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Lawton Constitution

Location

Lawton, Oklahoma, United States of America

Date

Mar 04, 1956

Page

18

Hummingbird Talk At Wichita Mountains Garden Club

February meeting of Wichita Mountains Wildflower Garden club discussed the ruby throated hummingbird. Hostess Mrs. Ernest J. Greenwalt, birds chairman for the Southwest Oklahoma Garden clubs, described nest size and construction, eggs, incubation, and that males do not feed young. Also clarified that the robin is a thrush named by colonists. Business session noted conservation poster judging at Cache school. refreshments served by Miss Sally Greenwalt.

Wichita Mountains

Fashionable spring scenes and travel plans at Fort Sill

Social notes highlight fashion shows for mothers and children, spring wardrobes, and weekend visitors. Majors and families attend the Willis Girl Scout hut dedication, while others prepare for departures to France and Indianapolis. Officers and spouses plan trips to Old Mexico and Canada, with Easter travel on the horizon.

Vogue Fort Sill Mike Wendy Jones Maj David L. Jones Smith Barbara Jones Willis Rucker Park Charles B. Willis Jr San Francisco Calif Indianapolis Ind Harold E. Liebe Liebe Old Mexico North American Canada Washington, D.C

Presbyterians Set Missions School Here

Beginning March 7, the First Presbyterian church at Eighth and D hosts a School of Missions each Wednesday in March with a 6:30 p.m. covered dish launch. Miss Annie Hastings, Brazil missionary on furlough, speaks. Dr. Grant H. Neuteboom gives the devotional. Circle I hosts, with Mesdames Shelton, Harris, McAfee and Roberts organizing. Earl Eugene Ward is welcomed by Earl and Holly Ward, Alvin Bates as grandparents.

First Presbyterian Church Eighth and D Annie Hastings Foreign Board Brazil Stillwater Grant H. Neuteboom Mesdames D. L. Shelton Dick Harris Jettie McAfee Guy Roberts Circle I Presbyterian Women’s Organization Cache Earl Ward Earl Eugene Messrs. and Mesdames Holly Ward Alvin Bates Pleasant Plains Ark Victoria Bates

ABWA Styles Show Benefits Lawton Chapter Event

The Lawton ABWA chapter will host a 3 pm style show on March 11 at the Hotel Lawtonian ballroom featuring spring and summer fashions. Jewel Montgomery and Elton Wilkerson lead arrangements with Barbara Blair of Montgomery Ward modeling. Hair styling by Edna Hennessee and Mildred Brown will offer specialty numbers at intermission. Tickets are $1 at Montgomery Ward Leamon's Cosmetic Shop No 1 or through ABWA members.

Lawton Chapter American Business Woman’s Association Hotel Lawtonian Jewel Montgomery Elton Wilkerson Barbara Blair Montgomery Ward Edna Hennessee Cosmetic Shop No. 1 Mildred Brown Leamon’s Shoe Store ABWA

PTA Executive Board Outlines Various Projects

The B C Swinney Parent-Teacher Association executive board met last week in the teachers lounge. President Mrs. Kenneth Little led the 10 a.m. session, urging renewal of National PTA magazine subscriptions and adding 10 more before the convention. The meeting covered regional conference plans, pro rata council payments, film funding for junior high education, polio inoculation date March 19, and plans to cover principal Christina Swanson’s travel to the national conference. Members volunteered for record-keeping and organization tasks, with next meetings scheduled at Cameron College and ongoing carnival planning.

B. C. Swinney Parent-Teacher Association Kenneth Little PTA Eldon Crosson Richard Frank Roy Hennessee P-Ta Council P-Ta Citizens Council On Education Swinney School Jack Carter Bill Echols Early Fuqua Clarence Gurtler Hennessee Denver Mesdames Paul Baty C. E. Cassius Terry Condrey Marion Corneil Robert P. Dennis Jay Dee Fountain Carl Stephens Douglas Wilson

Roosevelt PTA To Meet Monday

Roosevelt Parent-Teacher Association schedules a 7 30 p m meeting in the school auditorium with Mrs Viron Warren presiding. District Judge Toby Morris will speak on Citizenship at the March session and officers will be elected. All Roosevelt patrons are invited. In Chattanooga, girls in the high school home making department study upholstery under Mrs Zuby Pierce.

Viron Warren Roosevelt Parent- Teacher Association Toby Morris Lloyd Dupler Roosevelt Chattanooga Zuby Pierce

Duncan Group Entertained By City Club

John Denney, director of the Lawton Little Theater, spoke on how to read Shakespeare to Lawton and Duncan Shakespeare clubs at a City Club gathering hosted by Mrs A. Carney. Denney shared scenes from Romeo and Juliet Merchant of Venice and Henry V prologue to illustrate his talk.

John Denney Lawton

Speech Students To Give Program The Case of the Missing Handshake

Mrs Opal Ford Lawton High School speech class presents The Case of the Missing Handshake at 7 30 pm Monday in the school auditorium as part of the B C Swinney PTA meeting. Mrs W W Godlove will lead the devotional. A panel including Dr Robert P Dennis Wayne Gilley and Mesdames Godlove Aldon Crosson Irene Harris and Christina Swanson will discuss the dramatization.

Opal Ford Lawton High School B. C. Swinney Parent-Teacher Association W. W. Godlove Robert P. Dennis Wayne Gilley Mesdames Godlove

Junior Musicians Have Program at First Methodist Church

Mrs. Martha B. Warner, sponsor of the Junior Schubert Concert club, spoke on stringed instruments and their relation to wind, reed and percussion sections. The monthly meeting opened with pianist Joyce Boyett, with Donald Tate also performing. Present were Mrs. Rose Mayo Partlow and Mesdames M. M. Boyett, M. O. Wells, D. M. Harmon and Nevis DAnn Harmon.

Martha B. Warner Schubert Maurice LaFonte Joyce Boyett Donald Tate

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