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State Garden Club Plans Presidents Council Meeting The Annual Presidents' Council meeting of the Garden Club of Illinois will be held Monday, September 22, at noon, in the Wedgwood room of Marshall F i e l d and company. It is an assembly of the state officers, board members, and committee chairmen, and the presidents, vice-presidents, program, and flowe; show chairmen of the associated individual garden clubs. M r s . Daniel E . K i s s a m , of Glencoe, president of The Garden Club of Illinois, will have her full contingent of state leaders to help her receive The tables for the luncheon will be attractively decorated by M r s J . C . D a y , of Oak P a r k , assisted by members of the Garden Club of Oak P a r k and R i v e r Forest. Plans for the fall activities will be discussed. F r o m the presidents' council meeting, clubleaders take back to their respective groups reports on plans for the year and frequently new ideas for club programs. M r s . E . P. Brooks of H i n dale state vice-president and prog i a m chairman, will give suggestions for programs. Plans for the Tenth Annual Judging school, which is to be held this year at the L a Salle hotel on Octcber 21, 22, and 23, will be announced by M r s . W. A . Park, the chairman. M r s . L . Thorpe Warren will report on the 1948 Chicago Flower show, the G a r d e n Club of Illinois' annual exhibition. The council will have as its guest speaker at the luncheon M r s . Raymond A . Smith of Council Bluffs, Iowa, president of the Federated G a r d e n Clubs of Iowa. She is the editor of their State Garden magazine, is the author of the garden column in the daily newspaper, and gives "Advice to Gardeners' in a daily radio broadcast. Senior Board Will Begin Lecture Series Soon The Evanston Senior board of the Infant Welfare society has sent out tickets for a series of lectures to be given in the ballroom of the home of M r s . George B . Dryden on successive Tuesday mornings at 10:30 o'clock. The first of these programs will feature music and will be presented by Rudolph Gans, October 21. Other programs will include international relations, October 28, A d l a i Stevenson; flower arrangement, November 4 M a r k L e e d ; G . B e r n a r d Shaw, November 11, Bergen E v a n s ; and book review, November 18, M r s . Sarah W Youngren. Members of the board living in North Shore towns are M r s William C. E n g e l of Wilmette, M r s . F r e d G . Gurle of Winnetka, M r s Clinton Merrick of Winnetka, M r s . George S. Milnor of Kenilworth, and M r s . Anan Raymond of Kenilworth. Wayne Girl Weds Donald, Maxwell aX Morning Service The Little Church by the Wayside in Wayne was the scene of the wedding of Miss M i r i a m Barton, daughter of M r . and M r s . Orville Clark Barton of Wayne, and Donald S. Maxwell, son of M r . and M r s . Donald H . Maxwell, 1414 Forest avenue, Wilmette. The service was read by the Rev. Richard Lee of Grace Episcopal church in Hinsdale Saturday morning, September 13. A brown dressmaker suit and matching hat were chosen by the bride for her wedding. With these she wore a corsage of green orchids Her sister, Jane, who served as her only attendant, was dressed in a suit ot a lighter shade of brown and had a matching hat. Her corsage was of \ ellow daisies. The church was decorated with autumn foliage, chrysanthemums, and gladioli. Dr. George Maxwell of Richmond, Va., brother of the bridegroom, served as best man. Out-of-town guests at the ceremony and the wedding breakfast which was held at Dunham Woods Riding club following the service included the bridegroom's parents; Mrs. Geo;rge Maxwell and son, K i m , of Richmond, sister-in-law and nephew of the bridegroom; and M r . and Mrs. Barret Hollister of Yellow Springs, Ohio, brother-in-law and sister of the bridegroom. Af;er a wedding trip to the West, M r . and M r s . Maxwell will go to Palo Alto, Calif, to re-enter Stanford university. M r s . Maxwell will be graduated in December and her husband will be a junior in the medical school. Reviewer Returns After Summer Away M r s . Florence Bourke Ellis will return to M i c h i g a n Shores club Tuesday, September 23, after a summer vacation, with a review of a current book at the special ladies' day prog r a m . M r s . E l l i s will give her review at 11:30, luncheon will be served at 12:30, and pivot bridge will be played in the m a i n lounge at 2 o'clock. This evening (Thursday) a dog training show by Oscar R. Franzen will be presented following the regular buffet dinner which is served from 6 to 8 o'clock. September bridge days announced recently by the club include progressive on September 16, and September 30, and duplicate on September 23 Another announcement made this week is of the opening of the club's bowling season September 22. The marriage of Miss Elizabeth Yntema and Donald Wesley Alfvin, both of Winnetka, was solemnized Saturday evening, September 6, in the Winnetka Congregational church. Dr. Samuel D. Harkness read the double ring service. Miss Yntema is the daughter of Mrs. van der Veen Yntema, 126 Fuller lane, Winnetka and Theodore Yntema of Chicago. Mr. Alfvin is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. W. Alfvin, 116 Fuller lane, Winnetka. (Du Bois--The Drake Photo) L a c e from her mother's wedding gown t r i m m e d the bride's longsleeved ivory satin dress. H e r long veil flowed from a Juliet cap fashioned of the same lace and she carried a bouquet fashioned of stephanotis arranged around a center of white orchids. Mrs. Donald Ross of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was the bride's matron of honor and the bridesmaids included Miss Beth Dovenmuehle, Miss J e a n Wooden, and Miss P a tricia Alfvin, sister of the bridegroom, all of Winnetka, and M r s . William Delbridge of St. Claire Shores, M i c h . They were gowned in aquamarine satin brocade bouffant dresses with matching headdresses. Their bouquets consisted of B e r m u d a lilies and rhododendron leaves. Mason Aldrich of Evanston was best m a n for M r . A l f v i n and the ushers included the bride's brother, John Yntema, M a s o n Gaffney, William Lundberg, John H . Piatt, J r . , and Burton Alfvin, all of Winnetka, and Douwe Y n t e m a of Waukegan. The bride's mother chose a longsleeved dinner gown of deep fuchsia crepe for the wedding and M r s . Alfvin was gowned in honey colored satin Both mothers wore orchid corsages. Following the ceremony, a reception was held at the Winnetka Woman's club. Mrs. Alfvin chose for her goingaway costume a royal blue gabardine suit, a feathered hat of the same shade, and black accessories. After a wedding trip to North Carolina, M r . and M r s . Alfvin will be at home at 1403 E a s t Stadium boulevard, A n n Arbor, M i c h . Out-of-town guests included M r . and Mrs William Delbridge, St. Claire Shores; M r . and M r s . Leonard Y n t e m a and daughter, M a r y Kate, of Waukegan; M r s . D . B . Yntema and Miss C l a r a Yntema of G r a n d Rapids; Dwight Yntema and Bruce von Leuwen of Holland, M i c h . ; M r . and M r s . Albert v a n Zoeren and children, Dorothy, P a u l , and Charles of Kalamazoo; and Mrs. John B a r b e r of Springfield. N.S. Group Will Sponsor Barn Dance September 20 Members of the North Shore Afternoon group of Alpha X i Delta sorority will meet for luncheon and a business meeting at the home of Mrs. H a r v e y Howard of Chicago today (Thursday). Asssisting the hostess will be M r s . R. K . Gilchrist of Chicago and M r s . Paul Broadhurst of Winnetka. Members of the board will hold a short business meeting before luncheon. Members of the board include M r s . A . L . Hodgson of Winnetka, M r s . B . M . Barrett of Wilmette, M r s . E a r l e Ballentine of Wilmete, M r s . Rollin Thompson of Winnetka, and M r s . P a u l Broadhurst of Winnetka. The delegates who attended the national convention in Canada will give their reports and an outline of the year's program will be made. WILL GIVE PROGRAM M r s . Eugene Selleck, known professionally as Margaret Selleck, 607 Ninth street, Wilmette, will give the first p r o g r a m of the season at M i l waukee's Suburban Shorewood Woman's club Tuesday, September 16. Her topic will be "In Historic Wisconsin." It was selected in honor of Wisconsin's statehood centennial which will be celebrated in 1948. MOTHER'S C L U B L U N C H E O N The luncheon at the Orrington hotel given by the Alpha Omicron P i sorority Mother's club on Thursday, September 18, at 1 o'clock will be the group's first meeting of the year. Plans for the coming season will be discussed at this time. The guest list will include M r s . R F L i n d rooth, M r s . C . J . Miller, and M r s . R. W . Wolfe, who are national officers in the sorority. Sweet Briar Breakfast Held in Winnetka Home The occasion for the breakfast party given F r i d a y morning, September 12, in the F r e d J . Duncombes' home, 97 Indian H i l l road, Winnetka, was a Sweet B r i a r college get-to-gether for freshman and present students. Miss B a r b a r a Duncombe, president of Sweet B r i a r ' s Chicago A l u m nae association, was the hostess. L o c a l girls, who will be spending their freshman year on the Virginia campus are Miss Denis Barnes, 1005 Chestnut avenue, Wilmette, and Miss Joan Widau of Northfield. Among the guests was Miss Joan McCarthy, 252 Walden drive, Glencoe. Ready to resume her E n g l i s h m a jor at Sweet B r i a r as a junior is Miss Fritzie Duncombe. Before the return-to-college deadline, Miss Betty Bergmann of 333 Sheridan road, Winnetka, gave a luncheon for a group of Smith college girls at her home. Relaxing in the garden after luncheon the photographer found the above group, from left to right--Miss Barbara Burns and Miss Alida Sherman of Winnetka, Miss Donna Smith of Kenilworth, and Miss Janice Schick of Highland Park. (Violet Wyld Photo) 56