Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Thursday, February 16, 1961, page 12 (of 18)
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She'll Help Coral Gables To Bloom
Mrs. C. M. Ballard is a dedicated flower arranger and gardener extraordinary. She is the subject this week of a preview of the first annual presentation of the Coral Gables Garden Club's Flower Show in cooperation with the City of Coral Gables. The gigantic show will take place Friday and Saturday Feb. 24 and 25, at the Masonic Temple, 41 Valencia Ave. Donation is 50 cents for adults, 25 cents for children. Schedule Chairman Mrs. Ballard is schedule chairman for the two day show and a member of the show board. Theme of the show is "Flowers In All Their Glory." Hours are from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday. Mrs. Ballard authored and published a flower arrangement primer in 1956. In the same year she won the Tri-color award (highest) at the Metropolitan Miami Flower Show. Her entry was a design "Shin-Nageire," a Japanese arrangement using Vanda orchids and Jatropha, a rare Japanese shrub. Two years ago Mrs. Ballard introduced the first "Ikebana International", Japanese flower arrangements, in Coral Gables and organized a group (closed at 20 members) of Coral Gables and Miami women as members. She instructs them once a month in the Japanese art of flower arranging. She is a member of the board of the Coral Gables Garden Club, chairman of decorations. One of the most interesting of Mrs. Ballard's accomplishments is her Japanese Garden complete with tea house, in the garden of their home on Minorca Ave. Many garden clubs and other groups have been invited to visit this unique place. Mrs. Ballard is a member of the Florida State and National Associations of Parliamentarians and is parliamentarian for the West End Garden club of which she is a past president. The Ballards are the parents of a daughter, Jetta, who majored in art and interior design at college and is now Mrs. Marvin McCormick of Orange, Va., and the mother of two boys. Their son, M. C. Ballard is with the Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Pleasantville, Calif. He is married and the father of four, three girls and a boy. MRS. BALLARD
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UM Dames Club Plans Initiation
The Dames Club, made up of wives of students attending the University of Miami School of Medicine, will hold an initiation ceremony on Monday at 8 p.m. in the Aquinas Student Center on campus. Decorations of pom-poms will be used. Following the initiation, a hair styling demonstration will be given.
At Mary Washington
Among students registering for the second semester at Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia are Miss Joy Patricia Mills, daughter of Mrs. R. H. Mills, 414 Malaga Ave., and Miss Vicki Galbraith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archibald S. Galbraith of Port Washington, N. Y., formerly of Coral Gables.
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JAMES WUNDERLICH J. C. PENNEY COMPANY, INC. February 10 1961 Miami, Florida Mr. Robert Slane Times & Guide Box 580 Coral Gables, Fla. Dear Bob: I would like to take this opportunity to thank you and your papers for the outstanding job in helping this store get on its feet, so to speak, in its first year of operation. We have just completed our first full year of doing business in Central Shopping Plaza, as you know, and it is with the tremendous assistance of your fine papers that we can look to the success we have had this year. Through advertising in The Times and Guide we have met many fine new customers. Our hope is that, together, we can continue our growth from year to year. Thanks again for the help you and your newspapers have given us in our first year. Sincerely, James Wunderlich James Wunderlich, Manager, J. C. Penney Co. Central Shopping Plaza