Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1951 — Page 19

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1951

A BOW FOR A BEAU—Mrs, Thomas Kackley (seated) adjusts

A THREE-PARTY LINE—Kithy Woollen (left) makes a long distance telephone call on debut plans while Ethel Madden listens in on

the extension just for fun.

15 To Make Debut Saturday At Dramatic Club Cotillion

HEN the orchestra breaks into the exciting tempo of the cotillion at 11 p. m. in the Indianapolis Athletic Club Saturday night, 15 lovely young women will make their formal debut into society. The ball is being given. by the Dramatic Club. The debutantes are daughters and granddaughters of members. The girls will wear white evening gowns and will carry colonial bouquets of red carnations and holly encircled with white hand-made lace and tied with long red satin streamers. : ¢ & 2 AS EACH GIRL is introduced, she will enter, on the arm of her father, through an enormous wreath of boxwood interspersed with red carnations and tied with red satin ribbons. Pyramid trees of boxwood blooming with red carnations will flank the wreath. During the cotillion the girls will be presented with tiny gold medallions inscribed with an appropriate momente. The debs and their escorts will exchange favors. ALREADY THERE is a flurry of excitement among the young women in choosing the very prettiest white formals available for the grand occasion. Much experimenting is being -done-with--pew hairdos, and make-up just a shade more sophisticated than usual. There are frantic telephone calls to “best beaux” many of whom are away at college, to make certain they will be on the scene at the dramatic moment. ¢ & PROUD PAPAS are doing a bit of practicing themselves. They will be whirl-

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ing in the gay cotillion and may need a bit of brushing up on the more complicated steps. Those debutantes being presented are Miss Jane Collett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Collett; Miss Katharine Daniels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Daniels, and Miss Sally Kackley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kackley. Miss Jean Hargitt, daughter of Mrs. Carolyn Hargitt and Paul Hargitt; Miss Ethel Madden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Madden and Miss Susan Hughey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schott. Miss Peggy Stout, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Stout ; Miss Katherine Woollen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Evans Woollen Jr.; Miss Susan Atkins, daughter of Mrs. Emory Kenyon and Henry Atkins, and Miss Anne Mahaffey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mahaffey Jr. Miss Jane Nicholson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Walker; Miss Susan Cadick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Cadick; Miss Carol Ziegler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Ziegler; Miss Lucy Landers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fisk Landers, and Miss Ruth Hubbard, daughter of Mrs. W. J. Hubbard. This is the second presentation of debutantes to be made by the Dramatic Club: —Last-year-a-large group was-intro-

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DAD TAKES A LESSON—Miss Anne Mahaffey gives instructions to her father, Thomas Mahaffey Jr.

duced. This year, and in the future, only FIRESIDE F CHAT—Six. of he dels aather round to o study Vogie ond Horpers B Sasoor or the latest fashions} in formals They « are e (left to right) Misses. Ethel "Madden, Sally Kackley, Susan Atkins, Anne Mahaffey (on floor), Jane Nicholson and Kithy Woollen.

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girls who are seniors in high school or freshmen in college will make their debut. The event will take place every other year. + Planning the party this year are Mrs. Lyman Ayres, Dramatic Club vice president, chairman, and Mesdames Blaine Miller, Robert Fortune and Thomas Mahaffey.

IN JLS—Mrs. Robert Fortune (left) and Mrs. Thomas Mahatfey Jelare going 5 ATTENTION q DETAIL: the guest list for the Dramatic Club Catillion. fey

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That Really

By KATY ATKINS TTEMPTED surprise parties are no novelty but one that really surprises the recipient is apt to be. Jean Rugg gets credit for a successful one though she insists the credit goes to her co-operative guests, some of whom kept the more conspicuous supper items in their ice boxes for her. This was for Bill's 40th birthday. He wads lured out after dinner by Reily Adams on a quasi-business matter and got home to find 18 friends hidden in the darkened dining room, which gave him quite a turn. “de Ms THE PRESENTS COVERED a wide -range, including a mamma and papa gupple brought by Betty and Henry Peirce because they thought he should have a hobby at his “advanced age.” Among other guests were the: Eli Messengers, John Watsons, Warren Ruddells, James Peirces, Sprague Gardners and of course the Adams. Jean wore a gray flannel dress, taking care not to look as though a party was in the air. She produced a late supper

Katy Atkins

“with no visible preparation like a magician

"pulling a rabbit from Big hat. @ MEMBERS OF THE Droptestive Club got well into the Christmas spirit at their - meeting at Mrs. Booth

Monday when Edwin Bilteli e presented a

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19 of 17th Century carols. At the end everyone sang. Members of the now defunct Junior League Glee Club who happened to be sitting together contributing with great gusto. The tea table was charmingly arranged with pink and red carnations. Many memsbers also admired the bowl of tulips in the sunroom, a definite post-Christmas touch. * & ¢ MR. AND MRS. GARVIN BROWN leave Friday to be with their daughter, Nina Eddy, and her family in New Jersey. Marie Wemmer and her daughters, Barbara and Hildegrade, are going to enjoy a sunshine Christmas as they leave on Tuesday for a two-week Caribbean cruise. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Eaglesfield and Sue share that idea and are off to Del Ray Beach on Thursday for the holidays. Lillian and Robert Klein drove to Burlington, Iowa, on Friday to pick up Mary Elizabeth Benham and the children and bring them home for Christmas. They arrive today and will be with Mary Elizabeth’s mother, Mrs. Jesse Fletcher, where Hal will join them the end of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sweeney of Washington are coming for Christmas and will stay at the Marott Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Mayer have returned to Bennington, Vt., after a brief visit with Mr. Mayer's sister, Mrs, Russell Ryan, and Mr. Ryan. ¢,% ¢

THE BEST WAY to see people these

_ exciting days is on a shopping tour, . % . - x

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