Social calendar at Sheppard Field shows evening programs
The listing details varied activities across a single period at Sheppard Field including dances, films, card games, German classes and church club meetings. Highlights include 8:00 p m dance and 9:00 a m Wives Surgical Dressings at the Masonic Building for Friday.
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Wives
Masonic Bldg
Wives Sewing Club
Soldiers’ Wives Bridge Club
Sheppard Field
Soldiers’ Wives Club
Parade Of Talent Shines At Air-Torium Show
The Victory Stage at Sheppard Field's Air-torium hosted a civilian GI talent show drawing about 3,000 soldiers. Performers from Wichita Falls wowed with dance, song, and acrobatics led by Cpl. Jerry Langen and emceed by Douglas Guthrie. The program also previewed the USC Camp Show "What’s Buzzin" with vaudeville acts scheduled for 8:30 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night with Don Francisco and Plato & Jewell among featured acts.
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Sheppard Field
Air-torium
Wichita Falls
Cpl
Jerry Langen
The
Pipers
Douglas Guthrie
Ann Hill
Barbara Marshall
Texas
Dolores Browning
Sheppard Field Loan Star
Ann Presson
Betty Lou Theik
Phyllis Stockton
Phyllis
Pvt
Gene Duncan
Gls
USC
Red Cross Auditorium
Wyse
New York
Baltimore
Boston
Worcester
Hylton
Paris
Earl Carroll
Hollywood
Marjorie Jane Olman
Benny Ross
George Jessel
Harry Richman
al Jolson
Maxine
DON Francisco & Company
England
Don
Mary
Ringling Brothers
Barnum and Bailey Circuses
Plato & Jewell
Golden Gate Theater
San Francisco
Orpheum Theater
Los Angeles
Palomar Theater
Seattle
State Lake Theater
Chicago
Orientation program schedule changes for sections A to D
Effective last Monday orientation programs for Sections A B C and D move to Theater No 1 on Mondays and Thursdays at 12 15. No sessions on Wednesdays and none in Building 572 on Wednesday or Thursday afternoons.
Fall Entertainment Schedule for Convalescent Patients
Convalescent patients at the regional station hospital will enjoy a packed week of entertainment announced by the Red Cross. Mrs. Tom Brown of Wichita Falls brings etchings to the lounge and will speak about the works. A boxing exhibition, motion pictures, a Double or Nothing quiz show with ten dollars in war stamps, and more are planned with Gray Ladies and PT backing.
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The
Red Cross
Tom Brown
Wichita Falls
Post Special Service Office
Epstein to Speak at Sheppard Field on Post War Jewry
Joshua S. Epstein, renowned news analyst, will address soldiers at Sheppard Field on Wednesday evening August 30 in Building 344 Chapel No. 3 at 8 p m. The National Jewish Welfare Board sponsors the lecture on how freedom and its outcomes may affect world Jewry.
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Joshua S. Epstein
Sheppard Field
Chapel No. 3
National Jewish Welfare Board
Epstein
New Yorker
The
College of the City of New York
Watermelon Party For GIs At Temple Wichita Falls
A watermelon party for Sheppard Field GIs is set for 8 p m at Temple Israel in Wichita Falls. Sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Board and the Jewish Community, the event includes entertainment on the temple lawn with co chairs Henry Doliner and M J Persky guiding the effort.
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Sheppard Field Gis
Temple
Israel
Eleventh
Burnett
Wichita Falls
Jewish Welfare Board
Henry Doliner
JWB
Lamar Uso
M. J. Persky
Learn
Post Debs Sponsor Lakeside Dance at Lake Wichita
Post-Debs organization will host a Lakeside dance for soldiers 25 and older at Lake Wichita on Monday August 21. Free watermelon at intermission. Buses leave Lamar USO at 8 815 and 830 p m to transport men to the lake and back to the field. fare 15 cents each way.
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Lake Wichita
At & P
Lamar Uso
Bridge Parties Held Mondays At Lamar
Monday evenings at 8 p m a bridge party is held on the mezzanine of the Lamar USO Miss Rose Brady serves as hostess with junior hostess helpers Candies and prizes are offered at each event
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Lamar
Lamar Uso
Rose Brady
Newsense Winners Tap SSO Till For 50 Bucks
The Special Service cash register opened Sunday evening at the Victory Stage. Quizmaster Ed Neibling paid nine men five dollars and fifty cents each and gave a tenth contestant fifty cents. Winners included Pfc. Edward C. Berry and Pvts. Lester Waller, George J. Mealey, Morris Antopol, Jim Luther, Lawrence Appel, Stanley N. Searles, Richard T. Edelman, Vern W. Boyington, and M. B. Lord. Boyington took the fifty cents. An entertainer from Wichita Falls, Nancy Webb, performed with pianist Herbert Rogers.
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Aictorium
Newsense
Ed Neibling
Wichita Falls
Nancy Webb
Miss Webb
Sec Qs Flight 36C Named Singing Flight of the Week
The Special Service singing department selects Flight 36C of Section Q as the week’s outstanding singers. Drill Instructor Sgt. Jack D. Reed earns a 24 hour pass. Other singers commended include Fl. 346 Section I Fl. 386 Section R Fl. 325 Section N Fl. 313 Section P Fl. 358 Section Q and Fl. 376 Section T. The singing banner will be awarded to Flight 360 Section Q during the weekly parade.
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Special Service
Jack D. Reed
Flight 360
Sheppardettes Host Dance For Airmen At YWCA
The Sheppardettes of Lamar USO hosted an informal dance for Sheppard Field men on the YWCA tennis courts in Wichita Falls. Ellen Rauch led arrangements with wing three, as Mesdames Parsons Glover Estes Farabee Biggs and Wilkes acted as chaperones for the 8 30 p m event.
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Sheppardettes
Lamar Uso
Sheppard Field
YWCA
Wichita Falls
Ellen Rauch
Wing Three
Mesdames Frank Parsons
C. C. Glover
J. R. Estes
Joe Farabee
J. E. Biggs
John Wilkes
Off-Duty Class Series Starts Monday at Sheppard Field
A new set of free off duty classes for enlisted men at Sheppard Field begins Monday Aug. 21 at 8 p m in Building 961. Two 60 minute periods run 8–9 and 9–10 with subjects including bookkeeping speech shorthand radio code algebra German photography English French radio for beginners Spanish psychology and life. Materials are supplied free and completion earns high school credits plus a United States Armed Forces Institute certificate. Instructors are qualified, led by Sgts King Husted Loya Lions Dexter and Pfc Goldfogel.
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Sheppard Field
The
Post Special Service Office
United States Armed Forces Institute
Lawrence King
Rodney Husted
Anthony Loya
John Lions
Warren Dexter
Leon Goldfogel
Service Club
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Nilsann Twins
NBC
Spike Jones
City Slickers
Bob Burns
Arkansas ‘Traveler
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Eileen
Lakeside Dance
Mary Francisco
Arn
Sec. Q
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