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San Antonio Light, 10 May 1962, page 30 — society column 'Senior Party List Rises' with a paragraph on Miss Ruth Lemoyne Menger, Incarnate Word High School senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gus Menger, who was honored with a recent cola party by Mrs. Gus P. Menger in her home; the fiesta motif was featured in the decorations and about 30 of her classmates attended
San Antonio Light, 10 May 1962, page 30 — society column 'Senior Party List Rises' with a paragraph on Miss Ruth Lemoyne Menger, Incarnate Word High School senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gus Menger, who was honored with a recent cola party by Mrs. Gus P. Menger in her home; the fiesta motif was featured in the decorations and about 30 of her classmates attended
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HH-CLIP-1962-0006
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“Senior Party List Rises” — Ruth Lemoyne Menger cola party — SA Light, 10 May 1962

Society column in the San Antonio Light of Thursday, 10 May 1962 (p. 30) under the heading “Senior Party List Rises”, with a one-paragraph item on Miss Ruth Lemoyne Menger, Incarnate Word High School senior, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gus Menger, honored with a recent cola party by Mrs. Gus P. Menger in her home. Fiesta motif decorations; about 30 classmates attended.

Genealogical value for the Menger family record:

  • Ruth Lemoyne Menger is the daughter of Albert G. Menger and his wife Lemoyne Flaherty (married July 8, 1942 — see HH-CLIP-1942-0004). The forename “Lemoyne” passes from mother to daughter.
  • The name “Albert Gus Menger” as printed in the SA Light item lightly confirms that Albert G. Menger’s middle name was Gus (after his father Gus P. Menger). The same Albert G. Menger was H&H president by May 1960.
  • Mrs. Gus P. Menger (Ruth Lemoyne’s paternal grandmother) hosting suggests the Gus P. Menger household at 1919 Kenilworth was an active extended-family social venue in May 1962. Ruth’s father Albert G. Menger and grandfather Gus P. Menger appear together a month earlier in the SA Express-News “Generation to Generation” Master Chef ad (HH-CLIP-1962-0005).
  • Ruth Lemoyne Menger graduated Incarnate Word High School in 1962.

This is a useful primary-source confirmation of the Albert G. Menger family’s San Antonio social-circle membership in mid-1962, just months before the Continental Coffee sale that ended the family’s H&H Coffee Co. operational era.