Evening star., 1941-11-17
Miss Laura Purdum Weds
1t. Joseph w. BrOOkhart.

The wedding Of Miss Laura Spen-
Ger Purdum, daughter of the Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster Genera
and Mrs Smith w Purdum OF
HvattsvilIe. Md. and 1t. Joseph
Warren Brookhart, United States
Army Air Corps, son of former
Senator and Mrs. Smith w. Brook
hart. also OF Hyattsville. took place
at S o'clock the afternoon of No
vember 7 in the First Presbyterian
Church of Hyattsville.
The Postmaster General and Mrs.
Frank c. Walker and others prom
inent in official and social circles
attended the ceremony, which was
performed by the Rev. D. Hobart
Evans, minister of the church.
Prior to the wedding, Mr.. David
Stoddard sang. accompanied by Mrs
Ernest A. Burslem organist of the
church
The bride, who was given in mar
riage by her father, wore an aqua
marine two-piece suit with match
ing hat and brown orchid. Miss
Mildred Lee Purdum. who was maid
of honor for her sister. was in a gold
two-piece suit, fashioned like that
OF the bride, and wore brown vel
vet hat, brown gloves and corsage
of talisman roses.
Mr.. Smith w. Brookhart, jr., OF
Washington was best man for his
brother and the ushers were Mr.
Smith H. Purdum of Washington,
brother of the bride. and Mr.. Will
liam Thompson of Hyattsville.
The bride is a graduate OF Black
stone Junior College and Harrison
burg Teachers College, both In Vir-
ginia. Her sorority is Kappa Delta
Phi. 1t. Brookhart holds a degree
as geologist from the University OF
Chicago, where he won a fellow
ship. Previously he attended Wood
ward School for Boys in Washing
ton. Recently he completed his
Army air training at Craig Field.
Selma, Ala, and received his wings
and commission as lieutenant.
He has been ordered to duty with
the 31st Pursuit Group at Fort
Wayne, Ind, where he and his bride
will reside after a wedding trip.
Miss Phyllis Hagedorn
Weds DR.. Maynard Cohen.
Miss Phyllis Hagedorn, daughter
OF Mrs. Frances Wolff Hagedorn of
this city, became the bride of DR.
Maynard Cohen, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joel Cohen of Wilkes Barre.
Pa, yesterday at noon in the home
OF the bride at 2700 Connecticut
avenue.
Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld ofdci-
ated.
The bride was given in marriage
by her cousin, Mr.. Bernard Violin
Scheuer of Baltimore. She wore a
defense blue wool dress trimmed
with London dyed squirrel, hat to
match and an orchid corsage.
Mr.. Joel Cohen, jr., brother OF the
bridegroom, was the best man.
Mrs. Hagedorn, mother Of the
bride, wore gray crepe and silver
lame. with a hat to correspond and
the bridegrooms mother was in
teal blue. Both wore orchid cor
sages.
Out-of town guests at the we'd
ding were Miss Blanche Wolff OF
Montgomery, Ala, aunt of the
bride; Mr.. B. w. Scheuer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Raymond J. Scheuer, cousins
Of the bride, of Baltimore; Miss
Nancy Cohen. sister of the bride
groom, and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M
Weiss. brother-i law and sister OF
the bridegroom. all of Wilkes-Barre
After a wedding trip to New Eng
land, the couple will be at home al
the Clifton Hotel in New York City
where DR.. Cohen is on the resident
stan of the Babies Hospital, Colum.
presbyterian Medical Center.
The bride was graduated from
Smith College In 1887. DR.. Coher
il a graduate of Harvard College
and the Johns Hopkins Medica
School.
miss Anna Crum Wed
r. Al. Vohn r uornn