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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 16 Jun 1928, p. 61

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60 WINNETKA TALK June 16, 1928 N. U. Grads Flock to Alumni Day Festivities Fifteen hundred Northwestern uni- versity graduates are expected at the annual Alumni day festivities on the Evanston campus this Saturday, ac- cording to Dr. John Cadman, chairman of the committee in charge. Reports indicate an unusually large out-of-town attendance, several mid-western alum- ni clubs sending representatives. Horace Goodrich, graduate with the class of 1860, son of Grant Goodrich, one of the founders of the university, will probably lead the grand parade which is scheduled to start at 12:30, leading from University place to Pat- ten gymnasium. The annual luncheon, featured by revived class rivalries, will be held this year in the gymnasium. The afternoon's program includes a moving picture show, depicting student life at the university during the past year, a baseball game, and the annual all-university dinner, to be held at the Orrington hotel at 6 p. m. Several classes and fraternities are arranging for reunions at the same hour. 'The Medical school will hold alumni clinics in the War Memorinl building on McKinlock campus. Chi- cago, from 10 to 12 a. m., and from 2 to 4 p. m. The School of Music alumni will dine at the North Shore hotel at 6 p. m. Alumni of the School of Speech will meet in Annie Mav Swift hall at p. m,, have their annual suobner there at 6 0. m. and at 7:30 attend the Playshop drama, "The TTndercurrent" written bv Mrs. Fay Ehlert, North- western student. The Associate Alumnae are invitine alumni and friends of the university to a garden party to he held from 4 to Dp. m. on the South campus. President Walter Dill Scott's annual recention to the alumni will be held in Patten gymnasium from 9 to 11 p. m. ite Give Luncheon For Skokie Teachers, Leaving Teachers of the Skokie school who will not return next year were guests of the faculty of the school at a lunch- eon held in the school cafeteria Thurs- day noon. Following is a brief account of the plans of the non-returning teachers: : Miss Inez Pomeroy, teacher of Eng- lish and social problems, is to be mar- ried this summer. Mrs. Alice Larkin, biology instruc- tor, will be principal of a school for widows and orphans near Wheeling. Frank Bailey, science instructor, will study for his doctor's degree at the University of Chicago. E. S. Ostergren, manual training in- structor, will be superintendent of the school at Thompson Falls, Mont. W. J. Denman, band instructor, has accepted a similar position in a Detroit suburb. ~ Miss Rebecca Mitchell, sixth grade teacher, and Miss Hazel Wissman, who has been in charge of the school cafe- teria, have made no definite plans. Calvary Choir Concert To be Given June 21 On Thursday evenin , June 21, at 8:15, in Kimball hall, re hl Choir of the Calvary Presbyterian church of Chicago will give a concert of sacred and secular choral numbers that will be well worth the attention of music lovers. The choir is under the per- sonal direction of Haydn Owens, the well-known leader of Chicago's famous Havdn Choral society. The program will include numbers by the old masters, of church music, modern Russian and American composers. As an added feature of the program, Rollin Pease will sing a number of songs. Proposed New "AA" Residential Zone (3 ES S = = De, = << § SHonrE Smoot Area bounded by Hill road, Church road and south limits of Winnetka, be re-zoned to "AA" residence district. Commission on Zoning, at the Council chamber at the Village hall, Monday A public hearing on the question and area shown in black, proposed to was conducted before the Winnetka evening. Kenilworth Boys to Have Busy Season of Camping Boys of the Joseph Sears school at Kenilworth, who have just completed a successful season of athletic activi- ties under the direction of Bob Town- ley, will have opportunity for a full program of outdoor summer work be- fore the opening of the football season next fall. Eighteen of the boys will leave with Mr. Townley, July 5, on a special train bound for Owakonze, Ontario, in the Canadian wilds, where they will spend the summer at "Duke" Child's camp. "Duke," who for many years has been head of the athletic department at New Trier Township high school, maintains the summer camp for north shore boys. About 100 of them at- tend each year. The Kenilworth boys who will go to the camp with Bob Townley in three weeks are: David Skillin, Paul Cornell, Jack Mervis, Bobby Berger, Tom Hildebrandt, Jack Sinding, George Benson, Jack O'Connor, George Woodland, Bill Timmins, Tom Smith, Murrey MacLeod, Tom White, Elwood Mons, Jack Stebbins, Tom Sinding, Bob Richardson, and Bob Joslin. In addition to the eighteen boys who are going to the Canadian camp, five other boys will leave June 25 for Camp Checaugau, the north shore Boy Scouts' camp. The following Kenilworth Scouts will go: George Manlove, James Lang, Frank Williams, Claudie Hamilton, and Paul Gilbert. Those boys who are unable to go to one of the camps already mentioned will have opportunity to spend a day or a week at Camp North Shore, where Ted Grant, assistant Scout executive for the north shore, is in charge. Here all boys will have op- portunity to take the various Scout tests. The plan is to have all Kenilworth "boys taking part in healthful outdoor activities during the summer months. The girls are not to be neglected. Many of them will attend the Girls' Scout and outing camps in Wisconsin and Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra S. Taylor, who, with their children, have been occupy- ing the home of Mrs. Frank Fuller at 98 Church road, are moving to 1235 Astor street, Chicago, Mrs. Taylor is motor- ing east with her children in July and will spend the summer in Nantucket, Mass. Mrs. Fuller is returning to Winnetka about June 15. She has spent the winter in Europe. oR a Miss Helen Aldrich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Aldrich of 394 Chestnut street, returned to her home last week from Ferry hall where she has studied this winter. She brought with her, Miss Harriett Griffiths, who also attends Ferry hall. Miss Griffiths stayed here a few days and then both girls went into Chicago to be with Miss Griffiths' family. --0-- Mrs. Thomas Coyne of Kenilworth :s entertaining her luncheon and sewing club this afternoon at her home on Melrose avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Coyne are planning a possible trip to the Wisconsin woods in the near future. Announce Week-End Golf Events at Wilmette Club The first round of 18 holes in the grounds committee trophy tournament having been played at Wilmette Golf club, the qualifying rounds in classes A and B sports and pastimes trophy tournament will be played at the Wil- mette Golf club this Saturday. Six- teen are to qualify. The second round of the directors' trophy, the final round of the inauguration tournament, and the first round of the upper and lower floor inauguration event which will also be for classes C and D is to be played Sunday at the Wilmette Golf club. The low net medal event will be another feature. Alyce Carey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Carey, 883 Cak street, re- turned home Thursday from the Osteo- pathic hospital where she has been seriously ill for the past month. i Richard Goble, 511 Ash street, re- turned home from Boston on June 8. He was graduated from the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology on June 5. PL John Ritchie of 565 Arbor Vitae road is motoring east this week to attend his twentieth reunion at Har- vard., Mrs. Ritchie and her father will accompany him east. --_---- Mrs. J. P. Gillies, 1148 Oakley street, and her three children, Miss Betty, Master Jimmie, and Miss Ruth, left yesterday to spend two months at the IXI, ranch in Dayton, Wyo.

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