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C-6 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Sumlav, April 25. 1976 Calligrapher Is No Machine Weddings 4 1 -r viv y. jr I. examples in penmanship books and is used to address envelopes. The other is Engrosser's Script, which looks like the beginning of an illuminated manuscript and is used for table place cards.

The difference between Spencerian and script is the dimension of the lines. For the script, she uses a special flexible pen which gives her lines variation from superfine to super-thick, depending on how hard she bears down. It sounds simple but it can be nerve-wracking, she says, if there's a lot of pressure. Some days she feels "hyper" and can't summon up the graceful rhythm and lines necessary for beautiful work. Other times it can be relaxing, like playing the organ, which Mrs.

Scriven also does. For a large luncheon in the State Dept's eighth floor din ing room, which may include as many as 200 guests, each guest's name is written four times on the envelope, on the invitation, on the table seating index and on the place card. A large luncheon can mean a minimum of eight hours' work for Mrs. Scriven. The callieraDhv required for a comparatively intimate formal luncheon for 16 guests usually takes an hour and a half.

Kissinger cares deeply about the niceties of protocol. For example, he insists on personally approving the seating arrangements for all luncheons. He took Mrs. Scriven with him this weekend when he departed on a two-week trip to Africa, because he will be giving several formal luncheons along the way. There will be no typewritten place cards as long as Henry Kissinger has something to say about it.

The Gvil Service description of Mrs. Scriven's job says, 'The incumbent is occasionally required to travel, working under makeshift conditions for extremely protracted periods, yet producing work of the highest standard of excellence." WASHINGTON (UPI) The guest at a fancy State Dept. luncheon was suitably impressed by the place card that bore her name in beautiful, flowing script. "Do you have a machine that does this?" she asked one of her hosts. "Me, I'm the machine," says Mrs.

Grace Scriven, a silver-haired grandmother who sits at a drawing table in the State Dept. protocol office and turns out thousands upon of handwritten place cards, invitations and envelopes for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's diplomatic functions. She does other things as well, but officially she is the State Dept. calligrapher, the master craftsman of scrolls and flourishes. Mrs.

Scriven is what all of us might have become, had we paid attention in penmanship class. She sits erect, the way you are supposed to sit when using the Palmer Method. Her whole forearm moves. Her hand never grips the pen like an arthritic lobster claw. The letters flow easily and gracefully across the page like a serenade.

The lines are level and even. It is lovely to look at. There are forces in this world, chiefly the pressure of time and lack of materials, which are conspiring to drive this last bit of elegance out of our lives. The English-made steel nibs that Mrs. Scriven prefers have disappeared from the market, and even the substitutes she was forced to accept are getting scarce.

She cannot find real India ink or Japan black anymore, even in India or Japaa She manufactures her own by adding gum arabic, a thickening agent, to Higgins eternal black, to make it blacker. Mrs. Scriven (her very name means writing) uses two styles of writing. One is Spencerian, which looks like the Mrs. CL Mehring Mrs.

Frank D. Gorham III i Grubbs, Mehring Farmington was maid of honor and bridesmaids were Miss Toni Arnold of Moore, and Miss Shelley Ambrose of Elgin, Okla. Michael Atencio was best man and ushers were Jimmy Grubbs brother of the bride, and Pete Vigil. After a trip to Govis, the couple will be at home in Albuquerque. Mehring is employed by Vip's Del Norte Baptist Church was the setting Saturday morning for the wedding of Miss Carolyn Janel Grubbs and Christopher Lloyd Mehring with the Rev.

EL Robertson reading the double-ring service. Parents of the bride are Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy R. Grubbs, 8232 Evangeline Ct NE.

The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Mehring, 405 Alcazar NE. Miss Connie Small of Mrs. Grace Scriven of the State Dept.

Turns Out Handwritten Place Cards Programs Are Announced Your By JEAISE Horoscope mo Lea, Gorham SUNDAY, APRIL 25 Dr. Wauneka will speak on "Indian Women and the Economy" at 1:30 p.m. She is amemberof theNational Commission for the Observance of International Women's Year and was recently a recipient of the Ladies Home Journal Women of the Year Award. Claudeen B. Arthur, Navajo attorney with DNA, the People's Legal Services, Navajo Nation, will speak at 3.

Also sponsoring the Shiprock presentation are the North American Indian Women's NavajoHopi chapter; Consumer Protection Division of the New Mexico Attorney General's Office; DNA, People's Legal Services, Navajo Nation; New Mexico Retail Assn. and New Mexico State Uni-. versify Cooperative Extension Service. Panelists for the Shiprock and Farmington equal credit opportunity presentations WAGNER KOHLER SAVES WATER RATE INCREASE HOMEOWNERS TO PAY MORJI WAGNER PLUMBING it ready with KOHLER products. HEADS.

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A panel discussion on "E-qual Credit Opportunity" is planned for 7 p.m. in the Civic Room of the Four Corners Savings and Loan 500 W. Main, in Farmington. Featured speakers for the Shiprock workshop are Dr. Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Tribal councilwoman from Klagetoh, and Robert Hilgendorf assistant New Mexico attorney gener-al, Consumer Protection Division.

Hilgendorf will discuss Indian pawn, the state arts and crafts law and the new federal trading post regulations at 9 a.m. Following his presentation, a panel discussion will be held at 11 a.m. on equal credit opportunity. regional counsel for the J.C. Penney and Tasia Young, Albuquerque, executive director for the Commission on the Status of Women.

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19. YOUR BIRTHDAY TODAY: Your life this year diverges from that of long-time associates, perhaps to the point that you go alone. Put emphasis on spiritual growth, immediate and distant goals. Relationships stir evolving progress in those you deal with; nothing stays still more than a brief spell. Today's natives are energetic activists, see to it their local environment is always on the upgrade.

Aries (March 21-April 19): Preserve simple, pleasant customs. Let your home stand as it is, forgoing drastic rearrangements. Decisions shouldn't be forced; the time isn't ripe for changes. Taurus (April 20-May 20): Diplomacy continues essential, especially among those unaccustomed to you. Pursue the obvious with little fuss.

Evening favors shared pastimes. Gemini (May 21-June 20): Keep as much to yourself as you can. Review the recent past. Catch up on reading, correspondence, but delay replies to important proposals. Cancer (June 21-July 22): Quietly rethink your situation, reconsider and perhaps reaffirm your goals.

Don't clutch at those close to you, otherwise you succeed in alienating them Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): You probably have to work due to some oddity of local circumstance. Take it in stride. The less fuss you make, the more temporary the inconvenience. Virgo (Aug.

23-Sept 22): Distant news is vague. Stick to what you know, leaving the exotic to others. If you have a garden or a windowful of plants, do some pruning. Libra (Sept 23-Oct 22): It seems to you nobody has the story straight or wants to get down to firm decisions. People don't feel the urgency you expect Go with the tide.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov. 21): Previous plans hit a snag. The less uproar you raise about it, the better. Appeals to reason are the best approach. Youngsters strive for attention.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Mind your own business on this delicately balanced day of potential encounter. New information is available later. It's quite all right to be lazy.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Give people plenty of peaceful space in which to practice their lessons. Few things are nearly perfect; you must wait a bit longer for what you seek. Aquarius (Jan.

20-Feb. 18): Accept today's seemingly random drift for what it is. Do what comes naturally within the bounds of good taste. Look for no reward or even a "thank you." Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You can put in your share of the talk after everybody has taken a line.

Be content to watch your theories vindicated or Journal Special ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. Miss Virginia Ramsav Lea became the bride of Frank Devore Gorham III in a ceremony Saturday afternoon at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount, with the Rev. Charles I. Pen-ick officiating. Parents of the bride are Mr.

and Mrs. Philip Pell Lea, Rocky Mount. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Sirs. Frank Devore Gorham 218 16th SW, Albuquerque.

Miss Charlotte Timberlake Battle of Rocky Mount was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Mrs. James Pardue of Marion, Mrs. Dow Bauknight of Woodstock, Miss Roslyn Pittman of Tuscaloosa, Miss Alice Brading of Sumter, S.C.; Miss Shelley Wilgus of Staunton, Miss Susan Gravely of Cambridge, Miss Millard Jones Harris of Rocky Mount; Miss Deborah Bowker, Miss Norma Dozier Robbins and Miss Marian Elizabeth Hicks of Washington, D.C. Stricklin, Miss Darla J.

Stricklin became the bride of Lonnie L. Bakke in a double-ring ceremony Saturday at Eastern Hills BaptistChurch with the Rev. William Ratlif reading the service. Parents of the bride are Mr. and Mrs.

Jerry R. Stricklin, 9420 Dona Rowena NE. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bakke, 9320 ArvillaNE.

Miss Maria Stricklin was her sister's maid of honor and bridesmaids were Misses Christy Payne and Susan Wolfe. David Salinas was best man and groomsmen were Kevin Joseph and Danny Duran. After a trip to Colorado, the couple will be at home in Albuquerque. Mrs. Bakke is employed by Anthony's TV Service and Bakke by Texaco, Inc.

Leybas Observing Date are Hugh B. McAfee Dallas, government affairs office, Sears, Roebuck and Lynn J. Ellins, Denver, Howard Castell, 7705 El Conde NE. In addition to Mrs. Castell, they have two other daughters, Mrs.

Orvis Creel and Mrs. Harold Matthews. Grandchildren include, Bill Duffey, Bruce, Gary and Ella Mae Creel, Dawn, Sherry and Russell Matthews. Timothy Walker Gorham was his brother's best man. Groomsmen were Daniel Kelly Gorham, Robert Gorham and Mark Hawley Gorham of Albuquerque, brothers of the bridegroom; Philip Bunn Lea, Richard Hunter Lea and George Pell Lea, brothers of the bride; Stephen Cito of Shawnee Mission, Philip Griego of Santa Fe; George Shriber of New York.

N.Y.: aaron Retz-er of Arlington, John Nugent and Couglas Jackson of Washington, D.C. The bride, a graduate of Converse College, Spartanburg, serves as legislative assistant and congressional liaison for the firm of Bracewell and Patterson, Washington, D.C Gorham is a Washington representative for Ashland Oil Co. of Ashland, Ky. A graduate of the University of New Mexico, he is attending Law School at American University, Washington, D.C After a wedding trip, the couple will be at home in Washington. Bakke Mrs.

Lonnie Bakke jrfrfrfi i i Mr. and Mrs. Olmedo Ley-ba of 3103 Truman NE are observing their golden wedding anniversary. They were married April 26, 1926 at Wagon Mound. They moved to Albuquerque 22 years ago.

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