Lawton Social Notes Highlight Local Service and Family Ties
Sea Avton Junior Service League members fill envelopes for the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and Cameron College typing classes assist. Community figures Joseph Lahmaunt and Col. Jack Clark linked to Lawton families recall careers, honors, and a 95th birthday celebrated by Luther Lahmaunt in Carnegie. Local events include invitations to a luncheon for Bertrude Fields and a hospital update on Mrs. Allen Hale after a broken hip.
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Awton Junior Service League
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
League
Mem
Lawton
R. F. Barry
Woods Drive
Glenn G. Collins
11Th
Oklahoma City
Bertrude Fields
Gore
Oklahoma
FHA Girls Attend Oklahoma City Rally
Chattanooga Future Homemakers of America plans send two members Nancy Goeringer and Karen Harvey to the state FHA rally in Oklahoma City. The event features a Japanese costume, program highlights by Mrs Zuby Pierce, and devotional led by Brenda Greb with Judy Capshaw’s poem The Crucifixion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Future
Homemakers of America
Nancy Goeringer
Karen Harvey
FHA
Oklahoma City
Zuby Pierce
Brenda Greb
Judy Capshaw
Josephine Mathews
Bette Brady
Cathryn Calhoun
Patsy Dooley
Elsie Fisher
Anne Fisher
Wada Gardner
Jan Goodknight
Myrna Godfrey
Juanita Horn
Joyce Jones
Patsy Meece
Charlene Ochsner
Charlene Regan
Gail Roskam
Courtney Smith
Mattie Stoll
Eleanor Strecker
Melba
Georgia
Karen Taylor
Kay Wilcoxson
Clara Williams
Wekk-Taber Nuptials Read In Area Rites
Newlyweds Carl Dallas Wekk and Sandra Ann Taber wed at the Waurika Baptist parsonage with Rev. J. Horton Myers officiating. The bride, a Waurika native, wore a periwinkle suit and white carnation corsage. The groom is from Addington. both reside on a ranch near Gatlin between Duncan and Marlow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gatlin
Duncan
Marlow
Carl Dallas Wekk
Waurika Baptist
Sandra Ann Taber
Charles R. Taber
Waurika
Roy Webb
Addington
J. Horton Myers
James Griffin
Waurika High School
Waurika Glee Club
Sorosis
Halliburton Oil Well
Anna Claire Swanson joins Kappa Delta Pi at OU Norman
The humorous remark about marriage frames details of Anna Claire Swanson’s scholastic honor. She joined the Kappa Delta Pi education sorority, linked to her high academic standing, and her mother Mrs Christina Swanson, a B. C. Swinney School principal, is also connected. Anna Claire, a junior education major and granddaughter of Mrs E Brent Mitchell, 602 Gore, was elected scholarship chairman of Gamma Phi Beta at the University of Oklahoma. Worth knowing: An honest day's work is the best sleeping tablet.
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Norman
Anna Claire Swanson
Kappa Delta Pi
Christina Swanson
B. C. Swinney School
Anna Claire
E. Brent Mitchell
Gore
Gamma Phi Beta
University of Oklahoma
Weddings Bring Lawton People Together In Early Spring
Last week in March and April first bring nuptials for local families. Miss Kitty Grant daughter of Mr and Mrs Tom Stephen Grant will wed Lawtonian Joe Blake Dutcher at 8 pm Thursday near Davis Old Fort Arbuckle. Also upcoming is the Sunday April 1 ceremony for former Lawtonian Miss Sandra Sue Clark and J Paul Tidwell of Duncan and Houston.
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Lawton
Local Women Attend Area Meet at Marlow Auxiliary
Four members of the local Woman's Auxiliary to VFW post 1193 attended a Marlow auxiliary meeting for officer elections. Mrs. Deward Stringer judged the balloting. Mesdames Raymond Rust and Roy Beene were tellers. Mrs. Robert Ebisch also attended. They will return April 3 to install the Marlow officers with Stringer as installing officer and Rust as installing conductress.
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Woman's Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Marlow
VFW
Deward Stringer
Raymond Rust
Roy Beene
Robert Ebisch
Stringer
Rust
Club Elects New Officers For Domestic Science Luncheon
Mrs H H Wood to lead the new officer corps with Mrs Roy E Stafford as co host at a Wednesday meeting. Other officers include Mrs Ted Wells vice president Mrs G S Holman secretary and Mrs J Roy Dunning treasurer. Luncheon featured spring flowers and a hat demonstration by Mrs U S Andrews with 20 styles worn by club members and guests. Members listed include Mrs Clarence Soper Nat Robertson and Leon Cole. Chapter EB PEO Sisterhood meet hosts planned for 7 30 p.m. Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Wood
Roy E. Stafford
Lake
Ted Wells
G. S. Holman
J. Roy Dunning
Eugene Matthews
U. S. Andrews
Clarence Soper
Nat Robertson
Leon Cole
Mesdames Soper
Albert Childs
P. S. Cox
A. B. Gosselin
Bruce Lucas
W. K. Miller
R. B. McCoy
A. G. Norris
Kloster Powell
Grover Raulston
Joe Reed
L. C. Stewart
W. F. Griswold
John G. Erwin
Outstanding Speaker Named For Southwest P-TA Meeting
Dr John S Carroll of Los Angeles California will headline the Southwest regional one day PTA convention in Lawton Oklahoma at Lawton High School auditorium April 12. He chairs rural service for the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and is an associate editor of The National Parent Teacher magazine. He will deliver the keynote address The Dynamics of Community Service and lead buzz sessions on leadership participation and planning. Carroll has taught at Yale Claremont Yale Stanford and USC and held educational posts including superintendent of San Diego County schools and head of education at Texas Tech. He holds degrees from San Diego State USC and Yale and is a life member of PTAs in California Ohio and Texas.
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Frederic G. Hammond
Euclid
Lawton High School
11Th
Ferris
Arnold L. Heath
Ada
Northwest Region
Stillwater
Muskogee
Lawton
John S Carroll
Los Angles
Calif
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Carroll
Hammond
Texas Technological College
Lubbock
Tex
San Diego
California
Oregon
Washington
Nevada
Michigan
Connecticut
North Dakota
Texas
Oklahoma
Walt Disney Productions
San Diego State College
University of Southern California
Yale
Claremont Graduate School
University of California At Los Angeles
Stanford
Oklahoma A&m College
PTA
Ohio
California Association of County
California Association of School Administrators
Department of Rural Education
NEA
Camp Fire Girls
Guild Dinner Fetes WSCS Members and Guests
Centenary Methodist Wesleyan Service guild hosted a 6:30 p.m. dinner in the church to honor the Woman's Society of Christian Service. Miss Martha Milburn spoke on her July Mexico tour with 47 women. Life memberships were awarded to Miss Thelma Talla and Mrs. Furman Lowry, with decoration and devotional by Miss Ada Knight’s Spanish students. Special guests included Rev. Walter Browers Jr. and several local pastors and guild members from Centenary and First Methodist congregations.
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Old Mexico
Centenary Methodist Wesleyan Service Guild
Woman's Society of Christian Service
W. D. Ford Sr
Oklahoma Conference of Methodist Wscs
Martha Milburn
Harrison, Ark
Milburn
Mexico
Wesleyan Service
Walter Browers Jr
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Lucile Creswell Potter
Joseph Lahmaunt
Joel Sahmaunt
Sahmaunt
Elgin High School
East Central State College
New Mexico
Arizona
United States Army
Florida
Hershel
Luther Lahmaunt
Carnegie
Virginia
Carnegie Hospital
Luther
Jon
Col
Jack A. Clark
VeaLy
Spaceman
Cowbey
S&h
Castleton
Astleson
Howell
Pho
Club
Clare Morford Jr
N. 16Th
PEO Sisterhood
Oklahoma Congress of Parents and Teachers
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
National Education Association
John 8S. Carroll
Leamon
Seamon’s
Qoomoe Ok S
Lawton Okla
Milan
Albed
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