New Britain herald., 1923-03-17

| The engagement or MISS Rachel l.
 Clark. of Holyoke, Mass. and Car
 $. Neumann, Of this city, was an
 nounced at luncheon party in Hol
 yoke today at noon. Both younl
 people are prominent in their re
 spective cities.
 MT. Neumann is secretary of tht
 Union Manufacturing company o
 New Britain and for several year,
 has been secretary of the Connects
 cut Foundryman's Association and 1,
 a member of the State Industrial Council. He is graduate of thu
 New Britain High school and of Wes. leyan university and is active in the
 New Britain Industrial Council and
 the local Methodist church. Both he
 and his fancee are members of the
 Appalachian Mountain club of Bos. l ton.
 | Miss Clark attended the Capen
 school in Northampton and after
 wards graduated from Miss Wheel
 ocks school for kindergarten teach
 CTS at Boston. Later she specialized
 in educational work at Harvard uni
 versity. at Teachers college of Co.,
 lumbia university, and Oxford univer- sity. England. For two years she
 worked in France as member of the American Kindergarten Unit. She
 now is the head of the English lit- erature department at the Wheelock school and is president of the Wheel ock Alumnae association.
 A feature of the luncheon today of especial interest was the announce ment at the same time of the engage ment of Miss Clark's twin sister, Dr. Ruth l.. Clark. psychologist of the vocational bureau of New York city, to Professor John Metcalf. of the psychology department of the uni versity of Vermont. The luncheon was given by Mir. and Mrs. John Clark at their home at 13s Madison avenue, Holyoke.
 It was announced, earlier in the week, that the goal for the Y. w. c. A. drive for s11.00O had been nearly reached. Mrs. P. B. Stanley stated that S10,400 had been sub scribed by sS7 people.
 Mrs. w. J. Warden, of Liberty street, is registered at Haddon Hall in Atlantic City.
 The St. Patricks ball, given by the Ancient Order of Hibernans in the State Armory last evening. proved 10 be all that was expected of it by those in charge and their guests. An Irish organization and an Irish ball upon the eve of all days that Irishmen celebrate, what more could be desired for joy to an Irishman's heart--or to any other pleasure low ing individuals heart. The commit tee in charge of the affair was John Quinn, chairman; William McCune, Lawrence P. Mangan. Robert Murray, T. D. Donlon, John Pendergast, Will liam Hickey, William Campbell, Will liam Bass, Frank Hart. Cornelius Lynch. Thomas Glynn. William Fish CT and John J. Mangan.
 pr. and Mrs. Waterman attended the annual banquet of the Boston university alumni in New York last evening. They will spend the week. end in New York.
 There was a dance following the Hartford-New Britain high school | basketball game at the high school last evening.
 James W. Cooper, son of Mir and | Mrs. J. F. Cooper. of Vine street, stands first on a list of ten honor pupils during the freshman year at Yale. It is necessary to average be- tween 90 and 100 in studies to gain such a standing.
 A committee of local women with Mrs. A. G. kimball as chairman has been selected to work in conjunction with the American Legion committee n charge of the arrangements for he production of the Legion pro- oe given at the Lyceum the first hree days of next week. In addi- ion to Mrs. Kimball tho following the committee: William H. Booth Miss Cornelia Chamberlain, Mrs. B. F. Gaffney. Mrs. William c. Mrs. George T. kimball. Irs. John C. Loomis, Mrs. A. c. Me linnie, Mrs. P. r. McDonough and lrs. Howard S. Parsons. Among the ,ox holders will be Mir. and Mrs. saac Black, Mir. and Mrs. Norman P. Cooley, Mir. and Mrs. A. r. Corbin, Ir. and Mrs. Walter H. Hart. E. A.  Mir. and Mrs. George T. limba1l. Mir. and Mrs. W. w. 1e- and. Mrs. L. Hoyt Pease, Mrs. n. }. Rogers, George Spear, William W. '. Squire. Mir and Mrs. Philip R. tanley and the officers of the r. A. }. society.
 President Southwick, of the Elmer on School of Oratory. addressed the ,erhers of the Woman's club last tuesday afternoon at what was inc lst lecture Of the season. MT. South 'ick replaced pr. R. r. Burton, rro- 'ssor of literature in the University Minnesota. who could not keep his revious engagement because of Ill., ess. Mrs. J. c. Loomis, Mrs. c, B. tanley, Miss Mary s. Whittlesey and Irs F., NJ. Wightman had the lecture charge.
 President Southwick's subject was The Life of Patrick Henry" and his llk on the life and adventures of lc great American orator proved lost expressing. He stated that tho an who was afterwa rds 10 become af p1 lowed no signs of his ability in irly life. His first plea to jury .ercame the prejudice of judge