Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 18, 1962, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 19B2 Women's News Social Events t I! : I -j If rTjL ' 1 . .....r My ' j v. trim Mr. and Mrs. Paul Greene, who are leaving Hornbrook soon to live in Ashland, were honored recently at a farewell party and were presented a farewell gift. The Greens had lived in Hornbrook since 1928. Dress Designer Once Was Member of Hockey Team Bv GAY PAULEY UPI Women's Editor New York - (UPI) - In 1949, Zdenk Marek was a member of the Czechoslovakian hock ey team which won the world i m a t e u r championship in games ai Stock holm, S w e den. To ri a y, he's a successful de signer - manii f a c t urer of junior dresses and is mar ried to one of r K r i rier L... af. i New York' Gay Pauley top models. In (lie 13 years between the hockey championships and his sharply contrasting career in New York lies a cloak and dagger story like none other in the cloak and suit industry. This is Marck's story, as the tall handsome athlete told it to me. Marok was born 36 years ago in Prostejov, a small town in Czechoslovakia. He took a degree in foreign trade from Charles university, Prague, and was in the army at the time he was playing center forward on the team which went to Slockhqlm in '49. It was after getting to know some members of the U.S. team that he decided not to go back to his native land. "I have a fair amount of ambition," Marek explains now. "I am deeply religious and could not be a Commu nist, but unless you're a mem ber of the party you do not go very far." Hid Luggage Arranging an escape in volved the ruse of hiding what luqgaae he had with a hotel chambermaid just before the Czech team checked out for rrague. He excused himself from Ihe others, saying he wanted to bid goodbye to a Swedish girl he had met. He never rejoined the team and recalled today that "I think they were too busy celebrat ing the victory to notice my absence for a while." He asked and won tempor ary asylum in Sweden. His defection was big news throughout the sports world. Marek said it was through the help o( some members of the U.S. team that he made his way to this country - "I arrived wilh exactly $18 in my pocket," he said. A schol arship and part-time selling jobs helped him to a degree in merchandising from the Uni versity of North Dakota. Grand Forks, wherp some of the members of the U.S. team also were studying. Wilh Agency His first New York job was as a fashion artist wilh an ad vertising ac?ncy-"lhe agency never got ? fashion account so It didn't iearn what lit tie ex perience I had." said Marek His sketching ability led him eventually into the giant garment industry. He recalled that his first employer, Felix Safian, head of a dress firm, took one look at a design in which Marek had put a pock et in the middle of the bodice and said, "if you're that crazy, you're hired." He also designed sports wear for Loomtoes and junior dresses for Junior Theme be fore opening his own Marek Dresses, Inc.. one year ago. Todav. Marek Dresses are selling In all bul one major Fifth Avenue store and to better stores around the coun try. The business, centered in n on - airennditioned loft where the emphasis is on workmanship rather than glamorous surroundings, did better than a quarter of a mil lion dollars in its first year. Marek credits one dress for easing the financial struggle at the start - a "Ford" (best seller) with sleeveless bodice, simply cut skirt with a slight flare or A-line. Numerous oth er firms copied the shape, he said. He still is making it in a variety of silks and wools. Marek trademarks are workmanship (as much atten tion goes into the lining of a dress body as in the outer finish), a retail price range no higher than $30 and concen tration on subtle prints or casual solid-color fabrics for daytime and long, slim at home dresses for the young figure. Marek's wife is Jessica Ford, high fashion photo graphic model, temporarily letting motherhood be num ber one career. The couple has one daughter, Melissa, 20 months old, and another child on the way. Marek has not become a citizen of his adopted country - yet. He explained that "this IS my country. I will never leave it, but I have never taken an oath." He cannot return to Czecho slovakia, where he still has a mother, sister and other rela tives, because he would be punished as a military desert er. Marek, who is six feet, two inches tall, keeps his athletic 175 pounds static by long hours on the job and by ten nis on week ends. "You can play tennis when you're an old man," he said. "Hockey is so fast you're through by the time you're 28. "The dress business is like hockey. It's fast, you get tired, but if you score, you're hap py." Gold Hill Youth Plan Work Day Gold Hill - Miss Karen Griggs has been elected presi dent of the Senior Methodist Youth Fellowship of Gold Hill Community Methodist church. Others elected were Billy Jones, vice-president; Miss Janice Kinney, secre tary; and Miss Suzanne Kin ney, treasurer. October 7 a party was held in observance of the first an niversary of the local MYF. A candle which has 21 num bers on it was lighted for the occasion, and was burned down to the year it represent ed. Miss Griggs had charge of providing the candle for the ceremony. At the business meeting it was decided by members to hold a work day on October 20 to raise money for the United MYFund. If anyone has odd Jobs that they would like done on that date by this group of young people they are asked to telephone Miss Griggs at 855-1142 or Miss Janice Kinney at 855-1675. The meeting was concluded with an interpretive dance of the conference hymn by Miss Griggs and a friendship cir cle by all. The local Senior Methodist Youth Fellowship meets each Sunday evening at 8:30 o'clock al the church. From Trip Ashland Returning from Portland juit ahead of Ihe big storm last week were Mr. and Mrs. I. F Andres of 72 Laurel street. They have been stay ing with friend during a long convalescence. Farewell Party Given For Greenes Hornbrook - Mr. and Mrs. Paul Greene and daughters, Linda and Lydia, were hon ored at a farewell party on Thursday evening. Co-hostesses were Mrs. Law rence Breceda and Mrs. Harry District Institute Slated bv Federation A 13 rfw f2Qr First district, Oregon red- I I y VlVSlI eration of Women's duos. pians an institute ivovemuer 1 in First Christian church, corner of Fifth and H streets, Grants Pass. Mrs. Melford M. Nelson, Portland, Federation oresi dent, will attend accompanied by Mrs. John S. Tyler Jr., Sa lem, first vice president. Also lo be at the meetinq are Mrs. Walter B. Rich, Portland, scc r.nri vice nresiHpnt- Mrc Wal. Chapman, at whose home the lnQe L Smith third vin pre. party was given Afler 34 years of continu ous residence in Hornbrook, Mr. and Mrs. Greene are mov ing this week to their new home on Liberty street in Ash land. Coming here in 1928 from Bray, Calif., and Hilt, Mr. Greene retired last De cember from the Fruit Grow ers Supply company at Hilt where he had been employed for 37 years. For many years, Mrs. Greene was a piano and ac cordion teacher and has taught a number of children from Hornbrook, Hilt, Copco, Fall Creek and Yreka. She also is a member of Stella chapter of Yreka, Order of the Eastern Star. Mr, and Mrs. Greene have four other children, Mrs. Dav id (Pauline) Mallon, Green view, Calif.; Mrs. L. R. (Rob erta) Heflick, Riverside, Calif.; Kenneth Greene, Eureka, and Gordon Greene, Lakeview. They also have 13 grandchil dren. Linda is a student at Ash land Junior High school and Lydia is in the sixth grade at Lincoln school. Guests at the party, all long time friends of the Greenes, were Mrs. Allie Tyrer, Mr. and Mrs. Henley Clawson, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. Leo King, Mrs. Zela Elmore, Mr. and Mrs. Ar don Burns, Mrs. L. E. Jeter, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Burns, Mrs. Grace Quigley, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cummins, Emory Parshall, Mrs. Marshall Horn, Mr. Chapman and Mrs. Breceda, Reciprocity Meeting Set In Ashland Ashland Fortnightly Study club changed its regu lar meeting date so that mem bers might attend the Ashland Study club's sixtieth anniver sary tea held October 8. On Monday, October 22, the ta bles will be reversed when Fortnightly members will en tertain the other club at the annual reciprocity meeting to be held at the home of Mrs. Herbert Lewis, Terrace street. At its earlier meeting in the home of Mrs. S. J. Bailey, Mrs. M. P. Dunn presented a review of "The Tuntsa," by Teppo T u r e n and Elizabeth Maddox McCabe. It is the true life story of nine intrepid Finns, three of them women, who fled their oppressed homeland in 1947. This gal lant little band braved the Atlantic in a veritable cockle shell of a boat, the Tuntsa, to encounter shipwreck and dis aster with amazing courage. Mrs. William Beagle gave for the day's short topic an analysis of a recent magazine article entitled, "Aftermath of an Adoption," the account of a German baby adopted by Actress Elizabeth Taylor. During the social hour pre ceding the program dessert refreshments were served from a tea table at which Mrs. Alice Willits, the president, and Mrs. Elmo N. Stevenson, poured. lent; Mrs. Clark C. McCa Salem, communications chair man, and Miss Mary A. Don aldson, Monmouth, euro rponding secretary. A coffee hour will he con ducted from 8 to 9 a.m., an ! j a no-host luncheon will be served at noon. Luncheon res ervations should be made with j Mrs. William Harms or Mrs. I Jessie Cooley of Grants Pass, i not later than October 29. All members of clubs In ! Virst district are invited lo at tend. The fall board mcctin,! of the district held recently in Grants Pass was attended oy j members of clubs from Asn- j land, Talent, Medford, Rogue River and Cave Junction. i Mrs. Harms, president of the district, reported on an ex ecutive board meoli.u oi OFWC held in September in Salem. Awards Lilted She also reported that two additional awards had been re ceived by the stale group, a regional award for safety fjr participation in 'Womui s Crusade for Scat Bells," and Ih1 other award w,is for CARE for assisting peoples in Latin America. The presenla lion was made hy Mn Irert C. Gast, immediate past pres ident. Mrs. Harms also nurd l,'nt Ihe speech given by Ml i Dt'x 'er Otis Arnold of Cunrord, New Hampshire, at her in- I serve in that capacity are Mrs. Lyr.abel Deck, Rogue River; . Mrs. Fred Salvage, Cave Junc- slallalion last June in Wash- morning session In Salem; tion, Mrs. R. J. Heidcnreicn, inglon, D. C, was reid in UijMrs. Roy F. Nye. Ashland, Mrs- Helen Not ley and Mr.s. ulirelv at the slale roard I chairman of intema!i.i.ii .il. w- w- Lisntncr, all of Grants meeting In Salem. Mrs. Ar- " lnd of the afle.-nooi rold state that the i-i:rousn meeting. ':L, ., . . , , , M ens. Rogue River, home lite; on ufcwit it i'ir im m l.'u- it.c.in 111,,-utii; wcis itu.1. v-l.iy crty." 1 M. Leo, Medford, slale chair- Toward that end she ked man of projects, under which the slale presidents to wriM-; TARE is classified, lo their governors and ir.quiie Hostesses Named how Ihe clubs can bcs. serve j;,s Harms announced an the needs of their slale- innovation tor this administra- Slate officers attending the lion, in the appointment of Grants Pass meetdig were olficial hostesses who will Mrs. Ralph O. Chapin, G'aits j.erve at district functions d.ir Pass, citizenship chairni.Mi in j i.ig her term as district prci thc public affairs department, j dent. who gave a report on the i Accepting appointments '.n Pass. District chairmen in atten dance were Mrs. II J. Steph Mrs. Elizabeth Hoffman, GnU Hill, international affair. Mrs, Marvin Inman, Grant.-, Pass, scholarship; Mrs. U. 1, Hicks. Kerby, conservation; Mrs. Nellie Wilbur, Cave .In.' tion, safety; Mrs. Barb-ira " ucker. Selma, community improvement; Mrs T. M. Slott. Grants Pass, rcligio:), ;:nd Mrs. Chapin, publicity and communications. Mrs. Harms also announced (hat the annual convention ot First district will be In Tal ent, in April, 1963, when th Talent Federated Women' club will be observing th tittieth anniversary of its founding. HELP US! Wt need clothing, shoes, dishes, furniture, and bedding. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! The Salvation Army 30 N. Holly 773-733S Bethel Installs Two Officers; j Events Planned j Miss Pamela Trowbridge, honored queen of Bethel 55, International Order of Job's ; Daughters, installed Patricia I Shaffer as second messenger j and Ruth Wilcox as inner I guard at last week's meeting J of the bethel in the Medford ! Masonic temple. 1 Escorted and introduced were Miss Madeline Buono core, grand bethel, fifth mes senger of Oregon and two past guardians, Mrs. Harold Gor don and Mrs. Raymond Reter. Lloyd Hamlin server! as asso-, ciate guardian for the meet ing. The progress of Ihe annual Job's October candy sale was discussed by Queen Pamela j and it was explained lhat the proceeds, in addition to Bethel activities, were used to ; sponsor members of (he Inter national Order of Job's Daughters scholarships and the leukemia cancer fund, she I also reported on her visit to ! Bethel 69 on Friendship Night I and on the school of instruc tion in Grants Pass. I A hayride was discussed for lale October and it was an nounced that Bethel 39 at Riddle, Ore. was "buddy Bethel'' for 55. Mrs. John Mast, guardian, installed Mesdames Lawrence Messal, Truman Nelson, Price Shaffer and Jack Langston, as additional members of the guardian council and an nounced that the new council held its first meeting at her home to assist the girls in planning bethel activities. The next meeting of Bethel 55 will be Friendship night on Tuesday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Medford Masonic temple. All Jobs Daughters, their parents or any adult j with proper Masonic affilia tion are cordially invited to attend. Cancel Meeting The regular meeting" of the Welcome Wagon club sched uled for Ibis evening has been cancelled, officers have an nounced. The group will con duct a couple's card party in stead on Friday, October 26 at 8 p.m., in the Girls Com munity club. 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