Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1943 — Page 6

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Society—

Mrs. F. Allison Preston Announces Betrothal of Her Daughter, Judith

MRS. FRANCES ALLISON PRESTON announces the engagement of her daughter, Judith, to John Lillard Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Davis of Winchester, Ky. The wedding will be in the early fall. Miss Preston is a graduate of Orchard and Tudor Hall schools and of Wells college, Aurora, N. Y. She is a member of the Inyolis Junior league. The prospective bridegroom is a graduate of Kentucky Military institute and Washington and Lee university and a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Dorothy Ann Fisher Is Engaged THE ENGAGEMENT OF Miss Dorothy Ann Fisher to Earl James Clark, son of Mrs. Stinson Clark of Lafayette, is announced the bride-to-be’s mother, Mrs. Ronald M. Fisher. The ceremony be read June 5 in St. Joan of Arc Catholic church. Miss Fisher eradate of Butler university, where she was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Mr. Clark, a graduate of Purdue university, is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Among parties planned for the bride-to-be is a luncheonbridge and shower next Saturday at the home of Mrs. C. A. Brown, Ms. Brown and her daughter, Agnes, will be the hostesses. Guests will include Mesdames Fisher, R. M. McKinstray, Ralph E. Morrow, William Riker, William Schiltges, H. E. Nyhart and John Parker Meister, Misses Mildred Orr, Adelinn Lewis, Sue Virginia Hull, Janet Beach, Charlotte Hoffman and Nancy Morrow. Coming from out of town will be Mesdames Stinson Clark, J. M. Clark and R. F. Clark and Miss Stella Clark, Lafayette; Mrs. D. A. Bickell, Misses Dorothy. Janet and Francis Bickell, South Bend, and Mrs. C. J. Martin, Rutland, Ill

Kern-Phillippe Wedding June 6

JUNE 6 HAS BEEN SET as the date for Miss Joanna Phillippe’s marriage to Raymond A. Kern. The ceremony will be at 4:30 p. m. in McKee chapel of Tabernacle Presbyterian church. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Don R. Phillippe of Indianapolis and Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Kern, Mooresville. The bridal attendants will be Mrs. Harold Davis, her niece's matron of honor: Miss Doris Koning, bridesmaid; Marvin Kern, his brother's best man, and Walter Mitchell, cousin of the prospective bridegroom. and Bill Lewis of Frankfort, ushers. Both the bride and bridegroom-to-be were graduated from Indiana university and Mr. Kern received his master’s degree from the university. Miss Phillippe is a Sigma Kappa sorority member and Mr. Kern a member of Alpha Chi Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi honorary fratern-

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= = = = 2 ” Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Lawson announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Patricia, to Lt. Donald D. White. son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. White. The marriage will be May 29 in the chapel at Camp Shelby, Miss, Lt. White, who is serving with the 83th division of the army, is a graduate of Indiana university.

Monte Carlo Party Tonight at Meridian Hills

SEVERAL PARTIES HAVE BEEN formed to attend for the Monte Carlo party which will be given tonight at the Meridian Hills Country club. Among those entertaining larger groups will be Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Harrison, chairmen for, the event, and Messrs. and Mesdames Wilbur L. Appel, Frank Langsenkamp Jr, Horace E. Storer, Willard C. Whipple, Howard E. Nyhart and I. W. Sturgeon. Others who will have guests are Messrs. and Mesdames Paul R. Summers, Robert Wallace, C. E. Roach, Richard Lochton, O. W. Bogda, Kenneth Larrance, Thomas F. Carson, Charlton N. Carter, Joseph P. Merriam, G. F. Albright, Norb Schaefer, P. D. Loser, Paul Burkholder, Richard T. Hill, Charles F. Arensman, Marshall G. Knox, C. C. Prather, R. E. Horstman, C. E. Miller, George B. Elliott, Frederick Grumme, Frank B. McKibbin, E. H. Kemper McComb, H. R. Kealing, E. E. Collison, R. Norman Baxter and W. E. Wilson.

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Mrs. Ella Bond Johnston will be the speaker tomorrow afternoon at the John Herron Art museum. Her gallery talk at 3 p. m. will be on “The Indiana School of Painters.” The current exhibit at the museum is the 26th annual Indiana artists’ exhibition, which will

close June 6.

Auxiliary Election Will Be Tuesday

OFFICERS OF THE INDIANAPOLIS Day Nursery Junior auxiliary will be elected Tuesday at the auxiliary’s monthly meeting —a 12:30 p. m. luncheon at the Propylaeum. There will be a board meeting at 11:30 a. m. Several members of the auxiliary who have completed training work for the citizens’ service corps of the OCD will be inducted in ceremonies at 10:20 a. m. Wednesday in the World War Memorial building. ‘The group includes Mesdames Thomas Billings, Ralph B. Coble, Joseph W. Ferree, Fred Harmon Fulton, Richard T. Hill, Frederick W. Mitchell, H. Edward Raffensperger, James W. Ray, Paul W. Scheuring, C. C. Scheutz, William Niles Wishard Jr. and Myers Whitaker. The auxiliary has established a Boy Scout cub pack at the nursery with Mrs. Coble, president of the group, as den mother. Other members of the auxiliary will “take turns” later at being the

den mother,

D. A. R. Committee to Install Officers

THE WHEEL AND DISTAFF COMMITTEE of the Caroline gcott Harrison chapter, D. A. R., will have its annual meeting and installation of officers at 7 p. m. Friday in the home of Mrs. George Caleb Wright, Sargent rd. and 86th st. The new officers are Mrs. ©. Harold Hershman, president; Mrs. Dorothy Kelly, vice president; Mrs. Francis Black, second vice president; Mrs. Carl W. Piel, secretary; Mrs. Ralph C. Gery, treasurer, and Mrs. John H. Jeffeson, membership secretary. The speaker will be Lt. Catherine Brown, WAAC recruiting officer. ‘The assistant hostesses will be Mesdames Howard Allisbaugh, Hershman, William E. Niven, Carl Onstad and Kirkwood Yockey.

A "priority picnic” is planned by the Review club for its meetMonday at the home of Mrs. Cleon A. Nafe. Assisting hostesses H. Talge Brown, Ralph Boozer, John K. Good-

ing Mt will be Mesdames win, Albert Set

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|sories and a Talisman rose corsage.

Geraldine Bliss To Be Wed in Church Rite

In a 5 o'clock ceremony this after-| noon in the Irvington Methodist

church, Miss Geraldine Bliss will :

become the bride of Chester L| Gray Jr. She is the daughter of Mr. and] Mrs. Murray D. Bliss, 126 N. Bosart | ave. The bridegroom is the son of| Mr. and Mrs. Chester L. Gray, 5040 Beechwood ave. The double ring ceremony will be! read by the Rev. Clarence A. Shake before an altar decorated with palms and spring flowers. Mrs. Bernice Mozingo will be the organist. Entering on the arm of her| father, the bride will wear a street length dress of turquoise blue with brown and yellow accessories and a corsage of white roses and valley lilies. She will have a strand of pearls, gift of the bridegroom.

Mothers’ Costumes

Her maid of honor, Miss Mary Elizabeth Donnell, will wear a yellow sheer frock with brown acces-

‘The bridegroom’s father will be his best man. Both mothers will wear pink corsages. Mrs. Bliss will be in a brown dress with brown and white accessories and Mrs. Gray will wear a gray sheer with black accessories. The couple will be at home next Saturday with the bridegroom's parents. Mr. Gray attended DePauw university where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. A dinner will be given at Cifaldi’s following the ceremony.

Sorority to Meet

A social meeting of Phi Tau sorority will be held Tuesday at the home of Miss Rosemary Ahern, 4049 Graceland ave. The assistants will

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Five to Assist In Sales Drive

Five women will aid Mrs. T. Vietor Keene, chairman, in the formal season ticket campaign for the Indianapolis symphony orchestra's

1943-1044 season. Mrs. George W. Bowman will be vice general chairman of the drive which will continue from Sept. 17 to Oct. 1. The south, west, east and north districts of Indianapolis will be headed by Mesdames Oliver W. Pickhardt, John E. Storer Jr, Wilson T. Patterson and Edmond W. Hebel. The chairmen will announce the names of their team captains later. Today marked the deadline for the period during which last year's season ticket owners were given their choice of seat locations for the coming year. All seats not resubscribed were placed on unrestricted public sale.

Concert Tuesday The Wayne Township Parent-

Teacher association will meet at!

7:30 p. m. Tuesday for a short busiby a band

Breakfast Will Be Given by Alumnae

president of the Indiana university

1. The Mothers’ association of Park school will sponsor a picnic supper tonight at the school following the activities of the school’s annual field day. Mrs. Robert Holloweil (left) is one of the co-chair-men of the hostesses who will include Mrs, W. I. Longsworth (center) and Mrs, Harold B. West.

2. Miss Judith Preston's engagement to John Lillard Davis is being announced today.

3. Members of the committee for the Monte Carlo which will be

given tonight at the Meridian Hills country club are Mrs. Horace E.

Storer (left) and Mrs. Victor C. Seiter.

4. The engagement of Miss Dorothy A. Naftzger to Roy M. Attkisson is announced. The wedding will be hext month. (Kindred photo.)

5. Miss Patricia M. Lawson will become the bride of Lt. Donald D. White in a ceremony May 29 in the army chapel at Camp Shelby, Miss, (Pratt photo.)

6. Mrs. William P. Hurt was Miss Marion Holsomback before her marriage to Lt. Hurt on Easter Sunday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Hoisomback, Huntington, W. Va. The bridegroom, who is stationed at Camp Stewart, Ga, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Hurt of Indianapolis.

sistant hostesses will be Mrs. Wiiliam Hutchison and Mrs. J. V. Schilling.

Four to Be Pledged

Miss Betty Karger, Evansville,

Choir to Stage Operetta

“The Blue Belt,” an operetta, will be presented by the girls’ choir of the Irvington Methodist church at 8 o'clock this evening in the social hall of the church, Those in the cast are Misses Suzanné Shortridge, Shirley Stillwell, Jenny Lea Petty, Jo Ann Meyer, Ellen Barnes and Mary Elizabeth Carnahan. The art work was done by Miss Rose Ann Meredith. Mrs. Wil son Patterson is the accompanist, Miss Helen Hodges is in charge of the ticket sales, and Mrs, Paul Mozingo is director.

Card Party Booked

The Ladies’ society of the Saen-gor-Chor will have a card party at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow in the hall,

Lois Harding, W. D. Gossett To Be Wed

The marriage of Miss Lois Harde ing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R, W. Harding, 1125 Tecumseh st. te Sgt. William David Gossett, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A, Gossett, Madie sonville, Ky. will take place in Woodruff United Presbyterian church at 8:30 p. m. today. The Rev. W. C. Ball will officiate. The ceremony will be a candleligh$ service before an altar of palms, Mrs. Chester Bridges, organist, will play the bridal music and Mrs. MaXe

ine Priest will sing, “Oh, Promise Me” and “I Love You Truly.”

by the bride, with a seed-pearl fingertip veil. She will carry a bouquet of white roses and sweet peas and will be given in marriage by her father.

Bride's Attendants

Miss Lucille Adams, Shelbyville, the bride's cousin, will be her maida« | of -honor, her sister-in-law, Mrs, | Pauline Harding, matron-of-honor, and Miss Betty McDonald, bridese maid, The attendants will wear similar dresses of dusty’ rose taffeta and will carry bouquets of spring flowers, They will wear pearls given them by the bride. Mrs. Harding, mother of the bride, will wear black with white accessories and a corsage of white carnations.

Reception Follows

Sgt. Cecil J. Roberts, stationed at Camp Atterbury with the bride groom, will be best man. Ushers will be Pvts. Bruce E. Kesselring and Peter J. Zawatski, Camp Ate terbury. A reception at the Harding home will follow the ceremony. The bride will wear a blue traveling suit with navy accessories for the weds ding trip. Out-of-town guests will include Lt. Dan Guft, Camp Atterbury; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boyd, Hamile ton, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Eine man and Mr. and Mrs. Willard Miers, Greensburg; Rudolph Tress | ler and Mrs. Caroline Adams, Shele byville.

A white satin gown will be worn .,

chapter of Sigma Kappa sorority, and Miss Novella Northseott, rush chairman, will be guests tomorrow 'at a breakfast given by the Indian-

apolis Alumnae association of the sorority.

The party, at 10:30 a. m., will be at the hone of Mrs. Robert D. Cole-

Pledge services will be held tomorrow by Lambda Mu chapter, Sigma Beta sorority, at the home of Mrs. Russell Chatham, 1 W. 28th st. There will be a tea from 3 to 5 p. m. The pledges will be MesHenry Barnard, Bd Mye

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\Ch ) Mrs. Mannon Hostess, ~ ange M eeting Place The Poets’ Rendevous will meet

A social meeting of Alpha chap- at 2 p. m. Sunday in the downs ter, Sigma Delta Sigma sorority, stairs parlors of the Central Y. W, will be held Monday evening at the(C. A. The meeting originally was

13th st. and Park ave.