Doria Allen
DORIA ALLEN
GRANDDAUGHTER OF McKINNEY WOMAN HOME FROM CAMP
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, Oct 3, 1940
Miss Doria Allen was a several days’ guest recently in the home of her Grandmother, Mrs. George Wilcox, and her cousin, Miss Wilcox, and her cousin, Miss Garnett Reese. This young lady, who is a Junior in North Dallas High School, has recently returned from a two month’s stay at Dixie Camps for Girls and Boys at Clayton and Wiley, Georgia.
Approximately twenty States and District of Columbia were represented at these camps, where horseback riding, canoeing, archery, and other activities are featured. These respected camps closed with the annual custom, and anticipated banquet. The honor emblem, highest award of the girls’ camp, was given to three young ladies, Miss Doris Allen being one of the winners. During the two month’s term, she was Art Director. Her illustrations and fashion designs lent artistic tone and atmosphere to the camp magazine, "Dixie Echoes."
The long fair banquet hall; the full length table with its floral menu, and place cards was a festival board for the more than one-hundred happy girls and boys.
Miss Allen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kent D. Allen, 4303 Rawlings, Dallas. She is a granddaughter of Mrs. W. D. Allen, a prominent Club woman of that city.
GRANDDAUGHTER OF McKINNEY WOMAN HOME FROM CAMP
McKinney Weekly Democrat Gazette, Oct 3, 1940
Miss Doria Allen was a several days’ guest recently in the home of her Grandmother, Mrs. George Wilcox, and her cousin, Miss Wilcox, and her cousin, Miss Garnett Reese. This young lady, who is a Junior in North Dallas High School, has recently returned from a two month’s stay at Dixie Camps for Girls and Boys at Clayton and Wiley, Georgia.
Approximately twenty States and District of Columbia were represented at these camps, where horseback riding, canoeing, archery, and other activities are featured. These respected camps closed with the annual custom, and anticipated banquet. The honor emblem, highest award of the girls’ camp, was given to three young ladies, Miss Doris Allen being one of the winners. During the two month’s term, she was Art Director. Her illustrations and fashion designs lent artistic tone and atmosphere to the camp magazine, "Dixie Echoes."
The long fair banquet hall; the full length table with its floral menu, and place cards was a festival board for the more than one-hundred happy girls and boys.
Miss Allen is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kent D. Allen, 4303 Rawlings, Dallas. She is a granddaughter of Mrs. W. D. Allen, a prominent Club woman of that city.
