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Clayberger Named President Of National Bill Of Rights SocietyRaymond P. Clayberger of 54 Park Avenue, Bronxville, president of the National Better Business Bureau and member of the New York advertising firm of Calkins* Holden, was elected president of the Society of the • National Shrine of the Bill of Rights at St. Paul’s Chunch, East-. Chester, at the annual meeting . held at the church Sunday, De-. cember 14.Norman D. Ellison of 20 Wood ! End Lane, president of the First National Bank in Mount Vernon, . was elected assistant treasurer, and Miss Dorothea S. Plopfer of 6 Brooklands was named a member of the board of directors.Slate officers for the comingLucia Cerreta, Local Teacher, ; Is Betrothed r-At a buffet supper Sunday evening at their home, Mr. and - Mrs. Anthony Cerreta • of New t Rochelle announced the engage-• ment of their daughter, Miss : Lucia Cerreta, to Ralph Cioffari, [ son of Mr. and Mrs. Donato Cioffari of New Rochelle.» The prospective bride, a member of the music department of [ the Bronxville School, is a graduate of New Rochelle High School and New York University.Mr. Cioffari who was graduated from New Rochelle High . School and Manhattan College is . associated with an Insurance I firm in New York. He served in , the Navy for four years and saw 5 duty in the Caribbeans and Pa- cific areas. He held the rank of lieutenant (j. g.) upon his dis-T charge from the Navy.EN ROUTE! Capt. George F. Parton, Jr., of j 30 Sturgis Road has sailed from Japan for the United States. Dr. Parton has been stationed at Sen-di, where he was battalion surgeon of the 62nd Signal Corps of 1 the Eighth Army.L -R-•[ Miss Peggy Lu Andrus, who is l attending Leland Stanford Uni-: versity and Wm. DeWitt Andrus, - Jr., who is a student at Oberlin . College, will arrive home on Sun-, day to spend the holidays with r their parents, Dr. and Mrs. Will-3 iam DeWitt Andrus of Northyear also includes Edward L. Green, general manager of the National Better Business Bureau, who was elected vice-president, Whitelaw Reid who continues as treasurer, the Rev. W. Harold Weigle, rector of St. Paul’s Church, who remains secretary, and Raymond B. Bowen, advertising director for the New Yorker magazine, who will be assistant secretary.Newly elected directors are Barney Balaban, Frank E. Gannett, the Hon. Joseph M. Pros-kauer, Winthrop W. Aldrich, Vincent Cullen, W. Alton Jones, Dr. Victor Corse Thorne, the Hon. William Hart Hussey, Miss Dorothea S. Hopfer, Madame Alma Clayburgh, Harold Comfort, Sylvan Gotshal, Dr. Frank G. Boudreau, Frederic R. Coudert, Fannie Hurst, the Hon. Myron C. Taylor, Louis Schramm, Mrs. E. R. Wardwell and Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger.The Hon. George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, was elected an honorary life member of the society.Continuing in office as directors of the society are Mrs. John Holmes Ballantine, S. Winston Childs, Jr., the Hon. Charles S. Colden, Charles Engelhard, Phillip W. Haberman, the Rev. Walden Pell, II, and Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner.Speakers at the annual observance of the 156th anniversary of the Ratification of the Bill of Rights held in the old Shrine Church at 4 P. M. Sunday were Frank D. Schroth, publisher of the Brooklyn Eagle, presiding; Dr. Frank Luther Mott, dean of the School of Journalism, University of Missouri; and William I. Nichols, editor of This Week magazine.Assisting the rector, the Rev. W. Harold Weigle, was Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn, Central Synagogue, Rockville Center, former chaplain of the fifth Marine Division.The Women’s Guild of St. Paul’s Church were hostesses at a tea given in the parish hall following the observance. Mrs. Norman D. Ellison of Bronxville and Mrs. Walter Meyer of Mount Vernon poured. The appointments and flowers at the tea and observance were furnished by Miss Dorothea S. Hopfer of Bronxville and Mrs. Wilmer S. Wilson of Mount Vernon. The members of the choir dressed in Colonial costumes served at the tea.
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Bronxville Reporter
Bronxville, New York, US
Tue, Nov 18, 1947
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