The article below announces the engagement of Mary Elizabeth Merritt and Richard Verner Halsey. I believe this copy was from the Syracuse Journal, September 25, 1945. I wish there was a better copy of the article available but online searches produce copies where the picture is not clear at all. Will keep searching as always.
Note here that the wedding was to take place in the fall. Also, one of the few mentions of Mary having attended Montrose Girls School in Caldwell, New Jersey. Mary's photo collections did include some pictures of her time there perhaps of some of her friends, but as yet I haven't been able to identify any of them.
