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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1938
Page
8
A society note describes three young women Virginia Grey Priscilla Lawson and Anne Rutherford enjoying a first summer tan. The scene hints at tennis fitness and outdoor sunning around private pools lawns and porches as a fashionable pastime in the week.
Local clubs plan Thursday 7:30 p m gatherings including Business and Professional Women and Eagles Auxiliary to elect and nominate officers. Rebekah Lodge and Ladies Aid announce events at IOOF and Mt. Zion Baptist Church with Founders Day and church social aims. A birth announcement for John Ferrell McClead arrives.
A readable page offers three banana based recipes Banana cabbage salad Banana peanut butter mayonnaise and sausages baked in bananas Each recipe includes directions and servings The second item notes Glouster High School Alumni Association hosting a dance in the high school gymnasium Friday at 9 pm Proceeds fund the May 28 alumni banquet
Ohio University stages a campus carnival in Athens Stadium on April 29 30 and May 1 as part of Mothers Week End. The event runs 2 00 to 6 00 pm and 7 30 pm to midnight with 24 booths games and entertainment including boxing wrestling tumbling folk dancing a minstrel show and acrobatic novelties. Student groups such as Alpha Gamma Delta Alpha Delta Pi Pi Kappa Alpha Phi Kappa Tau Chi Omega Zeta Tau Alpha Theta Upsilon and Sigma Pi run booths and the dramatic department presents a Punch and Judy puppetry show. Robert Reider chairs the carnival with Dr Victor Whitehouse as faculty advisor. Continuous program details will be printed Friday.
Miss Helen Louise Schmidt will be first junior to perform a recital at Alumni Memorial Auditorium. Accompanied by Miss Eleanor Stiles, she opens with Caesar Franck's Violin Sonata in G minor, then presents Nocturne by Lili Boulanger Jota by Manuel de Falla and En Bateau by Debussy, concluding with Bruch Violin Concerto in G minor.
Athens Country Club plans a full spring social season with dances banquets and parties. Sigma Pi will entertain Friday night. May 2 Phi Beta Kappa banquet May 4 Mrs William M Young hosts bridge May 7 Phi Epsilon Pi dance May 12 Kappa Phi banquet May 13 Alpha Gamma Delta dance May 14 Alpha Phi Delta dance May 16 Irma Voigt and Dr Edith Wray entertain May 19 Mrs Carlos H Cameron hosts May 20 Pi Beta Phi dance May 21 Alpha Delta Pi sorority event May 27 Buckeye Athletic Association banquet May 28 country club dance June 2 Chi Omega dance June 3 Delta Tau Delta dance June 4 Phi Kappa Tau dance June 14 wedding breakfast for Miss Bette Baker and Carl Clifford.
Miss Margaret Anne Thompson hosted a two table bridge party at 169 Lancaster St to honor Mrs Richard Atkins visiting from Syracuse N Y. First prize went to Miss Lois McCoy second to Miss Mary Morton. The guest of honor received a gift. Other guests included Miss Marian Danford Miss Betty Bolin Miss Alice Robinson Miss Dorothy Nelle Michael Mrs John Bardin and Mrs C T Atkins. Plans for an entertainment night on May 5 at Clarks Chapel Church were announced with other communities participating.
Olga Cassels, daughter of Blanche Cassels of 11 Granville Ave, has completed a crochet bedspread in arrowhead pattern. The piece measures 6 ft 8 in by 7 ft 4 in with 42 blocks and a fringe of 3 to 4 inches. She used 14 skeins for the blocks and three skeins for the fringe while training as a nurse at St. Phillips Hospital in Richmond. Entry in the national contest hinges on winning at the Athens County Fair, with contest rules and samples available from the National Crochet Contest Bureau, The Athens Messenger.
Four women joined the Maecenas Literary Club at Mrs. Frank Dean’s home on Second Street. New members are Mrs. Homer Brown Mrs. Golden Bahr Mrs. Jack Kern and Mrs. Alton Wolfe. President Mrs. E W Bingman led a meeting that opened with America the Beautiful and a flag service.
Prof J R Gentry of the University Department of Psychology was elected Clerk of the Session at First Presbyterian Church. He succeeds Prof L J Addicott who held the post for several years. At the same meeting Wilson Smith was admitted as a member of the session.
Mrs Royal Wolfe with Mrs Harvey Wolfe arranged a birthday party for Mrs A P Hixson at their Peach Ridge country home. Nelle Everett baked the cake for about 50 guests, who enjoyed a cafeteria style dinner and photos after games. Mrs Hixson received many gifts. Teddy Yarosz defeated George Black in a 10 round decision in Milwaukee, two nights ago.
M and Mrs Stewart Bell of New Marshfield Road sold their home to W C Vickers of Athens and rented the Job King property at The Plains. The King property was sold last week with the Stewarts moving in as the first tenants under the new ownership.
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