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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: FRIDAY, JULY IS, lD3a Three Junior League Thrift Shop Aides Are Adopted Pittsburgh Woman's Club of Irwin Helps Junior League Shop ruDiic vjdruen -arrival Planned Next Tuesj. Spend July Gathering And Selling Rummage To Help League's Work "iiuhpimij, iiaui. ii. mm i Juaaiiw1 "k-ko wwmiim: Civic Ballet Program At Pop Concert EXT TUESDAY EVENING the Woman cu Parrnlt southeast, of Irwin is Vacations For Girls Who Are Active Just Now Will Come Later in the Summer When Shop Is Closed. By Doris Duquesne ONE OF MRS.

ALLEX K. SHENK 'S important interests at the moment is the Junior League Thrift Shop because she's a member of the committee headed by Mrs. H. Mason Reed which is in charge of the July clearance of rummage, a performance which prepares the shop for its August summer cleaning, and the restocking in early September. an annual event on the nuns run sunimrr rairnriar Daxea IOOas ana ouinuur ruonnj, us musf nv n's, rn fnf vnnnr and old.

alwavs attract a -crowd. is general chairman for the carnival. With a large amount of philan- I Grace Lunt Author Of "Festival in a Spanish Village" One of the gala occasions of the summer will be the pop concert next Tuesday on the lawn of the Schenley Hotel, sponsored by the Business and Professional Women's Club. In addition to a program of Spanish music by the Little Symphony Orchestra. Victor Saudek, conductor, with Santo Di Prima of New York as tenor soloist, an unusual ballet program is arranged.

Grace Lunt of the Pittsburgh Civic Ballet, has written a "Festival in a Spanish Village" to be presented by twelve members of the Pittsburgh Civic Ballet, with an additional "Bolero" dance by Miss Lunt. Miss 'Norma Wiberly is in charge of arrangements for the club. thropic work to be done, the Irwin Club, which is but two years old. finds many means of raising I rIt I I 'JW 1 ii i uua dm i funds. During the summer it does; not cease activities, and recently sponsored two benefit affairs.

One was a dessert-bridge held on the lawn of Mrs. Scott Hockensmith, and the other was a rummage sale. Funds raised 'n thi. manner were used to make up a budget contributing to local Red Cro and Scout activities, to the fire depart-; ment, public library, the play-' She is giving the work quite a lot of attention because some of the usual Thrift Shop workers are away on vacations, and those whoj remain and the Fox Chapel peo-j pie are usually among them ab-; orb the activity. Mrs.

Shenk is a fairly new Fox Ti tart thpir red brick' Allison Park Girl Bride Of Pittsburgher ground, and other community projects of practical service and cultural benefit. house is so recently built that the Married Tuesday in Sw I 1 I i svt "II Life-Saving Classes Held In co-operation with the Irwin branch of the Westmoreland County Chapter of the American Red Cross, the club arranged free classes in Red Cross life saving South Hills College Club grounds around it are still inj Ursula and NOW On process of being planted. In the! Automobile Trip. spring there was a cover crop of Dr. and Mrs.

Anthony Joseph soy beans, one a succession gtaab wm park methods to be held at the Crest swimming pool during the past two gradually preparing tne nuncp sue when they return from an auto- Makes Plansjw ecks. mobile trip, which they began Tues to fine grass. The house itself day, following their wedding in St. typical 1 i 1 I I Ursula's Church, and th wpHrtins Pennsylvania farmhouse, one of reCeption in the Stanton Heights few modifications being its at- Golf Club. tached garage.

At the entrance Their marriage ceremony. Tues- day morning at 9:30 o'clock, was there a geometr.cal arrangement performed the Reverend Giles of flat stones for a terrace, and staab, assisted by the Reverend Organized in 1936 with the object of "creating and maintaining an organized center for woman's work, thought and action, and to aid in the cultural advancement of the community," the Woman's Club of Irwin will begin its third year with 167 members, and has played a helpful part in community life. It presents its members with a program of varied interest, with guest speakers, and music, art, drama and literature programs. A stenpine stones make most of the H. J.

Killmeyer, pastor of the church, and the Reverend, Mar-cellus Fueller. The new Mrs. Staab, the former Miss Rosalyn Catherine Hosenfeld, walks. Inside the house Mrs. Shenk has adhered to the spirit of the ex i terior.

There are rumea aottea -n. 11KI.KN V()lv Mis VnmiK'k disasrnyr Oeorfie Snvdir, wm i and Mr. ('. K. ndcr MW tela ot Allison wore a wed departmental club, the various de- partments have their own schedule of meetings during the year, many of them with lectures by guest, speakers.

Among its community activities the club maintiins a baby clinic which is held every ha been Hnnoiinrrd hi hr ents, mid Mrv Rh! Fifteenth Anniversary To Be Celebrated With December Banquet. The just completed yearbook of the South Hills College Club, which is now in the hands of the printer, announces the club's fifteenth anniversary program for December, in the high school building, with Miss Margaret Miller as chairman. The program for the year, prepared by a committee headed by Mrs. C. Turner, aided by Mrs.

Ford Mohney, Mrs. C. B. Johnson, Miss Marguerite Beck and MLss Margaret Miller, has been arranged, all through the early summer, the committee having frequent meetings for planning. They have secured Dr.

Clyde Miller of Columbia University as the November speaker to talk on propaganda analysis. Mrs. Paul Purchard will discuss Germany at the October meeting, and there will be a singer in German costume on the same program. The year will start with a bridge party September thirteenth in the Dormont New Century Club, which will be the post-vacation round-up. Young of Main Kntrann Mt.

Lebanon. dent; Mrs. HnwaM B. T'iw recording sorrrtsry; Mr Kroen was ro-r'iwd tf spending srerctnry; '( Nancy Jonos is trcasi'pr Mrs. Guy has named ment heads: Mrs.

Alfred C-rhaiiman of Mrs. John Osbnrnf. home; Mrs. rixilev Rsia? man of the and r. partmrnt; Miss l.mi'f chairman of literature ar.dt partment.

other week. During the past year, three performances of the Claire Tree Major Children's Theater were sponsored by the Woman's Club. Mrs. Charles Guy Jr. Will Head Club Mrs.

Charles Guy, chairman during the past year of the busy community service department, will be the president of the club in the coming year. Mrs. William Davis is first vice president; Miss Margaret Dickroeger, who served as progiara chairman last year, was re-elected as second vice presi- ding gown of white point d'esprit with narrow pleated ruffles for edging, and a finger-tip veil held by a pleated coronet. She wore a jeweled cross, and carried a white prayer book. Miss Kay Staab, sister of the bridegroom, serving as maid of honor, wore white net with a bodice of lace, and carried red roses.

Her hat was white horsehair braid, trimmed with red velvet ribbon. Miss Margaret Lawton, the bridesmaid, wore white and carried blue delphinium, and her white hat was trimmed with royal blue velvet ribbon. Mark Hosenfeld gave his sister in marriage. Dr. Staab had his brother Edwin Staab.

for his best man, and the ushers were Edward Schepner, Walter Dooley, Dr. Philip Leavy, Dr. Anthony Novak and Frank Cornelius. The bridegroom Is a son of Mrs. Anthony P.

Staab of Pittsburgh, who wore, at the wedding, a dress of navy crepe, with white accessories, and a corsage of gardenias. Mrs. Hosenfeld's gowa was printed chiffon, with which she wore a large straw hat, and a corsage of gardenias. P'J ji jj -V Swiss curtains at all windows, and the furniture is, to a great degree, old, if not antique. One end of the long living room is all glass, from ceiling to floor, an adaptation of the long narrow windows that were typical of old Pennsylvania farmhouses.

Mrs. Shenk is one of a number of "adopted Pittsburghers" girls who have married Pittsburgh men, come here to live, and been quickly absorbed by the town's people. In the seven years since she, Mary Lane Van Cleave of Erie, came here, she has become a busy Junior Leaguer and a member of the board of the Protestant Orphan Asylum in Perrysville avenue, one of the city's oldest institutions. Also she belongs to the Pittsburgh Garden Center, and to the Seeders and Weeders, and these two interests recently converged when she helped with the Seeders and Weeders' exhibit in the Garden Center's annual Garden Market. Mrs.

R. Maurice Trimble, another member of the Thrift Shop's clearance sale committee, is one of the newer Pittsburghers, and a league member for just three years. And the third aide, Mrs. James Warden (Emily Bryce), another "adopted Pittsburgher," comes from Mount Pleasant, which is almost a nearby town. Some of her work is being done by the others at present because she's on her vacation, touring with Mr.

Warden MUS. AT.LEX Post-Gazette Photo. K. SHEXK. diana township is one of that section's newer residents.

The window pictured extends across one end of the long living room from floor to ceiling. Mrs. Shenk is on- of those helping with the clearance sale this month at the Junior league Thrift Shop. The sale will continue through July. Mrs.

Shenk, Mho lives in In- Credit Women Plan Reception European Trip Is Complef ed By H. T. Andersons Treasure Hunt tii I H-A-f-P-Y 14" candles. dies 1 ff Mall f-c-s eei Treasure Hunt I'f ft, Mt f' Ii Set 2 1V Kir' Cr 2 90; 40 f' i 625 A-5'- fc25 A For New Officers Jewish Women's Groups Plan September Meeting The program committee of the Pittsburgh Conference of Jewish Women's Organizations, of which Mrs. Emanuel B.

Friedberg is chairman, has chosen Wednesday afternoon, September twenty-first, as the date for the community meeting and reception of the Pittsburgh Conference. Twenty-six constituent organizations, comprising about five thousand members, have been invited. This event, es in former years, will be open to the entire community and will officially open the club season of the Jewish women's organizations. The president, Mrs. Maurice Lyon, has appointed Mrs.

J. H. Marcus chairman of the by-laws committee. This group is planning to have a parliamentarian conduct a class in parliamentary procedure, to which will be invited th presidents of the organizations within the conference. Suzanne Breckenridge Orr And Robert Roth Phillips Plan Wedding Next Month MR.

AND MRS. WILLTAM MARMADUKE ORR of North Howard avenue, Bellevue, have announced the engagement of' their daughter, iMiss Suzanne Breckenridge Orr, to Robert Roth Thillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Thillips of Brownsville road.

Miss Orr, who attended Osontz, and het fiance, a graduate of Lehigh, are planning an early August wedding. Complete Plans For C. D. of A. Annual Picnic Final plans were made at a meeting Wednesday for the picnic which the Catholic Daughters of America will give on Tuesday in Kennywood Park.

Grand regents serving on the committee include: Miss Nelle J. Brennan, Miss Katherine Troll, Mrs. Mary Haney, Mrs. Mary O'Connell, Mrs. Loretta Callahan, Mrs.

Angeline Pullion, Miss Mary Kohl, Miss Mary L. Madden, Mrs. Rose Noble, Mrs. C. J.

Fette, Mrs. Irene Cotter, Mrs. Agnes Mank, Miss Marian Cokely, Mrs. Agnes M. Petrie, Mrs.

Rosemary Kudacek, Mrs. Gertrude McDonnell, Mrs. Vera Foster, Miss Sara Rucille, Miss Margaret Kennedy, Mrs. Pearl Sweetering, Miss Anna Mellers, Mrs. Irene Maroney, Mrs.

Genevieve Denning, Miss Anna Paul, Mrs. Mary Hart, Mrs. M. Eller-meyer, Mrs. Mary Schasney.

Mrs. Vine Neff, Mrs. Theresa Dillon, Mrs. Catherine Weiss, Mrs. Mary Striegel, Mrs.

Margaret Reinehr, Mrs. Francis Coloa, Mrs. Sara Lin-ney, Mrs. Adeline Maund, Miss Mary Hoffman, Miss Rose Kennedy, Mrs. Elizabeth Hanna, Mrs.

Mary Kline, Mrs. Anna Foley, Mrs. Mary Melloy, Mrs. Julia Manion, Mrs. Nora Bainridge, Miss Nelle Nestor, Mrs.

Marie Beck, Mrs. Margaret Schmitt, Mrs. Catherine Tormay, Mrs. Catherine Woods and Miss Anna Cannon. Mr.

and Mrs. Harold T. Anderson are back from their wedding trip to Germany, Norway, the North Cape and England, and are at home in Erie. In England they were guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Gordon Ivey of London. Mrs. Ivey is the former Miss Margaret Krider of South Aiken avenue. A 1 tf Tuna An easi. xmr.r i.eSl was derson is the former Miss Kathryn Lake Placid.

T. Miller of Beaver, Pa. Crowe-Williams Engagement Told Mr. and Mrs. V.

B. Crowe of Beechwood boulevard, announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Josephine Barrett Crowe to Arthur D. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Williams of Greenfield.

The Pittsburgh Credit Women's Club will hold a reception in the Chartiers Heights Country Club on Thursday, July twenty-first, in honor of the newTy elected officers: Miss Marcella Brosky, president; Miss Florence Smith, vice president; Miss Dorothy Hoffman, treasurer, and Miss Pearl Karwan, secretary. The out-going officers and chairmen of committees will present their annual reports. MLss Fayette Austin, Miss Norma Wiberly and Miss Mary McDonald, delegates to the annual Credit Congress which was held in San Francisco, will give reports of convention activities. Ross McCoy will show movies taken on the convention trip to San Francisco. Miss E.

Grace Underwood will be the guest soloist. Miss Margaret Barton will preside, assisted by Miss Rosalie Chell, Miss Alma Reimann, Miss Jean-nette Bernstein, Miss Edith B. Strommer and Miss Pearl Karwan. ft SttjU-mllei Quicken St ollar-Schmid Wedding Service In Wilkinsburg Dr. Frank Kai-Ming Su To Address Y.

W. Group Dr. Frank Kai-Ming Su will present a lecture on "What Is Happening in China" to the members and friends of the International Institute of" the Young Women's Christian Association of Pittsburgh, South Dithridge street, on Monday, at 8:15 o'clock. Dr. Su is a contributing editor of "China Today" and a member of the faculty of Columbia University.

He is a graduate of Tsinghua University of Peiping and holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Harvard. University. At present he is traveling in the interest of the China Aid Council and brings a message of the present situation in the Orient. The International Institute of the Y. W.

C. A. of Pittsburgh will sponsor the "Pop Concert," to be held at the Schenley Hotel Friday evening. July twenty-second. FINAL GLEAN-UP WOMEN'S WHITE SHOES i At a home wedding in the Schmid home, in Holland avenue, W'lkinsburg, on Tuesday evening.

Miss Gladys Stollar, daughter of Maxwell Stollar, of Pittsburgh, was married to Albert T. Schmid, son of Mrs. F. Schmid. The ceremony was performed by the bridegroom's brother, the Reverend Herman J.

Schmid, home on a vacation from Minneapolis. The only attendants were the bride's sister, Mrs. Howard Stevens of PittsBurgh, as matron of honor, and Eugene Gardill of Swissvale, best man. The bride's gown was blue chiffon and that of the matron of honor was pink. Each carried arm bouquets of pink roses and delphinium.

After a wedding reception the bride and bridegroom left for a trip to Bermuda. Their future home will be in 214 Lehigh street, Edgewood. WHY ARE YOU SAVINCyourSILVER ViisVV 44 If I MM sv-- I YOU CAN'T WEAR IT OUT, AND YOUR GREAT GRANDCHILDREN WILL USE AND PRIZE IT ABOVE ALL POSSESSIONS. A Scoop In RUGS One of America's leading manufacturers of Oriental Reproduction let us have a limited number of 9-0x12-0 sizes Never sold less than $98 Beautiful designs and colorings to sell at $69.00 If you need a rug don't wait come in at once we cannot replace these. Charge Accounts Invited NOT EXPENSIVE FORMERLY 3.95 and All types for lre.s anl cport- in kil.

mesh, and two-lone combinations All 17'" included but not in eery SUMMER BAGS, Reg. $1.00 50e A'o mail or phone order. All Vr THIRD ROC'- STERLING COSTS NO MORE THAN MOST ORDINARY COMMERCIAL SILVER. 36 HEAVY PIECES. .87.00 Recent Brides To Be Honored By Sorority The active Nu chapter.

Alpha Epsilon Phi, will hold a luncheon on Saturday in the Culinaire, as the first social event of the summer. Honor guests will be two recent brides, Mrs. Leonard Kimball, the former Miss Estelle Kovacs, and Mrs. Robert Fleishman, the former Miss Muriel Lowey. Sharing honors will be Miss Edith Bennett, whose engagement to Harry Deak-tor has been announced.

Plans will be made for a steak fry and a swimming party to be held during the summer months. KEAVT WADEFIELD Ill EE! CO. prrrsBURSH-s largest exclusivC RUG AND CARPET ESTABLISHMENT flynE-lileiL "She's been going with him long enough to know how to close his car door the first time!" Idle chatter for idle minutes between plunges. If your idle holiday moments are si ill ahead and you decide on a new fwim suit, after all, these will prove their virtues in the water. The one-piere affair of pink ribbed wool gives yon real freedom for crawl cr dive and the Tyrolean chest embroidery proves you don't spurn being decorative.

Chartreuse at the right, top fastening to trunks at front with straps crossing in front as well as back. Copyright. 193s, Esqu.r features, lne. ATlantic 249 FIFTH AVENUE AVENUE-PITTSBURGH urn WOOD STREET ATM "Phow 6424.

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