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erous serving of birthday cake, cherry punch, salted pecans, and hard candies. The patriotic motif was carried out in cake trimmings and paper napkins.Those enjoying this delightful occasion besides the hostess and hon-oree included the following: Mr.and Mrs. Amos Adams, Mrs. Pearl Camp, Misses Doris and Twila Camp, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mel-lum, Mr. Melvin Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Henderson, Mr. Richard Eddy, Mrs. Elizabeth Fielding, Mr. Clark J. Nettleton, Mrs. Jessie Pike, Mrs. Earl Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kimball, and Mr. and Mrs. John L. Swort.SLEIGHT KUEHMSTEDAt high noon, Monday the 21st, in the presence of many life long friends, the wedding of Miss Eleanor Kuehmsted of Fort Defiance, Arizona and St. Louis, Mo., to Lieut. Frederick W. Sleight, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Win C. Sleight, of Sylvan Shores, Florida, was solemnized.Informality was the keynote of the occasion and ceremony. The setting, the beautiful patio in the rear of the home of the groom, where tropical flowers and beautiful shrubbery lent themselves so admirably to the occasion. Mrs. Melissa Jane Cornish assisted in re-there he was assistant to Dean Byron G. Cummings, Director of theDepartment of ‘Anthropology andArizona Field Museum. He did summer field work at the early Indian sites of Arizona and New Mexico, also special work in Dendochron-ology. He is a member of he Mu Alpha Nu Fraternity.He also did special work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, with the Egyptian Department,Enlisting, by choice, as Apprentice Seaman in 1941, he was later sent by the Navy to the Harvard Graduate College of Business Administration, after having received his commission as Ensign. Prior to this he was assigned to Convoy Duty on a destroyer in Atlantic waters, and from there was sent to his Caribbean Assignment as Distributing Officer. His duties there carried him to the many Naval Bases in the Caribbean Islands, the Canal Zone and to various points in northern South America.ofblt;HMarJtdicliaTiwfr:(I3*IJCceiving and had charge of the bride’s! Tbook.The officiating clergyman was the Rev Perry B. James, of Sebring,Florida, a lone time friend of bothbthe groom antf his parents.The bride wore a gabardine suit of Phantasy-pink with dark brown accessories and orchid corsage.The groom wore the fall dress white of an officer of the United States Navy.Mrs. Win C. Sleight, mother of the groom, wore rose mesh with accessories of Navy blue, with a corsage of violets and tuberoses.Mrs. I. F. Fausek, of St. Louis, Missouri, aunt and sponsor of the bride, wore a two piece dress of black trimmed with powder blue and wearing a powder blue hat to match, also a corsage of pink roses.The groom’s gift to the bride was a necklace of pearls.Lieut. Sleight is on leave after serving twenty-one months of his three years in the U. S. Navy, as distributing officer in the overseas' service in the Caribbean area. He I has been reassigned to duty in the States, at the U. S. Naval Supply Depot, at Clearfield, Utah, where he will continue as finance officer. The newly wed couple will make their home at that place during Lieut. Sleight’s tour of duty there and willmake the trip by automobile, as a wedding journey, leaving directly after the reception.After the war, they will make j their home in Sylvan Shores, Mount Dora, occupying the home recently purchased by his parents.Following the ceremony, the guests partook of a beautiful luncheon in Esther’s Dutch Kitchen, where special floral decorations had been placed for the occasion by Miss Miller. Thirty friends were invited for the luncheon and reception, following which Lieut, andMrs. Sleight departed for their long trip to Utah. % jThe occasion was a most happy and joyous one, and the newly wedded couple received many beautiful gifts and the sincere best wishes of theirfriends.11hSvJThe bride was born in St. Louis and moved to California with her parents at the high school period. “I She has lived in California and Ari-I zona, intermittently, meeting her [ I husband while he was a student at the University of Arizona. She majored in Archaeology at the University of Southern California, receiving both the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts upon her graduation. She is a member of the Phi Mu Sorority and the Anthropological Fraternity of Mu Alpha Nu. She did summer field work with the University of New Mexico, at the early Pueblo sites in the Chaco Canyon country of that state. The subject for her thesis for the M. A. degree was the acculturation of the Navajo Indians of the Southwest, the thesis illustrating the adaptation of the semiprimitive of aboriginal (the Navajo) into white man’s civilization. In recent years she has done independent research in the South West Museum in Los Angeles, and for the past 14 months has been with the 1 Indian Service in Arizona at the Navajo Medical Center in Fort Defiance, Arizona.The groom was born in Corning, New York, and his interest in Archaeology began while a student in the Mount Dora High School, from ell I which he graduated. Following all j graduation he began collaboration with the Baker Museum at Ro' College in Winter Parkrs.anken-hem.N.r-er,ofrs.nfposed plan for od, I vey forier I maj ore J1stical sur-*ida. Hethe Unison where. WhU e
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Mount Dora, Florida, US
Thu, Aug 24, 1944
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