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Manual PTA to Sponsor Fiesta
By AGNES H. OSTROM $ FINISHING touches are ‘going on a big production' at Manual High School this week. They are being directed by the PTA but teachers and students are doing their “bit” too. Friday PTA will put on its annual spring fiesta. The entire building will be turned over to some activity of the event. The send-off will be a 5 p. m. cafeteria-dinner in the school lunchroom. : s #8 =» THERE will he a student popularity contest, an auction, fortune telling, a bake sale, bazaar, even a country store. Already the high school basement is housing an array of items donated by teachers and parents for the auction and bootbs. At 7:30 and 8:30 p. m. a musical revue, “Inside Indiana,” will be staged by a group of pupils. Included will be original music and skits. Douglas Conrod, Manual productions director, is in charge, assisted by Miss Freda Hart. Orchestrations and band directions are being handled by William Breedlove, music teacher.
~ s . MODELS for the 7:45 and 8:45 p. m. style shows will be Manual girls. Block's is providing the clothes. Leonard M. Evans is general chairman for the evening’s entertainment. Procezds of the fiesta will be used for school projects and for payments on a school bus ordered by PTA and delivered earlier this year.
Times photos by Henry E.
Glesing. SINGING IN THE RAIN—A musical review, “Inside Indiana," will be presented by Manual High School pupils at the PTA-sponsored spring fiesta Friday night. In appropriate paraphernalia, Nola Dornfield and Richard Harrison rehearse the "Once on An April Day" number.
AUCTIONEERING—A popular attraction that night will be the auction. Doubling for Col. Ora Burkhart, official "hawker," Manual principal B. W. Gorman tries his salesmanship on Mrs. Leonard M. Evans, one of the fiesta committee chairmen.
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Second Generation Takes Over’ at Stansfield Dance
Wellesley College President Is Honored At Dinner in Meridian Hills Club
By KATY ATKINS AT THE STANSFIELD CIRCLE'S Springtime Ball for the benefit of its work at the Fletcher Place Community Center, it was especially nice to have several
second generation members.
Mrs. Walter B. Smith must have loved watching her daughter, Susie Weiland, dancing about in a frock with a white background printed with gay flowers, and matching flowers in her
hair.
Mrs. Smith is a former president of the circle.
Other one-
time presidents’ daughters there were Jody Scott, daughter of Mrs. William Mick, in smoke blue taffeta; Martha Jo Meeker, daughter of the late Mrs. Frank Cantwell, and Mrs. James C. Carter's daughter-in-law, Leah Carter, wearing a short gold
lace dress.
The circle president, Mrs. Clyde Secrest, chose a lovely
gown of apricot chiffon with an effective corsage of blue spring flowers. The party was a great success, insuring continued financial aid as well as the regular volunteer service,
MISS MARGARET CLAPP, president of Wellesley College, acquired many admirers during her brief stay here, leaving the alumnae more than ever glad and proud they had gone to Wellesley. Miss Clapp was honor guest at a dinner given in Meridian Hills Country Club, by the Indianapolis Wellesley Club for members and guests closely connected with the college. In her speech she stressed the value of a liberal arts education in the making of a well-rounded person. She was introduced by the president, Mrs. Karl Stegemeier, who wore a tunic dress with a sheer cream top and brown skirt. Among those at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cameron Moore, Mrs. Henry Hornbrook, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. William Krieg and Dorothy Jean Hendrickson. After dinner Mr. and Mrs. Stegemeier entertained Miss Clapp and the Wellesley Club officers and husbands in their house.
Pretty Luncheon
Mrs. Atkins
MERIDIAN HILLS
COUNTRY CLUB
was the scene of another attractive party on Thursday. This was a luncheon by and for the Park School Mothers Association, the one social event of its year. Pansies and other small spring plants decorated the tables. Usually reports on progress of plans for the annual garden tour, to be held May 12 and 13 this year, ar2 given by chairmen of the various committees. Like all reports, they tend to become a bit monotonous, so they were all turned over to two members of the senior class. Torn Kahn and Charles
Kivett made a most amusing skit of them which enlivened the meeting considerably. Election of officers for the coming year followed luncheon. The new president is Mrs. John J. Weldon. She was wearing a navy faille dress and a blue straw hat
BOOTH MERCHANDISE—A bake shop, bazaar and country ‘store will be set up in the high school basement for the event.
Looking over some of the merchandise already collected for the three booths are PTA members, Mesdames John Ryan, Ted Bennett,
b David Blythe and Howard Herdman (left to right).
with a wreath of pinkish yellow flowers. The vice president is Mrs. John Mead. Secretaries are Mrs. Paul Merrell and Mrs. Eileen Poston. Mrs. Don Kelly was re-elected treasurer. Mrs. G. H., A. Clowes showed colored slides of her gardens here and in Woods Hole and of some she photographed in England.
Purely Personal
| AUR AND BILL WICK were here from
Youngstown last weekend. In fact, Lucy stayed until Wednesday with her parents, Mr. and Mis. Frederick T. Holliday. On Saturday afternoon, Bill's brother, Paul Wick, and his wife entertained for them. Lucy was wearing a blue taffeta dress and looking very pretty. After the party she and Bill had dinner in a group at the University Club. Among them were the Neil Funks, Nancy Stout, Fred Holliday, the John Hollidays and the Jack Appels.
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A NUMBER of persons have returned from short spring trips. Mrs. Benjamin Hitz and Mrs. Jesse Fletcher motored to Natchez; - Mrs. Ward Hackleman went to New Orieans, and Mrs. Louis Seaverns visited Mr. and Mrs. Noah Dickson in Springfield, Ill Friends of Mrs. Mae Perry regret her leaving the city for residence in Tucson where she and her son, Norman Perry Jr, have taken a house. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harvey Bradley are back from a stuy at La Osa Ranch and a visit in California with Adm. and Mrs. Jonas Ingram. Mrs. Arthur Shea ‘of Old Greenwich, Conn., was here last week to visit her mother, Mrs. Reily Adams, who drove back east with her.
Indianapolis Country
By JEAN ENGELKE LOCAL GOLF “WIDOWS” can blame their
neglected state on the Indianapolis Country Club. It brought golf to Indiana. Oldest in the state, one of the oldest in the Middle West, the club was established 60 years.ago this June. In a leased, remodeled farmhouse on the present site of the - Woodstock Club, the small group of members would gather. Coming by buggy or interurban, they assembled to play tennis, cards, croquet, or to bowl. It was quiet. It was peaceful . .. peaceful, that is, until after one of the members, the late Alvin 8. Lockard, took off in 1897 for a world tour. Returning he brought along with his picture cards and souvenirs, a queer looking bag, with some odd looking sticks and some little round balls with dents in them. He had been in India. There they were playing a ‘‘game.” It was the rage. He could scarcely wait to show his fellow members. » » » DUBIOUSLY they watched. Clad in baggy knickers, high ribbed socks and cap pulled low over forehead, he demonstrated. It was simple. You placed the ball on the ground. You stood back. You hit at it with a stick. Time after time they watched him disappear into the woods in pursuit of the ball. Time after time they watched him emerge. Mr. Lockard was so enthusiastic and undaunted with his new find that he proceeded to construct what he called a ‘two-hole course.” Member after member tried it. They learned two things: It was not quite so simple as it looked; if mastered, it’ was fun. Soon, grass began to grow on the tennis courts. The croquet ground was déBerted. The bowling alley was converted into locker rooms. Members had taken to hitting the little balls around the little course. And so it was that golf was introduced not only to Indian- .
apolis, a growing capital city
TRIO OF CHAIRMEN—Three chairmen busy with plans for the participation of
West District, Garden Club of Indiana, in the Indianapolis Home Show Jett to right) . .. w. L. McCoy, head of the table settings judging committee; Mrs. Fred G. Lofq
Clubs ...30, 31 Society 36,37,40 Teens...... 32 Gardens..., 38 Fashion. .33, 34 Food....... 39
Gardeners Down to Earth for Home Show
the Central
uist, chairman for.
the club's Apr. 24 breakfast and style show, and Mrs. Ray Thorn, table settings staging committee chairman, The show opens Friday.
WEATHER OR NOT, an ardent gardener finds a way to get down to earth. Again this year, as in past years, a group of the town’s garden fans is beating spring to They're members of the Central West District, Garden Club of Indiana. And they're knee-deep in plans for the district's participation in the Indianapolis Home Show which opens Friday for a 10-day stand. Six garden clubs in the district are putting in the gdrdens surrounding the model house, centerpiece of the show in the Manufacturers’ Building at the State Fair Grounds. Many of the 35 garden clubs in the district “get into the act” early by working in the show's advance ticket sale each year, from selling tickets and installing gardens,
the punch.
By LOUISE FLETCHER
Times Woman's Editer
Emerson Grove with Mrs. Milton R. White,
chairman, and Mesdames Pierre A. Williams,
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Charles Weddle and B. E. Babarogich, assistants; Garfield with Mrs. Arthur M. Krug and Mrs, Cecil Martin, co-chairmen, and Mrs. Ivan Iliff and Mrs. Edythe Moran, assistants. Rainbow, of Southport, with Mrs. Narl Jones and Mrs. Harold Loon as co-chairmen and Mesdames Leo Kriner, J. C. Miles, Frank Schroeder and Ar
ling- Pitcher, assistants;
Spade and Trowel, with Mrs. George F. Off, chairman, and Mesdames James Ward, Homer Eberhardt and Lee Fox, assistants.
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COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN for the table settings project are Mrs. G. E. Schloot, schedule; Mrs. Ray Thorn, staging; Mrs. W. L. Mec-
other members will join in a table setting con- « Coy, judging, and Mrs. Fred G. Lofquist, garden day breakfast. The breakfast party, at 10 a. m. Apr. 24,
test at the show. oa Gy
CLUBS WORKING on the show gardens are: Arbutus, with Mrs. Paul R. Browning as chairman, assisted by Mesdames Pearson Smith, C. F. Helm and Robert Zaiser; Broad Ripple, with Mrs. John G. Jacks as chairman and Mrs. Everett Baum and Mrs. Dallas Pierce
as assistants.
Club Boomed Golf
will be followed by an Ayres’ fashion show. Representing the garden clubs on the Home Show board of directors are Mrs. John R. Donagh and Mrs, Robert C. Blessing. Nott designed the gardens which the clubs will help install and James Maschmeyer will super-
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vise the landscaping.
RAIN OR SHINE—Weather makes no difference to faithful
golfers like Edward B. Raub Jr. (left), president of the Indianapolis Country Club, and Robert J. Myers, Indiana state golf cham.
pion.
of some 40,000, but to the Middle West.
» » 8 THROUGH the years the club's activities have run, the gamut of true country club life, but the emphasis has always been on golf. Some of its outstanding golfers—the late John Simpson and Edgar A. Zimmer, both state champions; the present state champion, Robert J. Myers; Mrs. Guy E. Morrison, president of the Indianapolis Women's Golf Association; Mrs. Paul Dye, past women’s state and city champion, and Cecil W. Weathers, president of the Indiana, State Golf Association, In 1912 the club moved to its present ‘location on the Crawfordsville Road. Sufficient ground had been leased to construct-an 18-hole course . one of the hardest in the city. Along with its fine golfers, the club's roster bears the names of those distinguished in city and state history . . . James Whitcomb Riley, the
poet; President Benjamin Harrison; novelists Booth Tarkington and Meredith
Nicholson; John L. Griffith, the United States consul general to London; the famed cartoonist, John T. McCutcheon, and names such as Ayres, Lilly, Beveridge, English, Fortune and Lemcke. Original founders and members of the first board of directors were Chapin C, Foster, William L. Elder, William J, Richards, Ferdinand L. Mayer, William H. Coleman, Charles F. Sayles, Charles E. Coffin, Cortland Van Camp and Horace T. Bennett. .
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IN JUNE the club will have
a “Gay Nineties’ party. Members will trace golf and golf costumes from the days of the baggy. knickers to the present casual cashmeresweatered golfer. But it won't last long. The members can’t spare the time. If it's light, they want to be on the golf course.
DAR To Hit
Appeasement
Parley To Urge Strong Defense
Times Special WASHINGTON, Apr. 14—
An emphatic stand against appeasement and a call for adequate national defense with safeguards to insure independence of action will highlight the 60th Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
A speech on “The Past Is Prolog” by President General Mrs. James B. Patton, Columbus, O., will officially open the convention Monday night in Constitution Hall. Guest speaker will be U. 8. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Delegates were massing in the capital as pre-Congress events were underway. There will be some 4000 delegates and alternates and 2000. additional members attending.
Memorial Service Tomorrow afternoon delegates will assemble in the hall for a memorial service. Noted speakers during the week will include U, 8. Sens. Harry F. Byrd (Va.), Robert Taft (0.) and Edward Martin (Pa.); the Rev. E. A. Walsh, Georgetown University vice president, and Dwight Koppes, Ladies Home Journal advertising manager. DARs- will consider three internal matters—completion of the building fund; proposal of dues increase, and disposition of Ellis Island hospital physical therapy equipment maintained by them for the past 28 years,
Theme To Be Defense
Tuesday night's theme will be national defense. Thursday will be election for honorary vice ‘president general and seven vice presidents general. -» Congress will adjourn following installation of officers Friday noon. The annual banquet is scheduled that night in the Mayflower Hotel. A pre-opening event will be Monday's berefit tea in the Statler Hotel arranged by the Mississippi -delegation. Pro~ ceeds will go to the building fund. :
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