Milford chronicle., 1960-04-15
LE.WE.S

Mrs. G.. Herbert OrtOn, JT., M. D.'
was elected president of the LeWes
School PTA for the 1960-61 school
wear at the April meeting of the
organization held in the school aud
itorium. The other officers elected
at the time were: Stephen Vaughn,
vice president; Mrs. f. Terry Car
mine, secretary, and Mrs. Raymond
Riniker, treasurer.
The slate of candidates for office
had been prepared by the nomina-
ting committee headed by Mrs.
Ann X. Walls.
DR.. Orton, who has served as
vice president and program chair
man for the past year, came TO
Lewes in 1888 as resident physician
at Beebe Hospital. She attended
winthrop College and the Univer-
sity of South Carolina. and was
graduated from Medical College of
the State OF South Carolina in 1887
and was granted license to prac-
tice medicine in that state the
same year.
She travelled to Bay City. Mich,
to serve her internship at Mercy
Hospital. After coming to Lewes,
she married G.. Herbert Orton, Jr.,
a Lewes river pilot, and they are
parents of four daughters-three
who are students at Lewes School.
Their eldest daughter is a freshman
at the University of Delaware. 1t
is with Mr.. and Mrs. Orton that
Lewes' foreign exchange student
has made her home this year.
Reports were made by delegates
who attended the 1860 PTA con-
ventiOn in Wilmington. Those re-
porting were: DR.. Evelyn G. OrtOn,
Mrs. Granville r. Carey, Mrs. #.
Terry Carmine, Mrs. John Houston,
Mr.. John M. Quillen and Mrs. A
polio ]. Kielbasa.
President Samuel M. Sloan told
of the value of the convention and
expressed the appreciation Of the
organization for Mrs. Bernice A.
BrOuwer's outstanding contribution
to Lewes School in her arranging,
constructing and transporting to
Wilmington an exhibit to tell about
the school. The exhibit, after being
brought back to Lewes, was dis
played in the front lobby for the
benefit of those attending PTA.
Miss Natalia B. Bahdon, a Uk-
rainian student at the University Of
Delaware who will be sent to Eur
ope under the Rotary Foundation
Fellowship Fund, addressed the
Lewes Rotary Club last week in
the Lewes School cafeteria. DIR.
Leon X. Farrin, school superinten-
dent, was program chairman.
Miss Bahdonss topic was Word
Understanding" She speaks four
languages fluently-E English, Ger
man, Russian, and Ukrainian. Born
in the Ukraine, she came to this
country with her parents in World
War III and was graduated from the
Newark High School. She is now a
senior at the university, majorsag
in language She told the Rotarians
of one vivid impression cleaned
from six foreign students she had
interviewed at the University.
While these foreign students are
all favorably impressed with the
United States" she said, they are
surprised the programs of the
churches in this country which go
in for social activities in addition
to religion. In their home lands
only religion is taught in their
churches. They do not indulge in
church social activities"
She said she is going to Germany
to study at the Gutenberg Univer-
sity in Mainz. She said there are
some 130 Fellows from all over the
world each year who attend foreign
universities under the Rotary Foun-
dation Fund. They will spend one
year abroad. They must be between
20 and % years of age, and single,
with knowledge of the language of
the country to which they are sent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis r. Ingram OF
2 California Avenue, Lewes Beach.
announce the engagement OF their
Miss Natalie Rotthouse
Ingram, to Mr. Robert John Cum
ningham III, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert ]. Cunningham, Jr., Of Biz
Ala