Porter Heaps Resigns as Erviston Organist at First Methodist
Porter Heaps, three year organist for the First Methodist Church in Erviston, resigns while attending the American Guild of Organists national convention in Indianapolis. He was named America’s best organist under 24 at the 1930 Philadelphia sesqui centennial expo and studied in Boston, New York, Chicago, and Paris with Marcel Dupre. He holds Northwestern degrees and has led 350 vesper organ recitals at the Rockefeller chapel in Chicago over two years. He serves as La Grange Sunday Evening club organist and treasurer of the Illinois Guild of Organists. Previously he held posts at Wilmette Methodist and Congregational churches.
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Porter Heaps
First Methodist Church
Ervanston
American Guild of Organists
Indianapolis
Ivo
Heaps
America
United States
Boston
New York
Chicago
Marcel Dupre
Paris
Northwestern University
Rockefeller Chapel
University of Chicago
la Grange Sunday Evening Club
Illinois
Wilmette
Mrs Duffield Hosts Walsh Sisters at Kenilworth Inn
Mrs. Graham Duffield entertained her sisters Miss Adelaide Walsh and Miss Dorothy Walsh of New York City for the weekend at the Kenilworth Inn. Miss Dorothy, a noted interior decorator, is in the area for the Furniture Mart exhibition.
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Graham Duffield
Kenilworth Inn
Miss Adelaide
Dorothy Walsh
New York City
Dorothy
Furniture Mart
Representative Women at League Board Meeting
Unusual gathering of representative women at the Illinois League of Women Voters board meeting in Freeport on June 9 and 10. Attendees included Mrs. Ralph B. Treadway and other state leaders. sessions featured reports from legislative chairmen and newly elected Cook County president Quincy Wright. guests from Winnebago County joined for the concluding luncheon at the YWCA.
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League
Illinois League of Women Voters
Freeport
Stephenson County
Ralph B. Treadway
Glen Ellyn
FE. FE. Stevenson
Streator
Guy E. Tawney
Urbana
Winnetka
Ida Strawn Randall
Chicago
FE. H. Lunde
E. C. Schmidt
M. E. Pollak
Highland Park
Quincy Wright
Cook County League of Women Voters
Country Club
Winnebago County League of Women Voters
Florence Janson
Rockford
Cards and trinkets sought for hospital and home
Time weighs heavy on men at Great Lakes hospital and Oak Forest infirmary, prompting a plea for discarded but complete decks of cards. At Oak Forest about eight hundred women seek ribbons, jewelry, lace, and trims. north shore women are asked to send these items to Mrs Carlton Prouty 693 Willow Road Winnetka or arrange pickup by calling her.
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Great Lakes Hospital
Oak Forest Infirmary
Oak Forest
North Shore
Carlton Prouty
Willow Road
Winnetka
Howard school welcomes Frances Haskin as graduate this week
Frances Haskin daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy IL Haskin of 1465 Wilmette avenue is among the graduates this week at the Howard school. Mrs George H Weaver of 1020 Ashland avenue will host luncheon bridge club members tomorrow.
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Frances Haskin
Roy IL. Haskin
Wilmette Avenue
Howard School
George H. Weaver
Ashland Avenue
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van Duerm’s
Central Avenue
Pearson
Hills Bros. Coffee
Kenilworth
Hubbard Woods
Glencoe
Farbelows
Lindwall
Oak Street
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