New Mrs. Rockefeller Steps Up To New York Social Whirl
It was during her school days that the pretty heiress to a $4 million fortune first answered to the name of "Happy."
By United Press International
The nickname was given to Margaretta Fitler by her classmates at fashionable Shipley School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., "because she just made everybody happy."
A direct descendant of the famed Civil War Gen. George Gordon Meade, Mrs. Rockefeller was born and reared in the rarefied social world of Philadelphia's main line.
Campus News
Officers
Nancy Johnson, Caldwell sophomore, has been elected president of Hashinger Hall for next year.
Other officers assisting Miss Johnson will be: Shannon Athey, Topeka junior, vice-president; Priscilla Osborne, Stockton sophomore, secretary; Joyce Morgan, Overland Park, sophomore, treasurer; Marilyn Roy, Shawnee Mission sophomore, publicity chairman; Sharon Kurtz, Kansas City sophomore, management chairman; and Judy Phipps, Wichita sophomore, social chairman.
Patti Behen, Kansas City junior, was recently elected as president of Lewis Hall. Assisting her will be Kathy Lindblom, Topea sophomore, vice-president; Joanne Prine, Overbrook junior, secretary, and Patricia Owen, Overland Park freshman.
Other officers are Barbara Garney, Park Forest, Ill., sophomore, scholarship chairman, and Catherine Holland, Russell sophomore, management chairman.
TODAY SHE IS an attractive 36,
is about 5 feet 7 inches tall and has
thick, glossy brown hair. Dominant
features are her big brown eyes,
and a dimple in her chin.
Her 1948 marriage to Dr. James Slater Murphy, the son of a Park Avenue surgeon, was a top social event of the season.
"An ideal match," was the way one friend referred to the marriage which produced four children before it ended in an Idaho divorce last month.
Long before then, however, society columnists were writing of the "hush hush" romance between Mrs. Murphy and the Governor. Their close association began in 1958 when she worked for Rockefeller in his successful gubernatorial campaign.
AFTER THE ELECTION she joined his permanent New York office staff, but resigned in May, 1961. This was six months before Rockefeller's 31-year-marriage to Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller broke up.
And it was around that time that Mrs. Murphy's name began to appear in the society columns "as the other woman" in the Governor's life. But, as the months passed, the rumors waned and Mrs. Murphy's name receded into the shadows except for occasional reports of pending divorce. These were always denied.
But on April 20, Dr. Murphy's lawyer disclosed that the couple had been divorced.
That was more than enough to revive the romance rumors. They grew stronger with each "no comment" from the Governor and by the fact that Mrs. Murphy remained in seclusion.
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Seven Women Receive Frat Pins
The following pinnings have been announced:
Alice Ann Marthaler, Sabetha senior, to Daniel L. Patz, Kansas City, Mo., senior.
Dee Anne Packer, a student at Kansas City, Mo., Junior College, to Roger Findlay, Prairie Village senior, Kappa Sigma.
Anne Larigan, Shawnee Mission junior, Alpha Delta Pi, to Robert Walters, Lawrence graduate student, Delta Upsilon.
Judith Webber, Seneca junior.
Delta Gamma, to Richard Benjes, Prairie Village sophomore, Sigma Nu.
Nancy Dickerson, Wichita sophomore, Hashinger Hall, to Mike Williams, Wichita sophomore, Sigma Nu.
Cynthia Bennett, Summit, N.J.
freshman, Corbin Hall, to Mike
Wertz, Summit, N. J., sophomore,
Sigma Nu.
Carolyn Sterling, Minneapolis sophomore, Alpha Phi, to Larry Dallen, Kansas State University, Delta Tau Delta.
Several KU women were chosen as royalty last weekend at four fraternity spring dances.
KU Women Reign At Spring Dances
University Daily Kansan
Margaret Jones, Moutrie, Ga, junior, was crowned sweetheart at the Sigma Phi Epsilon spring formal. Her attendants were Joycelyn Wallach, Quenemo senior; and Ann Daly, Des Moines Iowa, junior.
Jean Agan. Lawrence junior, reigned as sweetheart of the Kappa Sigma Star Dust formal.
The sweetheart of Alpha KappaLambda fraternity is LyndelSaunders, Hugoton sophomore. She was crowned at the fraternity's annual spring dance.
Selected as Dream Girl at the spring Pi Kappa Alpha formal last weekend was Joann Brougham, Kansas City sophomore. She was attended by Linda Edmonds, McLouth freshman, and Lacey Kelley, Kansas City, Mo., freshman.
Try It Out—Kansan Classified
Tuesday, May 7, 1963
August 31 is the wedding date selected by Alice Vivian Rector, Culpepper, Va., sophomore, and Stanley Stuart Thurber, Richland senior.
Thurber will graduate this June with a degree in petroleum engineering.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Lane, Kansas City, Mo., announced the engagement of their daughter, Diane, to Robert L. Guntter.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
William F. Guntert of Lawrence. Miss Lane will graduate this June with a major in French. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.
A June 1 wedding is being planned by Mary Francis Smith, Prairie Village senior, and Roger Wilson, Wichita senior.
Miss Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Smith, is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Her flance, son of Mr. and Albert Wilson, is a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.
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