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a a a a a a a a H. Armstrong, Lt. Humpstone Wed Miss Jane Hamilton Mervyn V. Armstrong of 160 afternoon in Grace Church to U. S.

M. C. son of Mr. and Manhattan. The ceremony performed by the rector, Rev.

David T. Atwater, who was assisted by the Rev. Harold Belshaw of St. James Church, Prouts Neck, Maine. reception followed at the Regis Roof.

Given in marriage by father, the bride wore a dress of ivory silk taffeta with heirloon rosepoint bertha, and a coif of matching lace banded with a wreath of orange blossoms. Her long train was trimmed with rosepoint lace, which had been worn by the bridegroom's mother. She, carried a bouquet of lilies the valley. The honor attendants were Mrs. Walter Owen Weber Amityville, cousin of the bride, and Miss Virginia Varet Martin of Manhattan.

They were dressed alike in dresses ivory lace and tulle with light blue velvet sashes. They carried Colonial bouquets of cornflower, lilies of the valley and forget-me-nots, with flowertrimmed streamers, and wore matching wreaths in their hair. The bridesmaids included Miss Majorie Darling Amityville, another cousin of the bride: Mrs. Dudley D. Campbell Jr.

and Miss Virginia D. Weeks Brooklyn, Mrs. L. Brent Bozell of Hamden, Miss Marie Louise Carroll of Manhattan, Miss Carolina Collis of Louisville, Mrs. Gerald McConney of Des Moines.

Iowa, and Mrs. Stephen Valentine, 3d, of Cannondale, Conn. Charles Cheney Humpstone was best man fo for his brother. Ushers were Pieter C. R.

Dennis and Charles C. Dennis, cousins of the bridegroom; Edgar O. Appleby and Robert White. all of Manhattan: Wilson D. McElhinny of Westport, and William R.

Scott Jr. Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Humpstone is a graduate of the Brooklyn Friends School and Vassar College. A member of the Junior League of Brooklyn, she was presented in 1946 at the Yuletide Ball, and at the Debutante Assembly in Manhattan.

She is a granddaughter of the late Mr. Mrs. Oscar Darling and the late Mr. and Mrs. Mervyn Armstrong Jr.

Lieutenant Humpstone was graduated from the Gilman Country Day School in Baltimore, and later University of Geneva attended, Williams College, where he was a member of Zeta Psi. He is the grandson of Mrs. Charles Cheney of Manchester, and Fishers Island, N. and the late Mr. Cheney, and Mrs.

Oliver Paul Humpstone of Amsterdam, N. formerly of Brooklyn, and the late Dr. Humpstone. He is on leave from the Birds Eye Division of General Foods Corporation. After a trip to Bermuda, Lieutenant and Mrs.

Humpstone will reside at 909 Front Beauford, N. while Lieutenant Humpstone is stationed at Cherry Point Air Base. L. I. State Society, D.

to Meet Tuesday The Long Island State So-: ciety, Daughters of the Revolution, Mrs. Robert H. Clark, regent, will hold a meeting at King Manor, Jamaica, on Tuesat 11 a.m. The Chapter, Mrs. Arthur Hemsteede Loweth, regent, will act as hostesses for the day.

A program will follow at 1:30 p.m. and reports from the recent convention at the Hotel Sir Walter, Raleigh, N. will be read. Armstrong, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

Henry was married yesterday 2d Lt. John Harvey Humpstone Mrs. John Harvey Humpstone of, was Anne Serena, Lt. Klemmer Betrothed Mr. and Mrs.

Francis J. Serena of 1469 E. 24th have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Anne Therese Serena, to Lieut. Raymond J. Klemmer, U.

S. A. son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Klemmer.

of 2518 Avenue N. Miss Serena was graduated from! St. Brendan High School and St. Joseph's College for Women, and is associated with Young Rubicam, as a writer in the radio-television department. Lieutenant Klemmer is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School and the U.

S. Military Academy at West Point, He is stationed at Williams Air Force base in Phoenix, where he is a jet fighter pilot instructor. A Summer wedding is planned. Bradford Bachrach Anne Therese Serena Charles Pope Choristers. Will Meet at Tea The Charles Pope Choristers will hold a tea this afternoon for members and their friends at the home of Mrs.

Harry C. Schroeder, 1803 Brooklyn Ave. Receiving with Mrs. Schroeder will be Miss Ruth Vonhof, president of C. P.

Charles F. Pope, director, and Mrs. Howard Silvia, a member of the special events committee. Mrs. Lillian Chinlund and Mrs.

C. Herbert Vonhof will preside at the tea table. Assisting on the refreshment committee are Miss Barbara Young, Miss Thelma Hughes, Miss Rita Looft, and Mrs. Carol Lewis. At a recent governing board meeting committees were appointed for carrying out plans for the Spring concert to be held in Midwood High School on Saturday, June 7, for the benefit of the American Heart Association.

Son Born Mr. and Mrs. Harold C. Ross of 7920 4th announce the birth of a son, Martin Kane, on May 11, at the St. Elizabeth Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Ross is the former Ellen Sullivan of Bay Ridge. BRIDAL COUPLE-Mr. and Mrs. Bernard T.

Reilly were where photographed at The Reefs, Southampton, Bermuda, they spent their honeymoon. They returned home on Friday and are residing on Montgomery St. is the former Mrs. Reilly Fox Lillian Fox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Adolph of Brooklyn. SOCIETY 18 BROOKLYN EAGLE, MAY 18, 1952 Jay Te Winburn Mrs. John H. Humpstone Jr. Contemporary By RUTH G.

DAVIS Society Editor Comment May 22 is an important date, both for those interested in the Brooklyn Home for Children and those who are interested in flower arranging. Programs for open house and the fourth annual flower show at the home, 67-35 112th Forest Hills, were received last week by friends of the organization. Visitors will have the opportunity of seeing the facilities and services offered to dependent boys and girls under the care of the home. The program, from 2 to 5 p.m., will consist of greetings from Mrs. Hollis K.

Thayer, president, and Mrs. Carl S. Noble, general chairman; the introduction of the guests, who will include Ernest Anderson, baritone, who will sing, and W. Coverly Fischer, a member of the board of directors of the home and president of the Welfare Council of New York, who will speak. A ballet and instrumental music program also will be presented by the children.

After the program the flower show will be viewed and tea served. Mrs. H. Raymond Mandeville will announce the awards for the flower arrangements. Among those from Brooklyn who will be exhibiting flower arrangements are Mrs.

Carl T. Washburn. Mrs. Thayer, Mrs. Thomas Sturgis and Mrs.

Raymond Pendleton. SEVERAL COMMITTEES under the chairmanship of Mrs. Noble are working to make the occasion a success. Mrs. George H.

Dayton is co-chairman; Mrs. Thayer, honorary chairman, and Mrs. Mandeville, chairman of the flower show. Hostesses committee Kindred; members are Mrs. Henry J.

Benisch and Mrs. John C. reception committee, Mrs. William Reydel, chairman; Mrs. Thomas Blomquist, Mrs.

Robert B. Reeves Mrs. Franklin P. Coles, Mrs. Frederick J.

Ohms and Mrs. Leonard W. Klemann. The hostesses for the tour of the grounds will be Mrs. Douglass P.

Babbidge, chairman; Mrs. Horace J. Wippell, Mrs. Pendleton, Mrs. Philip W.

Broughton, Mrs. Joseph A. Munro, Mrs. John Van Pelt Lassoe and Mrs. Donald.

A. Haman. On the flower show committee are: Tickets, Mrs. Clarence A. Renouard; entries, Mrs.

George E. Shroyer; clerk, Alvin C. Banks, transportation, Mrs. John Dewhurst. and Mrs.

Walter Bruchhausen, and plant table, Mrs. Eugene R. Marzullo and Mrs. H. Lamont Boys.

The flower show is sponsored by the Queens Auxiliary of the Brooklyn Home for Children. Women's Federal Jurors To Close Season The Women's Federal Jurors Association, will hold its last meeting on Wednesday in the afternoon in the Federal Building, Washington in Judge Abruzzo's courtroom. The speaker will be Anthony W. Fitzgerald, counsel of the Men's Federal Grand Jurors' Association. The board members will have a luncheon in the American Legion Headquarters, 160 Benevolent Society To Have Card Party The Benevolent Society for Retarded Children, will sponsor its third annual card party at the Manhattan Plaza, Manhattan.

Friday, at 8 p. m. Mrs. Corinne Goodman is chairman of the card party. Committee members assisting her are: Mrs.

Mary Boyle, Mrs. Ethel Perry, Mrs. Ann Heisler, Mrs. Mary Chin, Mrs. Lois Duncan, Mrs.

Wanda Giacone, Mrs. Ann Tagliaferro, Mrs. Beatrice Lifshitz, Mrs. Sylvia Edwards, Mrs. Doris Mann, Mrs.

Ellie Milne, Mrs. Anne Dobson, Mrs. Geraldine Thomas, Mrs. Leah Corstein, Mrs. Fay Schulman, Mrs.

Cele Gilmore and Mrs. Ida Hausner. Proceeds will be used to further medical research and rehabilitation programs. This group works exclusively for the Children of the Willowbrook School in Staten Island. Anne Marie Root, Dr.

McCormick Wed Miss Ann Marie Root, Root of Stamford, yesterday to Dr. James Edward Mr. and Mrs. McCormack R. C.

Church of St. Ignatius, Loyola, Manhattan. The Rev. John Quinn performed ceremony and celebrated the nuptial mass. A reception in the Tapestry Room of the Park Lane, Manhattan, followed the ceremony.

The bride, who was escorted by her father, wore a gown of ivory satin fashioned with a basque bodice, Queen Anne collar of Alencon lace, long sleeves, and terminating a full lace panelled skirt in a cathedral train. Her Juliette cap was of matching lace with fingertip imported illusion veiling. She carried white orchids, lilies of the valley and stephanotis. maid of honor was Miss Dolores del Rio of Mamaroneck, tendants N. and the other atwere Mrs.

Burton P. Beatty of Brooklyn and Miss Jean Shotton Waterbury, Conn. The attendants wore gowns of pansy blue nylon tulle fashioned with an empire waist and bouffant skirt. Their lilacs and they carried French headpieces were of pansy blue La Mrs. Charles M.

Trunz Flatbush Boys Club Auxiliary Plans Sale; New Officers Announced The Women's Auxiliary of the Flatbush Boys Club will hold a rummage sale at the Flatbush Boys Club, 2245 Bedford Ave. on May 22 and Plans for the event were made a luncheon and meeting held at the home of Mrs. William A. Bonner, 498 E. 18th St.

The guests included the officers. The new officers of the auxiliary are: president, Mrs. Martin Lewis: vice presidents, Mrs. Bonner and Mrs. Marcus B.

Campbell; treasurer, Mrs. Carl Mentrup; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Marcel Balme, and recording secretary, Mrs. Law-. ence Charrott.

Mrs. William D. McClunn is the retiring president. Benefit for Missions The St. Gabriel Mission Circle will conduct a card and games party at the 32 Club, 32 E.

32d Manhattan, on Wednesday evening for the benefit of the Southern Missions under the care of the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity. It is expected that Father Timothy Lynch, a member of this community, will be present at the card party to greet the friends of the missions. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy formerly of Brooklyn, was married McCormack, son of the late of Jersey City, N.

in the lilacs, sweetheart roses and lilies of the valley. John McCormack of Ridgefield Park, N. was best man for his brother, who had as ushers, Walter McCormack, brother, of East Orange, N. and Dr. Joseph Pisani of Brooklyn.

Mrs. McCormack is an and alumna of Georgetown St. Agnes Seminary Visitation College, Washington, D. C. Her husband was graduated from St.

Peter's College, N. and received Jersey the City, M.D. degree from Nev York University. He is associate dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and assistant Professor of Medicine of Columbia University. Ann B.

Mall Is Married To Charles Trunz Mrs. James E. McCormack Turi-Larkin Mrs. Joseph F. Grable Turi-Larkin Ing-John Clare E.

Falvey, Joseph F. Grable Wed Yesterday Bronxville, N. was maid of cinth honor. blue Her dress was of hyaing taffeta with bouffant balorganza over matchlerina-length skirt. She wore a large picture hat of deeper blue horsehair and carried yellow African daisies, baby's breath, and blue delphiniums.

The other attendants were Miss Billie King, of Silver Springs, of Mrs. Ellenville, Frances, Kuhlmann, Marion Powers, of Palmerton, Pa. Their dresses were similar to that worn by the maid of honor, but they wore matching picture hats and carried bouquets of yellow roses, yellow African daisies, and baby's breath, Anthony Grable, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. The ushers were Edward Grable, brother of the bridegroom; Zygmond Surdakowski, brotherin-law of the bridegroom, of Miss Clare Ellen Falvey, daughter of Cornelius Aloysius Falvey, of Jamaica, and niece of Mrs. William D.

Cunningham land the late Judge Cunningham of Ellenville, N. was married yesterday in St. Ignatius Loyola Church, Manhat-. tan, to Joseph Francis Grable, son of Mr. and Mrs.

John Aidan Grable, C. of Brooklyn. McMullen, The S.J., Rev. a cousin of the bride, officiated and the Rev. Brendan J.

McMullen, O.P., also a cousin of the bride, read the papal blessing. A reception Manhattan. followed at, Sherry's, The bride was escorted by her father. She wore a gown ivory satin and a Juliet of Brussels lace and imported French illusion. Her bouquet was white roses, baby's breath, and stephanotis.

Miss Virginia O'Donell, Napanoch, N. Fergus Conroy, of Ellenville, N. and Eugene Moloney of Brooklyn. Mrs. Grable was graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart.

a trip to Bermuda and Washington, D. the couple will live in Ellenville, N. Y. Morning Choral to Elect Officers Tomorrow Morning Choral, Mrs. Charles president, Howard Kasschau, conductor, and Claire Ross, accompanist, will hold its annual election of officers at a meeting morrow at the Church of the Saviour, 50 Monroe Place, at 8 p.m.

The nominating committee includes Mrs. William J. Hanna. chairman; Norman J. Dellinger, Mrs.

Alfred Inge, Mrs. Hilda Magnusen and Mrs. Christian Wolfe. Miss Ann Barbara Mall, daughter of Mrs. A.

Labozzetta of 166-35 20th Road, Beechurst, became the bride of Charles M. Trunz son of Mrs. Dorothy Trunz of Manhasset and Charles M. Trunz of Sands Point on Friday in St. Mary's R.

C. Church, Manhasset. The Rev. Francis B. Concannon officiated at the ceremony, which was followed by a reception at the Fresh Meadows Inn.

The bride wore a gown of white lace and tulle, made with a fitted bodice, long sleeves, shoulder neckline with a net yoke and a bouffant skirt. Her lace and net cap was held in place by a shoulder length veil. The bridal bouquet was of white orchids and lilies of the valley. Mrs. John Russon of the Bronx was the bride's only attendant.

She was dressed in an aqua antique taffeta bouffant gown and a flowered hat. Robert Trunz of Manhasset was best man for his brother and the ushers were Louis Buchanan of Great Neck, in-law of the bridegroom and Joseph Perrotta of Mount Ver. non. The bride, who attended James Monroe High School, is a model. Mr.

Trunz attended New York Military Academy and Packard Junior College. He is a junior executive with Trunz, Inc. The couple left on a wedding trip to Bermuda after which they will make their home on Long Island. Catherine Mack Becomes Bride Of John J. Hemberger Miss Catherine ter of Mr.

and Mrs. Ludwig Mack, daughMack of 31 Newton Roosevelt, became the bride yesterday of John Joseph Hemberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hemberger of 308 Colony West Hempstead, at Queen of the Most Holy Rosary R.

C. Church. A reception followed the ceremony at Stevens, Baldwin. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a gown of candlelight satin and lace and veil of tulle which fell from a cap of matching lace. She carried a prayerbook with orchids and lilies of the valley.

Miss Harriett Rose acted as maid of honor and the maids included Mrs. Arthur Coskey and Miss Dolores Hicks. All the attendants were similarly attired in lavender nylon tulle gowns and matching hats. They carried baskets of Spring lilacs. Robert Kenny, U.S.M.C..

served as man and Jack Easa and John Starkey ushered. Mr. and Mrs. Hemberger were both graduated from Hempstead High School. Mr.

Hemberger played football for the varsity team and was for the Bears football team. He is serving in the U. S. Marine Corps, stationed at Camp Lejeune, N. C.

The couple will spend al three-week wedding trip in Florida. ENGAGED TWOSOME--Miss Rosemary Cogan and her fiance, Charles P. Lambert enjoy an evening in the Empire Room of the Waldorf -Astoria. Miss Cogan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Paul P. Cogan of 152 73d St. and Mr. Lambert is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles P. Lambert of 165 78th St. Woman's Press Club Announces Program The Woman's Press Club of New York will hold an International Relations Day program at the Hotel Statler, Manhattan, on Saturday at 2 p.m. Mrs. William Dick Sporborg, General Federation of Woman's Club observer to the United Nations, is chairman of the day.

Speakers of the afternoon will include: Miss Kathleen McLaughlin, New York Times correspondent, UN Bureau, who will speak on, "Germany Hon. Benjamin A. Cohen, assistant general of UN Public Information, whose topic will be: "Peace Is Not Just Another and Mrs. Grace Bok Holmes, liaison officer of non-governmental organizations of the UN for I. N.

C. E. Y. The guests of honor will be Miss Hilda Couch, president, Mrs. John Stevens, past.

president of the Brooklyn Woman's Club and Urban Club and treaslurer of the Ex-Presidents Club, Pierrepont preceding the meeting. Plans for a boat ride in June will be completed at the meeting at which Mrs. Kathrine Goate, president, will preside. PHOTOGRAPHED IN BERMUDA-Mr. and Mrs.

Gordon W. Paulsen, now residing at 445 E. 14th Manhattan, are shown at Cambridge Beaches, Somerset, Bermuda, where they spent their honeymoon. Mrs. Paulsen is the former Janet Wessling, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. C. P. Wessling of Union St..

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