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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1942
Page
6
Forty three High Point girls and three from Jamestown attend the 51st annual session of the Woman’s College of UNC Greensboro. Freshmen arrive Sept 14 with orientation starting, registration Thursday and Friday, classes begin the following Saturday.
A reflective piece on how World War II disrupts the ideal of youth across ages. It follows Mary and others who feel their prime years are spoiled as young men enlist and households change. The article argues war upends routines, spoiling plans and clouding happiness for many women and families.
Mrs Robert Bain entertained at a bridge luncheon in Emerywood Estates for Miss Sarah Hopper of Leaksville who has visited the city for several days. Guests included Miss Alda Crump of Durham and other area residents. prizes awarded to Mrs Fred Schneider of Charleston and Miss Betty Jo Hauser with several consolation gifts. The event featured a patriotic red white and blue motif with delphinium and feverfew, and souvenirs were given to honoree Hopper and Miss Crump.
Miss Charlotte Morrow Denny the daughter of Mrs. Kenneth Craig Denny and the late Mr. Denny of Rocky Mount married William Edward Gilliam of Lynchburg and Camp Lee Virginia in the First Presbyterian Church. The couple will reside at Camp Lee as Mr. Gilliam is with the U S Army. The bride wore a white satin gown with illusion veil and carried white orchids and tuberoses. Attendants included Mrs. E D Broadhurst Jr. and brother in law, with ushers from Lynchburg. The ceremony followed with a luncheon for out of town guests hosted by the bride’s mother.
The High Point Business and Professional Women's Club opens its Fall season with a dinner tomorrow evening at the Elwood Hotel. Dr. Marina Henry, club president, will preside as members outline the year's program under the topic Mobilizing for Democracy. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m.
The Sunset Garden Club of Trinity will meet Thursday evening at 8 at Mrs. Fred Yeats home. Mrs. F. D. McLeod leads the program with a talk on fall garden work and will display fall arrangements as part of the event.
The initial Fall meeting of the Girl Scout Council will be held Thursday morning at ten o'clock at the Adams Memorial W C A with the commissioner Mrs Taylor M Simpson in the chair. Plans for Fall work in Scouting will be outlined and all council members are asked to attend.
The Pentagon Club will meet with Mrs James S Furr at her home 509 Parkway this evening at 7 30 The weekly club gathering follows. Miss Catherine Jane Ryan has returned home from Myrtle Beach South Carolina where she visited her aunt Miss Virginia Ryan for several weeks.
The Domino Club will meet tonight at 1 45 with Mrs. Cora Vance at Edgeworth Apartments on Edgeworth Street.
A series of community events lists Altrusa dinner at Sheraton, Eastern Star at Masonic temple, and briefings from Good Will Garden, Social Arts, High Point Graduate Nurses Club, and the YWCA. Included are Family dinners at Emerywood CC, Girl Scout council Fall start, and a September dance with John Peddicord and orchestra.
The publicity committee for the Woman's Society of Christian Service and Wesleyan Service Guild of First Methodist Church will meet tonight at the YWCA at 7 30 to plan a publicity campaign for the September 17 celebration in the church assembly room. Members listed include Mrs Worth Ivey Mrs N P Yarbrough Mrs Spencer Jackson Mrs A J Koonce Mrs Belvin Moore Mrs Brandis Leonard Mrs Ross Davis Mrs W L Edwards Mrs J H Zimmerman Annabel Thompson and Myrtle Davis with chairmanship noted. All committee members are urged to attend. An angle mentioned notes a distance of 10 000 to 15 000 feet under favorable conditions.
Miss Sarah Hopper returns to Leaksville after visiting Miss Carmel e Lambeth and both are classmates at Woman's College set to join the junior class. Miss Elizabeth Munroe, longtime local faculty member, heads to Northwestern University for winter personnel work. Sonny Voorhees Jr resumes premedical studies at Guilford College after Florida engineering work for a federal project. Families travel, guests depart, and a note on the yucca moth marks the season's end.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Leonard and Jack A. Pickett of Lexington wed in Pensacola in a double ring ceremony. The bride’s sister Marie Leonard served as maid of honor. The groom, son of Winter Haven residents, plays in the Navy Band. they plan to live in Pensacola after a New Orleans honeymoon.
Questions and practical answers on household tips. The page covers reducing splattering when broiling meat by adding water to the pan, avoiding setting stains by not pressing stained garments, and preventing bookends from sliding with a rubber band or inner tube grip.
A quiz from Look and Learn answers questions about battleship costs cardinal versus ordinal numbers term lengths for U S Senators and Representatives the age of Man o War and Canada’s area. It notes Man o War foaled March 29 1917 and lists Canada as the largest Western Hemisphere nation by area.
The High Point Enterprise announces Anne Adams pattern lines with two p iecer designs 019 and 4049 in multiple sizes 12 through 38. Includes fabric options front panel skirt belt and yardage for size 16 and a price of six cents per pattern order form details with address in New York.
Richard Watkins, 60, Morris Plains New Jersey, carves tiny objects. He built a miniature farm with a house barn wagons implements stalls a chopping block well woodshed and additional accessories as his latest feat.
Rittenhouse and Bradford established North Americas first paper mill near Philadelphia in Roxborough in 1690 using linen rags as material.
The Stephens Bible Study Class will gather tomorrow at 3 PM at Mrs. M J Crowder's home 309 Steele Street led by Rev R E Edwards. Also Mount Vernon WSCS to hold its September meeting at the church at 3 PM Wednesday with members urged to attend.
The Welch Memorial Christian Endeavor Society held its weekly church meeting with Miss Zula Mae Spencer leading the discussion on the topic Hobbies For All. Participants shared views on hobbies and community involvement.
Aaron Goodman of Montreal and Robert von Engel of New York won the national men's pair championship. The report notes a 1936 Canadian foursome's U S board-a-match title and discusses Goodman's play, including discarding clubs on trumps to enable partner to count suits and avoid losses.
Born to Mr and Mrs James N Griffin of 717 Grimes Street a son Norman Douglas on Monday September 7 at Burrus Memorial Hospital Mrs Griffith is the former Miss Myrtle Mowery of this city Only the biggen smallest of the anthropoid apes of all the monkey and ape species is naturally monogamous
A program highlighted a member’s hobby with a specimen on display. In a brief session members were urged to attend the C. F. E. mass meeting on September 15 at Archdale Friends church.
The Crissman Bible Class of Green Street Baptist Church will meet in the basement tonight at 7 30. Officers for the coming year will be selected.
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