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SUNDAY TWO Poughkeepsie New Yorker SOCIETY August 13, 1950 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Miss Robbins Selects Aug. 26 as Date For Her Marriage to William C. Morehouse Miss Fay Hall Robbins, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Everett Vaughn Robbins, Balmville, has selected Saturday, Aug. 26, as the date for her marriage to William Cyrus Morehouse. He is the son of Mrs. Guy W.

Morehouse, 5 Oak Crescent, and the late Mr. Morehouse. The wedding ceremony is set for 3 o'clock in Trinity Methodist church, Newburgh. Miss Robbins has chosen as her. only attendent, Miss Carol Munson, Newburgh, who will serve as maid of honor.

Robert Morehouse, brother of the bridegroom-elect, will MRS. RICHARD P. HOPKINS, Washington, D. formerly Miss Elizabeth Moy Burke, Wappingers Falls, who has taken up residence Diana Mae Drane Betrothed; Will Be Married in October Mr. and Mrs.

William L. Drane, Clinton Hollow, an- P. Wyckoff, 3 Barclay street. nounce the engagement George Glussenkamp, Clinton George Glussenkamp, Richfield MRS. DAVID B.

GUSTAFSON, who with her family, will leave here Aug. 27 for Portland, Ore. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halsey Thorne-Cushman Ceremony.

Solemnized in Oak Park, Ill. Miss. Phyllis Ann Cushman, Robert Cushman, Edgeboro of this city, and Harry W. Thorne, ried yesterday. The bridegroom Walter A.

Thorne, 213 Water The ceremony, 2 o'clock, took place at the home of the bride's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schwanke, Oak Park, Ill. The Rev. W.

Pelston Christopher officiated. Decorations were in gladioli. Given in marriage by her father, the bride chase a ballerina length gown of white imported organdy over white, faille taffeta. It was trimmed embroidered organdy. She wore a shoulder length circular vell caught to a cap of embroidered organdy and carried a colonial bouquet of gardenias.

Mrs. Schwanke, serving as her only attendant, wore a gown identical to the bride's, only in pink. Her half hat was pink taffeta and she carried colonial bouquet of pale pink roses and white asters. Mrs. Cushman selected for her daughter's marriage, a floral print volle dress.

She wore a corsage of white gladioli. Richard Schwanke, Oak Park, was the best man. A reception was held at the 'Schwanke home immediately after the ceremony. After a wedding trip, will live in Hayward, Wis. For traveling the bride wore a light blue print dress, white hat and navy accessories.

Mrs. Thorne attended Poughkeepsie 'High school and was graduated from Cambridge High Latin school. She also was graduated from the University of Massachusetts, class of '48. The bridegroom 1s an alumnus of Saugus High school and the University of Massachusetts, class of '49. He received his Master's degree in Forestry from Duke university this, the year.

army Mr. for Thorne, three years; served two years of that time in Italy, is working for the Wisconsin Conservation Department, Mrs. Lippi to Entertain Nursery Board Members. MRS. J.

HOWARD ROBERTSON of the Garden Study club, who is serving as chairman of staging for the annual Flower show being held in conjunction with the Dutchess County fair. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Drive, Newtown, formerly Saugus, were maris the son of Mr. and Mrs.

street, Saugus, Mass. Plantinga-Ball Walter Marriage Frank Ball, New MartinsAnnounced ville, West announces the marriage of his daughter, Virginia Colleen, to John Everett Plantinga, son of Mrs. William Howard Young, 109 College avenue. The ceremony took place at 12:30 o'clock, Sunday afterAug. 6, at the home of the bride's father.

Only immediate members of the familles attended. The bride wore a bouffant gown of white lace over pale pink taffeta and tulle. Her pale pink veil WAS dotted with roses and she carried bouquet of orchids and roses. Mrs. Frank, Hammel, Pittsburgh, was sister's matron of honor.

Her bouffant gown was of white eyelet embroidery over blue taffeta. She carried bouquet of white roses. Mrs. Young chose for her son's wedding aqua lace dress. Mrs.

Ball, the bride's stepmother, was dressed in white. Both wore corsages of gardenias. Minor Gouverneur, Rochester, classmate of the bridegroom at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, best man. Later, Mr. and Mrs.

Plantinga departed for an extended wedding trip to California. They will visit the former's grandmother, Mrs. Philip Jacobe in Claremont, Cal. Upon return, the coupte will reside in New York City. The bride was graduated from Vassar college, class of '45.

Mr. Plantinga is an alumnus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Rensselaer Polytechnic institute. A member of the Delta Phi fraternity, the MIT club and the American Society Engineers, bridegroom is associated with the engineering firm Meyers, Strong and Jones, New York City, Attending the wedding from Poughkeepsie were Mr. and Mrs. Young and the bridegroom's brother, Pierre Plantinga.

Preceding the ceremony, prenuptial breakfast was served. 100 to Enter Pony Show at Fair Mrs. Deborah Dows, will be superintendent of day Pony show to be held junction with the Dutchess fair, Sept. 1. It is expected will be more than 100 act as best man.

Ushering will be Richard Morehouse, Cambridge, brother of the future bridegroom; William C. Knieriemen, city; Theodore Pawling, city; and Jack brother of the bride-elect, Newburgh. Miss Robbins is a graduate of Newburgh Free academy and Lasell Junior college, Auburndale, Mass. Mr. Morehouse, graduate of Poughkeepsie High school, served two years in the armed forces, overseas.

He is now attending the University of Vermont, Burlington, where he is a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. MISS DIANA MAE DRANE, daughter of Mr. Mrs. William L. Drane, Clinton Hollow, whose bethrothal to George Glussenkamp, Richfield Park, N.

has been announced. MRS. ROBERT HOE who serving as assistant placement chairman for the Poughkeepsie Junior league this season. Mrs. Donald Badgley is chairman of the committee.

League Placement Committee Outlines Plans for 1950-51 Guests arrived at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Robert Hoe is assistant placement chairman. Mrs. Gosse is president of the league, Others serving on the committee are: Mrs.

Carl F. Olson, Mrs. Philip S. Potter Miss Marion J. Wardell, Mrs.

Leonard F. McCambridge, Mrs. Philip G. Swartz, MEs. William P.

Bogle, Mrs. Dayle W. Chaudoin, Mrs. Hayden B. Johnson and Mrs.

Harold S. Mills. Plans for the 1950-51 season were outlined at meeting of the Placement committee of the Poughkeepsie Junior league. A dessert-session was held at the home of Mrs. Donald Badgley, 13 Muldowney circle, who is chairman.

Show Plans to Be Made By Pine Plains Club Further plans for the flower show, under auspices of the Pine Plains Garden club, will be made at meeting of club, 2:30 o'clock. Thursday, at the Legion home, that village. The show is scheduled Saturday, Sept. in the Pine Plains Central school. The theme this year will be "Harvest Home." Members are asked take temporary schedule sheets the meetto ins, enter.

marked with the classes they Mrs. Lane Appointed Program Chairman Mrs. John I. Lane, sixth vice presIdent of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State, has been sppointed program chairman for the annual meeting of Third District, to be held at Lake Minnewaska. The date is set for.

Sept. 26. Mrs. Lane, also president of the Poughkeepsie Garden club, was sppointed by Mrs. H.

Henry Staley, third district director, MISS IRENE E. NEWMAN, Haviland road, future bride of Herman F. Beck, Cedar Valley road. their daughter, Diana Mae, to Corners. He is the son of Park, N.

and the late Mrs. Glussenkamp. The wedding will take place Oct. 15. The bride-elect was graduated from Roosevelt High school, class of '49 and attended the Krissier institute.

She now employed by the First National Bank here. Mr. Glussenkamp is an alumnus Richfeld Park High school, class of '44. During the war he served with the Merchant Marines. At present he is employed in Hyde Park.

Mr. and Mrs. Miller Married 60 Years Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.

Miller, 35 Fairview avenue, are observing their 60th wedding anniversary today. To mark the occasion a family dinner will be held at the home of. their daughter, Mrs. Wells Decker, 109 Forbus street. Mr.

and Mrs. Miller were married in the Church of the Nativity here. She is the former, Miss Johannah Gersch. They have four daughters, Mrs. Decker, Mrs.

Margaret Lange and Mrs. Otis D. Neal, city, and Mrs Brice B. Walling, Detroit, one son, Raymond Miller, Kalamazoo, two granddaughters, Mrs. Donald Hempe and Miss Patricia Louise Neal, city, and one great grandchild, Stephen Hempe.

Phyllis Lints To Become Bride Miss Phyllis Louise Lints, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Lints, Hempstead, L. has chosen Saturday, Aug.

26, as the date for her marriage to Bernard Lawrence Snyder. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Snyder, Pittsburgh, Pa.

The ceremony will take place in the Regina Coell church, Hyde Park. The Rev. John A. Rigo will officiate. Miss Lints has been employed a Staatsourg secretary at for the last Anderson three school, the years.

Mr. Snyder, an alumnus of Manhattan college, 1 is a teacher at the school. Mrs. Hopkins Move to Houston Mr. and Mrs.

Richard P. Hopkins, Washington, D. have taken up residence in Houston, Tex. Mrs. Hopkins is the former Miss Elizabeth Moy Burke, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Henry M. Burke, "Dutchess Manor," Wappingers Falls. Gustafson Family To Live in Portland Gustafson Family Mr. and Mrs.

David B. Gustafson Rhinebeck, and children, Peter and David the one- will leave here Aug. 27, for Portland, in con- Ore. Mrs. Gustafson is the former County Miss Polly Wyckoff, daughter of, Mr.

that there and Mrs. Halsey P. Wyckoff, 3 Barentries. clay street. PERSONAL MENTION Miss Elizabeth Richey, Pleasant Valley, assistant professor of physical education, Vassar college, is assisting this summer as member of the camp faculty at Sargent Camp, Peterborough, N.

H. Mrs. Harold S. Mills, 106 Academy street, is entertaining her sister, Miss Kathryn Diehr, Jersey Shore, for 10-days. Miss Joyce Holden, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Fox D. Holden, 16 Beechwood avenue, is vacationing in Rochester. Mrs. Henry I.

Baker East Derry, N. formerly of this city, is visiting friends and relatives here. Mrs. W. Arthur Saltford, "Flower Hill," is visiting her aunt, Miss Grace Barnes, in Fitchburg, Mass.

She will also visit relatives and friends in North Adams, Mass. Mrs. Alice Carter Foy, 4 Eden terrace, and New York City, has been registered at Jasper Park lodge in the Canadian Rockies. Mr. and Mrs.

Wilbur R. R. Winans, 42 Cannon street, have been spending the week New Haven, where Mr. Winans attended the Northeastern institute at Yale university. Mr.

who is secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, repesented the local group there. Mr. and Mrs. Varick V. W.

Stringham and children, Fishkill Plains, spent the week with Mrs. Philip Allen Swartz at the Swartz summer home, Candlewood Knolls, Danbury, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B.

Bisbee, 15 Adriance avenue, left here today for Grand Junction, where they will visit their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James K. McClintock, and children. Miss Ethel M.

Nelson, 49 North Clinton street, is spending the remainder of the summer in California. Miss Ellen Hart, New York City, is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hart, Boardman road. Mrs.

Frederick Young, Montclair, N. formerly of this city, is visiting Miss Emily F. Johnson, 12 Adriance avenue. Mr. and Mrs.

Robert A. Pantridge, 5 Spratt avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Carter and son, 99 Livingston street, are spending the weekend at Lake George.

Miss Carolyn Bartlett, LaJolla, Calif, is visiting friends Ir. this city. MISS LUCY M. COONS, daughter Troy, who will be wed to Henry V. C.

Bohm, 4 Whitehouse avenue. Pordyce Phote of Mr. and Mrs. Norman F. Coons, Bohm, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Victor Miss Newman's Engagement To Herman F. Beck Announced Announcement is made of E. Newman, Haviland road, Valley road. The bride Newman, and the late Mr.

the late Mr. and Mrs. Herman Miss Newman is a graduate of the Vassar Hospital Training School of Nursing, class of '43. Since that time she has been a member of the hospital staff as a head nurse. Mr.

Beck received his B.S. degree from the University of Alabama in 1939 and at present he is metallurgist at the Schatz Federal Bearing Co. No date has been set for the wedding. Open Meeting Slated By Pawling Garden Club Members of the Pawling Garden club 'will conduct an 'open meeting" 2:30 o'clock, Thursday afternoon, at the Quaker Hill Barn Pawling. Mrs.

Hugh C. Riddleburger and Mrs. William R. Harris will be hostesses. Guest speaker will be Richard 8.

Cowan who will show pictures of Hawaiian scenes and flowers. The Pawling club has received an invitation from the Somers Garden club, to participate in its Flower show, Friday, Aug. 38, at the North Salem school house Horse Show Set By Pawling Group Arrangements: going forward for. the Quaker Lake Riding and Driving club, Pawling horse show Saturday, There will be classes In hunters, jumpers, bridle hacks, horsemanship and others. John eHttinger, Chapel farm, Pawling, is in charge of ments.

John T. Zimmer On Western Trip John T. Zimmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard G.

Zimmer, 17 Marian avenue, is enroute West. Traveling by motor he plans to visit numerous points of interest and will be away several weeks the engagement of Miss Irene city, to Herman F. Beck, Cedar is the daughter of Mrs. Louis. Newman.

Mr. Beck is the son of A. Beck. Coons-Bohm Rites Slated in September Mrs. Decker Names Flower Show Aides Mrs.

Herbert H. Decker, beck, who is serving as vice chairman for the annual Flower show being held in conjunction with the Dutchess County fair, Rhinobeck. Aug. 29-Sept. 2, has made known her committee chairmen.

They include: schedule, Mrs. Walter Schrelber, Red Hook Garden club; Mrs. J. Howard Robertson, Poughkeepsie, Garden Study club; Junior Gardeners, Mrs. Kenneth Stewart, Rhinebeck Garden club; judges, Mrs.

John I. Lane, Poughkeepsie Garden club: awards and clerks, Mrs. Ernest I. Hatfeld, Crum Elbow Garden club; horticulture, Mrs. Montague Free, Hyde Park, a member of the Rhinebeck Garden club; hostess chairman, Mrs.

Thomas LeBrun, Pine Plains Garden club; classifications, Mrs Chester E. McCahan, Red Hook Garden club; Garden Club Project Mrs. Walter Schreiber and Mrs. McCahan, co-chairmen, and pub- licity, Mrs. William Robert Wood, Crum Elbow and the Community.

Garden clubs, Staatsburg. Entry chairman for Tuesday and Thursday at the Flower show, Mrs. Earl Kilmer. Entry blanks for the show may be obtained from Mrs. Joseph M.

Bruyette, Rhinebeck, perintendent of all entries at the fair. Mrs. H. Henry Staley, Rhinebeck, 1s chairman of the Third District, Federated Garden clubs York State. Miss Lucy M.

Coons, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman F. Coons, Troy, and Henry V. Bohm, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Victor C. Bohm, 4. Whitehouse avenue, whose engagement was recently announced, plan to be wed in September. The bride-elect WAs graduated from Northfleld school, class of '46 and from Russell Sage college, class of '50, where she received her B.A.

degree as a history major. She also received her New York State High school Teaching certificate on graduation. Mr. Bohm, an alumnus Mount Herman school, class of '46 was graduated cum laude from Harvard university, class of '50. He was physics major.

The -tobe now is attending graduate school at the University of Illinois. Life Memberships Held In State Garden Club Three members of the Third Distriet of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State have vecome life members of the Federation. They are Mrs. Chester McCaban. Red Hook; Mrs.

F. Palmer Hart, Red Hook, and Mrs. G. Irving Titus, The Membership committee is the newest one formed 'by the Federation and is comprised at present of 67-mimbers. It was formed for friendly social contact with the hope of inspiring others to join and, in that way, to increase the Life Membership fund.

Fees from life memberships shall be deposited in permanent special fund and the interest derived therefrom used solely to provide such awards scholarships as the Federation may elect to bestow. Mrs. H. Henry Staley, Rhinebeck, is district chairman of the Third District Mrs. Joseph Lippi, 2 Alden road, who is spending the summer at her cottage at Candlewood Lake, Conn.

will be hostess to the board of the Poughkeepsie Day Nursery association, Thursday. Plans are made for picnic lunch and outing. Mrs. Fred A. Fnauss is president.

Mrs. E. Freeman Pearce la chairman el transportation..