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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1933
Page
6
The Alpha Gamma Delta House hosted a themed rush event dubbed the Union Depot. Eleven rushees were invited, with rooms styled as train cars and menus framed as excursion fare.
Officers for the coming club year were elected at the WCTU meeting in the Methodist Church parlors. Mrs. V T. A. Copeland was re elected president with Mrs Roy Saylor as vice president and Miss Emma McVey as honorary corresponding secretary. Recording secretary is Mrs Helen Lawrence and treasurer Miss Ida Allison. Church vice presidents include Mrs Ida Allison and Mrs Charlies Ross at Christian Church, Mrs W E Clark and Mrs A E Wagner at First M. E. Church, and Mrs A O Sloane at the Presbyterian Church. The program committee will be Mrs Clark, Mrs Wagner, Mrs Lawrence and Mrs Copeland. Mrs Copeland presided. prayer opened the meeting led by Mrs H T Farrar.
Miss Marie Grimm of Ohio University has come back from a ten day trip to Philadelphia Atlantic City and New York visiting Radio City and an Italian steamer trip. Mr and Mrs H G Vance and family return from Ash Cave Labor Day weekend. others report trips to Chicago World’s Fair Cleveland Seattle and more with relatives and colleagues, including the Warthman Limon reunion and Dutton family visits.
The Athens couple Miss Melba Vercoe and Mr. Raymond Carmichael were married July 4 at the Catlettsburg Methodist Parsonage with Rev. Stewart officiating. Both are Athens High School graduates and former McBee Company employees planning to reside on Walker Street.
Veteran actor Austin Webb recalls the first film close-up born when a principal actor arrived without trousers. The Biograph era saw hurried four foot high shots and 1000 foot reels. Webb later worked with Griffith and Belasco before turning to sales leadership at Electrolux.
Donald A. McKibben of Zaleski wed Julia Anne Kelz of Reynoldsville Pennsylvania on August 19 in Du Bois. The couple, both graduates of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, note Mr. McKibben has been organist and choirmaster at St. John's Episcopal Church Roanoke Virginia. They will reside at 1246 Maple Avenue Roanoke Virginia.
Miss Ruth McCullough of The Plains has earned an Ohio University scholarship for the fall term. A high school graduate from The Plains High School, she achieved top marks in Latin and English contests and scored 95 percent with 20 12 units. Her father C G McCullough taught in Hollister and earned his degree in 1922 from Ohio University.
Ruth family members gathered in Matlack Grove at Tuppers Plains for the sixth annual reunion on Sunday September 3. A picnic, program of speeches and music followed group photos. G L Ruth was re elected president and Carrie Ruth Herdman secretary treasurer. Shenag Springs near Pomeroy chosen for next year.
Miss Voigt and Dr. Wray toured the World's Fair focusing on science and efficiency themes. They then traveled 2,500 miles through Northern Minnesota visiting Lake Itasca headwaters, iron range landscapes, forests, parks, and reforestation work near Cass Lake and Lake Bemidji.
In Jackson a group of five Steele sisters aged 50 to 85 reunite for a trip to Chicago. They have lived together most of their lives with Mrs. Alma Hayes serving as deputy clerk and Marie Steele in Jackson schools. Daisy Steele works at a local company office and Marie English runs a business here.
A fragmented report notes travel through northern regions to the gulf with a smooth road run of about a thousand miles. On returning to Cincinnati a committee from the Cincinnati A A U W meets to plan national meetings next spring with a central section director guiding arrangements involving Illinois Indiana Michigan and Ohio.
Former Ath ens High School teacher Mrs Anna K Price now wintering in Englewood New Jersey with Dr Aaron Sumner Price and Miss Louise Price. Louise Price has moved to Palo Alto California to join the faculty at Stanford University. The Richland Avenue Methodist Protestant Church Young People class hosts a silver tea Friday evening September 8 from 7 to 9 o'clock.
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