TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, August 28. 19S7
International House Called ,
Little UN; Students Argue
By GAY PAULEY
United Pre Women's Editor
New York W This town
has a "little U.N." which attracts
few tourists, although it is lo
cated right across the street
from Grant's Tomb and only a
block from Riverside church.
But students around the globe
know of it it is home for many
of them when they come to New
York to study. -
"We're . sort of a miniature
United Nations; but we operate
on the person-to-person level,"
said '.Mrs. Mary Y. Munford,
resident advisor .at International
house.
The house is a residence and
social center for American and
foreign students, many of them
doing graduate work. In the
next few weeks, as the city's
colleges and universities enroll
for fall terms, it will fill up
with 525 students from 65 na
tions, ranging from Norway to
Japan, from Chile -to Lebanon.
Its "alumni" include Burl
Ives, Rear Adm. Hyman G. Rick'
over, developer of the atomic
submarine; Helen Kim, president
of the largest college for women
in Korea; Frederick BoJand,
Ireland's ambassador to the U.N
and opera singer Mattawiida
Dobbs.
Two Similar Houses
International house here is
one of three such residences in
the United States the other
two, at the University of Chi
cago and the University of Cal
fornia, Berkeley.
It was founded m 1924 but
the idea was born many years
earlier when a student YMCA
secretary named Harry Edmonds
aid "Good morning" to a Chi
nese student on the Columbia
university campus.
"Do you know." said the stu
dent, "you are the first person
who has talked to me in the
three weeks I have been in New
York."
Edmonds decided there should
be a way for foreign students to
get acquainted with thefr coun
terparts in America and
learn about obr way of life. He
began with Sunday night suppers
at his home, inviting various na
tionalities. Eventually, his work
caught the eye of John D. Rocke
feller Jr., who donated a chunk
of land on Riverside Drive and
three million dollars to build
and equip the house.
The residence today has much
In common with any other cam
pus residence except for the
fact that it houses both sexes, in
opposite wings.
And it has more student argu
ments, because so many differ
ing political beliefs are repre
sented, "I was worried during the
Arab-Israeli flare-up," said Mrs.
Munford. "But heated as dis
cussions often get, we've never
had an unpleasant Incident."
Sheltered Hungarian Refugees
After the Hungarian revolts
last October, the house was
home for a while to 110 Hun
garian students . all of whom
now are scholarship students on
variouS campuses around the
country.
"One night at a student sing,
the Hungarians were doing a lot
of their own folk songs," she
said. "Then one of them started
the Battle Hymn of the Repub
lic .. . everybody joined in.
There wasn't avdry eye in the
place."
The resident adviser, a widow
and mother of three grown
Visitors Honored
At Dinner Parties
E. W. J. Hearty, his son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Dal
ton Stapleton and their daughter,
Miss Georgia Stapleton, New
Rochelle, N. Y., are visitors in
the valley. Mr. Hearty is owner
of the Golden Crest orchard,
Talent.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Reter
and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Baker
have been hosts for a number of
small parties in the visitors' hon
or. The Reters gave a buffet
dinner at their home on Glen
Oak court and the Bakers en
tertained at a small dinner last
night which honored the Staple
tons. Sunday the visitors made a
trip to Crater Lake park.' They
will leave for the east Thursday.
We ekend" Guests
; Mr. and Mrs. -Eugene Sjboncler
and son, Sandy, of Spokane,
Wash., visited in the Earl Rich
ardson home, 2133 Crater Lake
avenue, over the weekend.
CALENDAR
Calendar notice and news tor
the society section of The Mail
Tribune must be submitted in
writing and deadline for the Sun
day edition ts 1 o m Friday Dead
line for the weekly calendar is 9
m of the day of oublicatxon and
for week day news is 5 pjn. the
day be tore publication.
Wednesday:
8 p.m. Central Point Jay
ceetes. home of. Mrs. Gay Hall
ett, 347 Manzanita, Central
Point.
Thursday:
12:30 p.m. Past Presidents
club Crater Lake auxiliary, pot
luck picnic, Lithia park, Ash
land. 6:30 p.m. Licensed Practical
Nurses, potluck picnic, Lithia
Jark, Ashland.
sons, is sort of a mother-confessor
to her one-world brood al
though she won't abide use of
the term, "house mother." But
the students come to her with
problems ranging from dating to
slumping grades to manners in
a foreign land. "And money,"
she said. "Some are here on a
shoestring, foreign exchange
rates being what they are."
Most of the students work full
or part-time. One Korean girl,
who was used to having servants
back home, cooked this summer
for a wealthy, but obviously un
derstanding New York 'woman.
"I am the cook." the girl
wrote Mrs. Munford. "But since
I do not know how, I have no
problems."
Appreciation Dance
At Square Corral
Set for Saturday
The Rogue Valley Square
Dance Callers association will
sponsor an appreciation dance
at the Square Corral at Camp
White starting about 8 p.m.
Saturday.
The appreciation dance is be
ing held in recognition of Paul
Larson, a member of the Call
ers association, who suffered a
stroke recently. He was in a
local hospital for some time,
but is now at home.
About 10 callers of the asso
ciation and guest callers will
call the squares. Refreshments
will be served.
Daughters Leave
After Visit Here
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Brady
and son, Wesley, Santa Rosa,
Calif., left yesterday for their
home after spending four days
here with Mrs. Brady's parents.
Dr. and Mrs. L. Paul Walker,
2132 Dellwood avenue. Mrs.
Brady is the former Jean Walk
er. Another daughter of the Walk
ers, Mrs. Gordon Marx, and her
son, Gregory, left Wednesday by
air for Kentucky to join Lieuten
ant Marx. The lieutenant is now
assigned to duty at Ft. Campbell
in that state. Mrs. Marx is the
former Charlotte Walker; her
husband is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Homer Marx, Kings highway.
The Oregon Churchman published an ''out of the mouths of
babes" wedding story recently. Judy Anderson, aged 8, and Stefa
nie Lindsay, 10, wrote an account of the wedding of Josefa May
Wyman and the Rev. William Robert Rees, which had been held
in St. Mary's church, Eugene. Here is the way the two young girls
wrote the story:
"The wedding of Father Rees and Josefa Wyman started at
11 on June 29. Mr. Dieterich played the wedding music on the
organ. There was a choir of ministers singing. The bride wore a
long white ' taffeta dress and a white veil. She had a bunch of
white roses. The maid of honor wore a yellow taffeta dress and
carried yellow roses. The groom wore a black suit with a white
rose in his lapel.
"They had a communion service for the bride and groom. They
were in a hurry when they went out of the. church.
"Upstairs they had a reception for Father Rees and his bride.
People would shake hands with the bride and groom and sign the
guest book and get their cake and coffee. There was a table of
gifts and probably the bride and groom can use them all.
"After the reception the bride threw her bouquet of roses.
When they went to get into the car they saw paint all over the
car saying 'just married' and 'Jo look who is driving.' They went
to the coast for their honeymoon."
The Churchman . added that Bishop Dagwell celebrated the
nuptial eucharist, assisted by four other Episcopal clergymen.
Potpourri has been writing weddings for a ,ling time, and
usually we manage to see that the hundred and one details of each
wedding all get in, somehow or the other. Of pour.se, the news
paper operation being what it is, putting them down in the copy
doesn't mean it will get into print that way. What we're leading
up to is the fact that in at least one of the 12 weddings in last
Sunday's issue, some of the details were missing.
Our account of the Perl-Ripfl wedding failed to note that Capt.
Donald Parker Hemingway was William Perl's best man, or that
Hedy Ripfl, the bride's younger sister, and Diane Landis lighted
the candles. Also omitted was the fact that Mrs. William Warner's
treasured knife had been used to cut the cake this being at least
the 75th time the knife had been used.
The why and wherefor of these omissions are too involved to
relate here, and if there were others, in other wedding stories, we
offer our apologies. Perhaps we should write weddings in the
candid manner of Judy and Stefanie. The results would be more
entertaining to read and they would be a lot easier to write.
A salesman came into the office several days ago with a white
dacron uniform. Half of it was very dirty, and half was clean. He
explained that the garment was one of several hundred returned
to a wholesaler because the women who purchased them could
not wash them clean with ordinary methods. So his firm, which
manufactures a water conditioner, cut the test dress in half, washed
one half in an ordinary manner, and the other half with the com
pound which they manufacture. The results were amazingly dif
ferent; the first half was still dirty, the second half brightly clean.
The salesman left a copy of the washing instructions which his
firm has worked out for use with nylon, dacron, or combination
synthetic and cotton materials. According to the information, the
trick with garments of these materials is to wash them with the
water conditioner and soap not detergent from the time of first
wearing and prevent the accumulation of soil.
And by the way, the correct pronunciation of "dacron" is with
a long "a." . . . .,
Another recent visitor in the office was Mrs. Edwin Guetzlaff,
Jacksonville, looking very smart in a navy blue dress. Mrs. Guetz
laff, member of St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran church here and
holder of three offices on the local, district and state level in the
women's missionary group, was just home from an extended trip
through the Midwest and California, and about to set forth for
Portland on more church business.
Potpourri commiserated with her over the brief respite be
tween trips less than two days, and Mrs. G. admitted that her
husband was beginning to wish she'd stay home for a time. "I had
to tell him about the husband of a devoted church worker in Los
Angeles who complained to his wife 'You're so busy with heavenly
duties you aren't any earthly good!' " O.S.
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Week End Social Activity
Planned Around Tournament
Much of the social activitiy
of the valley will center this
week end at Rogue Valley Coun
try club where the annual South
ern Oregon golf tournament will
be played. Each year the tourna
ment, traditionally held on the
Labor day week end, attracts a
large number of players and vis
itors and this year contestants
number 340, a record-breaking
figure.
Rogue Valley residents have
already played their qualifying
rounds, and out-of-town players
will qualify; match play opens
Thursday.
Beginning this evening a series
of cocktail hours will be held
each day between 6:30 and 7:30
o'clock in honor of contestants.
On the closing day, cocktail
hours will be from 5;30 to 6:30
p.m.
Beginning tonight orchestras
will provide music for dancing
in both dining rooms, according
to James Dunlevy, club man
ager. A festival champagne lunch
eon is being planned by the
the Women's Golf association
for Saturday, August 31, at
12:30 p.m. The luncheon will
honor all women golfers enter
ed in the tournament, and wives
of contestants. Mrs. R. B. Knight
is president of .the association.
Closing social function of the
tournament will be the annual
awards dinner Monday, Labor
day. The dinner will be served
buffet style beginning at 6:30
p.m. and at 8 p.m. the tourna
ment awards will be presented.
Many of the visitors here for
the tournament will be guests
of relatives and friends.
Mr. and Mrs. John Day, Gold
Rey, have as their guests for
the Southern Oregon tournament
festivities Mrs. Day's brother
and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
George Parsons, Seattle. The
Parsons are accompanied by
their children . Nancy, Alice,
George and Judson.
Both Mr. Parsons and his
daughter, Nancy, are participat
ing in the tournament; play as
contestants. '
Another guest of the Day's is
Hugh Brady, Los Altos, Calif.,
the son of Mrs. Howard Frame
of that city. ' ,
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Radford
of Seattle, friends of the Par
sons, are also here, and Mr. Rad
ford is playing in the tourney.
Miss Susan Rafferty of As
toria is the house guest of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Hart, 532 J
street, and will be a contender.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woody,
San , Francisco, Calif., former
residents of Medford, are house
guests of the George Schdlers,
Valley View drivft for the Labor
day week-end activties, and Mr.
Woody is registered as a con
testant. Arriving Sunday to watch the
tournament finals will be Dr.
and Mrs. William H. Cane,
Oswego, Ore. The Canes will be
guests of Dr. and Mrs. L. Paul
Walker, 2132 Dellwood avenue.
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