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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1951
Page
6
The Sedgefield Club announces a pre vacation late breakfast dance to close the spring season at the Embassy Club Greensborough. The event runs Friday 9 p.m. to midnight with reservations for members and guests by Thursday June 28, per G Spencer Jones chairman of the entertainment committee.
Emerywood Country Club schedules a Centennial Costume Ball on Saturday July 14 for members and guests. Costumes may be worn with rentals available by calling the club office for measurements. A buffet from 8:30 to 10 and dancing until 1. Reservations encouraged.
A crystal shower for Betty Faye Gibson bride elect was given by Misses Mary Elizabeth and Margaret Barton at the Bordens Gold Room with about twenty guests from Point Greensboro Lexington and Jamestown. Mrs A Lee Gibson attended the event and plans for a tea dance and a wedding rehearsal at Wesley Memorial Church were announced. The Gibson Cannon wedding is set for Sunday at Wesley Memorial at 5 PM. A photoglash bulb releases boiled sunlight in 20 millionths of a second after pressing a button.
Lt. W. G. Causey remains in Centennial Avenue home after relatives visit while Mrs. Causey and children return to Englehard. Lt. Causey plans to sail for Yokohama after leaving Seattle for foreign service. Nearby guests include Clarence B. Causey of Lexington and Ed Mendenhall party with Mrs. Tom Lee and others. A Rex Hospital patient list notes Mrs. Edna Ferree. Also mention cites helium melting point at 458 degrees below zero.
Altrusa in High Point held a Sheraton Hotel dinner meeting where new officers were installed and a brief program explained Altrusans duties. Mrs Edna Ross directed the program with four members assisting and the retiring president aided in the installation rites. The club approved changing meeting dates at a brief business session.
The group moves its next meeting to the third and fifth Tuesdays each month to accommodate members attending the International convention of Altrusa clubs at the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia. The new president will be the convention delegate and the retiring president the alternate.
Mesdames Stanley Stevenson and Williams hosted a morning hospitality party for bride elect Miss Mary Ann Coe at the former's English Street home. Guests enjoyed iced Cokes and delicacies after a corsage presentation, with attendees including Mrs S S Coe and Mrs Lee Rend oan among others.
A luncheon at Emerywood Country Club honors Miss Aida Ingram ahead of her Saturday wedding to Linzy Boyles Jr. Hostesses include Mrs. Harold Bennett and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Long. Tables feature satin slipper centerpieces and yellow blue white flowers with place cards and corsage marking the bride elect. A bridal tea at the Conrad home followed with about forty five guests served light refreshments and depicted dressy decorations across the rooms.
Mr and Mrs Clifton Overcash of New York City visit High Point staying two months. He is personnel director at Gimbel Brothers New York and his bride Christa von Brauchitsch of Weisbaden Germany will be feted at social functions including a steak supper hosted by Mr and Mrs I B Cater on Francis Street. The article notes a Canadian citizenship act detail.
Mr and Mrs Charles Chuck Ferguson announce the birth of a daughter Becky Ann on June 23 at High Point Memorial Hospital. The mother is formerly Betty Ann Hancock of this city.
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