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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1972
Page
4
Mariners Senior Scouts of Ship 660 plan a 15th year reunion for present and former members scheduled 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Mayflower Room of the Plymouth Congregational Church. About 250 girls may have registered over the years but some contacts are lost. Public invitation extends to all non invited.
Mariner Senior Scouts of Ship 660 finished Christmas service projects at their adviser's home. They delivered a hand stitched dacron comforter to their adopted family as part of the Girl Scout 60th Anniversary patch requirements and helped sort toys for Toys for Tots with 87 dolls cleaned and refurbished. The group plans earlier doll donations for better Christmas repair in 1973 and marks the 15th year reunion with sailboat cookies. The troop began in 1957 as The Good Ship Seawitch.
Mr and Mrs Donal Sedlak of 701 Maine hosted Christmas with sons Don and other families from Lawrence Sedalia Tor rence and Beck y Altenbernd visiting Newton and home in Lawrence Also Wesley McCalla family visitors reach from Chapel Hill and Palo Alto Molly McCalla and Susan McCalla work at UNC and Addison Wesley Jim McCalla pursues a master’s in Boston Marie Withers returns from Denver to North H Street O T Davis spend Christmas in Shawnee with Max Cunningham family Janie Cunningham in the Air Force leaves Biloxi January 1
Officers and committee chairmen of Rebekah Lodge No. 4 were honored at the regular meeting in the IOOF Hall. Mrs Colleen Amess presented a gift to each officer and committee chairperson for their past year’s work. Mrs Mabel Nieder was elected as a trustee. The refreshment table carried a Christmas theme with Mr and Mrs Glenn Messenheimer Mr and Mrs Oliver Transue and Mr and Mrs Charles Jensen on the committee.
The Lawrence Alumnae Chapter and Patroness Group of Sigma Alpha Iota sponsor music talent auditions for junior high students. March 10 at Jenkins Music Co. Entries due by March 1 to Mrs. Hubert Carson. Prizes from the Lillas Schmidt Scholarship Fund: $30 first, $20 second, $10 third.
Mr and Mrs George Owen of 2525 Belle Haven Dr received a Christmas Eve greeting relayed by X P Smith a ham radio operator in Great Bend from their son Sgt Richard Owen stationed at Clark Air Base Philippines. The message said he enjoyed his holiday visited Manila and had received letters from them. Owen teaches electronics at Haskell Indian Junior College and noted his son is not a radio operator.
About 60 people gathered for a candlelight vigil for peace from 7 to 8 p.m. Christmas Eve along Massachusetts Street in South Park. Organizer Mrs. Anne Moore said the event, sponsored by the Dread Society of Friends, has become an annual observance during the Vietnam era.
Martha Susan McGuire and John Howard Hill officiated by Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village at 4 p.m. Saturday. The couple, of Prairie Village and Lawrence, plan to live in Lawrence after a Colorado trip. The bride is a KU music education junior. the groom is KU alum on the housing staff.
Christmas week social notes list numerous families hosting and attending dinners and open houses in Topeka Lecompton and surrounding areas. Guests included McClanahans Baldwins Quakenbush Norris Zlatnik Glenn Wyatt Hadl and Wyatt families plus locals from Wind Cave National Park Pomo na Fort Riley and Lawrence. The John Wyatt family held a Christmas gathering at Lecompton City Hall and a University Club bridge party was won by several local residents.
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