Wiscasset Honor Roll and Local News Highlights
The Wiscasset High School honor roll lists seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen across first through third honors with numerous students named. Lincoln County Museum displays Civil War relics. Huntoon Hill Grange met Monday. Senior Mothers' club hosted a record hop to fund the senior class trip. A proposed Wiscasset air strip aims to boost Lincoln County, with costs shared by county and town and a federal grant. The Wiscasset Redskins were feted by coach Stover and staff, with players and staff listed. A Washington Birthday communion drew attendees from Bath, Damariscotta, Wiscasset, and Jefferson. P. Amos of the State Dept. of Education will speak at the next Parent-Teacher meeting. Elizabeth Norton addressed the P-T club meeting. Garrison Hill Chapter Eastern Star set its annual meeting with a picnic lunch. A planned minstrel show for March 16 is in preparation by the P-T club with committee chairs named. Pine Cone Rebekah Lodge meets Thursday with supper and degree work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiscasset High School
June Paquett
Leigh Campbell
Charles Shea
Linda Cowley
Priscilla Dorr
Jayne Dowling
Carol Barker
Judy McFadden
John Nelder
Gwen Wyman
Dean Shea
Sandra Smith
Susan Croxford
Edward Eastman
Sheila Wright
Jane Gross
Sandra Taylor
Donna Croxford
Nancy Pinson
Wiscasset
Lincoln County
Bath
Bob Maybury
For—Renkin
Forny
Serden
Chuck
Eddie Harris
Don Nadeau
Eddie Eastman
Billy Sutter
Don Hutchins
Ken Hodgkins
Ralph Hilton
Stovers
St. Phillip’s Church
Brunswick
Damariscotta
Garrison Hill
Eastern Star
Claire Moody
Lincoln
Washington
Pine Cone Rebakah Lodge
Freida Hussey
Ways and
Ruth Kierstead
Barbara Cost
Bertha Day
Guy Johnson
Dresden School Board Considers Pownalboro Hall Use
A Dresden meeting reviewed acquiring Pownalboro hall for a consolidated school with a plan to remodel two rooms if bought. Further discussion planned at the annual town meeting as the Spring term begins February 25. Local church and community notes follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownalboro Hall
Clayton Mayers
James Herrick
Methodist Church
Charles Foss
Dresden
Ernest Cate
Needle Club
Lester Munsey
South Dresden
Elyn Cate
Ray Cate
Dresden Mills
Fleet Reserve
Boston
Woolwich Clubs Report Busy Month Of Activities
Woolwich groups held meetings and events with exchanges of gifts and refreshments. The Spinning Wheel Club planned March 21 meet with Mrs Doris Carter. Day's Ferry Canasta Group shared a valentine exchange. P T A announced World Book Encyclopedias for Woolwich Central School and a baked beans supper March 2. Numerous local members attended Grange, Boy Scouts, and Fire Department gatherings with projects, social hours, and upcoming events noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spinning Wheel Club
Elsie Stinson
Doris Carter
Day's Ferry
Canasta Club
Grace Smith
Gertrude Brown
Smith
Avis Duncan
Rita Flemming
Jeanette Groves
Woolwich
Elva Edwards
Dorothy Schutten
Taphine Soule
Charlotte Leeman
Woolwich Grange
Merle Jameson
Clyde Bailey
Gladys Hathorne
Lucy Smith
Topsham ‘Grange
Anna Hanson
Dromore
Anta Munsey
West Bath
Percival Hodgdon
Elaine McCrater
Arrowsic residents cyclically note auto salvage and winter happenings
A Sasanoa shore community report describes a car sunk in ice for two days between Arrowsic and Woolwich, recovered after a risky salvage. The note lists local residents and visits, including Mrs Raymond Ainsworth leading the Heart Fund drive, artesian well drilling by Mr and Mrs Frank Garon, and various family gatherings and social events during a Bath area winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sasanoa
Arrowsic
Woolwich
Joseph Lawrence
Raymond Ainsworth
Heart Fund Campaign
Weekend Visitors and Travels Across Maine to Boston
A long list of residents and relatives spent weekends and holidays visiting or traveling. Families from Woolwich, Phipps Point, Day's Ferry, and South Woolwich visited relatives in Boston, Connecticut, Virginia, Coventry, and Nazareth while others attended events such as the Ice Follies and a Credit Bureau seminar. Military personnel and formations were noted, with some expected 30 day leaves and transfers to McConnell Air Force Base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Marthas Vineyard
Mass
Hilding Olson
Paul Olson
Portland
Nelson Rice
Sugadahoe Ferry
Olson
Connecticut
Woolwich
James Thorpe
Janet
Day's Ferry
Virginia
Anne Williams
Brunswick Credit Bureau
Boston
Credit Bureau of America
John Lynch
Lewiston
Chester Leeman
Hockomock Road
Charles Leveroni
North Quincy
Thomas Kostenbader
Brunswick Naval Air Station
Nazareth
John Leonard
Jesse Munsey
Ernest Pushard
Popham Beach
McConnell Air Force Base
Kansas
Marilyn Sova
Lawrence
James Dunton
Phipps Point
Sova
June Koeppe
Denver
Colo
Tudor Gardner
Gordon Gardner
Gardiner
Clifford
Molson
Ernest Lebel
Coventry
Conn
Bernice Soule
Charlene
Ruth Shaw
Harold Shaw
Augusta
Syracuse University Cross Country Coach Bob Grieve Steps Down
Bob Grieve has led Syracuse University cross country for 11 years, shaping programs and guiding runners through multiple seasons. His departure marks the end of an era for the university’s distance squads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Grieve
Syracuse University
Don Townsend
Elizabeth
St. Johns University of Brooklyn
Recreation topic marks Shamrocks 4-H meeting notes
West Bath 4-H club met at Dottie Snowden home to plan a March 4 program at West Bath grange. Attendees included Reta Hennessey Barbara Fuller Christine Fuller Joan Ring and Marie Earle. Ernest Williams left for Florida to stay with son Wendall Williams in Largo. William Sanford Jr returned to Yuba California after visiting his parents. Several residents and visitors are listed with travel and family updates. Debra Ann was born Feb 11 to Mr and Mrs Lee Ketchum’s daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Garon
Morris Knight
Bath
Ralph Jewett
Knight
Horatio L. Baker
Bath and Woolwich
Florida
Arrowsic
Miles Hagan
Robert Eisenhauer
Woburn
Mass
Hugh Eisenhauer
Beverly Crosman
South Portland
Charles Paradis
Carol Ainsworth
Leslie
Bion
Wilmington
Harry Ainsworth
Wilbur Crocker
Ronald Rittall
Spinney Mills
David Humphries
Kenneth Humphries
Lambert Park
P.T. A
Shamrocks
Dottie Snowden
West Bath Grange
Reta’ Hennessey
Barbara and
Christine Fuller
Joan Ring
Marie Earle
Reta Hennessey
Ernest Williams
Wendall Williams
Largo
Wilbur Ketcham
Frederick L. King
William Sanford, Jr
William Sanford
Yuba
Calif
Sam Bogg
Massachusetts
Donald Sanford
Mildred Bowie
Lewiston
Ralph Baker
Leon Belanger
William Ketchum
Lee Ketchum
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
Debra Ann
Robert Killiam
Gardiner
F. W. Deehan
William Hodgkins
Kittery
Harland Boynton
Donald Ketchum
Edna McDougall
Somerville
Miss McDougall
Marcella McDougall
Mary Ketchum
Saco
Lee
Lowell Lamoreeau
USAF
Greenland
Arnold Lamoreau
Lincoln Street
Fred Witham
Clinton
Leslie F. Roberts
Boston
Ellen Sneed
Bowdoinham
Roberts
Gertrude Gardner
Spruce Street
Gardiner General Hospital
Helen Patrick
Main
James Sullivan
Water Street
North Bath News Roundup of Local Aches and Visits
Virginia McCabe returns home from Osteopathic hospital in Portland. Mrs. McCabe ill at home. Various locals report visits, illnesses, and travel including Ardenne Traines confined with bronchial pneumonia and Ed midn Higgins visiting his mother. Several families share weekends in Boston Portland Bucksport and Littleton Massachusetts. Describes birthdays gifts and moving plans for Bath area residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia McCabe
Willard McCabe
Osteopathic Hospital
Portland
McCabe
Guy Blaisdell
Ridge Road
Bath
Fraser
Trufant Street
Edwin Rogers
North Bath
Rogers
Ardenne Traines
Ardenne Haines
Edwin Hemingway
Littleton
Mass
Henry G. Root
Connecticut town trims school chief's salary by hundred thousand
In Groton the annual town meeting voted to reduce School Superintendent Lewis G Allbee's salary by $100,000. He remained undisturbed until learning later of the correction to the town report which had listed his pay at $111,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Groton, Conn
Lewis G. Allbee
Allbee
Richmond Grange program features historic birthdays and Valentine tableau
Richmond Progressive Grange met Friday evening with readings on Lincoln and Washington birthdays and Valentine themes by Mrs. Edna Small Mary Bonaparte Nettie Leavitt Viola Riske and others. Jokes by Myron Douglass vocal solo by Mrs. Lagan and a birthday surprise for Mrs. Maud Harriman with a money purse and cake were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive Grange
Lincoln’s
Washington
Edna Small
Mary Bonaparte
Nettie Leavitt
Viola Riske
Myron Douglass
Thomas Lagan
Valentine Tableau
Betty Kendrick
Cyrus Kendrick, Jr
Fuller Street
Kendricks
C. C. Police
Francis McCabe
Maine State Police
Elizabeth O. Bishop
Neil Bishop
Stockton Springs
Leonard Bishop
John Thrower, Jr
John Thrower
Beech Street
Gail Williams
Carol Ann Watts
Victoria Lechner
Mary Lou Smith
Margaret Harvey
Janice Thrower
Dennis Dickey
Patrick Coughlin
Amandus Densmore
Barry Cheney
Dorothy King
Judy Thrower
Woolwich Youth Group Meets Sunday Evening
The Woolwich Baptist Youth Fellowship met at Woolwich Center Baptist Church for a devotional led by George Wilson and a message by William Sanders on the sea comparisons. Fred Lowell opened with prayer, Leona Bailey and George Wilson performed a vocal duet, and Marcia Wilson collected the offering. 29 members attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Youth Fellowship For
Woolwich
Woolwich Center Baptist Church
George Wilson
William Sanders
Sea of Gallilee
Dead Sea
Fred Lowell
Leona Bailey
Marcia Wilson
Russell Tanner
Five Bath Officials Face Term Expirations This Year
Governor renewals loom for six state and Bath officials in 1957. Edwin R. Andrews of Maine Maritime Academy trustees, Arthur F. Dolloff Bath municipal court recorder, Frances Smith State Board of Education, Jeannette Pitkin Physical Therapy Examiners, Ivan A. Trueworthy State Park Commission, and Ada Marr Purington Bath Board of Registration of Voters. Dolloff hails from Topsham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin R. Andrews
Maine Maritime Academy
Arthur F. Dolloff
Bath Municipal
EB. Frances Smith
State Board of Education
Jeannette Pitkin
Ivan A. Trueworthy
State Park Commission
Ada Marr Purington
Bath
St. Marys Bazaar Social and Financial Success
Gerald Rioux, chair, reported the St. Marys Bazaar two day event held Friday and Saturday was a social and financial success. About 900 attended supper at Bath Junior High School Saturday under Anne Perry supervision. Cecil Fullerton Jr. and his band provided music during the 9 supper hour. Organ music by Mrs. Paul Boudreau was featured at the State Armory Saturday evening for the variety program. The 16 billion dollar natural gag industry claims it is the sixth largest in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Rioux
Bath
Anne Perry
Cecil Fullerton, Jr
Paul Boudreau
State Armory
Bath area seeks emergency housing re designation
Richard B. MacLennan of the Bath Area Chamber of Commerce asks Maine’s congressional delegation to re declare Bath an emergency housing area and keep Hyde and Lambert Parks under government ownership as low rent housing. He notes Hyde Park and Lambert Park are heavily used by military personnel and warns auctioning the projects could harm the city. He asks Senators Smith and Payne and Congressmen Hale Coffin and McIntire for cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard B. MacLenan
Bath Area
Hyde and Lambert
Bath
Bath Housing Authority
Public Housing Authority
Hyde and
Lambert Parks
Hyde Park
Lambert Park
MacLennan
Margaret Chase Smith
Frederick G. Payne
Robert Hale
Frank M. Coffin
Clifford McIntire
State of Maine visits Canal Zone on training cruise
The Maine Maritime Academy training ship State of Maine docked at Coco Solo Canal Zone February 13 1957 marking cruise midpoint. Midshipmen toured Gatun Locks Panama Canal while naval facilities supported recreation. Maine and Charleston Massachusetts Maritime Academy raced pulling boat. Maine won.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. State of Maine
Maine Maritime Academy
Castine
Bath
State of Maine
U. S. Naval Station
Coco Solo
Canal Zone
Fredericksted
St. Croix
Naval Station
Gatun
Panama Canal
Charleston, Massachusetts
Santiago
Cuba
Both People Return From Visit To Florida
Mrs. Herbert R. Lemont and Miss Sadie Armstrong return to Bath Maine from a three month Florida visit. They stayed with former Bath residents Mr. and Mrs. Carl Y. Kennedy in Coral Gables Miami and Melbourne. Armstrong traveled with Mr. and Mrs. William J. Craft and also visited Williamsburg Virginia and Jamestown during the 350th anniversary celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert R. Lemont
Sadie Armstrong
Florida
Lemont
Coral’ Gables
Miami
Melbourne
Carl Y. Kennedy
Bath
Miss Armstrong
William J. Craft
Soviet Union reports vast expansion of education system
Moscow reports by official proclamation that the Soviet union now runs 217000 elementary schools 3796 technical and special secondary schools and 798 universities institutes and colleges with an official statement predicting no less than one million students in boarding schools by 1960.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Committee Plans Bath Questionnaire to Aid Merchants
The Bath downtown redevelopment committee will mail a consumer survey to every Bath family to learn how much they spend out of town what they buy and how the business district can improve. The plan includes a merchants questionnaire based on Bath residents data.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Ares Chamber of Commerce
William F. Mussenden
Mussenden
Richard Bo MacLennan
The
Chamber
Cub Pack 53 Holds Annual Banquet and Awards Court
Cub Pack 53 gathered at Lambert Park Hall for its Blue and Gold banquet and awards night. Don Mathers served a buffet meal. Arthur Bourque led group singing. John J. Keegan Jr. presented badges and arrows to Cubs including Bob Cat John Vaillancourt Patrick Cote Gerald Cote Robert Rich Wolf Preston Hart Deawn Snell Richard Kennon Robert McElman Richard Knowland Richard Cromwell Michiel Willette. Kenneth Patterson Webelos. God Bless America closed the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cub Senate
Teen-Age Problems Topic At Baptist Fellowship
The First Baptist Church youth group discussed teen age problems during a Sunday evening meeting led by Rev Charles Robins. A business session followed with a letter read from the secretary of the rental library concerning renting films.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Robins
Baptist Youth Fellowship
First Baptist Shurch
Wesley Church to Build New Sunday School Rooms
The Wesley Methodist church board approves plans for three new Sunday school classrooms. Marehing, board chairman, announced the gift reception and the trustees outlined the project. Trustees Stanley Hunter Andrew Butterfield and Alvah A Morse supported the need for more space as attendance grows. Thirty three board members voted to start construction soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marehing
Wesley Methodist Boach
Stanley Hunter
Andrew Butterfield
Alvah c A. Morse
Past Ladies Club Meets Here Monday Evening
The Past Ladies club of Myrtle Lodeo met Monday evening at Mrs. Sadie Savage’s High street home with co hostess Mrs. Alice Lewis. A salad supper followed the meeting as members signed cards for homebound friends. Guests included Mrs. Lucie Cummings, Mrs. Annie Johnson, and Mrs. Luci Nutter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Lodeo
Odd d
Sadie Savage
High Street
Alice Lewis
Durrie
Lucie Cummings
R. N
Annie Johnson
Luci Nutter
Eva Atwood
Lucelia Blake
Louise Rovers
Eunice Perry
Anna Burnham
Joanie Cameron
Gertrude Stewart
Lizzie B. C. Chaney
Alice Rideout
Also Mentioned on This Page
South Woolwich Volunteer Fire Department
James Henderson
U.S.N
Allen Noble
Maurice Hathorne
Carlton Stinson
U.S. A
Guam
Japan
Clayton Stinson
Eleanor Carter
Central Maine Power Co
Rockland
Mason Carter
Stephen Hunnewell
Vinal Hunnewell
Montsweag
Bath Memorial Hospital
Stephen
Woolwich Central School
Albert Moore
Sagadahoe Ferry
Lawrence Edwards
Wayne Leeman
Damuariscotta
Norris Waltz
Leeman
Wayne
Jackie Chubbuck
Southington
Roy Durgin
Howard Kirkpatrick
Boston Armory
Forrest Baker
Patricia
Philip and
Denny
Nequasset
North
Harold MacDonald
George Lawrence
Harry Higgins
Orono
William Nadeau
William Dow
Bucksport
Dorothy Merrill
Witertown
Nadeau
Lawrence Nadeau
Francis Nadeau
Millard Nadeau
Raymond Nadeau
Brian and
Bruce Merrill
Watertown
Arthur Temple
Patricia Traines
Edmund Higgins
Rose Lee Higgins
Susan Brooks
Stanley, Brooks
Jeffrey
Richmond
Topsham
United States
Jovee Ring
Harry Fo Ring
Bith
Jovee
Kienneth Poole
Lyman CC. Poole
Washington Street
P.T.A
Penelope Carter
Rita Haskins
Marityn Ras
Donald Thayer Raubert Wiha
Jack Wallace
Roger Carter
Roy Stuart
Edward
Barbara Larrebec
Jean Flemigg
Marsive House
Sharon Harvey
Virginia Stevens
Kathy Picken
Sime Approntrain
Sons
Sims
Cub Pack 53
Baptist Fellowship
Wesley Church
Past Ladies Club
Reginald
Nathan W. Watson
Oscar R. Griffiths
Fis
St Marys
Augusta and Manchester Lions Club
Sportmen's Show
Augusta State Armory
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