Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-12-03
BY MOllie w. Christie
WAverly 6-3525

a pleasant memory, activities
shift to preparations for the
Christmas season. One of the
traditional Accomplishments of
the Yuletide is beautiful music,
and the Gaithersburg High
School has scheduled two of its
annual performances for the
early weeks of December.
% On Friday evening, December
4. the winter band concert will
be presented in the gymnasium
at 8 o'clock. Under the direction
of Miss Frieda Price, the per-
Torrance will include numbers
BY the senior band, the inter
mediate band, the junior band
and the dance band. Several in
triguing specialties. including
the piano artistry of the mint
able Bill Earl, will be featured.
Admission prices are rs cents
for adults and so cents for stu
dents.
The traditional Christmas
choral concert will be given at
the gym at 8 pm. Friday, De-
cember II. The senior high
chorus, one hundred and thirty.
five voices strong, is the largest
in the schools history. In addi.
ton, there is a new girls cho.
rus of 40 voices. These groups
will present much of the pro-
gram, which will be supple
mented by the appearance of
smaller vocal groups. Further
details of the concert will be
given in next weeks issue.
We're still catching up with
the Thanksgiving travels and
reunions. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Ham m a n n, with Larry and
Brenda and Ma. Hammann's
mother, Mrs. Myrtle Hammann,
motored up to Amityville, L. 1.
to spend the long holiday at the
home of Mrs. c. S. Wilmarth.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Anderson
and their three children en-.
joyed Thanksgiving in Mount
Holly, N. j., where they were
3 guests of Mrs. Anderson's broth
er.in.law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. v. Langelo.
Mrs. Kitty Rotruck returned
to Gaithersburg for the holiday
after a months stay in Seattle.
Mrs. Elton McGhee has re-
turned from a visit of several
days with her mother, Mrs.
Dora Hawkins in Lynchburg, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. u. Landrum
of Detroit Lakes, Mimi, have
been the guests for the past two
weeks of Mrs. Landrum's broth
er-in-law and sister, Mr.. and
Mrs. Herbert Becraft. On
Thanksgiving Day, Mr.. and
Mrs. Becraft were hosts at d
family dinner party. In addition
to Mr.. and Mrs. Landrum, their
guests were Mrs. c. E. Craw-
ford, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Walker and their three children,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Rob-
ertson and their children.
Is The members of Forest Oak
Chapter of the Questers were the
luncheon guests last Wednesday
of Mrs. Floyd Lewis in her love-
ly old Emmittsburg home. Mrs.
Lewis, formerly of German
town, is busily restoring the
100-year-old home, which is just
off the campus of st. Joseph's
College. Mrs. Charles Burton
was co-hostess for the meeting,
and Mrs. Wallace Muir presided
at the business session.
approximately so friends of
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Gillian
gathered in their lovely new
.Rosemont home on Saturday
evening to fete the new owners
at a housewarming party. The
celebration was a dual one, for
Mrs. Gillian also marked her
birthday last week.
Gaithersburg Homemakers
viii hold their annual Christ
mas party Wednesday evening,
December 8, at 8 o'clock at Ep-
worth Methodist Church. There
viii be an exchange of gifts
among the members, who will
remember not only themselves
but also the less happy and ia
Vored. They will bring cookies
TO be taken to a veterans hos
pital and they will complete
their Christmas boxes for the
patients at Henryton Hospital.
Hostesses for the party will
be Mrs. George McBain, Mrs.
Robert Cakes, Mrs. Donald How
ard, Mrs. Elmer Fletcher, Mrs.
Philip Vetter, Mrs. Margaret
Savage and Miss JACKIE Gather.
= This will be the last meeting
for the outgoing corps of Off
GERS: Mrs. Allyn H. Myers, pres
ident; Mrs. Roy Talbot, vice
president; Mrs. Mae Briggs,
secretary; and Mrs. Irwin Ward,
treasurer.
Pentalpha Chapter, No. 38,
Order of the Eastern Star, is
conducting a sale of pecans and
black walnuts, all shelled and
bagged for holiday baking. Or
ders may be placed with Mrs.