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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1966
Page
10
Miss Catherine Toomey will preside at the Quota club gathering in Bridgeport on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Reservations through Miss Vera Turney at Hitching Post 3355 Mains Street Stratford. Attendance chairman notes a social half hour before the session.
Plans complete for the fourth annual fashion show and card party themed My Fair Lady to be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Monroe school auditorium. Performers include Mrs Joan Martin and Donald Scinto with choreographer Mrs Pat Bried. soloists Marion Callo and Harold Emerson. models Leona DeStef, Sue Gendrilles, Charlotte Hainsworth, Lillian Kamas, Lucille Proccacini, Ann Watkinson, Rose Yates. Tickets by presale only via Helen King Eleanor Kaplita Dolores Rossler. kitchen aides CYO girls led by Robbie Kugler.
At 9 50 a m yesterday a crash on Congress Street and Lyon Terrace involved a truck and two cars. Nora E. Greene and her daughter Susan Houghton, both from Stratford and Huntington respectively, were treated for head injuries and cuts but were in good condition. Antoinette Barber of Huntington reported head injuries and was not hospitalized. Greene, driving the car, struck a truck driven by George Guard Jr of Fairview Avenue and hit a stone wall. she received a warning for failure to yield at the intersection.
Mrs. Bertha Nahmias opens the Nathan Hale school PTA season with a Tuesday 8 p.m. session in the school gym Capitol Avenue. Lester Silverstone, superintendent of schools, will discuss Middle Schools Busing followed by a Q A. Guests invited. Refreshments served.
The Greater Bridgeport Symphony guild will stage its annual luncheon and fashion show on October 4 at noon at the Longshore club Westport. Mrs Edward L Yeager is general chairman with Mrs James E Thurmond as commentator. Models include Mrs John Miller Mrs John Wunder Mrs Edmond Caccece and others. Proceeds support the symphony office on Post road Fairfield.
Mrs. Al Szuch of Toledo plans to release about 150 baby snapping turtles into Lake Erie, hoping to restock the dwindling population. She has raised them at home for five years and says fewer turtles are available than in the past.
The 29th annual New Haven Antiques Show opens Sunday October 2 at the New Haven Arena for a four day exhibition and sale. Fairfield county exhibitors include Bertha Morris Stamford Estelle Roberge Stratford Grace H Lewis Devon Edward Coleman Branchville Erna Bonitati Newtown Dorothy Blankley Gladys Koch South Norwalk and Katherine Milton Paight Darien.
The Long Hill Garden club will convene Monday at 1 pm in Grace Episcopal church hall Main Street Trumbull. Members receive awards for August arrangements with first place to Mrs August Gravesen and other placements to Mrs My ers, Mrs Ogalin, and Mrs William Martin.
A reader pleads overweight distress and failed diets while another asks how to help a overworked minister husband and another mother questions how to part with a child in care. Abby replies urging medical and psychiatric guidance and family wisdom.
Announcement of the engagement of Lois Ann Dwy to Kenneth Charles Bean of New Milford. Bride-elect is a New Milford High School and America Academy of Beauty Culture graduate working at Helen-Ann Beauty Salon. Bean is a Navy veteran and works for Pfizer and Whitney in East Hartford. A Social Star of Rhea Chapter Eastern Star meeting is noted at the Masonic Temple with lunch at 12:30 p.m. There are two garbled lines referencing hostesses and reading.
The Ladies auxiliary of the East End Yacht club will run the annual fall family picnic tomorrow from noon to 6 p.m. on club grounds rain or shine. Mrs. William Ezarik chairs the event with a committee including Mrs. Ba bis, Mrs. Bradley, Mrs. Camarro Jr., Mrs. Casey, Mrs. Fowle, Mrs. Franci, Mrs. Fraser, Mrs. Griffin, Mrs. Hagerdoorn, Mrs. Hribal, Mrs. Lovascz, Mrs. Ostrofsky, Mrs. Rubinsky and Mrs. Walker. Rides and a white elephant booth are planned with Mrs. Walker supervising.
The Associated Vassar clubs of Fairfield county will present the eighth annual fall seminar series next month at the YMCA in New Canaan. Four lectures on Environment 66 Change and Challenge will be given by three Vassar professors and a graduate. Lectures run 9 30 to 11 30 a m with topics by John M O Connor Robert E Middleton Mary S Calderone and David E Novack. Tickets and readings available by mail and from local seminar chairpersons. Turkey is developing unused farm lands.
Mrs John R Lee will host the Devon Garden Club fall meeting on Monday at 8 pm with co host Mrs Byron William The president Mrs John Belmont will chair the business session and annual officer reports Exhibits chair Mrs Frank Simko said the setup features fall flowers with driftwood under 20 inches The theme is Fall Forecast and members are asked to bring fall garden flowers for judging
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