The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 70

IOC THE KANSASCITY STAR Suwby 1974 sSl MRS JOHN UPPINCOTT Miss Gayle Lynn Bateman MRS WILLIAM KAY II Miss Deborah Lyn Braswell MRS WENDELL BASS JR Miss Andrea Diana Smith MRS ROBERT PESTER Jdiss Beverly Patrice Adam MRS RICHARD COLONNO Miss Jane Ellen Messplay Sigma Sigma Sigma the bride studied at Park College in is majoring in home econom Parkville fs majoring in ics Lippineott who formerly mathematics parents are Mr and Mrs Virgil Pester Miss Julia Adam attended her sister as the maid ot honor and Mrs David Breece served as the matron of honor Acting as the best man for his brother was Paul Pester A reception was held after -'ard at the Plaza 111 for the puple who will be at home re Gonfcmce -fetfeTj the Table The parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Messplay live in Overland Park and the groom parents Mr and Mrs Vincent Colonno are residents ot Allendale Miss Susan Anderson was the maid ot honor and acting as the best man for his brother was Craig Colonno Included in the wedding party was another brother ot the groom Jim Colonno who was an usher with the brides brother David Messplay A reception was given after ward at the home of the bride's parents The couple is at home in Lawrence The bride holds a nursing degree from the University of Kansas The groom who earned a bache lor degree in microbiology from Kansas Wesleyan Univer sity in Sahna and a master in the same field from is now working toward a Ph in virology at MRS ROBERT LEVITT Miss Janet Ann Latz Mrs John Gerdel of Ray town and the late Mr Gerdel and the groom is the son of Mr and Mrs William Steen of Belton Acting as the honor atten dants were Miss Vicki Beck of Raytown and Pfc Vance Steen the groom's brother Among the members of the wedding party were brothers of the couple Phillip Gerdel a groomsman Douglas Ger del of Clinton Mo and Randal Steen ushers and Charles Steen a candlelighter John Gerdel Jr of Venus Tex escorted his sister to the altar On returning from a wedding tnp to St Louis the newlyweds will be al home in Belton Smith-Bass In the presence of close friends and members of the im mediate famibes Miss Andrea Diana Smith exchanged wed ding vows Friday night with Wendell Maurice Bass Jr at the home ol the bride brother in-law and sister Mr and Mrs Clorse Dale The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Smith ol Kansas City Kansas and the groom is the son of Mr and Mrs Wendell Bass oi lola Kan Miss Ruth' Williams of Kan sas City Kansas attended as the maid of honor and acting as the best man was Elliott MRS WILLIAM STEEN II Miss Barbara Sue Gertie I Bass a brother of the groom Included in the wedding party were sisters ot the bride Miss Felicia Smith a bridesmaid and Madeline Smith the candlelighter After a honeymoon in St Louis the couple will live in Lawrence Both the bride and groom are graduates of the University ol Kansas She earned her degree in elemen tary education and he earned his in secondary education Bateman-Lippincott in a ceremony last Sunday afternoon al the Northminsler Presbyterian Church Miss Gavle Lvnn Bateman ex changed wedding' vows with John Daniel- Lippineott ot Law rence son oi Mr and Mrs Tho mas Lippineoti of Sterling Va The bride parents are Mr and Mrs James Bateman The 'honor attendants were the bride sister Miss Cheryl Ann Bateman and the groom's brother Edward Lippmcotl Jr of North Kansas City Among those in the bridal party was a sister ol the groom Miss Anne Louise Lippineott: a bridesmaid After a wedding trip to Corpus Chnsti Tex the eou pie home is to be in Marwille Both the bride and groom will he juniors in summer school at Northwest Missouri State University A member ol MRS ROBERT McCLELLAN Miss Valerie Lou Kindred Kindred-McC lei Ian Married yesterday afternoon at the First Christian Church in Smithville were Miss Valerie Lou Kindred and Robert Eu gene McClellan Parents of the couple are Mr and Mrs Collins Ford Kindred of Smithville and Mr and Mrs Robert McClellan of St Louis Mrs Ronald Major of Smithville served as the ma tron of honor for her sister and Gregory Miller of St Lotus acted as the best man After a reception at the home of the bride's parents the newlyweds left on a wedding trip to the Gull Coast The bride who studied at William Jewell College tn Liberty where she became a member of Alpha Xi Delta will be a sen ior tn the fall at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau where she will ma jor in sociology A member ot Tau Kappa Epsilon the groom earned a speech and drama de greetromSMSU Messplay-Colonno Back from a honeymoon on the island of Aruba in the Car ibbean are the former Miss Jane Ellen Messplay and Richard James Colonno who were married May 19 al the Commu nity Christian Church announces a new schedule Friends and visitors are welcome every afternoon Monday through Fnday One to Five fall at the University of Kansas where she is majoring in special education and he in pre-medicine Latz-Levitt Repeating wedding vows at noon yesterday at St Agnes Catholic Church tn Roeland Park were Miss Janet Ann Ltz and Robert Levitt The daughter of Mr and Mrs William A Latz ot Westwood and the son of Mr and Mrs Paul Levitt of Overland Park were honored at a reception at the Overland Park Holiday Inn Miss Jane Ann McCarthy came from Hancock Iowa to serve as the maid of honor and Pal nek Connelly of Overland Park was the best man The bridesmaids included sisters of the couple Miss Jane Latz Miss Virginia Latz and Miss Paula Levitt The newlyweds are to be at home in Mission Gerdel-Steen Miss Barbara Sue Gerdel became the bride ot William Steen 11 ma ceremony May 24 at the Lin wood United Presbyterian Church Helping per form the ceremony was the bride uncle the Rev Alfred Gerdel Jr of Hutchinson Kan The bride is the daughter of Braswell-Kay Rolling Hills United-Presbyterian Church in Over land Park was the scene yester day afternoon of the wedding of Miss Deborah Lyn Braswell and William Thomas Kay 11 The parents of the bride are Mr and Mrs A Braswell of Overland Park and the groom parents are Mr and Mrs Robert A Kay of Aber deen Miss Linda Braswell attended her sister as the maid of honor and the best man was John Auld Jr of Leawood Also in the bridal party was another sister of the bride Miss Rebecca Ann Braswell who was a bridesmaid with the groom sister Miss Elizabeth Ann Kay After a wedding trip to Colo rado the couple will be al home in Lawrence Both the bride and groom will be seniors the Mornings by Appointment Only Ten to One! 221 5 West 47th Terrace (between State Line and Rainbow Blvd) Tel 262-6161 Adam-Pester Miss Beverly Patrice Adam became the bride of Robert Vir gil Pester tn a ceremony yesterday afternoon at the Christ the King Catholic Church The bride ts the daughter of Mrs John Adam and the late Mr Adam and the groom Author Regains Sanity by Writing 1974 Sun-Swim Fashions Abstract floral on NylonLycra tn shades of Blue or Salmon Front zip high neck styling important features for the mastectomy patient 8 to 16 $3200 pmwirwm INTIMATE APPAREl INC Ward Parkway Center Center Promenade Ent State Line Side 361-0211 painted floors scraped rugs cleaned draperies and she personally had washed every dish and glass and jam jar in the place They were dusty frofn the year she had been campaigning she says But she admits it really was work was as bad as Erma Bombeck ironing the tongues of her tennis sneakers Finally she set herself a rigid 6-week schedule to do the whole project can endure anything for six weeks even going to the dentist She worked from 9am to 7 seven days a week and then accept a dinner date each night with an uncomplicated pleasdnt so 1 had something to look forward to every morning when I got up alone and said hello to my cat 1 told myself if 1 write 10 pages a day I'd have to cancel the dinner date Miss Witker came out of the campaign personally very fond of McGovern and and convinced that the latter was one of the true professionals in the McGovern camp She was personally fond of Mankiewicz too she adds with somewhat less enthusiasm But one gets the feeling she did not think much of his political- acu men She also was very im pressed with the political know how of wife Mrs Eleanor McGovern and be lieves the candidate have listened to her more" on strategy They could stay around but they did not get paid Miss Witker overcame that roadblock to a limited extent by taking photographs for Time magazine on a free-lance basis But it did not leave her any extra money for shrinks when the campaign was over Therefore she wrote the book It was suggested to her by inimitable Barbara Ho war an author herself with whom Miss Witker stayed in Georgetown after she was unceremoniously ousted the middle of the night from the apartment of a traveling McGovern staff worker Frank Mankiewicz McGovern campaign director had told her the apartment was hers for the campaign Another illusion shattered Mankiewicz also had promised her an office and the title of deputy press secretary She got the title a press release said so But it turned out to be Nothing she says scornfully And she found most of the press releases in a wastebasket one day Her office" in the ridiculously overcrowded McGovern headquarters on Capitol Hill already had more persons in it than desks and chairs During the primaries she spent four days of each wfeek in the field setting up voter analysis charts in key precincts The other three days a week she was supposed td spend in the Washington headquarters passing out information to the press on the upcoming schedule But with desk no chair no and almost no schedulers would not give it to her she says was rather ineffectual Things went down hill for her after the primaries to the point where she finally wangled an appointment with a psychiatrist working in the campaign who wound up giving her four free hours of therapy psychiatrist had not come into the campaign to practice his specialty but there is no record of how many other McGovern workers he also may have treated out of the goodness of his-fieart One of Miss special woes was that she had let Pi erre Salinger and Mankiewicz talk her into working for the campaign instead of taking a job she had been offered with CBS television news The book has succeeded in erasing that hangup she says that selling well it has wiped out the terrible sense of guilt I was walking around with for giving up that wonder ful job She has done some free-lance work for CBS since the cam paign but is looking for a full time job She wrote her book in an incredible six weeks but had a hard time driving herself to write it at all knew I should but every time I started to pull out the folders get stomach cramps a physical regurgitat-ing reaction It brought back so many unhappy yukie memories She kept finding excuses Before she got down to work she had redone her whole New York City walls By Isabelle Shelton North American Newspaper Alliance People write boons tor a lot of different reasons but writing one instead of going to a psychiatrist may be a first as our current President is fond of saying That in any case is the excuse of Miss Kristi Witker a young New Yorker who has written an amusing sometimes hilarious account of her eight months working in George presidential campaign 11 to Lose Everything in Politics Except Massachusetts" published by Mason Lipscomb and it is somewhat different from any of the others in the torrent of books that is coming out about the McGovern campaign Other authors have mentioned staff in passing Miss Witker gives a running blueprint of the petti ness venom and tinhorn tyranny by persons whom she believes were largely over their heads While the book has been criticized by many of her former colleagues it is all too true according to many others who were involved in the McGovern campaign and other campaigns Many of them have written Miss Witker to say so and sieveral have told this reporter the same thing' Almost everybody involved in a campaign staff or volun teer is on an ego trip a vet eran of five presidential and countless lesser campaigns says "You get little or no money endless headaches and a great sense of insecurity So you try ti get your kicks by tyrannizing anybody under you and figur ing out who was under and who was over in the McGovern campaign was an art form in itself "You also try to use the campaign to advance by making as many contacts as possible and getting as much publicity as you whether you've done anything to deserve it" The most appalling part of her Miss Witker says is that "in the end I felt just as pushy as the rest Everybody is just so driven by desire to get recog nition you help getting swept up in it You see some fool next to you being really really played up in the press be cause he happened to sidle in front of a television camera at the right time very hard for you not to think next time I see that camera I'm going to sidle in front of old Charlie it a pleasant emotion" the young author adds want my life to go that way She 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