Southampton Press
Friday, Aug. 31, 1945
The Reverend Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Halsey of Chicago and
Southampton , Long Island, formerly of Cincinnati, announce the engagement of
their daughter, Abigail Fithian, to James Alfred Van Allen, Lt., U.S.N.R., son
of Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Van Allen of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
Miss Halsey is a graduate of the Lotspeich and Hillsdale
Schools of Cincinnati and of Mt. Holyoke College. For the past year she has
contributed to the war efforts thought the Johns Hopkins University Applied
Physics Laboratory in Silver Springs, Md.
Lt. Van Allen is a graduate of the Iowa Wesleyan University.
After acquiring his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Iowa, he was awarded
a Carnegie Institute Fellowship in the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in
Washington, D.C. Following sixteen months active service in the Pacific he is
now stationed in Washington. The wedding will take place early in October at
the First Presbyterian Church in Southampton.
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