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Newspaper

Sarasota News

Location

Sarasota, Florida, United States of America

Date

Jun 19, 1962

Page

5

Community Calendar and Club News Highlights

Jacaranda Garden Circle starts a series of informal card parties at Mrs. Henry LaGasse home with dessert prizes and a pool option. Seven DAR Auxiliary representatives will attend the June convention in Clearwater. Sarasota Cosmetologists unit installs new officers led by Chris Reda at the Mecca Restaurant. Col. Miller Club reports luncheon and cards with bridge and canasta winners. Alpha Iota Chapter of Epsilon ce Alpha details new officers and six month program plan with Helping Hand Club speaker Kenneth Chadwick. A social event is planned for month end.

Jacaranda Garden Circle Henry LaGasse Shangri-La Clark Road Sarasota Sarasota Unit 25 Cosmetologists Association George Heim FCA Chris Reda Mecca Lloyd Duncan Edward Koerner Ruth Brown Gertrude Lowe Dene Berg Kenneth Chadwick Helping Hand Club

Community Calendar Highlights Local Circles and Events

A dense list of activities at churches clubs and public venues across DeSoto Sarasota and nearby areas. Events include WSCS circles at First Methodist and Trinity Methodist Churches pot lucks picnics and luncheons. bridge and duplicate bridge games. church circle meetings. dance and social gatherings. a Florida West Coast Symphony rehearsal. civic club programs and a long schedule of community services and youth activities.

DeSoto Women’s Golf Assn DeSoto Country Club Esther WSCS First Methodist Church Adelia Hannah M. L. Turbeville Arlington Sarah Clark Hoges Buttonwood Dr Bratcher First Baptist Church George Morris High Point Drive Deborah Circle Trinity Methodist Church Municipal Park Martha Circle Robert Hanst E. Forst Lake Ivy League Club Imperial House Welcome Wagon Southside Newcomers Colony Beach Resort Rebecca Fred Stafford Webber St Deborah John Stolp Gulf Stream Apts Eunice Circle George Thacker 22Nd St Naomi P. B. Hasinger Prudence Phoebe L. Hedrick Seminole St Priscilla Ruth Belle Bennet Community House Duplicate Bridge Sarasota Yacht Club Florida West Coast Symphony Civic Center Kensington Park Mary Mytrle Moore Siesta Drive Herman Pleas Roselawn Elizabeth Circle Robert Shinn Vamp Road Rose Cavaker Ruth Wright Morrill St M. Adams Goldenrod St Susanna Clifford Bell Woman’s Association Church of the Palms Alpha Omicron ESA First Federal South Gate Sarasota Bay American Legion Ion Coliseum Order of Amaranth Odd Fellows Moose Lodge Moose Hall Sociables Club Holmes Beach

Distinguished Visitor Hosts Garden Club Luncheon in New York

Mrs. Karl A. Bickel, renowned garden club member, hosted an international luncheon at the Plaza Hotel in New York on June 12 with guest Mrs. Mary Barnard of Great Britain, president of the National Association of Flower Arrangements Societies, and 25 other leading garden club figures from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Barnard spoke on world understanding through gardening and international relations, outlining plans for floral judge exchanges.

Virginia J. Ruppert Karl A. Bickel Great Britain Wst United States New York City Mary Barnard National Association of Flower Arrangements Societies of Bickel Plaza Hotel Charles B. Nettleton Covington National Council of State Garden Clubs Barnard South Africa Southern Rhodesia Natal South Africa Rhodesia Zululand England William Axley Connecticut Peter Casio Charles Speaks New York Ronald McDonald Louise Clancy Mary Morse New Jersey Albert Stillman Garden Club of Clarence Socum The Chester Schomp Herbert J. Hillman James A. McBain Raymond P. Wismer Lewis M. Hull

Flighty Executives Toast The Skies On 29 000 Foot Party

Grey suited businessmen board the Caravelle from Chicago O’Hare for an airborne stag party to Idlewild. United Airlines markets the executive flight at 3 extra, with 30 000 business travelers citing pampering and hassle-free baggage. A stewardess notes brisk service and a cake for a St Louis company president as the flight unfolds in two hours of luxury.

Chicago UPI New York O’hare Idlewild United Airlines St. Louis

Local Girl Wins State 4-H Office at Florida Meet

Miss Sharon Hoffman daughter of Rev Louis Hoffman was elected state president of the Girls 4-H Club during a Florida State University short course last week. She will be a Riverview High senior and serves as county and school 4-H president, Ram Ring editor, clarinetist in the RHS orchestra, and a member of the West Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra Quill and Scroll and National Honor Society. Her parents drove to Tallahassee for the installation Friday night.

Sharon Hoffman Louis Hoffman Florida State University Hoffman Riverview High School County Girls Riverview RHS West Coast Symphony Youth Orchestra Quill and Scroll National Honor Society

Spock Book Becomes Second Bestselling Nonfiction

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock had surpassed 10.9 million copies sold by October 1961, making it the second best selling non fiction title after the Bible, according to Guinness World Records.

Benjamin Spock

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Carl Doane Wallace Burke George Leonard Edward Rickel W. C. Eareckson Lorraine Taylor Roger Blakely Olive M. Brown Charles Preece Mary Roberts Nell Turner Mildred Jerman Norwalk Maxine Flowerree Janice El-Shadi Paula Savage Jackie Col. Miller Club Sarasota Terrace Hotel George Purdy Lola Prater Rose Dauchert Agnes Sendecke Ray Ball Sue Hillyer Alpha Iota Epsilonce Alpha Life of Georgia Insurance Office William Ruppert Pat Brinson Joy McRill Ted Nabozny Tradition South Pineapple Florida China Tudor House Armands Key Bobby Jones Golf Club County Health Dept Public Library Sertoma Club Martine’s Democratic Woman's Club Colonado CES Bahia Vista Maxwell’s School of Bridge St. Armands Community Sarasota Lions Club Lions den Sam McCullough John Tayor Arms Boston North Side Venice Bradenton Englewood By Helen Horwitz Myrna Tippets First Presbyterian Church of J. Moody McNair Kay Dr. McNair Tallahassee MISS H.P N. Orange Ave
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