Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1945 — Page 18
Alpha Chi O Opening * Fall
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mega Alumnae Arrange. Meeting for Tuesday
THE FIRST FALL MEETING of the Beta Beta Alumnae association of Alpha Chi Omega sorority will
. be held Tuesday evening.
hostess for the 7:30 o'clock
Mrs. Olven M. Bowe will be program. Mrs, Mary Ellen
Full'of Ayres’ fashion bureau will discuss “Good Groom-
ing in Fall Fashions.”
Those assisting at the meeting will be Mesdames Joseph E, Buck, W. BE. May,'C. J. Minneman,.C. L, Munger, M. W, Hittle and H. A. Norris, Miss Rosemary Myers and Miss Gertrude Brown. The group's: president, Mrs, Marshall P. Crabill, has announced commit-
tee chairmen for the coming year.
They are Mrs. Crabill, executive; Mrs. R, W. Evans, program; Mrs. R. K. Bowers, yearbook; Miss Jane Howe, hospitality; Mrs. Bowe, telephone; Mrs. Wayne Nicely, ways'and means; Mrs. J. J.
Coffin, rush, Mrs. K. E. Lancet,
press;. Mrs. Wendell Brown, card
tournament; Mrs. George L. Clark, scholarship; Mrs, George Gable,
philanthropic; Mrs, Paul G. Pitz, resident members.
files, and Mrs. W, 8. Wooley, none
D.A.R. Chapter Will Meet MEMBERS OF THE IRVINGTON CHAPTER, D. A. R., will
meet next Thursday afternoon in
the home of Mrs. D. J. Hendrick.
son.” Mrs. Wayne Cory, central director, will give the program. M ”
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A dinner and miscellaneous shower next Thursday evening will honor~Miss Jane Holt Shook. The party will be given by Miss
Patricia Peterson, assisted by her
mother, Mrs, J. Dwight Peterson.
Miss Shook will become the bride of Alebrt Willlam Buschmann
Oct. 20 in St. Paul's Episcopal ch The Petersons' other guests in
urch, their home will include the bride-
to-be's mother, Mrs. Wilbur B, Shook; Mesdames John Dean, Marvin
Curle and George Deck, Misses M
argaret Curle, Mary Anne Pearce,
Jean Moore, Barbara Kiger, Bettijane Mosiman, Mary Jo McGuire
and Lois Hilkene. day for Miss Shook.
Miss Moore and Miss Curle will entertain Mon-
Mrs. James E. Clark will be hostess tomorrow evening for mem-
bers of the Indianapolis alumnae,
Alpha Xi Delta sorority. A new
fall project will be discussed by Mrs. Lewis Meier Jr, philanthropic
committe . new president.
chairman, Mrs, E. G, Hinshaw is the’ organization's
Scandinavian Exhibit Arranged
__A SCANDINAVIAN EXHIBIT day at the Chiidren’s museum. descendants will be special guests
will be opened formally on SunScandinavian persons and their from 2 until 5 p. m. In keeping
“with the museum’s poliey of rotating displays, the exhibit has been “arranged primarily for fifth and sixth grade school pupils, who will study the Scandinavian countgies this fall. The exhibit will featuré an old Bwedish kilim, native costumes, a folk painting, dolls and toys, arts and crafts and porcelain. Among those who have loaned displays are Mr. and Mrs, Hans Aamot, Dr.
Rebecca Parrish, Mesdames A. M.,
¥eist H. H. Hanna, Robert Lang-
senkamp, Eli Lilly and John Pantzer, Miss Eunice Henley and. Miss
+ earl Apland,
Hospital Guild
Sets Monday
For Luncheon
Altenheim Group Arranges Party
The annual birthday party of the Ladies auxiliary to the Altenheim will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow in the home, There will be a business meeting at 1:30
| o'glock.
A guest luncheon and business meeting is being planned for Mon- | day by members of the St. Vincent's Hospital guild. The event will begin at 10 a. m. in the auditorium of the nurses’ home. Mrs. Ted Marbaugh, the group's new president, will* request members to vote on the question of returning to a full pre-war schedule of activities. Mrs. Daniel R. Brosnan will be officer of the day, assisted by Mrs. George H. Lilly and Mrs, George A. Smith. The luncheon chairman is Mrs. Raymond J. McManus,
Luncheon Assistants
Her assistants include Mesdames Henry L. Frommeyer, J, Herbert Hartman, Charles A. Hockensmith, william ~ Ittenbach, Bernard T. Loeffler, C. H. LAift, Emil O, Rassman and Timothy P:. Sexton, Misses | Blessing Fischer, Nell Brosnan and
Gertrude Metzger, !
The guild will sponsor a book re- | view on Oct. 28 in Ayres’ auditorium. Co-chairmen for the event are Mrs, George Bender and Mrs. Julius A. Caesar,
Committee Heads
Mrs, Marbaugh has named the committes chairmen who will serve during the coming year. They are Mrs. William ©. Kennedy, endowment; Mrs. Robert Barber, mem- | bership; Mrs. Ernest Steeg, memovial; Mrs. John F. Darmody, pur chasing; Mrs. Florence Casserly, sewing; Mrs. Marguerite Hennessey, layettes, Mrs. George PF. Knue, surgical dressings; Mrs, Warren C, Bevington, welfare; Mrs, Francis J, Moore, gift shop; Mrs. L, G. Cummins Sr.,
The program participants will be Mrs, Dora Minkner, Mrs. Susan !{Bhedd Hemingway, Misses Alberta Denk, Carolyn and Helen Schwo{meyer and Margaret Schuh.
[Educators
Plan Tea
KX meeting of the Indianapolis branch, Assoclation for Childhood Education, will be held at 4 p. mh. Tuesday 4n the John Herron Art museum. A resume of the summer work at Columbia university will be given by "Mrs. Helen Graus, Misses Ann Mallett, Nancy Holiman and Margaret Marley. Misa Ida Conner will have charge of a tea following the session. Committee chairmen for the group have been announced by Miss Virginia
| Stout, president,
They are: Miss Margaret M.-Mar-shall, program; Miss Conner, social; {Miss Isabelle Eddy, membership; Miss Helen Showalter, finance; Miss Marguerite Jones, cheer; Mrs. Jane Seale, publications. Miss Emma Purdy, notifications; Miss Dorothy Bowen, post-war activities, and Miss Daysie Alwes, publicity. Other officers of the group are Miss Marshall, vice president; Miss Mallett and Miss Blanche Benton, recording and corresponding secretaries, and Miss Jean Gilbert, treasurer.
(Club Will Meet
A meeting of the Garden Study club will be held at 32 p. m. tomorrow in the home of Miss Julia Niebergall, 1430 W. 25th st,
war bonds; Mrs. Walter L, Brant, volunteer receptionists; Mrs, Elizabeth Vincent, special dressings: |
sewing; Miss Elizabeth Sowar, luncheon, rand Mrs. C, C. Cohee, social,
Sorority Luncheon
A luncheon will be held at 12: 30| Mrs. A. BE. Coddington, .gift shop! p.m, Tuesday by the Alpha chap- |
ter, Alpha Omicron Alpha sorority, in the home of Mrs. Willlam H. Schneider, 327 Poplar rd.
Herbert Sondheim
By LOUISE FLETCHER Times Woman's Editor IT'8 A LUCKY designer who can wear the styles she turns out in her own workrooms. Some designers can’t. The type of clothes with which they've achieved designing syccess may not be their type at all, or it may be that their figures don't match up with thelr styles. (There's at least one New York designer who ix just tog little to look well in her own models.) Neither of these bugaboos besets Frances Troy Stix, who turns out the fashions for the Herbert Bondheim firm in New York. Her slender figure, topped by a red-gold crown of hair, permits her to wear all of the clothes she makes, So she wears her .own models exclusively. She also designs her accessories, including some of her jewelry and shoes, a8 she’s been doing since she was 186. ¥ » ” MISS STIX who drops the “Frances” for her professional name, was born in Chicago. She was only 5 when her mother started her in life classes at the Art Institute of Chicago, And at 9 she won a sculpturing scholar ship and began a study of anatomy, which fits in perfectly with her. designing. She was tutored at home and studied ballet dancing until she
AMERICAN DESIGNERS: No. 24
A Sculptors T raining Backs Up Tro roy Stix Styles | By Musicale
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There's a softer slimness in clothes for the coming season—as in gyusly,
New York Dies Inabitute photos
this black wool two-piece dressmaker suit designed by Troy Stix for Herbert Sondheim's Tall and winter colléction. The sleeve is cut in-one-with the body of the jacket and tapers sharply from a deep armhole, Bow ties at the neckline and waist are inserted through stitched gold
kid motifs.
entered the Chicago University high school at 12. Her sculpturing lessons went right on but, after a year's travel in Europe, Miss Stix decided sculpturing - didn't pay any too well. She took a job as stylist and buyer for the Saks-Fifth Avenue ‘store in Chicago and later went to New York to design for Maurice
State Board Of B.P. WV. Will Meet
The state board of the Indiana Federation of Business and Professional Women will meet Saturday evening, Sept. 15, in. the Severin hotel. Dinner will be served)
neas session. i On Sunday, Sept. 16, the federation leaders will meet for a leadership institute in the Claypool hotel. The local club presidents will meets at 11 a. m. with Miss Ruth -M. Hoover, state president. Miss Maryalice Buswell will meet with the district directors, while the state chairmen discuss committee work with Miss Grace Schoenbaechler. Local chairmen and state committee members will hold a. discussion period with their re-
{spective state chairmen,
Luncheon Booked
There will be a luncheon at 12:30 p. m. in the hotel's ‘Riley room, The guest speaker will be Miss Ruth Koch of Louisville, national feders ation treasurer. She will discuss “Victory and Living Together.” Miss Sally Butler, first vice pres ident of the national .group, will present plans to the state members for participation in the eighth vig. tory loan drive. Miss Marjorie Ford is chairman of the hostessed, who will include Indianapolis elub members. Several state officers will accompany Miss Hoover next week-snd to Turkey Run state park for the fall meeting of district seven,
Safety Council
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Set of eight plates $3.75
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MAIL ORDERS CAREFULLY FILLED
| Charles bd & Company
Sets Meeting
| A women's conference of the In-
{diana Traffe Safety council will be
| the Columbia elub, Among the [speakers will be Prof, J. L. Lingo, lcoundM vice. president and Purdue university safety institute director. Others who will speak are Mrs.
George W. Jaqua ofs the council's executive committee, and T. A, Mar~ shall, the council's executive direc
‘Jitor. A discussion period will fol-
low each talk. The group will plan public safety programs for individual women's groups and effect co-ordination of | safety work among various women's |groups, Also, the council will map plans for participation in the Indiana Traffic Safety couneil's program and pledge co-operation with the program of the governor's coordinating safety. committee,
Camp Fire Girls Book Program Saturday
held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Block's auditorium by the Camp. Fire Girls. Summer honors will be awarded at the council fire,
be a meeting at} o'clock’ coneérning
group is partic with Girl Scouts and the Girl Reeach Camp Fire group will attend.”
iy Sets Luncheon
Mrs. Harold Hayes, 5806 N. |
at 6:30 o'clock followed by a busi- | *
A program and council fire will be
Preceding the program, there will
a “share the food” project. The ipating in the project
serves, Two representatives from
|The Bridal Scene— 4 A Ceremony in Boston Will Unite
Rentner. Mr, Sondheim, with whom she has worked for the past 13 years, has been in business for 24 years. » # THE TROY STIX designs, noted for their “wearability,” are simply tailored with a feminine look to accent the best lines of their wearer's figure.
Geneva Glenn, Edward Young; Rice-Norris Vows Announced
The bridal news includes the announcements of approaching mar-
riages and a recent wedding.
Miss Geneva Glenn left yeslarday for Boston where she will become
the bride of Edward Young, 1 a. m. Sunday in the First
{East st, and Mr, Young's parents are Mr. and Mrs, B, T, Young, 2123 N. Talbott st. ; Mrs, John McIntire, Kennebunkport, Me., will be Miss Glenn's only attendant, and the best man will be
Harold Miller, seaman 1l-¢, U, 8.|
ca. ” # # The engagement and approaching marriage of Miss lois Jane Hearne to Jack C. Murphy is ane nounced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Edward L. Hearne, 638 Eastern ave. He is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Murphy, 44 8. Dearborn st. The wedding will be at § a.m, Sept. 22, in the St. Philip Neri Catholic church, Miss Agnes Mahan will be the maid of honor, and the bridesmaids will be Miss Charlotte Royse and Miss Viola Hearne. Betty Ann Warner will be the flower girl, Serving as best man will he James F. O'Neill, Wyandotte, Mich. The ushers will be Donald Murphy, brother of the prospective bridegroom, and Kenneth Warner, Mrs, Warner and Mrs. Hearne will honor the bride-to-bs Monday at a miscellaneous shower, Ap-
proximately B50 guests will attend |:
the party in the Hearne home, Mrs, F, C. Davis recently entertained for the bride-to-be. »
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Miss Helen Norris and Norman R. Rice were married Sunday in the home of the bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Ella Rice, in Evansville, The bride is the sister of Mrs, Roy { Reuter, 813 8. Pershing ave. Mrs.
couple's attendants.
NISLEY BEAUTIFUL
I, U. B.C. G. The rite will be at
Christian church, The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr, and Mrs, Lester Glenn, 707 N.
Married
Miss Juanita Woods and Sgt. Thomas R. Marsella, UM oC, R., were married Aug, 1 in Wash ington, D. C. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A, Woods, New Albany, and the bridegroom’s parents are Mr, and Mrs. Frank Marselis,
Mrs. Davis Speaker
The Irvington cirgle, Child Con~ servation league, will have a lunch» eon Monday in the home of Mrs, Thomas Lyda, 4037 Guilford ave, Mrs. John Davis will discuss “Bible
| Robert Fortner and Larry Rice,|Study in the Public Schools.” The |held at 2 p. m, next Jednesday In| brother of the bridegroom, were the coshostesses will be Mrs. Claude
Watson and Mrs. Ernest Goshorn,
SHOES
_ |the bride, mance neckline, fitted basque, long ||’ and a gathered
Troy Stix
The designer likes t6 use plain fabrics for dressy styles and unustial materials for simpler models, She likes contrast, particularly color contrast. Numerous
trips to Latin-American coun- (H
tries have influenced her work, Bhe believes that a woman's wardrobe should express her per--sonality, just as her home does.’ Miss Stix is married and her own apartment in the East Seventies in New York carries out her ideas about furnishings. «8 » ” THERE ARE pieces from all over the world-Swedish, Moroccan, Chinese and Mexican, with Empire and Directoire furniture, too—all blended into a careful * harmony. Miss Stix takes her work sets “The success of a house's clothes for an entire season dew “pends ~upon—the—designer;” she says. “It’s a ferrific strain she must meet year after year.” That's , why she believes that physical and "mental stamina must back up a designer's great est asset—imagination. .. 8he works by draping on live models before she sketches. Fabs rics easy to drape, especially wool and other jerseys, are her favor. ites because they follow tie body lines.
TOMORROW Hin. 3. Lt. Donlon, Rita Green Exchange Vows
Miss Rita Green became the bride of Lt. Edward P. Donlon, A.A.F,, at 9 o'clock this morning in the Holy Cross Catholic church. The {Rev. Fr. Ambrose Sullivan officiated. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Ruth Green, 1605 E. Michigan st. and Lt, Donlon’s mother is Mrs. Clarence Golay, 5808 E. 18th st. A white satin dress was worn by The gown had a ro-
pointed sleeves skirt and train. Her tiered veil of
{illusion was held by a tiara of
ostrich tips, She carried an orchid on a prayer book. Mrs. William Babbitt was the matron of honor, and the brides. maid was Mrs. Cornelius O'Connor, They wore blue frocks made with fitted satin brocade basques and bouffant net skirts, Both carried Better Times roses, "The bridegroom's attendants were
| Pvt, Jack Kirby, best man, and Lt,
Louis R. Ostheimer and Pvt, Charles Williamson, ushers. A reception was held this after-
noon in the Golay homes, The cou-
ple left for a wedding trip to Wisconain, Lt, Donlon “recently re. turned from 28 months overseas.
‘ TET - Mrs. Jones Presiding The Lambda Mu chapter, Sigma Bets sorority, will meet at 8 p. m, today in the clubrooms, Lemocke building, Mrs. Walter Jones will preside, Delegates to the national convention will be elected.
Mrs. Bropks Hostess
Mrs. Bertha Brooks, 2320 Broadway, will be the hostess Wednesday for as meeting Mandalay chapter, International Travel-8tudy club,
Reynolds will speak. y
{Jan, 25, and Dest Halban, Ine
| Guild Tris to Seu
guild Tuesday—"" [John Henry,” Wednesday~-"Even as a Child;" Thursday— “The Jolly
| Programs Set For Season
Membership Drive Is Announced
pera association. IY Salen. wou thls season are Erica Morini, violinist,
SUpIaEe, in an evening eanear} April
General Chairman. Mrs. Edington is general chairman of the membership drive. Assisting her are Mesdames Thomas Brady, Paul Dorsey, Clyde B. Titus, James Lowry, Albert Reep, Robert Orbison, Preston L. Highley, Robert W, Blake, Frank Boles and ©. H,
Igleman, Grace Hutchings, Mary Spalding and Marian Laut. Chairs men representing groups in the organization are Mrs. Blake, associate membership, Mrs, Highley, choral section; Miss Jypmnan, associate professional unt Mrs, a: al ih ont and junior section, and Mrs. Orbison and Miss Laut, active section.
W.C. T. U, Group To Meet Tuesday
. The Zerelda Wallace W. C. T. U, will meet 86-1 p. m. Tuesday with Mrs, Nell Berns, 3566 N, Capitol ave, The Rev, R. Don Ocheltree of the
spesk, Devotions will be led by Mra, [Harold D, OBrien, and Mis. Mary Yundy wii reside Saports Wil be given by the direc
The S Tollowisy unis ‘of the Riley Cheer guild will sew next Monday old
Miller” and “A Windy Day,” and
Others assisting ‘are Misses Elma Bo ¢ night of Oct. 10 by the Wm. H, _ Block Co,
Broadway Methodist church will
THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1045 |
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F ashion Show Will Benefit | Hospital Funds
The rehabilitation” funds of the Billings and Wakeman General hospitals will receive proceeds of a war fashion show to be staged
Assisting In presenting the show on Block's fashion floor will be the Christamore Aid society. Mrs, Blaine Miller Jr., the aid so< olety's: chairman for the project, pointed out this morning that the event will be the first benefit sponsored by her group since before Pear] Harbor day. Ticket Sale to Open The chairmen she has appointed for the fashion show are Mrs. W. Ls Schroeder, tickets; Mrs, K. W. At« kins, publicity; Mrs. Marlow Mane Hon; ‘telephone; Mrs, Elise Ms: Atkins, * ticket booth; Mrs. Jack Bran, models, and Mrs, John G. Kinghan, vahe, 4 “The ticket sale, starting tomore , will. be handled for the next wo weeks by members of the aid society. After that, tickets may ba | obtained at Block's. Officers of the society are Mrs. A,
: Kiefer Mayer, president; Mrs. B. R,
Haueisen, vice president; Mrs. Robe grt B. Rhoads Jr. secretary, and Mrs, Edward Van Riper, treasurers
P.-P.A, Week Set Oct. 7 through 13 has been proe claimed Indiana parent-teacher
Friday—"Full Harvest.”
week by Governor Gates.
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