Extracted from The Ruston Daily Leader (Ruston, LA)
Tuesday, March 21, 1961

Miss Caroline Hansen of Maryland To Be Late Summer Bride Of John Oden Mecom

Announcement has been made by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Christian Hansen of Silver Spring, Maryland, of the engagement of their daughter, Caroline Christian, to John Oden Mecom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Mecom, of Ruston.

The wedding will be an event of late summer at the Woodside Methodist Church in Silver Spring.

The bride-elect, a graduate of Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, is a senior majoring in Spanish at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi, social sorority, and Sigma Delta Pi, honorary Spanish fraternity, and is on the Dean's list at the university.

The groom-to-be, a 1957 graduate of Ruston High School, is a senior, Science Education major, at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute and is on the Dean's list. He is a member of Beta Beta Beta, national science honorary fraternity.

Miss Hansen is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Pinkney E. Cline of Lenoir, North Carolina, and her paternal grandparents are Mr. John Hansen, a native of Denmark, and the late Mrs. Hansen, of Seattle, Washington.

Mrs. John E. Oden, of Shreveport, and the late Mr. Oden are the maternal grandparents of the prospective groom, and on the paternal side he is descended from the late Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Mecom of Wisner.