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Mrs. McEachren Again Heads Historical Unit SCHOOL PERFORMKRS -- The junior girls' choir of St. Mary's Catholic church were featured performers at the last meeting of the parish Home ani School associations, held last week. Above, they are shown as they sang "The Holy City". PLAINDEALER PHOTO Elkhorn Girl Wed Saturday A wedding of local interest was performed in St. Patrick's church, Elkhorn, Wis., Saturday, May 10, when Miss Sharon A. Schmitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Schmitt of Rt. 3, Elkhorn, Wis., exchanged nuptial vows with Mr. Edward A. Christensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wm. Christensen, II, of Chicago. Rev. J. Hanauska officiated at the 2 o'clock ceremony. Pretty Miss Schmitt wore a traditional gown with full skirt of silk organza, detailed with alencon lace, a tulip front style, fitted bodice, long sleeves and sabrina neckline. The watteau train of tiered lace and silk organza flowed from the shoulders at the back of the neckline. Connie Larsen attended the bride as matron of honor and bridesmaids were Penny Vanderpal, Dianne Buckley, Mary VVendorf and Lisa Schmitt. They wore long gowns in rainbow shades of pink, blue, maize, orchid and Nile green, styled with puffed sleeves, their flowing skirts falling from an empire waist banded with lace threaded with ribbon. Each carried daisies in the shade of her dress. Melissa Bleser, attired exactly as Miss Schmitt, was the miniature bride and Todd Arend was the miniature groom. George Wm. Christensen, III, served as best man and groomsmen were Ken Schmitt, Steve Vanderpal, Patrick Ridge and Jim Christensen. Ushers were Bob Christensen and Don Kugelberg. A reception fol lowed the cferemony at St. Patrick's gym, Elkhorn, with dinner served to 400 gueSts. After a trip to Florida, the newlyweds will make their home at 51.5 W. Eddy, Chicago. The new Mrs. Christensen is a graduate of Elkhorn high school and was employed as a beautician at Lake Geneva. Her husband served in the Marine corps and is now employed in Qhicago. Officers of the Easter Seal Women's auxiliary for McHenry county elected last week are shown at the home of the president, making plans for the ensuing year. From the left, sitting, Mrs. Hazel Arnold, secretary; Mrs. Bertil Dehlin, president; Mrs. Eugene O'Brien, vice-president; Mrs. Robert Emery, treasurer; Mrs. James Williams, corresponding secretary. Standing is Mrs. John Schmidt, assistant treasurer. McHenry Hosts Easter Seal's Annual Meet Feature Five Operas May 17 Mrs. Bertil Dehlin was elected president of the Easter Seal Women's auxiliary annual dinner meeting at McHenry Country club last week. Others elected to serve in the ensuing year are Mrs. Eugene O'Brien, vice-president; Mrs. Hazen Arnold, secretary; Mrs. James Williams, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Robert Emery, treasurer and Mrs. John Schmidt, assistant treasurer. Accepted as members of the board of directors for a term of one year are Mrs. Hazen Arnold, Mrs. Joseph Conerty, Jr., Mrs. Bertil Dehlin, Mrs. Gerald Donahue, Mrs. Robert ; Emery, Mrs. John Eggum, Mrs. Leonard Fergin, Mrs. Howard Fiedelman, Mrs. Chester Gould, Mrs. Vette Kell, Mrs. Delno Kistler, Mrs. Karl Koch, Mrs. Homer Mann, Mrs. B.B. Neuchiller, Mrs. Eugene 0*- . Brien, Mrs. Charles Peterson, ' Mrs. John Schmidt, Mrs. John ' Sterling, Mrs. Donald Swanson, ; Mrs. Richard Walrath, Mrs. Howard West, Mrs. Earl Yates, ' Mrs. Jack Williams and Mrs. ! James Williams. J Mrs. B.B. Neuchiller was , chairman of the day and presented the colorful selection of • beach wear modelled by women of the county, also the Kuenster family, who responded to several encores. The grot?) has been singing together for sometime and have appeared at many functions in the area. Announced was the re-sale to be held at the Nature building at Veterans Acres, Crystal Lake, June 12. Miss Lucarz Feted Recently Jean Lucarz was guest of honor at a recent bridal shower given by Charlene Kelley, Ann Marcellis, Marge Counley, Pat Lucarz and Madeline Wijas, held at Sponjia club. A buffet lunch was served to about fifty guests after the bride opened her many beautiful gifts. Miss Lucarz will become the bride of Charles E. Thornton on June 7. OTHER BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Krepel, 333 W. Wegner, announce the birth of a son, Philip Leon, on April 23 in Sherman hospital, Elgin. The young lad weighed 8 lbs., 10 oz., and has three sisters and two brothers. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Krepel and Mr. and Mrs. Leon F. Buss. -s. / \ MARILYN KEIPPEL TELL ENGAGEMENT -- Mr. and Mrs. Irwin F. Wolter, 3503 W. Beach drive, McHenry, announce ths engagement of their daughter, Marilyn A. Keippel, To Dr. Eugene V. Hoffman, Jr., son of Mrs. Elizabeth Hoffmann, 5515 Hill road, Richm. id, and Dr. Eugene V. Hoffmann, Sr., 1230 S. Austin blvd., Cicero. Miss Keippel islrT9Q4 graduate of McHenry Com nunity high schoo' and is presei^ly emp'oyed by a Crystal Lake firm as an application engineer. Dr. Hoffmann graduated from Fenwick high school, Oak Park, in 1958. He is a 1932 graduate o' the Naional Cojlege of C o'ropractic and was assistant director of the Lombard Chir jpractic clinic from August, 1966, to January, 1939. He is now practicing in Hebron. An 0.?'. 18 wadding is p'a in^d. At the sixth Annual Meeting of the McHenry County Historical society held Thursday, May 8, in the Farm Bureau building, Woodstock, Mrs. Dorothy McEachren was re-elected president for a one-year term. Miss Edith Bohn, Woodstock was elected to serve as vice-president for the coming year. The president re-appointed Mrs. Oral Herendeen as secretary and Audrey" Walgenbach, whose term does not expire for another year, remains as treasurer of the organization. The nominating committee, headed by Mrs. Ed Ocenasek of Cary, chairman, presented the following slate of directors who were duly elected by the membership: For three-year terms, Mrs. Claude Pagles, Harvard, Everett Thomas, Woodstock, Mrs. William Shotliff, Spring Grove and Miss Marion Conley, Huntley; For two-year terms, Mrs. Eleanor Howe, Crystal Lake, Shuji Kimuri, Crystal Lake and LaVerne Whiting, Richmond; For one-year terms, < Mrs. Ed (Mildred) Fish, Woodstock, Mrs. Otis Cripe, Marengo and Edwin Ocenasek, Cary. Miss Alice Colver of Marengo and Richard Richardson of Richmond are hold-over members of the board of directors whose terms did not expire at this time. The president called for reports from the treasurer, the secretary and membership chairman. The auditor's report was read and a report was given by Building Committee Chairman Ed Ocenasek. The president thanked all those individuals and organizations who have been helpful in carrying on the work of preserving McHenry county's history, and paid special tribute to Miss Lura Wandrack, who recently passed away. Miss Wandrack was instrumental in organizing the McHenry County Historical society and was one of the society's most faithful and dedicated volunteer workers. She had accessioned over 5,000 items donated to the society, cataloging and identifying each item as to donor, period and history. Approximately 60 people attended the meeting, including five boys in Den No. 7 of Cub Scout Pack No. 355 from Marengo, because they were interested in learning about antique autos from Edward F. Gathman, who presented the program. The boys had been making model autos as Cub Scout projects. Everett Thomas, retiring vice-president of the Historical society introduced Mr. Gathman, who is a past-president of the Model T-Ford Club International and presently the owner of a 1914 Model T Ford. He has made an exhaustive study of the automobile's history through consulting old newspaper files, automotive trade journals, periodicals, and by contacting older men who had been active in the automobile industry in its early days. He told many interesting stories about the various models of early autos and showed slides of pictures of these early models and also of restored models themselves which he had photographed at antique auto shows and museums. The first part of his program was devoted to pictures and facts about the 136 autos that were built in Elgin by ten different auto manufacturing companies which are no longer in existence. Hie autos were steam, electric and gasoline-powered, and one of the models was displayed proudly at an automobile show in New York City in 1899. A "Marr" car, one of those built in Elgin, is now on exhibit at the Ford Museum in Greenfield, Michigan. Walter Marr, one of the early auto builders, helped in designing the Buick auto and was chief engineer for the Buick company in Flint, Mich., for thirteen years. His Marr auto had been one of the more successful early Elgin attempts. Mr. Gathman told that there were over 3,000 different makes of autos (or motor vehicles) built in the years between 1896 and 1926, and they had such fascinating names as "Black Crow" and "Old Silver". The "Elgin" was used because of its prestige value due to the well-known Elgin road races and Elgin watches. Several guests were present to enjoy the program, and the society gained five new members at the annual meeting. Ten new members had been signed at the highly successful meeting held in Richmond in April, and the public is reminded that membership is open to everyone interested in the county's history and in preserving American heritage. PG. 2 - PLAINDEALER WED. MAY 14, 1969 P ersonals Mrs. Paul Yanda left Monday by bus to visit cousins in Kingsport, Tenn. While there in company with her relatives she will tour the Smoky mountains. Notice o Brides In order to better serve McHenry area brides, the Plaindealer sends wedding forms to all those whose engagements have been announced on our society page and carry a definite date. We ask that these completed forms be returned three days prior to the wedding. Complete details will appear only during the week following wedding except in the case of out-of-state weddings, where an additional week is allowed. Photographs will be printed any time later, or will be included with the wedding information the first week if they accompany the story. If your engagement announcement has not been published, or if the date of wedding was not known at that time, please call our office and request that a marriage form be sent. 0SRITAL SlotHi CONFUSED ? MOLLY DAVEY Molly Davey will sing the role of Lady Harriet in "Martha" and Norina in "Don Pasquale" when the Apollo Opera company of Chicago comes to the Woodstock Opera House on Saturday, May 17, at 8:00 for "An Evening of Opera." Rather than sing entire operas the group of eight fine vocalists will sing excerpts from five well-known operas. The annual grand benefit per-r formance at the Woodstock Opera House is Saturday evening, May 17, at 8 p.m. For this year's gala celebration, the benefit committee of the Woodstock Fine Arts association is presenting the Apollo Opera company of Chicago, accompanied by nine professional Chicagoland musicians. For their program the Apollo McHENRY HOSPITAL Patients admitted to McHenry hospital recently included Margaret Mueller, Robin Bluemel, Tom Basile, Wonder Lake; Claude Vachet, Ben Schaefer, Virginia Guinn, Hildur Guion, Elizabeth Brooks, Doreen Patterson, Walter Suman, Albert Teslan, Minnie Ulrich, Lois Eggert, Kelly Powers, Donald Johnson, Martha Brock, Edward Jeschke, Armando Gomez, Edythe Anderson, Walter Jensky, Stanley Darmody, Theodore Hatha us, Mayme Guttuso, James Bretschneider, William Rozanek, Anthony Varese,Steven Watkins, Delphine Diedrich, Andrew Lee, all of McHenry; Franklin Rogers, Jr., Spring Grove. \ MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Mr. and Mis. Ronald White of Woodstock are the proud parents of an 8 lb., 10 oz., daughter on April 30. She is the first grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Roy White of McHenry and Mr. and Mrs. Albert De- Maat of Oak Park. Her mother is the former Pat DeMaat of Oak Park. opera stars will sing excerpts from Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Don Pasquale", Verdi's "Rigoletto", Puccini's "La Boheme" and Flotow's "Martha". The Apollo Opera company was begun in 1958 by a number of Chicagoland people who had been singers in opera or closely connected with it otherwise. The company does three or four productions a year and allows three months for rehearsal time. The Apollo was formed to establish a resident opera company in Chicago and' to afford the opportunity for, deserving young singers to be heard in Chicago in leading operatic roles. Members of the WF A A's Benefit committee are busy cleaning the Opera House, and decorating it with a gay springtime motif. A red carpet will be rolled from the street to the front door of the Opera House where the theatre-goer will be greeted by a top-hatted doorman. For those attending the grand affair, full dress is optional. All seats are reserved and tickets may be obtained by calling Mrs. Joseph Gitlin or at the Opera House from 1 to 3 p.m. beginning May 12. mid ON 5% ",00" W-fSzi wm&SfM RONALD VACULA, a native of Wonder Lake, with his wife, Ann, reside at 3801 W. Timothy Lane in McHenry with their three children. Ron is in charge of the savings department at the McHenry State Bank. Ron has been with the bank for seven years and has seen this department grow to approximately twenty-two million dollars. Let Ron Help You! Are you confused by all the various color pass books being advertised? Regardless of all the fancy nkmes and gimmics used, a savings account is either a PASS BOOK ACCOUNT or a CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT or a TIME SAVINGS ACCOUNT. Four percent is the maximum amount of interest permitted by law for a commercial pass book account. Any pass book account advertising more than four percent is really a Certificate of Deposit or a time Savings Account, regardless of its fancy name. A Pass Book account permitting withdrawal or deposits of any amount at any time, cannot pay more than 4% interest in accordance with Federal Reserve Bank regulations. RON VACULA will be happy to answer your questions regarding any and all types of savings accounts. He will also show you that the McHenry State Bank pays the maximum amount of interest permitted by law. A FULL\ "Where Family Money Matters" SERVICE) McHenry State Bank 3510 W. Elm McHenry 385-1040