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Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 12

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BROOKLYN LIFE Mr. Henry Harbison Miller of 617 McDonough Street has been appointed Art Editor of the Scarlet Brew at St. Lawrence. Miss Katherine Renwick of 69 South Oxford Street has been chosen a member of the Senior basketball team at Connecticut College. She attended the recent Service League Tea Dance at the College.

Mr. George Pease of 184 Prospect Park West is a candidate for the baseball team at Columbia. Mr. John S. Grover of 540 Ocean Avenue has entered the competition for the position of business manager of Princeton's famous Triangle Club.

Miss Lois W. Beach of Elmhurst, L. a member of the Senior Class at Mt. Holyoke, was the contralto at the first of the annual student recitals at Mt. Holyoke on February 12th.

Mr. Milton J. Goell of 1443 Carroll Street is named as one of the honor students at Harvard. He is now in his Junior year. Mr.

Sidney Victor Smith of 30 Herkimer Street was Toastmaster at Amherst's Sabrina banquet last week. The even classmen eluded the odd classes and got safely away to New Haven where the banquet was held in the presence of the goddess Sabrina at the Hotel Taft. Miss Sniffen's Wedding The wedding of Miss Phoebe Eloise Sniffen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S.

Sniffen, of 823 East Twentysecond Street, and Mr. Clifford J. Morley, of 23 St. Francis Place, will take place in the Clinton Avenue Congregational Church at 8:30 o'clock on April 11th. Dr.

S. Parkes Cadman will perform the ceremony and the reception will be held immediately after at the Hotel Bossert. The complete list of the bridal party is as follows: Miss Alice Heath, maid of honor, and Miss Poly Hodges, Miss Dorothy Otto, Mrs. Marie McNamara and Mrs. Margaret Lyons, bridesmaids.

Elsa Greason will be flower girl. Mr. Elbert F. Morley will be best man for his brother and the ushers will be the Messrs. Harry Grattan, Albert Manuel, Lester Smith and Clay Fredericks.

Annual Luncheon of Adelphi Alumnae Association About one hundred twenty-five alumnae attended the annual luncheon of the Adelphi College Alumnae Association, which was held in the East Ball Room of the Hotel Astor, Manhattan, on Saturday, February, 16th. The Class of 1901 was the oldest class represented. The toastmistress was Mrs. John C. Hennessy, president of the Association.

Dr. Henry Dana, a grandson of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, spoke on "Luigi Pirandello and His Plays." The president of Adelphi, Dr. F. D. Blodgett, also spoke.

At the speakers' table sat ex-presidents of the Association, Miss Florence Bole, Miss Meta Schutze and Mrs. Philip Thompson. MISS MARIE CONSIGLIO SAVINO Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Savino, of 244 Carroll Street, whose engagement to Dr.

Pasquale Joseph Imperato, a member of the staff of the Peck Memorial Hospital, was recently announced. The committee in charge was headed by Miss Edwina Schmitt. Her assistants were Mrs. Charles Walden, Mrs. William Mackenzie, Miss Macon Miller, Miss Susan Hay, Miss Caroline Brenner and Miss Inez Pando.

Learning that Dr. Charles H. Levermore, former president of Adelphi, was addressing the Foreign Relations Committee in the Hotel Astor, an invitation was extended him to come up, but the luncheon adjourned before he was able to do so. His former pupils gathered around him in the lobby, however, and held an informal reception, congratulating him on winning the American Peace Award. Miss Ethelyn Fairchild's Wedding A rainbow wedding was that of Miss Ethelyn Patterson Fairchild, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Kenyon Fairchild to Mr. George Ellis Quimby, which took place in the Flatbush Congregational Church on the evening of Thursday, February 14th. The church was decorated with Easter lilies and Southern smilax, and the Rev. Lewis T.

Reed officiated. The bride's gown was of white satin brocaded with silver. She wore her mother's wedding veil, trimmed with lace orange blossoms. The maid of honor, Miss Dorothy Brown, was gowned in green brocaded chiffon and carried pink roses. The bridesmaids, Miss Julia Doughty, Miss Evelyn Parker, Mrs.

Wesley C. Miller and Mrs. Ellis Sturgis Quimby of Pelhamwood, wore gowns in rainbow effect with side trains, and carried heart shaped bouquets of rainbow sweet peas. Mr. Quimby, who is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Lockwood Quimby, had as his. best man Mr. Ellis Sturgis Quimby of Pelhamwood. The ushers were the Messrs.

C. Ronald Mather, of Montclair, N. Emin Hassan, Henry J. Benisch and Wesley C. Miller.

A reecption was held at the bride's home, 484 East Seventeenth Street, which was decorated in keeping with the rainbow color scheme of the bridesmaids' gowns. Woodman Choral Club On Thursday afternoon, February 14th, the Woodman Choral Club gave an afternoon of music at the Brooklyn Woman's Club. Three of the choral members sang, Mrs. Charity Foster, Mrs. William A.

Smith and Mrs. R. Mitchell, the latter featuring Mr. Woodman's songs. Mrs.

Philip Hunt played two groups of violin selections while Miss Bertha Feitner contributed piano soli. A feature of the afternoon was an interesting talk on "Music Around the World" by Mrs. Louis Vaughn Hubbard of Upper Montclair. Following the musicale, tea was served. Receiving the members and their guests were Miss Gertrude Corwin, president, Mrs.

William C. Newman, vice-president Mrs. Louis Vaughn Hubbard, Mrs. R. Huntington Woodman and Mr.

R. Huntington Woodman, the musical director of the club. Among those present were Mrs. Dwight H. Corwin, Mrs.

George H. Pettit, Mrs. Edward C. Platt, Miss Edna Taylor, Mrs. Henry A.

Price, Mrs. Harold I. Small, Mrs. R. Edson Doolittle, Miss Julia Ring, Mrs.

Glenn C. Pettit, Mrs. Arthur M. Howe, Mrs. John Farrar, Mrs.

A. C. Kraetzer, Mrs. E. Clifford Place, Mrs.

A. E. Fraser, Mrs. Louis E. Strong, Mrs.

J. S. Comstock, Mrs. Henry Davenport and Mrs. Havens B.

Bayles, Box Holders at Children's Museum Benefit The box holders at the successful benefit concert of the Mundell Choral Club for the Children's Museum, held in the Opera House of the Academy of Music on the evening of Thursday, February 14th, were as follows: In Mrs. Dean C. Osborn's box were Mr. and Mrs. James M.

Fawcett, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fawcett, Mrs.

C. T. Frohme. In Mrs. Charles A.

Decker's box were Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hunter, Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Lowthrop, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Benton, Mr. Lowell Decker and Mr. Charles A.

Decker. The Froebel box was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Norman P. Heffley, Mr.

and Mrs. Roland Taylor, Mrs. Walter D. Munson and Judge and Mrs. John R.

Farrar. Mrs. Henry C. Badgley's box were Mr. and Mrs.

Raymond F. Barnes, Dr. and Mrs. Walter C. Riggs, Mr.

and Mrs. Claude V. Pallister and Mr. and Mrs. Henry C.

Badgley. In Mrs. Joseph Spatt's box were Dr. and Mrs. Havens Brewster Bayles, Miss Eva Potter and Mr.

and Mrs. Spatt. The Urban box was occupied by Dr. E. Clifford Place, Mr.

and Mrs. David Porter, Mr. and Mrs. William M. Fisher and Mrs.

Charles T. Estabrook. In the Chiropean box were Mrs. Elmore McIntosh, Mrs. William Mundell, Judge and Mrs.

Edgar P. Fos- Photo by Campbell MISS RUTH DANGLER Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Dangler, of 441 Willoughby Avenue, who is a member of the Class of 1925 at Wellesley.

ter, Dr. and Mrs. Frank K. Perkins, Mrs. Emma Reichmann and Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Firth. The staff of the Children's Museum occupied Mrs. William M. Calder's box; Miss Anna Billings Gallup, Dorothy E.

Goerz, Miss Edith Mayne, Miss May Reeve and Miss Miriam S. Draper. Miss Valentine Engaged Mrs. David Henry Valentine of Westfield, N. formerly of Brooklyn, announces the engagement of her daughter, Miss Florence M.

Valentine, to Mr. George William Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Young of Westfield. Junior Dance at Heights Casino In the lounge of the Heights Casino last Friday evening, February 15th, the sub-debs of Brooklyn were given a dance by the Board of Governors.

Music was furnished by an orchestra of Columbia University men under the direction of Charles Leavitt. Among those dancing were the Misses Arvilla Hammitt, Eileen Cantwell, Alexandra Downs, Mary Dinon Francis, Constance Boody, Elizabeth Gue, Beatrice Morse Cantwell, Elizabeth Rhoades, Virginia Gibbs, Margaret Snedeker, Elizabeth Beardsley, Theodora Sohst, Katherine Walkley, Margaret Watt, Betty Garvin, Priscilla Paine, Eleanor Folger, Elizabeth Darwin, Carolyn Shipman, Dorothy Jackson, and the Messrs. Norman C. Hilborn, Leonard B. Leeming, Campbell Good, Gerard S.

'Smith, Edward J. Smith, Robert Kelly, Charles Lehrenkrauss, Herbert Hilborn, Edwin Cornehlsen, Robert Bergen, Arthur Douglass, Robert Watt, Allen Middleton, Lefferts Mendes, Donald Ross, Frank S. Gaines, Elmer Cothrell, William Meadon, John Bauer, Edward W. Rider, John Van Vranken, Edward Bergen, John J. Lane, Paul Pilcher, Edward Gray, Lee Boynton, Richard Warbasse and Arthur Newcomb.

Mr. Jerome E. Cook to Return to Brooklyn Mr. Jerome E. Cook, who has been away from Brooklyn for over three years, having lived for the last two and a half years in Springfield, expects shortly to return to Brooklyn.

He will live with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Cook, at their home, 47 Sidney Place.

Meeting of the Froebel Society The regular monthly meeting of the Froebel Society of Brooklyn was held at the Brooklyn Woman's Club, Monday, February 4th, Mrs. John R. Farrar, president, presiding. The meeting was in charge of the Home Committee of which Mrs. Otto Drandt is chairman, and the following program was presented: A Group of Songs by Miss.

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