Weekly V O W Meeting at Odd Fellows Hall
Social and Personal notices list a Friday 8:00 p m weekly meeting of the V Wal at Odd Fellows Hall with attendees and event details.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1941
Page
8
Social and Personal notices list a Friday 8:00 p m weekly meeting of the V Wal at Odd Fellows Hall with attendees and event details.
A sprawling society note covers multiple weddings in Winchester, including Miss Jane Jolliffe and Mr. Ralph Manuel at Christ Pal Church with Maid of Honor Miss Chapin and Best Man Mr. Robert Manuel. It lists holiday travelers, returning students, and local residents recovering from illness, plus cadets and service members visiting from Fort Meade and nearby towns.
A beauty column urges women over thirty to stay youthful by embracing change, grooming, and fitness. It contrasts lively thirty-somethings with complacent older readers who avoid new styles, stressing posture, makeup, and a modern attitude to look younger. It notes premature wrinkles and loss of vitality come from attitude, not age.
Roberta Lee answers etiquette questions. Avoid saying Beg pardon and use I beg your pardon. Eclat is a French word meaning brilliancy of achievement with pronunciation a-kla accent on the last syllable. A fur coat as a Christmas gift for a fiance is not advised.
Miss Evelyn Delp of Comers Rock VA and Annette Roberts of Norton VA depart for home to spend holidays. Also Janet Miller of Harrisonburg Ruth Solenberger of Martinsburg and Katherine Stone of Elk Creek VA, teachers at John Kerr school, leave for home. Ann Hatcher a Queen’s College student arrives in Winchester to be with her parents for the holidays. Dorothy deGrave arrives tonight to spend vacation with her parents on South Washington street. she is a junior at St Catherine’s School in Richmond.
Patrons of the Parent Teacher Pupil Association met at Miller School for a Christmas program titled Silent Night performed by pupils under Miss Elizabeth Krouse. A committee led by Edwin Marker will improve the boys basement. Miss Krouse’s room won a cake prize for most patrons.
Miss Nancy Gray Stevens will host Miss Pattie Wattles during vacation as Stevens plans a Baltimore debut next winter. Notables from Washington and New York, including Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Krock and Col. and Mrs. Snowden Fahnestock, join gatherings at Limestone estate. Dr. and Mrs. Frank E. Tappan host a tea dance at Berryville High School with a dance class benefiting the Clarke County milk fund for undernourished students.
Mrs. Anna K. Cummins leaves Wednesday for Elizabeth New Jersey to spend holidays with her nephew and niece Mr and Mrs Hary Schneider. Before returning home she will visit Miss Ruth Campbell in New York as a guest.
Berryville residents share holiday plans and medical updates. Dr Blanton Allen returns from Memorial Hospital after appendicitis operation. Frazer Dougherty with the First Philadelphia Troop visits family in Woodley. Miss Mary Meade Osborne and Midshipman Jack Stribling are home for Christmas.
Several Berryville residents and relatives are spending Christmas with relatives in Virginia and Maryland. Miss Kalleen Francis of Berryville High School visits in Glen Allen near Richmond. Others travel to Washington D C and Arlington for holidays. Fort Meade service members and local faculty members are noted among the gatherings.
The notice lists several local families and students traveling to spend Christmas with parents. Mel Atee ve and Miss Eloise Lallumsden visit Clifton Forge Virginia. Elizabeth Ann Jones returns from Farmville States Teachers College. Mayor Leonard H. Bell hosts daughter Louie Bell from Farmville State. William Lyons, at Emery University Atlanta, and Gerald Lyon, at Emery Henry College, visit Rev A O Lyons at the Methodist parsonage.
Mr. Robert Chaveriat, now with the Quartermaster Corps at Camp Lee Virginia, expects to return to Audley Park for the weekend.
Miss Betty Robertson of Richmond is expected to arrive the first of the week to spend Christmas with her parents Superintendent and Mrs A F Robertson.
Mr and Mrs Everarde C McGehee of Jackson Mississippi welcomed a daughter. The McGehees have many friends in Berryville and spent time at Aurley and Fielding as guests of Mr McGehee’s.
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