Reflections on aging marriage and mental health insights
A syndicated column reflects on aging and marriage as daydreams of a freer life, then reviews Smith College Studies of Social Work findings where schizophrenic patients in a hospital improved through regular group activities. It discusses personal wishes, danger of assuming others' harm, and the importance of interpreting actions over rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ellen Case
Smith College
King Fea. Syn
Club Calendar Listings for New Year Events
Wednesday events include Semper Fidelis club New Year’s Eve party and Like Flower Senior Youth club dance at the Little Flower gym from 9 to 11. Flower gym. The State Association of Texas Pioneers hosts a New Year’s Eve hall from 8 30 p m to 3 a m in Pioneer Memorial hall. Thursday features a Woman’s club reception from 4 to 6 p m at the club house.
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Semper Fidelis Club
Flower
Little Flower Gym
State Association of Texas Pioneers
Pioneer Memorial Hall
College Styles Modeled By Local Student Group
College fashions were shown during lunch in the Bright Shawl by Joske's of Texas. A group of visiting collegians and local debutantes modeled outfits, while social hosts and guests attended related events and a New Year’s Eve ball in San Antonio with multiple club queens named.
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Joske’s of
Texas
Collegiennes
Emily Ann Cameron
Frances Spires
Clarita Sommers
Ann McElwrath
Ann Ayres
Maidie Spencer
Felix H. Ullrich
Dr. Ullrich
Ralph Lytle
Prescott
Wis
Martha Anne Beed
Ottawa
Paul Schwab
Miss Beed
Loren Benton
Henry Lee Taylor
Jean Laurie
Margaret Lytle
Margie Ann Benton
Ruth Ann Davis
J. D. Marley
Peggy Page
Roy Page
J. L. Ogletree
Deanie Conklin
Margaret Kane
Jan le
Cholly Says Betrothal Now Official arene
In New York a cascade of social notes details the engagement of Mrs Edward Bragg Paine to Lord Malcolm Douglas Hamilton with a Scotland civil ceremony followed by a London church wedding. The piece mentions Paine’s wartime work, Douglas Hamilton’s lineage and Inverness-shire MP role, plus several high profile society and legal notices, including a Monaco port sale and a duchess ball.
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C. Enicocker
New York
Edward Bragg Paine
Malcolm Douglas‘Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Scotland
London
Paine
Natalie Wales
Charles Greenough
Mas
Nathaniel Brackett Wales
Braintree
Mass
Common Cause
Bundies
Britain
George VI
Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton
Brandon
Nina
Duchess of Hamilton
Pamela Bowes- Lyon
England
Lord Douglas-Hamilton
Black Douglas
Highlands
Inverness-shire
Executive Board to Meet of United Church Women
The executive board of the San Antonio Council of United Church Women will meet at 10 a m Friday in the home of president Mrs W R Beyette Snowden Jr All affiliated church presidents are invited to attend.
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San Antonio
Miss May Hosts Bridal Shower for Elaine Seidel
Miss Carolyn May will host a bridal shower at her home at 5 p.m. Friday for Miss Elaine Seidel, pride-elect. Miss Genevieve Dumas will honor Miss Seidel at a luncheon at 12 30 p.m. Saturday in the San Antonio Country Club.
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Carolyn May
Elaine Seidel
Genevieve Dumas
Miss Seidel
San Antonio
Matchmaking caution in lovelorn reader advisory
Beatrice Fairfax admonishes Alice at 20 about marrying a 36 year old married man with two children who claims to love her yet shows controlling behavior and possible past heavy drinking. The adviser notes no redeeming traits are listed and urges thoughtful reconsideration before any decision to wed.
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Beatrice Fairfax
Miss Fairfax
Alice
Smiths Set Open House on New Year Eve
Mrs Charles R Smith and her husband announce an open house at their home on New Year's Eve inviting about 530 guests to tour the residence and celebrate the holiday event.
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Charles R. Smith
Annual Mrs Powers Open House On New Year's Day
Mrs Helen Powers invites guests to an annual open house at her home 122 Park Dr on New Year’s Day from 5 p m. The event showcases hospitality and local social tradition, with neighbors expected to attend and greet the host.
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Helen Powers
Park Dr. Tee
Pattern 9329 Childs outfit for play and school time
Sewing pattern notice offers Marian Martin pattern 9329 for child sizes 2 4 6 8 10 with jacket jumper blouse options. Includes yardage for fabrics 27% 33 inch nap and 7% yard 35 inch. Send 35 cents plus 5 cents per pattern first class to The Light pattern dept San Antonio Texas.
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Marian Martin
Light
San Antonio Light
San Antonio 6
Texas
Marriages Announced Include Three Local Weddings
Three weddings held this month are announced. Carl I Schmidt and bride Mrs Dorothy Edwards married in St Mary's church and plan home at Sunset Ridge. Eloise J Worthington and Bernard Dupre Wallicotte wed Christmas day at Lackland AFB chapel with limited attendants. Gary F Thomas wed Mary Lou Contreras December 20 at Lackland chapel four with reception at St Henry's hall. lists of attendants and gowns noted.
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Carl I. Schmidt
Sunset Ridge Apts
St Mary’s Church
Dorothy Edwards
Ruth Beech
Paul Churchman
G. Carl Schmidt
Eloise J. Worthington
Bernard Antoine Dupre-Wallicotte
Lackland Afb
Maj
Theodore Recksick
James Vance
Pride
H. D. Jackson
San Angelo
Elizabeth Jackson
This City
Gilbert Jackson
Robin Sommers
Leta Worthington
Angleton
Wallicotte
Trinity University
Wuillkatte
Gary F. Thomas
E. Theo
Chapel 4
Mary Lou Contreras
Fernando Contreras
T. J. Thomas
Tulsa
Richard Barr
William McCusker
Jack Guthrie
Delfina Garcia
Emelia Dunlap
Velia
Katie Garcia
St. Henry’s Hall
Garden Club Plans Friday Meeting at Kellner Home
The Jasmine Garden club will meet at 10 a.m. Friday at Mrs. H. E. Kellner's home at 209 E Harrison Ave with Mrs. Adrian Spears as co host. Members will bring pot plants for a clinic conducted by Paul Renton.
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Jasmine Garden Club
H. E. Kellner
E. Harrison Ave
Adrian Spears
Paul Renton
Midshipman Blair Warren Home for Christmas Holiday
Blair Warren a midshipman from Annapolis is home for the holidays visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Robert L Warren until January 4.
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Blair Warren
Annapolis
Robert L. Warren
Nuptials and Betrothal of Interest in St Mark’s Church
The wedding of Miss Lois Elizabeth Bates and Lt. George Edward Spivey was held Tuesday at St Mark's Episcopal with Rev. Harald Gosnell officiating. The bride wore nylon tulle and Chantilly lace, with orchids and lilies of the valley. A large wedding party and host of guests attended the reception at the St Anthony hotel. Open house announced an engagement for Virgilia Bates to Ens. John W. Pancoast Jr. and a planned late summer wedding.
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Lois Elizabeth Bates
LeRoy Evans Bates
George Edward Spivey
Warren Ralph Spivey
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Harald Gosnell
Frances Pope Bates
Nancy Ellen Williamson
Shirley Fitch
Beverly Birn
Charlotte Booth
Taylor
Mary Margaret Schmitz
Pat Spivey
Gordon Bail
Sacramento
Cecil Dunn Jr
Moultrie
Tommy Robertson
Helena
Ark
LeRoy Bates
Jack Williamson
Ewing Evans
Bill Fitch
John Wright
St. Anthony Hotel
Margaret Scarborough
Austin
Barbara Wricht
Judy Phelps
Ann Morgan
Fr. Worth
Mesdames Quest
C. Couch
Frank Norwood
John Williamson
Evans Fitch
Shelley Evans
Ed Searcy
DeHaven Pitts
van Fleet Adamson
John Frassel
Claude Aniol
Harry Copeland
G. G. Reinald
Rena M. Green
J. H. Gill
Jack Pope
J. R. Pope
Charles H. Heimsath
Virgilia
Ens
John W. Pancoast Jr
John W. Pancoast
Mesdames Pancoast
Gibbs Macdaniel
Olive S. Petty
James Laurie
J. B. Nash
Richard French Spencer
Paul J. Schwab
Basilas To Entertain At New Year Dinner
Mr and Mrs Nicholas Basila will entertain at a dinner party at 6 30 p m on New Year’s Day at their home 207 Hermosa Drive East.
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Nicholas Basila
Hermosa
Pleasant name based number puzzle message
A short game describes counting letters in your name to reach a key number by simple rules. Start at the rectangle’s upper left and check cells corresponding to the key numbers left to right, then read the hidden message formed by letters under those checked figures.
Pilon Christmas Dinner Reunion in a West Family Gathering
Forty-five members of the West family shared their annual Christmas day dinner in the "A" room with a few guests including Dr. Perry Webb and Lt. Van. Adamson returned from Washington state to rejoin his wife and family as his radar assignment nears completion. Col. W. R. B. Hensey Jr. was reassigned to Fort Sam Houston after two years in Japan, with Mrs. Hensey and the boys at 627 Elizabeth Road awaiting his return.
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Miriam McGary
West
Perry Webb
Ambrose J. Byrne
Bob Smith
van. Adamson
Washington State
M. A. Harrellis
Col. W. RB. Hensey Jr
Japan
Ft. Sam Houston
Social calendar events at German club ball and Plaza debutante open houses
On Wednesday evening the German club ball at 9 p m in the Crystal ballroom of the Guntert hotel and a formal town club ball on the Plaza are planned. Open houses run 7 to 9 p m at the Kuntz home for debutantes and 7 to 11 p m at the Cohas residence for Lt Col and Mrs Ledbetter. New Year's Eve parties at 9 p m at the Patteson home and 9 p m to 1 a m at the Greenlee home follow. Thursday features breakfast at the Micklers for debs Nancy Roe Linda Nixon Louise Harding and Nancy Drought, with more open houses at the Grave residence.
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Crystal Ballroom
Guntert Hotel
Town Club
Plaza
Jack Kuntz
Patsy Kuntz
S.R. Cohasgen
John MacWesley Ledbetter
H. C
Pat” Patteson
Harold Greenlee
Robert Mickler
Lyttleton Scott Jr
Micklers
Nancy Roe
Linda Nixon
Louise Harding
Nancy Drought
Debs
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Lulaccs
Adelina Nieto
Lulac Council
Gloria Ana Verrera
Carmencila Ortiz
Los Doradas Feria de San Marcos
Yolanda Almaguer
la Feria de Las Flores
Rose Marie Angelini
San Antonio Charro Ass
Cholly
Arene
Aristokles Onassis
Monte Carlo
Ava Gardner
Yvonne de Carlo
Rita Hayworth
Spain
Hollywood
Lana Turner
al Busiel
Lady Esther Cosmetics
Italian Communist Party
Maria Belling
Miss Red
Philly
St. Louis Ward
Peter Bird Martin
William Thornton Martin
Wynnewood
Julia Lawnin Gordon
Milwaukee
Nancy Merrill Chester
Charles L. Cole
Bridgeport
Emily Delinger Levine
Impressatio Marks Levine
Concert Artists
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France
Martha Reine de Bourbon
Berthe de Pompignans
Trinidad
de Bourbon
Connecticut
de B. No. 1
Berthe
Miss May
Merion Mestin
Virgilia Heimsath
Ens. Pancoast
Garden Club
Houston
W. E. Fitch
John Cochran
Quest
Jr. Marshall
Dick Couch
C. W. Patterson
C. H. Booth
Buel N. Wright
Mesdames L. S. Bates
G. E. Pope
Eugene Bihn
W. M. Ratcliffe
George Schmitz
J. H. McFall
Milton Davis
Charles Duke
George Mueller
Horace Slimp
Pat Lawshe
Phyllis Vagtborg
Barbara LeFiore
Joan Bihn
Evangeline Ratcliffe
Pat McLain
Dallas
Amy Johnson
Angilles Green
Ruth Arm Davis
Shirley Jenson
Helen Bates
Ivy Peck
A. R. Cauthorn
del Rio
Rapier Dawson
Cauthorn
Jerry Loughborough
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