Bryan County Archives - News Paper Clippings - December 1941 Submitted by: Susan S Lee 02 Apr 2001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHRISTMAS SOCIAL EVENTS TAKE SPOT LIGHT REGARDLESS OF WAR CONDITIONS From the Durant Daily Democrat December 14, 1941 Regardless of war conditions and a universal feeling of uncertainty Durantites are optimistically making plans for a good old-fashioned Christmas, with the usual holiday dances, family reunions, open houses, and informal parties, climaxed by a visit from St. Nick, taking their respective places on the yule season's social calendar. Intermingling with Durant Christmas bells will be the ringing of wedding chimes on at least five occasions during the holiday season. First on the list of Christmas nupitals is the December 19 wedding of Miss Georgene Sipes to Jones Sharp. The ceremony will be performed at 7 o'clock Friday evening at Caddo in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Washington, uncle and aunt of the bride-elect. Then at five o'clock Christmas Day Miss Irene O'Dea will become the bride of H. Gordon Byrd, Jr., with the young couple exchanging vows in the First Christian church here. Two days later, December 27, nupitals will be read for Miss Marjory Rushing and Phillip Robert Allin in the First Methodist church at 5 p.m. while on the same day William Barton Morrison and Miss Katherine Eliza- beth Dudley will be married in a ceremony at 7:30 p.m. in the First Presbyterian church of Hugo. On Thursday morning, January 1, 1942, Miss Betty Louise Harrison and Sgt. William Morgan Capshaw will start the year as newlyweds, ex- changing their wedding vows in the First Christian Church here. The pre-Christmas dance season has already started with the winter formals of Pi Kappa Sigma-Phi Sigma Epsilon, December 4, and the winter formal dance of Alpha Sigma Tau sorority December 12. Next on the dancing calendar is the first formal of the newly or- ganized Cotillion club, which is scheduled for December 22 and then on December 27 the annual winter formal of the Junior Service League will be staged at the country club. With the Christmas holidays beginning December 20 at most of the colleges and universities, students from Durant are attending, parents and friends were busily engaged in making plans for their entertainment during the vacation period. A number of homes of the city have completed their holiday decora- tions and many others are completing them this week, so in spite of war conditions Durant is looking forward to a gay Christmas season and hopes for a cessation of hostilities during the New Year 1942.