Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-10
Clubs
Society
Anne Davis
Notebook

Graduation exercises and re-
citals took all the space on Sat-
urday so the Notebook bowed
gracefully out of the picture until
Tuesday.
And still the graduations hold
The foreground, for not only are
the FL Centro schools this week busy
with their commencements, but
many colleges and universities are
having their graduationS also with
valley residents, proud fathers and
mothers, being III the audiences
to see their sons and daughters re-
ceived their diplomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry w. Horton
and Mrs. Horizons father, Judge
M. w. Conkling, left Sunday for
Pomona to see their daughter, Bar
bara, graduated from that college
They planned to attend the tea
for parents and the baccalaureate
services Sunday as we'll as the
commencement on Monday.
The Horizons have a Son-in-law,
Reginald l.. Knox, who will receive
his degree of bachelor of law
Saturday at Stanford University
and they are seriously considering
going north for that event, as Mr.
Horton has business in San Fran
cisco that week. Mr.. and Mrs. Knox
will spend the summer in the val
ley, arriving after graduation. Mrs.
Knox is the former Mary Kath-
crime Horton.
Mrs Roy E. Breedlove also will
witness the Pomona college COM
mencement as she has a niece
graduating, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs r. II. Benton
Mrs. Breedlove left Sunday for
Pine Valley where she met the Roy
BentonS, going to Pomona with
them by way of Warmers. She plan
ned to spend several days in San
Marina and vicinity visiting rela-
tives and friends.
U.CL.A. graduation festivities are
taking Mrs. Allen P. Nuffer and
Mrs. w. j. Clements to Los Angeles,
their daughters both named Kay,
being among U.C.L.A's graduates.
Mr.. Nuffer and Mr.. Clements plan
to arrive in time for the co.,
mencement Saturday, the. first to
be held in the new Greek theater.
Mrs. Nuffer and Kay will leave
about July l on a motor trip to the
cast coast and Canada.
uses commencement Saturday
was important to five Ell Centre
graduate students: Robert Bradford
Fox, son of DR.. and Mrs. Warren
F.. Fox, who received his bachelor
of arts degree; Stan. D. Atkin, Jr.,
| Wiley D. Garner, Earle Massey
| and Raleigh II. Holt, all Central
faculty members who received mas
| ter of science degrees in educa-
ton.
! use. students who arrived this
past weekend for summer vacation
are Betty Smyer, Harry Gates, and
Elrose Maquar.
Elrose. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Roch Maquar of El Centro, has
been honored by being made a
counsellor for the Alpha Gamma
Delta summer camp at jackson,
Mich Elrose's sorority maintains
| two summer camps for under
| privileged children, one in Cana :
da, and the other, at Jackson. Ell
rose will leave June 25 for the east
| to assume her duties at camp. At
present she is enjoying a house
party at Catalina, after which she
will return to the valley Elrose
has also been honored with elec-
ton to Panhellenic council, to the
Sophomore council and is presi-
cent Of Delta Omicron pledge class
Delta Omicron being an honorary
music society. E1rose was also
chosen as Sophomore personality
in the yearbook.
Stanford's commencement is TAX
ing Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hovey
north. They are planning a leisure
ly trip and will reach Stanford in
time for the exercises on Saturday
and after that they rather antici-
pate that they will be called upon
to help their daughter, Marjorie,
move her belongings to Vallejo
where she is to have her first real
Job, on Vallejo newspaper Marge
has made a splendid record in COL
lege newspaper work having been
Women's editor of the Stanford
Daily.