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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1972
Page
7
Mrs. Clint Skeens hosted the May meeting of the Woman's Missionary Union at her Switchback home. Virginia Taylor, president, welcomed attendees as the group sang and prayed. Members discussed sermons and readings, shared donations, and planned June hosting duties.
Lambda Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi announced summer dates at a meeting hosted by Mrs. Rhandy Barnett and Mrs. Frank Eaton. A June 10 cook-out for husbands at Ronnie Sarver’s home, a August 26 family picnic at Glenwood Park Shelter Two, and Lambda’s Queen for a Year candidate were among the highlights. Mrs. Wayne Grim named librarian. decor talk by Wayne Katz shop preceded the session. annual member birthday party followed adjournment.
The Women’s Society of Christian Service and the Wesleyan Service Guild of First Methodist Church Bluefield held a carry-in dinner for their May gathering. Mrs. Denardo reported on Holston Conference WSCS events in Kingsport and announced the merger into United Methodist Women approved in Atlanta.
Announcement specifies publishing engagement photo within 15 days of engagement and wedding photo within 15 days of ceremony. Written notices must be doublespaced and submitted with a professional formal photo 4x5 5x7 or 8x10 to the Society Editor by the Wednesday before publication.
Two speakers confirmed for the June 12 15 event at West Virginia University Morgantown Dr Florence J Hicks HEW will speak at the opening banquet and Eleanor Shance WIIC TV will speak at the closing session Registration closes today for the program offering 31 non credit classes four chosen by each participant Includes dormitory living campus tours a banquet recreation and a Plaza Suite performance Local women may join regardless of organizational membership with a registration fee for meals and lodging on arrival
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wayne Repass of Princeton announce the birth of their daughter Cynthia Dawn Wednesday May 31 at Bluefield Sanitarium weighing 8 pounds 7 ounces. The mother is Anita Gail Taylor formerly.
Fairmont State College professor Frances Moody will take the FSC Touring Choir to Coventry England for the Anglo International Music Festival this August. The group will tour Stratford Warwick Holland Belgium and France with home stays in Amsterdam. Two Princeton girls, Becky Riffe and Barbara Hamden, are choir members. Moody is a long time West Virginia Choral Directors president and first woman to conduct the choral assembly. Arsenic is a semimetal that forms the poisonous gas arsine.
The East River Mountain Garden Club met at Glenwood Park for a May gathering with co hosts Mrs Harvery Amos Mrs George Evans Sr and Mrs C S Johnston. Plans for a garage sale in late September or early October were urged and June planting days at Camp Joy were set for June 30 and July 7. Reports from the Garden Council by Mrs W E Moir covered the fall Bluefield Fine Arts Festival garden club exhibits a schools project with Child and His Environment and town sore spots to the city manager. The Fall District meeting is planned for Welch on October 6 with Have a Green Christmas as the theme.
Miss Meg Wysor was honored at a pre wedding party hosted at the Lovelace home in Bluefield Virginia with about 14 guests. The event featured a pink and white color scheme, a corsage for the honoree, gifts for winners and various refreshments. Attendees included Mrs Bascomb Austin Mrs Jack Wysor Tanya Austin Miss Jody Wysor and guests Misses Lovelace and Greg Matthews.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Gray of Vivian and their children spent a weekend in their trailer at Camp Creek. They were joined by Mr and Mrs David Gray of Welch and Mr and Mrs Harry Gregory and Riccy of Bluewell. Other area residents were reported visiting relatives in Maryland Virginia and North Carolina.
A string of family visits and illness reports from Matoaka note relatives traveling from Gainesville Cleveland Palm Harbor Roanoke and Richmond to be with or tend to ill relatives including Sam Akel in Bluefield and Clayton McKinney in Beckley. Others visit Charleston Spartanburg Chicago and Get tysburg as part of weekend and touring trips.
The Matoaka Garden Club met at Ashworth Memorial Methodist Church to arrange fresh flowers and plan a July picnic for members and families. They also planned a visit to Paul and Darrance Cole in Bluefield and a luncheon. Joe Shutt received the club.
Belfast, capital of Northern Ireland, dates its founding to 1177 when a castle was built to defend a ford over the River Lagan. The settlement grew from this fortification into the city we know today.
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