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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
9
Camp consultant Marjorie McLean Leary notes several top camps offer partial scholarships for full time campers. Private and organization camps still have spaces this summer as World’s Fairs reduce filled enrollments. Parents with altered vacation plans can find options for a few weeks or the full season.
Marjorie McLean Leary is the authorized Camp Consultant of this news magazine. Her services are available by appointment to all readers at no obligation. Parents with camp placement problems are invited to consult Mrs Leary a recognized authority on camps. All conferences are confidential.
Parents are urged to start planning as the second camp session opens in the last week of July. The camp aims to condition children to endure school year strains and winter illnesses while offering joyful adventure, companionship, and productive leisure time.
Miss Margaret Bird and Miss Helen Chancellor leave Winnetka and Wilmette for the summer to serve as counselors at Joy Camps in Hazelhurst Wisconsin. Bird visits friends at the University of Wisconsin during the trip.
A scholarship to St George High School in Evanston is awarded to James Matteoni who recently graduated Sacred Heart School Hubbard Woods. He finished his class with the highest average and is the son of Mr and Mrs Gene Matteoni at 992 Oak Street Winnetka.
Bruce Granstrom of Winnetka and Val A. Smith Jr. of Evanston attended the wedding of Elizabeth Anne James of Columbus Nebraska and Frank Carpenter of Kenilworth. They then planned a month long trip visiting Colorado Arizona New Mexico California and returning through Yosemite National Park Salt Lake City and Yellowstone.
Mr and Mrs Stanley Olmsted and son Stanley Jr of Danville Ill spent last weekend with Mrs Olmsted s parents Mr and Mrs Robert Swaim 701 Laurel Avenue They witnessed their son entrain with a group of 40 boys headed for Teton camp in Jackson Hole Wyoming about 40 miles south of Yellowstone The boys will have a two months outing with each boy having a horse and a group horseback trip through Yellowstone Park.
Shirley Cooter of Kenilworth left for New York with Miss Marjorie Bogie and will proceed to Camp Arcadia in Maine for the summer.
Mr and Mrs D S Stillman and their three sons Donald De Witt Jr and Charles of 707 Kent road Kenilworth will spend the week end at Ludington Michigan Donald recently returned from Hanover N L where he has completed his sophomore year at Dartmouth College
Miss Dorothy Carrington of 229 Woodbine Avenue wins the Angie Williams Cox award at Principia Upper School in St. Louis for best essay on Politics as a Career. Her essay Social Service as a Career takes second prize.
The Canadian National Railways 6400 locomotive that hauled the Royal Train to the Niagara Frontier is on display at the New York World’s Fair. A. B. Chown, passenger traffic manager, says it sits on the railway exhibit tracks and will feature in the transportation pageant throughout July.
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