Newspaper clipping: engagement of Mary Ann Walker to Oswald Beverley McEwan announced (March 9, 1941)
Book 2, Page 180 ·1941
Transcription
PAGE EIGHT – The Sunday – [in pencil:] March 9th 1941
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY
[Large studio portrait of a young woman seated, looking off to the side, with dark wavy hair and a dark short-sleeved dress. Photographer’s credit at lower right of the image:] Dishinger-Woodward
[Caption beneath the photograph:]
Miss Mary Ann Walker
Mr. and Mrs. James Pickens Walker announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Ann, to Oswald Beverley McEwan, son of Dr. and Mrs. John Singer McEwan of Orlando.
Miss Walker attended King-Smith Studio School in Washington, D. C. She was a member of the 1938-39 Debutante Club and a maid in the court of Ye Mystic Revelers in 1939. Miss Walker holds membership in the Spinsters and Cotillion Club.
Mr. McEwan attended Augusta Military Academy at Fort Defiance, Va. He was graduated from the University of Florida and from the law school of Washington and Lee University. He is an alumnus of the Kappa Alpha social fraternity and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. Mr. McEwan is a member of the [law firm] of Akerman, Akerman and McEwan in Orlando and is a member of the American Bar Association.
AI Notes
A clipped newspaper page mounted on the album page, with the printed page header ‘PAGE EIGHT’ at the upper left and ‘THE SUNDAY’ at the upper right; a pencilled date ‘March 9th 1941’ has been added across the upper margin. Headline: ‘ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED TODAY’ over a large studio portrait of the bride-to-be, Miss Mary Ann Walker, photographer credit ‘Dishinger-Wood[ward]’ at lower right. The caption beneath announces her engagement to Oswald Beverley McEwan. The groom’s father is Dr. John Singer McEwan of Orlando; the photographer is Dishinger-Woodward; Mary Ann was a member of the 1938-39 Debutante Club and also belonged to the Spinsters and Cotillion Club; the Orlando law firm name is ‘Akerman, Akerman and McEwan’ (predecessor of present-day Akerman LLP).