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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1941
Page
5
Society items must reach the Journal-World before 11 30 o'clock on publication day. Send written notices or phone in advance to ensure timely inclusion.
Social calendar lists events and host names for Tuesday through Thursday including dinners, bridge clubs, Finesse club, Evans Hearth events, and various clubs such as Colonial Variety Progressive circles and League of Women Voters with luncheon and bridge activities at the club house and parish house. Notable entries include Mrs Lees hosting dinner for Dr and Mrs Hayden Grayston and Mrs Rowe in a bridge tournament.
Mr and Mrs Don Machin issue invitations for a dinner bridge to be held Saturday evening February 15 at their home. Members of the Entre Nous club plan a dinner for their husbands Friday at 6 45 oclock at the Colonial with committee in charge including Mrs H W Stowits Mrs D L Noone Mrs Prescott Underwood and Mrs E Haynes. The Women's Missionary society of the Evangelical church will meet tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs Elmer Pippett 801 Rhode Island street with Mrs Frank Hatch assisting. The study book will be continued and other items discussed.
Mrs. A M Ockerblad Mrs Franz Wiedemann and Mrs A M Hughes entertain the Helianthus bridge club at luncheon Friday at 1 oclock at the Evans Hearth. After lunch members will play at the home of Mrs Ocker ad.
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity announces the pledging of Joe Crawford of Kansas City Kansas and Orville Hart. Also listed are society notices about Mrs. Edward H. Jamison joining Wichita University voice faculty, and various church and club meetings with named hosts and dates. Remaining items include 4-H club plans, Daughters of 1812 luncheon details, a February meeting, and the marriage of Miss Dorothy Dell Erskine to Freddie Brecheisen with ceremony details.
The ceremony featured lighted candles and was read by Rev. H. E. McLeod in the presence of immediate families. The bride wore blue crepe with a pink rose corsage. A reception followed for relatives and friends, then the couple departed for Leavenworth and Kansas City. Mrs Brecheisen is Edgerton high school alumna. Mr Brecheisen, class of 1986 at Eudora high school, later attended Lawrence Business College and works at the Leavenworth government finance office.
The Junior A A U W evening play reading group will not meet this week. The next meeting is set for Monday at 7 30 in the Old English room of the Memorial Union.
The Business and Professional Women's club held a bridge tournament last night at the Colonial tea room. Mrs Fay Brown and Miss Sybil Malm won the high prizes, with Miss Lillian Phillips and Miss Marjorie Dietrich taking second, and Miss Abbie Atherton and Miss Irma Evans claiming third.
The Ventura club meeting scheduled for this afternoon was postponed due to the deaths of Mrs. Susan E. Stutz and Herbert W. Hunter. The notice cites mourning as the reason for delaying the gathering.
Alpha Gamma chapter held its regular meeting at Evans Hearth with twenty members present. Miss Erma McManus spoke on poetry and led a program where each girl wrote a verse about another member. Mrs. A. S. Anderson read additional poems.
Mrs Jane MacLean will entertain the Thursday Team whist club at luncheon Thursday at 1 16 o clock at the Pi Beta Phi house.
The Martha group of the Baptist Women's society will meet with Mrs. Phil Cato on the Haskell grounds Wednesday afternoon at 2 30. The Double X club will meet with Mrs. Jim Saunders Wednesday afternoon.
The Ladies of the G A R will hold a regular meeting Thursday at 2 in the veterans' hall, open to the public at 3 45 for a Lincoln tea and program of music and readings. Mrs Clifford Dean will speak. All patriotic organizations invited.
Lawrence readers enjoy a flower show with members identifying species and varieties while Wayne Replogle presents exploratory West photos. Social and civic notices include meetings of the American Legion Auxiliary and Congregational church calendar events, plus births, plays, and a Tucson wedding set for February.
The board of directors of John Morrell Packing company and its Topeka plant manager is active in many social and civic organizations in the city. Mrs G A Middleton hosted the Monday Sewing club luncheon at 1546 Massachusetts street with guests Mrs George Haper and Mrs Charles Arnold.
Mr and Mrs William Zweifel left for Pomeroy Ohio to attend Mrs Zweifel's mother Mrs John Stivers who is seriously ill. Betty Blue departs for Seattle to visit her sister Mrs George A Cookinham. Mr and Mrs J R Traylor returned from a Mexico vacation visiting Mexico City Puebla Poluca Taxco Cuernavaca and Acapulo Beach. Mrs J R Davis reports her son Private Clifford T Davis ill with influenza at Camp Robinson Ark. Mr and Mrs George Ford drove to Ottawa for a family reunion and dinner with seven families then made three calls on their return to Lawrence.
A KU basketball 44 38 win over Nebraska preceded by a campus dinner where Kappa hosts serenaded guest bachelor senator Stan ley E. Toland and joked about lawmakers finding dates. Don Pierce praised as a versatile sports writer after predicting the score.
After a permission to play a record, a brief return found a group on campus with a white silk scarf draped around the statue The Pioneer. The incident followed a night when Dietrich’s Find out what the boys in the back room will have was heard played through the speakers.
Faye Anderson of Richland was serenaded by girls in Campus House last evening with Happy Birthday to You. After closing hours the group gathered in her room for birthday cake and candles were blown out in a single breath.
Extra men at Miller Hall party ventured into a kitchen and popped corn. Housemother Mrs. S Stanton detected the activity and ordered them to make extra bowls for her and her guest.
The Jay Janes women’s pep club hosts a La Conga lesson from 4 to 5 50 PM with Billie Jarbee from Cameron Mo and Mary Kay Brown of Wichita giving instruction. The program also features a skit The Ghost of Ann Boleyn with cast members from Wichita Lenora Grizzell Rushton Margaret Brown and Helen Edlin. Doris Twente of Lawrence leads folk dances to warm up for the conga as YWCA and YMCA discuss their New Deal at Memorial Union Kansas room.
Betty June Toni Thoman of Kansas City announces her engagement to Lawson Roberts. Roberts holds a master's degree in art from K University. Chocolates were passed at Miller Hall as the groom-to-be joined for a morning reception and kissing ritual.
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