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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1955
Page
5
Kay Young reports on a proposed snowball fight at Pecos High School and a 1956 campus favorite vote. The Rainbow Girls plan a weiner roast, seniors prep annual pages, and Band Day features Alpine High Band with Sul Ross College. Macbeth scenes and American Education Week highlight student activities.
Alpine resident Mrs Isabel Winter represented Beta Lota Chapter in the Book of Honor at Delta Kappa Gamma National Headquarters in Austin. The chapter met at Fort Davis home of Mrs Annie Lou Clark with hostesses Lillian Mims and Cathryn Etheridge. Readings included scholarships via imagined interview from a visiting English teacher. The White Elephant Sale supported scholarships, posters for American Education Week were created by Helen Chism Betty Gilbreath Nora Hernandez, and a Rainbow Girls quartet sang at an Eastern Star banquet. A $100 check from an honorary member was received and the next meeting is a dinner at Pilot Lodge in Marfa on December 3.
Mrs Herbert L Kokernot Jr entertained the Lucky 13 Bridge Club at a luncheon and bridge games in the Holland Hotel last Thursday. High prize went to Mrs Willis McCutcheon of Toyahvale with second high to Mrs David Kokernot. low to Mrs C E Patterson. Attending were Mesdames Z L Decie Vernon McIntyre Lois McIntyre Estelle Martin Kokernot McCutcheon Patterson and Mrs George Bevier. Mr and Mrs John Patillo and children are visiting his parents in Yoakum and friends in Houston this week.
The Forchheimer Home Study Club held a tea last Thursday afternoon at Mrs. Louis Forchheimer home. Mrs. Leo Burkhalter sang Heart That's Free and If I Could Tell You. Miss Gwen Wright performed three preludes by Scriabin and Malaguena by Lecuona.
Members of the First Methodist Church will travel to Morfa for a revival led by Bishop W. Angie Smith from Sunday through Friday. Services begin at 8 p.m. each evening.
Lt Charles B Chism USAF on way to Randolph AFB for B-29 transition spent last Thursday and Friday with his parents. Lt Chism received his commission November 1 at Vance AFB near Enid Oklahoma. Mr and Mrs J C Coleman returned Saturday from a week’s visit in San Angelo and Miles. George M Bevier's family visited Pamela, a student at St Mary’s Hall in San Antonio, last week. Moe Hedrick and his wife of Roscoe visited Alpine last weekend. Hedrick, former coach at Sul Ross College, is now superintendent of schools at Roscoe. Bill Sloan and family left Saturday for Medford Oregon where he will join family in business. Bob Bow of Tow visited his parents and brother Jack earlier this week. The Bows run tourist courts and lodges at Lake Buchanan. Dick Rogers and daughter Sara visited Sandra, a UT student, last weekend and attended the Texas reunion. Mrs J A Shumate has returned from Houston visit with her mother Mrs J E Mantooth and will live with her daughter locally.
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