Ohio University Women's Glee Club Delights with Experimental Numbers
The Memorial Auditorium concert directed by Mrs Margaret Benedict featured four choral speech styles and whistled segments. Soloist Lorene Rodehaver performed The Heavenly Noel while Miriam Walker played Menuet and Hymn to the Sun. Athens students including Lorene Rhodehaver and others joined the performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio University Women's Glee Club
Margaret A. Benedict
Memorial Auditorium
Greece
Glee Club
John Masefield
A. A. Milne
James
Morrison Orrison
Rodehaver
Lorene Rodehaver
Homer Rodehaver
State St
Lang
Miriam Walker
School of Music
Porpora-Kreisler
Rimsky-Korsakoff
Athens
Helen Gamertsfelder
Esther Cokonougher
Louise Kelley
Lorene Rhodehaver
Carolyn Clutter
Elma Hill
Jessie Cooper
Kathleen Kerr
St Patrick Theme Shapes OU Dances Across Houses
Ohio University sorority and fraternity dances featured a St Patrick theme with green decor, pussywillows, and spring ambiance. About fifty couples attended the Pi Kappa Alpha, Delta Tau Delta, Alpha Gamma Delta, and Alpha Delta Pi events with distinct grand marches led by Ed Gilmore, Forest Hopkins, Louise Moyer, and Martha Lee Groves, while chaperons included Prof. and Mrs. Frank Gullum and Mrs. L. F. Hopkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Reynolds
James Boden
Ted Toll
Delta Tau Delta
James Barrett
William Dorsett
Paul Halieck
George Hood
Forest Hopkins
Marianne Sneddicker
Alice Mae Dodge
Clarence Roach
Frank B. Gullum
L. F. Hopkins
Louise Moyer
John Beaker
Martha Lee Groves
William Pierce
Virginia Cummins
Dorothy Krum
George Hitchcock
Seth Lewis
Jane Bartlett
Alpha Delta Pi
Ted Wildermuth
Phillip L. Peterson
Ralph Beckett
Alice le Guiki
Betty Floyd
Rosemary Doran
Phi Mu initiates Elizabeth Close at Delta Delta Chapter
Miss Elizabeth Close formerly of Athens is initiated into Delta Delta Chapter of Phi Mu Sorority at the chapter house on East State Street. A late supper for active members alumnae and new initiates followed the formal services with rose candies crystal candelabra and enchantress carnations as centerpieces. Other initiates include Dorothy Baker Lewisville Betty Feltz Uhrichsville Norman Few Painesville and Carol Seeger Bucyrus. The Richland Avenue M P Church Progressive Sunday School class will hold its monthly business and social meeting at the home. Mr and Mrs Dallas Wooster will host Thursday at 7 30 p m with Mrs Baker in charge of devotional services and Mr William Kite of entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Close
Athens
Delta Delta Chapter
Phi Mu Sorority
E. State St
Dorothy Baker
Lewisville
Betty Feltz
Uhrichaville
Norman Few
Painessville
Carol Seeger
Bucyrus
Richland Ave. M. P
Dallas Wooster
Hursday
J. Baker
William Kite
H. G. Stalder
N. College St
J. Homer Caskey
Untermeyer
Davidson
the Eastwood
Wilmer C. Harris
Gamertsfelder
John Dewey
Sayre Study Club
P. B. Sidders
Second St
First Methodist Church
United Spanish War Veterans, Ladies’ Auxiliary
Snaix-Lair
I. O. O. F. Hall
Edwin W. Kremmerer
Music Hall
Kemmerer
Memorial Auditorium
Higley Study Circle
William
Shepherd
Morris Ave
Girl Scouts Busy With Tests and Lessons
Juliet Lowe Troop in Athens reports several girls passing second class tests and others working on first class signaling and bedmaking. Brownie Pack II prepares to promote to Brownies while Peter Pan Troop plans camping and whittling as Robinhood Troop hosts fourteen scouts and four new tenderfeet begin testing. A Sugaring Off party is planned pending weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juliet Lowe
Athens Girl Scouts
Goodnight Circle
Raymond Bardin
Buckeye Troop II
Eagle
Robinhood
Margaret Nunamaker
St Patrick’s Day Party Hosted by Marjorie Wheaton
Miss Marjorie Wheaton entertained her high school friends with a St Patrick’s Day party at 45 Maplewood Dr Friday night. Guests voted on prizes in Irish costume and contests while refreshments featured green candles and shamrocks. The event included a list of invitees and a banco prize winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marjorie Wheaton
Fred Wheaton
Maplewood Dr
Florence Smith
Martha Meister
Pat
Mike
Hugh Rousey
Jean Pickens
Social Calendar Highlights March 16 17
Community meetings and lectures announced for Monday and Tuesday. Notables include Dr. Herman G. James at Junior-Senior High PTA supper, economist Dr. Edwin W Kemmerer at Memorial Auditorium, and multiple club gatherings across Mechanicsburg and area venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WBA
Edna Junod
Fenzel Apts
PTA Chorus
Mechanicsburg
Herman G. James
Ohio University
PTA
Edwin W. Kemmerer
Memorial Auditorium
Mammy Motif Breakfast Linen Pattern 1172
Pattern 1172 offers transfer designs featuring a Mammy motif for linens and decor. Includes four motifs sized 3 4 x 9 14 inches and four motifs 2 14 x 3 14 inches with material needs and stitch illustrations. Send 10 cents for pattern to Athens Messenger Needlecraft Dept New York NY with name and address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Messenger
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Women’s Home Missionary Society Meeting at Central Ave Church
The Women’s Home Missionary Society of the Central Ave Methodist Episcopal Church will meet with Mrs. Anna Edwards at 100 Legend Street on Thursday at 7 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Home Missionary Society of the
Central Ave. M
Anna Edwards
Legend &T
Mt Herman Ladies Aid Society Meeting at Bardin Home
The Mt Herman Ladies Aid met at Lillian Bardin's home with singing and a scripture reading. An educational program featured McGuffey readings and a history of Ohio contest won by Mrs Eunice Armstrong. Plans were made for an all day quilting event and refreshments were served. The next meeting is April 2 at Rosa Micllemire's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Herman Ladies’ Aid Society
Lillian Bardin
Jesus
McGuffey
Ohio
Eunice Armstrong
Honorary Art Fraternity Names New Pledges
Miss Mary McCune and Robert Bingman joined Delta Phi Delta Tuesday night in Ellis Hall. The pledge group then met at Miss Lurana Betty Morris's home for moving pictures of the World's Fair Mexican cities White Sulphur Springs and Athens faculty and friends. Other pledges include Emma Green Canton Thelma Beery Hillsboro Virginia Hoffman Miamisburg and Violet Patton Bellevue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bingman
Delta Phi Delta
National Honorary Art Fraternity
Ellis Hall
Betty Morris
Athens
Emma Green
Canton
Thelma Beery
Hillsboro
Virginia Hoffman
Miamisburg
Violet Patton
Bellevue
Residents Return From Trips In Florida Washington and Arkansas
Mr and Mrs Seth Lewis returned home from a month in Miami with visits in Washington DC and a stay in Florida. Mr and Mrs Harry Beckley came back to S Court Street after two weeks in Miami. Dwight Rutherford and Mrs Rutherford returned from Columbus after hosting a dance at the Scioto County Club. Gordon K Bush and Rufus K Brown shared Sunday dinner with neighbors. Richard Benedict Janet Bing Julian Bing and Mrs W H Bing visited North Hill hosts and Mrs W H Brooks left for Hot Springs Arkansas for a month. Miss Claris Beebe recovering after appendectomy at Marietta Osteopathic Hospital. Edith Greenawalt to host Kings Daughters Class and Wesleyan Service Guild at Roger Jones home Thursday night. Married People's Sunday School Class meets Tuesday at 7:30 pm in Christian Church parlors. Floyd Schreider and Mrs Howard Wood to host.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith Greenawalt
Kings Daughters
Wesleyan Service Guild
Roger Jones
Elmwood Place
The
Christian Church
Floyd Schreider
Howard
Wood
National Business Women Week Opens in Athens Party
District women gathered in Athens for the inaugural National Business Women's Week with a shamrock themed 154 guest luncheon. Miss Mary Vashti Jones spoke on the federation, as club presidents and officers from Zanesville, Xenia, Circleville, Columbus, Ironton, Newark, Gallipolis, Jackson, Nelsonville, Parkersburg and others attended the reception and morning program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Mary Vashti Jones
Zanesville
Business
Ohio
Gelina MacDonald Bowman
Ashland
Jones
Virginia A. Fletcher
Xenia
Ruth Rankin
Jackson
Leona Hughes
Florence Given
Columbus
Ellen Burnell
Nelsonville
Carrie Dungan
Marie Lines
Logan
Charlotte Phelps
Circleville
Thirza Clinton
Parkersburg
W. Va
Mildred Butts
Marietta
Nora Fitzpatrick
Mary Canter
Gallipolis
Helen Body
Cambridge
Lillian Fidler
Hazel L. Schoyock
Bel L. Beeney
Newark
Phyllis Hastings
Ironton
Frank R. Murphey
Athens Advisory Board
Garnet Hatch
Athens Club
Gladys Jones
Anne D. Marting
Mary Vasht Jones
Eleanor Minister
Geraldine Hope
Virginia Fletcher
Gladys van Dyke
T. M. Wolfe
Frank Murphey
Portsmouth
Moliere Play Set For March 24 At Memorial Auditorium
Miss Nicole Rousseau stars as the title role in Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme for the twentieth annual French play by L Alliance Francaise at Memorial Auditorium on March 24. Dr. Mary T. Noss directs. The cast totals 40 with noted roles including Mme Jourdain and Nicole among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicole Rousseau
Ohio University
Moliere
Memorial Auditorium
L'Alliance Francaise
Mary T. Noss
Miss Rousseau
Janet Blair
Mme. Jourdain
Dorothy Trosset
Nicole
Natalie Whiting
Lucile
Paul Davis
Cleonte
Robert Manheimer
Covielle
Arthur de Luca
Dorante
Margaret Burber
Dorimene
Loren Pace
Donald Pace
William Turner
Wade Volwiler
John Webb
Emma Booth Tucker Circle Hosts Frugal Dinner Ideas
The Emma Booth Tucker Circle met Friday at the Salvation Army home with eight members sharing a repast described as a company dinner featuring cheese rarebit and cabbage carrot salad. Mrs Velma Phillips led student demonstrations from Ohio University on economical decorating and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Booth Tucker
Salvation Army
Mies Velma Phillips
Home Economics
Ohio University
Missionary Society Meets at Elkins Home in Tea
The Women’s Missionary Society of the First Christian Church held a Thursday afternoon meeting at Mrs. Harry Elkins’s home 31 Maplewood Dr. Mrs. W. JD. Robinson led the worship on Finding Your Place in God’s Plan and read The Thistle by Gabriela Mistral translated by a South American missionary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Elkins
Maplewood Dr
Women's Missionary Society of the
First Christian Church
W. JD. Robinson
Gabriela Mistral
Ida Allison
Porto Rico
United States
FB. N. Cullums
H. J. Phillips
Those Days Are Gone Forever
Reminiscence recalls a board fence along Mill Street with tannery hides hanging to the railroad crossing. It mentions four small houses behind the current Banks Creamery on a street to Mill Street known as Grosvenor Row and a board walk from Weh?r corner to Carpenter Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Mill St
Banks Creamery
Mill St
Patricia Ann Sprague christened at St Pauls Church Sunday
Little Patricia Ann Sprague daughter of Dr and Mrs John T Sprague was christened Sunday at 1 oclock at St Pauls Catholic Church Father William G Dowd performed the ceremony Mrs Merle Thomas of Massillon was godmother and Mr Ted Sprague godfather At 4 oclock the Spragues hosted a buffet supper at their Grosvenor Street home Among out of town guests were Mr and Mrs F C Liddell and Mrs W C Graham of Massillon Also noted Mrs F Peoples of Congress Street visiting Westport Conn with her daughter and son in law Edward Harris and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia Ann Sprague
John T. Sprague
St. Paul's Catholic Church
William G. Dowd
Merle Thomas
Massillon
Ted Sprague
Grosvenor St
F. C. Liddell
W. C. Graham
Patricia Ann
J. R. Sprague
F. Peoples
Congress St
Westport
Conn
Edward Harris
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Society
Women’s Glee Club
Phyllis Teller
Hahn-Kraft
Lehmann
Rogers
Noble
Morley
St. Patrick
Delta Tau House
Phi Mu Hai Services
Eit
Hall Nationa
Women's Home Missionary Society
A. E. Whaley
W. H. Fowler
Women's Auxiliary
National Association of Letter Carriers
Glenn Atkinson
Hooper
Ook
Mrs
Don Clippinger
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Paris
Sharpsburg
Rosa Micllemire
Honorary Art Fraternity
Mary McCune
Robert
Lurana
Miami, Fla
Washington, D. C
Harry Beckley
S. Court St
Miami
Fla
Dwight Rutherford
R. M. Edgar
Scioto Country Club
Gordon K. Bush
Strathmore Boulevard
Rufus K. Brown
McConnelaville
Richard C. Benedict
Janet Bing
Cleveland
Julian Bing
Case School of Applied Science
W. H. Bing
North Hill
W. H. Brooks
M. C. Morrison
Hot Springs
Ark
Mr. Morrison
Brooks
Tom Garen
Claris Beebe
Marietta Osteopathic Hospital
Thelma Robinson
Helen Downs
Helen Nichols
Nelsonville Club
Masons
Paramathia Lodge No
James A. Palmer
W. H. Leaders, W. M
Mission Society
Elkins
Mary Sue
James Beau
Mummy
Janie
Dolly
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