Coral Gables Riviera

Marriages and Vacation Excursions Make Early September's Social News

Gablesgrams

by HELEN REYNOLD Could the new people living next door be a University of Miami professor and his family? Could be, for professors abound and there is a dearth of houses in Coral Gables for these newcomers. Time was when every other house in the Gables (there weren't so many) was tenanted by a realtor, a broker or a "binder" boy, for real estate was our greatest industry. Now the University of Miami's large faculty and the employees of Pan American and Eastern Airways fill our houses and have forced the real estators to a seat very much in the rear. * * * Dr. Enrique Noble, exchange professor from the University of Havana, and Mrs. Noble have selected a home in Coconut Grove for their Miami sojourn. They are living at 3016 Seminole Street, and the professor, who will be an assistant professor in Latin-American affairs, exchanges with Dr. Robert McNicholl, who will teach English in the Havana University. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Lyndon R. Street, he will teach instrumental music, and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon L. Thomas, he will be in the English department, are frantically looking for houses, as is Dr. Robert H. Williams, who comes from Cornell and will be assistant professor in botany, and Ralph M. Williams assistant professor in engineering. Incidentally, the former Granada Shops, now to be known as the Granada Building, will house the music department, or, rather, the overflow. * * * Dr. and Mrs. William L. Halstead, he is professor of English, have returned to the faculty after three years' absence in Alabama, where Dr. Halstead taught in the State Teachers College. They have taken a house at 3800 Douglas Road. . . . Mr. and Mrs. J. Ralph Murray, also of the English department, have taken a house at 3023 Indiana Avenue, Coconut Grove, and have come here from the University of Southern California. * * * Dr. Samuel Saslaw and Mrs. Saslaw and their small daughter, student at the Medical Department of Ohio State, have taken a house at 1122 Avenue Mariana. Dr. Saslaw is professor of mathematics and engineering and a graduate of M. I. T. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKenna are residing at 1209 Tangier Street. Mr. McKenna, who graduated at the University of Miami, received his LL.M. at Duke University and has returned to teach at his alma mater. . . . Dr. and Mrs. Donald Fogelquist are residing at 4019 Southwest 14th Street, Coral Gables. He is assistant professor of Portuguese. Professor Gildos Metour, formerly of Butler University, Indianapolis, Ind., has come back to the scene of his triumphs. Now assistant professor of sociology, Metour is a former student. His father was the first professor of French at the University. * * * Miss Joyce E. Rowe of Montclair, N. J. has returned to Coral Gables and will enter the University of Miami this week. Miss Rowe, with her grandmother, Mrs. Mae Dresbach of Montclair, N. J., and Coral Gables, went by train to Montreal, Canada, after having flown to Chicago to visit her aunt, Mrs. Edward Dawson, also wintertime residents. Mrs. Dresbach and her daughter, Mrs. Edith Rowe, will spend the winter here. . . . Miss Virginia Seymour returned Monday to Hollins, N. C., where she will enter Hollins University for her senior year. With her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seymour, she spent most of the summer at Black Mountain, N. C. * * * Mrs. Roy Bovard and her children, Ronald and David, have returned to their home, 620 Palmarito Court, after spending the summer in Louisville, Ky., with Mrs. Bovard's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Stockoff. Ronald will enter Ken-Castle School October 1. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Rinehart, Jr., and two sons, Hollis the third and Michael, are expected home Monday from Vermont, where they summered. . . . Mr. and Mrs. William Watts and their children, who summered aboard their "trailer car" out west, are expected home tomorrow. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Burns Mayer became confirmed "Gableiters" when they recently completed their first visit with their old-time friends, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Sayles, 1105 Tangier Street. Mr. Mayer, who is assistant to the president of the Vanadian Steel Company, Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Mayer usually spent their summers in Europe. It was their first reunion with the Sayles in twenty-five years; now they are planning that "house" in Coral Gables for their future home. * * * Plans are already in the making to entertain Dr. and Mrs. John Hibben of Pasadena, Cal., when they arrive to spend the Christmas holidays with their daughter and son-in-law, the John M. Montgomerys. Dr. Hibben, who is a very busy doctor, will fly down and back for the visit. Mrs. Hibben, who will come on by train, says she will absolutely spend all of her time with her new grandson, but we hear otherwise. There will be Mrs. Archibald Mackrell's luncheon at the Miami Biltmore Hotel, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Barrett's large table at the Century Club New Year's Eve dance, and the Montgomery's annual open house cocktail party on Christmas Day for the Hibbens. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gale and two sons, Jack and Fritz Gale, of 3508 Anderson Road, are counting the days when they can move into their new house, rapidly nearing completion at 928 Avenue Algaringo. Planned on generous lines, the new one-story home occupies at least 90 feet frontage on the avenue. . . . Mr. and Mrs. Lowell E. Southern, who formerly lived at 908 Avenue Andres, have purchased the new residence at 3610 Durango Street, to which they have moved, after making many additions and improvements. * * * Even with all the turmoil at the Coral Gables Elementary School, with the record breaking enrollment, the Parent-Teachers' organization will function just the same. Accordingly, Mrs. J. Attmore Wright, Jr., president, scheduled a sort of "introductory" meeting at 10:30 Tuesday in the P.-T. A. room, to which she asks all officers and committee chairmen to come. Mrs. F. N. Holley, Jr., is vice president; Mrs. Charles F. Miller, second vice president; Mrs. W. E. Farabee, recording secretary; Mrs. George S. Cobb, corresponding secretary and Mrs. James R. Branam, treasurer.