Milford chronicle., 1960-05-20
Club Women Will
Honor Youth At
Their Convention

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high academic achievements and
well rounded personalities made
them ideal Junior Ambassadors of
good will for this program joint
ly sponsored by the State Fedora
ton and the American Field Ser
vice.
Bertha Adkins will be the speak
er of the banquet session Wednes-
day evening and has chosen for her
topic: Youth, Our Space Age Res
evoir" Miss Adkins is Under Sec
retary of Health, Education and
Welfare for the Federal govern
ment and has background of sew
eral years in the academic field be-
fore going into government work.
A special feature of the evening
will be the playing of young art
ist, Ulrich Niebuhr, of Hamburg,
Germany, who is at present men,
Der of the faculty of the Whining
ton Music School Mr.. Niebuhr was
graduated after five years of inten-
sive study at the Hamburg Con-
servatory of Music (West Ger
many) and afterwards, took mas
ter-courses in piano with the fam
GUS Cembalist Eliza Hansen who
herself had studied with the late
Arthur Schnabe1 in Berlin. Besides
his studies at the Conservatory, he
started, at the age of % a remark
able career in show business, after
he was discovered as a pianist on
n u
ing and TB Exhibition in Hamburg
in 1853. To earn his living for his
classical studies, he played in a
lazz-quintett in various night clubs
and soon made his first recording
with the NRD-Radio station in
Hamburg. Mr.. Niebuhr launched
upon his career as a concert pian-
ist with successful performance
of Won Weber's "Concertsteuck'
in minor with the Eutin SYM
phony Orchestra. He came to the
United States in 1858.
The Delaware State Federation
of Women's Clubs sixty-third an
nual convention will feature out
standing Delaware musicians ac-
cording to Mrs. E. Frank. Nelson,
Jr., of Wilmington, State Chairman
of Music. The convention opens
with a meeting of the Executive
Board Wednesday morning with
Mrs. William J. Storey, of Dover,
President, presiding in the Gold
Ballroom of the Hotel DUPONT in
Wilmington.
Press book awards and radio CT
tations will be given. by their re-
spective chairmen; Mrs. Ned w,
Rankin of Dover, Chairman of Pub
licity, and Mrs. William N. Cam.
of Wilmington, Chairman of Radio
at the Communications Depart
ment Luncheon at 1915 the rst
day of the convention. Toastmis-
tress at the Communications De-
partment Luncheon will be Mrs.
E. w. Buchanan of Dover, Della
ware; who is offering prizes for in
teresting hats worn on this occa-
sion.
A special feature of the Wednes-
day afternoon session will be three
solos by Mrs. S. s. Swensson of
Seaford, Delaware, we'll known So
prano. Mrs. Swensson is Minister
of Music at the Mt. Olivet Metho-
dist Church Choir in Seaford and
will be accompanied by Mr.. Alder
son Mowbray, church organist.
Mrs. Swensson will sing 20. Milo
Babbino Caro-" from "Gianni Schic-
chi" by Puccini; ssAir Des Biioux"
from Faust" by Gounod and 81
Feel Pretty" from West Side Sto-
ry" by Bernstein. Mrs. Swensson
comes to Delaware from Nashville,
Tennessee and has given concerts
in Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland
and Delaware. She has presented a
number of radio programs over
WBOC-TV at Salisbury, Maryland