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Society Happenings Preview Four Holiday Balls and Weddings
The Spectator notes four major charity and alumni balls planned around Christmas in the Chamber of Commerce ballroom with top hosts and an Indianapolis orchestra. It also highlights the December 19 wedding of Miss Astrid Tornwall and Almond C Fairfield, with Fernand background, and details Tornwall’s international upbringing and academic career in Chicago Joliet high school.
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Holly Club
Chamber of Commerce
George A. Barr
J. Campbell Carey
L. C. Stephens
Theodore R. Gerlach
David Mathias
Albert T. Davis
Walter B. Stewart
John H. Garnsey
Rachel Learnard
Gene Fosdick
Bal Tabarin Orchestra
Chicago
Orrin Dowse
Thomas Lauer
Frappe
Frank J. Turk
John F. Carey
Hayes Kennedy
Eugene A. Dinet
J. Raymond Breen
Eugene P. Lennon
Raymond Pilcher
Harry P. Keeley
Collegians
Joliet Illini Club
Indianapolis
University of Illinois
George Braun
Ayers Ricker
Gerald Koerner
Richard J. Barr
George Barr
Robert Martins
George J. Arbeiter
August Maue
Havey T. Woods
Leonard Braun
Bradford Russell
St. Mary’s
Notre Dame
Elks
Edna Schuster
Joseph Adler
Frances Murphy
Lucille Redmond
James Burke
Clarence Wilhelmi
Franyear
Charles Lennon
Helen Comerford
Agnes Lennon
John Berscheid
Edward King
William Bossingham
Joseph Schuster
R. J. Burrill
A. J. Lennon
Astrid Tornwall
Almond C. Fairfield
Carol Spencer
DeKalb
Tornwall
Mildred Anderson
Dorothy Hudzietz
Tampa
Florida
Fairfield
Sydney Brown, Jr
Fairfields
Louis Joliet
Miss Ternwall
Ping Liang
China
Mr. Tornwall
Joliet High School
Sweden
America
Mr. Fairfield
Louis W. Fairfield
Marie. Almond Fairfield
Angola
Indiana
Tri State College
University of the Philippines
Manila
Almond C. Fairchild