Llewellyn Hemingray entertains for Isabel Mackoy

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Kentucky Post

Covington, KY, United States
p. 7, col. 5


Isabel

Mackoy Is

Honor Guest

 

Town Club Scene

Of Handsome

Dinner Affair

 

Miss Isabel Bartow Mackoy, daughter of Mr. Harry Brent Mackoy, was the lovely guest-of-honor at a handsome dinner, Sat­urday evening at the Town Club, for which Miss Llewellyn Hemingray, of Covington, and Mr. and Mrs. Polk Laffoon, Turkey Foot road, Ft. Mitchell, combined forces.

The co-hostesses, host and love­ly honoree received in the club's spacious lounge, which was decked with seasonal wreaths of holly, embellished with scarlet ribbon, and with ropes of seasonal greens.

Miss Mackoy was in a delicate blue crepe gown, fashioned with a fitted bodice and long sleeves and a rounded neckline, which was outlined with gold sequins. A shirring outlined the front of the waistline.

Green and white provided the motif for the dinner tables, which bore white Santa Claus figures and Christmas greens surrounded by weaths [sic] wreaths formed of candles.

Enjoying this delightful event wore the following: Miss Mackoy, Misses Sue Allen, Betty Balch, Ann Brown, Mathilde Biddle, Ann Ellis, Barbara Thornton, Betty Freyhof, Amey Geier, Jean Hook, Margaret Beard, Margaret and Marion Kittredge, Mary LeBlond, Frances Harrison, Miriam Tate Houston, Mary Stevenson, Jane Thompson, Virginia Epson, El­eanor Wright, Dorothy Whittaker and Marjorie Wood.

Messrs. Van Nes Allen, William M. Allen II, Dudley and William Bahlman, Francis Baldwin, Rob­ert L. Black Jr., William Boswell, Donald Bullock, Douglas Campbell, John and William Earls, Robert Ficks, Stacey and William Webb Hill, William Hilton, Tim­othy Hinckley, Reuben Holden, William Hopple, Wycliffe Jones, Alfred Kreimer, Polk Laffoon III, Whitney Lamson, Richard LeBlond II, John Menzies, I. W. Pettengill Jr., Harry Robinson Jr., A. Clifford Shinkle Jr., James Hewitt, Duncan Shaw, David Taft, Edward Thayer, Lewis Clarke Thomson, Chilton Thomson, Harry Whittaker, John Warrington, Dwight Thomson, who is home from Houston for the holidays, and Ben McBurney.

Joining Miss Hemingray and Mr. and Mrs. Laffoon at their table were Mr. and Mrs. John Warner of Milwaukee, Mr. Harry Brent Mackoy, Mr. and Mrs. John Randolph and Mr. and Mrs. G. Matthew Long.


Keywords:Hemingray
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Researcher:Bob Stahr
Date completed:April 24, 2023 by: Bob Stahr;