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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
12
The University Playshop announces a three night theater run at Sonial Auditorium on July 13 15 and 16 with no admission. Hal Baker Kate Hannauer and Seminary Uhlik lead the cast in the production with the 14th skipped due to a band concert.
Mrs E R Eddy Amesville announces the marriage of her daughter Joan to Wayne A Milliron of Timblin Pa. The Rev Harold Kellogg officiated June 29 at the Athens parsonage with attendants Billie Munn and Joseph Miller. The bride is an Ames Bern High School graduate employed at Amesville National Bank. the groom a Punxsutaway High School graduate employed by W L Johnson Construction Co. They will live near Amesville after a short wedding trip.
Ohio University hosts the national women's fraternity as Bettie Manwell leads a Cleveland delegation to French Lick Indiana for the 22nd convention. Geraldine Mc Namara and Marion Vanity join as alternate and aide as Juanita Luck from the U S Children's Bureau via Athens report on Operation Alpha Xi Delta. The Ohio University chapter contributed 5000 dollars this year to the project aiding underprivileged children in Brown County Indiana.
Mr and Mrs James Scott of Athens Route Four celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary at home with children and grandchildren. Family attendees include Harry King Gladys Frazee Letha Heightland Paul Hudnall Lena Kay Armand Rist Gertrude Scott Jimmie Scott Dannie Lucas and Bob Mingus. A Waterloo alumni banquet and dance is set for July 2 at 7 p.m. at Waterloo High School with reservations to Pat Kennard.
Mrs. Lee Elliott hosted the Albany Methodist Church Women’s Society of Christian Service meeting. Devotions were led by Etta Bean, with program on Africa by Ella Bean and Flora Saylor led prayers. Twenty three members and two guests attended, with refreshments provided by Mrs. Elliott, Carroll Elliott, and Wilma Elliott.
The second week of the Summer Music Clinic Workshop at Ohio University will feature two guest directors. William Temple of Lima heads the clinic chorus while Dr. William D. Revelli of the University of Michigan leads the Clinic Band. Two concerts cap the week as the chorus performs July 2 and the band July 3 at Memorial Auditorium. Admission is free.
Charles T. Hayes received the Morris M. White scholarship for commercial illustration at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. The one year award funds schooling or a cash prize, with his winning work displayed in the Student Show at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Hayes, son of W N Hayes of Coolville, has 18 months in Cincinnati and is taking summer courses after two years at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
Rehearsals are held nightly for The Great Big Doorstep by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett under Miss Virginia Hahne. The three act comedy is first of two plays at Ohio University during the summer session and will be performed outdoors on the west portico of Me
A friend who owns a car takes you to town for shopping and parks in a garage. The correct action is to pay the parking fee if you can, rather than avoiding payment.
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