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Newspaper
Acton Free Press
Location
Acton, Ontario, Canada
Date
May 09, 1963
Page
19
Personal notes from Acton households report visits and hospital stays. Readers learn of students finishing pharmacy studies, a University of Toronto student home for the summer, and local family visits. Officials from Ontario assessors attended a convention in Toronto while others joined church services and open meetings on Fremnan language teaching and school curriculum.
In a Lakeside chapter meeting held at Mrs. A’s home, members discussed Education on Mrs. Reid and Empire Day events at public schools on May 17. The group plans to send one ALG High student to a United Nations seminar at Waterloo College from June 23 onward while Cancer Society speakers urged more funding for research and education.
The Acton tennis club held its initial meeting Tuesday evening at the community centre with 26 attendees. George Eliott was named president. Mrs. Jim Graham is secretary treasurer. Case de Jong joins the Property committee. Wayne Ridley heads the membership. plans were made for the summer season and the club’s fate if Beardmore and Company’s tennis property is sold.
A retired English headmaster and his wife visited Acton last week renewing friendships dating to the turn of the century. The couple, linked to the Coles family, traveled from Canada after landing on Wednesday and toured friends on Thursday and Friday. They recalled a former tannery tour in England and discussed St. Marks and St. John College in Chelsea.
The text notes a group traveled to Detroit and Winnipeg then to Vancouver to see scholars housed in new, spacious buildings. They visit Mr. Cooksey's daughter and the Coles in Acton, and mention Kendall and his family including a son in law, a professor at the University of British Columbia.
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