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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1974
Page
7
A strawberry Bavarian Cream recipe by Marian Reeder for the Friendship Club serves 6 to 8. It uses gelatin melted in water, sugared strawberries, and heavy whipped cream folded in, set in a two quart mold and chilled before unmolding and decorating with whole berries.
In Athens area organizers urge prospective adopters to focus on the child not the parents. Statistics cited show over 18 000 U S children need permanent homes in Ohio. The piece notes many aren’t infant or perfectly healthy and caucasian.
Dear Abby columns discuss a Midwest family's struggle with their daughter's graduate student relationship with a Black man. The mother fears heartache and asks how to handle the situation, while readers offer blunt advice on approach and prejudice.
Jim Lardie of Adopt A Child Today speaks at Athens meeting about adoption challenges. ACT stresses the fault line of institutionalization, foster care, and court bias toward biological parents while urging a focus on the best interests of the child and public awareness.
Area 4 H Groups gathered for sewing knits bicycle parts and dog training lessons. Members learned needle threading, hoof cleaning, delicing horses, and demonstrations by Kriss and Kelly Meeks. A fundraiser ticket drive supported a Hereford steer donation for the Athens County fund.
Barbara Stephenson daughter of Dr and Mrs Gilbert A Stephenson won two awards at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music honors day recital Delta Omicaron Ruth Bohlender award in voice and Clifton Music Club Scholarship. She previously earned a Corbet Scholarship in voice and took first place in the freshman sophomore women division of the National Association of Teacher of Singing auditions at Wittenberg University Springfield.
Wan Ahmad Omar, 24, an undergraduate at Ohio University, received a cornea donation from Central Ohio Lions Eye Bank. The transplant at O Bleness Memorial Hospital occurred May 31, with two staff ophthalmologists reporting the procedure technically successful, though final visual outcome awaits healing. A Columbus specialist had earlier indicated partial sight restoration might be possible.
Casual knit shorts and jeans offered in assorted colors. Sizes available S M L.
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