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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1970
Page
6
Miss Sandra Kay Long and Thomas Howard Sperry wed in a 2 p.m. ceremony at the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond. The bride, a MCV nursing graduate, and the groom, a VPI student, reside in Richmond after a reception in the church social room.
The Winchester Poetry Workshop will suspend monthly meetings until September due to heavy summer schedules. Meetings are the third Wednesday at 7 30 p m in Shenandoah College Gregory Building. The group will continue the weekly Rhymes Den column and welcomes submissions from poets.
Tuesday schedules include Lions Club at George Washington Hotel Exchange Club Board of Directors at Henry William Evans Home and several clubs at local venues. Wednesday features Kiwanis Winchester Association of the Blind Colonial Garden Club and multiple hobby and fraternal meetings at Winchester venues.
The Welcome Wagon Club will hold a family picnic Saturday at 12 noon at the Antique Car Shelter in the Park replacing the regular July meeting.
Highland Presbyterian Women will not meet this evening. A new version of Spanish Rice with veal chops includes spinach salad bowl and peach crisp beverage. Recipe: bacon, rice, onion, green pepper, tomatoes, water, salt, paprika, pepper, peanuts. cook until tender about 30 minutes yields 4 to 6 servings.
Miss Sharon Wood Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Westwood Smith of Winchester became the bride of Robert Charles Koch of Williamsburg on June 27 at Opequon Memorial Presbyterian Church Kernstown. The ceremony featured white gladioli daisies palms and candelabra with Roger Lethman as organist.
Virginia Military Institute honor rolls 239 cadets for the second semester. Eligibility requires a 3.0 average and no grade below 2.0. Among honorees is Cadet Alexander A. Bearer IV of Winchester, a rising first class English major, Massanutten Academy alumnus.
Mrs. Paul Haldeman of the Old Fredericktown Garden Club demonstrated pressing flowers and framing techniques at Winchester Golf Club. She showed dry specimens, decorative paper weights, and note paper. the club announced its Aug 12 picnic hosts and several awards earned by members in color classes and horticulture.
Winchester residents are listed hosting gatherings in Clarke County and Stephenson while students Jeanne Marie Hammer Ethel Nold and Karen Roinestad join the Dean’s List at the College of William and Mary. Belinda Pugh earns Berea College dean’s honors. Betty Hodgson and Carole Casey attend a Maryland Medical Secretarial School Alumni reunion in Hagerstown. The Combs family visits Lonnie Combs Sr. in Betterdorf Iowa.
Braddock Street United Methodist Church announces no July general WSCS meeting. Executive Committee and Program Planning meeting set for Tuesday July 21 are canceled. Circle No 5 hosts a pot luck picnic supper at 623 National Ave. at 6:30 p.m. today chaired by Mrs. Bruce Golightly.
Miss Ellen Baum Gardner daughter of Mr and Mrs H S Baum Gardner 422 Fairmont Ave left Dulles Airport July 7 for a five week European tour with the Ferrum Junior College Study Group visiting seven countries and returning August 10.
At Winchester Chapter 1367 of the Women of the Moose a meeting honored Mrs. Lyle Simpson for tireless service. Mrs. Elmer Vance announced Chapter Night and new member enrollment, with Miss Marty Fuller Lisa Vance and Wendy O Connell performing. The group planned a July 23 meeting and a Saturday dance, as 27 members attended.
The Friendly Grove Homes Demonstration Club will meet Wednesday July 22 at 7 30 pm in the Mountain Falls Community Center. Mrs Mary LaFollette will lead the devotional and the demonstration will be on Plastics in the Home Hostesses are Mrs Laura Richard and Mrs Joyce Richard Visitors are welcome.
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