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BROOKLYN LIFE Gregory, Lieut. Gervais Trichel, Richard Dunn, Stewart French, William Matthews and the following cadets from West Point, Gilman Mudgett, Harry Stout, Edward Clark, Robert Douglass, Gerre Dowling, Dan Chandler, Melville Grant, Lemuel Matheson, William Scott, Edwin Crandell, Maxwell Taylor, William Harvey Kyle, William Leaf, Charles Smith and Frederick Lee; the Messrs. Franklin Parsons Adams, Gilbert E. Broking, Allen Van Wycke, Robert Nias West, William Gahagan, Sturman F. Dyson, David Alden Church, Carlton Sanford, William Mills, 3rd, David E.

MacFarlane, Arnold Ford, Warren Jennings, Frederick S. Paine, George Michel, Henry Stewart, Nelson Alexander, Herrick Smalley, John Mumm, John Hillyer, Pearson Gould, John Williams, Merwin Peterson, Verdi E. B. Fuller, Malcolm Spence, Alan Gilmour, Robert Wise, Edgerton Aikman, James Wise, Arthur Harrison, Herbert Scofield, John Barker Hyde, Harold Thatcher and Roger Bruce Lum. Miss Dorothy G.

Anderson Engaged Mr. and Mrs. John R. Anderson announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Dorothy G. Anderson, to Mr.

William H. Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Meyer of 211 Ocean Avenue, Flatbush.

Mr. Meyer was a student at Wesleyan and was graduated from Columbia in the class of 1921. Both are active members of the Riding and Driving Club of Brooklyn. No date has been set as yet for the wedding. Concert by Rutgers College Musical Clubs On Friday evening, January 6th, the combined Musical Clubs of Rutgers College of; New Brunswick, N.

will give a concert and dance under the auspices of the Fellowcraft Club of Covenant Lodge No. 758 F. and A. M. The concert is to be held in the auditorium of the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Clermont and Lafayette Avenues, Brooklyn, at 8:15 P.

M. and will be followed by dancing. The Rutgers College Musical Clubs are well known in Brooklyn and a most delighttul evening is anticipated. Authors' Readings at Children's Museum Christmas holly and other decorations win tall candlesticks in the windows gave holiday atmosphere to the Authors' Evening and Christmas Party given by the Americanization Committee of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Children's Museum on Wednesday evening of last week, when about two hundred guests gathered at the Museum. The Waits of the Clark Street Players added Christmas cheer and the spirit of ye olden time, singing carols of the days of Queen Elizabeth in the candle light.

The well-known authors who read their verses were John Farrar, Editor of the Bookman; John Weaver, Leonora Speyer and Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin Garland. Mrs. T.

Mortimer Lloyd read verses she had written for the occasion, "A Christmas Dream." Mrs. I. Sherwood Coffin, president, gave a few words of welcome and presented Mrs. William W. Fisher, chairman of the Americanization Committee.

Miss Anna Billings Gallup, curator of the Museum, welcomed the guests in the name of the Museum. Mrs. Fisher then introduced Mrs. Rebecca Lane Hooper Eastman, who in happy vein introduced the group of authors who had journeyed from Manhattan to bring a Christmas Message to Brooklynites. The flow of wit and wisdom, delightful story and verse, made a rare evening.

The program closed with a second group of carols sung by the Waits, at the close of which they filed out singing, until their voices softly died away in the distant corridors of the Museum. After the program, refreshments were served in various rooms in the Museum under the supervision of Mrs. John R. Farrar, chairman of. the evening.

Among the Waits who were led by Miss Helen Otis, were Mrs. Charles H. Otis, Miss Leslie Pomeroy, Miss Helen Morrow, Miss Nancy Ford, Miss Cornelia Henshaw, Miss Erica Brooks, Mrs. Switzer, Mrs. T.

Mortimer Lloyd, Miss Gertrude Lachlan, Miss Edith Pomeroy, Mrs. George P. Knapp, Miss Lucy Abercrombie, Miss Helen Hine, George P. Knapp, Earl B. Harris, Charles Blacklock and Mr.

May. In the Audience In the audience at the Authors' Evening were: Dr. and Mrs. Havens Brewster Bayles, Miss Grace Cotton, Mr. and Mrs.

Edward M. Crane, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Decker, Mr.

and Mrs. James M. Edsall, Mr. and Mrs. H.

Washington Fairfax, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Janes, Mr. and Mrs.

de Loss Kelsey, Mrs. Frederick Warburton Leef, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.

Moody, Mrs. Susie C. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. W.

W. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. David Ressigue, Hon. Samuel D.

Levy, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Stutzer, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Hanson, Dr.

and Mrs. Stuart Close, Mrs. Frederick L. Jenkins, Mr. and Mrs.

Richard M. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. William P. Earle, Rev.

A. Duane Pell, Mr. Walter H. 11 Carolyn A. Ruefer's Christmas Dance One of the attractive holiday dances was given by Miss Carolyn A.

Ruefer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ruefer, at her home 560 East Seventeenth Street, Flatbush, on Thursday evening, December 23rd. Miss Ruefer is a student at Berkeley Institute and the girls at the dance, with one exception, were also Berkeley students.

They all received boutonnieres to which were attached the names of their partners for the first dance and for supper. The guests at the dance were the Misses Marion Bishop, Beatrice Middleton, Dorothy Dunham, Virginia Gibbs, Justine Zobel, Betty Wissing, Katherine Blount, Isabella Kellogg and Eleanore King and the Messrs. Irwin Johannesen, Kenneth Curran, Charles E. Spencer, George Mullen, William C. Gay, Ernest Zobel, Edmond Cady, Robert McKee, William Thompson and Harry Wilkinson.

Miss Hildegarde Luce Engaged Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Luce of 116 Remsen Street, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Hildegarde Luce, to Mr. Kenneth W.

Spalding, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Spalding, of 501 Argyle Road. Miss Luce is a graduate of Brooklyn Heights Seminary and Mr.

Spaulding is a graduate of Dartmouth and a member of Chi Phi. Both are members of the Sons and Daughters of New England. Miss Luce received the best wishes of many of her friends at a bridge party Tuesday afternoon of last week, when the engagement was made known. Among those present were: Mrs. Samuel A.

Spalding, Mrs. Amelia Gray-Clarke, Mrs. Hermann Leckebusch of Brookline, Mrs. R. S.

Luce, Miss Betty Parsons, Mrs. Wallace Harban, Miss Marie Lussier, Miss Helen Lussier, Miss Norma Werner, Mrs. Edgar Chumasero, Miss Lillian Weed, Mrs. Willard Pearsall, Miss Eunice Haskins, Miss Erna Kraemer, Miss Ruth Chapman, Miss Justine Sackett, Mrs. William Arnold, Miss Doris Howland, Mrs.

Mark Hatch, Miss Marjorie Horning, Miss Elizabeth Bedford, Mrs. C. B. Larrabee, Mrs. Newton, Miss Eveline Foster, Miss Jeanette Ametrano and Miss Margaret Barker.

Kappa Phi Club Card Party and Tea At the residence of Mrs. William A. Bonnell, 1 Montgomery Place, on Tuesday afternoon, December 27th, the Kappa Phi Club gave a card party and tea. Among those who either played cards or dropped in for tea were, Miss Gertrude Humbert, Miss Edna Outwater, Mrs. Ralph Benedict, Miss Elizabeth Winchester, Mrs.

Harold McCormick of Norfolk, Mrs. Paul K. Roth, Mrs. Stanton Mott, Mrs. John James, Miss Isabella Hammitt, Mrs.

C. Hersey Lent, Mrs. Robert J. Hodgson, Mrs. Preston Goodfellow, Mrs.

Edward L. Vaughan, Mrs. S. J. Chesebro, Mrs.

George S. Morrisey, Mrs. Lauritz Lauritzen, Miss Harriet B. Fisher, Mrs. Frederick Hackstaff, Mrs.

Daniel Merritt Collins, Mrs. William P. Hoyt, Mrs. Walter D. Stuart, Miss Amy Figgis, Mrs.

Roland Smith, Mrs. Mortimer Cone, Miss Bessie Seaton, Mrs. Edward L. Swan, Mrs. Frederick H.

Munkelt, Miss Mildred Poulson, Mrs. Howard G. Smith, Mrs. Robert Jordan, Mrs. Thomas Hall, Miss Katherine Stone, Mrs.

Edward S. Smith, Mrs. Daniel Whitney, Mrs. Howard F. Beebe and Miss Jane Newkirk.

Miss Clelia E. Adams Gives Christmas Dance One of the large private dances of the Christmas holidays was given by Miss Olelia E. Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Siedler Adams, at her home, 325 Clinton Avenue, on Friday evening, December 23rd.

Among the guests were: Miss Ruth Gordon, Miss Mary Wells, Miss Cornelia Livingston, Miss Ruth Hull, Miss Alice Mendham, Miss Elizabeth Clarke, Miss Doris Barlow, Miss Cecile Edwards, Miss Barbara Dixon, Miss Alice Stringham, Miss Mabel H. Lineberger, Miss Lillian H. Lineberger, Miss Frances Tiebout, Miss Gwendolyn Dangerfield, Miss Katharine Ross, Miss Eloise Morford, Miss Beatrice Scarborough, Miss Marguerite Scarborough, Miss Margaret Grimshaw, Miss Mildred Bush, Miss Eva Matthews, Miss Marjorie Van Norden, Miss Virginia Travis, Miss Helen Stutz, Miss Katherine Burnham, Miss Lillian Gahagan, Miss Marian Barnard, Miss Helen Gahagan, Miss Mildred Gillespie, Miss Jacqueline Gulian, Miss Martha Hallock, Miss Dorothy Dodds, Miss Josephine Greason, Miss Pauline Baine, Miss Harriet Greason, Miss Muriel Wilkie, Miss Elisabeth Fowler, Miss Ruth Dangler, Miss Helen Holton, Miss Katherine Jacobus, Miss Elizabeth Bull, Miss Beatrice Archer, Miss Jane Williams, Miss Dorothy Buell, Miss Elizabeth Rhoades, Miss Viola Hadley, Miss Elizabeth Halsted, Miss Margaret Jacobus, Miss Evelyn Schoefer, Miss Helen Yard, the Messrs. George Roesch, Gordon Macfarlane, Philip Cahill, Ralph Lucas, Ralph. Shephard, Walter Schmidt, Duncan Lees, Kenneth Mason, Robert Lanson, Thomas Cochran, Hampton Nevins, Robert Gillies, Herbert Williams, Bennett Barlow, Eustace Tayfor, Alexander Hadden, Wilson Holden, Lieut.

Sanford Crittenden, Dr. and Mrs. Karl B. Kloer, Mr. and Mrs.

Norman P. Heffley, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Hardy, Mr.

and Mrs. Marschalk, Jennie Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Brush, Mr.

and Mrs. Bentley H. Stevenson, Mrs. M. L.

Yarrington, Mr. and Mrs. Don C. Seitz, Dr. and Mrs.

Edward B. Shallow, Miss Julia Ring, Mr. and Mrs. August Dreyer, Mr. and Mrs.

A. G. Fradenburgh, Mrs. Arthur J. Harrison, Mrs.

Stephen Loines and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Hamilton. Packer Alumnae Christmas Dance and Bridge The Associate Alumnae of Packer Institute held its annual Christmas dance and bridge Thursday night, December 22nd, at the Institute. Christmas trees, holly and poinsettia were used as decorations.

Mrs. Lorenzo Caruana was hostess of the evening and she was assisted in receiving by Mrs. J. O. Carpenter and Mrs.

Roscoe C. E. Brown. Others on the committee were: Mrs. Rodney C.

Ward, chairman; Mrs. Charles D. Brewer, Miss Ethel Chapman, Miss Marguerite Krantz, Mrs. Charles E. Rogers and Mrs.

G. O. Zeller, Jr. Among those present were, Mr. and Mrs.

T. S. Clements, Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw, Mr.

and Mrs. Ross H. Boas, Mr. Albert Potter, Mr. and Mrs.

A. Clarke Bedford, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Pinkham, Mrs.

Oliver Ingersoll, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Fish, Miss Alice Chase, Mr.

and Mrs. R. M. Partridge, Mr. and Mrs.

P. T. Whittier, Mr. and Mrs. H.

V. Hutchins, Miss Clara Dean, Mr. Woodburn Swornstedt, Miss Lillian Nelson, Miss Elsie Fielder, Mr. Adolph Muller, Mr. and Mrs.

Edward C. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. 'A. J.

Haire, Miss Helen George, Mr. Charles Moncrief, Mr. and Mrs. S. M.

Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fairbairn, Miss Dorothy Tuttle, Miss Josephine Carpenter, Miss K. Joyce, Mr. Edgar M.

Smith, Mr. David K. Tuttle and Miss Katherine Graham. Alice Adams Chapter, D.R., Entertained The Alice Adams Chapter, D. Mrs.

Archibald T. Shorey, regent, was delightfully entertained at bridge by Mrs. Henry Wallace Phillips of 29 Lefferts Place, Tuesday afternoon, December 20th. Mrs. Phillips, who is honorary regent of the chapter, was assisted in receiving by her sister, Miss Alida Banta, and the guests were: Mrs.

J. G. Tucker, Mrs. William H. Whitton, Mrs.

R. L. Waring, Mrs. John H. Vanderbeer, Mrs.

George Court, Mrs. Winfield Huntley, Mrs. Eugene Blackford, Mrs. Walter Banta, Mrs. Archibald T.

Shorey, Mrs. Frederick C. Lea, Mrs. Burniss Sheldon, Mrs. David Ferguson, Mrs.

John Arfmann, Mrs. Ralph Bayliss, Mrs. Edward E. Fay, Miss Mary G. Haines, Mrs.

Lloyd Hartfield, Mrs. Augustus Harris, Mrs. Karl D. Pettit, Miss Helen Ormsbee, Miss Alice Plumb, Mrs. Earl S.

Quinn, Mrs. Peter Remsen, Mrs. Thomas Ormsbee, Miss Mildred Seitz, Mrs. John D. von Glahn, Mrs.

Irving Blake, Miss Nathalie Driggs, Mrs. Raymond Findlay, Miss Helen Bruton, Miss Esther Bruton and Miss Marian Bell. Com. and Mrs. Atkins Buy Home in Connecticut Commander Alfred W.

Atkins, U. S. N. and Mrs. Atkins have recently bought a large place at Colebrook, in the foothills of the Berkshires which they will occupy as soon as alterations are completed.

The house, which they have named "The Anchorage" is. over one hundred years old. Commander Atkins, who is having a month's shore leave, is now at Colebrook superintending the improvements. He leaves the middle of January to join the destroyer flotilla of the Atantic Fleet. Mrs.

Atkins and her young daughter, Betty, expect to leave Brooklyn the 1st of February for "The Anchorage." Miss Olga Muldener Engaged Mrs. Matilde Muldener of 54 East Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn, announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Olga Irma Muldener, to Mr. Walter Powles Chur. Miss Muldener attended Packer Institute, graduating in June, 1920. Mr.

Chur, who resides in Orange, N. is formerly of this city, The wedding will take place in the early spring. Mr. Dyruff's Supper Party Christmas Night Mr. H.

Francis Dyruff of the Hotel St. George entertained a party of friends at supper on Christmas night (Monday) in the new ballroom supper grill at the Hotel St. George. According to the custom of the Hotel, a tall, illuminated Christmas tree adorned with souvenirs for the guests placed in the lobby and after the Christmas festivities had been enjoyed, everyone went to the grand ballroom for dancing. Mr.

Dyruff's guests at supper included: Misses Helen and Anna Carmody of East Poultney, Miss Alys Carmody of Asheville, North Carolina; Dr. and Mrs. Stuart E. Mandeville, Dr. and Mrs.

William J. Beissell, Mr. and Mrs Willard Pitbladdo, Mr. and Mrs. August F.

Nielsen, Mr! and Mrs. August "Whelan, Mr. 'and -Mrs. Nicholas Dyruff, Mr..