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Highland Park Press, 7 Nov 1946, p. 1

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Clifton G. Speer Resigns Post As Scout Executive Vol. 36; No. 37 Shore Area Council Boy Scouts of America, will be extremely sorry to learn that the illness of scout executive, Clifton G. Speer, has caused him to request the Execuâ€" tive Board of the Council to be relieved of his duties as Scout Executive as of Oct. 31, 1946. luctance and deep regret has acâ€" ceded to Mr. Speer‘s request know ing that it is in the best interest to sever his active duties with the Council to enable him to reâ€" gain his heaith. MF. DPRCT MTC built a glorious record in his serâ€" vices as Scout Executive of the North Shore Area Council during glt.mpfl'h‘hhlb'fii us. He began his career as Scout Executive of the North Shore Area Council September 19, 1932. He came to the Council fully equipped for the job to be done with a splendid background of soâ€" cial and religious service and an excellent education. He is a graâ€" duate of Michigan State Normal mwmfl College with special work at the MWM.M is a graduate of the 30th National ‘Training School, Boy of mâ€"_“" â€"â€"ind-dedw ed 4 y.‘n' as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church years as personnel Director of the Kirsch Manufacturing Company of Sturgis, Michigan and 7 years as Deputy Regional Scout Execnâ€" tive on the Regional Seven Staff. During the 14 years in which and his family have resided in the mnccsaded in pniemngothe ‘Comen on a high plane in membership and other records and today the North st.umc.ndlujmslni-‘ cils of the 540 Councils in the United States. \ Under his leadership, the Counâ€" cil succeeded in eliminating a $9,000 indebtedness, in acquiring additiona} land for camping and in building up and beautifying the North Shore Area. Camp Maâ€"Kaâ€" Jaâ€"Wan. Among his friends will always be the thousands of Scouts, Cubs, Ind twands ot Seouting to which and friendsâ€"of to which he has endeared himself during these 14 years of service. The future plans of Mr. Speer are as yet indefinite beyond taking the necessary months for rest and reâ€" Planned By Servi November 13th * _ All of his friends join with the North Shore Area Council in wishâ€" future can bring. ‘The Service Mothers‘ Club will wuâ€";.rthvm-flh- zaar at 1:30 on Wednesjay afterâ€" noon, November 13th at the Y.W.â€" C.A. Aprons and various other articles will be sold, as well as baked goods. The proceeds will be -inz-nn-lnhhnh the itals. The public is invited to attend the party. Sixty boys from the Highland I&l-‘mlfi tended a boxing meet of the Cathâ€" olie part in the bouts. Lester Ball on Speaking Lester Ball, superintendent of schools, Dist. 108, left for Edmonâ€" â€".Atunarclâ€"fi.--'l"-' Oct. 28. . Balp will speak at during the next two weeks. His schedule will include two jJays at Coronation, Medicine Hat, Calgary district meetings each year instead of In a specially called meeting to Mr. Ball will return from Mr. where all took North eld of Lincoln School Presents Collegiate Music Assembly combined to present a collegiate school auditorium Oct. 24 under the direction of Miss Phelps and Mr. Viezbicke. . The song "Collegâ€" iate" and the pennant dance were composed for the occasion by Miss The plot, the scene of which was laid on the campus of "Shlevockee Tech," was written by the eighth grade class, under the chairmanâ€" ship of Anne Wales and Donald Carr. The words were written by David Schwartz. Solos and lead parts were carried by Mary Jardine, Margaret Anâ€" thony, _ Ann _ Morrissy, Richard Wales and Donald Carr. ‘The members of the Boys‘ Glee club are: Gordon Chalmers, Davâ€" id Cox, John Goodman, ‘Thomas Keogh, Donald May, Stanley Paâ€" genkopf, Steven Ross, Ronald Salâ€" yards, Barry Sturgis, Buddy Walâ€" ters, Lawrence Heap, Joe Alford, Donald Carr, Ramon Cimbalo, Jimâ€" my Donaldson, George Freeman, Tom Palmer, David Schwartz, Philip Seitz, Dick Wales, John Washburn, Arthur Buller, Sandy 300 onl Biveahrsat Pb ns B dharr in 1 -;: \W- Marjorie n, ‘The seventh and eighth grade members of the Girls‘ Glee club are Helen Barnes, _ Joan Cederborg, ‘Ann Curtis, Nancy Dalle Valle, Joâ€" anne Holden, Susan _ Lencioni, Nancy Smalley, Frances Tamblin, Geraldine Wilkinson. June Anderâ€" son, Margaret Anthony, Joan Bevâ€" ins. MaryLouise Dalle Valle, Joan ing, Mary Jardine, Catherine Lenâ€" cioni, Elizabeth ‘Lewis, Ann Morâ€" rissy, Fredrica Skidmore, â€" Janis Wessling, Rita Witte, Ellen Chapâ€" lin. Girls‘ Glee club and dancing group are: Winona Bell, Jeanne Donaldâ€" son, Naney Lewis, Barbara ‘Norâ€" den. Mary Jo Perreault, â€" Meta Schwartz. Diane Singer, Suzanne Stunkel, Judith Watkins and Alice Patsy Witten, John Scornavacco, Cathy Maxwell, Denny Victor; seeâ€" ond grade, Carolyn Stunkel, Pat Barker; third grade, Ted Murray, John Guentz; fourth grade, Clarâ€" ence Anthony, Julie Patton. Guests for the occasion were Braeside school eighth grade with faculty . members Miss Vanden Broeck and Mr. Kubalek. A simiâ€" lar type of program is to be preâ€" wented at Braeside school during the regular assembly period on Present Play At Woman‘s Club, November 12th ‘The Deerfield Stagers will preâ€" sent a Sâ€"act mystery play, entitled "Hawk Island", writen by Howâ€" ard Irving Young, at the Woman‘s Club on ‘Tuesday, November 12, at 8:15. Directing the play and playing one of the leading doles is Jim ‘Tibbets, who received his dramatic training at Lake Forest college. He has made appearances with the Lower players and with the Thresâ€" hold players. His present responsiâ€" bility and interest is in directing plays, but owing to the shortage Of players he takes a prominent part in Hawk Island. The play is sponsored by the drama department of the Woman‘s club which is headed by Mrs. Leâ€" land Waite of Deeyfield. Flks Award Prizes For Costumes At At the Halloween party given by the Elks club last Saturday evening, prizes were awarded for the three types of costumes. Mrs. ‘Tom Strenger was honored for exhibiting the most beautiful cosâ€" tume, representing the Gay Nineâ€" ties period; Mra, James Berube, dressed as a clown, was pronounâ€" ced the funniest, and the costame of Mrs. Carl representâ€" I..#r.m the The Lincoln school music and The Higbland Park Press Sixtk grade â€" members of the To ’N.S.Cil’uu-Com'ihe ‘To Hear Carey McWilliams Carey McWilliams, nationally known authority on racial and minority problems, will give a free public lecture under the sponsorâ€" ship of the North Shore Citizens committee Monday night, Nov. 11, at 8:15, in the New Trier high school auditorium, Winnetka, â€" His topic will be Community Action in the Field of Race Relations. Twice awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, McWilliams is an editor of Nation magazine, has contributed to Harper‘s, Atlantic, Saturday Review of Literature, New Republic and others, and has been twice on the Chicago Round ‘Table and four times on the Town Meeting of the Air, His books inâ€" clude Factories in the Ficld, Prejuâ€" dice, Brothers Under the Skin, and I1 Fares the Land. ‘The sponsoring group, North formed to protest distribution of on the North Shore, and desecraâ€" tion of the Glencoe Temple. Memâ€" bership is open to all North Shore residents. Quiz Program Scheduled At Elm Place School November 14th Highland Park, Hlinois, Thursday, November 7, 1946 The book fair at Elm _ Place school will have a quiz program on ‘Thursday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. ‘This will take the place of the regâ€" ular Friday assembly.~ It will be a parentâ€"kid quiz program held in the auditorium of the school. Parâ€" ent participation in the quiz will be entirely voluntary, so if you wish you may listen"to your neigh bor miss the question instead of er souls will complete against the children of Elm Place school. their youngsters‘ room will qualiâ€" ty for a prize. The room with the best parent representation will win this prize. While only one parent per child will count in each room that same parent may count once for each child in a different English Professor to Address North Shore Catholic Women ~ Mary E. Carroll, assistant proâ€" fessor of English at Barat college in Lake Forest will be the program speaker at the second . regular meeting of the North Shore Cathoâ€" lc Woman‘s league. . The meetâ€" ing, on ‘Tuesday, Nov. 12, in the Winnetka Community House, will Ibrdfllfl'fltuuuu- by the Rt. Rev. Magr. Reynold Hilâ€" before and after the quiz program, Miss Carroll, whose topic will be "The Catholic Novel," received her master‘s degree at Radcliffe, and ummmnnwfi- m-‘wum Hostesses for the tea following the program will be Mrs. William C. O‘Connor and Mrs. Leo C. Doâ€" ran of Wilmette, and Mrs. Thomas Leahy and Mrs. Earl Redding of G.OP. is ended â€" the donkey is out â€"â€" the clephant isin. _ The only task left now is to gathor up the loose ends and broken picces of this country‘s longâ€"suffering voters guessed right this time. THE AWAKENING 1§â€"year nightmare for & DA;[IICE . â€" The bravâ€" "LORD GOD OF HOSTS, BE WITH US YETâ€" LEST WE FORGET! LEST WE FORGET!" NOVEMBER 11 School Plans Bazaar Thomas More Book Shop will furâ€" nish the books to be displayed, and doors will be open from 9 a. m. to 3:80 except on Wednesday November 13, when there will be an evening showing â€" starting at 7:30 p. m., giving the fathers an opportunity to purchase their Christmas gift books early. An inâ€" vitation is extended to every memâ€" ber of the school and parish to visit the display., The Lawrence N. Daleiden Co. will supply a display of the very latest in Christmas â€" cards. < Mr. Kirk D. Holland, Sales manager of Britannica Junior, will visit school Mothers‘ Guild will sponâ€" sor their first book bazaar, Novâ€" ember 12, 13, 14 and 15, in the first floor hall of the.school. The the school on Thursday to talk to the students on the value of reâ€" ference books and their ‘use. He will also be present on Wednesâ€" day night to talk to parents about Britannica. Chairman of the bazaar is Mrs. Clayton Lundquist, and Mrs. Thomas B. Hart is coâ€"chairman. Mrs. Tom Clark is chairman of publicity. â€" teen, Carl Arens, Sam Barnardi, Tom Clark, W. Curratto, Joe Demâ€" : Committee to assist with the sales are Mesdames Walter Amsâ€" LeClerq, James McClellan, Wm. McDonald, Thos. Morren, F. Nosâ€" ek, Edward Ohlwein, Robt. O‘Leaâ€" ry, Walter Parker, Joseph Tomei High School Team Honored By Chamber Members of the varsity High School football team, along with the conches, will be guests of the Highland Park Chamber of Comâ€" merce on the evening of Twesday, November 12th, at the Sunset Valley Club. It has been the annual custom of the Chamber of Commerce to guests, and the program, devoted entirely to football, will feature Mr. Payseur, Athletic Director at Northwestern University. Mr. Payseur is an excellent show a film of one of the Northâ€" western games. The popular Wildâ€" eats, incidentally, have an outâ€" standing team this year and sufâ€" fered their first defeat last Satâ€" urday when they were dropped from Big Nine leadership by a surâ€" prising 39â€"27 upset administered by a revived Ohio State team. Funcral services were held toâ€" day (Thursday) in Belvidere for Mrs. Carrie McCracken Green of County Line road, former wellâ€" known tearoom proprietor in Highâ€" land Park. She passed away on Monday in the Highland Park hosâ€" Former Tearoom Hostess Is Taken by Death Green operated two tearooms one in Highland Park and one in Lake Fotest. _ Both were called "The She is survived by her mother, I'h.cl-nm&;uflfi;_ r one sister, Mrs. David Christie Gleneoe, and three brothers, Fred of Lake Forest, Harry of Casper, Wyo., and Tracy of Cheyenne, Interment was made at Mazoâ€" manic, ‘Wis. _ Memorial services Wyo wil be. held later in Highland For more than 20 yeears Mrs. â€"Kiru®o late Conception Art Dept. Of Woman‘s Club To Sponsor Exhibit Many New Books Available For Ravinia Book Fair _ ‘The Ravinia school book fair, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Al. vin H. Baum will be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 18, 19 and 20, from 8:30 to 5, and on Tuesday evening from 7 to 10 in the Village House. The fair is under the auspices of the Ravinia school PTA and all proceeds will be used to buy addiâ€" tional books for the school library. It is an excellent opportunity for anyone to add to the school libraâ€" ry while adding to his own library According to Mrs. Arthur Emerâ€" son of the Gift Corner, who will supply the books for the fair, there are now available not only many attractive new books for children and adults, but for the first time since the war, . well bound, reasonably priced editions of the classics, Among the new books for very young children are "Johnny and the Monarch," "Adâ€" wentures for Beginners," and "Chicken Little Counts to Ten," written by Margaret Friskey and ilustrated by Katherine Evans. Miss Evans will be present at the fair on Tuesday evening to autoâ€" graph these books and to display some of her original illustrations. The "Babar" books are again availâ€" able and a beautiful new book has just been published by the D‘â€" | Autaires called ‘"Pocahontas." For older children _ there is "Smokey" and also "Bright Anâ€" gel," a new D‘Angeli book. Adults as well as older children will probâ€" ably be interested in "The Chicago Cubs." a recent â€" history of the baseball team, "Green Grass of Wyoming" by the author of "Thunderhead" and "My Friend tory of Nonsense"â€"writen by Berâ€" gen Evans. _ Mr. Evans will be present Tuesday evening to autoâ€" graph his book and to meet the book fair guests informally. Besides these books and a wide selection of ‘old favorites, . there will also be encyclopedias _ for sale. Every one is urged to drop in during the hours the fair is Yep, Yes, the name is spelled NORTHMORE, because the comâ€" pany is named in honor of the inventor of the product, Whitt Northmore Schultz. In case you don‘t know what this is all about, turn to page 3, where you will find a description of the Master Key, ‘a handy kitâ€" chen gadget dreamed up by Whitt, himself. At latest reports supply is having a hard time to keep up with demand. Trinity Epi 1 Churc} I;T”WM“&& A rummage sale will be held at the Trinity Episcopal church, 355 Laure] avenue, on Wednesday evening, November 20, from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and Thursday, Novâ€" ember 21, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Host To Football Teams host to the Ohio State â€" football team, for a rest period preceding their Saturday game with Northâ€" western univérsity. Early on Satâ€" urday, they used the high school athletic field for a preliminary On November 8 the Northwestâ€" ern football team will put up at the Moraine for a rest preparaâ€" tory to playing Notre Dame on November. 9, and will register there again on November 22, preâ€" ceding their game with Illinois on the 24th. * Methodist Church Sponsors Annual Bazaar, Dinner The W.8.C.S. of the Highland Parkâ€"Highwood Methodist church will sponsor the annual bazaar and turkey dinneer, Wednesday, Nov. 13th at the church on Lauretta placeâ€" and North ave., thru the afternoon and evening. Mrs. R. Clyde Cameron and Mrs, W. Mu-lhnmdh uun.mwmucmq is in charge of ticket sales. public is invited. Serving will gin at 5:80 p.m. Last ‘weekâ€"end <the Moraine the members and friends of the Highland Park Woman‘s Club will have ample time to enjoy the art exhibit arranged for by the chairâ€" man of the Art Department, Mrs. James P. Moore. The work was done by members ottbOxBamea:Mby painters at the Ox Summer School of Painting, ! Smugatuck, Michigan. This is one of the Chiâ€" cago Art Institute schools, and is directed by Francis Chapin, Chiâ€" of water colors, oils and lithoâ€" graphs, represents work done in and around Saugatuck, by about 12 of the group members. All work shown was first approved by Francis Chapin; George Buehr, painter of distinction who for years has taught and lectured at the Art Institute, and is also a member of the Saugatuck Sumâ€" mer School faculty; and Robert von Neumann, one of the most popular <instructors on both the winter and summer faculties of the Art Institute . schools, and widely known for his paintings of the sea and the Great Lakes. personally supervised by Mrs. Gegrp Buchr (Margo Hoff). Two of the large paintings are by Tom Deitrich, well known Amâ€" erican water colorist, who has work in the permanent collections at the Art Institute and other imâ€" portant galleries, and has taken awards in International water colâ€" or competitions. Another artist, Mary Gehr, Chiâ€" cago illustrator of children‘s books, is also represented by a pair of charming lithographs of * ol Webere a poonnes ip oikages Al We , a ter now sfter serving in the U.S. army for five years, most of which was spent in the hdfiem fll-hr: operations, is two wa eolors and a }ithograph, Angela von Neumann, daughter of Robert von Neumann, well known Wisconsin artist; and Sally Michiko Iwami from Hawaii, and Elaine Pappas, both scholarâ€" ship students at the Art Institute, have cil paintings in the show. Jo 19793nup ~‘uregsuaddy g-imat Chicago architect James F. Eppenstein, are represented by water colors, a drawing.and an On Sunday, November 17, from three to five p.m., a recéption tea will be held at the Highland Park Woman‘s Club, when club memâ€" bers may meet the artists who are o:hlbi:fi.dl‘uvihfiom {have also ho Ch;nmotfi artists as Francis : Pen, Michael Ursulescu, Robert von Neumann, Margo Hoff, Geoâ€" rge Buehr, Max Kahn, Eleanor Coen, Hubert Ropp, Rudoiph Inâ€" gerle, and ‘Frank Peyraud. Of Nuremberg Trial Auhh-rqulndhmnufing of November 11, at the Sunset Club, members of the Kiwanis Association, He ‘will be the guest c'lmlr. Gfld?&nu-m, and speak on Nuremberg trial portions of which he attended. Mrs. A. G. List Hostess To Garden Club During the month of November, Mrs. A. G. List of 2182 Dell Place will open her home for the November meating of the Ravinia Garden Club on Friday, the 8th, at 2 o‘clock, Coâ€"hostesses for the afternoon are Mesdames E. E. Leonard, James Barton, G. J. Freâ€" linger, and George Hadlock. ’Hliplkilin.lr.,n_m flotist, who is the fifth generation of his family to work with flowers, will taik on "The Modern Trend in Floral Arrangement". Emblem Club to Hold A 5c a copy; $1.50 a year The exhibition,â€"which censisté Mrs. Ruth Bowden will be hosâ€" tess to the Emblem club, Novemâ€" ber 18, at 1 p.m. in the Elks Hall, at which time plans will be comâ€" pleted for a nmmmuhh: held November 14 and 15 at Elks Hall. Doors will be open from OhO:thru,ai‘l. Angie Mitchell, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, with her coâ€"chairman, Mrs. A-z ‘mvmhnehtl-oth

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