Shafter Women Tour Garden Despite Rain To Benefit Nurse Scholarship
About 100 attendees joined the Shafter Women’s Club garden tour despite unwelcoming rain. The event began with coffee at Mrs. Ed Brown’s home, visited J. L. Hill residence and Experimental Farm, and ended with lunch at Louise Fox home. High school girls served, models wore vintage bathing suits, and district president announced winners for chaise lounges as corsages were handed out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Club
Bg Ae Hall
Ed Brown
J. L. Hill
E. Gordon Smith
Louise Fox
Oak Street
St Mark's Guild Holds Meeting and Plans Sale
The St Mark's Guild gathered at Mrs Paul McDonalds home 508 Acacia Street with strong attendance. Mrs George Cooper was guest of honor at a stork shower and received many gifts. Guild members planned a rummage sale for June 2 at Clifford Waver lot 112 Stone Street and asked for rummage donations. The next meeting will be at Mrs George Coopers home 652 Sycamore Avenue on Tuesday May 22 at 10 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mark's Guild
Paul McDonald
Acacia Street
George Cooper
Clifford Waver
Stone Street
Sycamore Avenue
Shafter High PTA to Install Officers May 15
Installation of new Shafter High School Parent Teachers Association officers will be held May 15 with Mrs. H. L. Kalkoff first vice president of the seventh district P T A serving as installing officer. A pot luck dinner at 6 30 p m in the cafeteria precedes the event and the drama class presents a play chaired by Miss Marlene Hoffman. Mrs. Vernon Ross assumes the presidency, succeeding Mrs. William Irvin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School Parent Teachers Association
H. L. Klakoff
Marlene Hoffman
Vernon Ross
William Irvin
Women Work on Clothes for Veterans
Members of the American Legion auxiliary met at Mrs. Louise Bellows home on Walnut street to sew garments for their rehabilitation program. Completed clothing was sent to Long Beach Veterans Hospital. Attendees included Mrs. Elgie Heinlein, supervisor. Mrs. Elizabeth Buller. Mrs. Isabel Crawford. and the hostess. A similar session was held at Elgie Heinlein’s home on Beech Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
Louise Bellows
Walnut Street
Veterans Hospital
Long Beach
Elgie Heinlein
Elizabeth Buller
Isabel Crawford
Bellows
Beech Avenue
PTA Meeting Postponed by Richland Parenteacher Association
The May meeting scheduled for May 8 is moved to May 14 due to state convention attendance by Mrs. Ezra Suderman Mrs. Fred Schardt and Mrs. Collins Hath. The convention runs May 8 to May 11 in Sacramento.
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Richland Parenteacher Association
Sacramento
Ezra Suderman
Fred Schardt
Collins
County Nursery Council Elects Officers Here
Mrs. David Hewes of Bakersfield was re elected president of the Kern County Council for Preschool Education at a recent meeting at the Sherv ee Fay Center. The council named Mrs. George Gay as vice president and Mrs. Edward Gonzales as secretary. Present were officials from Bakersfield Shafter Taft Westminster and the Southern California Association of Nursery Education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Hewes
Bakersfield
Kern County
Hoyt
Bakers- Gayfield Play Center
Don Tasker
Westminster Nursery School
Gonzales
William Doerster
Taft Co-Op Nursery
Norma Young
Scout Troop 953 Wins Camporee Blue Ribbon Award
Scout Troop 953, part of Rotary Post 953 in Kern County, earned the top blue ribbon at the spring Camporee in Poso Flats on April 22. The event honored prep, inspections, camping skills, program participation, and cleanup. William Irvin directed the two day outing as assistant scoutmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troop 953
Boy Scouts of America
North Kern
Kern
Rotary Post 953
Kenneth Pipkin
Bobby Collins
Douglas Toews
Buddy Engle
Pudge, Greene
John Arnold
Kenneth Mettler
Order of the Arrow
Boy Scouts
Also Mentioned on This Page
Shafter Women’s Club
the Fund For
Kings
Johnson Neuman
Shafter Mercantile
Jerry Paul
Charles Hitchcock
Joan Eckmann
Mary Brown
Barbara Maupin
la Pilgram
Verna Peters
Russell Kodet
Robert Bongberg
Hill
Seeee
Jack Thompson
Pioneer
Walker ST
PTA
Safeway
SAVE
County Nursery Council
Usda Choice
del Monte Corn Highway Applesauce
White King
Tea Garden
Gebhardt
SWIFT
Gerber
Gerber's Junior Foods
Hamm’'S
West
Sendaire
Jackson
Shafter
Shafter Safeway
Naiea Ma
Captain's Choice
Bel-air
Asparagus
Fordhook Limas
Bel-air Frui
Fruts
Ine
Rusto
John Grade
Jackson Shafter
Calif
Chuck Firkins
Russell St. Mars
Albert Neeley
Rudy Palomo
Cherry Flats
Cherry Flat
Cawelo River
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