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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1972
Page
5
Mrs. Charlotte Mills of Charlotte's in Aiken explains wedding dress vocabulary from peau de soie gowns and organza overlays to Venise and Alencon lace. The guide covers silhouettes such as empire and A line, sleeve styles from bishop to leg o mutton, and terms like jabot and Sabrina necklines.
Aiken Standard outlines terms for gowns veils and headpieces. It covers seeded pearls watteau trains chapel and cathedral lengths and suggests simple descriptions and dictionaries for accurate wedding wardrobe notes.
Norman Kent Haggerty a USC senior was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa on April 22 1972. The ceremony and banquet occurred at Capstone House in Columbia with guests including his wife Sherry Wilson Haggerty and his parents from Aiken. James Michael Holley also initiated and listed in Who's Who will graduate Cum Laude this month with a political science major. Linda Buchmiller of Anderson College visited Susie Matson of Yorktown Virginia. Buchmiller and Matson are Anderson College students, daughters of Aiken residents.
Iris Ellis of Dearborn has compiled a guide titled S.C.O.S. Shop Outlet Stores and Save on Shopping listing 300 outlets in 18 states with an updated edition planned for 48 states. She highlights Reading, Pennsylvania as home to the most outlets with 24 known to her.
St. John's Women’s Society of Christian Service met May 2 at the church. Devotions on family life were led by Mrs. J B Newman. The program shown monthly projects including pillowcase making from old sheets and scrapbooks for children on John's Island. Quilting was demonstrated and ornament making from Christmas cards shown. Members discussed mending clothes for the closet and rummage sales.
A collection of Abby letters discuss family entitlement after a grandfather’s death, the inequity of inheritance, and a teen’s request for parental understanding. Included are a 16 year old’s plea about parental worry and a Chicago attorney’s note on expunging an acquittal arrest record.
The Wildwood Garden Club meets Thursday at 9 45 a m at 410 Colleton Ave the season’s last session. Mrs William Nightingale hosts and Miss Martha Murgo presents a film on flower arrangement.
Charles McCharen and Lee Galloway won first place in the Aiken Duplicate Bridge Club competition Thursday evening. Pauline and Fred Waterhouse took second. Millie and Jerry Todd were third. Play resumes Thursday evening with reservations via Mrs. Elmer Todd.
Aiken Artists Guild sponsored Spring Art Show at Rose Hill shows blue ribbon recipients across media. Winners include Suzanne Blunt watercolor Pawleys Island and Barbara Cheetham acrylic Landscape, with juniors Janie Donnan Everlasting Torture and Cathy Ryder Owl among notable entries.
Jeanette Craig coordinator of volunteer services for Ai ken County Schools will be guest of the Senior Citizens Club Friday at 7 30 p m at the Senior clubhouse on Crosland Drive.
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