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GENEVA COLLEGE
The Geneva College Alumni
Lettermen's
club will hold its second annual
Alumni Lettermen's Day celebration,
Saturday, February 19.
Activities will include a coffee hour,
and supper in the Brodhead hotel, Beav
er Falls, an alumni basketball game, and
the Geneva- Youngstown College varsity
basketball game in the Beaver Falls
High gymnasium at 8:30 p.m.
The coffee hour will be from 4 until
5 p.m., when the supper will begin. The
alumni basketball game will include
players from the 1945-1954 teams.
JENNIE WALKINSHAW McKNIGHT
ORLANDO, FLORIDA
The Women's Missionary Society of
the Orlando Congregation wishes to pay
loving tribute to the memory of Mrs.
Jennie McKnight who passed to her
heavenly home August 26, 1954.
She was faithful in her home duties,
loyal to her church, missionary society
and the W.C.T.U.
To her family
we extend our love and
sympathy. Her memory will remain in
our hearts for a long time to come.
She was thoughtful of others day after
day,
Unselfish, helpful but that was her
way,
Her cheery smile and wholesome good
humor,
Are character traits we shall always
remember.
Committee.
SANTA ANA
Mrs. A. P. Donahue
Mrs. Milford White
January 5 a baby daughter Beverly
Jean arrived to gladden the hearts of
her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Keys.
We are thankful for the restoration
of little David Vogt who recently spent
some time in the hospital.
Mrs. Mary
Johnson received a mes
sage of the sudden passing of her moth
er, Mrs. McClure of Sharon. Mrs. John
son has returned from her trip east.
We sent 125 pounds of clothing to
Selma, Alabama, in January.
Friday evening, January 28 we had a
church supper honoring Miss
Blanche
McCrea and Miss Orlena Lynn. Follow
ing the supper Miss Lynn showed slides
of Japan and Sabbath morning gave an
interesting talk on the work there. Our
S. S. collection that morning was $40.00
for the Book Room in Kobe. Miss Mc
Crea plans to be with us for some time,
and we will hear of her work in Nicosia,
Cyprus, later. These visits with our mis
sionaries are a great blessing
spiration for us.
and in
IN MEMORIAM
MRS. BLANCHE M. CARMICHAEL
There must have been joy in Heaven
on November 15,
as one of the bestloved
members of the New York congre
gation was welcomed into the Heavenly
Home. In 1924 Mrs. Blanche McAllister
Carmichael came from the Syracuse
congregation to Second New York as
the bride of Mr. Edward Carmichael.
A joyous Christian, with a genius for
friendship, she soon endeared herself to
the latter congregation.
When the Second and Third New York
congregations united, in 1944, members
of the former Third Church were quick
ly added to Mrs. Carmichael's large cir
cle of friends. The home in Rockville
Centre, a suburb, shared by Mr. Car
michael's two sisters, Miss Lavinia Car
michael and Mrs. Anna C. Wray, was
noted for its hosnitalitv from the begin
ning. Members of the Women's M'ssionary
Soo'ety have rrpny happy memories
of the Rockville Centre meetings.
Mr. Carmichael passed away in 1939.
Though Mrs.
Carmichael felt his loss
keenly, she continued to be active in
the congregation and particularly in the
Women's Missionary Society. She was
the efficient and faithful treasurer for
a number of years, and still held that
office at the time of her death. Frail in
health in the last few years, she was
tenderly cared for by Mrs. Wray during
several serious illnesses. The past
months were very hard, but she was
brave and bright, grateful for loving
care, and interested in all her friends,
until, she lapsed into a coma, several
days before she passed away. We shall
miss this dear friend very much, but wo
rejoice that for her sorrow and pain are
no more, and she is safe in our Father's
House.
DR. ROBERT W. ROBB
The Church has suffered another loss
in the death of Dr. Robert W. Robb, who
was born near Morning Sun, Iowa, Jan
uary 10, 1878, the son of the late Dr.
T. P. Robb, pastor of the Sharon Cove
nanter Congregation near Morning Sun.
Dr. Robb attended Geneva College in
class of 1899 and graduated from the
Iowa State University Medical School in
1904.
For eighteen years he praet;~ed med'-
cine in B'anchard, Iowa: having taken
special work in psychiatry he became
the superintendent of the State Hospital
in Osawatom'e, Kansas,
for 18
where he served
years as head of the Nurses
Training School and director of the
Hospital and as assistant superinten
dent. For 9 years he served the State
Hospital at Independence, Iowa, as as
sistant superintendent and later as su
perintendent. From Independence, Iowa,
he went to Philomath, Oregon, to prac
tice with his son, Dr. Thomas Robb but
after three weeks the son suddenly died
and Dr. and Mrs. Robb returned to
Lamed, Kansas, where he had a previous
offer in the State Hospital and where
he worked until January 1954. After an
attack of virus pneumonia he received
a leave of absence and spent four
months in Orlando, Florida, then to
Frederick, Maryland to be with their
daughter, Mrs. Mary Wheeler. He passed
away on January 30, 1955. His body was
brought to Clarinda where the funeral
was conducted by Rev. C. T. Carson,
burial was at Blanchard, February 2,
1955.
August 29, 1927 he was married to
Miss Monta Porter, of Albia, Iowa, to
which union four children were born;
Robert William, Thomas Plantz, Mrs.
Mary Katherine Wheeler and Mrs. Nan
cy Harrison Scott of Kansas City. Two
sisters survive, Mrs. E. L. Dodds of Van
Nuys, California and Mrs. W. O. Mor
row, of Hemet, California.
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