Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 13

rOST-GAZETTEi Sept. 24, 1975 13 Holmes House Reveres Bicentennial Party Lift SHAPE UP I dents wiJl see a movie, "The Progress of Pittsburgh," covering the period from 1890 to 1969. Dinner will be served at 5 p.m. The evening entertainment will Include music by the Bloomfield Liederta-fel Singing Society and the presentation of prizes to Gertrude Diffenbacher and "Bud" Kiehl, two residents who will be 76 this year. Hors d'oeuvres, punch and cookies shaped like flags and bells will be served.

Patriotic music will be played during the evening. Mrs. Gertrude L. Kidwell Is administrator of Holmes House. THE FOUNDER OF Holmes House came to Pittsburgh in 1807 from Antrim County, Ireland.

Besides Holmes House, records show she founded Children's Hospital on Forbes Avenue, the Protestant Home for Boys in Allegheny, the Home for Aged Colored Women and the Episcopal Home and gave large endowments to other institutions. Her intention for Holmes House was not as a hospital, Mrs. Kidwell and Mrs. Reineman pointed out, but as a "home to assist those who are incurable and have no home or friends to give them the care and attention necessary for their comfort." Over the years, the board of managers has been able to continue this philosophy, they added. One of the residents celebrated her 97th birthday a few days ago at the nurses' station at the home.

Her name is Blanche Bown and she can quote sayings and poetry endlessly, they said, and much of it original. SHAPE UP WEEK This is the time to get expert advice about your particular figure problems. Let us shape you to a new, slimmer, shapelier you SHAPE UP WITH EXQUISITE FORM $3.50 By MARION LESLIE Poit-Gaiettt Staff Wrlttr Paul Revere and a Colonial fifer and drummer will help to set the theme for the Bicentennial party tomorrow for the residents at Holmes House, 5500 Butler St. Judge Eunice Ross of the Court of Common Pleas will speak at 2:30 p.m. after the luncheon has been served and the state trooper, cast in the role of Paul Revere for the afternoon, has arrived on the grounds of the 90-year-old residence for 59 men and women.

6nce known as the Protestant Home for Incurables, this private, non-affiliated, skilled nursing home was founded and incorporated by Miss Jane Holmes in 1883. It was opened to women patients in 1885 and to men in 1899. As a non-profit home, funds are real-1 through a once-a-year appeal, memorials, gifts from friends and endowments, Mrs. Walter E. Reineman, president of the board of managers, explained.

THE BICENTENNIAL PARTY, Mrs. Reineman said, began as a small project. Then it developed Into a full-scale celebration. Lunch will be served at noon and the menu will include hamburgers, French fries, apple pie with cheese and beverages. Two state troopers will have their horses on the premises.

But there will be just one Paul Revere. The residents, guests of honor for the event, will be on porches or ramps during the program, weather permitting. After Judge Ross speaks, the resi Garden Club Dr. Henry M. Cathey will be the featured speaker at today's 2 p.m.

horticulture' session of the annual meeting DR. CATHEY "will Slates Speaker of the Garden Club of America Zone V. The three-day conference closes tomorrow. Dr. Cathey is chief of the Ornamentals Laboratory in the Agricultural Research Service's Plant Genetics and Germplasm Institute at the Agricultural Research Center-West.

A ornamentals research, headquartered at Beltsville, is designed to solve technical problems in the breeding, culture and protection of flowers and ornamental plants, both for the grower and the consumer Dr. Cathey will address delegates at the Hunt Botanical Library. Earlier in the day, delegates will attend a 9:15 a.m. business meeting at the Pittsburgh Garden Center, where slides of Pittsburgh will be shown by Herbert Ferguson, director of health professions at the Media Production Center of the University of Pittsburgh. Hostesses for the noon luncheon at the Pittsburgh Golf Club will be Mrs.

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