May Weddings Spark Aiken Social Season With Parties
Aiken residents hosted numerous pre nuptial events as Rena Bee Elliott and Mike Garner wed at First Presbyterian Church. family and friends attended showers luncheons and cocktail gatherings across several venues including Houndslake Augusta Country Club and Lions End with out of town guests from Atlanta Knoxvile and North Augusta. The couple honeymooned at Sea Island Cloister. Marianne Honkonen and Bobby Spradley also wed at Hopeland Gardens with a Friday rehearsal dinner and Saturday reception at Hunter's Glen before heading to Nashville.
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Susan
Rena Bee
Mike
High Pines
Laurel Drive
Elliott Kyle
Julia Kyle
Atlanta
Betty Nesbit
Elouise Howard
Charlotte Williamson
Emily Claire Cowan
Nesbit
Forest Hill Drive
Augusta Country Club
Rena Grizzel
Deborah Timmerman Burdette
Lisa
Brice Garner
Houndslake Country Club
Garner
North Carolina
Eula Frances Garner
Lions End
Carl Elliott
Hopeland Gardens
Marianne Honkonen
David Honkonen
Aiken
Bobby Spradley
Florence
Louise Kemp
Susan Fulbright
Hankonen
Tina Hanna
Hunter’s Glen
Marianne
Bobby
Nashville
Graduation and weekend gatherings span Aiken area
The Honkonens attended their son Jeff's Clemson graduation as out of town guests joined by many families from Florence Florence area and others from Columbia Cape Canaveral Fitchburg Sum merville Circleville Alaska and more. Aiken residents traveled to Florida for a wedding of Kimberly Sampson and Chris Vogt and a Daughters of 1812 chapter met at Redcliffe. A birthday barbecue for Carlisle McNair and a 50th anniversary for Jodie Ferrel Smith were celebrated with extended family. Readers urged to send news to Lynnda Bassham.
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Honkonens
Clemson
Jeff
Steven Fulbright
Jonesboro
Tenn
Art Karnuth
Florence
Harry Steele
Kathern Walters
Derinda Martin
J.C. Spradley
Columbia
Charles Duncans
David Burrells
Boyd Frazells
Robert Hankonen
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Ida Hankonen
Fitchburg
Mass
Greg Key
Albany
Barbara Thompson
Summerville
Mackie Davis
J. Gandy
Circleville
Ohio
Aiken
Florida
Kimberly Ann Sampson
Frank Sampson Jr
Homestead Air Force Base
Frank Sampson
Chris Michael Vogt
Anchorage
Alaska
Oregon
Illinois
Texas
New York
New Jersey
Aruba
Elizabeth
N.J
David Rogerson Williams
United States Daughters of 1812
Redcliffe
James Hammond
James D. McNair
Richard Westray
Charleston
J.D. Robertson
E.E. Blackmon
Hartsville
D.N. Ratchford
Melissa Ratchford
Irma
Harting Woodward
C.M. Venning
Ken Flanders
Montmorenci
Jodie Ferrel Smith
Sandra Thomas
Allen Smith
First Baptist Church
Smiths
Carolinas
Georgia
Cindy Thomas
Lynnda Bassham
W.F
Laurel Drive
Congress Grants Ike Power to Defend Taiwan in 1955
On January 28 1955 Congress adopted a resolution empowering President Eisenhower to use armed force to defend Taiwan and the Pescadores, responding to a request from the president for authority.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Taiwan
Pescadores
Aiken Camera Club Plans Meeting and Photo-Journalism Program
The Aiken Camera Club meets tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at the H. Odell Weeks Activities Center featuring a slide program titled Photo Journalism Human Involvement with commentary by the Photographic Society of America division. The Garden Makers May meeting follows at Peachtree Rock. A convoy departs Warneke Cleaners at 9:30 a.m. for interested attendees who should bring a picnic lunch. contact Mrs Albert Tennant for details.
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Mame
Aiken
Aiken Community Playhouse
Terry Phillips
Joan Silverberg
Lori Rhinehart
The
Phil Jones
Aiken Camera Club
H. Odell Weeks
Photo-Journalism
Photographic Society of America
Peachtree Rock
Warneke Cleaners
Albert Tennant
Aiken Arts Council Elects Leaders and Receives Grant
At USC Aiken the Aiken County Arts Council elected new officers Charlotte Cassels president Peter Bisscop vice president Sally Ferris secretary and June Caskey treasurer. New board members Barbara Burris Pat Andringa join an advisory board chaired by Ruth Howard. The SC Arts Commission awarded a 750 grant for 1982 83 to support arts in schools a festival and the arts calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken County Arts Council
Usc-Aiken
Bret Crawford
South Aiken High School
Bret
Governor’s School For the Arts
Furman University
Richard
Dick) Riley
Todd Crawford
Charlotte Cass
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Aiken Standard
Aiken, S.C
James D. McNairs
Carlisle
Cutie
Henry Lucius
Greenville
Melissa
MR. and
Mrs. Smith
Don Fitzpatrick
Lancaster ST
S.W. Aiken
S.C
Business
Sander
Styles Unlimited
eNona Willingham
eSandie Long Christy Dunbar
eRachael Corley
Lambert’ S Art
Tickets Cruises Tours
Amtrak Hotels
York SE
Camera Club
Garden Makers
Chiropractic Clinic
P.A
Laurens St., NW
Arts Council Elections
By Bob Leminick
Lominick Pharmacy
Richland Ave
Dial
Grainger Studio
Warrenville Gurley’s
Super Market
Aiken Piggly Wiggly
Kalmia Plaza
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