miss Lucille Jones, assistant professor of education at Evansville college, will speak at the Thursday morning session. Officers will be installed and the resolutions and revisions of the by-laws adopted. The annual trip to the Riley hospital and a meeting of the board of managers in the afternoon will end the sessions.

Guild Will Lunch

St. Hilda guild will meet in the

School 6f Medicine; Dr. L. T. Meiks, associate professor in pediatrics, I. U. School of Medicine, and Dr. Frances D. Brown, director of the premature center, City hospital. Dr. Jonn W. Ferree, state health commissioner, in commenting on]. the conference, said, “Although progress is being made in reducing

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Women of I. A.C. Attend Luncheon

Wives and daughters of Indianapolis Athletic club members were to attend the last of the season’s luncheon-bridge parties at the glub today. Among those who made reservations for one or more tables at the spring party were Mesdames Charles Israel, C. F. Gibson, George Hilgemejer, Peter Lambertus, C. R. D’Olive, Ernest Sellers, R. B. Fogle,

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