Society Contributions Deadline for Journal-World
Society notices must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1940
Page
7
Society notices must be received at the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication.
Monday events include Women's Club at the club house hosted by Mrs W E Spalding contract clubs led by Mrs T D Funk and Miss Margaret Kane at Lotus club luncheon. sewing and bridge gatherings with Mrs Virginia Teter and others. Tuesday Table topics guest meeting at Mrs E F Price home. Finesse club to Operettes. Evans Hearth at 1 30. Wednesday Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae gathering. Thirty Niners dinner. Harmony circle tea. Lioness club dinner at Wiedemann's. Thursday Newcomers tea at Mrs Deane W Malott. Progressive contract club hosted by Mrs Wade Pierce.
More than fifty members attended the January tea at Mrs. C. E. Friend’s home. Dean R. A. Schwegler spoke on America at the Crossroads, contrasting old and new views of education and noting psychology’s insights and curricu lum changes aimed at living well in the modern world.
Social notices list church gatherings and club meetings across town with hostesses and venues. A birth is announced for Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Lanier in Los Angeles, with family connections to Lawrence and Ottawa.
The note lists meetings and social events across Lawrence including P E O founders day dinner with Mrs C C Wolff as speaker, home and church gatherings, contract club menus, Plymouth Congregation church supper prep, and a church night program. Attendees and hosts include Mrs C E Dunigan, Mrs Otto Luckan, Mrs Roland Roney, Mrs Galen Gorrill, Mrs Wade Pierce, Mrs George Docking, Mrs H L Chaffin, Mrs Roy Beyer, Mrs John Mulvihill, and others.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ewing will entertain the Thirty Niners, an Eastern Star officers club, at dinner Wednesday at 6 o'clock. The League of Women Voters economic welfare department holds the second relief and unemployment study session at 7:30 p.m. at Mrs. H. C. Tracy's home 801 Indiana Street. Mrs. Tracy leads the discussion on general relief and its history as luncheon guests Mr. and Mrs. Solon Emery entertained Mr. and Mrs. George Hornbrook returning from Honolulu to Chicago, who are visiting Mrs. W. E. Tenney.
Twenty one advanced students in the school of fine arts perform a 7:30 p m recital in Hoch auditorium with a varied program including Bach Chopin Vivaldi Schumann Donizetti Mendelssohn and Brahms works. Performers include Beth Young Ruth Gibson Jack Raymond Rae Anneetcaass Lorenz Fuller Jane Kinnamion Marie Horner Dorothy Allen John Robert Furman Hazel Waynes Sarai Mohler Betty Buchanan and Minerva Davis among others with instructors L Swarthout C Skilton Wernsteiner Moncrieff Kversteiner Nuersteiner Wilkins and Taylor.
Mrs N C Johnson returned from Chicago after visiting daughter Mrs Edward Dahlene and Mr Dahlene. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Ewing and Barbara Ann of Kansas City spent weekends with bedridden Mr and Mrs P W Ewing. Mr and Mrs Frank Jennings Virginia and Mrs A L Yingling of Independence Mo will attend the Children's theater Cinderella Friday. Mrs Yingling is mother of Mrs Deal Six.
Two carloads of students went to St Joseph to hear Tommy Dorsey. A car ditched in a snowbank forced abandonment, and the party hoofed it back to St Joe, then returned to campus late yesterday afternoon. Snowbound sidewalks and bob sleds defined the day as decorations and parties continued on campus.
Betty Bell from Blue Springs misses a Washington trip before finals while Warren Shupe earns ten honors in men’s table tennis. KU honors include a university band key to Malott Swarthout Ellsworth and Gaston. Alfred Landon visits via College Republicans banquet. Mrs Connell visits Fort Leavenworth.
Miss Esther I. Twente assistant sociology professor at the University will serve as a delegate at the White House conference on child welfare opening in Washington D C Thursday and closing Saturday Presiding officer likely to be Miss Frances Perkins secretary of labor Twente has worked on a committee studying economic aspects of family welfare for children and joined a preliminary Washington meeting last year that set the nine decade event in motion
Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Miss Twente is named as one of four Kan sans invited to attend.
Dean F. d. Moreau of the University School of Law will speak tonight at Paola on The Chandler Act. The lecture is part of a series of legal institute meetings scheduled across several counties this year.
Chancellor Deane W. Malott opened a busy week with an address to Winfield High School this afternoon and planned to speak at the Winfield Chamber of Commerce meeting tonight.
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