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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1946
Page
1
At a Cedar Rapids Rotary gathering Jim Spangler’s language class teased a student who silently translated a diplomat’s Spanish greeting. Lou Boudreaux, coached by Spangler, delivered the English version, stunning Fred Killen who doubted the accuracy.
Business and Professional Women club hosts a Tuesday event at 6:30 p.m. in the Florentine room Roosevelt hotel with a radio listeners test sponsored by the University of Iowa journalism school. Robert Black will direct postwar playground program games after dinner.
Announcement of the engagement and upcoming marriage of Miss Mary Jane Bormann to Charles P. Hawkins. The couple plan to wed February 28 at Immaculate Conception Church, with details of families, education, and military service for Hawkins. Local clubs and events follow in brief notices.
The Alpha Gamma chapter initiated Coe College members Sonia Boughton Ida Grove Margaret Byers Eleanor Christensen Dorothy Hartle Phyllis Kobe Doris Lemberg Mary Schultz Vernett Smith Mary Lou Stolba and Mary Ellen Vavra. Kobe received a dagger for top pledge and Vavra for highest average at the Roosevelt hotel breakfast.
Miss Annie Y. Smith hosts Hesperian club Monday at 7 45 p m at 514 Eighteenth street SE. The program features Beulah Perrin Clara Johnson Flossie Grofft and Smith presenting.
Miss Le Etta Marie Schrimper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Schrimper of 5400 Center Point Road NE, will wed R. H. Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. John McCorker of Burlington, at First Evangelical Church with Rev. George A. Stauffacher presiding. Meyer is a Burlington high school alumnus who served 36 months in the Marine Corps.
The Coe college department of physical education for women stages the Colonial ballet on Wednesday and Thursday at 8 p.m. under Miss Ruth Zika. A thirty member cast includes Robert Bannister and Leta Yourd with Ruth Webster as accompanist. A pre show dinner and YWCA events are planned with Elaine Jones announcing new officers and two girls to portray George and Martha Washington.
The Beethoven club meets Thursday at 10 a.m. in Y W C A club rooms to discuss Ensemble Piano Music led by Miss Louise Crawford with Mrs. Lynn Cosgrove as group leader. Members performing include Mrs. Frank Orr, Mrs. Edward Melcher, Mrs. J. B. Hodgson, Mrs. Lulu Engleman Welty, Mrs. Don Cook, Mrs. Louis Sila, Mrs. Lester Baldwin, Miss Elizabeth Bohac, Miss Eleanor Houts and Mrs. Cosgrove.
Delta Zeta sorority alumnae will gather Monday at 6 15 p.m. for dinner at Mrs. Louis Sila’s home 1017 Twenty first Street SE. Dr H D Wells will speak on Russia. Tourist club to meet Wednesday at 2 30 p.m. at Miss Caroline Soutter’s home 846 First Avenue NE. Mrs Dwight Krumholtz to present program Artist in Iowa.
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club schedules a Monday 2:30 p.m. address by Rev Waldemar Argow of Peoples church on the development of the American drama with readings and plays from war years. Miss Rose Marie Jan to sing before the talk. Board and committees meet or host events earlier in the week.
Mu Phi Epsilon the national music sorority will hold a meeting Tuesday at 7 45 in Sinclair Memorial chapel Coe College. The program includes piano and vocal selections and Lovella Ewoldt will speak on Music Therapy. Soloists include Ellsworth Eye Massey Sila Houts MacMillan Crew Halstead Kahler. Hostesses are Bricker McCall Ohmann and Schuppert.
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