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setithEclectic Club Holds Delightful Meeting With Mrs. RaynaiEclectic Glab met Wednesday0!1 afternoon with Mrs. Charles E.ottsrrs.onndiersirai~uschRaynai at her home on North Race street.On their arrival, the hostess invited her guests to the dining loom, where a dessert course was served with cheese straws, cookies, mints and salted pecans. Mrs. John L. McBride poured coffee' afjfci Mrs. John A. Scott served the strawberry dessert. The table, spread with an embroidered linen cloth, made a pretty pic-ture in shades Qf yellow. Daffodils and forsythia were at the,center, coi~ billed with a half-circle of yeM candies. zA ~- Ihiring thd^^mess sKsMfT, the president. Mrs. John,L. Mcv Bride, presiding, - offxcerh wei^T elected, as follows:, M[r. Charles E. Raynai, president; MrsJ M. C. Wood, vice presifieat^Mxs. D. 'S. Conway, second vice president; on s. Wallace Hoffman, secretary; Mrs. M. T. I^mbetht.Jreasprer.Hrs. Raynai, *hfei chax^ of the program, presented her daughter, Miss Margaret Raynai, who spent the past year as an exchange teacher in France. She described the town of ^igues-Mortes (translated ‘dead; paters'), a tiny port near the mouth -pi the Rhone river. Fortified during the Middle Ages and used as^a- port of embarkation for the, Crusades, this village in an isolated ‘position on the marshy plain ls r today unchanged, a monument, to the medieval period. Louis IX embarked from Aigues-Mortes in 124S and 1270 for the seventh and eighth Crusades.fllustratioiis from‘Miss Raynai s notebook shelved the ancient towers. walls and gates of the medieval fortifications.A discussion of current events concluded the meetmg. Guests were Miss Margaret Raynai, Mrs. John S. Raynai, Miss Mary Scott and Mrs Zeb V. Loner.,
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Statesville Daily Record
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Thu, Mar 06, 1952
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