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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1941
Page
12
Miss Georgianna Cusachs daughter of Commander Charles Cusachs Annapolis Md wears a white silk pleated hat trimmed with navy ribbons and a gold eagle embroided. Her navy suit features a white collar and cuffs and gilt star buttons as she parades on Fifth Avenue.
Sayre Study Circle met Tuesday at Mrs. C. E. Fortney’s home with fifteen members and guest Mrs. R. C. Alexander present. Mrs. D. C. Snow spoke on Williamsburg Virginia detailing restoration work and renewed architecture, noting renovations and demolitions. New member Mrs. A. W. Potter joined. next meeting will be a social gathering.
Newman W. Powell, pianist and Ohio University junior, will be presented in a School of Music recital Sunday at 8 p m in Music Hall Auditorium. He holds leadership roles in Phi Mu Alpha and the University Symphony Orchestra, plays viola, sings in the University Choir, and serves as organist and choirmaster at the Episcopal Church. He previously appeared as soloist with the University Orchestra playing Weber concerto.
A sensational divorce trial in New York drew wide attention with witnesses noting a wife once beautiful had gained fat and lost appeal. The piece also markets Kruschen Salts as a fat loss remedy and mentions community notices and Easter guests in Athens County.
Mrs. Harold McGrath of Hastings Addition hosted the 31 Club Monday night. Plans were made for the annual May 2 dinner with April 30 as deadline for regrets. A Wiener roast on April 24 was set. Prizes awarded to Mrs. Van Meter, Mrs. Gedna Martin, and Mrs. Merrill Chase. Eleven members and four guests attended, including Mrs. Ronald Schaar and Miss Thea Connett. Next gathering May 12 at Mrs. Max Heston’s home.
National Kappa Beta convenes in Athens from April 18 to 20 with Kappa Chapter at Ohio University hosting. About 100 guests expected. Margery Fay Reeser chairs the convention. Dorothy McBride elected president. Featured speakers include Mrs. Morrical, Mr. Hartie Smith, and Miss Brown. banquet and pledging to follow.
Athens Garden Club plans to meet Monday April 21 at 2 30 pm at 8 University Terrace with a changed hostess lineup Mrs Evan J Jones replaces the planned host and D R Zenner will lead a pronunciation drill. Members will discuss Originality in the Garden and Remembering the Birds presented by Mrs Roe and Mrs Wolfe. The Plains Woman's Society of Christian Service meeting scheduled for tonight is postponed to April 24 at The Plains Methodist Church.
Contemporary poet Miss Sarton lectured in the Ohio University student union ballroom Wednesday night with Dean Irman presiding. Voigt hosted a small reception at 35 Park Place for about fifty guests afterward. Attendees included Ohio University English department members and Quill Club members who sponsored the event.
Miss Sarton, tied to the Lienne repertory company for five years, has left the theater to write. She tours the United States gathering springtime impressions and read three newly published poems at a reception in Athens, describing Arizona, North Carolina, and Kansas. She stayed with Dr. Edith Wray of Elmwood Place.
The Mothers' Circle met at Mrs. Clarence Allen's house 7 Stewart St for a potluck supper. Betty Hixenbaugh performed an accordion solo while Mrs. Henkle narrated an Easter story and a vocal duet by Mrs. Henkle and Mrs. Glenn Atkinson. Mary La Baw led a discussion on Our Faith in Our Children and J W Tolson reported on a Columbus conference about Home Relations. Guests included Mrs. Clarence Morrison and others.
Madge Graham learns Carolyn Brixton obeys a gangster’s orders to discover Madge's compartment number and Madge plans to alert Ronald Brixton while concealing the danger. The scene unfolds at dinner as Madge retrieves a dropped jeweled clip and pressures Ronald to act.
In a tense scene from Marriage Meddlers sequel, Ronald urges covert plans to protect Carolyn from a gangster and to avoid Uncle Dicky until after a train return. The narrator claims competence and warns of danger while arranging silence and surveillance. Carolyn laments the odd night journey.
Mrs. Robert G. Purrington and three Ohio University students attended the Metropolitan Opera Company production in Cleveland Tuesday night. Kirsten Flagstaff and Lawrence Melchoir sang the title roles. The party left Athens Monday and returned Wednesday to attend a North Central Modern Language Association conference. Dr. Ondis and Dr. Rice will participate. Mrs. Rice drove to Chicago for Easter. Dr. Lewis A. Oadis and Dr. James V. Rice of Ohio University will depart for Chicago Friday. Mrs. George Ford hosted Easter guests including Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Harris Granville and grandchildren Dorothy Ann Higgins and Lloyd Sermershhine.
Ohio University hosts Mothers Week End April 25 to 27 with a housing unit cup awarded to the unit showing the highest mother attendance. Units submit names and counts in McGuffey Hall, with results announced at the Band Concert in Memorial Auditorium Saturday. Events include a Modern Dance Concert, folk dancing, a Pershing Rifles drill, a Pan-American exhibition, convocation by Dean Voigt, and a Sunday church service series plus a parental tea.
Mrs. Marcia Green celebrated a birthday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Carmichael 116 University Terrace Easter Sunday. Attending were family members, the Groves and Allen couples, and other Athens residents. Mrs. Blanche Green from Gulfport also joined. Mrs. Eber Fulton, ill with double pneumonia, received flowers from the Martzolff Sunday School Class. she is slowly recovering after three months of illness.
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