Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 15 Jun 1928, p. 40

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., ... , June 15, 192~ Edwina W eckler to Dr. M. H. Bickham Goes to Big '~Y" Conference Open Eighth Year Student religious leaders from more than one hundred cqlleges and uni-: versities in the Middle West are' assembled for a nine-day conference at the Y. M. C. A. grounds, Lake Geneva, Wis, which opened June 12. The conference includes such well-known speakers and workers among students as Dr. Charles W. Gilkey of Chicago, Dr. Sherwood Eddy of New York, Dr. Bruce Curry of Oberlin college, Dr. Jerome Davis of Yale university, and Dr. Martin H. Bickham of .Wilmette. According to announcements the conference aims to give students who are working at various activities on the different campuses an opportunity to examine, evaluate and re-shape these activities from the point of view of what is most meaningful, creative and Christian. Dr. .Bickham left Monday to head a section of the conference which deals directly with the search for better ways of meeting student life-situations. For the past year and a half Dr. Bickham has been studying student life intimately. He is director of research of the Committee on Social Analysis of College Communities and author of "Student Service Projects." of Dance Classes See the wonderful newWesternplay. grounds in the Black Hills of South Dakota MakeThisa 1leal VACATION Chicago anu North Western offers you an incomparable variety of places to go and things to do. Let us help you plan your trip. WRITE VACATION HEADQUARTERS Let us show you how inexpensive a delightful western vacation can be. State the region in which you are interested and we will be pleased to furnish complete information and illustrated booklets. On Friday, ] une 15, at 3 o'clock, a meeting of mothers will be held at Mallinckrodt High school for the purpo.5e of. organizing a Parent-Teacher association. Officers will be elected and olans for the future discussed. Hom;r Buckley of the Cat h o 1i c charities will address the mothers. A Mrs. Charle .; Wachs, formerly of 934 musical program will be furnished by Elmwood avenue, and now of Win the pupils of the school. netka, entertained at luncheon at her -0- . home last Wednesday in honor of her Mrs. Charles A. Wanner, who has houseguest. hce·n living in Evanston, is spending -othe summer at the home of M r.5. E. B. M iss Catherine Schmidt of 710 Mcndscn. 531 Eighth street. Washington avenue was host at a cla ss -oMr. and Mrs. M. J. Hill of 514 Wash - party at her home last Thursday afterington avenue, arc spending ten days noon. Catherine is graduating from St. Francis Xavier school today. at M artinsvillc, Ind. Mrs. Edwina Martine W eckler is re turning to Wilmette next fall to c~m mence her eighth season of dancmginstruction for children. Mrs. Weckler taught for two ·s easons at the Ouil mette Country club and then discon tinued her classes to accept the very attractive offer of the Parent-Teacher association, for which she taught for five years. She will reopen he.r own classes in October at the Wtlmette Woman's club. They will be held Thursdays. Mrs. Weckler is opening cla sses in Glencoe under the auspices of the Glencoe Parent-Teacher association in October. She teaches in Joliet, Evan ston, and the Franci s Parker school, Chicago. Her classes at the Edgewater Beach hotel are conducted under the name of "The Martine School of Dancing," a ., Mrs. Weckler is most anxious to keep the name Martine alive, as it is, in Chicago, synonymous with dancing and has been so for the past s~venty-four years, ever since established by Mrs. Weckler'·s father, Prof. ]. Edwin Mar tine. 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