Social Activities Highlight KU and Community Gatherings
Social events at Kansas University include a coffee honoring Mrs. Stuart A. Smith and a luncheon at Centennial Park for KU School of Education. Guests span Houston to Sioux City with engineering wives tea and a Lawrence Country Club dance. Club meetings, installations, and picnics at Centennial Park and Holy Family Church planned in June and July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Ridgway
KU School of Education
Centennial Park
John Bayles
Houston
Tex
Elsie McKercher
Sioux City
Iowa
Kansas University
Robert Smith
Harvard Rd
Douglas County Historical Society selects Mike Getto as president
Mike Getto is elected president of the Douglas County Historical Society succeeding Paul Wilson. New officers include Glenn Kappelman and Lathrop Read Jr. as vice presidents, Howard Wiseman treasurer, Opal Jayne Kennedy secretary. New board members are Ethel High, James W. Paddock, George Anderson, Charles Stough Jr., Frank Walters, and Dayton Van Tries. The retiring president presents a 1862 Lawrence letter to Judge John Hutchinson. Membership plans begin in November with annual, sustaining, and life categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Getto
Douglas County
Aquatic Camp at Lone Star Leads to Wilderness Trip
The Kaw Valley Girl Scout Council Senior Scouts completed a two day aquatic camp at Lone Star Lake led by Mrs H D Remple with water safety instruction by Lucy Remple and Cheryl Hentsch. The group will undertake a seven day wilderness canoe trip through Minnesota and Canada in August with several Red Cross lifeguards assisting and local girls from Lawrence Topeka and Manhattan among the participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Star Lake
Kaw Valley Girl Scout Council
Minnesota
Canada
H. D. Remple
Lucy Remple
Red Cross
Cheryl Hentsch
Judy Thompson
Sharon Brandt
Linda Brandt
Connie Sabol
Dixi Underwood
Annette Bee
Connie Niemoeller
Judy Romero
Lawrence
Topeka
Manhattan
Albert Sabol
Ohio
Ramon Romero
del. St
Journal-World Photo
Adelines Meet in Lawrence for regional Sweet Adelines event
About 150 members from five state Sweet Adelines chapters converge in Lawrence for Region 7 meetings hosted by the Lawrence chapter at the Holiday Inn. The theme Hillbilly Hooting features visiting singers, a 6:30 dinner, 8:30 program, and prizes for hillbilly songs and quartets while Lawrence members stage a fashion show hosted by mistress of ceremonies Sylvia Nahman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweet Adelines
Lawrence
Sweet Adelines Inc
Holiday Inn
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Kansas
Sylvia Nahman
O T Davis Elected At Des Moines Meet
O T Davis was elected field vice president of the Kansas and Nebraska region of the National Association of Retired Civil Employs at its convention in Des Moines Iowa. He and Mrs Davis returned to Lawrence on Thursday. Also attending were Mr and Mrs F M Merriam. Dr and Mrs Alfred J Beil hosted them during the visit. Dr Beil is a former pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lawrence now serving at St John s Lutheran in Des Moines. Both Beils are recovering from injuries from a car crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. T. Davis
Kansas and
Nebraska
National Association of Retired Civil
Des Moines
Iowa
Davis
Lawrence
F. M. Merriam
Alfred J. Beil
Beil
Trinity Lutheran Church
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Kansas University Couple Weds in Country Club Ceremony
Miss Sharon Kaye Rogers and David William Newcomer IV married June 6 at Country Club Christian Church. Both KU students, the groom a 1964 graduate. After a reception at the University Club the couple honeymooned in Bermuda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sharon Kaye Rogers
Prairie Village
David William Newcomer IV
Shawnee Mission
Country Club Christian Church
Kansas University
Newcomer
Robert A. Rogers
David W. Newcomer III
Lawrence Bush
Cynthia Rogers
Janet Baird
Cheryl Paul
Chicago
Jacquelinne Brahler
Rebecca Doane
Dawson Ward
Frank Newcomer III
Eugene Wasson III
Cary Goodman
David Robinson
Iola
Douglas Newcomer
James Royer
William Brown
William Frick
Kansas City
Scouts Hold Campout and Court of Honor
Boy Scout Troop 158 will hold its monthly campout at the VFW Lake sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. At a Court of Honor Greg Wooderson earned swimming and lifesaving badges, John Carter metalworking, Avery Carter firemanship and metalworking. Dennis Bouse and Ronald Baker were promoted to First Class and Bobby Compton to Second Class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scout Troop 158
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Greg Wooderson
John Carter
Avery Carter
Dennis Bouse
Ronald Baker
Bobby Compston
Area residents welcome guests and grads in a busy spring
Stephan Heider earned a bachelor of science at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas New Mexico. Mr and Mrs Melvin Murray of Littlerock California returned home after three weeks visiting their children in Baldwin and Lone Star and sightseeing at Niagara Falls Atlantic City Washington DC and New York City including a day at the Worlds Fair. Mrs Ruth Strickland and her sons Jimmy and Terry of Atlanta Georgia arrived to visit her parents and are joined by Mrs Mary Rector and family of Denver Colorado. Danl Kahler Becci Frakes and Debbie Frakes spent time at Arkansas City visiting Mrs Lewis Grossman, grandmother of the Kahler children. Mr Karl Allison and children Karl Jr Nancy and Roxanna arrived to visit Mrs Allison's mother Mrs O Powell. Allison recently retired from the Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephan Heider
Fritz Heider
New Mexico Highlands University
Las Vegas
N. M
Melvin M. Murray
Littlerock
Calif
Charles Corel Jr
Baldwin
Millard Murray
Lone Star
Murray
Niagara Falls
Atlantic City
N.J
Washington, D.C
New York City
Ruth Strickland
Jimmy
Terry
Atlanta
James Tatham
Mary Rector
Denver
Cole
Dan'l
Becci Kahler
Debbie Frakes
Arkansas City
Lewis Grossman
Kahler
Karl Allison
Karl Jr
Nancy
Roxanna
Allison
O. &. Powell
Navy
Ann Landers Advice on Being a Good Mother
Dear Looking asks how to know if she is parenting well with three children aged two to eight. Landers endorses maternal instinct, urges love and worth, responsibility through chores, consistency, balanced rewards and punishments, open communication from birth, and building bonds to foster dependable, well adjusted adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Landers
Kansas University Students Married in Local Ceremony
A candlelight ceremony at Danforth Chapel May 30 united Marcilee Ann Wilson of Denver and John David Bierlein of Pittsburg. The couple, both KU students, will pursue graduate studies with Marcilee in KU chemistry and John in physics while living in Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danforth Chapel
Marcilee Ann Wilson
Denver
Colo
John David Bierlein
Pittsburg
Kenneth Menzie
Kenneth J. Bierlein
Bierlein
Alpha Tau Omega
Sigma Pi Sigma
Tau Beta Pi
Sigma Tau
Coffee for Boyd Campaign Hostesses Named
Mrs. Don Robertson hosts a morning coffee from 9 45 to 11 for MecDill Huck Boyd Republican nominee candidate for governor. Other hostesses include Mrs. Russell Jones and Mrs. Richard Pine at 3021 Nathan Drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Robertson
Nathan Dr
MecDill
Huck) Boyd
Russell Jones
Richard Pine
Social Calendar Highlights From Local Events
Saturday square dance at 8 in the evening at the fairgrounds judging area. Monday events include Polly Painter at 9 a.m. and a Soroptimist chat at 1:16 p.m. Centennial Park hosts a pot luck picnic. Alpha Upsilon chapter activities at Siena College and a talk by Mrs George Stewart are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D-H Fairgrounds
Polly Painter
A.n
Dora Rupe
Centennial Park
Alpha Upsilon Chapter
Mpsiton Siena Alpha
Creorge Stewart
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stuart A. Smith
Hubert Klemp
Dakota St
Smith
Plymouth Congregational Church
Salt Lake City
Utah
Latter Day Saints Hospital
R. Wayne Nelson
Lawrence Country Club
Dennis Craig
Elza Holmes
Charles Johannsen
Eugene Wolken
CFCA
Women’s Guild
Anthony Fornelli
St. Theresa’s Society of Holy Family Church
Eudora
Dorothy Anderson
Richard Ziesenis
Alyce Kink
Soroptimist Club
Castle Tea Room
Jaycee Jaynes
Eldon Statler
Dean Price
Andy Davis
Norman Leary
Lester Proctor
Polly Painters Club
Dora Rage
Lake Dabinawa
8Th
Vt. Sts
Historical Unit
Bermuda
University Club
Trudy
Millie
Better Business Bureau
Helen
Helen Harmon
Phyllis Hubbard
Marilyn Preston
Charles Wesley Garrett
First Methodist Church
Sally Foote
Paola
Joann Marshall
Geraldine Thorp
St. Louis
Stephen Nemecek
Mark Menzie
Harold Wilson
Crystal Room
Eldridge Hotel
Jane Bushfield
Sharon Stalcup
Judy Boyer
Wichita
Alfred Simpson
New Orleans
Kappa Alpha Theta
Hixon Studio
Boyd
By Ray Christian
Gustafson
Sanex
National Institute
of Dry Cleaners
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