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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1959
Page
6
Alpha Rho chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met at Miss Landry Neely’s home at 107 Penny Rd last evening. Mrs. Harlan Burton presided at the model meeting for rushees. Final plans were made for a calypso party honoring husbands at Colonial Country Club Saturday at 8 p.m. Twenty members and three rushees attended.
Sherry Whittington daughter of Mr and Mrs Jerry Lee Whittington of 2009 Wesley Place was honored Saturday on her first birthday. Grandmothers Mrs Jack Pugh and Mrs Oscar Whittington assisted. Fifteen guests received balloons favors and prizes went to Randy Asbury and Jackie Pugh. Special entertainment followed by decorated cupcakes and ice cream.
Multiple birth notices list newborn sons and daughters born in October at Watts and High Point Memorial Hospitals. Recipients include Thomas Howard Jr, William McKinley III, Edward Montgomery III, Danny Ray, Mary Paige, Teresa Mae, Lori Ann, and Teresa Lynn, with parents and hometowns such as Durham Greensboro Jamestown and North Wilkesboro.
College Heights Gardeners will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mrs. C. T. Madden’s home 607 Ashburn St. Mrs. E. B. Bays will co host. Mrs. Tom Hedrick will present a program on dried arrangements.
A dense schedule lists numerous garden clubs and women’s groups meeting at homes, churches, and public venues from Tuesday to Friday. Notable gatherings include Spade and Grow at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Tom McCormick and the Junior League tea at Emerywood Estates.
Mrs. Frank Collins of 615 Ash Burn Street College Heights is confined to her home with a sprained ankle.
A 33 year old widow and her eight children ages 4 months to 11 years were found living in a station wagon in St Louis for the second time since the husband died last July. The family, previously in Pomona California, received 250 dollars monthly from Social Security and were taken to hospital for observation.
The YWCA schedules include 1:45 Mother and Child Swim and multiple youth and teen programs throughout the day. Adult activities feature bridge, millinery, and club meetings, with women’s and girls’ swims, board meetings, and art classes listed alongside social and educational events.
Mrs. C. B. Jefferson, president of the North Carolina Federation of Music Clubs, spoke at the Musi cal Art Club banquet at High Point Friends Meeting House. The program featured Mary Welch, David Williams, Becky Caddell, Joyce Groome, and Carol Kearns with piano and vocal performances. New members were welcomed by Mrs. Ernest Anderson, who led arrangements with her committee.
Mrs W D Simmons hostess at 1200 Greenway will welcome Canterbury Club on Friday afternoon at 3 30.
AAUW will hold a dinner meeting on Monday October 26 at 6 p.m. in the Senior High School Cafeteria. After dinner members will go to the City School Administration Building for a curriculum seminar conducted by Dr. Kenneth Howe. Reservations for dinner are requested by Wednesday evening. Call Mary Young, 47327. Mrs. W. R. Peters, 4985. or Mrs. Robert Connor, 4667.
The Stephens Bible Class will meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. at 506 Steele St home of Mrs. C. C. Young with Mrs. A. G. Carson leading. A note mentions mixed dates with apples in an apple pie as a pleasant surprise and saving space by hanging clothes on wire coat hangers.
Nine high pointers attended the fall meeting of the North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society at the home of president Mrs. Carl Pegg in Chapel Hill. Thirty seven members attended the 10 30 a m start. The group voted to contribute yearly to the Elizabethan Garden and the Daniel Boone Botanical Gardens. A picnic lunch was held on the Pegg home grounds. After lunch, members viewed slides by Dr and Mrs H R Totten at the Howell Building UNC, showing European gardens from last summer.
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