Community Social Calendar and Marriage Announcements
Local society notes list a Saturday social at KO Famatey Club Aire FL and a Sunday program at Pacully with art, music, and exhibitions. It also covers engagements and pending marriages of Miss Hird and Miss Fisher, plus a 1955 reunion planning among KU alumni, PTA activities, and club meetings across Lawrence, including Delta Delta Delta, PEO chapters, and 4‑H clubs, with a May 16 Dames dinner and May 20 school dinner planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stredulie Marke
Bo Roelien Herttge
Finelween
Aire FL
Haynes
Keene
Pacully
Inl
Progrand
Boris Art Musmin
Local social notes cover visits and postings across Kansas
Miss Perry, a freshman and member of Beta Chi, campus riding club, Athletic Association, and college choir, appears in campus society notes. Mrs W S Robb plans Sunday in Topeka with Mr and Mrs Jack Bradley hosting dinner at the Topeka Country Club. Kathleen O'Donnell returns to Ellsworth for Mother's Day. Mrs Wayne F Shaw returns from a Richmond trip with a DSA delegation and toured Williamsburg. Shaw elected treasurer national of U S Daughters of 1812. Mrs Mary Stephenson of Lawrence joins a 6000-strong educational tour group to Chicago, chaperoning. Lawrencians visiting Rep Scrivner's Washington office include L H Rose and others. Mrs Maurice B Myer heads to Amarillo for a month with daughter A G Linville's family. John J Conard and family return to Syracuse where he will be managing editor of the Syracuse Journal after stints in Washington and Paris. Baldwin Bird Club reelects officers for a second year: Evans, Gates, Marquardt, Betts.
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Perry
Beta Chi
Campus Riding Club
the Athletic Association
W. S. Robb
Topeka
Jack Bradley
Topeka Country Club
Bradley
Robb
Kathleen O'Donnell
Ellsworth
Wayne F. Shaw
Richmond
American Safe Deposit Association
Williamsburg
Williamsburg Lodge
Cleveland
Darrell Shaw
Susan
Priscilla
Washington
U.S. Daughters of 1812
Shaw
Mary Stephenson
Lawrence
Sunflower Village
Chicago
John Conard
NEW Post
John J. Conard
Joseph Harvey
James Powell
Kansas
Syracuse
Conard
Syracuse Journal
Washington, D.C
Foreign Operations Administration
Paris
France
Paris University
Kansas University
Rotary Club
University
Journal-World
Virginia Powell
J. O. Powell
Route Four
Olae
Bermuda
Sawhill Couple Return From New York City Visit
Personal guests Dr and Mrs John Sawhill left Friday for New York City after visiting since Wednesday with Dr and Mrs Ralph Canuteson. They were en route from Colorado Springs where both families attended the American College Health Association annual meeting. Open house for about 50 guests was held Thursday evening. Miss Mirilyn Perry won first in the advanced class at Lindenwood College horse show in St Charles Missouri, with her parents L R and Mrs Perry in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sawhill
New York City
Ralph J. Canuteson
Sawhills
Colorado Springs
Canutesons
American College Health Association
Sawhill
K. U
New York University
Canuteson
Vesper Concert Soon From Lawrence High School Orchestra
Lawrence High School Orchestra under director Charles Kassinger announces a Sunday Vesper concert at 4 PM in the LHS auditorium open to the public. The program includes works such as Overture and pieces by Dittersdorf, Mozart, Grétry, and Czech Rhapsody, featuring performer names Judy Gorton, Nancy Dixon, Doris Evans, Kohler, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kassinger
Lawrence High School
LHS
Dittersdorf Orchestre
Dream of Oilwen
Womaaits
Judh Brown
Gesensway
Judy Gorton
Nancy Dixon
Doris Evans
Gretry
Tga
Kohler
Sandra Harding
Rene Sampie
Jotene Hardiman
Janet Jackson
Weltberger
Pearson suffers dramatic crash as Everett wins bicycle race
In Gardena last night C K Pearson riding a Riverside rider crashed near the finish as his motorcycle failed to cross the line. George Everett of Pasadena took first place with Pearson finishing a flying second after being hurled over a wall and tumbling to a heap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardena
Calif
C. K. Pearson
Pearson
George Everett
Pasadena
Riverside
Jeane Dowis Recital Praised By Kansas Audiences
Jeane Dowis, American pianist, performed before a small crowd at Music Week. She opened with Racel Sonata in E flat and Mozart K 570, then Schumann Carnaval and Samuel Barber Sonata, delivering energetic playing and two Chopin encores, drawing strong reactions from the audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Criss Simpson
Jeanne Dawis
Miss Dawis
Racel
Mozart
Schumann
Missi Dewis
Samuel Barber
Samuel
Miss Bowls
Jan Chiapussa
Kansas
Water use in the United States rising faster than population
The article notes water use in the United States has increased four to six times since the turn of the century and the growth rate is accelerating beyond population growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
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Mattes Lawrie oKtower
Bopam
Chamber of Commerce
Rian Petra
Eva Delta Abin
Capper
M Winter
TOR
Virgil Mate
Porter
Okla
Jerry
Marsin Hird
Homer Hurd
Lale
Northeast State College
Tahlequah
Haysville
Hird
Kansas University School of Medicine
Wichita
Douglas County
Havel Booduiwan
Luther W. Fisher
St. James-By-the-Sea Episcopal Church
la Jolla
Fisher
Cienepal Electric
Los Angeles
Tate
Woodland Hills
San Fernando Valley
Standard Life Association
Sunflower Room
Memorial Union
Thomas G. Orr Jr
Jean Robertson
Kansas City
Kas
W. Werber Hutton Jr
John B. Bush Jr
Kathleen French
Willis Tompkins
Marie Larson
Marshall
James C. Cheney
Vivian Lou Riffer
Blake Williams
Denver
Florence Richert
Fred Ellsworth
Mi's
C. J. Sommerville
Mildred Clodfelter
Dick Wintermore
R. C. Manley
Hyacinth Halzey
Lady Gregory
K.U
Oscar Haugh
Oskaloosa Pta
H. A. Mize
Willard McPherson
Howad Wellman
Andrew Kern
Robert Taylor
PTA
Ernest Bigsby
South Side
Reading Club
Delta Delta Delta Alliance
M. S. Winter
PLEO
Nina Hester
Edgar Wilson
Kate Caldwell
Mary Hackman
Ethel Harman
Mary Klooz
P.E.O. International Scholarship Fund
A. D. Rice
Iris
Columbine
Sigma Alpha Epsilon‘ Fraternity
Sarah Stevenson
North Wright
Joe Ho Hope
GC. A. Thomas
Howard Deta Jenkins
Sybil Schreyer
Georgianna Graves
Mary McReth
Mabel Nieder
Mary
Frances Krull
Marion Boosters
Reta Farmer
Don Cronk
Council
Loretta Hendon
Caster
Hoover
Manhattan
Arthur Longfellow
Danny
Walter Pearce
Keith
Trinity Lutheran Church
Carol Miller
Harold Hathaway
Leslie Beguelin
Bill Bodin
Arden Booth
Edward Chamney
Delbert Gerstenberger
George Allen
Paul Winter
Wellman Church
Booth
The
Methodist Church
Harold Horn
Concordia
Stuart Douglas
Nelson P. Horn
Baker University At Baldwin
Cosmos Club
Castle Tea Room
Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity
Lawrence Country Club
Edward Turner
Edna Stewart
Edward Rainey
W. H. Cauble
Sebonia Hancock
Melba Ann Reeves
American Legion
Virgil Reeves
Baldwin
Ning
Elsie Allen Hall
Parmenter Commons
Baker University
Donna Thomas
First Methodist Church
Gary Thomas
Gage Ranch
Eudora
Sam Ferguson
Shirley Dean
P.E.O
Carl Gray
North Michigan Street
Ernest Klonz
Roy King
Wichita Falls
Tex
Ralph King
Leora Smith
Eveleth
Minn
Kenneth Anderson
C. L. Kaufman
Klooz
Stephenson Hall
H. P. Ramage
J. H. Edmonson
Wilma Hooper
Ruth Latham
KX. U. Dames
John Chambers
Henry Merino
James Spotts
Robert Feaver
Charles Courtney
Richard Hunter
Farrell van Hon
Robert Bailey
Rodney Kornelsen
Cottonwood 4-H
India School
Bobby O'Connell
Charlotte Hoffman
Barbara Abegg
Judy Mott
Betty Ray
Connie Booze
Mary Tatham
Bird Club
Baldwin Bird Club
Thomas A. Evans
Chester W. Gates
George Marquardt
Amelia Betts
Demeritt-Gordon
Mary Alice Demeritt
Leslie J. Demeritt
Duty
Charles S. Gordon
Lawrence Junior High School
W. S. Price
Ottawa
Donald Hull
Boggs Hat Shop
Gossard
Weaver's Bra and Corset Shop
Jack Schlagman
Jeaneane Dowis
A. V. Phillips
Parsons
Joe Schelbar
Nick Schelbar
David
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Karpet
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