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Engagements
Dr. and Mrs. S. DeWitt Turner of
West Oxford, Mass., announce the en¬
gagement of their daughter, Blance
Lesley, to Ensign Fred Oakley, U. S.
N., of Savannah, the wedding to take
place in the early spring. Miss Turner
graduated from Jefferson High School,
Andover, Mass., and the Latin School
in Boston. She is attending Boston
University’s School of Music at pres¬
ent.
Ensign Oakley, who is the son of
Mrs. D. D. Hankins, Jr., of Savannah,
is a graduate of Savannah High School
and is attending Duke University, He
is a member of the Bethesda Alumni.
Mr. and Mrs. John Lawrence Larsen of
Jacksonville, Fla., formerly of Savan¬
nah, announce the engagement of their
daughter, Virginia Louise, to Harry
Kendall Tinker of Atlanta and Macon,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Edward
Tinker, Sr., of Macon.
Miss Larsen is a 1946 graduate of
Wesleyan Conservatory, Macon, and
Mr. Tinker, who served in India dur¬
ing the war, is now a student of Geor¬
gia Tech. Mr. John Larsen is a mem
her of the Bethesda Alumni.
Marriages
Miss Lois Coombs to Dowman Wat
ers. They were married October 21 at
Jackson, Miss, Dowman is a member
of the Bethesda Alumni and is em¬
ployed with the Southern Bell Tele¬
phone and Telegraph Co.
Mrs. Albert Eugene Hardy, former¬
ly Miss Mary Elizabeth Elkins of Sa¬
vannah and Oakland, California, who
was married Dec. 7 at Chapel in the
Woods at the Naval Air Station in
Norfolk, Va., where the groom is sta
tioned. Mrs. Hardy is the daughter
of Mrs. Eula Elkins of Savannah and
Alex Elkins of Pittsburg, Penn. Alex
is a member of the Bethesda Alumni.
Miss Lois Baker to Mr. E. H. Prid
gen. They were married at Fitzger
aid, Ga. Lois is the daughter of Wil
liam H. Baker, of Fitzgerald, Bill is
a member of the Bethesda Alumni.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bozeman an¬
nounce the birth of a son, on January
29, at the Oglethorpe Sanitarium, The
child has been named Julian Frederick,
Jr. Mrs. Bozeman will be remembered
as Miss Dottie Clark. Julian is a mem¬
ber of the Bethesda Alumni, lives in
Jacksonville, Fla., and works with the
Seaboard Airline Ry.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Hobbs of
Arlington, Va., announce the birth of
a son on January 19, 1946. He was
named Jay Alan Hobbs, We heard
from Jim at Christmas when he re¬
ported this birth.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry George, Jr.,
announce the birth of a son, William
Frederick, on January 13, at St. Jo¬
seph’s Hospital. Mrs. George was for¬
merly Miss Marian Fry. Harry is the
son of our president, Harry George.
BETHESDA NEWS
Deaths
Oliver Girard Inhulsen: Mr. Inhul
sen died January 23 in a local hospital
after a short illness. He was the gen¬
eral superintendent of the painting and
decorating department of the Dan J.
Sheehan Co.
Mr. Inhulsen is survived by his wife,
Ethel Langdale Inhulsen; daughter.
Miss Hilda M. Inhulsen; three sons,
O. G. Inhulsen, Gerald Inhulsen and
Bernard E. Inhulsen; two brothers,
Adolph S. Inhulsen and Herman M.
Inhulsen all of Savannah; a sister,
M rs. Thomas Diano, New York City,
and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held on Jan¬
uary 26 at 3 p. m. from the Morning
side Baptist Church by the Rev. Cecil
T. Underwood, pastor. Burial took
place in Greenwich section of Bonaven
ture Cemetery, with Sipple’s Mortuary
in charge of arrangements.
Two persons died of burns on De¬
cember 21, despite the heroic efforts of
a mother at Richmond Hill who, after
getting three of her children out of her
blazing home, returned to the inferno
to drag out her four-year-old son and
a friend of the family.
The son, Jerry Pechmann, died from
the effects of the burns when the
Pechmann home was destroyed by
flames just before Christmas.
The boy’s dad, Richard Pechmann, is
a former Bethesda boy. He works with
the Seaboard Railway and was in
Florida at the time of the fatal fire.
Happening just before Christmas it
brought sadness into the home of the
Pechmanns. Savannahians responded
in a big way in helping to provide in
trying to make this family and the
other three children’s Christmas as
happy one as possible.
Preston S. Arkwright, Atlanta, Ga.:
Mr. Arkwright, 75, chairman of the
board of the Georgia Power Company,
died December 2 at Emory Hospital.
He was a member of the Union So¬
ciety.
We are sorry to learn that Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest G. Warner of Baltimore
lost their mother.
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A Bethesda Boy
Page Three
Bethesda In 1947
Since this issue is the first that has
appeared since the beginning of the new
calendar year, it seems appropriate to
talk about our hopes and plans for
Bethesda in 1947.
Bethesda has gone through many
wars, and some of them have been very
hard indeed on this historic institution.
During the Revolutionary War the mem¬
bers of the Union Society were forced
to meet in a British Prison Camp, and
during the War Between the States
the institution had to be moved to Jef¬
ferson County. Bethesda suffered less but
severity in the first World War,
those were not easy years. After the
war efforts to improve the physical
plant and the program began to be
crowned with success. Whitefield Chapel,
the Superintendent’s new dining room and gymnasium,
the house, and the
dairy barn were built.
World War II caught Bethesda just
coming out of the difficulties that arose
during the Depression. Great physical
improvements had been made in the re¬
modelling that took place in 1937-38
but during the War years many further
improvements had to wait because of
lack of materials and labor, it was im¬
possible to buy barbed wire for the
fences, new farm equipment, trucks,
tractors, and plows to replace worn-out
machinery, or to carry on the painting
and much of the repair work that is
always needed in a large establishment.
During the past five years Bethesda
lost most of its older boys to industry
and the armed services. Our athletic
teams and our farm program were thus
greatly weakened and now we find that
the boys in the home average much
younger in age than was formerly the
case.
To bring Bethesda up to the standards
we would all like to see maintained will
require much new equipment for the
farm, a great amount of painting in al¬
most every building on the place, at
least one new vehicle to carry the boys,
and considerable repairs to various
buildings on the grounds. As materials
become available, this work will be
possible, started and pushed as energetically as
so that Bethesda will be in
shape to weather the next crisis of war
or depression that may be lurking in the
future.
It will take time to get back to the
point where we have a good number of
older boys, but in a year or two we
should again be able to put forth rugged
teams to compete in basketball, base¬
ball, and football, and to help with the
heavy work of the farm.
We now have seventy boys and appli¬
cations keep coming in regularly.
The Board of Managers hopes to get
the Cohen Cottage built this year and
the new heating system installed, to be
followed by a great deal of painting.
The Alumni hopes soon to be able to an¬
nounce that beds have been provided to
replace the thirty-one year old beds we
are now using.
You will be pleased to hear that the
Davey Tree Co. is now training forty
five men in Tree Surgery and they are
using the Bethesda Campus as their
training ground. Each of the ancient
trees is to be carefully trimmed, all
dead wood removed and cavities filled,
so that the beauty of the campus will
be preserved and a longer life assured
for all of our lovely old trees.
MAX E. LIVINGSTON, Supt.