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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, April 7. 1957 Women's Council Announces Topic For Annual Event "Free Schools in a Free Amer ica" is the theme for the May Fellowship luncheon which is sponsored each year by Medford Council of Church Women. Members of the council board are pleased that this particular topic has been chosen since school problems are so very much in the news at present. Proceeds from the luncheon are, iji greater part, used in assisting in special work in the schools of this county, officers of the group state. Mrs. Samuel Earhart and Mrs. Gaston Floux, program commit tee heads, announce that Mrs. Mabel Winston will be speaker. Mrs. Winston is registrar and dean of women at Southern Ore gon college, Ashland. For the past six years Mrs. Winston has been general chairman of the Conference of Young Adults, which is sponsored by American Association of University Women and Rotary club. Fifty schools of southern Oregon and northern California are included in the conference. Special musical features are to be presented for the fellowship luncheon. Three retired school teachers will participate in a panel discussion pertaining to the theme "Free School in A Free America." The panel per sonnel will include Miss Jane Snedicor, Mrs. Mamie Bloom fieia and Mrs. Marie Dizney. Luncheon will be served in the Guild hall of St. Mark's Episc(al church at 12:30 o'clock Friday, ilay 3. Tickets may be gurchd through church coun cil representatives from the sev eral churches and officers of the council, for further information call firs. J. Claude Sparks, 2-2914. Mrs. Clinton Spencer To Be Club Hostess Adarel Past Matrons club will hold the April meeting at the home of Mrs. Clinton Spen cer, 2001 East Main street, Med ford, Monday, April 8. Mrs. Fred Ryde, president, will pre side. Assisting Mrs. Spencer with a 12:30 o'clock salad luncheon preceding the meeting will be Mrs. Herbert Thomas and Mrs. Fred H. Gardner. 4 Announces Masting The Roguette circle, Military Order of Lady Bugs, will hold business meeting Tuesday, April 9, at 8 p.m. In the Veterans hall. - Central Point Star Chapter Holds Annual Installation Central Point Officers of Ne- vita chapter, Order of Eastern Star, were installed in rites held at the Masonic temple, Central Point, Friday, March 29. Mrs. Wyles E. Berry took office as worthy matron, succeeding Mrs. Melvin McGrew. Pink carna- tijns and ferns and candelabra holding pink and green tapers decorated the chapter room. Others installed were Merrit Swing, worthy patron; Mrs. Mer- ril Harsh, associate matron; Rus sell Fair, association patron; Mrs. Lewis Kilbourne, secretary; Mrs. Howard Short, treasurer; Mrs. Frank Ward, conductress; Mrs. Francis Russell, associate conductress; Mrs. Virgil Goff, chaplain; Mrs. Frank Ross, mar shal; M r s. Harley Dressier, organist. Also Mrs. Walter Turnquist, Adah; Mrs. Paul Snook, Ruth; Mrs. Harold Pierce, Esther; Mrs. Fred Lestei, Martha; Mrs. John Edler, Electa; Mrs. Sam Mallon, warder and Calvin McKibben, sentinel. Installing officers were Mrs. Harold Head, installing matron; Harold Head, patron; Mrs. Mar shall Day, marshal; Mrs. Luther Day, chaplain; Mrs. Rex Note, secretary and John Lusk, or ganist. A candlelighting ceremony preceeded the installation and candle lighters were Miss Sally Elden, queen of bethel 38 and Miss Phyllis Briggs, senior prin cess of bethel 56. Soloist was Miss Barbara Henderson, queen of bethel 56, with Mrs. W. J. McCollough as accompanist. The Rev. Norman K. Tully gave the invocation. Musical selections during the ceremony were given by the Al pha Chapter trio, accompanied by Miss Edna Daugherty, Mrs. Mrs. Edwin Andren, accompan ied by Mrs. Harley Dressier, and Pastor To Be Speaker For Temperance Union The Rev. Dwayne Batchelor, pastor of Mt Pitt Church of the Nazarene, will speak to the Wo mens C h r i s t i an Temperance Union at a meeting Thursday, April 11 at 2 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Salvation Army annex, 236 North Bartlett street. Reports will be given and refreshments will be.' served by Mrs. Holly Michael's committee. organ selections by John Lusk. The newly installed officers and courtesy girls presented addenda and gifts to the new ma tron and patron, and a gavel was presented to the worthy matron by her husband. The program closed - with te Mizaph benediction and a recep tion followed in the dining room which was decorated with spring blossoms. The table centerpiece was of white carnations and violets. Mrs. Berry's gown was of pink procaded satin and she car ried a white Bible with a purple orchid, a gift of the Scottish Rite bodies. Officers were gowned in nile green satin and carried Bibles with- pink camellias. Courtesy girls were gowned in pink taffeta and wore wristlets of camellias. Courtesy girls appointed are Mrs. Calvin McKibben, captain; Mrs. Lee Merriman, co-captain; Mrs. William Brewster, Mrs. Gus Olson, Mrs. Thomas Quail, Mrs. Elmo Ellefson, Mrs. Lois Barber, Mrs. Bert Simmons, Mrs. William Jo Saxbury, Mrs. Pauline Braund, and Mrs. George Brownell. Distinguished guests present included Miss Carlotta Wiseman, Grants Pass, and Mrs. Lorena McNair, Ashland, past grand ma trons; Mrs. John Esp, Eagle Point, grand committee member; Mrs. Ira Poole, grand representa tive; Mrs. Rex Note, Medford, grand representative; John C. Smith, Medford, district deputy; John Esp, Eagle Point, master, Central Point Masonic lodge; Wyles E. Berry, master, Cascade lodge, Shady Cove; Mrs. Ira Can field, matron, Roxy Ann courti Order of Amaranth. Hostesses were past matrons of Nevita chapter, and Courtesy girls. 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Members Attend BPW Conference Ten members of Medford Busi ness and Professional Women's club left Saturday to attend the spring conference of the south ern Oregon district being held at Roseburg yesterday and today in the Umpqua hotel. Miss Voda Brower, president, and Mrs. Har riet Watson headed the group which is taking an active part in the program. The conference opened witha dinner last night at the Umpqua, presided over by Mrs. Beulah Elliot, Klamath Falls, chairman of the district comprised of clubs from Glendale, Canyonville, Lnkeview, Merrill, Grants Pass, Roseburg, Klamath Falls and Medford. Dr. Elanor Gutman, state president of the BPW, was the guest speaker of the evening. A fun frolic followed the dinner meeting with a contest for the most original hat made and worn by any member present. This morning a workshop ses sion was scheduled. Mrs. Lois Inghran, state membership chair man, will talk and a group from the Medford club will present a panel discussion of "programs and their planning." Mrs. Wat son and Mrs. Florence Lance, both past presidents of the Med ford BPW, and Miss Lucille Lenox, former president of the Roseburg club but now on the local board, will take part. A re port of the state Oriental schol arship will be given and an ex planation of a group insurance plan being considered will be made by Mr. Scott Adams. Re ports from all the clubs present will conclude the morning ses sion of the conference which will end at noon. Last Tuesday evening, a large AAUW Book Group . Postpones Meeting ' AAUW book review group will postpohe the monthly meet ing one week It will be held Wednesday, April 17, at 1 p.m at the home of Mrs. Milo Kub-alek. delegation of BPW members drove from Medford to attend a dinner meeting of the Grants Pass club. To Be Speakers In observance of Child Wel fare month, which the American Legion auxiliary officially .desig nates as April, Don Chapman and Mrs. Winifred Nelson of the Jackson County Public .Welfare office will speak for the Medford auxiliary this week. The meeting is set for Tuesday, April 9, at 8 p.m. Initiation of new members will also be held and all those interested are invited to attend. A Tribute To the American Cancer Society When we stop to consider that cancer kills 184,000 Americans every year, it is high time that all of us give generously to the most deadly of all the dis eases which plague our nation! The American Can cer Society working vigorously day and night to establish clinics where early examinations are given and cancers discovered, is doing a work almost in conceivable in proportions and in importance to our very existence. 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