Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Friday, September 19, 1947, page 8 (of 12)

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FORGE 'CHAIN PARTY' LINKS Junior Club Members Keep Phones Busy Planning Events to Swell General Fund

Coral Gables Junior Woman's Club members kept telephones jangling this week as they forged new links in their unique "party-chain" project designed to swell the organization's treasury. Mrs. Karl Madsen, co-chairman with Mrs. Thomas L. Campbell of the chain-party program, started the ball rolling with a dessert bridge for fellow club members at her home, 2311 S. W. 7th St. Each of the eight guests promptly responded with similar benefit events of their own for other junior clubbers. Acceptance of an invitation to a "chain party" obligates the guests to contribute a link of her own in the form of some sort of intra-club entertainment. Hostesses who have already accepted the chain challenge are Mrs. Thomas L. Campbell, Mrs. H. J. Coleman, Mrs. W. H. Cauley, Mrs. Fred Diestelhorst, Mrs. Robert Shelley, Mrs. Frank A. Taylor, Mrs. T. H. Chapman, Mrs. Bernard S. Good and Mrs. H. H. Burkhart, all of whom chose to entertain at bridge, and Mrs. Dan Sheffield and Mrs. Charles DeCamp who took their guests picnicking. Other party-givers now issuing invitations are Mrs. G. E. Patterson and Mrs. William F. Patterson who will give an afternoon bridge; Mrs. Stanley Biedron, who is to be hostess at a theatre matinee; and Mrs. Dave Bosworth, Jr., and Mrs. W. T. Price, Jr., who will entertain at evening card parties.

Soroptimist Club Names Committees For Benefit Philharmonc Concert

Committee heads for the benefit Philharmonic Concert to be sponsored by the Soroptimist Club of Coral Gables at the Elementary School auditorium Oct. 7 were announced this week. Proceeds from the concert will be given to the South, Florida Children's Hospital. Easter Russell, Soroptimist president, named the following committees to complete plans: Program and advertising: Lucille Neher, chairman; Cella Abbott, Margaret Ely, June McKay, Virginia Summer, Celia Snow, Juliet Petrecca, Nikki O'Connor. Tickets: Margaret Ely and Effie England, co-chairmen; Dori Thomas, Rose Horo, Lucille Neher, Frances Roozen, Frances Rosendale. Decorations: Celia Abbott, chairman; Sue Jenkins, Virginia Summer, Juliet Petrecca, Frances Rosendale. Refreshments: Beth Jones, chairman; Margaret Ely, Loretta Shevhy, Anne Blowers. Nikki O'Connor, club chairman for Ways and Means, is general chairman of the benefit.

Kathryn Woolard Betrothed to Pennsylvania Man

Mr. and Mrs. John S. Woolard of 400 Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables, and Albany, Ga., this week announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Kathryn Lisa Woolard to Robert G. Meinken. Mr. Meinken is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Meinken of Elkins Park, Pa. No date has been set for the wedding. The bride-elect attended Miss Harris' Florida School and the Power' School in New York City. She will enter her senior year at the Pennsylvania College for Women this Fall. Mr. Meinken was graduated from Cheltenham High School in his home town and is now continuing studies toward a degree at Pennsylvania State College. He is a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity; the Blue Key Society, national honorary sports fraternity; and Alpha Mu Tau. He also holds memberships in the Old York Country Club and the Huntingdon Valley Country Club in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Mr. Meinken is nephew to Helen Meinken, renowned Theater Guild actress. His father is president of the National Union Radio Corp., of Pennsylvania. Miss Woolard recently returned from an eight week tour of Europe during which she visited the Scandinavian countries, England, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Holland.

Hurricane - Wise Residents Take Blow in Their Stride

(Continued from Page Seven) is buy a dozen of the things-big ones!" Most Gableites spent the pre-storm hours scurrying around for food supplies or cooking roasts-but not Mrs. William L. Huntley. "I decided a hurricane would be a wonderful time to go on that diet my husband and I talk about-but never get to," she declared. "We had just enough snacks on hand to stave off starvation!" Despite invitations from neighbors on both sides of them at 725 North Greenway Drive, the Huntleys stuck to their "enforced fast" and depended on milk, cheese and crackers and pickles to tide them over. Their son, Bill, Jr., was en route back to Notre Dame and escaped the storm. Tiny "Torie" Hopkins, 15-month-old daughter of the S. Duffield Hopkins, Jr., 1403 North Greenway Drive, eperienced the first hurricane of her young life-and liked it fine. "She apparently thought it was a big show staged just for her entertainment-and was in a dither of excitement the whole time," her dad reported. With big brother" Hoppy", aged four, it was a different story. "He was plain bored because he couldn't go out and play." Society Editor Helen Reynolds announced by phone that she's swearing off vacations forever. "I spent the first week nursing an infected arm and the second nursing a hurricane," she commented ruefully. "Dust off that typewriter!" Were you puzzled by the unorthodox meanderings of the storm? Mrs. Lee Gebhart has the answer-it was following her! The Gables vacationer deserted Ponte Vedra Beach in a hurry when the blow was reported bypassing Miami and heading toward Jacksonville. At Vero Beach, she stopped by to visit friends just as they were alerted to expect full force of the southeaster. "I raced for the Gables and so did the hurricane," she said. "It was uncomfortably close to a dead heat!" It took a tempest to vindicate Mrs. Richard Oelkers' incurable habit of putting things by-"just in case." "The family always kids me, but they were mighty happy to take advantage of 'Mom's junk' during the hurricane!" the wife of State Representative Chubby Oelkers declared. The "junk" that helped keep the four Oelkers snug included: an alcohol lamp that was used to heat formulas for daughter Camille 15 years ago; two ancient kerosene lamps; a couple of barn lanterns, and "the darndest assortment of old candle stubs you've ever seen!" The Walter W. Wigmans greeted inquiries with the jubilant pronouncement: "We had a gas stove-hooray!" "With that and a deep freeze box filled with ice, we ate heartily and hardly realized there was a storm," they asserted. Except for debris from palm and pine trees, the Wigmans reported no storm damage to their South Miami estate, Curwig Pines.

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Ott Named Opera Guild Treasurer

Roy V. Ott, vice president of the Florida National Bank at Miami, this week was appointed treasurer of the Opera Guild of Miami. Ott, who lives at 438 Avenue Malaga, succeeds J. Bruce Langdon, another Gables resident, who resigned recently after managing Guild financial affairs for five years. Arturo di Filippi, president of the group that will present Metropolitan artists in "Rigoletto" and "Madame Butterfly" during the winter season, said it was with "great reluctance" that the Guild accepted the resignation

Carlsons Announce Birth of Daughter

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Carlson announce the birth of a daughter, Dona Lyn, at the Coral Gables Hospital on Sept. 8th. Mrs. Carlson is the former Gracia Lawless, daughter of Mrs. Ray Lawless of 1109 Avenue Asturias. The Carlsons, who are making their home at the University of Miami's Student Village while the head-of-the-house attends law school, have another daughter, Tondi, aged three.

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Druggists Wives Plan Entertainment

The Dade County Pharmaceutical Auxiliary will hold an afternoon through evening party Monday at the Caim Box, 7401 Collins Ave., Miami Beach. Luncheon will be followed by an afternoon of bridge and swimming. Dinner and dancing will comprise the evening program.

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Gables Women Attend Red Cross Conference

Mrs. M. F. Wittichen, 1024 Avenue Asturia and Mrs. Frances Mizell, 444 Avenue Valencia were among 12 members of the Dade County Chapter who journeyed to Orlando this week to attend the Florida State Conference of the American Red Cross. Mrs. Wittichen is chapter secretary and a member of the executive committee. Mrs. Mizell is director of the home service department. Approximately 400 delegates from 82 Florida chapters attended the conference.

Campers Home From Gables 'Suburb'

A mountain lodge in Tennessee was transformed into an official suburb of Coral Gables by ten young ladies who attended Camp Monterey there this summer. The girls, who returned to their Gables homes in time for school's opening, were Marilyn Mayes, Catherine Lindley, Kathleen Keck, Lynn Esslinger, Mildred Charles, Sonia Benson, Lisa Lewis, Joyce Weather, Elizabeth Randol and Gwenn Althauser.

Wartime Volunteers Don Uniformed To Take Up Emergency Duties

(Continued from Page Seven) "on duty" at the veterans hospital: Mrs. William B. Weaver, 516 Avenue Aragon; Miss Ollie Alleyne Long, 800 Avenue Majorca; Mrs. Raymond Lipe, 818 Avenue Majorca; and Miss Josephine Del Mastro, 2269 S. W. 17th St. Mrs. Alderson predicted that at least a dozen more trained volunteers would be ready to take up the mission of mercy on Monday. Meanwhile, the Red Cross urged all Gables women interested in earning the cap and pin of the Nurses Aide Corps to sign up for for the training course scheduled to start Monday, Sept. 29th at the hospital. Women 18 years or older, who are high school graduates, will be eligible for the course. The initial session will begin at 7:30 p.m. and application should be made at Red Cross headquarters, 507 N. E. 1st Ave.

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Pennsylvania Visitor

An Indian Summer vacation with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. George Palmer, of Belford, Pa., is being enjoyed by Miss C. McDowell. She expects to return to the Gables around the the middle of October.

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Hold Everything Motorette IS COMING THIS WAY

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