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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1957
Page
9
A buffet supper and Ladies Night were held Sunday evening at the Skyline Gun Club for fifty five members and guests. Committee members in charge included Earl Hooper as program committee chairman and directors George Hooper Byron Wolfe and Earl Mathews.
Mrs. G G Guthrie of Charleston visited 21 Elmwood Place in Athens as a weekend guest. Miss Jane Adams, a St Charles High School graduate, returned to Athens to live with her grandmother and will spend summer here with sisters Brenda and Linda. Mr and Mrs John H Ruth and sons of Athens attended their step brother Richard E Hurley funeral in Columbus with burial in Logan. Memorial Day visitors included multiple Ruths and Rohners. Earl Hooper and Earl Mathews traveled to Columbus for Lincoln Life Insurance agents meeting.
Phillip Eugene Saunders son of Mr and Mrs Herper Saunders of 10 Granville Ave has been initiated as an active member into three national fraternities Tau Kappa Alpha Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Saunders is a student at Ohio University.
Members of the Junior Music Club held their final meeting of the year at 45 Maplewood Drive hosted by Mr. and Mrs. John F. Cady. Students performed piano solos and a Joyce Smith Susan Cady duet as guests and teachers observed the program.
New Orleans native Gay Lynn Woods, a 19 year old chemistry student, married Ens. Edward C. Nixon 27 in a quiet Pensacola ceremony attended by Vice President Nixon. Groom, a Duke and NC State alumnus, recently earned naval reserve wings after helicopter training.
Easy to sew pattern No 8494 includes PATTO-RAMA and waist sizes 24 to 32. Pattern requests 35 cents plus name address size and PATTERN NUMBER sent to Sue Burnett The Athens Messenger New York 36 N Y. Include 25 cents more for Spring and Summer FASHION.
Sayre Study Circle hosts an annual potluck at Mr. and Mrs. C. R. White at 6 p.m. Meat and ice cream provided. members bring table service. Merry Mix-Up Class of the Christian Church meets at 7:30 p.m. at 3 Verona St. Te Ga Tra gathers at Mrs. Ernie Partee’s MacArthur home at 7:30 p.m. Co hosts Mrs. Harold Brewer and Mrs. Richard Lamb. Albany Wednesday Club picnics at 6:30 p.m. at Mrs. Edward Lasch’s home. Zeta Alpha Chapter Beta Sigma Phi meets with Anne Graham at 94 W. State St. at 7:30 p.m. Delilah Rebekah Lodge memorial program at New Marshfield lodge at 8 p.m. IOOF members invited. refreshments served. Lodi Grange meets at 8 p.m.. bring material for cancer dressings. Ladies Auxiliary of Richland Area Fire Brigade meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Fire House. rummage sale June 7–8. Child Guidance Circle of CCL guest night at Skyline Gun Club at 5:30 p.m.. Mrs. Earl Hooper hostess. Mothersingers meet with Mrs. Richard Selleck at 7:30 p.m. UMWA Auxiliary to meet at Chauncey-Dover School at 7:30 p.m. Potluck. important meeting. Final plans for the convention. League of Women Voters picnic at 6 p.m. at Mrs. Henri Seibert’s Earich Rd. home.
More than 150 people attended the 20th annual Buchtel York High School Alumni Association banquet and dance held Saturday night in the Parish Hall of the Catholic Church and the high school gym. The event featured music by The Twilighters, a welcome by Charles McDonald, and remarks by Fred O. Linscott on Growing Up. Officers for 1958 include Joe Schenz president and Ruth McDonald treasurer, with an executive board listing several names.
Welch Cottage girls staged a fashion show for a farewell party last Tuesday night. Honored guests included Dean of Women Margaret Deppen Miss Erma Anderson and assistant dean Joyce Christman. Narrator Mari lyn Hill led the program as model names Jewel Martin Cathy Horne Toni Gentile Judie Carey and Mary Dieffenbacher were featured. Proctor Miss Jane Stegemann received a necklace and earring set before leaving Ohio University for doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. Refreshments were served by the girls.
Plans for a hamburger fry were made by the Young Mothers Club of The Plains at Mrs. Donald Meek’s home. The event is scheduled for June 12 at Nelsonville Park followed by a movie. Prizes in the Meek home games went to Mrs. Gary McBride Mrs. Leslie Guess Mrs. Mary Michael and Mrs. Judy Michael.
Mr. and Mrs. John R Jack Linscott of Columbus announce the birth of a daughter Jane Elizabeth born May 31 at Grant Hospital. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. T. B. McQuain of Dayton and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Linscott of The Plains. Mr. Linscott is a senior medical student at Ohio State University.
Sunday afternoon May 26 pupils of Mrs Willard Phelps and Mrs Richard Selleck gave a recital at the Selleck home Rock Riffle Rd. Parents and friends attended. The program featured piano solos by John Crewson Linda Buck Jimmy Sands Paul Burt Susan Gura Bobby Blackmore Cheryl Kimes violin solos by Susan Selleck Cheryl Parham Sandra Buck Marcia Selleck Ronald Selleck Violin duets by Susan Selleck Cheryl Parham and a violin quartet by Ronald Selleck Marcia Selleck Morgan West and Blaine Cornwell Refreshments were served by the hostesses Mrs Phelps and Mrs Selleck assisted by Marcia Selleck.
North opens four spades and Bill Root of Miami converts to five trumps to secure eleven tricks. He uses a sequence of ruffs and trump management to outmaneuver West. North earns praise for his aggressive no trunk bid in a four card suit.
In the given hand North opens 2NT after a pass sequence and South holds R96 ORES A103 SK 1087. You should bid three diamonds with a minimum twoNT response to avoid shutting out a likely threeNT. Your partner now raises to three spades. choose the best action on this hand.
Joanna Grace Byers engaged to Norbert James Kocab of Cleveland. Bride elect a Ohio University graduate and Alpha Delta Pi member. groom is a John Carroll University graduate, Benedictine High School alum, U S Army Korea veteran and Ohio University graduate student. Wedding planned June eight at Saint Pauls Catholic Church in Athens.
Embroidered patterns offer a gay kitchen touch with two samplers per pattern No 2496 includes iron transfers stitch illustrations and color chart Each sampler measures about 7 by 9 inchesSend 25 cents with name address and pattern number to Anne Cabot The Athens Messenger New York 36 Also available 1957 Needle Work ALBUM a 56 page collection with crochet and quilt directions for 25 cents a copy.
Mrs B A Renkenberger of 44 Fairview Ave presented her piano students in a spring recital. Participating were Susan Cady Marcia Fugate Charlotte Hill Rebecca Jenkins Linda Locke Diantha Murphy Nancy Organ Norman Orcutt William Paige Ann Bannon Juliana Roberts Stephanie Sheron Joyce Smith Lynn Trout Janice Wallace. Refreshments were served after the event to students and parents.
If you take up a sport buy your own gear. Friends may lend once, but may resent repeated borrowings. Many enthusiasts grow attached to their possessions and may refuse to lend.
Mrs. Millard S. Douglas hosted The Mother's Club of Chauncey with six members present. Mrs. Harold Meeks won the prize, and Mrs. Douglas received the hostess gift from Mrs. Jack Bricker. A rummage sale is planned for June 22 at the Armory, with the next meeting at Mrs. Blaine Grubb's home. The note adds a fruit sherbet with ginger ale as a refreshing detail.
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