Oberlin faculty to attend many society meetings during holidays
About 55 Oberlin College faculty members will attend learned society meetings from New York to Chicago during the Christmas holidays. At least 21 will deliver papers or lead discussions, with 10 serving as national officers or committee members. Notable gatherings include the American Historical Society in Chicago and joint sessions of several associations. Faculty members from German, English, philosophy, religion, geography, fine arts, and science departments will participate, presenting papers and chairing sessions in New York, Chicago, Providence, Cambridge, and Richmond.
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Oberlin
Oberlin College
New York
Chicago
American Historical Society
American Football Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association
The
Collegiate Physical Education Association
Artz
Jaszi
Austria
Robinson
Buckler
American Historical Association
Mississippi Valley Historical Association
Fletcher
American Missionary Society
Lloyd Hennings
W. R. Morrison
Lysle K. Butler
Modern Language Association
R. P. Jameson
H. Y H. Thornton
Elsie Nolan
Kathryn Coates
American Association of Teachers of
Jameson
National Federation of Modern Language Teachers
Association of American University Professors
United States
Marjorie Lawson
Lucius Garvin
Paul R. Anderson
Department of Philosophy
American Philosophical Association
Middletown
Conn
Archaeological Institute of America
Providence
R. L
Louis Lord
Clarence Ward
Leigh Alexander
Edward Capps
A. C. Schlesinger
Dorothy Beil
Cathryn Crook
Mr. Capps
Corinth
Lord
Institute
Ward
Oberlin Society
Alexander
American Academy In
Rome
Dean Of Oberlin To Attend Meeting
Oberlin December 17 Dean Carol Wittke of Oberlin College will attend the American Association of University Professors general meeting in Chicago on December 27 and 28. The group sponsors a symposium on Faculty Participation in College and University Government with Wittke invited to open with a talk on how Oberlin handles budgets and appointments.
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Oberlin
Carol Wittke
Oberlin College
American Association of University Professors
Chicago
Dean Wittke
Soil Testing At Avon Growers Institute Feb 9 and 10
The Ohio State University soils testing laboratory will visit Lorain County for the Avon vegetable growers institute on February 9 and 10. County agent C. J. Hummel said the lab has tested hundreds of local farm soils before and will provide recommendations. Samples must be dried before testing, but may be taken at any time.
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Ohio State University Soils Testing Laboratory
Lorain County
Avon Vegetable Growers Institute
C. J. Hummel
Hummel
Livestock Project Work Continues in Lorain County
Livestock project work continues during winter as eight 4 H members in Lorain County send in requests for 1939 project books through C I Hummel, county agriculture extension agent. Names include George Webber Henrietta Richard Sandrock Russia Gordon Gillett Donald Breyley Wellington Margaret Campbell Irene Campbell La Grange Alfred Jasper Columbia Wallace Widdowson Pittsfield.
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Lorain County
George Webber
Henrietta
Richard Sandrock
Russia
Gordon Gillett
Donald Breyley
Wellington
Margaret
Irene Campbell
la Grange
Alfred Jasper
Columbia
Wallace Widdowson
Pittsfield
Correction issued for Methodist officers list
Wellington Delivers correction stating Mrs Mary E Church was omitted from the Sunday school officers elected at the annual meeting. Church was named Home Missionary department superintendent for life years ago and served 20 years. The paper apologizes for the oversight and provides the corrected item.
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Wellington
Mary E. Church
Wellington Pioneer Passes After Long Cornwall Ancestry
Residents of Wellington who arrived from Cornwall, England in 1881 mourn the death of a long time local patriarch. He left a widow, four daughters all predeceased him, and several grandchildren.
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Wellington
Cornwall
England
Wellington school vocal groups stage sacred Christmas pantomime
Vocal organizations of the Wellington school depict the sacred Christmas story in pantomime at the First Wellington Methodist Episcopal church at 7 30 Sunday evening. The church will be dark except for a dimly lighted altar during scenes of Christ birth. The A Capella choir will perform sacred selections. Miss Marie Ann Adler directs the presentation. Public invited.
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Wellington School
First
Wellington Methodist Episcopal Church
Christ
Marie Ann Adler
Mrs Bennett to Speak at King’s Daughters Circle Meeting
Medina resident Mrs Floyd S Bennett is set to address Abbe K Hand Circle of the King’s Daughters on Monday evening at Mrs Bert Hawk’s home. A covered dish supper begins at 6 30 with a silver coin collection for the Not An Empty Stocking Fund to buy toys for Christmas distribution.
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Floyd S. Bennett
Medina
Abbe K. Hand
The
King’s Daughters
Bert Hawk
Photographer Homer Howk Assists Harding College Professors at Searcy
Homer F. Howk, formerly of Wellington, now in Searcy Arkansas, aids Professor Neil Cope of Harding College in a recreational photography course. He will also offer a journalism course in newspaper photography, with Mr. and Mrs. Hawk and family settled in Searcy.
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Homer F. Howk
Wellington
Searcy
Arkansas
Neil Cope
Harding College
Bricker May Attend Northern Draft Horse Event in Elyria
Governor elect John W. Bricker may speak at the Northern Draft Horse Association gathering set for January 10 at Elyria Methodist church, a development reported today.
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John W. Bricker
Northern Draft Horse Association
Elyria Methodist Church
Christmas Bazaar and Women’s Association Installations
Under Methodist Aid society auspices a second Christmas bazaar and regular meeting were held in the church dining rooms. The program featured young musicians and a birthday party plan for January 13 with candy service and a lighted tree. W B A elected officers including Harriette Whitney as president and Lena Beam as color bearer and junior supervisor with plans to serve a January 7 dinner for Pomona Grange.
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Methodist Aid Society
Raymond Wright
B. F. Keeling
Woman's Benefit Association
Grange Hall
Harriette Whitney
Florence Fleming
Myrnie Ludwig
Mariam Beal
Cora Gardner
Sarah Greetham
Jennie Smith
Bertha Leupin
Margaret Scholl
Carrie Leininger
Miss Beam
Prentice
Lena Beam
William Body rites held at Wellington church
Funeral services for William Henry Body, 80, were held at 2:30 p.m. at the Wellington Methodist Episcopal church, conducted by the Rev. Lonzo S. Green under the direction of E. L. Sharp Funeral Home. Relatives and friends filled the church as flowers adorned the bier beside his widow, Mary.
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William Henry Body
Wellington Methodist Episcopal Church
E. L. Sharp
Faculty to Attend Multiple National Meetings This Winter
Economics and music education professors travel to Detroit and Washington for December conferences. Gehrkens and Metcher will speak in Washington on December 27 30. Bradshaw and Schrick attend the American Student Health Association in New York December 29 30. Dean Graham attends Chicago events and May and Craig present papers in New York and Chicago. A seminar student Paul Kohler presents a paper in Chicago.
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American Economics Society
A. E. Nilsson
P. S. Pierce
W. H. McPherson
Detroit
Karl Gehrkens
Robert Metcher
Washington
D. C
Gehrkens
R. W. Bradshaw
Edna Schrick
American Student Health Association
New York
Bradshaw
Schrick
National Education Association
Thomas Graham
Graduate School of Theology
Midwest
American Oriental Society
Chicago
Herbert May
Corporation of Oriental Research
Clarence Craig
May
Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis
Craig
Theologic Seminary
Paul Kohler
Christmas Services At Three Local Churches
First Congregational Church schedules school at 9 30 with Edward Wells as superintendent. At 10 30 the mixed quartet sings How Beautiful Upon the Mountains and a trumpet trombone duet The Holy City. The minister speaks on Restless Love Work and a Christmas Eve program by the church school pupils. St Patrick’s offers 8 and 10 a m masses led by Rev William Moran. Methodist Episcopal holds 9 30 Sunday school, 10 30 worship with theme Being Hungry for Life and Epworth League at 6 30. White Gift observance planned during Sunday school and morning service.
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First Congregational
C. W. Record
Edward Wells
Andy Perina
Spencer
Clyde Seidel
Here
Holy City
Gaul
St. Patrick’s Catholic
Wm. T. Moran
Methodist Episcopal
Lonzo S. Green
Charles Barnes
Epworth League
Cancer Study Progress Report From Dr Sperti In Cincinnati
Dec 17 Cincinnati Post reports findings from an important cancer causes study led by Dr George Sperti at the Institution Divi Thomae in the Cincinnati Catholic Archdiocese. Researchers, including Dr John Loofbourow, studied how growth factors from injured or dead cells affect new growth, finding mild, prolonged injury produces stronger growth stimulation than immediate cell death, with a forthcoming paper in the institution publication.
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Cincinnati, CO
The
Cincinnati Post
George Speri Sperti
Divi Thomae
Cincinnati Catholic Archdiocese
Post
Sperti
Institutum
John R. Loofbourow
Loofbourow
William A. Beck
Elton S. Cook
John J. Fardon
Cecilia
Joy Bring ers in Christmas Day at City Missions
On Sunday December 25 First Baptist held Bible school at 9 30 morning worship at 10 30 and evening service. Rev L S Green and Mrs Green with guests traveled to Cleveland Thursday for the Joy Bringers from California at City Missions Young People's night. Jean Alice Herrick hosted her Sunday school class at North Main Street with gifts bingo carols songs and skits and lunch served by Doris Dangler and Vivian Martin.
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First Baptist
John H. Green
Paul Wilkinson
L. S. Green
A. B. Jones
Charles Friend
Cleveland
California
City Missions
Jean Alice Herrick
Kenneth Herrick
Congregational Church
North Main Street
Doris Dangler
Vivian Martin
Lorain County Four-H Members Enroll in Leadership Project
Six Lorain County Four-H Club members enrolled in a leadership project will hold their final meeting of the year on December 29. Miss Frances Eckert announced the event, with no fixed meeting place yet. Guy Hammon will judge their yearlong work. Members include Elmer Schacht, June Thompson, Evelyn Oldag, Marian Knittle, Margaret Mason, and Melvin Kolbe.
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Lorain County
Frances Eckert
Guy Hammon
Huron County
Elmer Schacht
June Thompson
South Amherst
Evelyn Oldag
Eaton
Marian Knittle
Margaret Mason
Carlisle
Melvin Kolbe
Amherst
Christmas Program At Grafton School
A musical Christmas program directed by Miss Marjorie Howe was presented at the Grafton school on Wednesday evening. The Nativity play There was One Who Gave A Lamb featured a cast led by Mary Virginia Furnish as the Virgin, with roles for Joseph Rozga, Eugene Wehrle, and others. The Wayfarers theme explored giving until one finds the Christ Child, with carols sung by the Angel Chorus of 46 girls and a boys chorus from the third grade.
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Grafton
Marjorie Howe
Grafton School
Annette Mason Ham
Angel
Sarah Jane Johnson
James Tompkins
Leonard Boise
Gertrude Feckanin
John Zacharias
Mary
Virginia Furnish
Joseph Rozga
William Shoulter
Eugene Wehrle
James Anderson
Frank Spanski
Ward Knechtges
Elyrian Initial Into eee Fraternity
Cincinnati dec 17 Phi Eta Sigma national scholastic fraternity honors Gordon R Holton of Otis 335 Eastern Heights Bouley a 1987 alumnus of University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Commerce He ranked high among freshman and presented an honor at dean’s ceremony The Girls Glee Club Elaine Shephard performed then High School Orchestra provided numbers
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Cincinnati
Phi Eta Sigma
Gordon R. Hol
University of Cincinnati
Holton
Otis
Eastern Heights Bouley Tia
Elaine Shephard
St. Nicholas
Jingle Bells
Orch
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Foreman
George Hubbard
Ohio
Reuel Frost
Geography Department
Lake Plain
Association of American Geographers
Cambridge
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New England
Virginia
Richmond
Wilion Cairns
American Mathematical Society
Mathematical Association of America
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Paul B. Sears
Botanical Society of American Ecological Society of America
American Society of Naturalists
Sears
American Nature
Ecological Society of America
Floyd Gove
Education Department
Hope Hibbard
Robert McEwen
Zoology
American Society of Zoologists
National Association of Teachers of Speech
American Political Science Association
Columbus
J. Jeffery Auer
Auer
C. Ralph Fletcher
Town Hall, Inc
America
Robert G. Gunderson
Public
P. ¥. Fenn
J. D. Lewis
Convalescent Home
Merfield
E. College St
Sef Yula Vobantist
DR. Pennington
Broad Street
Sanday
the Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Pts
Elyria Savings and Trust Company
TOY Shop
Henry Hillier
Salvation Army, Broad
Cora M. Shepard
Barker St
K. D
M. E. Aid Bazaar
Jeanne Gibbins
Dorothy Norton
Charles Willard, Jr
Kenneth Perkins
Jacquelin Link
Candy
Maurice Perkins
Lelan Kirkpatrick
Brown
William
Chas
Medera
Florist
Lake Ave
Elyria
Florida
Schroll
Elyrian Initial
Eee Fraternity
Deetz
Deet
Chrysler
Plym
W. Broad
Elyria Dairies
Sunshine LY Farms
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