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1 C(J bot WOMEN owri SIGMA THETA SOEOEITY ap I the grind climax of its Golden Arrci ta 1963. To feat end, the National ikmi, beaded by the stennlns National Presi teiCDn tanne Noble, net last week end In JtfiilangtDn, to further fee plans for the gala To add to tha excitement. Honor try member Lena Home, (the gorgeous one, and. her husband Lenny Hayden entertained tbefroup In their lavish suite at the Shorham Hotel, where Miss Home is fulfilling a limited gjfcement 1 WCT A LIST OF Delta notables! They cams from everywhere; national vice president Geraldine Woods flew in from Los Angeles; Atty. Elsie Austin, the adorable one, was then (we wonder if she's returning to Africa any time soon?) Bette Wimbush ol St Petersburg, Dorothy Height, New York; ditto Eliza beth Carnegie, same town; two founders, Dr.

Eliza Shlppen and Mrs. Florence Toms; Gwen Hlgginbotham "Miss Delta" herself; Frances Flippen. Beckley, W. Marie Barkesaate, exajitlve secretary, Dee Cee; Ruth Micheaux. Dee Cee president and Sue Williams, Little Rock.

AS WE WRITE THIS, Pittsburgh is a thrill packed city awaiting the arrival of JFK. He's due to visit nearby Aliqulppa before coming to our town. And when he does, his entourage Is going right past The Courier plant (those are the plans). We'll have front row seats to that, believe me! We remember when he came to town before the presidential election and the way he got the roaring welcome from all of us as he sailed through our Hill district MBS. ROBERT L.

VANN. a mamber of the Distinguished Daughters of Pennsylvania, attended the annual luncheon recognition day last week and saw Helen Clay Frick and Mrs. Kelly, mother of Princess Grace of Monaco. inducted into the select ranks. BELATED SORROWFUL? WORD from Boston, that old friend Norman Harris has departed this vale of tears.

He had suffered long and was mercifully released by death toa happier land. So goes another of our best friends, leaving a woeful gap in our gradually naijowlng circle of friendships. He was a dear person, and we shall miss him. DAISY LAMPKIX In Camden, NJ. with Dr.

and Mrs. Ulysses Wiggins, putting over a grand NAACP campaign. It was her first love and she adores being a part of it again. i'WlTEN WE SEE WILIJAM LAW RENCE'S name in print (he's one of the judges for the Marian Anderson awards) it bring back memories of past years when we used to see him and his gorgeous wife in New York. We always thought he was the most elegant example of highly trained, competent mraj good looking accompanist and really made a perfect picture at the keyboard.

That was before he gave his entire time to coach lng, teaching and composing. 'FREDA DcKNIGHT, the artistic genius behind the Ebony Fashion Fairs, is on that rough road of illness cancer. She has made i i FREDA DeKNIGHT no." bones about: her condition, because with Freda, we believe, there has never been any phoniness nor subterfuges. She has lived above the deadly ailment and fought hard for life. That she has succeeded this far, no doubt has been a miracle.

Freda is credited with the use of Negro girls and boys in ads. Joseph Wershba of the New York Post did a beautifully warm story on Freda last week inter vlewdngher her New York apartment She's Just 52, is married to Rene DeKnUiht, the handsome accompanist for the Rhythm Boys. Long before Ebony days, sie tri pled around the world with Rene an somewhere along the way, she fell In love vlth ctoking. She is one of a very fewfjod editors and her cook book, the "little IJrown Chef" is a delight Freda has been one of the most voluble talkers of all time; soe is forthright, outspoken and demanding of snyone under her direction. If there could be wt might a miracle, we would ask It for Freda.

There are far too few such persons in this mixed up world. Throes 3 by TOO tytUUC JOKBON Tofd'sSertnonette 7 win put ay teU wUUm jml ataak, MSJ WHAT A HAPPY WAY TO START A DAY! Putting your spirit fax God's hand and having Him in turn, put His Holy Spirit la its place. Infusing you with strength to sally forth and meet your daOy problems with more courage. And you know we all need courage to face the added tensions of today. The "good old days" when everything moved casualty.

slowly toward given end, and the atomic blast was something the scientists were woi ing on, have ended. Now we live through blast after blast which affect us in spite of them being thousands of miles away. Our litters have become more than lust nerves; they are fuUfledged fears, wrapping long tentacles of fright around our bodies, sending tremors along each inch of our nervous sys tem. There is no way we can exist now without asking God's spirit to carry us through. There are stranger things on earth now, than were ever before, and few of us know bow to handle our changed world.

Confusion has taken over. No one really knows which way to turn. So, to help find our footing, God's help, and face each day with confidence. Enlarge and strengthen your faith In God and reap the benefits he will bestow on you. KANSAS CITY entertained the Drifters, Inc.

and reelected as national president, New York's Ettene Collins. Then the girls elected Lucile CUette as national secretary. Ladle has been handling their publicity and doing a great job for them. Items drifting in from the group (which has a plethora of lovely gels on tne roster) points up New York's Shirlee Rousseau as one of the best dressed, featuring furs a chinchilla jacket and (ahem) assorted minks! Others pinned against the backdrop of style, are Catherine Guest and Faye Davidson, both of Louisville, Ky. Catherine was a stunner in a broadtail suit with ranch mink collar and a matching mink hat Faye featuring out fits of suede and leather.

Then there were the elegant Chicago representatives, Sue Williams, LaVorme Jones, Mary Bromfieid. Gloria Elliott, Wilms Carteman, all ob ao pretty. OTHER DELOVELIES at the Drifters were the good looking delegation from Indianapolis: Joy McNairy. Chris Stuart, Imogene Boyd. Ellen Miller and Madeline Soothers, came 'from South Bend.

Wilms Englander, Helen Young. Geneva Hayes, St Louis; Rose Holloway. Edwina Halloman. Margaret Love and Sylvia Scrutchions, Los Angeles. And of course New Yorkers Evelyn Parker, and from Louisville.

Eleanor Hutchinson. Marian Lyons, LaLine Jewell, Cara Lewis, Wanda Davis. COMES NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT, Oct 3a Pittsburgh's Rinkeydinks will emerge hi all of their brilliant splendor at the most elegant of fall affairs a "Guys and Dolls Fantasia" given at the smart Baldoc Hills Country Club on Route 30. Members or the New York, Columbus. Ohio chapters of Rinkeydinks are flying in for the soignee fete.

What fun! "BUD" UIX.V of Harrtsburg. Pa. has his son Lance in the Art Institute of Pittsburgh to further his undoubted talent DICK AND MARGURITE AUBREY of Los Angeles readying for their 25th wedding anniversary ISOBEL OUSHOLM CLARX. one of the fabulous Chisholm sisters of Philadelphia, now assistant director of administration in the National Urban League, Inc. hi New York City asks that we mention the Christmas project of the Links.

Inc. This year the national group project via greeting cards is aiding the NI L. The theme of the cards emphasis "Peace" and the artist is the terrific joimg man. Elton. Fax.

WE'VE BEEN MEANING to mention Beulah Whitby. Detroit social scientist Eeu lah. a dedicated AKA soror who carried the banner of her sorority to great heights as Grand Basileus, retired recently after 25 years as a municipal employe. She served 19 years with the Mayor's Commission on Community Relations, moved at once into Mercy CbDege (she has taught part time there) as head of the sociology department She's the wife of Dr. Charles Whitby.

TED FLETCHER of Brooklyn. N.Y, son of Jean Simoc Fletcher and Dr. Theodore Fletcher of Cheyney State College, is engaged to Marguerite Wilkerson. They are both teachers in the same Junior high school, and both finished college in "6L CUVT DAVIS, Esq, Jamaican barrister. In the U.S.

as guest of the International T' men of Pennsylvania, spent a week with Sher man Harmon in Philly and came to Pittsburga as cuest of Frank Lave lie. Before goinz home, he visit Buffalo, N.Y. and Canada. Mr. Davis is swretary of West More land Parrish Council.

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rw MRS. ALISE EVANS Chicago social worker MRS. LOIS T. CAESAR West Coast artist Two Pairs Of Sisters In 62 List Once a year, several well dressed women are chosen for viewing by the editors. There are so many women who dress beautifully, simply, in excellent tasts, that it is impossible to name them all.

Then too, there are modest women who, when asked to take part simply ignore the letters or say "This Is absurd." Choosing a "well dressed" (mind you, we do not say "best woman is not absurd nor it is easy. The collection this week come by way of NAFAD, out of town suggestions, and office selection. Several of our group this week, are repeats. Mrs. S.

H. Freeman (Mildred) of Nashville, is a teacher, buys her clothes three ways; frequently beginning with shoes (she loves She prefers suits and has worn Roland Originals (from Utah) for 20 years. For evening, the tried and true Dior and CeefUe Chapman. Good grooming; she says, starts with hair and nails. Odessa, her hair stylist is her most cherished possession.

FJlse Evans, widow, Chicago social worker, studied at the University of Chicago, but chose Boston's Museum School of Art for a turn; studied fashions in Paris and got a I II I Well Dressed Women In Spotlight IK a era traveler; she wears sucks because she travels mostly by automobile. For her favorite wear, she choses evening and daytime, coordinating new buys with her already well stocked wardrobe. Mrs. Joseph Jacob Simmons III (formerly Bemice Miller of Detrjit) is one of the New Frontier wives, her husband having been recently appointed as a specialist in the Department of the Interior. Living in Washington.

D. has caused an added rush of expending a wardrobe noted by its simplicity. Mary Agnes Davis. Mrs. Simmons' sister, Detroiter, loves evening wear.

Her elegant gown chosen for JFK's Inauguration Bait was beautiful in its rich texture and at most austere cut She sponsors the Coette youth club and works ardently for the United Negro College Fund. Dorothea Towles, another sister team, has been "retired" from the active lists of well dressed because she has been chosen so often as a "best dressed." The editors thought It would be exciting to show two pairs of sisters who can be put on its list 1 i mi I I) i i I IL 4 is' (LEVDA PAGE Sow York mlllliw MRS. GATE DeHALL inttsborgh state emplo A jr. I v. A iA MRS.

MARY AGNES DAVIS MRS. BERMCE SIMMONS sponsors Coettea Dee Cee wife, mother TEsWcclt's Fccturctfe masters in art education in Chicago. She has won awards, chief being one from the Chicago Tribune fashion contest She has sophisticated taste, loves to stop and choses comfort in clothes above all else. Her wardrobe is interchangeable. Lois Towles Caesar, San Francisco socialite, is a concert pianist and a Charm School conductor who spent much time in Europe before her marriage.

She enjoys making her own spectacular outfits, while sticking close to the slmplelldty demanded of a woman whose social position requires exposure, plus occasional forays into the artistic field. She has taught at Tennessee State University. Gaye DeHalL Pittsburgh State employe, active church worker and clubwoman, loves furs, the small type stoles and strings of mink. Being an active worker, she likes the new knits for day time wear, but adores cocktail frocks. She has a wide collection, some done by her favorite dressmaker, some Ceil Chapman, Deses, and Dior.

Linda Page, New York (Long Island) milliner, keeps a too busy schedule night and day. Her custom made hats to fit each individual customer, has her in New York City every day, and most evenings. She enjoys luxury fabrics, the ensemble which can take her from day to evening in smart fashion. Dorothy Dobbins. Cincinnati art teacher, is a typical mod 4 DOROTHEA TOWLES fetching model MRS.

MILDRED FREEMAN NashviUa teacher MBS. DOROTHY DOBBINS Cincinnati art teacher.