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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1942
Page
10
A review of Merbert Hoover and Hugh Gibson's The Problems of Lasting Peace and related titles. The essay outlines seven forces driving war and peace, surveys post Renaissance conflicts, and argues for a three-stage peace process balanced with political and economic governance.
Samuel Chamberlain narrates Hastings House edition as a wartime diversion after the war effort. A light, skeptical travelogue style recalls postwar leisure, hinting at humor and cultural observations amid the era's calm after conflict.
In a Gazette interview a saved Lexington sailor speaks of duty as new art books by Samuel Chamberlain arrive. Fair In Our Land and This Realm This England feature etchings and photographs with Donald Moffat introductions. The works honor England amid bombing, preserving a memory to be renewed.
Mr and Mrs Stewart Witmer of Des Moines announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Miss Jean Moore Witmer to Lieut Robert Frank Vane USNR son of Dr and Mrs Lumir F Vane Cedar Rapids. The wedding will be in August in California and they will reside in San Diego where Vane is stationed. Jean Witmer is a University of Iowa graduate and former Gazette society editor. Vane also Iowa graduate, Phi Delta Theta member, Omicron Kappa Upsilon and trained in dentistry before Navy service.
Mrs. Stanley E. Tisher the former Margaret Hageman inspires two post nuptial events this weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Tisher wed June 18 at Sabula. Miss Winifred Gillie and Mrs. L. M. Silliman host a breakfast and misc shower at the Silliman home 2001 Park Ave SE.
Florence Glackin engaged to Kenneth O. Nelson of Los Angeles. The couple plans a July 2 wedding in Los Angeles after years of residence there. Nelson is son of Mr. and Mrs O. M. Nelson of Stromsburg. Engagement announced at a party in Los Angeles hosted by the Wursbachers and Bauers.
The Iowa Society of Mayflower Descendants held its summer board meeting in Fort Dodge at Mrs. E. H. Johnsons home. Miss Jessie M. Kelley announced 1942 43 committees and several northeastern Iowa members were named to posts.
The bridal dinner for Miss Mary Kathryn House and John Durwood Greig was hosted Saturday night by the bride’s parents Mr and Mrs Omar M House in Mrs Wurster s tearoom. Guests included the groom s parents Mr and Mrs John D Greig of Clarence and members of the bridal party Iris Crossley of Burlington maid of honor Arlo Hasselbusch Davenport best man Harold Stange Iowa City and Lloyd Phillips Clarence.
Mrs Peter H Knock of Grundy Center announces the engagement of her daughter Esther Viola Knock of Plainville Connecticut to Sunley Perry Borden of Bridgeport Connecticut. Miss Knock earned a BA in music from Coe College and a Master of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary. The wedding is planned for late summer. Mrs Vers Children return to Indianola after visiting Howard Churchill and J Cuppett family in Sioux City.
The YWCA Girl Reserve and Hi Y Et te camp opens July 13 and runs through July 26 with a 10 day girls period ending July 23. The last four days, July 23 to 27, are reserved for Negro girls at Wapsie Y on the Wapsipinicon river east of Central City.
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