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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1954
Page
11
The Orcutt Boys club auxiliary will hold its annual card party and food sale at 8 p.m. today in the boys club. Chairman Mrs Rae Lungi is assisted by Glor ia Lungi and Marie Taubinger.
The Park City Navy Mothers host a card and games party at 8 p.m. today at 919 Fairfield avenue with Mrs. Helen S. Berge as hostess. Refreshments will be served.
The Fairfield district conference of the Connecticut PTA convenes Monday at Nathan Hale junior high in Norwalk from 3 30 p m to 9 30 p m. Harold Joffe notes host duties for the Norwalk PTA council with talks by Dr. Harry A. Becker and Mrs. Bryan F Wilcox. A 6 p m dinner precedes a 8 p m panel on PTA functions moderated by MrsMeta Williams.
Five lectures titled Inside the UN will run Wednesdays starting October 20 at the YMCA Golden Hill street in Bridgeport. Sponsored by five local groups including VFW Auxiliary Junior League and YWCA the talks feature Anne Guthrie, former YWCA official and United Nations observer, with sessions October 20 November 3 17 and December 1 15 from 1:45 to 3:45 p.m.
Oriental Chapter of OES Prince Hall will hold its third annual banquet tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Masonic temple at 69 Green Street. Rev John G Drake of Bethel AME will be guest speaker. honors include Mrs Charlotte Congo and Enoch Parker.
The annual Daughters of the Nile dinner dance will be held tonight in the Ritz ballroom with dinner at 8 and dancing by the Stratford PAL club. Mrs Charles L Fanchar of 148 Puritan Road Fairtish is taking reservations as members and friends attend. The Authors club meets today at 4 with Miss Anne Sherman. Miss Gladys Kavanah will review Fire in the Ashes by Theodore H White.
A reception for president Flo rience Ballou Robinson opens the season of the Wednesday Afternoon Musical club on Tuesday at 8 30 p m in the College club Mrs Robinson will be greeted by officers including Mrs W Earl Davis and Miss Elsie Wayne Comer Invited guests include Mayor and Mrs Jasper McLevy Mrs George Hubbard and Mrs Willis Lyman A program by Mrs Charles Hines and Miss Marge Ciaffone with ushers and committee chairs listed
The Ladies lodge of the Holy Trinity Lutheran church will sponsor a cake sale and fair tomorrow starting at 3 p.m. Czechoslovakian cakes and pastries will be featured with refreshments served. Public attendance is expected.
Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former national president of the League of Women Voters, speaks at a Bridgeport League membership tea tomorrow at 2 p m in Bishop Hall Park Place. Her talk titled Your Place in the Community covers community involvement.
Bridgeport chapter of the American Guild of Organists meets Monday at 8 15 p.m. in the First Congregational Church Stratford with Miss M Louise Miller hosting. John Alves will introduce Seth Bingham of New York who will discuss his work as organist and choirmaster and his previous post at Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. He is on the Columbia University faculty.
Christ Church of Stratford announces its annual fair on Wednesday November 3 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. in the parish house with a long list of booth chairmen for aprons rugs and quilts arts crafts and neckties books candy calendars and more. A Cafeteria Luncheon and Dinner are planned with decorating by several committees and children’s entertainment including puppet show movies and a magician.
In celebration of its fourth anniversary the Corona guild of Holy Rosary church plans its annual dinner dance tomorrow at 7 30 p m in Nu Champe By The Sea Frank Ragonese chairs aided by Mrs Vincent R Albanese and committee members A list of members accepts reservations with Mrs Albanese 370 Harlem Avenue Mid city.
Howard L. Haag general secretary of the YMCA will speak at a Monday luncheon opening the YMCA auxiliary season. He will give the invocation. Mrs. Albert W. Spear presides over the business session with hostesses and dining room coordinators named from local churches and groups.
Mill River Country Club women held an awards dinner with Mrs. George W. Lee presiding. Evelyn Sawyer won the Championship Flight with Shirley Klinger as runner-up. Klinger captured the Spring Handicap medalist honors and the Beaten Eight first flight. Other winners included Mary Ellen Mason, Mrs. Thomas Judd, and Marguerite Adam.
The Rev. Percy L. Urban presided at the noon ceremony for Miss Sugby Bigisdell Plant of New Haven and Frank Scott Bunnell of Stratford. The Yale-educated groom, a former Norwich Free Academy instructor, and the bride, daughter of John D Plant, will reside at 2149 Elm Street in Stratford in the historic house built in 1825 by David Plant, a lieutenant governor and great grandfather of the couple.
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