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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1945
Page
6
Pfc Roy McHugh recalls General Stilwell visiting a bivouac with top generals in attendance. The scene included casual banter with Capt. Burch and a staged display of military courtesy. The column also shares small vignettes from home front life and wartime humor from Cedar Rapids.
Lt. Harry A. Slemmons, son of Mrs. Mary Slemmons of Lowe City, and his wife Lu pose ribbon with silver dluster and two bronze a Presidential unit tation ribbee.
The regular meeting of the Beethoven club will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the Y.M.C.A. with a 9:15 a.m. board meeting. The program topic is Music and Architecture. Officers and members listed include A. Elliott O.O. S. Beatty D. E. Sheldrup R. S. Adams A. O. Ambroz Lester Baldwin and Misses Margaret Pratt Virginia Ohmann Josephine Batchelder Alma Turechek.
The Rev. Bernard Collins, departing Cedar Rapids for Dubuque duties, will be honored at a 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. open house in the Immaculate Conception school parlors. Sanctuary society circles run the reception with music by the Immaculate Conception department. presidents and tea table hosts include Mrs. Leo Carney and others. Collins, eight years as assistant pastor, will become assistant director of Catholic charities for the Dubuque archdiocese.
The Wednesday Shakespeare club will gather at Mrs. B. F. Wolverton’s home at 2159 Blake boulevard SE. Members will study and roll call by Hamlet Act IV scene 3 and Act V, focusing on key lines and themes.
Major Avery Gage and Miss Elizabeth June Hall married February 11 at the First Presbyterian church in Texarkana. Attendants included family members and military relatives. The couple will reside in Edmonton and both families hosted receptions at Lindenwood college in St. Charles.
The American Association of University Women holds a general meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at 2101 Ang Avenue SE with a program led by Miss Dorothy M. Lillich and speakers including Mrs. C. B. Meffert and several Misses. A project writers meeting follows Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at 1 Maple Drive NW. The Edgewood and Kenwood International Relations groups meet upcoming days with talks on opportunities for women and China policy. The Central Park and Tourist Club also schedule talks with Ye to Stephen Foster and a piano partner. The Sinaiko sisters from Linden Drive SE take a two week trip to their parents in Boulder Colorado.
Lt and Mrs Omer E Mason announce engagement of their daughter Jane Helen Mason to Tech Sgt George E Rake of the Army Air Forces. Sgt Rake recently returned from 22 months in the European theater and is stationed at Chanute Field Illinois. Miss Mason attends the University of Iowa.
Mrs. J. D. Wardle of 1520 Second Avenue SE was feted on her 80th birthday with a tea hosted by daughters at the Wardle home. About 170 friends attended as a lineup of monitors and assistants oversaw arrangements with yellow flowers and tapers. The community event also lists several local names connected to the tea and host families.
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