Graduation Week Activities Highlight Winchester Area
A Glen Echo of June events includes the annual class day exercises in Wilson Hall on Monday June 6 with a 430 PM alumnae reception and 830 PM senior play followed by commencement Tuesday June 7 at 9 AM with diplomas and a address by Dr Grayson Kefauver Columbia University. Local residents travel to Harrisonburg for degrees with several county residents also earning bachelor and diploma credentials at Teachers College and Rand-Macon College. Rose Show progress and garden club reports mark a busy season with committee chairmen presenting progress and a plant exchange plus an antique vase class winner and a tea on the lawn. Mr Loring Staples will graduate from Randolph-Macon College on June 7 with AB degree, continuing his family ties to Stephens City and serving as class historian and assistant to Prof Fox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Hall
Wi Hall
Grayson N. Kefauver
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
Harrisonburg
Dora Plank Brill
Sylvia Douglas Grim
Jenny Lind
Lucas Hockman
Kathryn Elizabeth
Martha Ellen Funk
Stephens City
Garnet Leighton Hamrick
Dorothy Ellen Rhodes
Middletown
Garden Club
Winchester
Clarke County
W. A. Baker
South Washington Street
T. the Mocking Bird
Fred L. Glaize, Sr
Garden Club of Virginia
Roanoke
Frank V. Tilford
Winchester Club
Kenneth N. Gilpin
George Washington Hotel
Frank T. McFaden
D. C. Randolph
Carrie Hunter
Lewis H. Hyde
Rose MacDonald
C. Fred Barr
Ben Arthur
Hyde
Barr
William P. Massey
Staples
Loring C. Staples
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
C. E. Staples
Yellow Jacket
E. L. Fox
Social Calendar Highlights Local Club Events And School Activities
Friday evening features Ladies Aid Society at Mrs. Thomas W. Mathews home and a Girls' Athletic Association dance at Drusilla Hotel. Shenandoah Valley Academy holds a formal final ball. Weekend events include AAUW Winchester meeting, Flower Show by Warren County Garden Club, Handley High School finals and baccalaureate, junior senior prom, Lions Club luncheon, Handley senior class banquet, Kiwanis Club and class day exercises, and school choir practices followed by alumni dance at Handley High School.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
First Christian Church
Thomas W. Mathews
North Stewart Street
Girls’ Athletic Association
Drusilla Hotel
Jordan White Sulphur Springs
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Winchester
American Association of University Women
Christina Cook
Valley Avenue
Warren County Garden Club
Hugh R. Millar
Chester Street
Front Royal
Handley High School
Hendley High School
Handley Gimnasium
Lions’ Club
George Washington Hotel
Kiwanis Club
United Brethren Church
Grace Lutheran Church
Soddy” Haines
Soddy Haines
Virginians
Jordan Springs
Handley High
Berryville
Page Lynn
Cumberland
Lynn
Janet Harrison
Leesburg
Brantz M. Roszel
A Y
Young Peoples’ Choir
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Lewis H. Hyde
W. Nelson Page
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Hagerstown
Wipple
Local Teachers College Alumnae Prepare For Finals
Local residents travel to Harrisonburg for the State Teachers’ College commencement events. The alumnae meeting starts at 9 30 with tours of caverns, then music and expression recitals at Wilson Hall, followed by an alumnae banquet, Sunday worship by Dr Selwyn K Cockrell, vesper talks, and an alumnae buffet supper.
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State Teachers’ College
Harrisonburg
Alumnae Association
Alumnae
Wilson Hall
Harrison Hall
Selwyn K. Cockrell
West End
Local Club Activities Fill June Schedule in Winchester
Winchester clubs announce June events including a cake sale on June 11 with Virginia Harrell as chair and tea replaced by a June 16 picnic at Ida Lycett’s cabin. a summer room shower planned for June 28 and a summer dance at Jordan Springs. The Rest Methodist Episco Church South youth held a treasure hunt after a business meeting.
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West
Virginia Harrell
Misses Robinson
Irene Mathews
Lucy Dean
Ida Lycett
Mary Sullivan
Lycett
Thelma Hauptman
Elizabeth Hollis
Elsie Mathews
Irene Headley
Jordan Springs
Rest Methodist Episco Church South
Esther Ridgeway
Ruth Trimble
Tea At Kenmore Mansion Hosts Washington Guests
Washington area society members and D A Rs plan Saturday tea at Kenmore Mansion highlighting a rare quilt by wives of Charles Washington. Hostesses include Mrs Stoffregan Miss Nannie Mey Mrs M L Alstetter and the Eckenrodes. Refreshments to follow.
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Kenmore Mansion
Washington D. A. Rs
Ashington
Charles Washington
George Washington
Stoffregan
Nannie Mey
M. L. Alstetter
Eckenrode
Elizabeth Eckenrode
Spitale Held In Revolver Case Linked To Lindbergh Kidnap Inquiry
Salva Spitale one of three Lindbergh negotiators appeared in a police line up on a revolver charge as part of a Sullivan law raid at the Playtime Club. He testified before an anxious county grand jury probing a $50,000 ransom in the Lindbergh kidnapping case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Salvatore
Salvy) Spitale
Charles A. Lindbergh
Underworld
Spitale
Anx County Grand Jury
Pindbergh
West Forty Seventh Street
Sullivan
John J. Sullivan
Irving Bitz
Lindbergh
Greene County
Portrait of Mrs Mary Eliza McDonald Presented to D A R
Virginia D A R receives a portrait of Mary Eliza McDonald the last surviving member of its first cabinet. The 93 year old Berryville resident was treasurer general decades ago and the painting by Edmund Minor Archer will hang at Constitution Hall.
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Virginia
Na’ Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mary Eliza McCormick McDonald
McDonald
Berryville
Benjamin Harrison
Constitution Hall
Nathaniel Beaman
Norfolk
Virginia Society
William Russell Magna
Holyoke
Mass
Harrison
Benjamin L. Purcell
Richmond
Marchers at Perryville Join Bonus Army Camp
About 460 bonus marchers from Chicago headed to Washington were encamped at Perryville Maryland after their train halted. The group, part of the larger veteran contingent seeking cash payment, set up a orderly camp under railroad police supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pha Obe
Washington
Perryville
Here
Chicago
Veterans Trek Through Baltimore on Final Newark to D C Run
Members of the state constabulary and a like number of veterans passed through Baltimore early today on the last lap of their trek from Newark New Jersey to the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Constabulary
Baltimore
Newark
N. J
Estimating Civil War Era US Millionaires
The passage notes divergent views on the number of millionaires in the United States at the war’s start. One writer cites three, while others claim about fifty, reflecting differing methods and definitions of wealth in the period.
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United States
Ifty
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Enna Ort
Rotary Club
George Ee
The
Loyal Temperance Legion
Geo. Washington Hotel
American Legion Post
Alumni Association
Rouss Hall
I Foor
Red Cross
Irls’ Athletic Association
Rest Church
Hotel Drusilla
Jjune 9
Dan Gregory
Victor Recording Orchestra
Thomas S. Wheelwright
Buckhead Springs
John L. Patterson
St. Anderw’s Lane
Thomas A. Smyth
Tuckahoe
Mary Beine
Spencer L. Carter
Presbyterian Sunday School
Christian Eneavor Union
Handley School
Floyd Haines
Orville Hoover
Miss Knee
Orion Patrol
Pat
Turner
W. Va
Ella Burtner Turner
John R. Turner
University of West Virginia
Winchester Memorial Hospital
Morgantown
W Va
Betty Turner
James Miller
Social Party
Christian Endeavor Society of the
Presbyterian Church
Ruth Atwell
Vane
Herbert Floyd
Messrs
Jack Brazier
Timmy” Graham
University of Virginia
Brazier
J. B. Brazier
Charles Town
Graham
Kellogg's
Kellogg’s
Cnjoy
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Stiri
Thrift
Benjamin Franklin
the Commercial & Savings Bank
Lovett Shoe Store
N. Main St
R. M. Swimley
Lovett Brothers
N. Main Street
Margaret L. Hodgson
Y Rove
Jack
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