WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1950
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
PAGE FIVE
Wedding Gowns Now 'Convertible', Editor Says
By VIRGINIA FROST
A small, blonde woman with a cluster of bright oranges on her hat, walked out of a 65-mile-an-hour gale into the Kansas City airport. Jooking neat and trim and not at all windblown.
She was Marjorie Binford Woods, editor-in-chief of Modern Bride magazine, who had flown from Chicago to speak in Lawrence at the Matrix Table banquet of Theta Sigma Phi, honorary Journalism fraternity for women. Mrs. Woods edits what is still considered a "baby" publication by her publishers, since it was just started in January 1949.
On the way to Lawrence, Mrs. Woods relaxed in the car, smoothed her chic navy blue wool skirt and navy and white checked jacket and talked about brides.
"This is a wonderful time of year to talk about weddings," she said with a smile. "June is always the 'wedding month', although many of the 3 and three-quarter million brides in the country are married at other times of the year."
Mrs. Woods is interested in the women who are helping to put their husbands through college. She said these women want all the romance and glamour of a formal wedding, but are willing to pitch in and work
hard to keep up an apartment and job as soon as the wedding and the honeymoon are over.
This charming Chicago editor, who is a native Hoosier, is well-qualified to speak on brides, wedding dresses and trousseaux. She was a bridal consultant for the William H. Block company, in Indianapolis, before starting Modern Bride. There she handled more than 7,000 weddings in three years and loved the excitement and the romance of the work. She has also written a book, "Your Wedding, How To Plan and Enjoy It."
Her magazine, she said with a well-justified touch of pride, is keyed to the working girl. All of the wedding fashions are priced for the girl on a budget. And the honeymoon locations which she suggests to young couples are also reasonably-priced.
"Many persons seem to think that fancy weddings are old-fashioned and out-moded," she said. "I
don't believe that. A wedding is something that usually happens to a girl just once in her life and she should have the costume and the setting to make her truly a star."
Mrs. Woods said this year's wedding gowns are of many styles and colors. The long, full-trained, white gowns are always popular, but many brides-to-be are choosing a gown in a pink, ice-blue or champagne color. A new style is the "convertible" wedding outfit. This is a sheath of satin or taffeta, an ankle-length or full-length skirt, with a strapless bodice, which is covered with a redingote and a train of marquisette, net, chiffon, or organdy for the wedding.
Each issue of Modern Bride shows what the editor calls "Love of the Season," a short wedding suit or dress with several pieces which can be mixed and matched on the honey-moon and afterwards.
"No matter how many weddings a girl has attended, she is still bewildered when she begins to plan her own." Mrs. Woods believes. "We try to take a bride-to-be by the hand and help her direct and plan her wedding, so that when that day comes she'll be rested and radiant."
Dances, Teas, Picnics Climax Social Activities
Phi Beta Pi Spring Dance
Phi Beta Pi Spring Dance
Phi Beta Pi medical fraternity entertained recently with a spring formal at the Eldridge hotel. Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Fleming, Dr. and Mrs. P. G. Roofe, Dr. and Mrs. N. P. Sherwood, and Mr. and Mrs. I. D. Rowe were chaperones.
Guests were: Betty Hatcher, Mary Hardman, Bety Bartell, Shirley Rhodes, Marjorie Jence, Helen Jones, Marilyn Morgan, Eleanor Brown, Shirley Wilkie, Carolyn Barndt, Marilyn White, Marilyn Lindberg, Mary Verschoyle, Lynn Trousdale, Mary Spillman, Jeannine Troughard, Ardice Wilson, Betis Kensall, Virginia Baley, Betty Blaker, Mina MacNair, Marjorie Reash, Patti Harris, Betty Clinger, Lois Cooke, Renee Benjaminov, Phyllis Fangman, Betty Ott, Sally Wood, Kathryn Casady, Lois Ruhl, Jean Weber, Carmen Edwards, and Emily Stewart.
Watkins Honors Mothers
Watkins hall entertained with a Mother's day breakfast Sunday. Guests were; Mrs.M. F.Hyde, Mrs.J, C McKinney, Mrs.C. D. Hawkins, Mrs.C. G. Harris, Mrs.R. E. Steffey, Mrs.Iva Rothenberger, Mrs, Ie Bukowski, Mrs.John Blaylock, Mrs.B.W.Botofft, Mrs.Kenneth A. Sells, Mrs.E.F. Glover, Mrs.Roy Hobein, Mrs.Horton Vorse, Mrs.Fra Lappin, Mrs.Llovd B. Locke.
Mrs. Alto Benitz, Mrs. Owen C.
R. Calwings, Mrs. Max Heilbrunn,
Mrs. S. E. Davidson, Mrs. Claude
Scheuerman, Mrs. David C. Grove,
Mrs. R. G. Thomson, Mrs. D. O.
Millison, Mrs. George V. Buxton,
Mrs. Carrie Christensen, Mrs. H. A.
Kelly, Mrs. H. L. Westoff, Mrs.
Albert Legler, Mrs. Lee Gore, Mrs.
Harry Yakle.
Mrs. A. W. Settle, Mrs. A. R. Jacobson, Mrs. Paul E. Reade, Mrs. Violet Esch, Mrs. Cora Ashby, Miss Margaret Habein, dean of women,
and Miss Martha Peterson, assistant dean of women.
Chi Chi Chi Picnic
Chi Chi Chi fraternity held a picnic at Lone Star lake Sunday. Guests included Janice Auer, Mary Hook, Mildred Gulnik, Vera Nugent, Joeanne Mannon, Maxine Holsinger, Donna Jean Long, Faye Wilkinson, and Mary Nibble.
Chaperons were Professor and Mrs. George Anderson, Mrs. O. M. Bruchmiller, and the Rev. Robert Swift.
Corbin Hall May Fete
Corbin hall will entertain faculty members with a May Fete from 5 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. Wednesday near the stadium.
Booths will be set up for fortune telling, ring tosses and other small games. A picnic lunch will be served, and 11 Corbin hall women will entertain with a maypole dance.
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Phi Delts Choose Officers Charles Hall, business junior, was elected president of Phi Delta Theta fraternity Monday. Other officers for the fall semester will be:
Bufford Bissel, scholarship chairman; Fred Six, senior member of the executive council; Dolph Simons, alumni secretary; Alan Teah, chorister; Stanley Staats, decorations manager; Dick Hughes, historian; Tom McGuire, librarian; Rodney Dyerly, chaplain.
James Lowther, reporter; Henry Zoller, freshman trainer; Dean Wells rush chairman; Robert Orr, social chairman; Jack Howard, teasurer; Arthur Brewer, recording secretary; William Buechell, warden; Robert Chaput, intramural manager.
Phi Kappa Tau Officers
look Formal
feel Informal
Phi Kappa Tau Officers
Beta Theta chapter of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity has elected the following officer; Don Johnson, vice-president; Larry Rudrauf, treasurer; Bob Vetter, recording secretary; Jim Garr, corresponding secretary.
Ray Hower, house manager; Chuck Jones, rush chairman; Emory Williams, pledge trainer; Jim Weimer and Jerry Sherman, social co-chairmen; Larry Ireland, sergeant e- arms; Dean Miller,
steward; Frank Moses, chaplain Bill King, athletic director; and Roger Butts, song leader.
Members of the executive committee are: Jack McFadden. Don Johnson, Larry Rudrauff. Emory Williams, Jim Garr, and Chuck Jones.
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Mrs. Gagliardo, Lawrence Children's Author Will Lead Mid-America Writers' Section
Mrs. Ruth Gagliardo of Lawrence, director of the children's traveling book exhibit of the Kansas State Teachers' association, will share the chairmanship of the writers-for-juveniles section of the Mid-America Regional Writers conference at Kansas State college.
and journalist, has edited the Children's shelf in the Kansas Teacher magazine for the past eight years. Now she is chairman of the reading and library service of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Co-chairman of the conference, which will be held from Monday, June 19, through Friday, June 30, is Miss Margaret Lesser, children's book editor of Doubleday and company. Her books have won the Newberry medal for the most distinguished book of the year for young people, the Caldecott medal for the best picture book, a $300 award from the committee on the Art of Democratic Living, and other national honors.
Mrs. Gagliardo, a former teacher
The Lawrence writer's children's book reviews in the Emporia Gazette were the first in the United States. They preceded by two years those in the New York Herald.
She is the wife of Domenico Gagliardo, professor of economics.
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I. S.A. MEMBERS may obtain tickets from House Representative or at I.S.A. office after Thurs., May 11.