Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-06-18
.A COLLEGE WEDDING
Miss Marie Haefliger and MIR.
Graves to Be Married
AT WRIGHT HALL THIS EVENING
Dean of Women of Alma College
Becomes Bride of Michigan
Central Travelling Auditor

This evening will occur the first
wedding to be solemnized in Wright
Hall and the first real college we'd
ding" Alma has known, when Miss
Marie Haefliger and Mr.. Stanley A.
Graves of Detroit will be united in
marriage. The ceremony will take
place at eighty-thirty in the large re-
ception room of Wright Hall. Miss
Velma Sharpe will play Mendelssohn's
Wedding March and the ribbon bear
ers, Master Joe Graves and Miss Es-
ther Rhodes, dressed in white, will en-
ter and form the aisle with white rib
bons. They will be followed by Rev.
DR.. j. Nj. Barclay, the groom and his
best man, and the ushers, who come
in from the faculty room and await
the coming of the bride in front of an
altar placed before an embankment
of palms and ferns. From the oppo-
site side the flower girl will enter,
strewing flowers in the aisle and will
be followed by the four bridesmaids
and the maid of honor. The bride with
her brother, William Haefiger of
Evanston, H., by whom she will be
| given away, will enter last and DR..
Barclay will perform the ceremony,
using the ring service. During the
ceremony Miss Sharpe will play
LISTS Liebestraum. Following con-
gratulations and wishes fruit punch
and brides cake will be served to the
guests.
The reception room of the Hall is
beautifully decorated with palms
ferns, pink roses and sweet peas, and
the fireplace is of solid green before
which the altar stands.
The bride will be gowned in white
satin, made with a court train, with
trimmings of pearl and old lace, anC
will wear a bridal veil. She will carry
a shower bouquet of white sweet peas
The bridesmaids will wear white crepe
with pink rosebuds and carry bouquet:
of pink roses and daisies. The groom
and his attendants will wear dres:
suits and white kid gloves
Miss Eleanor Haefliger of Holland
Mich, sister of the bride, will act a:
maid of honor and the bridesmaid.
will be the Misses Ethel Carey anC
Kathryn Shay of Harbor Springs anC
the Misses Marie Cornwell and MARY
Blaisdell of Alma. Miss Katherin,
Clarke of Harbor Springs will be tn,
flower girl. The best man will be Pau
z. Rohns of Hillcrest Orchard, Empire
Mich, who attended Alma College il
l905-'06, and is a lifelong friend O
the groom's. The ushers will be tn,
Messrs. Joe Graves of Detroit, brothe
of the groom, Earl Allured of Evart
Theodore Higbee and Allen French
students at the college.
The couple will leave late tonigh
for Colorado Springs, where they vii
: spend two weeks and on returning will
commence housekeeping at 131 Pacif
avenue, Detroit, where they Will be a
home to their friends after Septem
Der first.
Among the out-of-town guests Z
be present are Mrs. Nellie A. Graves
mother of the groom, Mr.. and Mrs
Joseph +. Graves of Royal Oak, Mich
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Graves of De
troit, Prof. and Mrs. Koepinski of An
Arbor, in addition to those participat
, ing in the ceremony.
/, Miss Haefiger is a graduate o
Northwestern University and afte
, serving one year as member Of III
: faculty as instructor, she was last yea
. honored by being offered the positio
of Dean of Women of Alma College
which position she has filled TO tn
entire satisfaction of all concerne
and has made hosts of friends i
; Alma among the students, faculty an
: townspeople.
Mr.. Graves graduated from Aim
, College in 1910. During his studen
= days he was editor of the Weekly A
. manian, president of the Zeta Sign
: society, and one of the most popula
young men at Alma. He is now en-
ployed as travelling auditor for tn
. Michigan Central railroad. Thei
multitude of friends at the college, i
the city and throughout the state eN
:. tend most sincere congratulations an
! good wishes.