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Society - Tirana MEDFORD
TRIBUNE Women's Activities
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1952
Pages 1-14 .
Women golfers from eight Oregon cities played the Rogue
Valley Country club course Thursday when the Willamette Valley-Southern
Oregon Women's Golf association held the annual
spring tournament here. An even 100 women played, the largest
number ever to participate in a women's tournament here, and
137 attended the luncheon which followed in the clubhouse.
The officers and many committees from Rogue Valley Worn-
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Women's Tournament Day
(By Olive Starcher)
en's Golf association aided with arrangements for the event.
Pictured at the top (left to right) are Mrs. Ray Larson, luncheon
chairman; Mrs. William Miller, president of the Medford associa
tion; Mrs. Leslie Schneider, tournament director; Mrs. Jack Wood,
assistant director; Mrs. Charles Barnes, local representative to
the WVSO; George Harrington, club manager; Mrs. Earl Leevert
hospitality chairman; Mrs. Harvey Robertson, WVSO representa
tive; Mrs. James Wyatt, publicity chairman; seated, Mrs. Harvey
Pavlat, (at left) hospitality committee and Mrs. Mahr Reymers,
the third WVSO representative. (Arbuckle-Moran photo).
Two of the winners are shown at left at the score board. Mrs.
W. W. Davies, the former Helen Thompson, (at left) took the Class
A low gross honors with a 79, and Mrs. James Snider held the
low gross score in the Class C division. Mrs. Davies is women's
champion of Rogue Valley Country club. Mrs. Snider, one of the
local club's newer players, displays a big smile over the fact
that she "broke a hundred" for the first time since taking up
golf.
Also playing in the tournament were Mrs. C. B. Collins, Med
ford, and Mrs. Earl Sims, formerly of this city and now of Grants
Pass. The two are pictured (at right) on the 18th green after fin
ishing their games, with Mrs. Collins (at left).
As the players came in from the course they first congregated
around the score board and then after changing from their
golfing togs gathered in groups for cool drinks and other re
freshments, since the day was bright and warm. Shown (lower
left) are four women enjoying their after-luncheon coffee and
some relaxing conversation. They are (left to right) Mrs. Roger
Clark, Medford, Mrs. J. S. Wolke, Grants Pass; Mrs. L. E. McClin
tock, Roseburg and Mrs. J. S. Grahlman, Bend.
The day's agenda included a business meeting of the WVSO,
as well as golf. Pictured on the lawn In front of the clubhouse
(lower right) are. the officers of the association. Shown (left to
right) are Mrs. David B. Evans, Eugene, the president; Mrs. Earl
Voorhies, Grants Pass, treasurer; Mrs. Robert B. Stone, Corvallis,
vice-president, and Mrs. A. C. Stipe, Bend, secretary. Mrs. Tauf
Charneski, Eugene, corresponding secretary Is not pictured.
(Brainerd photos)
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