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Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 10

Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society from Brooklyn, New York • Page 10

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BROOKLYN LIFE 10 Fries Ruth Glass, Dorothy Recknagel and Suzanne Pretz. Miss Constance is vice regent of the George Washington Junior Chapter of the Long Island State Society, Daughters of the Revolution. Members of the. two families who were present from outside of Ithaca were Mr. and Mrs.

Frank David Boynton, of Detroit, Mr. and Paul White-Boynton, of Syracuse, N. Y. Mr. Julius Lehren-.

krauss, father of the groom Mr. Charles Lehrenkrauss, cousin of the groom; Miss Manneck.1 Mr. Julian Manneck and- Mrs, Elise Goger, all of Brooklyn. Payne's "Current Topics" Inspiration does not come at, 'our bidding. We all have our on and off days; but Thursday morning, February 5th, was certainly one.

of Mrs. Jessica Lozier, Payne's (J race Church "Free Kindergarten Gives Bridge Tickets at $1.25 are out for a' bridge and Mah Jongg party for the benefit of the Free Kindergarten of Grace Church-on-the-Heights, at the Hotel -St. George on Thursday. February 19th, at two-thirty P. M.

Returns are to be made to Miss Stella M. Blatchford, 178 Columbia Heights. The officers of the Grace Church Free Kindergarten are the Rev. Francis Little, president Miss Mary Chaun cey, vice-president; -Mrs. John Van Buren Thayer, corresponding secre'ary; Miss Stella Blatchford, recotd-ing secretary, and Mrs.

Robert Low Pierrepont, treasurer. The kindergartner is Miss Mae J. Shea; and the Board of Managers comprises Miss Emma', B. Lewis, Mrs. George Chauncey, Francis Little, Miss Margaret C.

Hunter, Mrs, William Harmon. Mrs. John Talmadge, Miss Harriet Sharped Mr s. Louis. H.

Mayr Mrs. Robert W. Bush, Mrs. Charles E. Potts, Mrs.

Norman Elliott, Mrs. Harold Johnson, Mrs. Marion' Evans and Mrs. Elizabeth Hotchkiss. months feeling ashamed of our.

Congress, of the working' 'out of-our prohibition law, or of our Mayor Hylan, and of what not more, to hear a woman with the knowledge Mrs. Payne has, speak so splendidly of our Country and our President and our Her large audience felt quite cheered as it wended its, way home, or to the Field Club sas the case might After making some about the recent remarkable celestial performance, the she spoke with feeling about the bravery of the men and dogs that -carried the serum? to Nomei Alaska. She said their names should not be forgotten, Leonard Sepalla," Kasson and his dog Balto, Shannon, Eskimo Pete, Olson and Rohn, and to these brave ones should be added the names worked so courageously in the stricken town. From the foregoing thrilling topics Mrs. Payne went to the subjects of the day, "The Obstinate Irreconcilables, 'The Isle of Pines," "America in the Opium Conference" and "Deputy vs.

Senator Borah." Among those in, the audience were, Mrs. Edwin Buchanan, Mrs. Alfred F. Mrs. Frank." Curtis HcVirkrnP Mr'PiiH Prentiss Mrs.

Tacnb H. Schaffer. Bridge to Benefit Organ Fund The Women's Alliance of the Brooklyn Society of the New Church the New Jerusalem. Clark Street and Monroe' will "give a bridge party in the Neighborhood Club Room, 184-Clark Street, on Thursday afternoon February 19th, at 2 :30 PM. The money made by the party will go into? the Organ Fund.

A few of those interested in' getting up the bridge are: Mrs. ET Lawrence Mrs. Clark Burnharcu Mrs-William Spelman, Mrs. F. jQVLewis and Mrs.

Awbrey N. Shaw." Miss Susan Read. Mrs. Ralph W. Booth Mrs: James Radcliffe, Mrs.

Wilbur Gammi, Mrs. Henry. Nash Read, Mrs. Sylvester Blood, Mrs. Miles.

Charlock, Mrs. Frederic Kingsland Middlebrook, Miss Cornelia Henshaw, Mrs. Harry Bennett; Mrs. Charles Edward Armstrong, fr Arthur RpllnwR. Mrs.

M. Clark and Mrs. D. L. Fletcher, Photo by Sarony MISS MARION CLARK Program girl for the very successful Omega Revue at the Academy Wednesday Statistics of Princeton, 1028 Of the 642 members of the Freshman class at Princeton, 279 have fathers who are college graduates, while the mothers of ninety-seven have college diplomas.

Of the 279 fathers, 66 came from Princeton and the re- mainder from 83 different colleges universities. The other colleges follow, with Columbia, 28; Pennsylvania, 15; and Harvard 7. Only two Yale fatheis sent their sons to Princeton. Business leads the list of the occupations of the fathers with 130, while manufacturing follows with 74. The law is a close third with 72 bankers," brokers and physicians numbering 54, 27 and 27 respectively.

The class has 276 Episcopalians, the Presbyterians being second with 200. One Freshman professed himself to be an February 26, 1906, is the class birthday, the statistics show. At time of entrance the class averaged 18 years, 2 months and 26 days which makes Princeton 1928 almost four months younger than was the class, that entered the year before. One hundred arid one members are graduates of public high schools. The remainder come from preparatory and private schools.

Brooklyn ranks near the top with the number of representatives-in the class. Mrs, Pretz's Bridge for Her Daughter Mrs. Frederick H. Pretz, of 326 East Seventeenth Street, entertained at bridge on Saturday afternoon, February 14th, for her daughter, Miss Constance Landon Pretz. Those playing were; the Misses Charlotte O'Mara, Alice Parker, Phyliss Williams, Florence Eastmonde, Janet Niebrugge, Edna Shaw, Kathryn Swanson, Janet Andrews, Audrey Short, Mildred Crawford, Ruth Rowley, Eleanor Arnold, Arleine.

Margaret Kunkel, Dorothy Wadsworth, Alice McFalls, Jean Giambow, Evelyn Williams, Jean Whatmough, Marion Reception at Childrens Museum Last Friday afternoon the annual recention of the Executive Board of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Children's Museum washild at the Museum. The speakers were; Percival Chubb, of the Ethicil Culture Society, and Dr. Frederick Munson, Brooklyn Institute lecturer "arid American Indian authority. Both spoke briefly on "What We Want for Our Children," Noted among the guests, were Mrs1. T.

Mortimer Lloyd. Mrs. Havens Brewster Bay jes, Miss Eva Potter," Miss Jessie F.Hckson, Mrs. "Herman James Mandly Hills. Mrs.

Charles'" E. Soper, and Mrs. Edwin Mr. and Mrs. William J.

Mr Seth Thaver Stewart, MrTand Mrs. Frederick H. Paine, Mr and Mrs. Floyd S. Necly, Mr.

and Mrs. Walter 1 v' Mrs. George H. Southard. Miss Edith Southard, Mrs.

John Hills, Miss Mabel Dupont i Colvin, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Malcolm Montgomery, Mr, and Mrs. John T. Schoonhoven, Dr.

arid Mrs; Glentworth Reeve Butler, Miss Ruth Benedict, Mrs. John Eadie LeechMrs. James O. Carpenter, Miss Josephine Carpenter, Mrs. Frank H.

Davol, Miss Susarme Quinn Millard F. Johnson, Mrs. William H. Abbott. At the Colleges Since entering Yale four years ago Mr.

Cornelius Ruxton Love, of 167 Clinton has made a name for himself in college dramatics, but perhaps his best work was done in the recent Junior Prom play, "The Galloper," in which he took the title role Says the. New Haven Journal-Courier; "It certainly was a long time back that we witnessed Raymond Hitchcock in the leading role of this comedy, and after witnessing Mr. R. Love we feel that hetwas almost Hitchy himself. Mr.

Love interpreted his part to a nicety, giving it full justice and fine reading." Mr. John S. Bingham, of Beechhurst, of Yale's football eleven, was a member of the Yale Junior Prom committee. Miss Katherine Ross, of 100 Gates Avenue, is on the critical committee, of the Philelethian Society at Vassar. She is also the chairman in charge of its permanent properties.

Mr. Donald K. Miller, of 1155 East Fifteenth Street, has been elected a member of the Press Club at Amherst, Mr. Rudolph J. Payor, until recently of Bedford Avenue, Flatbush, but now of Manhattan, has been elected chairman of the Junior Prom committee at Brown.

Mr. Alfred Mannheim, of 234 Eighth Avenue, is playing on the Columbia 'varsity basketball team. Miss Elizabeth Halsted, of 308 Washington Avenue, and Miss Olive of 21 16 Dorchester Road, assisted in pouring tea at a meeting of the members at large at Mt Holyoke last Saturday afternoon, called to form a local branch of the American Association of University Women. Dinner at Army and Navy Club The list of patrons and patronesses for the dinner of the Navy and Marine Memorial Hospital, to be given sat the-Army and Navy Club on next Wednesday evening, includes Mr. Vincent Astor, Mrs.

E. Mr. William Vanderbilt, Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, Colonel and Mrs. -Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs.

Charles H. Sabin, Rear -Admiral Fiske, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, Rear Admiral Louis M. Joseph-" thai, Mr. and Mrs.

R. A. Smith, Mrs, Louis L. Dela-field, Mr. W.

Butler Duncan, Mr. Howard Townsend, Mr. Frederic Tarns, Colonel George W. Burleigh, Mrs. Samuel McRoberts, Mrs.

Henry P. Loom is and Miss Lila Lancashire. Colonel Roosevelt will preside, and the only speakers will be Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske and Hon. T. V.

O'Connor, chairman of the Shipping Board. The musical entertainment will be supplied by Miss Mary Miller, harpist Mr. Robert Imandt, violinist, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Orchestra. The banquet will undoubtedly stimulate interest in the proposed Navy and Marine? Memorial to perpetuate the memory of the hundreds of Americans lost at sea in peace and war, which will be erected on the bank of the Potomac in Washington. Secretary of the Navy Curtis D.

Wilbur and other high officials of the Navy and leaders in American shipping have been invited to attend the banquet Photo by -a JL Hill MISS MARGARET ZIMMERMAN Daughter of Dri and Mrs. Victor Zimmerman, of 839 Carroll Street, who is known as one) of the most attractive girls of the Park Slope.

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