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The Bridgeport Post from Bridgeport, Connecticut • Page 23

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BRIDGEPORT SUNDAY POST, JANUARY 24, 1905 B--THREE February Calendar Announced For Brooklawn Country Club Mrs. John P. Bassett, Mrs. Lyman C. Thunfors, Mrs.

Arthur C. Williams, Mrs. Michael A. Dean, Mrs. Leonard Lindquist, Mrs.

Warren J. Faust, Mrs. 1 H. Edward Neale. and Mrs.

Frederick A. Strong have arranged the Feburary program at Brooklawn Country club. Three events are scheduled, in addition to. duplicate bridge on Tuesdays and rubber bridge on the fourth and 18th. There will.

be a lecture on interior decoration Wednesday, Feb, 3, at 11 a.m, followed by cocktails and luncheon; a valentine supper and games party on Saturday the 13th starting with cocktails at 6:30 and a Sunday supper and duplicate bridge on Sunday Feb. 14 at 4 p.m. Brignolo studio MISS LORRAINE PATRICIA SKIDMORE Lorraine Skidmore, William Lemoine, Teacher, Engaged Mr. and Mrs. L.

Remsen Skidmore, 12 Ground Pine lane, Easton, announce the engagement of their daughter Lorraine Patricia to William B. Lemoine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville L. Lemoine of Stonehouse road, Trumbull.

A junior at the University of Bridgeport. majoring in Art education, Miss, Skidmore is a graduate of the Joel Barlow high school, Redding. Mr. Lemoine, an alumnus of Warren Harding high school, receved a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Bridgeport, where he was a member of Iota Della Pi fraternity. He is teaching mathematics at the Walter R.

Dolan junior high school in Stamford. Comedy Club Arranging Pre-Tryout Party Members of the Comedy club will gather for their annual pretryout party Sunday, Jan. 31 from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Goodspeed barn on Congress street, Fairfield, Try-outs for the presentation scheduled April 10 will take place Feb. 16 and 17 in the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1177 Post road.

Fairfield. Dancing at Brooklawn Country club will follow the play. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald W.

Pressprich of Merwin's lane, were among those entertaining, at cocktail parties in New York Friday night preceding the Yorkville dinner dance, held in the Grand ballrcom of Hotel Plaza to benefit the Yorkville Community association. Sally M. Woolard Engaged to Marry Richard B. Snyder Announcement is made by Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred E. Woolard, 500 Stratford road, Lordship, of the engagement of their daughter, Sally M. Woolard to Midshipman Richard B. Snyder, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry R. Snyder, 53 Victoria lawn, Lordship. Miss Woolard, a graduate of Stratford high school, is an estimator with the Warner Brothers company. Midshipman an alumnus of Stratford high school, will be graduated in June from the Maine Maritime academy in Castine. N.

Y. Flower Show To Feature Several Miniature Gardens "Patios Nature's Living Rooms" is the theme of the 1965 International Flower show which opens Saturday, March 6, for nine days in the New York Coliseum. Exhibits will illustrate for the home owner and home gardener how he can make the best use of his available space for outdoor living enjoyment. Several miniature gardens are being planned, one a rose garden in which all the flowers as well as the statues, fences and walk will be in miniature, another a formal English garden, done in miniature. A tropical garden featuring orchids in all colors, and a 12 foot high 24 foot wide waterfall; a Dutch garden with 3,000 tulips in rainbow colors and a pink and white spring garden of tulips and candytufts are among those on the schedule.

Mr. and Mrs. D. Wheeler Clark of Burr street. Fairfield, entertained at cocktails on Friday in their home.

Mr. and Mrs. William D. Rider of Sasco River lane, Southport, entertained at a buffet and bridge Friday evening in their home. Miss Protheroe, Allen C.

Ekstrom To Marry Saturday Miss Penny-Louise Protheroe, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. William H. Protheroe, 33 Birchwood drive, Fairfield, will be married on Saturday to Allen Clifford Ekstrom, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Tifful C. Ekstrom of Millbury, Mass. The ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. in 'St. Pius church, Fairfield.

As her only attendant the prospective bride has selected Miss Gail S. Olmstead of Fairfield. Francis Cholko of Stratford will serve 'as best man and ushering will be Miss Protheroe's brother, Peter Protheroe Rota, Spain, Everett Grahn Millbury, a cousin. of the prospective bridegroom, and Mulligan of Hamden. A reception will take place in the Mystic room of the Fairfield Motor inn.

and Mrs. John H. Sherwood of Joan drive, Fairfield, entertained last evening before the presentation of the John Jay ski movie in Klein Memorial. Bridgeport Sunday Post Edited by Winifred GAURS Nicholas Pages Engagement of Nance R. Magill To Stephen M.

Karp Announced Wells studio MISS DIANNE RADER Miss Dianne Rader Betrothed To Thomas Michael Kuhn Westport Couple Plan Wedding in September Mr. and Mrs. William der. 2 Mayflower parkway, Westport. announce the engagement of their daughter.

Dianne (0 Thomas Michael Kuhn, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Fred Kuhn, 27 Mayflower parkway, Westport. A September wedding planned.

The prospective bride was graduated. from Staples high school, Westport and with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Connecticut, where she majored in English. She is a member of the editorial staff of The Town Crier. Miss Rader is a granddaughter of Mrs. Harold J.

Rink of Westport and Rockford, Ill. and the late Mr. Rink and of Mr. and Mrs. 0.

R. Rader of Berryville, Ark. Mr. Kuhn is an alumnus of ples high school and Bryant college, Providence, R. where he majored in accounting and received a BS degree in business administration.

He i is a sales. representative for, the Burroughs corporation in Hempstead, L. I. 'Spring Odyssey' Color Film Title For Garden Club Mrs. Nathaniel Bishop, president, will conduct the January business meeting of the Fairfield Garden club Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.

in the Fairfield Historical socicly on Old Post road. Plans 3 for participation in the New York flower show will be made and Mrs. Truman Smith, conservation chairman, will discuss matters pertaining to local and state conservation projects. Mrs. Johnson Stoddard, program chairman, will show a color and sound film "Spring Odyssey," of a cruise to Northern Spain, France, the Channel isles, Holland, England.

Wales and Scotland, emphasizing the noted flower gardens of each place. Miss Elizabe.h Jennings will arrange the flowers for the tea table and Mrs. Maxon H. Eddy, Mrs. Robert N.

Hunter, Mrs. M. Moore, and Mrs. Charles H. Sanford will assist with the tea.

Mrs. Morley Boyd Parents of First Child Mr. and Morley Chapin Boyd of Bibbins road, Easton, announce the birth of their first child, a son Morley Chapin Boyd, on Jan. 16 in Bridgeport hospital. Grandparents of the infant are Mr.

and Mrs. William B. Boyd of Old Academy road, Fairfield, and Mr. and Mrs. a Jarvis Jennings of Reading road, Easton.

His great-grandparents are Mrs. R. Hunter of Larbert road, Southport, and Murray H. Chapin of Brooklawn place. Mrs.

Leone Grelle To Speak Tuesday To Greenfield Club Mrs. Leone Rice Grelle of Mount Carmel, a poet, photographer and naturalist, will speak al a meeting of the Greenfield Hill Garden club, Tuesday, at 12:30 p.m. in the Mrs. C. M.

Albright, 420 Greenfield Hill road, Fairfield. Mrs. Robert H. Boyer will be co-hostCSS. Mrs.

Grelle will take as ler topic "One Brook and the 'Thereabouts," illustrated with a film showing a brook starting from the springs that are its source, passing by the trees, wild flowers and small creatures along the way. Mrs. Oscar C. Tonning has arranged an auction of driftwood with Mrs. R.

Tonning Godfrey as auctioneer. Member exhibits for the day will be in two categories, artistic, featuring evergreen material with an interchangeable focal area, and horticultural, specimens of evergreens not exceeding 16 inches. Mr. end Mrs. John Davis Lodge of Easton road, Westport.

entertained at dinner Thursday evening before 15th annual Animal Kingdom ball entitled "The Glass Menagerie," held in the Sheraton-East hotel, New York. Mrs. Lodge was chairman of the affair. Mr. and Mrs.

William Joshua Barney, Jr. of Main street, Southport, gave a prefatory dinner also. tv Brignolo studio MISS SALLY M. WOOLARD Mr. and Mrs.

J. Philip Magill, 31 Brooklawn place, announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Nance Rachel Magill to Stephen Michael Karp, son of Mrs. Joseph Karp Brockton, and the late Mr. Karp. An April wedding is planned.

Miss Magill was graduated from Lasell Junior college, and Boston university, College of Liberal Arts, class of 1964. She is a granddaughter of the late A. A. Levy, who was president of the Bridgeport Zoning board and the late Mrs. Levy and of Mrs.

Philip R. Magill of this city and the late Mr. Magill, who was Commissioner of Welfare. Mr. Karp received his BA degree in 1963 from the Wharton School of Finance, University ot Pennsylvania, where he was a member of Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity.

He is associated with the brokerage firm of Proctor Cook and company. Bradford Bachrach MRS. LAWRENCE J. SOBOCINSKI Miss Judith Anne Miller Married Saturday to Dr. L.

J. Sobocinski Fairfield Beach Resident Bride in Pelham Manor, N. Y. Miss Judith Anne Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick A. Miller of Fairfield Beach road, Fairfield, and Pelham Manor, N. was married yesterday morning to Dr. Lawrence J. Sobocinski, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Stanley K. Sobocinski of North Tonawanda, N. Y. The ceremony was solemnized in Our Lady of Perpetual Help church, Pelham Manor, by the Rev.

Robert Skelly and was followed by a reception in the New Rochelle Shore club. The bride was presented in marriage by her father. She wore a princess gown of peau de soie appliqued with Chantilly lace, and designed with a deep scalloped neckline, long sleeves and a bouffant skirt with a cathedral train. Her ivory illusion veil was gathered to a coronet of seed pearls and rhinestones and her bouquet was a cascade of orchids and stephanotis. Mrs.

Bernard A. Gilhuly of Fairfield served as matron of honor for her sister and the other attendants were Mrs. Thomas M. Dolan of Fairfield, a sister; Miss Penclope Purcell of Elmsford, N. a cousin; Miss Joan Benson and Mrs.

Michael Dunne of New York city. They were gowned alike in magenta brocade and they carried bouquets ol sweetheart roses. Bruce Miner of North Tonawanda, N. was best man and the ushers included Dr. Robert Sobocinski and Donald Sobocinski, brothers of the bridegroom, Robert Fiorella and Thomas Mangan.

After a trip to Canada, the couple will reside in Brooklyn, N. Y. The bride, a graduate of Marymount college, Tarrytown, N. is with the Elmsford, N. board of education.

Dr. Sobocinski, affiliated with the State University of New York, Downstate Medical center as assistant instructor in surgery, is an alumnus of the University of Buffalo, and that university's School of Medicine. Miss Sarah Sinsabaugh, Of Shelton, Engaged Mr. and Mrs. John N.

Sinsabaugh, 181 Meadow street, Shelton, have announced the engagement of their daughter Sarah Frances to James Evans Roy, son of Dr. and Mrs. Roy of Worcester, Mass. An August wedding is planned. Miss Sinsabaugh, a graduate of the Northfield School for Girls, is a senior at Vassar Mr.

Roy altended Acadia university in Wolfville, N. and is a student at Worcester Polytechnic institute. Robert Dunning, Jr. And Carol Sargent, Students, Engaged A June wedding is planned by Miss Carol Sargent, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Collier Sargent, 2078 Huntington turnpike, Nichols and Hartland, have announced her gagement to Robert Eugene Dunning, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dunning, 1980 Huntington turnpike, Nichols. Miss Sargent, a graduate of The Masters school, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.

is a junior. at Beloit Wis. She is a granddaughter' of Mrs. Edmund Stanley Male of Hamden and the late Mr. Male and of the late Mr.

and Mrs. R. C. Sargent of North Haven. Mr.

Dunning graduated from Williston academy. He attended Mount Union college and is a senior at Beloit college. His grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Earl E.

Dunning of this city and the late Dr. and Mrs. George C. McCann of Danville, Ill. The marriage will take place on June 19.

MISS CAROL SARGENT Bradford Bachrach MISS NANCE RACHEL MAGILL ried today in Congregation Ahavath Achim in Fairfield. Garlanoff studio Miss Joan Elsbeth Sherman and Sanford Freilich are being Joan Sherman, Sanford Freilich To Be Married This Afternoon Ceremony to Take Place in Congregation Ahavath Achim The marriage of Miss Joan Elsbeth Sherman, daughter of Mrs. Julius Sherman, 355 West Morgan avenue and the late Mr. Sherman to Sanford Freilich, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Albert Freilich of Phoenix, will take place this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Congregation Ahavath Achim, Fairfield, Rabbi Victor Solomon will perform the candlelight ceremony. Judge Samuel Mellitz will present his grand-niece in marriage. She will be gowned in peau de soie, appliqued with Alencon lace on the portrait neckline, short sleeves, fitted and full skirt which sweeps into a cathedral train, Her three-tiered' bouffant veil of English illusion will be arranged a crown of peau de sole leaves accented with seed pearls and she will carry a Bible topped with an orchid and lilies of the valley. Mrs. Martin Feldman of Philadelphia will be her sister's only attendant, gowned in ice blue peau de sole with which she wilt carry an old fashioned bouquet.

of. rosebuds and mums, David Rothman of Canoga Park, will. be best man for his brother-in-law and Dr. Martin Feldman, brother-in-law of the bride and a cousin Brian Flesher of Bridgeport will usher. A reception will follow in Berkowitz hall of the synagogue and after a wedding trip the couple will reside in New York.

The bride, granddaughter of Mrs. Bernard Bergner, was graduated from Barnard college magna cum laude, with honors in French, having spent her junior year at the Sorbonne in Paris. She is a National Merit scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Currently she is completing work for a doctor of philosophy degree under a Columbia university President's Fellowship. Mr. Freilich, an alumnus.

of Arizona State university, attended the University of Colorado and New York university Graduate School. of Business Administration, A member of Phi Sigma Delta national fraternity, the American Chemical society and the Financial Analysts' tion, he is an investment analyst for the Dreyfus Mutual Fund la New York city, 6.

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