The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 31

I Society: -SB i i'ii fc i THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1944 Many Varied Celebrations Planned for Thanksgiving it k- i I I 1 a chocolate Friday morning at "4' 4 1 'V, I 0- 01 I 1 By DOROTHY CULBERT LUCAS Tennessee's Thanksgiving Day, to celebrated next Thursday, will be observed in Nashville with family gatherings, club affairs, entertainments arranged for ttftK personnel, and parties for the younger school group. Clubs to Obaervs Data The management of Belle Meade Country Club has announced that Thanksgiving dinner will be served Thursday at the club from 12 until o'clock during the day, and from 6 until 9 o'clock that evening. A Thanksgiving menu wilf be served at Richland Golf Club on Thursday, from noon until 9 o'clock, giving members a wide latitude of choice as to when they will have their holiday feast That evening, a program of games has been planned at the clubhouse. A dance will ba given Saturday evening. Woodmont Country Club will open Its season with a supper dance Wednesday evening, with Al Richardson's orchestra playing.

On Thursday evening, a buffet supper will ba served beginning at 7 o'clock. Many parties will ba given over Thanksgiving week end to honor school girl visitors here, most of whom will come from distant citlea to visit former campmates at Camp Nagawicka, Delafield, and Camp Riva-Lake at Winchester. Riva-Lake Girls to Arrive Members of the Riva-Lake Club will be guests at a spaghetti supper to ba given Friday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F.

Jackson. on Belle Meade Boule "w- 'I I 'i '2. it i ia o'clock at the borne of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.

Mae Peebles, on Franklin Road for Lynn's guest. Patricia Klrkman will have as her guest Lillian Lawlng of Clarks-ville and will entertain at a spend-the-nlght party Thursday at the home or her parenta, Mr. ana Mrs. W. P.

Klrkman, on Estes Avenue. Ann Lewis has planned a pop party for Saturday morning at the home of ner parents, ur. ana mri. MUton S. Lewis, on Wilson Boulevard for the Riva-Lake campers.

Ann MrOnlHrtv daughter of Mr. hd Mrs. David McQufddy, will en tertain at a luncheon Saturday at Belle Meade Country Club, followed by a theater party for Myrtle Ann Meiers' guests. Betty Tucker will entertain at a luncheon Saturday at the Noel Hotel for a group of Riva-Lake visitors. Nagawicka Cam pars to Visit Ann Caldwell, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Wentworth Caldwell, will have as her Thanksgiving gruest Minor Morrow of Memphis, with whom she attended Camp Naga wicka last summer. The visitor will be honored at a dinner dance Friday evening at Hettie Ray's Supper Club. Marv Readv Weaver's guest will be Barbara Scott of Memphis. Caro Woolwine will entertain at a supper Saturday evening at the home of her mother, Mrs.

sam Woolwine, on Leake Avenue for a few friends to honor her guests, Ann Webb and Gwyn Rain ier of Memphis, who were also Nagawicka campers. Shirley Francis of Memphis will hm the Thank-giving guest of Clara McDonald, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hunter McDonald, Jr. Ann Crockett Knox will entertain Saturday afternoon at a tea from 4 until 6 o'clock at the home of her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Crock ett Knox, on Iroquois Avenue to honor the girls visiting Miss Kirk man, Miss Caldwell, Miss Woolwine and Miss McDonald. Dorothy Mitchell has planned a dod party for Saturday morning at the horns of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, L. J.

Mitchell on Blackburn Drive for the visitors of Miss Woolwine, Miss Caldwell, and Miss Mc Donald. School Girls To Ba Honored Mary Coble's Thanksgl sruests will be Jean Clifton phis and Virginia Rychner Memphis, who is a boarding student at Ward-Belmont. They will spend the week end at the home of Miss Cobles parents. Mr. ana Mrs.) Neely Coble on Stanford Drive.

On Jprlaay evening, air. ana mn. James Tupper will entertain at a 'possum hunt at their home on Old Hickory Boulevard for the visitors, and other affairs are planned. Mrs. Henry B.

Clark will oe at th rHerr mitag. Hotel Saturday, to ment Miss Bebe Clark ana ner week-end guests. Dale Car er and r- k. it 4 A 7 KAA NashvillianV preparations for a gala week end go on apace a Thanksgiving nears. Trying their hand at a lovely table decoration featuring chrysanthemums, November a favored flower, are Miss Edna Mae Veeneman, left, of Louisville, and her hostess, Miss Cartherine Hartnett.

They are pictured in the home of Miss Hartnett a parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Hartnett, on Clarendon Avenue. Miss Veeneman, daughter Mr. and Mrs.

W. H. Veeneman of Louisville, came "here to attend the Girls' Cotillion Club dance Saturday evening. rgrSAbundant Christmas Cheer For Service Personnel by Nashvillians The approach of a holiday in war time means visits home by service personnel. Two Navy lieutenants visiting here are Lt.

Kenneth Miller, a pilot in the United States Naval Reserve Air Corps, and his wife. Lt. Floy Minor Miller, United States Naval Reserve, WAVES. They are guests of Mrs. Miller's mother, Mrs.

Joe Minor, at 2ir Twenty-fourth Avenue, South, before leaving for Lt. Kenneth Miller's new station in Dallas, Texas. They came here from the Naval Air Station at Bunker Hill, where their marriage took place in August. The Millers are pictured on a stroll through Vanderbilt campus as Lt. Floy Miller showed her husband around the University which is her alma ning Is being made for Christmas week, with the cooperation or number of the Naahvills women's clubs.

Plans for A. A. F. Hospitsl The Camp and Hospital Council of the American Red Cross, which By MILBREY FRAZER ADAM With Christmas Just around the corner, Nashville women's organizations are busily preparing for another wartime YuleTtde season fnr the convalescents In the two her. and th.

tn.n an women of the services stationed! wu lan, tlons and religious obaervances. Nashville promises to take into her I heart all men and women far away tmm hlr own llresmes. in inia I'ourth Christmas of World War II. Ruth Bishop Maaisonv ue, Ry.7.Hv llno.rw.v for the celebra-iinJ -siewis-sjsysissssjjsis Gut at th. Army Air Ivalescent Hospital, extenalv.

plan- the hospitals an nnoitnr! that tha fol- which nr. as vet incomplete, have been planned. Additional clubs to entertain and laaligt wtll anounced at a later j. -fQr th- the club, of the Hospital Cen- wiu furnlghed by the 4-H I Club of Davidson County, and the Junior Red Cross. The church groups of Nashville and the Junior Bed Cross will provide decorations for the trees and favors for the patients.

The garden clubs of Nashville, through the Horticultural Society will decorate the tables at both the Army Air Forces Convaleacent Hospital and Thayer General Hos- Hutalr The Junior Chamber of Com- merce has planned a party at the jf- tr i i new home on Stanford Drive. Hours will be from 3 until 5 o'clock. Mrs. James M. Gallagher, Jr, will entertain at a tea Saturday until o'clock for her school sri inuii j-j larher.

Mrs. R. M. aimmonds and Mrs. Allen Cornelius will entertain at a tea for their daughters.

Miss Miss Madeline Simmonds and mater. i-ai. mi i 1 aaa i Enlisted Men's Service Club of thirV((, hv the organization Christ vard. Their daughter, Mllbrey Jackson, who serves as president of the club, will have as her guest Miss Mlml Shea of Memphis. Other officers are Betty Bruce Cate, vice-president, and Betty Tucker, secretary.

Betty Bruce's visitors will be Julia Ann May of Pine Bluff, and Pauline Fisher of Jonestown. Miss. She will give a seated tea Saturday afternoon at the home of her parents, Dr. and Mrs. William Cate, on Graybar Liana for Riva- Lake campers.

Anna Frederick's guests Will be Trances 8weat of Memphis and Caroline Walter of Mayfield. Ky. She will entertain at a dinner Thursday evening at the Tie of her Barents. Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Frederick, on Chlckering Lane, for a group of camp-mates at Riva-Lake. Myrtle Ann Meiers, daughter of Mr and Mrs. William Meiers, has Invited Katherlne Hagler of Memphis and Joanna Byrd of Cairo, 111., to spend Thanksgiving week end with her. Sh will be hostess at a skating party Friday afternoon at the Hippodrome rink for the visitors. Comfort Adams will nave ran JRudolpltiKf CJarksvUls week-end guest at tne noma or ner narents.

Mr. and Mrs. David P. Adams. Several Informal affairs are planned.

Lynne Toumans, daughter of Col. and Mrs. John Toumans, has planned a tea for Saturday after noon from until 8 o'clock at Belle Mead Country Club honoring her Riva-Lake visitor, Jessica Barron of Memphis. Alice Peebles will be hostess at The Thanksgiving dinner J.amY -j 1 V-l I convalescent hospital for Friday, December 22, from 10 until o'clock. The 4-H Club will furniah the trees for this occasion.

The young women's department of the Nashville Woman uiuo assisted by the Juniors, will give sjiiisi in i a. Bssl jmw BBs m. ifc, J- -I Bssa. BBS i- MS i. as, i ii t-r.

AU Photo, br Cmmobfll Bilsh. Is Planned Chaplain William G. Lavery, post chaplain at the Army Air Forces Convalescent Hospital, Is making nlans for the annual Children's Party to be held Saturday, Decem ber 23, at the Post Theater, ror tne children of men stationed there. He will be assisted by Mrs. Victor wlfs of Colonel tfyrnea, commander of the poat, and by Mrs.

Victor Simpson, president of the Army Air Forces Convalescent Hospital Officer's Wives Club. In dividual gifts will be presented all the children of 12 years and under, and stockings brimful of candy, nuts, oranges and other Christmaa goodies, will also be presentea tnem by a Jolly Santa Claus, The poat band will play Christmas music and Walt Disney films will be shown for the entertain ment. The Officer's Wives Club also has charge of the decorations In the chapels of all faiths at the post. Red Cross Canteen Corps The Red Cross Canteen Corps, of which Mrs. Robert F.

Jackson, serves as chairman, will decorate the Enlisted Mens Club, the tOfftcrst' -ay Ron --nd. Oparad tlons Building No. 1 at Berry Kleia and holiday refreshments will be mas Eve and Christmas Day The Canteen Corps will also serve refreshments Christmas evening at the Army Air Forces Convalescent HosDltal in the Red Cross riecrea- tlon Room and Christmas Eve they will give a tea ai i nayer irenerai Hrnwrttiillw the Rfd-Ci-wss Recrea I Room for the convalescents nnd their families and friends. Thiyer General Hospital pita! December 21 a Christmas party will be sriven for the Irhlldren of officers, enlisted personnel 'Knd pa tients stationed at tne nospitai. Friday, December 22, a buffet sup per and dance ror the enlisted men of Thayer Hospital Detachment and the men of the conditioning service will be held.

Saturday. December 23, a radio Drogram has been planned at which time it Is nopea mat ine utter patients will be allowed to extend greetings to their famines in ais- tant towns. A program or unnst- mas songs will also be featured. Christmas Eve there will be carol lingers on ail the wards and Christ mas Day the American Kea cross will have a continuous Christmas program beginning at noon In the Red Cross auditorium. Christmas decorations will be used throughout all the wards and mess hall and there win De a large Christmas tree In tha Red Cross auditorium.

Christmas cards mads by the school children of Nashville will be distributed to all the patients and there will be a Christmas gift wrapping booth in the auditorium for the convenience of patients who desire to send gifts home, Y. M. C. Lounge A full Christmas Day program Is being planned at the T. M.

C. Service Men's Lounge by Mrs. Emma Mai Thompson, staff host ess and her assistant, Mrs. Hunter Leftwich, and their large staff of volunteer workers. The Lounge will ba festively deo- rated a large Christmas tree.

poinsettias, snd otner Christmas greens. A musical program has been- planned and games and etas entertainment will be featured through the- day with Christmas roodiea in abundance Also evident of the Interest of Nashvillians in seeing that men and women of tha services enjoy a real Christmas are ths many in vitations bv individuals for service personnel to spend Christmas Day (Continued en Pag. 11-B). ill i i the convalescent hospital on iJe-jtion cember 20. Mrs.

M. E. Ladd, chairman of the Baptist Churches, announces A fu WMky program of enter-tbat the churches have planned tainment nag heen planned for the i'kV at the Thayer General Hos- a'Vrr; 1 -iM- The affair will follow the chocolate to be given by Mias Clark's mother, Mrs. Joseph C. Clark, at her home on Brick Church Road.

ve'nine to Miss Joan Brown will be hostess (Continuad on Page 11-B) if "til ty I vi held in women ward during Christmas week. Members of the Colonial uames will furnish holiday cakes and other foods for the patients during the Christmas week. The Centennial Club, the Womans' Club, the em ployes of the Life snd casualty Insuranca Company, the National Life and Accident Insurance, tne Bell Telephone and Telegrapn Company, Cain-Sloan's, and many other Nashville organizations will furnish gifts to be distributed rhroueh the American Red Croas to patients at the two hospitals here. The Nashville Opera Guild, of which Miss Anna Mae Kennedy serves as has planned a party to be held sometime Christ maa week. A children's vested choir, from Christ the King Church, under the direction of Father Joseph Leppert.

will ro through the wards Christ mas Eve, singing carols. The Bel mont Methodist Cburcn, tnrougn the American Red Cross, and J. Donald Doyle, American Red Cross director at the Convalescent Hospital, will arrange for a enrtst- maa diversion at the guaranouse. Manv Invitations have been is sued to the convalescents to spend Christmas Day in the private homes of Nashville, and many mora sucn invitations are expected. All mess halls and the recrea tions rooms will be decorated throughout with Christmas greens, through the central committee of the Camps and Hoapital Council of the American Red Cross which acts as the representative of all local organisations, charities and individuals, who wish to contrib- Uif te the- Christmas and Haw Year's festivities at both the Con valescent Hospital and Thayer Geal eral Hospital.

The Gray Ladles, at tha convalescent Hospital, under the direction of Mrs. Harrison Shoulders, and the staff assistants, with Mrs. James M. Hofstead, chairman, will maintain a service during tha time befoip Qkriatmaa, to wrap pack-ages for the man In the hospitals. entertainment to nem "Turkey, you are a doomed bird!" say Laird Smith, Jr, left, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Laird Smith, and Margaret Avelyn Perry, daughter of Lt. and Mrs. Ernest Perry, Jr, as they pick out a likely looking gobbler for Thanksgiving. Morning Parties, Teas, and Luncheons Are Among Additional Affairs Listed tor Christmas Holidays .1 4 Announced today are additional Christmas parties for the younger social group of Nashville.

Mla Bettv Bealra ana Nancy Oakley will entertain at aafternoon. Dectmoer ia. ai ner a rw.iih a atlhome on Vallev Brook Road from rt TA 1 morning, December 16, at 11 o'clock at Belle Meads Country Club to compliment her daughter, Mis Ann Carr Young. Miss Ann Harris will hold open house Sunday afternoon. Decant hr 17 from 4 until ciocsL ai Unuim jt i Mrs.

T. M. Harris, on Saratoga Drive, Miss Katherlne Manier and Mlse Thaniel Armlstead will entertain Monday, December Is, at a eoua at tha Centennial flub at IX.sv o'clock. i Mrs. Ralph Larsen has piaortaa iContlnu4 en Pag 11-Bl tit Mrs.

Rrmlrt wtu enteaHi a tea Tnursaay aiiernoon. jjn ember 14, from 4 until o'clock at nii. fVinnirv fTluh for her rfauffhter. Misa Mary Duke. Guests! mini Miu Duke's menu is no problem ieMiri.iiinw.iJBW pi and vefetmbles canned and preserved from school friend at Ward-Belmont.

Nancy Cornelius, Saturday. Decem-Mlss Valera PotUr, daughter of.ber 16. at ths homa of Mrs. Cor-Mr. and Mrs.

Justin Potter, will be nellus on Central Avenue. taa on Fridav after- Mrs. Robert Turk Young will en- 2' in the Victory Garden maintained last summer by Judge Davies who was 5 wt nT Tennessean7. Victory Garden Contest. Mrs.

Dav state, that wuj the of cranberry sauce and celery, can provide her fam ily'a holiday etro tLirown food. Expected home to share at least a portion of the holiday week end with hTptiXndngerlbrother, Ed Reynold. Dsvies. is Elmer Davies, Jr, staUoned at the University of the South, Sewanee, with the Navy V-U unit. UMa.DKtBib liataarpawata'ltsjUla at a chocolate Baturday J'.