Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 13

omen Nursemaid To Orchids Tells Their Habits To Novato Club NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS will be the change of pace for the St. Guild of Belvedere instead of its traditional Cotillion. The Oct. 19 party will be held at the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon, which will be transformed into a bit of the French Quarter. Mesdames Ronald E.

Simpson, Guild president, left, and John H. Mueller, on committee, examine possibilities of the club for decorations. GETTING PROPS ready for the Night in New Orleans party are, left to right, Mesdames Chester C. Vargas, general chairman of the party, Oct. 19, Wellington Glover and G.

M. Howard. After the ball a southern style breakfast will be served at a.m. Vows With James Szykowny The chapel at Hamilton Air Force Base was the setting for the wedding of Annona Catherine Springett of Mill Valley and Airman James Andrew Szykowny Friday evening The double ring rites were performed by Chaplain John J. Fader in the presence of members of the family and a few close friends.

Annona, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Arthur Springett of Mill Valley, recited her vows in a peacock blue silk sheath 'Welcome At Fairfax School Fairfax Central School held a night for parents recently. Teachers pre-; sented their program in I outline for parents in each classroom. Officers proposed are Mesdames Tom Parisi, president; Robert Ingram, first vice president; R.

H. Krone, second vice president; Edward Lara, secretary; Harry Fong, treasurer; George Donovan, auditor; Joseph Lareau, historian, and Donald Kelley, parliamentar1 ian. dress. With it she wore a small white feather hat with veil, and her corsage was a white orchid. Her only attendant was Miss Clare Wheeler of Mill Valiev, who wore a pink sheath dre and pink hat.

Her eorsage was of pink carnations. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W.

Ssykowny of Pittsburgh, Pa. Annona was graduated from Tamalpais High School two years ago and is employed at the American Trust Company in Mill Valley. She has two sisters, Mrs. D. W.

Coffman of San Rafael and Mrs. Russell Dillev of Schnectady, Y. The newlvweds are residing in Mill Valiev. Tam Dance Tomorrow Chairman Carol Hoefer of Belvedere has announced that the Tam student dance committee is sponsoring the Saturday evening at 8:30. Since this is the only dance during the football season, the football queen and her four princesses, to be chosen at I the with Drake tot ngbt, will be honored.

Orchids may be raised at home or left with a baby sitter. This information on the care and feeding of orchids was given to members of the Novato Garden Club at the Tuesday meeting by Miss Bertie De Martini, who for 12 years has been head of the seedling department of the Rod McLellan Nursery in San Francisco. Orchid baby sitting is done by the nursery at which orchid plants may be left when their owners leave home for a time. The nursery will also care for sick orchids or keep the unappealing plant when it is not in bloom. Owners rush to retrieve the pots when notified the flower is about to open.

Orchid plants are easy to acquire and are not difficult to grow. They are the hobby of hundreds of flower lovers in the bay area, Miss De Martini said. It takes seven years for a plant to bloom. So Miss De Martini advised amateurs to buy seedlings in their first blossom. Thus they may avoid nurturing, in tightly sealed bottles and preparing exact formulae required by growing plants.

The formula is almost as exact as that needed by new born babies and includes weighed amounts of sugar, Retarded Child Unit To Meet On Monday Mrs. F. H. Blair of Terra Linda will report on last convention of the California Council for Retarded Children, when the Marin Association for Retarded Children meets Monday evening at the cooperative nursery school at San Rafael High School. Mrs.

Blair is president of the Marin group, which is open to parents and others Interested in helping solve problems of retardation. She attended the workshop panel discussions atM the state meeting in Fresno. Miss Alice McKenna, on the staff of the Cedars Development School, Ross, was a member of another panel on schools. malt, dextrose and other ingredients, she said. Orchids do have an odor, contrary to popular opinion, said Mrs.

De Martini. In some cases the smell as well as the formation accounts for the name of the variety. One is the other varieties are the the the and the which was named because it resembles a raiment. Orchids live long lives. Some varieties will outlive their owners and there have been cases where they have been so loved that their owners have mentioned Jhem in their wills.

One plant at the McLellan Nursery is known to be 160 years old and is as large as an ordinary library table, she said. Some varieties require little moisture, but others, such as the must be watered daily. A constant procession of blossoms is possible since different varieties come into blossom in different months. The unfolding of the petals usually takes about five days and the blossom lasts up to three weeks. Most have a single leaf which holds water for the plant, said the orchid expert.

For the beginner, Miss De Martini recommended the in a five to six inch pot. Progression to more demanding plants may be made as the orchid fancier gains experience. She noted that the orchid blossom should never be refrigerated. It should be refreshed by water dropped from an eye dropper into the center of the blossom. Mrs.

H. E. Millar, president of the garden club, presided at the meeting and Mrs. Lawrason Driscoll, program chairman, introduced the speaker. At the business session preliminary plans were discussed for the Christmas party and a new department was of to arrange for presentation by a club member at each meeting of a poem, legend or story about flowers.

OFFICERS of the Business and Professional Club of Marin County are preparing for the silver anniversary dinner on October 22, in the Flamingo Room at Bermuda Palms. (Left to right) Ella Lossius, president; June Brusati, first vice president; Dr. Betty Fawcett, second vice president; Alice Shepley, corresponding secretary; and Marcia Gutman, recording secretary. Business And Professional Club Celebrafing Silver Anniversary In the midst of the depression, the Business and Professional Club of Marin County came into existence. The projects it undertook then to aid the unfortunate and its subsequent endeavors will be the subject of review when the club has its silver anniversary dinner on Oct.

22 in the Flamingo Room at Bermuda Palms. Present on the 25th will be distinguished civic leaders and representatives of service clubs and the BPWC federation. Charter members and past presidents will be honored. Among the special guests will be Dollie Coe, the former Dollis Dubois of Pioneer, now president of the Amador County Business and Professional Club. Mrs.

Coe, who was the first president of the Marin club, has refused to allow the injuries she suffered in a recent accident while vacationing in Carmel to keep her home. When the Marin club was organized in 1932 with 70 charter members, the first meetings were held in the Yolansdale School. The first big event was hostessing the convention of the Northern District, BPWC, held at the Emporium Country Club at Fairfax, now the Town and Country Club, with hundreds in attendance. First project undertaken by the Marin club was providing new shoes for children of needy families. The work was expedited by two of the outstanding members, Alice Brewer Wells and Isabel, both now deceased.

Both were supervisors of the rural schools and knew the circumstances of the families of the pupils. New shoes were given to children, whose parents could not buy them, and the entire matter was kept secret. The club members also went about getting jobs for people out of work. The Marin club has now expanded its program into the educational and international fields. Present at the silver anniversary dinner will be Francesca Sorianos of the Philippines, who is studying for the degree at University of California, on a scholarship from the California Federation BPWC, and Alice Taylor of San Francisco, a contralto, who was the winner of the memorial scholarship.

The Marin club contributes to the scholarship program. For several years it sent books to the Philippines to fill the shelves of libraries which were being restored after destruction in World War II. The club also maintains a scholarship loan program. Theme of the anniversary dinner, of which Ada Fusselman, a charter member and past club and district president, is chairman, is A feature will be a skit, and Welcomes will be extended by Ella Lossius, the club president; Walter Castro, chairman of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, and Mayor John Mclnnis of San Rafael. Delegations of club members, from as far north as Willits, will be headed by Helen Lara, president of Redwood Empire District BPWC.

Representatives of clubs in San Francisco, the East Bay and the Peninsula will also be present. On the steering committee are Mrs. Fusselman, Mrs. Lossius, Margaret Smith Rice, Mary Ford and Marie Caletti. Hazel Pauline, Claire Cooke and Dorothy Brown are in charge of invitations; Mary Sullivan and Elsie Mazzini, reservations; Dorothy Gilchrist, decorations; Jeanne Palmer, corsages; Grace Fiscus, Lucinda Shuttleworth, Edith Sackrison and Hortense Buck, hospitality, and Florence Donnelly, publicity.

At the Marin meeting on Tuesday night at ADA FUSSELMAN tat left) chairman of the silver anniversary dinner of the Business and Professional Club of Marin County on October 22 confers with some of her aides. Seated is Claire Cooke of the reservations committee; Standing next to Mrs. Restaurant in Fairfax, Mrs. Fusselman spoke on the plans for the silver anniversary celebration. Caroline Rose, legislative chairman, announced that a special meeting would be held at the homt of Mrs.

Gutman on Tuesday, Oct. 15, when a report will be given on candidates for freeholders in the coming election. The essentials of good grooming and a smart appearance were stressed by two experts in the field. Speakers were Rayma Armstrong, owner of and Style Shop, and Katherine Saylors, owner of Beauty Salon. The former talked on fabrics and fashions and Mrs.

Saylors explained how to make the most of cosmetics. Mrs. Lossius presided at the meeting which was begun with the salute to the Flag led by Hortense Buck and the reading of the collect by Louise Allen. Mrs. Lossius will head a delegation of Marin members to the fall conference of the Redwood Empire District at on Oct.

19 and 20. Fusselman Oeft to right) Margaret Smith Rice of the steering committee; Hazel Field Pauline of the invitations committee; and Mary Ford of the steering committee. Mesdames Pauline and Ford are past presidents of the club. ON THE HOSPITALITY committee for the silver anniversary dinner are (left to right) Lucinda Shuttleworth, Grace Fiscus, chairman, and Edith Sackrison. Honored at the dinner will be the club's charter members and past presidents.

Civic officials and rep- representatives of various service clubs will be in attendance. (Independent-Journal photos) AT HAMILTON CHAPEL Annona Springett Exchanges HISTORIC BELL backgrounds Mesdames Melvin Gautier, left, decorations committee member and A. H. Trobbe, admissions worker, of St. Guild as they lay plans to transform the club into a French Quarter setting.

St. dance will be Oct. 19 there. (Independent-Journal photos) SECOND SECTION jlnftrpwftmt-JImtrnal. Friday, October 1 1957 13 RESERVATIONS for the silver anniversary dinner of the Business and Professional Club of Marin county are being taken by Elsie Mazzini (above) and Mary Sullivan.

FIVE CHARTER MEMBERS of the Business and Professional Club of Marin County pictured above are Ada Fusselman (in chair), a past club and district president, and man of the silver anniversary dinner and (left to right) Letha Jenkins, a past president of the club, Virginia Rice, Holly and Dr. Mary Harris..