Independent Star-News from Pasadena, California • Page 40

STAR NEWS, Betrothal, Wedding Top News By RUTH BILLHEIMER Sociely Editor for a December ceremiony and an August wedding make the news this morning. The wedding was that of Sandra Shoup to James Douglas Schmidt here yesterday, The engagement prominent Filntridge' arid Riverside families. Sit was at the University ot California, Riverside, that John. Walton Ellis, son ot the llerbert Balley Ellises of Inverness Drive, met Susan Key Dole, Today her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John Ethelbert Dole of Riverside ate announcing their engagement, and this afternoon the Ejilses will hold open house to introduce Susan and her family to their Pasadena, Flintridge, and La. Canada friends. Approximately 100 family friends, both adults and college age, have been Invited to come between the hours of 4 and 7. 1 Honored guests will clade not only Susan and her parents, but her brother, James, and their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

George E. Dole of Riverside. Joan Ellis, sister of John, will assist her parents who will receive the library. Pink and white flowers will be used throughout the house and on the patio and pool terrace where traditionelichampagne punch will be served. Roses in shades of.

pihk and gardenias, Susan's favorite flower, will inate. Susan, wwho is a senior at Cal studying to be a medical technologist and a member of" Sigma Kappa, received her earlier education in Riversido and was chosen 45 3 Girls' Slate delegale. She also was named as a home. coming princess and was secretary of her senior class. John, too, is a senior at Cal and belongs to Kappa SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1943 MISS SUSAN KAY DOLE Delta Rho, He'ls a math for and plans to work for a master's degree, He was a letterman at Flintridge Preparatory School and later at UCR, in golf.

He is a grandson of Dr. and Airs. J. Howard Hutch. inson of Altadena, formerly ot West Orange, N.J., and of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Ar. thur M. Ellis of Los Angeles. Roses and other summer flowers In tones of pink and white made an altar background for the wedding terday afternoon of Sandra Troup and James Douglas Schmidt.

The ceremony took place at'4 o'clock in San rino Community Church with 250 guests in attendance. Sandy. 19 the daughter of Mrs. Plym Troup of Oxford Road and of Jack Edward Troup of Arcadia. She was given In marriage by her father.

Jim's parents are the Godfrey T. Schmidts of Kinghurst Road, San rino, -Richard Graves Pholo MARS. JAMES DOUGLAS SCHMIDT (Sandra Troup! John Cahan Marries Teacher Miss Marjorie Anne Sonntag, teacher in the Alhambra school system, became the bride of John Michael Cahan of Alhambra, the son of the John Ray Cahans of: Arcadia, in an Aug. 10 wedding held at 4:30 p.m. in Oneonta Congregational Church, South Pasadena, The bride's parents, the Phillp A.

Sonntags, came from their home In Kailua, Hawali, for the ceremony, and Mr. Sontag gave his daughter in marriage. Miss Contine Sanntag was her sister's maid of honor. The entourage Included Mmes. Richard M.

Sayles and William P. Ilickey; Miss Marilyn Gentry and the bride's cousin, Miss Elsa Bergeron. Joy Marimon and John Cummings, the bride's young cousins, were flower girl and ring bearer, Terry R. Cehan was his brother's best man. The bride's brother, Philip A.

Sonntag III, was an usher with Mr. Hickey, Ralph M. Perking and Floyd R. Tanner. A Belgian lace handkerchief which had been carried by both her.

mother and grandmother as brides, was Shop Monday 9:30 a.m, to 9 p.m. in Pasadena at HELEN SMITH 527 South Lake Avenue Special Purchase Sale! A pert, shortsleeved jacket of ribbed weave tops a cap-sleeved dress of white Arnel triacetale jersey, or jacket. Petite sizes 12 thru 20, 22,95 value. $12 save 10.951 Lavishly embroidered cotton print sparked with gleaming rayon satin, Fully lined. Aqua in 1 Half Sizes thru 25.95 value.

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.19.95 value, $12 save 7.951 -n sale! SUMMER DRESSES If sale -priced not specially purchased, these dresses would sell for 12.95 and 15.95. $8 Terrific dress buys in Nylon Jersey, embroidered coltons, lustrous Pima coltons; Arnel jersey, Fortrel polyester 2 for $15 voiles, Wide array of styles in sizer 8 SIVa 4.95 to 7.95 on 1 thru 20, holt sizes to save 10.90 to 16,90 on 2 Please, no mail or telephone orders HELEN SMITH-527 So. Lake Avenue RUTH BICENEIMER The bride carried butterfly orchids and lilies of the valley with her lovely wedding gown of silk organ7a and Venise lace. Lace trimmed Empire bodice, fashloned with Sabrina neckline and elbow sleeves, and extended into the court train. Matching lace formed a crown to hold the fingertip Veil, layered in three tiers.

Romance blue gowns of chiffon over taffeta were chosen for the bride's attendants. Mrs. Donold Black Jr. (Kathy Robinson) of land, formerly of San Narino, was honor attendant. Others were Mmes.

Herbert Webb, a Pi Beta Phi sister of the bride, Harold Gulda (Judy Swanson), now of Tempe, Misses Jean Brunton of Newport Reach and Katherine Willis of Ar. cadia, both P1 Phis. They carried baby pink roses, Their dresses, with which each wore a chiffon rose headdress to hold the face veil, were made with softly pleated skirts, Joseph Harper Jr. a Sigma Chi brother of the bride. groom at USC, was his best man.

Ushers were the bride's brothers, Richard and ThomAs Troup, and three of Jim's friends from San Marino High days, John Beman, George Adams, and David Boyle, The Rev, Dr. Frederick tV. Cropp, pastor, officiated at the ceremony which was followed by a reception at Mrs, Troup's home. Pink and white flowers floated upon the poo! near which the bridal party and the two anothers recelved the guests. Mrs.

Troup wore a sheath of pink silk Shantung with matching hat and accessorles. Mrs. Schmidt's dress was a two piece sheath of aqua Italian silk with matching hat and slippers, Sandy and Jim, whose romance started in their senior year at San Marino High, were graduated from SC in June. They have left for Northern California and the Jackson Hole country at their wedding trip and will be at home in an apartment on West Duarte Road, Arcadia, on their return, Secretaries to Meet Thursday San Gabriel Valley Legal Secretarleg Association members will meet Thursday at the home of Mrs. Iva Lou Hupp in El Monte and will tour the Alhambra Municipal Court on Aug.

27, A question and answer period on legal procedures will follow a 6:30 p.m. social hour and dinner at Mrs. Hupp's home. Reservations may be made with the hostess at SYcamore 6-2425 by legal secretarles Interested In attending, Mrs. Ellen C.

Nellan, court clerk, will lead the Alhambra court tour, slated for 7:30 p.m. The group will gather in the courthouse foyer at 200 W. Woodward Street, Alhambra, At-Home Knits At-home knits by Pier Luigi of Rome have made a big hit with United States buyers. An outstanding style purchased was a black and ivory wool knit dress, bands 'of lighter color criss-crossIng bodice to mold the dress close to the body and also forming a horizontal stripe close to the hem as well as a verticle stripe down the center of the sleeve, A sleeveless top of black, with a lifted waistline, sels off a cinnamon color hostess gown with deep Inverted pleats in the skirt. Those who remember Sue Ranney, who lived here for years land was known around the Valley Hunt Club for her good game of bridge), will be interested to know she upw makes her home in Wellesley Hilla, Mass.

Marjorie Sinclair, with whom Gabby toured the Eart at the end of spring, renewed auld acquaintance with her. Mrs. Ranney makes her home with her granddaughter and husband, the Rexford Wilsons, and is absorbed in a great-granddaughter who's reached the walking talkIng stage Grace Twitchell, of whom we spoke last week--wife of Marjorie's cousin John -drove her over from Barring. ton, R.I., after their week together in Maine And surprise it was for Sue Ranney, WE'VE FILED the telephone call that came this week from Jane (Mrs. J.

Donald) Hales of Linda Vista In the small world department. Could I give her the address of Grace and Jack Twltchell (She'd seen their names in the column She and her husband knew them intimately when living in nearby Warren, R.I.. Don had worked with Jack for a while While Gabby was touring Vermont and new Hampshire, Marjorie was down in Princeton, N.J., continuing. the reunion that was begun at the Twitchells' Maine "cottage" (6-bedroom varlety) In Brooklin, near Blue Hill and Mt. Desert they call it back there) In Princeton, she visited cousins Roxanne and Rich ard Sly and their three children, as well as Roxanne's mother, Alice Wells Twitchell But when the humidity began mounting, Marjorie took off for Idylwild and home, flying to Chicago and boarding the California Zephyr for San Francisco GABBY PAUSED for a day in Needham, after say.

Ing goodbye to her traveling companion and the Twitchells, to visit with Bertha and Jack Gallagher, trans. planted Scattle folk Jack's a retired gales executive of Machiiilan Publishing Co. Being a provincial Southern Californian, Gabby was under the impression that here are the only tion problems Not saya Jack. Commuter trains are tine, so long as life remains fairly static, it seems, but when companies moved out of Boston, the trains no longer took you ta your job, 50 you bought a car Result, the railroads lost money and, for example, the old Boston road through Riverside and Auburndale was abandoned ag a steam line (now carrles electric lines) and an MTA rapid transit lIne has taken over the Riverside station. Freeways wreak their havoo there as here, eating through beautiful communities, devouring centurlesold trees and houses as they go.

In West Newton, a new freeway link was about to slice an arc around a tina old house leaving It perched upon a concrete cliff, its occupants. considering abandoning city, life entirely. for the peaceful countryside of Northern Vermont IF YOU'RE FROM THE EAST, you know that the fruit of the pretty white viburnum tree is also known as high bush cranberry, and the berries are every bit as good us the bog variety, we're told In the old days, It was the only variety they had in Vermont, said Bertha Gallagher, as she conducted a tour of her old-fashloned garden with its wild, pale pink columbine, 118 whlle violets as big as violas, purple violets and lilleg of the valley as thick as weeds, tiny wild Illles of the valley, Quaker ladies, and wild cherry trees, whose tiny white clusters we saw wherever we went In New England We'd hoped to go through Palmer, on the way to Hartford It is on the old Post Road according to Mrs. Harry Williams, who grew up there Now the Massachusetts Turnpike bypasses It Her, family still live In the area-one sister and husband, the William Chapmans who were here two years ago, living In field looks forward to those horrible winters," she says, "because he's In the fuel the other sister and her. husband, the John Kennys, In Wilber.

ham He's with Monsanto Chemicals In fact, it was a disappolntment not to find time to bring back more person person tidbits from people you know in the East (once a fire horse, always a fire horse but vacationing was most absorbing For instance, we'd hoped to ring up the Thomas Filzgeralds Jr. (Katharine Bigelow) In Wellesley, and Barble (Mrs. Thomas Leverett) Nelson, Friskie and Ira Beck's daughter, now in Shrewsbury, near Worcester, for a starter, but something happened to time Frisk. lie's looking forward to seeing their 4-year-old Rett and year-old Carrie in September when she goes back for Carrie's christening THE ROBERT FOWLERS, our hosts in West Hartford who conducted the rest of the New England tour, we discovered, are good friends of the Clem Glasses of Flintridge. and they'll be meeting again soon at the mortgage bankers' convention In San Francisco (Bob is retiring from Connecticut General Life Insurance where he's been secretary of the company .) He and Ruth have bought a lot at the foot of Mt.

Elmore in Vermont and are contemplating bullding summer home Ruth was brought up in Vermont Barre that's where Mrs. Ben Eaton hells from, cidentally .) and Bob in Lebanon, N.H... They met at Unlversity of Vermont Ruth and I picked up Bob at Connecticut General (which Hepburn's Complete Guide to New England says architects regard as one of the finest examples of commercial building design in the country) In the raln on the afternoon before Memorial Day We followed the broad Connecticut River up through Springfield and Bellows Falls to White River Jet It was tobacco planting time in Connecticut and Mas sachusetts, where white netting was stretched over the. prepared ground and would be enclosed with net sidings carefully sewn together as soon as the young plants were in the ground, protecting them from insects and holding the proper temperature PLANTING THE TOBACCO WAS sit-down job. Four men seated almost at ground level across the back of a truck thrust the shoots into the walting earth, four rows al a time, as the truck moved slowly forward We left Highway 5 at Hadley and auxillary Route 47 'took us through the charming picturebook village of Sunderland Proud white houses, set well back from the road, looked out upon lawns which swept out to the highway A file of huge old maples stood guard 10 feet from the pavement on elther side As we sped along enjoying the rain-softened vistAs came to a strange sign just above.

Bellows Falls that read, "Squecze Traffic Ahead" A very graphic way of Indicating the point at which the new throughway (Highway 91) ceased being a high speed road and was, at that moment, mud SIGN LANGUAGE is a fascinating study and there'll be more on it anon One sign, however, oft seen along the roads of Vermont stopped this non-fishing Westerner at first There were many versions, but the prize winNeT, designed of course to attract bait-shoppers, not late travelers, between Barre and Montpellier, read "Night Crawlers Drive In" See you next weck in Morristown. could your 9 -William V. Photo MRS, JOHN CAHAN (Marjorie Sonniag) carried by the former Miss Sonniag who chose A white Chantilly lace wedding dress with a chiffon train and a jeweled lace crown with a fingertip veil. ITer flowers were a cascade of white orchids, roses and stephanotis. The bridal attendants were In Copen blue chiffon sheathy with Jace boleros.

They car. ried white chrysanthemum bouquets with blue accents. The flower girl wore a quaint blue dress, broldered in white, The couple will live in Al. hambra after a San Fran. cisco honeymoon..