Reception Held Saturday
For Lodge Grand Officers
4 One of the large social events of last week-end was the re
ception given by Medford Odd Fellow lodge and Olive Rebekah
lodge June 7 in honor of Lynn Cram, newly elected grand master
of the IOOF in Oregon, A. J. Hanby, newly elected grand chaplain
ond Mrc. Lewis Thompson, new grand inside guardian for the
Oregon Rebekah assembly. Mr. Cram's wife, Rebekah member,
was also honored
The reception, held in the
auditorium of Medford Junior
High school, was attended by
more than 300 Odd Fellows, Re
bekahs and members of other
branches of the order from all
Mparts of Oregon. Grand Master
Cram and Grand Chaplain
Hanby are members of the Med-
fprd IOOF lodge and Mrs.
Thompson is a member of Olive
Rebekah lodge.
'; Frank Heller, noble grand of
the Medford IOOF lodge, gave
the address of welcome after the
honored guests and visiting
grand officers had been escorted
to the stage by members of the
. Patriarchs Militant of Medford
and Grants Pass. They also pre
sented the nation's flag and the
'program opened with the na
tional anthem, flag salute ana in
vocation bv Mr. Hanby.
Mr. Heller Introduced Walter
Craig, vice-grand; E. D. Perkins,
treasurer; John P. Daniel, secre
tary. Medford IOOF officers,
who had cooperated on planning
the reception, and also introduc
ed were Mrs. A. H. Gregory,
chairman, Mrs. Heller, Mrs. O.
S. Walden and Mrs. Alfred
Schroeder. the Rebekah com-
.' mittee. Mrs. Schroeder, Rebekah
noble grand, introduced her
officers.
Mayor Diamond Flynn also
welcomed the visitors and Past
Grand Master A. J. Lenon, Port
land, was master of ceremonies
Roy Gibbs, Taft, Ore., past
, grand master, was speaker of the
evening. Mr. Gibbs reviewed the
'100 years of Oddfellowship In
Oregon. ,
Mr. Heller presented Grand
Master Cram with a check and
-. gift, and Mr. Hanby with gift
from the Medford lodge. Mrs,
Thompson was -presented cor-
sage from Olive Rebekahs.
Grand and past grand officers
. present were Earl Shank, Port
land, grand secretary; noy w.
Gibbs, Ocean Lake, grand treas
urer: Harry Looney, grand war
den. Lake Grove: George E.
Lyons, past grand master, Port
land; Howard Collins, Lebanon,
Brand conductor; Arthur Kel-
lert, O'Brien, marshal; Hugh
Lewis. Yamhill, grand patriarch
of the Patriarchs Militant; Abel
Olson, Astoria; Major Gen. Jesse
Jones. Portland, who substituted
for Department Commander Roy
, V. Terney, Pendleton, of the
patriarchs; George V. Naderman,
Salem, grand senior waraen
Herbert M. Munsell, Klamath
Falls, grand junior warden, and
Herbert Walker, Eugene, past
grand patriarch.
Grand Master Cram introduc
ed his father, Henry S. Cram,
Ashland: his brother, James A.
Cram, Portland, member of the
IOOF home board and another
brother,. Hazen, Medford, and
Mrs. Hazen Cram. It was thought
to be probably the only time
that an IOOF grand master had
so many family members pres
ent for such a function.
Others Introduced included
Mrs. Olive Ramey, Hillsboro,
president of Oregon Rebekah as
sembly; Mrs. Lola F. Osborne,
Portland, assembly vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Walter Drury, Coburg,
warden; Mrs. Mary Moss, Med
ford, and Mrs. Ethel Bailey,
Roseburg, past state presidents;
Mrs. Cleona Applegate, Medford,
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state president and Mrs. Donald
Ivie, state treasurer of FL club.
Mrs. Drury was a guest of her
sister, Mrs. June Williams, while
here.
Representing the Association
of Ladies' auxiliary to the Patri
archs Militant were Mrs. Char
lotte Eastman, Redmond, state
president; Mrs. George V. Nader-
man, state publicity chairman
and Mrs. Vern Knight, Central
Point, aide to the flag bearer.
Mr tfher T. Weed Medford. a
past state president, waf intro
duced.
Guests also included E. M,
Abel, major, and A. W. Klatt,
lieutenant, of the Grants Pass
Patriarchs Militant, who were ac
companied by a large delegation
from Grants Pass; and delega
tions from many southern Ore
gon lodges. Representatives of
other fraternal orders in Med
ford also attended.
Miss Virginia Cyrus, Rose
burg, president of Theta Rho
girls, sang. Dance numbers were
given by pupils of Colleen Mope
with Mrs. R. A. Botts at the pi
ano, and Mrs. Norman Gail, Gold
Hill, sang and gave whistling
numbers, accompanied by Mrs.
Thompson, Gold Hill.
Mrs. W. H. Dyer of Olive Re
bekah lodge decorated the stage
in the IOOF and Rebekah colors.
Refreshments were served from
three tables and a fourth was
reserved for guest books for the
three honored persons. Mrs.
Frank Heller took charge of the
books.
Family Returns
From Kwajalein;
To Vacation Here
Mr. and Mrs. Harry V. Wor
thylake and daughter, Mary Jo
Barrows, formerly of Ashland,
passed through Ashland am
Medford yesterday en route
north on their return from
Kwajalein, Marshall Islands. Mr.
Worthylake was called back into
the navy last year as chief petty
officer, and sent to Kwajalein.
Mrs. Worthylake, former Ash
land teacher, has been employed
as principal and upper grade
teacher in the Navy school. Mrs.
Barrows spent several months
on Kwajalein and was chosen
"Miss Kwajalein" in the Christ
mas festivities. The last semester
she was enrolled in the Punahou
school in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The Worthylakes flew by mili
tary transport plane to Honolulu
where they vacationed for a
week, and Tuesday flew over
night to the mainland, landing
at Travis field. Chief Worthy
lake will spend his 30-day leave
visiting friends and relatives in
Oregon, and fishing. Then he re
ports to the amphibious forces
base at Coronado for assignment
to Japan. As soon as housing is
available his family will join
him there.
In the meantime they plan to
live In Ashland where Miss Bar
rows, will be a senior In high
school.
The travelers report that
southern Oregon "looked beauti
ful" after living on a flat island
in the middle of the ocean.
Kwajalein Is 2.7 miles long and
less than half a mile wide and
was bombed bare of trees during
the war.
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Potpourri...
Bright and early Monday we
had a call from Mrs. H. B. Janes
wfto said she thought someone
should set us right about who
was the first woman ever to
hand out diplomas for Medford
Senior High school graduations.
It wasn't Mrs. Stephen G. Nye,
as per last Sunday's issue, Mrs.
Janes said, but Mrs. E. E. Gore.
What's more, Mrs. Janes sister-in-law,
Mrs. Milton Janes, later
served on the school board and
she also was chairman and pre
sented diplomas.
Chagrined, but philosophical.
because our source for the In
formation is almost always ab
solutely correct, we called Mrs.
Gore who said yes, she had been
member of the school board
many years ago and had given
out the diplomas. Mrs. Gore
wasn't at all excited over the
fact that we had ignored her pri
or service on the school board,
and later when we called to have
a cup of tea, talked about her
work on the board.
Mrs. Gore said she thought
she was elected in 1912, but the
files of the Tribune for that year
said Mrs. E. S. Parsons ran for
the office, but was defeated by
Dr. E. R. Seeley. Mrs. Gore then
recalled that Dr. Seeley and J.
H. Cochran were on the board
when she was elected, and added
that after she ,had served her
three years, she was replaced by
Mrs. Janes.
The senior high school build
ing was on Bartlett street in
those days, about where the
Safeway store now stands, and
there was no junior high school.
Mrs. Gore recalled that the sup
erintendent of schools had pro
posed dividing the students of
Lincoln school between Jackson
and Roosevelt, and making Lin
coln into a junior high school,
and had promptly brought on a
vigorous city-wide fight among
school patrons.
When Mrs. Gore served on the
board there was no medical or
dental examinations for chil
dren, no hot lunch program, no
school nurses or any teaching of
music except a little singing
taught by the regular teachers.
Mrs. Gore said there was agita
tion during her term for these
innovations, although they were
vigorously opposed by many
who thought the school system
was trying to usurp the right of
parents In the life of a child.
"Just think of all the progress
that has been made," she said.
"I think it's wonderful how pub
lic schools serve the community
nowadays."
Mrs. Gore, who was also presi
dent of the Greater Medford
club while on the school board,
recalled how she was once asked
to drill a chorus to sing for com
mencement, and reminded - us
that in those days there was no
high school band or orchestra to
furnish music. She said that Har
riet Baldwin, one time music
supervisor of the school system,
asked permission to buy the first
musical instruments to be used
for school groups.
Mrs. Gore said when she
handed out the diplomas she
was secretly a little nervous,
and had made sure in advance
that the school staff was going to
pile them correctly so each stu
dent would be handed the right
one.
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A fpw vnr hefore her school
board term, Mrs. Gore first be
gan writing articles to be used
in Medford publications. She
has kept a copy of the, first is
sue of "Medford's Magazine,"
dated April 1909 and published
by A. Brown. Mrs. Gore had
contributed an article on the
city's schools for the issue.
In those early days. Mrs. Uore
also sometimes reported lectures
for the old Medford Mail, and la
tor hpnan tn write the musical
reviews which she continues to
write for The Mail Tribune.
Potpourri dashed away from
the office long enough last Sat
urday afternoon to look in on
the wedding of Mary Anne Mik
sche to Peter Trim. This was a
wedding to make the "older
girls" sigh and perhaps weep a
little, for the bride was truly
beautiful, and looked statuesque
in her white satin gown, while
the bridegroom was both tall
and handsome.
Peonies were used both for
decorating the church and for
attendants', bouauets. and we
thought the effect remarkably
pretty. Mrs. Lester Adams and
Mrs. Martin Sands, family
friends of the Miksches who had
decorated the church, achieved
an unusually effective decor for
the altar by using pink peony
heads in planters, and masses of
leaves back of the altar.
The bride's sister and two
brothers were all here for the
wedding, one brother, Leo, com
ing all the way from New York
City.
If Leo went to New York to
seek the proverbial "fame and
fortune," he seems to be doing
all right on the former. An ar
tist with bright new ideas, Leo,
who calls himself Michael Mlk
sche for the sake of his work,
has attracted much attention for
both his very sophisticated win
dow effects designed for the
city's smart shops, and for his
drawings and paintings.
Not long ago the young man
broke into print in a New York
magazine called "Park East.
Headed "The Least He'd Take,'
the writer told how Artist Mik-
sche markets his wares. Accord
ing to the article, "he recently
sold a drawing to a man who
paid for it by arranging for Mik-
sche to browse around among
the medieval oddities in the at
tic of Charles Addams, the maca
bre cartoonist. He traded a dog
sketch for the privilege of sit
ting a game through on the
Yankees "bench this summer.'
It seems the strange way of
"selling" pictures began when
Mrs. Eleanor Ward, manager of
The Stable, combination gift
shop and studio,. offered to hang
some of Leo's, excuse please, Mi
chael's pictures. He had offers
for some of them and not consid
ering himself enough of a fine
artist to charge gallery prices,
the young man decided he would
part with them for nothing it he
could be sure the people truly
wanted them. To prove they
were sincere, the would-be pur
chasers were asked to provide
the artist with virtually unpur
chaseable entertainment.
The scheme worked out, ac
cording to the magazine, and
one painting went to a woman
who arranged for Saul Steinberg
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to swap portrait sketches with
Artist Miksche. (The woman
just went to the phone booth
and arranged a date.) Another
was sold to a woman for two
fifth-row on-the-aisle seats for
"The King arid I" and a third for
seats for "Pal Joey." A whiskey
salesman swapped the use of a
Fire Island house for five days
this summer for one of the pic
tures, and another went for a
trip oyer the city in a police hell
copter, this having been ar
ranged by a member of Grover
Whalen's office force.
"Unsold" are paintings for
which Michael is asking tea with
Bernard : Ba'ruch, a summer
week end in Nantucket, a trip on
a commercial fishing boat and
lunch with Tallulah Bankhead.
The writer further said that
when an assistant of Stanley
Marcus, Dallas merchandiser,
admired a Miksche painting, her
boss arranged to purchase it for
a gallon of European lemon ice,
flown to the artist from Los An
geles, and another customer got
a Miksche work by arranging
to have him appear as a "super"
in a Metropolitan Opera produc
tion of "Die Meistersinger."
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to sing and was soloist for his
sister's wedding.
Way back in 1912, according
to the files of the MT, it was
quite a feat to visit Crater lake
in June. Under an item date of
June 10 we read:
"The first party of tourists
this season to reach 'Crater lake
returned to Klamath Falls Sat
urday after four hard days. In
the party were two women,
probably the first of their sex to
visit the lake this early in the
season.
"The tourists were Mr. and
Mrs. R. W. Neighbor and Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Trower of Oak
land, Calif. The party reports
10 feet of snow yet at Arant's
camp. 'The sight of the lake well
repaid us for the hardships of
the trip, said Mr. Neighbor, and
although we expected a grand
sight, we were hardly prepared
for the sight that met our eyes.
I have seen the Grand canyon,
Yosemite park. Lake Tahoe, the
Selkirk mountains, the Cana
dian Rockies and other Ameri
can scenes of wonder, but in my
mind, none of these compare
with our view of Crater lake.
" 'Mrs. Trower and Mrs. Nelgh
b o r s : displayed remarkable
pluck during the strenuous trip,
and enjoyed every moment of
the outing,' said Mr. Neighbor in
conclusion. 'Still this is a trip
that I would not advise other
women to make so early in the
season, especially those who are
not used to continuous riding'."
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Tuesday Evening
Crater Lake Veterans of For
eign War3 auxiliary will meet
Tuesday, June 17 at 8 p.m. in
the VFW hall, 42 North Front
street.
A Tribute To
Our Disabled Veterans
When you get to feeling socry for yourself, con
sider the heroic fortitude and marvelous philoio
phy of our countless Disabled Veteranil They are
carrying on many with the greatest, of handi
caps. Yet they are doing a job that would make
any man proud of his achievements. Words of
praise cannot express the admiration we have
for these valiant boys who refute to be objects
of pity. They are Americans Inh. finest sens, of
the word , . . they are proving that no hindrance
or handicap can keep good men downl
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