Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 28 Dec 1939, p. 8

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club has invited Evanston residents to attend the five remainlng pro- grams of the current seas-n. Burton iHolmes Coming .Tsnuary 7 Burton Holmes, noted travel Iec- turet, will be on the, club's program Sunday, January 7, a.nd hie will be- followed Sunday, January 14, by Dr. Arthur Compton,, the University of Chicago physicist., Ca rl Van Doren wilb hre January 21. and Capt. John D. Craig February '4. The J.an- tuary 28 program, is to be filed later. According to the tentative plans for the North Shore Sunday Evening club, each of the participating comn- munities would have representation on the governing board, and the I'ew Trier auditorium, which seats 3,000 and is central ly located, would be the Meeting place. The combined strength of the suburbs would enable the new clubto obtain some of, the finest talent in America, Dr. Brown States. Continue Plan of Support *The plan of support now in use. by the New Trier club probably will be adopted by the North Shore club. Sponsors' 'tickets at $10 each entitle the holders and thei r famnilies. and houseguests to seats in the flrst re- served sec tion for the séason. In-i dividual sponsor's tickets at $5 each1 entitle the bearer to one seat in thel first reserved section for the season. Ivembership tickets at $3 eachen tille the. bearer to one seat ini the second reserved seciofor h, , wz'sing to attend. No -collections a re takeri. Begin Solicitation In an endeavor to interest Evans- tonians, in the support of the en- larged, club plan, local churchmen will be invited to subscribe-for 100 tamily sponsors' tickets for the re- maâinder of the current season (il the New Trier club at $5 each. A committee, he&ded by Dr. Emory W. Luccock of the First Presbyterjan of the Lakçe Bluff orphanage i Wil- mette homes, on, Christmas day. When I called you last Tuesday morning, there were twenty-eight boys and girls left and no boy or girl had'been placed for the three preceding days in spite of numner- ous telephone calîs which had been made. It looked, therefore, as if,. for the first 'time i twenty years, Wfilmette would fail to provide hos- pitality on Christmas day for ah lof the boys and:girls who come down from Lake Bluff. Thanks, however. to the very effectivepublicity which you gave us in, WImrE Ln'E, al the boys and girls were taken into Wil- mette homes. How PracticQ Started It might be proper to, mention how this practice. started. About thirty year s ago a -Young men's class and a Young women's class connected with the Wilmette Methodist Sunday school became interested in the Lake .Bluff Orphaaiage and gave thefr~ Christmas offering to that institu- tion. One year one, of the young men got the idea that he would like to have a boy from the orphanage spend Christmas with him. This young man, therefore, went up to Lake Bluff and borrowed a boy for Christmas day. The next year the idea spread and a year or so later it broadened to include ail the boys, and girls of the orphanage over six v,-.qr. nn cb AU *-FL L- 1 --& -- project - i that we depend mainly upon publicity in WILMETTE LIFE, while the children go to Wilmette homes of aIl denominations and be- liefs. 1 havýe talked over this cus- tom with the president of the board of trustees of the institution and also with the superintendent and her staff. They are ail agreed that the experience of Christmas i a Wil-ý mette home is a real contribution to the lives of these boys and irl gtf Doctor.uae n o nOUantIy ruuulnt risk of infection a"d contagion that thley rarly gi've it, a tbought. They. do. the necessary operatiom6, troetment or maske the necessary visit, regardies. of riak. That ià Part 0f their job, muid accepted as suchs. Every Precaution ils taikei and everY aseptîc, ne r, .l9ngadprv Ive measure la employed'for the safety oS el ach andïvidual.patient, i heDco must. luinany cases. take a. chno e nal saS ety. Friend à and Ioved ones msy fear muid avoi d conta- gion, but the Doctor muust carry on -and dos as a mate o utinedqsy. PEP lis Our hobby' for -urs eus- wul be the SuD-. throughout prov'ided free transporta, ject at the services in First Church tion for the boys and girls to and of Christ, Scientist, in Wilmette, Sun-. fromn Lake Bluff. day morning, December 31, at Il Sincerely yours, o'clock, held in the edifice ' at 1003 Thomas H. West Cenralaveue.Suniday school con- General, Superintendent, .Wilmette venes at 9:4ý5 ýo'clock:. Methodist Churchschool.ý ml Avenu. me Wieft'. llqw Qp

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