FSC Seniors Plan June Ceremony at Fresno State College
Susan Stuckey announced her engagement to Ronald Koop during a Delta Zeta event at Fresno State. The couple, both FSC students, plan a June wedding in Fowler after graduation. Koop, from Shafter, has strong scholastic and extracurricular credentials, including past involvement with California Scholarship Federation and Phi Kappa Phi.
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Delta Zeta
Fresno State College
Susan Stuckey
Joe Stuckey
Fowler
Fowler High School
Freano State College
Delta Zeta Sorority
FSC Tokalon
Koop
Wallace Koop
Shafter
Visalia
Shafter High School
Richland and
Maple
Shafter High
California
Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church
Oer College
Hillsboroan
Bakersfield College
Fresno State
Phi Kappa Phi
Smith Bender Set Altar Date for 1972 Wedding
Debora Smith of Shafter and Mike Bender plan to wed Christmas 1972 after a Biola College engagement announcement. Bride elect is daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert L Smith while the groom elect is son of Mr and Mrs George Bender. Both graduates of Shafter High School 1969 and active in school groups.
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Biola College
Deborah Smith
Mike Bender
Shafter
Robert L. Smith
Madera
George Bender
Eaat
Ash
Shafter High School
Block S
Key Club
Weekend at Fort Tejon by Shafter and Tejon trailer clubs
Bob Herbert served as wagon master for the Shafter Trailer Club weekend outing at Fort Tejon. Members and guests toured the fort and museum then held a Saturday potluck dinner. Sunday featured a church service by Herbert and a trip to Magic Mountain.
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Bob Herbert
Shafter Trailer Club
Fort Tejon
Old Fort
Herbert
Magic Mountain
Messers. and
Mines
Riley Ashby
George Bender
Bob Nixon
Bob Heibert
Chuck Reedus
Norval Winter
Kenneth Berkshire
Jim Bow Henderson
Wasco Coffee Event Invites Shafter Friends
Women of the Wasco Congregational Church invite Shafter friends to a Friday December 3 coffee event in the church social hall. Doors open 10 AM with coffee and coffee cake, hot beverages, and a 11 AM plate lunch. Christmas items, homemade baked goods, canned goods, jams and jellies for sale. Seventh Street across from the library.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasco Congregational Church
Melanie Neuman Elected Job's Daughters Queen
Bethel 138 1.0.J.D. elected Melanie Neuman as honored queen at the November meeting. Officers chosen included Linda Fuller senior princess Lisa Haworth junior princess Joan McConnell guide and Lynne Warkentine marshal. November events included Go To Church Sunday at St. Mark's Church Shafter and Friendship Night with Kern County Bethel guests.
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Bethel
J.D
Melanie Neuman
Melinda Fuller
Lisa Haworth
Joan McConnell
Lynne Warkentine
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Shafter
JoAnn Hair
Taft and
Bakersfield
Wasco
Kern County
Miss Hair
Delano
Taft
Bakersfield Bethels
Engagement of Janice Marie Williams Announced
Mr and Mrs Tolbert Williams of 317 Sudan Street Buttonwillow announce the engagement of their daughter Janice Marie to Johnny Lucas Jr of Shafter. The bride elect attended Buttonwillow Elementary School Shafter High School and Bakersfield College and works at Mercy Hospital Bakersfield as a licensed vocational nurse. Johnny Lucas Jr attended Richland School Shafter High School and Long Beach College and is employed as the fiancé.
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Tolbert Williams
Sudan Street
Buttonwillow
Janice Marie
Johnny Lucas, Jr
Shafter
Shafter High School
Bakersfield College
Mercy Hospital
Bakersfield
Richland School
Long Beach College
Buffet for Scholarships Today at Wasco Veterans Wall
The Northern Hospital Guild hosts its 8th annual scholarship luncheon and fashion show titled World of Holiday Fashions at Wasco Veterans Wall on Wednesday December 1. A salad buffet runs 11 45 a m to 12 45 p m with tickets at the door. Mrs Bill Absher chairs the event and invites working women and girls. Carrie Planck of Wasco narrates the style show and Doris Crettel serves as guild president. The public is invited.
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Northern Hospital Guild
Wasco Veterans Wall
Bill Absher
Ways and Means
Carrie Planck
Wasco
Northern Hospital
Doris Crettel
Free Fare Excellence in Concert at Shafter High
Young American Showcase presents Free Fare at Shafter High on Monday December 6 from 7 30 to 9 pm. The group, selected from 300 nationwide auditions, has drawn 250 000 students in 132 Southern California schools during 1970 71 and promises audience involvement and humor. Tickets via Richard Froehlich at the high school.
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Shafter High
Disneyland’s
Tomorrowland Terrace
Southern California
West Coast
UCLA
Richard Froehlich
Thaxton Couple Celebrates 59th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Ben E Thaxton were honored at a dinner party hosted by their daughter Mrs Ruth Burrow at 432 Golden West. The occasion marked their 59th wedding anniversary.
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Ben E. Thaxton
Ruth Burrow
Golden West
Thanksgiving dinner guests and family milestones in Shafter
Thanksgiving guests included Mr and Mrs V T Walhood with Dwight Walhood in San Diego and UC Santa Cruz student Richard Walhood. The Wasco Eastern Star plus Thaxtons mark 59th anniversary. Thaxtons married in 1912 in Fairview Oklahoma and live in Shafter since 1962 with children Opal Richardson Bettie Hardwick Marie Snow and 12 grandchildren five great grandchildren. A Masonic banquet on Dec 5 features a Christmas carol program and gift exchange. Bud Barton family dinner hosted guests Nettie McHone B F Summers Bakersfield and Marvin Garlinger plus others.
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Galbreith
Wasco
Irvin Barr
Della Kliest
Helen Hasty
Ruby Edwards
Edwards
Ray Freeman
52Nd
Security
Bakersfield
Fred Sherman
Faith
Taft
Margaret Hollingsworth
John Hill
Clarence Kleist
Margaret Pollock
Velma Guenther
Dorothy Smith
Veda Mills
Gay Armstrong
Jack Hammons
Jenifer
Janis Hill
House of the Rising Sun
Vv. T. Walhood
Dwight Walhood
San Diego
Richard Walhood
UC Santa Cruz
James Moquist
Tod Moquist
UC Davis
Europe
Tod
Switzerland
France
England
Thaxtons
Fairview
Okla
Oklahoma
Shafter
Opal Richardson
Ypsilanti
Michigan
Bettie Hardwick
Anchorage
Alaska
Marie Snow
Oklahoma City
Bud Barton
Nettie McHone
B.F. Summers
Marvin Garlinger
Welcome New Families in Shafter Community News
The Shafter Press welcomes new residents Mrs Susan Ratzlaff and others visiting newcomers. Recipients include Mr Don Cravec family from Anaheim with daughters Pam and Jennifer. Newcomers from Fontana and Chicago join local households while former residents relocate to Shafter and join area employers.
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Susan Ratzlaff
Shafter Area
Shafter Press
Don Cravec
Pam
Jennifer
Anaheim
Oravec
Hamner Manufacturing Co
Bakersfield
Sprouse-Reitz
Fontana
Chicago
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Mrs
Bill Mills
C. Gay Armstrong
Eastern Star
Wasco Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Wasco Masonic Temple
Velma Downey
Shirley Wessig
Ethel Douglas
Beverly Copeland
Chaplin
Lenora Porter
Sutton-Allen
Deborah Lee Sutton
Kenneth Wade Allen
Dean D. Sutton
Cross Street
International Relations
Girls Athletic Association
Vista
Cecil M. Allen
Elm Street
Jack Thompson
California State College
Long Beach
Los Altos Broadway
Shal
Gladys Wipf
Adah
Judy Kaler
Ruth
Leta Mae Brown
Esther
Gertrude Kinchan
Martha
Zora Victory
Electa
Faye Barrwarder
Lucille Galbreith
Sentinel
Nelly Lassiter
Nannie Reedy
Mildred Armstrong
Beverly Colbert
Bonnie Rogers
Perry Copeland
Shirley McConnell
Mills
Lucille
FSC
Ronald Koop
Shafter4-H
John Nichelsen
Karen Anderson
Carolyn Camp
Smith-Bender
Trailer Club
Ft. Tejon
Wasco Coffee
Richland Pta
Fred Swehla
Lewis Marchman
John Peterson
Sr. High & Jr. High
Pilgrim Fellowship
Bible Fellowship
Tylere Ave
Shefter
Owen C. Onsum
Job
Shafter Press Society
Janice M. Williams
The
Order of Eastern Star
Jay Robertson
Shelly
Darrell
Robertson
L.A. Camp
Naomi Robertson
Hawthorne
William R., Gehle
Roberts Farms
Gehle
Grace Froese
Albert Froese
Orange
Joaquin Patino
Felisa
Fresno
Robert Bodine
Porterville
Glenna
Rick Walter
Cen- Vi-Ro Pipe Corporation
Raymond McMaster
Paul Groves
First Southern
Ralph L. Gardner
Kern Ot
Tulere
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