Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1951 — Page 29
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Junior League Stresses Service
A COMMUNITY conscience is the debutante’s diploma for Indianapolis Junior Leaguers. Thig week, therefore, 19 young women here began a course of training for their debut into society—not the society of cotillions and teas, but the society of civic concept and needs. ;
As provisional members of the Junior League, they
- started their preparation for community service with
the first of an intensive four-week program of lecturedemonstrations by outstanding leaders in the fields of health, welfare, recreation, government and Indiana history. ~ #" » p ” ” = AFTER THIS INDOCTRINATION, a rotation system will provide every provisional with opportunity to spend a month at each of the six Junior League projects in this city.’ Although emphasis is placed on the fact that the new member must “herself be a part of the community, not just an onlooker,” equal stress is laid on the role of today’s citizens in the affairs of the nation and the world. The Junior League isvitself a training school to develop
. that awareness and encourage volunteer services in that
field. .
The first step is, of course, knowing the community in which one lives and recognition of an obligation to
serve that community. For that reason, continued and specified volunteer service is a requirement for continued membership in the Junior League. : Projects sponsored by the League in Indianapolis are varied. The provisional members will study and work with these: Indianapolis Service Men's Center, James Whitcomb Riley Child Guidance Clinic, Community Puppet Theater and Workshop, Next-to-New Shop, John Herron Art Museum and The Marion County Juvenile Court and Center.’ The Junior League also works with other organizations on short-term projects when the need arises. Recent examples of this are its co-sponsorship of representatives of the World Assembly of Youth tours, which enabled foreign students to, tour this country, and its participation in the Community Fund Drive.
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PROVISIONAL MEMBERS must work with’ these projects to learn the meaning of a community conscience, but dormant interest is not enough and the neophyte must continue to prove herself in volunteer service for others. Social circles for chic cliques are not drawn by the Indianapolis Junior League. Its circle spirals the city ang reaches out for the nation and the world.
Times Photos by Lloyd B. Walton
- Junior League maintains a
WAX CUTTING—At «the Service Men's Center the
recording booth. Here the chairman of the project, Eliz- - abeth Crist, cuts a record while Pfc. George Narjes, Miss Hilda Pfaff, Pvt. Floyd Till, Mrs. Louis Stephanoff and Pfc. Bert E. Turner, look on. Soldiers are able to send the recorded messages home as letters. The Group also provides a darkroom for the center,
PUPPET WORKSHOP—At The Community Theater and Puppet Workshop the group stages shows for schools. peteers Mrs. Glenn W. Irwin and Mrs. John R. J ewett. This is fun, too.
Here project chairman Mrs. Willis H. Tomlinson (left) talks to future pup-
HEADS PROVISIONAL COURSE—Mrs. Tarkington Danner is
MARION COUNTY JUVENILE COURT—Court procedures are exchairman of the Provisional Committee and worked out details of
Samuel Warson explains plained to Polly Abendroth and Elizabeth C. Cooper (right) by Probation
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC—Dr.
the course. The course lasts four weeks.
Officer Donald Rademacher. The girls will study each project.
Fall
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interesting reversal of color as often worn by the two types.
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‘Museum Guild's fashion luncheons ALONG WITH THE good-looking Strauss - were like summer, most people seemed to clothes came a lot of entertainment. A milk- : y igi “hes f the el t < " st. man, followed by an obliging ‘head of t fe hat fall hats were a must They all house” who took the milk in, preceded the
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JOHN HERRON ART MUSEUM—Mrs. Yoion Cambio soe chairman (left), and provisionals Nancy Glendening and Carolyn Crom. The statue - 2.0% Kut in: Suge Sodions of Murer The S004 won, there of guile: 9
looked very smart but I could not help wondering if anyone else had the trouble I did getting there in one. : My project entailed“dig-
hopefully holding it over a tea kettle to telltale marks. Mrs. Henry Steeg was ~ obviously prepared for the occasion as her very large black hat was a perfect example of one definite fall FI trend. Mrs, Robert Black- ha burn, president of the Guild, Katy Atkins chose the other extreme. Taupe and yellow feathers curled down over one ear from a tiny brown velvet cap. Her taupe dress had a very sheer scarf, caught on one hip with three gold buttons, cascading to the hemline.
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hy MRS. CHARLES SCHAAB, ways and means chairman, wore most becoming black, while Mrs, Thomas Umphrey, chairman of fashions, had many costumes as she was one of the Guild members who accounted for twelve of the sixteen models.
Guild membership seems to run to ravishing blondes though there were just as pretty, if not as many, brunettes. * In the latter group Peg Hiser was especially stunning in two blue costumes. ; One was a royal blue coat with matching stole Wn over her head, the other an eye‘ning gown. Among the blondes, former president Kinnear, ‘who wears her lovely
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Margaret hair in a big knot, modeled a red knitted suit Te conthmen. un ‘Yr
showing of house coats. A big unhappy duck on a leash introduced rain costumes that shed water. . Songs by Frank Parish and comments by charming Dorothy Clapham prepared the way
ing out an oldie, rippin : : BE bedraggled wy png for “clothes for activities like Brown County ne 3 in October and “Madame Chairman.” Thinestone trimming and The fall theme was-carried out with oak
leaves bordering the blue carpeted runway and covering the standards that supported big urns filled with autumn flowers on the stage, where an opening radio program, a surprise but planned melee between two professional models, and the drawing for the handsome door prizes took place. In the large crowd Tuesday I saw Helen Willkie, Marty Fortune and Jane Howe in one party. Betty Todd, Helen Coffey, Virginia Shumaker, Norma Gallahue, Helen Stall and Mrs. Edna Kuhn Martin were there in different groups. L ATER THAT AFTE RNOON I went to tea at Mrs. Landon Davis’ to meet a group of women Tl have done outstanding volunteer work at the Maternal Health. Clinic. This organization ¢- furnishes valuable service on a small budget with no fanfare.
The party was a sort of thank you for keep- .
ing the office going while the professional, Dorothy MacClamroch, was on vacation. The volunteers rarely" Have a chance to meet one another. Now telephone voices have become faces. ‘ a Among the women were Mrs,.Robert Skam-
- fer, Mrs. Robert Mohlman, a native of Switzer-
land. Mrs. Sultan Cohen and Mrs, Marjorie Kahn Fisher. The board was represented by Mrs. Alfred Maschke, president, Mrs. Willlam
Dyer and Mrs, Donald Mattison:
A favorite guest was Holly Peacock, there
Ji Bue nioiher, Boivis 438 very wash of the grown ie tea party,
how a doll family is used to help disturbed children. Looking on (left to right) are Mrs. Silas C. Kivett, Miss Ann Parry and Mrs. William Rugg, chairman of the project.
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NEXT TO NEW SHOP—In their shop at 3418 N. Illinois the group 1s @ source, of revenue. Here Mrs. Ada B. Root, shop manager (laf), gives sang Srsitntion v= proiionsle dy Huesmany and Byrbora J ;