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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1947
Page
20
Social calendar lists events across clubs and charities for Tuesday through Saturday, including meetings of Pioneer Council and Ladies’ Bridge, a concert by Jenny Tourel, and Eastern Star gatherings. Wedding notices follow with engagements and recent marriages of local residents, such as Miss Dorothy Abbertine Clarke and Mrs. Marjorie Bain Fesperman.
Mary Magdalene Hedrick daughter of Lexington residents and Bennie Morris of High Point were married November 26 at Beck's Evangelical and Reformed church parsonage. Rev. C. E. Hiatt officiated. The bride wore powder blue wool with red rose corsage. Attendants were Miss Juanita Hedrick and Herman Craver. The couple will live on Broad Street in High Point.
Guilford County Medical Auxiliary will hold a Christmas luncheon at Emery Wood Country Club Tuesday at 1 o clock. Reservation cards have been mailed to all members.
Mrs Paul Tudor Jones entertained the Priscilla club Friday at 1310 Woodland Drive with twelve members and one guest present. Yellow chrysanthemums adorned the living room as tea and delicacies were served. plans were made for the annual Christmas luncheon at Mrs Herbert Cortlandt's Greensboro home on December 17.
The Business and Professional Women's club will host a dinner meeting at the Sheraton hotel Wednesday at seven o clock to celebrate the club's birthday and hold the annual Christmas party. Mrs. Kate B. Ragan will preside as president.
Mrs. Ozelle Dawkins hosted a Ridge Crest Drive bridal shower for Miss Ruth Caudell ahead of her November wedding to Thomas G. Meacham. Green and white decor framed bingo games with high scorer Mrs. Iris Emerson. guests included Mesdames Wagner, Loflin, Kendall, Parker, Pennington, Roland, Stafford, Smith, and Monette Dawkins.
Emerywood country club hosts an evening bridge party for members and out of town guests Thursday December 11 at 7 45 p m with Mr and Mrs Joseph T Weaver as hosts. The event follows the family night dinner starting at 6 30 p m. Earlier in the week Mrs John W Bivins opens the calendar as hostess at the ladies bridge event Tuesday morning.
Miss Dorothy Abbertine Clarke daughter of Reverend and Mrs. David A Clarke of Whiteville married William J Koch of Chapel Hill on November 28 in Duke University chapel. The ceremony featured Duke and Meredith connections with several relatives attending and a reception at the Washington Duke hotel. The bride teaches in Roanoke Rapids. the groom is an UNC botany instructor with graduate study.
The Symphony Enjoyment Group of the American Association of University Women will meet Tuesday evening at Mrs. Floyd D. Mehan’s Lexington Avenue home for a study period. They will listen to Beethoven Fifth in minor as recorded by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, with the complete symphony to be heard and Mrs. Mehan to give a summary.
High Point chapter No. 106 Order of the Eastern Star will hold a regular meeting Tuesday at 8 p m in the Masonic Temple the occasion to initiate five candidates into the chapter.
At subsequent meetings the group will analyze each movement of the symphony as per their usual practice.
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