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SWARTHMORE,   PA.   FRIDAY, JANUARY   9,   1948
$3.00 YEAR
SERVICES HELD
FOR MRS. COMLEY
Led War Work Here.
for Hospitalized
Veterans
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday afternoon jn the Presbyterian Church for Mrs. Helen Elmore Comley, wife of Roy Comley,
•who died Friday night, January 2,
at the Taylor Hospital. Death was
due to an attack of coronary thrombosis first suffered on December 31,
at her home in-Rose Valley.
Thoughout the war Mrs. Comley
served in the Camp and Hospital
branch of the Red Crdss through
which the needs and4desires of men
in the Armed Forces were ;met by
\ contributions and work of local
organizations and individuals.. It
was a task of tremendous scope to
■which she brought a lifelbng outreach of friendliness and enthusiasm. All who worked with her on
parties for men at Valley Forge,
or those held weekly at the convalescent Annex of the Naval Hospital
here, and seasonally at isolated outposts in this vicinity bear witness to
the wholehearted and untiring work
she did, and the warm cheer she
.spread.
Bom Helen Elmore at Joplin, Mo.
in 1894, she ivas the daughter- of
»Guy Har.twell Elmore and came to
Swarthmore with her parents in
1910, to Jive at the property.at Elm
and Swarthmore ■* avenues now
"known as the Elmore Apartments.
,She entered Swarthmore Preparatory School and graduated from
Swarthmore College in 1915. .Her-
marriage ta Mr. Camley.Swarth-
more College, 1917, was performed
:at the Presbyterian Church, where
her father was a longtime Elder,, -by
-the Rev. Dr. J. Ellery Tuttle. For
many years :__e was active in ;the
church.
She carried graduate work in
Home Economics at Drexel Institute and worked with great energj'
at Red Cross station canteens and
Motor corps during the first world
war. She did dramatic work with
the former Swarthmore Chautauqua Association. She helped to
organize the Junior section of the
Woman's club and served on the
senior board as its first adviser. She
was a former active member of the
Players Club
The Rev. Dr. H. Lewis Cutler
conducted the funeral service with
interment  at  Media  Cemetery.
First 1948 Concert
By College Orchestra
The Swarthmore College orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Peter
van de Kamp, will present the first
concert of the season at Clothier
Memorial on thc college campus,
Friday night, January 9, at 8:15.
The concert will be opened by
Rossini's "Overture to' Tancrcd."
Following this, the orchestra will
play Mozart's "Prague Symphony"
(No. 38). The remainder of the program consists of the "Concerto in
F Major" by Handel and the "Introduction and Scherzo" from Mendelssohn's "Hymn of Praise,"* plus
two short pieces by Dr. van de
Kamp: "Mai du Pays," from the
"Paris Sketches of 1945," and the
recently completed "Joie de Vivre."
Closing the program will be "Introduction to the Fair of Sorotchin-
tsi" by Moussorgsky. The concert
will be open to the public.
This year's Orchestra comprises
45 instrumentalists, of which half j
are string players, while the rest
are evenly distributed over the
woodwind, brass and percussion sections.
SIMPSON ELECTED
NEW PRESIDENT
Council Members
Face Many Civic
Problems
F. R. WILSON NEW
DUPONT MANAGER
Chemist Was Director
in Explosives
Department ,
The appointment of Fred R. Wilson of 544 Walnut lane as manager
of the Explosives Division -of the
Du Pont Company's Explosives
Department and the naming vol T.R.
Carlson to succeed him as director
of production of the division was
announced Friday, January 2.
„ Mr. Wilson was born October 1.
1901, in Charlottesville, Va., and
was graduated from the University
of Virginia in 1923 with a degree in
chemical engineering. The next year
he started his career with the company as a chemist in the Eastern
Laboratory," Gibbstown, N. J.
After several years there and in
supervisory work in powder and
acid production at the RepaunqJ
Works, Gibbstown;. and the Birmingham, Ala., Works, he became
a special assistant in the Explosives
Department in Wilmington in 1933.
Since that time he has had wide experience in directing production in
Du Pont's commercial explosives
plants
THIS WEEK'S CALENDAR
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9
8:15—Swarthmore College Orchestra   Clothier Memorial
SUNDAY, JANUARY 11
11:00 p.m.—Morning Worship       Local  Churches
MONDAY, JANUARY 12
8:15 p.m.—"The United Nation?" .. Swarthmore College MeetingHouse
8:20 p.m.—"I Remember Mama"    Players Club
TUESDAY, JANUARY 13
:2:00 p.m.—"International   Relations"    Woman's   Club
3:30 p.m.—Boy's Basketball Swarthmore vs Eddystone H. S. Gym
8:00 p.m—Stated Meeting, Games c. Junior Woman's Club
8:20 p.m.—"I Remember Mama"   Players Club
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14
12:00 —Woman's  Association    Presbyterian   Church
0:20 p.m.—"I Remember Mama"   Player's Club
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15
7:00 p.m.—Open Night    Sproul  Observatory
8:20 p.m.—"I Remember Mama'    ^   Players Club
Andrew Simpson was elected Pes-
ident of Swarthmore Borough Council succeeding S. S. Rutherford, retired, at the reorganization meeting
held Monday might. Other officers
elected were Elliott Richardson, secretary, and Harold Ogram, treasurer.
Dr. John A Pearson, Arthur Dana
and William Gehring (reelected)
were sworn .'in as the newly elected
•councilmen and Richard Snyder as
.-a newly elected borough auditor.
.."Preceding the regular meeting,
Burgess Brown addressed the council praising the past council for its
splendid work, and outlined plans
_ar the "future which he "hoped tHe
council wouH consider. The Burgess
asked the council to keep always
in anind the civic requirements of
the Borough, to "hold fast to the
traditions of the past and at the same
time to-interpret the requirements
of the future". According to the
Burgess, Zoning, Recreation, Traffic and Parking are the biggest problems the council will have to face.
- President Simpson announced
the following appointements: Board
of Adusimcnt, three year term, Ellwood B. Chapman; council's Representatives on Library Board, two
year terms, Dr. John Pearson and
Mrs. Peter E. T"old; Collector of
Sewer Rents, one year term, Mrs.
Mary P. Dodd; Health Officer, two
year term, Dr. J. Albright Jones;
Milk Inspector, two year term, Dr.
J. Albright Jones, Assistant Health
Officer, two year term, Mrs. Anna
E. B. Seal; Borough Engineer, two
year term, G. D. Houtman. Among
other officers who will serve until
their appointment is revoked are
Elliott Richardson Plumbing Inspector and Ruth A. B. Towsend, Assistant to the Secretary.
Mrs. Frederick R. Lang of Maple
avenue is leaving today to visit her
sister, Mrs. Dinsmore Wood of
Kewanee, 111., and relatives in Alton
111.,   for  several   weeks. ,
Mrs. Dwight  Morrow
Will Address Alumni
Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow,
educator and leader in civic and
Philanthropic affairs, will address
more than 400 alumni and friends
of Swarthmore College on Friday
January 23, 1948, at a formal dinner
in- the Bellevue-Stratford Hotjel
here.
The dinner will mark the opening
of thc second phase of Swarthmore's
five-year, campaign to raise $5,000,-
000 for increased faculty salaries,
scholarships, new buildings and general operating expenses.
Mrs Morrow was acting president
of Smith College, of which she is
an alumna, for the academic year
1939-40. She holds honorary degrees
from Princeton and New York Un-
versities; Amherst, LaFayette and
Colby Colleges and the New Jersey
College for Women.-
"UNITED NATIONS"
ronuM SUBJECT
Second Discussion in
Series of Four
on Monday
"The United Nations?" is the subject for* discussion at the second of
the series.pf,neighborhood, forums
to be held in the Swarthmore College Meeting House on Monday
evening, January 12, at 8:15. The
series is spo'nsored jointly by the
United Nation Council the Foreign
Policy Association, and the League
of Women Voters.
Chairman and moderator for the
forum will be Mr, -John Stevens,
The three panel speakers will be
Mrs. Rose Saul of the Media League of the Women Voters, who des-
ribe- the structure of the United
Nations; Dr. Philip Jacob, Professor of Political Science of the University *of Pennsylvania, who will
explain the specialized agencies; and
Dr. Howard Comfort, Professor of
Classics of Haverford College, who
will comment on the general problems such as the veto, and the boycott, and the future prospects for the
United Nations.
Preceding the meeting, a questionnaire will be passed through
the audience, and results will be tabulated and forwarded to the United
Nations and the Department of
State.
Each speaker will be allowed ten
minutes, to cover his phase of the
problem, and at the conclusion of
the last speech, the meeting will be
thrown open to discussion frdm the
floor. The public is cordially invited
to come and participate in the discussion.
Two more forum discussion meetings will be held .under the sponsorship of the three participating agencies, to debate the problems of displaced persons and atomic energy.
The purpose is to present the public
with the facts and enable them to
reach reasoned decision on the
major issues of today. Time and
place of these future meetings will
be announced later, and all are open
to the public.
REVEAL SWIMMING
POOL PROJECT
To be Non-profit on
Membership
Basis {
The Swarthmore Swimming Pool
Committee will make known its plans
and program at the beginning of
next week, it was announced todty
by John VV. Seybold, president of
the committee.
For the past several months this
committee, and its various subcommittees have been working on the
project of establishing an outdoor
swimming pool in the Borough, to
be run as a non-profit corporation
on a membersip basis. The officers,
in addition to Seybold, are Mrs. -
Reavis Cox, vice-president; Mrs. J.
Albright Jones, secretary; and Donald P. Jones, treasurer.
Thomas Hopper is cnairman of
the Construction Committe, Peter
E. Told, chairman of the Organization and Planning Committe, and
Mrs. Justus Garrahan, chairman of
the Membership Committe. A. Sidney Johnson, Jr., is Legal Adviser,
and George Ewing, Architect.
A perpective drawing of the pool
site and facilities will be available
for inspection at Michael's College
Pharmacy very soon, according to
Seybbld.
Players Club Present
"I Remember Mama"
During the week of January 12thr
the Players Club will present "I
Remember Mama", Jchn Van Dru -
ten's dramitization of "Mama's'Bank
Account," by Kathryn Forbes. The
simplicity of this story of a Norwe
gian family living in San Francisco
is in sharp contrast with the intricacy of fys physical production.
Under the direction of J. William
Simmons, who has adapted the play
for Club facilities, the three acts of
twenty-seven scenes will take place
against fifteen settings of the period
from 1910 to 1916. An exceptionally
large cast and production staff has
been at work. Grace E. Yeaw will be
seen as "Mama", J. William
Simmons as "Papa," D. Malcolm
Hodge as "Uncle Chris", and Doris
C. Berger will play "Katrin," the
oldest daughter and family chronicler.
ELECTED   PHI   BETA   KAPPA
Daniel Kirk, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, has been
elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mrs. Kirk, the former Mary
Ellen Cunningham ofWhitemarsh,
was also recently elected to Phi Beta
Kappa.
Mr. Kirk, formerly of South Chester road, and his bride are now living in Philadelphia while attending the University.
POETS' CIRCLE TO MEET
Mrs. J. A. Perry of the Swarthmore Apartments will be hostess to
the Poets' Circle next Monday.
Mrs. S. Milton Bryant will read
from the poems pf John Masefield.
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