NEWS FOR WOMEN Wife Of New United States Ambassador Has Many Interests

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27584, 15 February 1955, Page 2

NEWS FOR WOMEN Wife Of New United States Ambassador Has Many Interests

Mrs Robert C. Hendrickson, who arrived in Wellington at the week-end with her husband, who is the United States Ambassador-designate to New Zealand, is a tall, gracious, friendly woman, who for the last six years has lived in Washington. Both Mr and Mrs Hendrickson were born in the little town of Woodbury, New Jersey, where they went to school together and were married 36 years ago. It is an even older settlement than the nearby city of Philadelphia, and, as is common in this early English colonial part of the country, many old English laws are still strongly in evidence, Mrs Hendrickson said in an interview in Wellington. The five Hendrickson children, graduated front the same high school in Woodbury and both Mr Hendrickson’s father and Mrs Hendrickson’s mother were born there. The Ambassador-designate and his wife live in the big garden-enclosed house which Mrs Hendrickson’s father built and in which she was born. Close by is the area where the Battle of Redbank was fought in the Revolutionary War and where Lord Cornwallis had his headquarters. The community is a Quaker one and Mrs Hendrickson was brought up as a Quaker, though now she attends the Episcopalian church, A long-standing member of the organisation, Daughters of the American Revolution, she belongs also to the Colonial Dames’ Society. Membership of the former is restricted to those whose forbears fought in the Revolutionary War. Members of the Colonial Dames’ Society have to prove that they had a direct ancestor in the Continental Congress which governed the people in colonial times. In recent years in Washington, Mrs Hendrickson said, she was chiefly engaged in the many duties of a Senator’s wife, but with the wives of the other 95 Senators Mrs Hendrickson spent every Tuesday working for the Red Cross in Washington. The women sewed and knitted, rolled bandages, and visited and entertained American sick and wounded servicemen from Korea. Besides these interests Mrs Hendrickson was active in the Woodbury branch of the American Legion. it

CURRENT NOTES Mrs G. H. Ross, Minister of Social Welfare, will visit Christchurch next week and will officially open a new kindergarten in Clyde road—the twenty-seventh kindergarten under the administration of the Christchurch Free Kindergarten Association. The new kindergarten is to be called the Trengrove Free Kindergarten in memory of the late Mr W. H. Trengrove, a Christchurch architect, who for many years was a most generous . le I?, to the kindergarten movement m Christchurch. The Trengrove Free Kindergarten committee raised the money for founding the kindergarten. On Saturday, Mrs Ross opened a preschool centre in Dunedin. At this centre, the kindergarten association, and the Plunket Society will work together for the benefit of children. The opening ceremony was attended by Lady Bodkin, Dominion president of the Plunket Society, and Mrs A. F. Johnson (Christchurch), Dominion president of the New Zealand Free Kindergarten union.

I*dy Brookeborough, Wife of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, „ h,ve ■ busy time in Wellington “ ? e I .«, uert . of the Women's “™! on °£ Fed " a ted.Farmers. This she wUI visit Honda, the “■visionlS holiday house at Lowry Bay. and will attend a luncheon party given puarters There she win meet mem°®'s lnt «rnational committee of S ho& Mn™ & local branches and of various committees. and also representatives of other women s organisations. including womans institutes, will be introduced ”, “dy Brookeborough. The guests *v.n !^ ,v< S b ? . Mrs N ' Schroder (Rai Valley), Dominion president of thei women's division, and Mrs J B. Haldane (Golden Bay), chairman of the International committee. Mrs I L- M, Com (Christchurch), president emeritus, will also be present, as well as other members who have been conyeara Wlt “ movement for many

.J 0 !? ??’’• Pearl Watson-Johnston (Bedfordshire) will arrive in Auckland on Thursday, and will be a guest «t Government House before coming to Christchurch, where she is expected at the end of this week. Miss WatsonJphnston, who is in the Women’s Voluntary Services, is a daughter of the first Baron Luke, of Pavenham.

Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, who was Governor of South Australia from 1939 to 1944, Is visiting Auckland, accompanied by Lady Barclay-Harvey. Sir Malcolm Barclay-Harvey is a member of the Queen's Bodyguard for Scotland, and was formerly Unionist M.P. for Kincardineshire and West Aberdeenshire. He is interested in fishing, shooting and golf. Lady Barc-lay-Harvey Is a daughter of the twelfth Earl of Lindsey. Sir Malcolm and Lady Barclay-Harvey's hpme is at Dinner. Aberdeenshire.

Mrs W. H. Scott who attended the conference of University Women and the conference of the Pan-Pacific Women's Association in Manila last month, has been visiting Hong Kong and will stay for a short time at Bangkok before leaving for home. She is expected in Christchurch on February 28.

Mr and Mrs C. P. Garnett, who were married in Christchurch late last year, will leave Auckland about March 31 In the Corinthic for England, where they will make their home. Mrs Garnett is the younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert Hill, Heaton street, and her husband, who Comes from Harrogate, recently completed an agricultural course at Cambridge University.

Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs W. S. Blunt, visitors from England, arrived in Christchurch yesterday for a short visit. They will leave here on Thursday for Auckland.

Visitors to Christchurch for the annual conference of the Boyal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture, which will open in Christchurch today, include Dame Elizabeth Knox Gilmer of Wellington, who is staying at the Clarendon Hotel, Mrs E. Gower, Mr and Mrs J. Houston (Wellington), Mrs H. Chittick (Wanganui), Mrs J. McIvor, wife of the secretary of the institute, and Mrs Cox.

Miss M. id. de Dufourcq, a social worker in Indo-China for the French Government, at present visiting Christchurch on a United Nations study grant, met members of the staff of the ehild welfare division of the Education Department yesterday morning. Her itinerary also included a. visit to the child health clinic and the School for the Deaf at Sumner. She was the guest of the Soroptimist Club for lunch. Today she expects to meet representatives of the Social Service Council of the Dioeese of Christchurch, visit the Occupational Centre, Merivale lane. Risingholme Community Centre and also a local factory. During her stay in Christchurch Miss de Dufourcq has been the guest of Miss K. J. Scotter, matron of the Girls’ Training Centre. Burwood. Misa Jennifer Macfarlane announces that she ia clearing her Summer Stock of Model Millinery at very much reduced prices in her Salon, 683 Colombo street, entrance through Max'a Milk Bar. —Advt Bargains galore at our Grand Summer Sale. Georgette Millinery Salon, Ballantynes Building, 122 Cashel street, and Ashburton. Advt. Don't miss your opportunity for lovely Summer Millinery at simply staggering reductions for the final week of the Sale. Get yours NOW GEORGETTE MILLINERY SALON, Ballantynes Bldgs., 122 Cashel street, and at Ashburton. —Advt

was named after her brother, who died in World War I, William Stokes Bonsai. Mrs Hendrickson was formerly Miss Olga Stokes Bonsai. In World War 11, while her husband was overseas, she organised the work of the Red Cross “grey ladles," and worked two days ■ week at Fort Dix military camp nearby.. She was vice-chairman of the Civil Defence Organisation, in those years in Gloucester county. Mr and Mrs Hendrickson have four daughters and one son, all married, and they have 12 grandchildren. Of the four daughters, the eldest, Claire, is Mrs Ivor Macfarlane. She and her Scots husband have two children and live in Winonah, near the Hendrickson family home In Woodbury, New Jersey. The husband of the next daughter, Olga, Commander Willard Nyburg, pilots Navy jet aircraft. He is serving in the U.S.S. Coral Sea in the Mediterranean. Mrs Nyburg and their four children live in Jacksonville, Florida. Just back from three and a half years in Germany, where their youngest child was born, are another son-in-law and daughter. Lieutenant Donald Brewer, of the U.S. Army, and Mrs Brewer, whose name is Marguerite. They have a family of three. Lieutenant Brewer is stationed in Augusta, Georgia. On his way home from the Mediterranean is Lieutenant Robert Clymer Hendrickson, Junior, U.S. Navy. He, too, files jets. He and his wife have two sons. Mrs Hendrickson, Sen., thinks this family group may be going to live in the family home in Woodbury. Home is in Dallas. Texas, for Mrs Nolte, formerly Miss June Hendrickson, and her husband and one child. Mr Nolte is with the Du Pont film sales department in Dallas. Commander Nyburg and Lieutenant Hendrickson are graduates of Annapolis Naval Academy. Ever since they have been married the Hendrickson children have returned home, wherever possible, for Christmas. Last year the family circle went from two to 18 for two weeks over this holiday season, said their mother.

OBITUARY DR. W. BATHGATE Dr. Winifrede Bathgate, who died at her home in Dunedin, last week, was one of Otago’s early women medical specialists.

She graduated B.Sc. at the University of Otago in 1900, and four years later gained the M. 8., Ch.B. She then went to London and Dublin for postgraduate study. On her return she became an assistant to Sir Lindo Ferguson, specialising in ear, nose and throat cases, before setting up in practice on her own account. She became one of Dunedin’s foremost specialists in this branch of her profession. 111-health forced her to retire from active practice in the mid-twenties, and since then she has been more or less confined to the house. She showed great courage in accepting her weak and painful condition. She was the daughter of an early pioneer, the late Mr Alexander Bathgate, a well-known solicitor in Dunedin and a director of the “Otago Daily Times.” RED CROSS SOCIETY REDCLIFFS SUB-BRANCH Mr, W. Tisch presided at the February meeting of the Redcliffs-Mount Pleasant sub-centre of the Red Cross Society held at the home of Mrs H. Worrall. It was decided to purchase £2O worth of Red Cross building blocks, as a further contribution from the sub-centre. Reports were received of visits paid to disabled servicemen in their homes. Appreciation was expressed to Mrs C. E. Allen for making supplies of jam for the Good Neighbour Service. Cut-out material for making into children's clothing was distributed. A special appeal was made for good used clothing to be brought to the annual meeting next month. •