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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1943
Page
20
A survey of artists in Cedar Rapids exhibits Henry Varnum Poor John Steuart Curry Frederic Taubes Gladys Rockmore Davis Raphael Soyer Leon Kroll and others. Describes backgrounds styles and government mural commissions with notes on each artist and their works at the library gallery and arts center. Mrs Trumbull honored at farewell party and Minerva Delphian meeting announced.
The Cedar Rapids area hosts a youth rally at First Christian Church with 15 congregations including Center Point Marion Vinton and Iowa City churches. Registration at 2 30, supper at 5 30, and evening communion led by Dr Marion H Williams.
The sixty ninth annual Cedar Rapids Presbyterial meeting will be held Monday at Central Park Presbyterian Church. Registration starts 8 45 am. Rev J M Vander Meulen leads morning worship and Mrs H A McIntosh Iowa Synodical president leads Plan of Organization discussion. Mrs Henry W Lampe of Syen dhun Chosen speaks on Sisters Under the Skin and Watchman What of the Night in the afternoon with special music and officer conference sessions. All Presbyterian women invited.
The history and literature department meets Monday at 2 15 pm with a review of Time of Peace by Ben Ames Williams. The American home department hosts a luncheon Tuesday at 1 pm with safety talk by Linn county official Calkins. Several groups plan discussions, a photo for the scrapbook, a bridge party and an all day sewing session. Bill Kaylor and Warren Smith of the Lawrence Welk show are honored at a dinner for twelve.
Twenty six water colors by Eliot O'Hara depicting scenes from Moscow to the Black Sea are on view through April at the Cedar Rapids Art Association gallery in the public library. O'Hara, who visited Russia in 1929, presents bright, uncluttered scenes including Lenin's Tomb and Moscow landmarks. Proceeds from sale are donated to Russian relief.
Third Class Ethelbelle Vessey a Waves and Spars recruiter from Des Moines will be at Cedar Rapids post office building recruiting station from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday to interview women for sailors’ auxiliaries. Vessey a native of St Paul enlisted at Oklahoma A and M and will discuss Navy and Coast Guard auxiliary service with local women.
Doris Jane Anderson and Kenneth Wolmutt were married March 27 in Burlington in a ceremony conducted by Rev William Smith of the Methodist church. Attendants were George and Mrs. Eiben of Burlington. The bride, a Roosevelt high school 1941 graduate employed by Wilson and Company, will reside in Central City with her husband, a Central City high school graduate.
Miss Virginia Nemec, after seven years in the county treasurer’s office, takes a leave of absence to take a new position in Pasadena California. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Jerry Nemec of 1906 J street SW.
Merna Kellaney and Private F C Vincent Gaffey married March 27 at Cathedral of the Assumption Baltimore. Attendants were brides mothers Mrs Kellaney and Mrs Gaffey. Breakfast at Lord Baltimore hotel followed. Gaffey, once Cedar Rapids Century Cab owner, now with coast artillery at Fort George Meade.
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