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Highland Park Press, 15 May 1941, p. 12

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P H 0O TO G R A PHER S Make an Appointment Today 7 8. St. Jouns Ave. _ Puone Hicuranp» Park 435 PAGE TEN EDWARD JUUL © FLUORESCENT BULBS (all types and colors) @© FIXTURES ({or commercial and home purposes) © REPAIR SERVICE (a complete repair departa:int) Highland Park Fluorescent HECKETSWEILER STUDIO Complete Hinorescent Lighting Service We will gladly discuss your lighting probâ€" lems and give estimates without obligation. sITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD 15 North St. Johns Avenue Telephone Highland Park 4660 =<«â€"«â€"â€" Featuring â€"â€" PHOTOGRAPH with a by at JOHN SCHAEFER THE PRES 3 On Friday evening, May 16, at 7 o‘clock, at the University club of Chicago, the Trustees, the Fellows of the Corporation, and the alumni of Lake Forest academy are holdâ€" ing a dinner to honor John Wayné Richards, who is retiring after twentyâ€"eight years of service, and to introduce E. Francis Bowditch, the new headmaster. Ernest Palmer ‘03 of Springfield will be the toastmaster, and speakâ€" Quill and Dagger, senior honorâ€" ary society at Cornell, whose memâ€" bership is based on participation in extraâ€"curricular activities, recently elected 23 seniors for the academic year 1941â€"42. Among them is Peter MacPherson Wolff, administrative engineering, of 1300 Wade st., Highâ€" land Park. Dorothy Burnham ,575 Central ave., was recently elected president of the Lake Forest college chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, national honor society for students of romance lanâ€" guages. A junior at the college, Miss Burnham is also a member of Alpha, Lambda Delta, national scolâ€" astic honor fraternity for women, of the orchestra and the Women‘s Athletic association. Mrs. Claburn Jones is in charge of saleswomen for the plants that day and Mrs. James Lytle is chairâ€" man of those who will check the plants in. + Publicity is being handled by Mrs. Hugh Riddle. One of the most festive aspects of the fair is the food table under the chairmanship of Mrs. Gerald Stome. Children and adults alike enjoy the picnic lunch of sandâ€" wiches, cake, cookies, coffee and chocolate milk. Popcorn balls are to be an added feature this year. Come and bring your family for luncheon. Mrs. Edelbert Leonard and a group of helpers are contacting old members of the club to secure numâ€" erous donations of plants from their own gardens as well as white eleâ€" phant flower containers to sell that day. ~Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lawrâ€" ence are working on a rustic book shelf which will be filled with fine books on gardening. .. Mrs. John Van Bergen: and her committee are collecting useful garâ€" den implements for the gadget taâ€" ble. Mrs. John Meyer is chairman of the day and Mrs. Robert Bryant is coâ€"chairman. Annual plants will be for sale in flats, halfâ€"flats and pats. A committee under Mrs. Deâ€" forest Colburn has visited local nurseries and chosen healthy plants of old and new proven varieties. The Ravinia Garden club will hold its annual garden fair day on Satâ€" urday, May 24, from 9 to 4 in Raâ€" vinia Village park. Mrs. George Ernst of 631 West Park ave., was pleasantly surprised with a pot luck luncheon in celeâ€" bration of her sixtieth birthday, on Monday. Besides her daughter, Mrs. Russel Swift of Waukegan, the guests were Mesdames Bannes, Koâ€" sin, Johnson and Miller of Waukeâ€" gan, Mrs. A. R. Decker of Welcome, Minn., and Mrs. E. Fisher of Highâ€" land Park . GARDEN FAIR DAY AT RAVINIA GARDEN CLUB MRS. GEORGE ERNST GIVEN SURPRISE Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Riddle, 623 S. St. Johns avenue, announce the birth of a son at St. Therese hosâ€" pital, Waukegan, last Thursday, May 8. Among those arriving over the weekâ€"end for a spring stay at French Lick Springs hotel was A. L. LeGro, 165 Moraine road. * Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Francouer, 505 Glencoe avenue, have received word of the birth of a baby, Philip Jr., to Mr. and Mrs. Philip Franâ€" couer, of Rio de Janerio. Mrs. Thornton Myers of Tampa, Florida, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Warren, 1547 S. St. Johns avenue. Her husband, Lieut. Meyers, is in Newfoundland on a six months tour of duty. : Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Dubonn of Chicago were the Sunday guests of their mother Mrs. Alice Turriff. Ruth Sloan, a senior at Highland Park hig school has been awarded the annual Girls club scholarship of $200. She plans to attend the Illiâ€" nois State Normal college. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Yowell, who spent the winter in California and Texas, have returned to Highland Park for the summer. Bill Mecham has been awarded a scholarship by the Freshman Scholâ€" arship committee at Yale universâ€" ity. This is the largest single grant ever received by a Highland Park boy. It was awarded for his outstanding scholarship, student council work and participation in other school activities. & Among the selectees stationed at Camp Croft, S. C., are Privates Peâ€" ter Murphy, Richard Lederer, and Art Baldauf, of Highland Park, and Private Sargo Digani of Highwood. Digani has been assigned to Comâ€" pany 4 of the 37th training batâ€" talion. Murphy and Leoderer are with Company B, and Baldauf with Company C of the 38th. These men were sent here from the recption center at Fort Sheridan, Ill., ten days ago with approximately 500 young men from that state. Their training here will consist of the baâ€" sic material in which all infantry replacements are instructed. _ At the conclusion of that course /they will be assigned to various regular army units in different parts of the country for thé remainder of their service period. Miss Betty Ann Johnson, ‘41, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald C. Johnson of Lakeside place, is one of the group of dancers who will present the original dance drama deâ€" picting the growth of the American spirit, introducing the May court and queen, at Skidmore college, this week end. The pageant was writâ€" ten by a junior student for the ocâ€" casion. Mrs. Thomas Duffy is in St. Theâ€" rese hospital, Waukegan, undergoâ€" ing treatment for arthritis. ers will be McPherson Holt of Lake Forest, president of the board of trustees, and Julian S. Mirgold, ‘23 of Highland Park, president of the Alumni association. MAY 15, 1941

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