Athens Business and Professional Women at State Convention
Athens club members attended the eighteenth annual state convention in Dayton at the Biltmore Hotel. Officers were elected and awards announced as Ohio Federation membership rose to 3083 with 55 clubs, 530 delegates and visitors in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Business and Professional Women's Club
Biltmore
Dayton
Erma Jagers
Gladys Jones
Lucille Duffee
Myrta Ashworth
Athens Club
Louisa Steele
Rowena Sprout
Mae Herron
Audra Blackwood
Gladys Brooks
Alice Brewer
Eleanor Minister
Viola Fell
Margaret Cronin
Ethel Beekman
Golda Edwards
Arvilla van Dyke
Emma Stotts
Ruth Dye
Francina Gross
Leona Hughes
Casa Long
Geraldine Hope
Lulu Wilkes
Gladys Wade
Athens
Pearl von Au
Cleveland
Florence Wells
Toledo
Marie Bergman
Bellefontaine
Helen Currier
Mae Bell
Marietta
Virginia Fletcher
Xenia
Florence Given
Columbus
Francis Dean Schnacke
Ohio Federation
Ohio
National Federation
Business Forum
Sun
Akron Club
Nelsonville
Akron
Brooklyn Club
Ironton
Dayton Club
Jake Sherman Secures One Year Contract With RKO
Former Ohio University dramatics standout Jake Sherman has a one year contract with RKO Pictures in Hollywood. He appears on the air twice weekly and stars in a film titled Hurricane. In a letter Tom King reports Sherman’s rising talent and a lead role in Shakespeare readings on KMTR. He previously performed with Athens groups and at the Crystal Pool as a guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake Sherman
Ohio University
Hollywood
Tom King
Bill Curry
Jake
RKO
King
KMTR
Sherman
Athens
The
Crystal Pool
O. U. Music School Residents Stage Final Recital
Ohio University School of Music presented its last formal student recital at Music Hall last night. The program featured organ, piano, violin, quartets, ensembles and vocalists with participants from Mrs. Helen Hedden Roach and Mrs. Margaret Benedict groups. Featured soloists included sopranos Anne McKay Alda Shaw Eleanor Stiles and others along with pianists violists and an oboe ensemble directed by several instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio University
School of Music
Music Hall
Helen Hedden Roach
Anne McKay
Alda Shaw
Margaret Benedict
Esther Cokonougher
Robert Quigley
William LeMasters
Effie Smith
Local Kindergartners Stage Cowboy Circus Centennial Celebration
Four and five year olds perform a Rufus Putnam program celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first kindergarten in Germany. The event features circus acts with ponies, elephants, seals and tigers, a huge 100-cake birthday display, and student teacher directed performances by Mrs. Marie Quick, Miss Wilson, and Phillip Nye's band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rufus Putnam
Germany
Marie Quick
Miss Wilson
Wilson
Elephants Trunk
Circus Ring
Phillip Nye
Russell Barnhart
Donna Burson
Jimmie Edwards
Marian Garby
Douglas Knobloch
George Good
Bob Heidler
Norma Jean Herbert
Nancy Lou Householder
Dorothea Caskey
Jan Clark
Jerry Nickell
Janey Morgan
Jackie Rhoads
Margaret Scott
Frederick Stehr
Bennie Slye
Flower Gardens Brighten Athens Streets With Color
A Athens city scene showcases multiple flower beds and volunteers. Dr. C W Super rests on a porch at 44 W Union St while Iris peonies and roses bloom near Phi Mu and Alex Cochran homes. Mrs Violet Thomas tends the sorority corner and the Bailes family maintains the Cochran garden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phi Mu
East State
Carpenter Sts
Violet Thomas
Alex Cochran
Columbia Ave
Thomas Bailes
Miss Hackman Hosts Athens Needle Club Luncheon
Lizzie Hackman hosted the Athens Needle Club at the Gay Tea Room for a 1 PM luncheon with spring flowers. After lunch members visited her Franklin Avenue home for a brief business meeting, amended by-laws, and social time. this marked the year's final gathering until fall under Mrs. H. T. Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Hackman
Athens
Genevieve James Receives Drama Scholarship at Plymout h
Miss Genevieve James daughter of Dr and Mrs Herman G James a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences has won a scholarship in the Lake Shore Theater Colony summer training school at Plymouth Massachusetts The six week program begins June 23 with training and the Plymouth Drama Festival The award marks recognition of Ohio University School of Dramatic Arts work and James prior study at the University of South Dakota and Ohio University.
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Genevieve James
Herman G. James
College of Arts and Sciences
Lake Shore Theater Colony
Plymouth
Mass
Lake Shore Theater Colony i8
Friends of the Theater
Board of Admissions
Plymouth Drama Festival
James
School of Dramatic Arts
University of South Dakota
Ohio University
Earl Kelly To Give Graduation Recital at Alumni Memorial
Earl Kelly senior piano student at the School of Music presents a formal graduation recital Sunday May 30 at 8 15 p m in Alumni Memorial Auditorium. Highlights include Liszt Concerto with Mary T Noss second piano and his own Danza. Program spans Bach Mendelssohn Chopin Ravel Liszt Paderewski. Kelly has 15 years of study starting in Erie and now studies under Vera Board. He serves as organist at the Church of the Good Shepherd and will perform the recessional after Commencement on the new Hammond organ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Kelley
School of Music
Alumni Memorial Auditorium
Mary T. Noss
Bach
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Ravel
Liszt
Paderewski
Erie
Paul Fontaine
Community Social Calendar Highlights Local Events
The West Side plans an ice cream festival in the school yard next Thursday with indoor option if rain. Dorothy Kishler’s 600 dance pupils perform tonight at Athens High School. Various clubs and church groups meet Thursday and Friday for rehearsals, dinners, and initiations, with locations on Stewart Street, Brown Avenue, Sunnyside Drive, and local halls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Kishler
Athens High School
Plan Summer Activities For Athens Brownies
Scout leaders schedule July Brownies to attend camp one day each week. Thursday is named Brownies Camp Day. Each Brownie will bring home a folder detailing Scout summer activities for her mother before school ends.
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Julia Day
E. Mulberry Sr
Margaret Wells
Miss Wells
Rutland
Mrs. Day
RKO Pictures
MHI
Paramount Beauty Parlor
Rauch's
Ellen Fulton
Ope
City ‘Club
Milldeck
N. Court St
Shoe Store
O. U. Students of Music
Kindergartners
Camp Fire Head
Lola Duvall Williams
Dallas
Tex
New York City
Camp Fire Girls of America
C. W. Super
W. Union St
Miss Hackman
Rauch's Bakery
Coats
Earl Kelly
Clarence Stalder
Woodland Ave
Sylvia Sue
Clyde Metcalf
Mila Stalder
Chauncey
Cora Forrest
Harrisonville
Ruth Metcalf
William Mansfield
Stewart St
Bishop
Central Ave. M. E
E. R. Horn
Brown Ave
Eagles
Mary Blayney
Women's Music Club Chorus
Rebekah Lodge
Deborah
First Christian Church
E. G. Campbell
National Association of Letter Carriers
Noble Grands Club
Nora Frank
Lawrence Apts
S. Court St
Order of Eastern Star
Highway Wives Club
Lloyd Copeland
Presbyterian Missionary Society
Clyde Deeters
Byard St
Arthur Deeters
Stewart
Beauty
Millie Sieple
Mgr
Bea Rardin
Silvus
Estherifte
Tiss
South Court Street
Athens, Ohio
BK Intite
Walt
Biusi
Pawrm
Lawex
Athens Brownies
Petermans PN
Risen
Kayser
Mir
O-Kleer
Ake
Bairr
Peatia
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