Sohio News April 1947 Page 8

How To Stage A Successful Party

On March 21 The Home Office's Technical Recreation Club, which is proud of its record of being the second employee unit to organize under The Sohio Recreation Plan, held a highly successful game party called The Sohio Sweepstakes.

Because their program and stunts seem so readily adaptable for use by any unit in Sohio, The Sohio News sought their cooperation in staging pictures of their ideas, as well as a few others which may serve as useful stimuli to party planners.

You don't need a Recreation Club in order to organize a party, but the battle is half won when a Unit can turn to a handful of people who have already organized for the specific purpose of providing recreation for themselves. The Technical Recreation Club is a perfect example. Throughout each year seven employees serve as a Club Board of Directors. This year they are Don Stoll, president of the Club; E. Berger, vice-president; Don Roberson, treasurer; Norma Higgins, secretary; Dut Ashcraft, Sports Committee chairman; Frank Engstrom, chairman of the Committee on Spectator Entertainment; and Irv Adams, Social Committee chairman.

To social chairman Irv Adams goes the responsibility for all parties. Following the Board's decision to stage a party, he in turn appoints a general chairman for that party. Here is the key man of the affair, a responsibility which is rotated from party to party.

Stan Arthurs as general chairman captained the Sohio Sweepstakes party pictured here. Since his club relies heavily on dividing and subordinating responsibilities, Stan's first job was to get himself five sub-committee chairmen, assign them duties and get things moving. He turned to Jean Sparnon to plan the reception and arrangements. Caroline Po-lakiewicz planned refreshments for him. Ralph Atkinson supervised the clean-up details. John Winship did publicity, and For-rest Day arranged entertainment. Each sub-committeeman, of course, chose other employees as aids who carried the ideas from the plotting board into the action stage.

Top-heavy with personnel? No! Just an excellent democratic approach that breeds successful parties for The Technical Recreation Club. With different leaders and different committeemen for each party, and only general supervision on the part of the Club's Board of Directors, every affair brings out different and original invitations, decorations, games, refreshment recipes, and lots of zip and color that produce a "party to remember".

IDENTIFICATION IS ESSENTIAL to every large party. The Sohio Sweepstakes crowd used playing cards as name tags. Eileen Winkel laughingly fastens a joker to Dutton Ashcraft's lapel, while others await their turn. That's Hallie Davis looking on at the left.

KIDDIE-KAR POLO, top left, is a party stunt guaranteed to bring down the house. Other equipment includes a basket-ball and a yard stick. Players cannot touch the ball with their hands. Seen steering a collision course are George "Elbows" Knepp, and Claire Belcore. At right are penny pitchers Eleanor Larisch and Lou Perillo at the March 21st party. The target for contestants was a saucer which was set afloat in a tank ordinarily used for keeping milk cool.

YOUR FRIENDS FROM PAGE TWO unmasked. Frank Engstrom, as Kilroy. Jean Sparnon, as Nameless, and Roy Morse, as The Hat. Not a part of the Technical Recreation Club affair, but paper bag masks are worth a laugh at any party or dance.

SOFTEST TOUCH AT THE PARTY was Bob Simonsen, Cashier. A fortune in paper money made the roulette wheels turn easily. Getting their share are Vorice Bett, Felicia Adams, and Florence Thompson.

CLEANED OUT. "But darling it was only play-money," says John Laituri to wife Jean. Top-right, Stan Arthurs, left, General Chairman of The Sohio Sweepstakes party, checks the list while Joe Arnold posts the scores. Joe rated high applause for his handling of the horse race which highlighted the party theme. Joe had aided Forrest Day who led the sub-committee responsible for entertainment. Every party detail from entertainment to lining-up was planned and arranged in advance by committees.

THE SOHIO SWEEPSTAKES PARTY WAS A GAMBLERS' paradise. George Watkins spins the chuck-a-luck cage for, left to right, Marge Bradley, Norma Higgins, and Forrest Day.

The Welcome Mat

Have you met the new Sohioans in your department? Why not look them up and say hello. Remember your first day on the job?

Oklahoma City Production - Mary French, Land Department; Francis Purdum, Sloan Mainard, Accounting; Michael Popovitch, Reservoir Engineering; R. D. Grisham, W. T. Battle, B. E. Carter, D. L. Gordon, N. S. McNeill, R. M. Caywood, H. E. Donaldson, J. E. Franklin, H. W. Hargis, H. H. Higbee, W L. Holder, W. A. Hood, Clyde Hull, D. D. Lacey, W. D. Lewis, W. H. Smither, L. Z. Taylor, H. W. Thomasson, H. L. Tipton, Bert Toombs, E. G. Warren, M. B. Young, Drilling; Pam Watts, Exploration.

Home Office - Grace Brewer, stenographer, and Margene Var-nier, clerk, Tech Service; Barbara Eirls, Tech Service Lab; Maxine Conway and Walter Findlay, Transportation Personnel; Evelyn Miller, Production.

Gulf Coast Production - J. J. Schneider, Jr., Geophysical; Marie Rhymes, ediphone operator; Severn Jones, Accounting and Production.

Dayton - Earl Zirkle, Joe Virgilio, James Rupert, Joseph Spewock, Wilbur Kibler, Henry Shope, Thomas Dunson, William Plecker, Jr., Thomas Courtney, Dwain Eaton, Carl Bunker, Eugene Siens, William Moore, all in the service station department.

No. Two Refinery - Ruth Prosek, Wayne Steingass, Accounting; Clarence Stalzkowski, drum cleaner; Bernard Jaskolowski, Henry Edvartoski, Tony Yunis, Charles Minichbauer, Joseph Wawrowski, John Dobies, Russell Gardner, James Jedlicka, Stanley Mielecki, Fred Legler, William Foster, Joseph Biro, Jr., Labor; Joseph Rechnitzer, Roemer Scholtz, George Prochko, Laboratory.

Latonia Refinery - G. H. Rodgers, Yard; Ray Thaney, Office.

Sales Accounting - Mary Hadevich, Betty Koch, Florence Koehler, Accounts Receivable; Janet Beckrest, Christine Cassaro, Barbara Smith, Bulk and Refining

Checking; Betty Bedell, Mail and Addressograph; Clara Myers, Ellen Russell, Service Station; Aur-elia Krzys, S. S. Credit Ticket; Lilyan Karcher, Stock; George Cretney, Stephen Knerly, William Neff, Helen Samek, Helen Sonchik, Tab.

Lima Refinery - Z. T. Pearson, R. G. Blank, W. E. Specs, Labor Department; Elizabeth George, stenographer; D. L. Cawein, co-op student.

Toledo Refinery - Ray Berard.

St. Louis Office- Ralph Jackson, assistant engineer for special assignments; Anthony Fleming, River Operations engineer.

Cincinnati - Lee Oursler, John Keeton, Harry Sand, Delbert Hurley, Jr., Richard Vonderheide, Robert Gray, Glen Larkins; Frank Schmidt, William Dunn, drivers in service stations; James Meyer, Middletown; Alfred Bowling, Hamilton.

Canton - Vincent Roebuck, Jr., Construction Maintenance; Dale Lockard, truck driver.

Akron - James Demboski, William Mort, William Grimm, Ralph Fincannon, Dalton Folmar, Ellis Good, Gurley Sparks, Akron; Carl McCoy, Cuyahoga Falls; Jesse Key, Tallmadge; Charles Farr, Wadsworth; Robert Adams, Barberton; Paul Schwartz and Earl Brown with Zack Gray's maintenance crew.

Mansfield- Marjorie Harris, Office: Ruth Lindner, Crestline Bulk Station; W. N. Brown, F. F. Gantz, O. S. Bowman, R. C. Shober, F. L. Bennett, Elyria; J. R. Lee, Norwalk; R. L. Pifer, Ashland; Ralph Shively, Louis Fava, Mansfield; R. W. Sapp, Mt. Vernon.

Illinois Production- N. A. Miller, Land Office.

Tinsley Production - Frank Jones, petroleum engineer, is working in the roustabout gang.

Cleveland- Clayton Atkins, Kenneth Brennan, Dale Cheffey, Roscoe Corbitt, Lawrence Croucher, Frank Datwyler, Frank DeVries, Edwin Grigsby, Robert Hanus, Helmer Hein, David Hri-bar, John James, Paul Macera, Ralph Matt, William May, Ralph Messuri, Francis Miller, Robert Minke, Kenneth Nowicki, Stanford Parsons, Lorenzo Reid, Julius Seliga, Edward Simmons.

Delbert Slitor, Russell Smith, Milan Stavec, Eugene Stropkey, Auldin Sudbury, Edward Timieski, Thomas Vitek, James Werts, Robert Whitmarsh, Richard Voss, Robert Wulff, Robert Grotty, David Galazin, Robert McNamara, Joseph Collins, Stanley Gabrowshek, Michael Ga1eski, Robert Hoaglund, Gunnard Nyman, Claude MacDonald.

Can Factory - Donald Hedington, James Hoban, Vincent Kudla, Chester Chewiedziewicz, Joseph Noga, Frank Fauskey, Lum Hunt, Joseph Klir, William McCluskey.