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Show SCH00LDAY ROMANCE WILL LEAD TO WEDDING By Leased Wire to Tho Tribune. PHILADELPHIA, July 30. The engagement en-gagement of George Hamilton Collect of this city to Miss Gladys Kerens of St. Louis, daughter of Richard C. Korens. American embassador to Austro-IIun-gary. just announced, resulted from a romance begun during their schooldays. A few of Mr. Collect's Inllmalo friends know of the romance that covers the years following the couple's meeting at a dance given by a graduating class of the 1 1 111 preparatory school at Pottstown. George IT. Colkot was preparing at that school to enter Yale university, from which ho graduated in 1007. SInco then he has taken a post-gradualo law course at the University of Pennsylvania, whero ho Is now in his senior year. Two years ago Colkot accompanied tho Kerens family on a tour through Europe, and ho returned to this country and began be-gan studying for tho bar. with high pros-puctfi pros-puctfi of winning a case before he be-camo be-camo a full-fledged barrister. Then a misunderstanding arose, casting a gloom over the student's prospects, one of his bosom friends intimated today, but tho trip to Austro-Hungary and the announcement an-nouncement Just received show that everything hns been satisfactorily arranged. ar-ranged. Miss Kerens is a devout Catholic, and her llnnco is a member of tho Protestant Episcopal church. |