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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1939
Page
5
The column critiques the social climber type in urban life, focusing on a young man who equates worth with college prestige, wealth, and snootiness. It contrasts his view with the practical, working-class partner he overlooks, and ends by noting a desert-water metaphor for hidden depressions in rock.
Members of the Junior Travel Study Club met at Mrs W B Gunn’s home discussing The Smallest State in the World and The Garden Isles of Sicily plus Time and Tide on the Thames. Mrs Van Bruner welcomed as a new member as attendees list includes Mrs Ballard Clemmons Gill Griggs Gunn Jackson Le Mond Wingate and Miss Carter Wingate. Immense areas of Utah and Nevada were covered by lakes in the Pleistocene period.
Juanita Sawyer and Omiteene Pearson entertained friends at the Zena Sawyer home 400 North West Eighth Avenue. Refreshments served to a long list of attendees including Zena Mae Nichols Isabel Felter Harold Brown and many others. Rose Jasper Nickell will review The American Way by Kaufman and Hart at a Polk Street Methodist Church silver tea hosted by Circle No. 4 of the Woman's Missionary Society.
Gov. W Lee O Daniel Roy Miller and hundreds of Texas clubwomen paid tribute to Mrs Clara Driscoll of Corpus Christi on Clara Driscoll Day at the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs headquarters in Austin The Corpus Christi woman had donated 920000 to lift the debt on the federation building and a life size portrait was unveiled for the federation building expressed gratitude came from Mrs Joseph M Perkins state president for the 60000 club women in 1080 clubs
Mrs Elizabeth Whitaker guests read Laddie at a Junior Club meeting. Mrs Ethel Davis presented garden flowers to each guest. Attendees included Ruth Riffe Elenor Atwood Elizabeth Benson Lucretia Wilson Idalene Fitzgerald Stella Harmon and many members. Roll call cited the girl on her right with each name.
Mrs. Clark McCully reports Amarillo Council of Parents and Teachers meeting at Humphrey Highland school. Mrs. Gilbert Walker named room representative for the year. P T A membership drive moved to October 27 from October 13. Plans discussed for a Halloween eve entertainment.
The social calendar lists multiple gatherings tonight through Friday including the Amarillo Girl Scout Council reception for Miss Ida Mae McClure at 113 Sunset Terrace, Las Amigas Club dinner at 16142 Hughes Street, and various club meetings and recitals across city venues. The article notes a Philippine Islands per capita debt of $2, about one thirtieth of Japan’s.
Gloria Ruiz Circle of the First Baptist Women’s Missionary Society announces a 6:30 p.m. dinner meeting this Friday at the church. The program features talks on Tithes and Offerings including “Tithing, Our Lord's Plan” and “The Tithe, a Provision of Grace, Not Law,” a hymn, a skit “Is the Tithe a Debt?” and contributions by Lenora McKenzie, Peggy Smith, Rosalind Giles, Mrs. Guy Smyth, and Mrs. Elizabeth Weller. All members are urged to attend as the first gathering of the new church year.
Soprano Mrs E A Paschal will give a vocal recital at 8 o clock Friday night at the Musical Arts Conservatory 1800 Harrison Street. The program features works by Handel Bach Haydn Schubert Schumann Brahms Strauss Alfano Dalcroze Hahn and a 16th or 17th century English number Have You Seen but a White Lillie Grow. Elizabeth Jameson Eubank to accompany on piano.
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