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Tuesday Honrs 9:15 to 530 10 DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday, January 11. 1949 MB fi Jt Plans for 91st Year Made at Settlement BY MAE BLACKARD Fre Pre Staff Writer Plans for the ninety-first year of activities at Neighborhood House Settlement were discussed informally Monday afternoon' by members of the board. They gathered for tea in one of the parlors of the house at Fourth and Porter Sts. after their annual meeting. Mrs.

Edward M. Plunkett was named to head the group during the coming year. This was the final meeting presided over by Mrs. Muir W. Lind, retiring president.

Mrs. Donald Stevenson will take over the first vice president's duties and Mrs. J. Crawford Frost is second vice president; Mrs. Raymond A.

Jacobs, recording secretary, and Mrs. John H. Mack, her assistant. Other new officers are Mrs. Ralph Thomas, corresponding secretary Mrs.

George E. Bushnell, treasurer, assisted by Mrs. C. Bayard Johnson; Mrs. William M.

Mertz, auditor; Mrs. Neil Bentley, historian, and Mrs. Charles E. Swales, parliamentarian. Assisting Mrs.

Stevenson at the tea table were Mrs. Frank N. Isbey and Mrs. Howard K. Walton.

A bright arrangement of yellow carnations and white baby chrysanthemums centered the white-lace-covered table. Among the trustees elected to serve for a three-year term are Mrs. Alan P. Beebe, Mrs. J.

Randolph Kennedy, Mrs. William G. Lichtenberg, Mrs. G. Hubert Noble and Mrs.

William R. Wilson. Mrs. George T. Trumbull is in charge of publicity.

Another Planning Session THIS IS A WEEK for getting things done and Bennington College Alumnae of Detroit and vicinity will discuss their projects on Thursday evening at the Renaud Road home of Mrs. John McEachrin. They will be brought up to date-on happenings at the school by Edward Goodman, member of the faculty, and Rebecca Stickney, who is alumnae secretary at the college. Planning to attend are Mrs. Earl I.

Heenan, Mrs. Wood Hatchitt, Katherine Kidner, Sally Winston, of Bloomfield; Mrs. Maxwell Millard, of Franklin Village, and Mrs. J. Warren Johnson.

El irm wiiiii mm milium imhhi lmmmirfff "'i "lifiii mi di' mim 'it tnini immrifi-nrwi i i i Our Totim Executive Free Press Photo George Hall and Mary Eleanor Weisgerber. Miss Weisgerber spoke to the group Monday afternoon on scenery techniques. She is working with the League Children's Theater for four days and will be guest speaker at the Tuesday meeting, slated for 10:15 o'clock at the Country Club. Junior League members found Monday a full day. The board met at the Kercheval Ave.

shop in the morning then drove on to the Neighborhood Club in the afternoon for a Theater Institute session. Joy Kindel, of Grand Rapids, left, who is in town for the gatherings and the January membership meeting this Tuesday, is pictured with Mrs. CHATTERBOX Casual comes in Rayon Frost point or Rayon Gabardine It's the dress so much in demand because of its expert styling because it's easy to get into (it has a 22 inch back zipper) and because of the luscious colors! Gabardine in royal blue, grey, green or cocoa. Frostpoint in grey-black pin-point check. Sizes 10 to 20 .12.95 Phone and Mail orders filled.

Call WOodtcard 2-7200 Please give second color choice. Inexpensive Dresses Fifth Floor Romance Department Dance, Play Star College Slate BY BEVERLY McCLELLAN First big social date of the year on the Marygrove College calendar is the informal dance on Friday evening. The senior class will hostess the affair for the sophomores. Pat Healy, who will head the refreshment committee, tells us that they'll be served in Madame Cadillac Rotunda. "The Importance of Being Earnest," is the Oscar Wilde play selected by Marygrove gals for their annual scholarship performance.

It will be presented the afternoon and evening of Feb. 25 and the evenings of Feb. 26 and 27. Michael Krause will direct. Friday Music WHILE AT LIGGETT School there has been a lot of chatter about the Friday morning assemblies.

Last week Chopin lovers had a picnic. Miss Katherine Brown, a music instructor at the school, presented a full piano concert of Chopin's music. Next Friday Carol Seren-berg, who has studied dancing for 14 years, will entertain classmates with a program of dancing. Formal initiation and dinner at Canterbury House filled Sunday hours for sisters of Delta Epsilon Beta. New members now include Marilyn MacNamara, Jo Raisinen, Ann Baker and Judy Makinen.

Mothers Plan Visit VISITS to their classrooms and a luncheon have been planned by Kingswood School Cran-brook eighth grade lassies for their mothers on Thursday. President of the class, Ann ffterritt, is in charge of the day's arrangements. Assisting her are Lillina Stoyadinovich, Lynn Romney and Sue Beardsley. Kline-s 1 225-35 Woodward I WITH NEWS OF THE betrothal of their daughter Kathryn Jean Gust to Charles Arthur Telfer, Mr. and Mrs.

Rockwell T. Gust, of Fairfield announce that the pair will be married on Feb. 12. That will be just about a week after Charles is graduated from law school at the University of Michigan. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Laurie O. Telfer, of Port Huron. The marriage will be solemnized at St. Joseph's Episcopal Church at 8 o'clock in the evening, with a reception following at the DAC.

Jean has asked her sister, Mrs. George H. Valentine, of Aurora, 111., to be hr matron of honor. Bridesmaids will be Mrs. William Telfer, of Ann Arbor, and Anne Baldwin," fiancee of Jean's brother, Rockwell T.

Gust, Jr. William Telfer will be his brother's best man. He and Charles Whipple, of Port Huron, an usher, will be coming in from studies at U. of M. Other ushers will be RockwelT.

Gust, George H. Valentine, and John Telfer, another brother of the bridegroom. Jean is a graduate of Miss Newman's School and of Smith College. She also studied at the Katharine Gibbs School irr Boston. Charles is a member of Beta Theta Pi and Phi Delta Phi fraternities.

After their marriage the. couple will live in Port Huron. Juniors Hear Mr. Pitt Bill mmMmmg Mrs. Frank S.

Clark and Mrs. Norman L. Parker were hostesses for the luncheon meeting of the Junior Membership Committee, Louisa St. Clair Chapter, DAR, at Newberry House on Monday. Among the members who heard Howard Pitt lecture on "An Englishman's Views on America" were Mrs.

S. Wright Bellinger, Mrs. Mary Shields Ambrose, Mrs. Robert A. Benton, and Mrs.

Markhara S. Cheever. Others who attended the meeting were Mrs. Walker R. Graham, Mrs.

Walter Devere Dent, Mrs. Melvin H. Humphrey, Mrs. Edward P. MacKenzie, Mrs.

Bruce R. Mayhew, Mrs. Paul B. Mork and Mrs. Roger L.

Van Dorpe. A short business meeting war conducted by Mrs. Stirling E. Martin, chairman of the Junior Committee. A.

JULY Local Chapter Plans Annual Luncheon Couple Plans Spring Nuptials Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Gular-ski, of Lemay announce the engagement of their daughter Lucretia Constance to Richard Malisqiwski. Mr. and Mrs.

Leo Malisqiwski, of Greines are the parents of the bridegroom-elect. -The couple plans an early spring wedding. PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT mL "Short 'n Sweet" fV I by Marguerite Burke I. Wonderfully a to care 111 fLU I for! One of many dramatic MW coiffures, based on your indi- I (gVfe I dullnn ft In honor of the birthday of Gen. Robert E.

Lee, the Robert E. Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, will hold an annual luncheon on Saturday in the Mural Room of Huyler's L'Aiglon. Sirs. Gordon A. MacDonald, entertainment chairman, has scheduled William A.

Marshall and Mrs. Edward N. Munro as two of the principal speakers. Mrs. John E.

Bushnell, honorary president of the organization, and her son, Judge George E. Bushnell, will be the honor guests. fi. US, Sftfltil" IT'S A GIRL! Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Dave Switzer, of Ilene announce the birth of a daughter, Judy Rae, on Dec. 27. Mrs. Switzer is the former Helen Greenblatt. I 9- y-t vc fv-' tt v- -BEST j- anagement in the making 1 iJ rmnmmnonm iMfciililifiriliil il "infill iniiiiMll i iiyijf Sweet Photo KATHRYN JEAN GUST RESET YOUR DIAMOND IN A SMART counouy MOUNTNO Budgtt fymh Parents Announce Engagement Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Roy Beleck, of Greendale have announced the engagement of their daughter, Lorraine Dolores, to Donald B. Porzadek, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard E.

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Sizes 1, 2, 3 3.00 This young man is a telephone cable splicer. Some day he may be president of Michigan Bell. That's the way it works in the telephone business. Those who are top executives of the company today 22S WEST GRAND RIVER started at the bottom. At each step up through the ranks, they prepared themselves for bigger responsibilities.

It's a telephone company policy to make promotions, on the basis of merit, from within the ranks of its own experienced employees. Management and the employees HALF-DAY TRIP The historic city of Adrian, with its lovely old homes and the beautiful countryside, makes a grand drive in winter. Just 43 miles south of Ann Arbor. of the company, then, are simply the same people 0 Mail and phone orders filled Postage prepaid everywhere in the U. S.

different stages of their telephone careers. Knowing of the opportunities which exist in the telephone company encourages Michigan Bell people to do the best job they know how to do. And that, in turn, goes a long way toward assuring you good service at low cost. MICHIGAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY MONEY-SAVING TIP Help prevent accidents be sure your car's brakes are perfectly adjusted. Minor adjust-, ment, $1.29 or, if adjustment, $3.79.

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