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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1955
Page
6
Miss Vivian Miller hosted a bridge party at her Club Drive home honoring Mrs. Wilbert Batten and Miss Tommie Young. Batten, formerly Diane Fidler of High Point, is a recent bride. Young is the season’s bride elect.
Miss Connie Troxler was honored with a lingerie shower at Borden's Gold Room hosted by Miss Jerry Bruton Miss Ann Southerland and Miss Etta Dunlap. Guests from Lexington and High Point attended with pink and white decor and a corsage welcome.
Miss Sarah Strickland, bride to be of John Edwards of Grand Rapids and Fort Bragg, was honored at a bridge and canasta party hosted by her aunts at 705 Scott Street. Guests enjoyed flowers, a corsage, gifts of silver and china, and top scores went to Grace Ellington and Hazel Wood.
Mrs. Elliott Wood chairs the Junior Activities committee and issued cards for a club dance. A poem invites teens to attend this Friday at seven with Bermuda shorts allowed, and says to RSVP by Thursday five.
The Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle held a monthly social at Mrs. H. W. Stroud's residence 200 Sunset Street with Mrs. Josephine Sawyer as co host. Attendees enjoyed a card party with Miss Madie Bohanon winning the bridge and Mrs. Myra receiving high canasta honors. A cake ice cream and coffee refreshment followed.
The YWCA announces a new seven week swim series at the YMCA pool. Classes are split into three periods with a beginners hour at 6:45 and an advanced session at 7:30 followed by an all ages plunge at 8:15. Max Meeks leads instruction and eligibility requires YWCA membership.
The executive board of the Point Business and Professional Womens Club will meet at 7 30 PM in the Chamber of Commerce board rooms on Main Street. The announcement says the regular meeting occurs this evening.
The Oak View Home Demonstration Club will not hold its August meeting as planned. At the previous gathering the club voted to omit this month’s session.
The Altrusa Club will not meet this evening. The fourth Tuesday gathering and July program meeting were canceled by prior club action to hold only one meeting during the two vacation months.
Miss Betty Jo Turner announces final plans for her marriage to Val B. Kearns set for 8 o clock Saturday evening at North Main Street Baptist Church. Reverend Neil Armstrong will officiate. Attendants include sister Cecil Goins matron of honor and sisters and bridesmaids. best man will be Val Kearns Sr. and ushers listed. Organist Elizabeth Slate and Roy Padgett to provide music. Post ceremony greeting at the church follows.
Miss Jane Shelton and fiancé Robert Shaffer, to wed September 12 in Kannapolis, were honored by Mr. and Mrs. David Moore with a buffet supper at their Oak land Avenue home. Gladioli and crysanthemums adorned the setting. hosts presented a wrought iron casket as a bridal gift.
AP News features a TOPS Club contest showing Mrs. Robert Spitzmiller of Ohio dropping from 2364 pounds at 4 feet 11 inches to 100 pounds lighter, winning the under-10 division on a group therapy approach. The piece highlights TOPS history in Milwaukee, founder Mrs. Ester Manz, and rival stories from Fort Wayne and Fort Wayne’s diabetes survivor Mrs. Nancy Piepenbrink who shed weight and insulin dependence.
JP Olin Downes, longtime New York Times music critic, aged 69, died of a heart attack. He served 31 years at the Times after 17 years at the Boston Post, lectured on theory and opera, and appeared as a Sunday broadcast commentator for the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society. He was born in Evanston Illinois and led the 1939 World’s Fair music program.
Elizabeth Holton will wed Ronald Cowan at Green Street Baptist Church in High Point North Carolina on Saturday at seven oclock Reverend Fred Culler Jr will officiate. Attendants include maid of honor Harvey Pearman Jr and bridesmaids Betty Morgan and Arnold Medlin ushers include Eugene Slate Johnny Briant Harvey Pearman. The couple will host a reception at the bride’s parents home for guests following the ceremony.
Multiple birth notices list parents and addresses in Greensboro Thom asville and High Point. Babies named Michael Linvil Celista Dawn Donald Wayne Rebecca Ann Janice Irene Michael Terry Ralph Jr Janice Dawn Kathy Sue Clyde Henry Artie Elizabeth Brenda with hospitals Wesley Long and High Point Memorial.
The community calendar lists lionine Society events including Miss Mary Rowell’s bridge honor hosted by Mrs. Leroy Collins at 2413 Williams St, dinner for the High Point Thomasville Insurance Women, and multiple wedding rehearsals and ceremonies. James Johnson and Miss Billie Sue Sherman celebrate engagement dinners and church weddings are scheduled at First Methodist and Green Street Baptist with receptions at family homes.
Mr and Mrs J F Armstrong and their daughter Gail will be at Fontana Dam until Aug 31 with relatives from Tennessee joining midweek. Mrs John Younts has returned home after surgery. Mrs T D Jackson seeks treatment at High Point Memorial Hospital with hopes of visiting plans. Some text appears garbled about yeast storage and a freezer note.
The Sirocco Dance Club held an informal dance at Pleasants Cabin with 40 attendees. Mrs Madge Black and Don Field chaired the entertainment committee. new members Mr and Mrs Ted Reid and Mr and Mrs Marion Fields were welcomed by club president Jack Cox.
Miss Woods, who will wed Douglas Tate on September 24 at Christian Missionary and Alliance, was feted at a lawn lingerie shower hosted by Miss Sylvia Tate and Miss Sharon Tate on Crestwood Drive. Guests included relatives from Merfield and Reidsville, with games, gifts, and a white green theme featuring gladioli and iced treats.
Mrs. Paul Spencer presided at a picnic meeting of the Wild Flower Preservation Society of North Carolina at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Braxton near Greensboro. A committee of Mrs. Herbert Smith and Mrs. H. R. Totten was appointed to prepare life membership awards for the Fall meeting October 23 at Umstead Park near Raleigh. Attendees from High Point included several society officials and Mrs. Ray Nance and Miss Barbara Brooks. publicity chair Mrs. R. B. Moore could not attend.
Albany resident Spendiff, who lost a ring during his 1952 Korea service, recovers it two years later when a group of Koreans cleaning out installations found the ring last fall and sent it to Father Benjamin Kuhn, Siena alumnus director, who traced the owner by initials and 1952 graduation date.
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