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THE INDEX, Saturday, January 21, 1928
T H E past week has witnessed numerous
departures for Winter cruises and resorts
in the West and South with more to
come during the next ten days. Friday,
January twenty-seventh, a party that includes
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Todd, of
Shady Avenue; Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kohne,
of South Aiken Avenue; Mrs. Samuel F. Sipe,
of North Highland Avenue, and Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Fuller will leave for Florida, where
they will remain until Spring. They will be
joined by Mr. and Mrs. William M. Rea, of
Atlantic City, formerly of Pittsburgh. Although
various parts of Florida will be visited
the party will spend most of the time at
Winter Park.
In honor of Miss Hallie Virginia Hill,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Harry Schuyler
Nicholson, of Shady Avenue, whose marriage
to Mr. Frederick Rufus Crawford will take
place in the Sixth Presbyterian Church the
afternoon of January twenty-fifth, Mrs.
Henry Altmiller will give a luncheon today at
her home in Albemarle Street, and this evening
Mr. and Mrs. J. Wood Clark, of Shady
Avenue, give a dinner in the University Club.
Tomorrow evening Miss Ann Watt, Miss Virginia
Patterson and Miss Harriet Patterson
will be hostesses at a supper in the Longue
Vue Country Club; Monday afternoon Mrs.
Nicholson will give an informal tea at her
home for her daughter; Monday night will
bring the "spinster" dinner, with Mrs. John
H. Nicholson, of Shady Avenue, as hostess,
and Mr. Crawford's bachelor dinner; Tuesday
Mrs. Harris E. Wainwright and her
daughter, Mrs. Albert Home Burchfield, Jr.,
will give a luncheon in Mrs. Wainwright's
home in Beechwood Boulevard; that evening
Mrs. Rufus Choate Crawford, Mr. Crawford's
mother, will give the rehearsal dinner in the
University Club and the day of the wedding,
Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kizer, of
Towanda, and Mr. and Mrs. C. Bedell Monro
will give a breakfast in the Pittsburgh Country
Club for the bridal party and out of town
guests.
Last night Miss Jean Brown Scott, of
Philadelphia, who is to be Miss Hill's maid of
honor, and Mr. Crawford's best man, Mr.
James Haller Hardie, gave a theatre party,
followed by a supper and yesterday afternoon
Mrs. Charles B. Jarrett gave a luncheon at
her home in Aylesboro Avenue. Mr. and Mrs.
William Loftus Monro's dinner at their home
in Wilkins Avenue Thursday evening was
preceded by a luncheon Mrs. J. Boyd McKown
gave that afternoon in the Twentieth Century
Club.
Miss Elizabeth Wainwright Voight, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Lee Voight, of
Hampton Avenue, was one of the bridesmaids
at the wedding of Miss Jane Caruthers,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hennen
S O C I E T Y
Caruthers, and Mr. G. Hilmer Lundbeck, Jr.,
of New York, which took place Wednesday
afternoon in St. Thomas' Church, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Blackburn, of
Lexington Avenue, have gone to Pasadena
for the remainder of the Winter.
Bachrach.
MRS. HENRY SCOTT RUBEL
Formerly Miss Dorothy Deuel, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Austin Deuel, of the Schenley Apartments.
The Deuel-Rubel wedding took place the afternoon of
December twenty-eighth, in Trinity Protestant Episcopal
Church, with the Rt. Rev. Alexander Mann, Bishop
of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, reading the service. With
Mrs. Rubel is her sister, Mrs. Andrew Lawrence Riker,
Jr., of Fairfield, Connecticut, who served as her
matron of honor.
Miss Mary Louise Johnson heads the
Cigarette Committee for the Aero Club ball,
to be given in The William Penn Friday evening,
February third. Also on the committee
are Miss Josephine Nicola, Miss Betty Scott,
Miss Mary Oliver, Miss Virginia Goldsbury,
Miss Jane Foster, Miss Anne King Scott,
Miss Mary Childs and Miss Elizabeth George.
Mr. James M. Magee, a lieutenant colonel
in the Air Corps Reserve, is chairman of the
Patrons Committee and assisting him are
Mr. Frank Dickson, Colonel William Thaw,
Mr. Bennett Oliver, Mr. Charles L. Snowdon,
Jr., Mr. A. W. Wyckoff and Mr. Hal Bazley.
Captain Thomas S. Voss, Rodgers'
Field commandant, is general chairman of
the ball.
As usual a number of aviation celebrities
will attend the ball, the proceeds of which
will be used for the education of aviators,
also to advance aviation in the Pittsburgh
district. Among those expected to accept invitations
to come to Pittsburgh for the ball
are Major General James E. Fechet, chief of
the Army Air Corps; Lieutenant Alexander
Maitland, the first pilot to fly from the United
States to Hawaii; Mr. Clarence D. Chamberlin,
the second pilot to fly from the United
States to Europe.
Miss Katherine Deming Clapp, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Hubbard Clapp, of
Woodland Road, Edgeworth, has chosen Saturday,
February fourth, as the date for her
marriage to Mr. William Ayres Galbraith, of
Sewickley. The wedding will take place at
half past five o'clock that afternoon in the
Clapp home.
Among those who are sponsoring the third
evening of chamber music in the ball-room
of The Schenley Saturday, January twentyeighth,
with the Yost String Quartet presenting
the program, are Mrs. Samuel D.
Foster, Mrs. William Thaw, Jr., Mrs. Albert
A. Germaine, Mrs. Oliver S. Hershman, Mrs.
Harry E. Sheldon, Mrs. William H. Stevenson,
Mrs. George H. Deikes, Mrs. Harry
Wherrett, Mrs. Ambrose N. Diehl, Miss
Helen Rauh and Mrs. Daniel M. Clemson.
In honor of Mrs. Frank R. Stoner, Jr., who
was Miss Jane Veeder Nicholson before her
marriage in the Fall, Mrs. Howard Shaw entertained
at bridge yesterday afternoon at
her home in Grove Street, Sewickley. Members
of the debutante and young married
groups were Mrs. Shaw's guests.
Mrs. Julian Burdick, Miss Frances and
Miss Martha Burdick, of Von Lent Place, are
at Lake Placid where they are taking part in
the Winter sports.
Mrs. D. Herbert Hostetter and Miss Helene
Hostetter, of Pittsburgh and New York, leave
this month for Pasadena, where they will
spend several months.
Miss Gertrude Gerdes, of New York, is the
guest of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr.
and Mrs. Ragnar Wikander, of North Negley
Avenue.
Mrs. William Whigham, of the Hotel
Schenley, sailed Wednesday from New York
on the Homeric, for a Mediterranean cruise.