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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1953
Page
10
A reflective Oberlin piece cherishes Christmas rituals and family scenes as 1953 ends. The narrator recalls church services, children in choir robes, poinsettias and pine boughs, and the joy of gifts including a stray puppy. A gray December day frames memories of calendars, dogs, and a fading golden-sunshine fable.
Oberlin College German department presents mezzo soprano Lois Fisher in a recital at Warner Concert Hall on January 5. Fisher will perform lieder by Brahms Schubert and Wolf including volkslieder with accompanist Edward Mattos and violist Paul Collins. Free admission at 8 p.m.
Kipton residents Mr and Mrs Raymond Braun announce the engagement of their daughter Caroline to Harold Z Leimbach RD 1 Amherst son of the late Mr and Mrs Henry Leimbach Elyria The wedding date is not set Miss Braun is a Camden High school graduate class of 1950 and works at College Beauty Shop Oberlin Mr Leimbach a Henrietta High School graduate 1948 served in the U S Army including Korea and is now a brakeman for Lake Terminal Railroad Lorain
Oberlin College president William Stevenson and Mrs Stevenson will host an at home event for faculty officers and staff from 3:30 to 5:30 PM on New Year’s Day.
Oberlin College resumes classes January 4 with a full week of lectures recitals and rehearsals. Highlights include humanities talks on The Church in the East and West Byzantine Art and Rheims, choir and musical rehearsals, dance club sessions, a recitals by Lois Fisher, and a Gershwin Concert Orchestra performance. Additional chapel services and student gatherings fill the schedule through January 8.
Oberlin December 22 to 29 births and dismissals listed for Allen Hospital. Newborns include a daughter to Garth and family at 195 Woodland Avenue and children to Wyatt, Spidell, Scott, Bell, Yarber, Hozalski, Kuhingler, Caywood, Konicek. Dismissals feature multiple patients by surname with accompanying relatives and streets in Oberlin and nearby Amherst and Sullivan.
The Oberlin Carnegie library hosts a display titled Fifty Years of Flight Aviation in America to honor the fiftieth anniversary of the Wright brothers first flight. It features Wilbur and Orville Wright papers, related books, photos of Kitty Wright and Oberlin connections, and the Wrights’ 1903 flight history with context from 1909 photographs.
A. E. Norling of 84 King street built a new Oberlin Canteen Company from his hobby. An Illinois Engineering College graduate of 1919, he moved from Aurora to Oberlin in 1944 and started full time canteen production in 1946. Now employing 12, he markets a porous fiber board canteen for worms and bait used nationwide. He formed a corporation with his wife and Robert Fauver to support expansion, while remaining active as a city councilman.
A school teacher named Kitty aroused Orville’s displeasure by marrying, despite her shy brothers’ social lives. He recalled Oberlin, her alma mater, and his own adopted alma mater, in his will.
Oberlin College graduates Ann Moyer and Paul William Scharff wed at Cleveland Park Congregational Church with Dr. Alfred Hurst officiating. The couple will live in Cleveland while Scharff pursues medical studies at Western Reserve University. The bride teaches at South Euclid School. groom is a medical student.
Oberlin Ohio January 6 1951 Dr J Otis Young administrative assistant to Ohio Area Bishop Hazen Werner will speak at Oberlin College Graduate School of Theology Room 5 Bosworth Hall at 10 00 am His topic Living Above the Brooding Clouds of Life He is a trustee many Methodist institutions and has served in regional and General Conferences The public is invited to attend.
The Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College hosts an unusual exhibition lent by Heydenryk of New York City. Titled Framing: Right and Wrong it showcases twenty one color reproductions from Sassetta to Picasso framed in both wrong and right ways to illustrate framing rules. The show runs January 428 and runs concurrently with a Modern Art Museum architectural exhibit. The museum is open daily 1 30 to 4 30 and 7 to 9 except weekends when hours are 2 to 4.
Mr and Mrs Paul Jordan of Cleveland Heights announce the engagement of Frances Helen Jordan to Ensign Richard Christy son of Mr and Mrs William Christy of Merrick New York Miss Jordan attended Oberlin College and graduated from the University of New Mexico where she is teaching Mr Christy is a United States Navy graduate of the University of New Mexico
Oberlin College's Allen Art Museum hosts an important 87-panel display from January 4 to 29, drawn from MoMA's postwar survey. Curated by Henry Russell Hitchcock, the show profiles 43 buildings by 32 architects, with a companion 128 page photo book. The exhibit runs daily 1:30–4:30 and 7:00–9:00, except weekends with different hours.
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