Wiscasset High School Graduation Exercises
Wiscasset High School held graduation exercises Friday in Memorial gym to a capacity crowd. The program featured a long list of graduates and awards including Rankin, Foster, Paquette, Wyman, Nelder, and Maybury. Notable honors included a $100 Parent-Teachers' club scholarship to Rankin and the Kitteridge History essay award to Leland Foster Jr. Three athletes earned letters in four sports: Rankin, Dean and Charles Shea. The Mothers March for Cerebral Palsy raised $5,715.33. Community lodges and Rebekah assemblies held district meetings with many guests from surrounding towns. The Sheepscot River hosts abundant Atlantic salmon according to reports.
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Iscasset High School
Memorial Gym
Robert P. Frazier
John Nelder
Heights Beckon Us
Gwendolyn Wyman
Jayne Dowling
Robert Maybury
Joan Dalton
Thomas Rankin
Carol Barker
Joh Hilton
Tracy Kitteridge
Leland Foster, Jr
Leland Foster
D.A.R
June Paquett
Husson
Judith Callahan
Thomas’ Rankin
Tom Rankin
Jayne
Wiscasset
Dean Shea
Charles Shea
Bob Maybury
Eddie Harris
Tony Jordan
Billy Cost
Eddie Eastman
Brynn LeBourdais
Billy Sutter
Stanley Foye
Wayne Adams
Ronald Lewis
Doug Millett
Fred Engert
John Blagdon
Bernard Bailey
Sam Soule
Eddie Leighton
Russell LeBourdais
Paul Erskine
Ormand
Merle Grover
Orm
Jordan
Maybury
Don Hutchins
Don Nadeau
Sandy Foster
Steve Davis
Charles DiPerri
Jim Merry
Lewis
Adams
Bailey
Engert
Blagdon
Soule
Alice Rankin
Sandra Taylor
Carol Higgins
Owen Wyman
Edith Pickering
Barbara Dunbar
Bernice Wilson
Dot Bennett
Jane Merry
Peggy Lamson
Diana Hodgkins
Judy Skillings
Grace Jackson
Glennis Jackson
Gladys Tibbetts
Linda Cowley
Jean Gross
Jean Reed
Emerson Grammar — School
Enterprise Grange Hall
History
Lynne Wells
Rendle Jones
Poll
Theodore Smith
Sylvia Douglass
Will
Elaine Poland
Dennis Gardner
Prophecy
Rebecca Seigars
Wayne Dorr
Zada_ Barstow
Walter Beckwith
Michael Bodge
Clement Brousseau
Kay Cadenellis
Lorna Cavanaugh
Gary Chadwick
Linda Cheney
Dwight Cook
Kenneth Foster
Sandra Gilpatrick
Barry
Charles Coveney, Jr
Emerson-Lane Post
American Legion
Woolwich Community Club and Nequasset Notes
Woolwich and Nequasset groups held meetings with plans for a July Summer sale at Nequasset Congregational church and a June joint gathering at the Goodwill club. Individuals including Mrs. Jennie Howe and Mrs. Ethel Blakes featured, with several family visits noted among Woolwich residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Presley
Ethel Blakes
Blake
Marion Ingalls
Nequasset Congregational Church
Ruth Leeman
Norma Helbrook
Nequasset
Montsweag
Goodwill Club
Steward Chapin
Woolwich
Mexico
Senator Bailey Speaks at Woolwich Grange Meeting
State Senator Frank R. Bailey addressed Woolwich Grange on dairy history and the 88th Maine Legislature. The dairy supper was omitted this year and a Fair Committee meeting was set for June 9 at Master Clyde Bailey’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank R. Bailey
Woolwich Grange
Maine
Grange
Marion Chubbuck
Home and Community Welfare Committee
Clyde Bailey
Harold Robinson
Ethel Reed
Daisy Elwell
Judy McIintire
Harvey G. Chubbuck
Hazel McIntire
Chester McCrater
Jocelyn Chukbuck
Woolwich Local Tax Rate Drops To 35 Mills
Woolwich boards set a 35 mill tax rate for this year down from 48 mills last year. First Selectman T Tarry Schulten cited property losses from Route 1 relocation and the absence of the chicken business reducing assessed property by 12000 dollars. Tax bills will be prepared and mailed soon, with Woolwich among few towns cutting taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Selectmen of
Woolwich
First Selectman
T. Tarry Schulten
Wostwich
Local Social Notes From Waldoboro to Bath
Mrs Loring Edgerly completes duties at the Sylvania plant in Waldoboro. Damariscotta hosts Norris Waltz and Chester Leeman families for supper and a dance recital in Bath featuring Wayne Leeman. Greenwich pair Kolinda and Helen Nichols visit Schulten family and attend UNH graduation for Thomas T Jr. at Durham. Edward Gallant moves to a new bungalow at Day's Ferry. Mrs Carroll Morse leaves Jay's Ferry for Salisbury. Mrs Russell Boyd of Boston plans summer in Woolwich after Swampscott teaching posting. Carleton Day Reed family to Bridgton for the summer. Ina Sidelinger Leeman participated in Morse High 50th reunion events in Boothbay Harbor and Morse banquet. George A. McFadden travels from Winchester to Bath for aunt Carolyn Hall's funeral in Mayo's. will stay with Roscoe P McFadden family in Bath.
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Seaman Ryder
Garden Grove
Calif
South Portland
Fletcher Wright
Merton Wright
Norman Howard
Bath
Marthen Doak
Day Ferry
Howard
Five Islands
Barbara Kurz
Dorothy Marty
Painesville
Ohio
Marty
Carroll Morse
Days Ferry
Robert Milliken
Sharon Ann
Woolwich
Damariscotta Lake
Williken
Bath Area
Robert Bogle
George Klippel
Sidney Shaw
Sidney, Jr
Lynn
Mass
Sasanoa Shores
Gail Sukeforth
David Dodge
Wesley Methodist Church
Chester Leeman
Richard McElman
James
Richard, Jr
Forrest Baker
Albert Bailey
Edward Carter
Frederick Gilmore
Rosalie
David
Arthur Allen
Edward V. Reed
Costello P. Hall
Percy Marston
Deborah Jean
Robert DeWick
Deborah
Ossian Dodge
Lawrence Edwards
Ivory Strout
Robert Strout
James Juliano
Wilbur Presley
Jason Edgerly
Whitefield
Harold Leeman
Sagadahoc Ferry
Natick
Isited
Worcester
Marjorie Leeman
Joan Galuza
Adam Galuza
Barley Neck Road
New Meadows Inn
West Bath
Charles Leveroni
North Quincy
Boston Herald
Loring Edgerly
Sylvania
Waldoboro
Norris Waltz
Damariscotta
Hockomock Road
Robert Reed
Jay's Ferry
Salisbury
Richard Anderson
Russell Boyd
Boston
Frank J. Walker
Day’s Ferry
Boyd
Morse High School
Boothbay Harbor
Davis Family Plans July Cottage Vacation Return
Mr and Mrs William Davis and daughter Nancy of Schenectady New York have opened their Bay Point cottage for the season and plan to return the first of July for a month long vacation. They visited Mrs Caleb Burns on High street during their stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Davis
Nancy
Schenectady
N. Y
Bay Point
Paul Gulesian
Boston
Howard O. Fry
Ibra K. Lawrence
Frank Rittall
William Potter
Winter Street Church
Pilgrim Lodge
Lake Cobbesseecontee
Ronald Rittall
Roy Knowles
Brunswick
Lake Spencer
Lindley Foss
Farmington
Edith Campbell
Ralph Jewett
Annie Zoome
Joseph Roseberry
Jo-Anne
Baltimore
Merrymeeting Bay
Michael Mazeiko
Portland
Roy Lawrence
Bath
Arrowsic
Arrowsic School Holds Annual Picnic at Crescent Beach
The Arrowsic pupils held their annual picnic June 5 at Crescent Beach with transportation by private cars from the school. Teachers and mothers chaperoned, soft drinks provided, and return trips included a visit to Perry Green's Chinook Kennels in Waldoboro. Several community members and relatives were noted as weekend guests and visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arrowsie School
Crescent Beach
John Drayton
Raymond Ainsworth
George Stafford
Lester Davis
John Chaffee
Arrowsie Mothers’ Club
Waldoboro
Perry Green
Weekend visitors gather at the Sukeforth home
North Bath weekend guests included Florence Williams and Manon Carleton of Union, Sheldon Dey of Plainville Conn, and Lor raine Casey of Weeks Mills, plus relatives E N Cole Lewiston and Royden Haines Jr. A series of Bath visits followed with siblings and nieces dining with family members.
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Cedric Sukeforth
Florence Williams
Manon Carleton
Union
Sheldon Dey
Plainville
Willard McCabe
Rose Lee Higgins
Bath News Radio Chief Named General Manager
Bath announces a radio broadcast executive now serving as general manager since November 1952. Mrs Barbara Hopkins, researching for the National Council for Better Schools in New York, is vacationing in England. Miss Hopkins, abroad for a month, is daughter of Mr and Mrs George J Hopkins of 26 York Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Hopkins
National Council For Better Schools
New York City
England
Miss Hopkins
George J. Hopkins
York Street
West Bath Notes A Surprise Shower For Dorothy Hallowell
A surprise stock shower honored Mrs. Dorothy Hallo well at the home of Mrs. Beverly Kingsbury. Attendees included numerous neighbors and friends. Several guests traveled from nearby towns and relatives reported a pleasant evening with gifts for the honoree.
West Bath Grange to observe Father's Day
At Wes Bath Grange meeting, Father’s Day was announced for next week. Mrs Persis Miller led the lecturer’s program with Grange singing, jokes by Helen McNeily, a penny match won by Charles Deuphin, and a skit by Pauline Belanger. Ver l McNellystunt involved Lawrence Palmer. parodies and piano accompaniment completed the evening. A daily supper was served by Helen McNelly and Pauline Belanger with other members assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Bath Grange
Persis Miller
Grange
MacDonnald’s
Helen McNeily
Ruth Doughty
Charles Deuphin
Pauline Belanger
Baptist Youth Fellowship Meets Sunday in Woolwich
Members of the Baptist Youth Fellowship of Woolwich gathered Sunday evening at the Woolwich Center church. Leanne Hathorne led the meeting with prayer, devotion, and business. Patricia Hathorne to serve as secretary for the summer months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist Youth Fellowship of
Marcia Wilson
Charlene Soule
Patricia Hathorne
George Wilson
West Bath P. T. A. Banquet and Officer Installations
The West Bath P. T. A. held its annual banquet June 5 at Northwood restaurant in Yarmouth then returned to Mrs. Yvonne Vaillan court in West Bath for officer installations. New officers installed include Co Comeau as president and Lawrence Babine as vice president. Also named were Wilson Fitzgerald secretary Loring Small treasurer. Leonard Smith named program committee chair. Fitzgerald named PT A convention delegate with Bryant and OQuellett as Health Council delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath P. T. A
Northwood
Yarmouth
Yvonne Vaillancourt
West Bath
Co Comeau
Lawrence Babine
Wilson Fitzgerald
Loring Small
Leonard Smith
Fitzgerald
William Bryant
Anthony Oquellett
Health Council
Richmond Area Community Happenings From June Events
Beulah Rebekah Lodge discusses Home Fund at District meeting on June 8, with a mystery donation won by Mrs. Clara Foster. Engagement announced for Phyllis Fickett and Wayne E Johnson. John Nash retires from Togus V A print shop and moves to Pittsfield. Richmond High and Emerson Grammar School held graduation ceremonies with multiple award recipients and diplomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble Grands Club
Beulah Rebekah
Veneranda
Sanford
Home Fund
Clara Foster
Charles Fickett
Pleasant Street
Phyllis
Wayne E Johnson
Hugh Johnson
Orr's Island
Fickett
Eaton Shoe Co
Johnson
Brunswick High School
Kewanee Pump Co
Topsham
John Thrower
Beech Street
John C. Nash
Togus
Nash
V. A. Center
Pittsfield
Mass
Fort Richmond
Ezra White
Waterville
Verna MacQuillan
Methodist Church Sunday School
Alta Danforth
Madison
Memorial services planned for June 21 with Odd Fellows
Friday night plans set for memorial services on June 21. The Odd Fellows will participate in the services. The report notes a wedding occurred Saturday afternoon at Richmond Methodist church with Rev. James Herrick officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beulah Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows
Dresden Bridge Academy 65th Commencement Highlights
The Dresden Bridge Academy held its 65th commencement at Masonic Auditorium on June 6 honoring late Charles Stilphen. The program featured students such as David Fitch and Kathleen James with diplomas presented by Prof Albert Thayer. Junior High graduation followed June 3 with a separate program and diplomas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridge Academy
Masonic Auditorium
Charles Stilphen
Academy
Charles Bailey
James Herrick
David Fitch
Gordon James
Kathleen James
Joseph Korda
Augusta
Will
Mary Kelley
Hazel Call
David Fish
Donne Preble
Ellen Burton
Professor Thayer
Brunswick
N. B Barker
Yarmouth
Local Social News Highlights From Bath Area
Miss Jamela Auspland sang solo while June 5 Richmond High School graduate Mrs. Hickey and Gardiner High School 1954 graduate Mr. Hickey are linked to local public life. A Norene White pairing brings a baby named Mitchell Alfred born May 30 at Thayer hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamela Auspland
Hickey
Richmond High School
Gardiner High School
State Highway Department
Marie Kitmnan
Roberts
Boothbay Harbor
Norma Brown
Randolph
Linda Brown
Jean Pulsifer
Carol Hickey
Marion Adams
Marjorie Hickey
Lillian Johnson
Mina Clark
Garden City
N. C
Miss Johnson
Arthur D., Fossett
Ralph A. Fossett
Vanessa Beedle
Edna Richards
South Pleasant’ Stret
Bath Memorial Hospital
Alfred Tarr
Portland
Lena Cadenelli
Lawrence Bond, Jr
Maurice McKenna
Traverse Jury
Sagadahoc County
Bath
Susan Ranger Hackett
Strong
Freeman Meader
Kennebec Power Squadron Plans For Rendezvous
The Kennebec River Power Squadron schedules a June 15 and 16 rendezvous at Castle Island with a social Friday evening and a Sunday cruise to Wiscasset. A chicken barbecue is set at Wescasset Yacht Club noon to 2:30 pm, rain or shine, under yacht club liaison Capt. Richard H. King.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebec
Richard H. King
Wiscasset
Yacht Club
Rendezvous
Walter C. Ripley
Augusta
Harold W Pattershall
William K. Carswell
Bootobay Harbor
Eugene K
Butterfield
Bath
Maitland A. Mellenry
Pemaquid
David R. Pilton
Waterville
Kenneth N Francisco
West Bath
Kennebec River
United States Power Squadrons
USPS
Wiscasset Grammar School
Inner Wheel Banquet Set for Thursday at Seguin Lodge
Inner Wheel plans its annual banquet at Seguin Lodge Georgetown Thursday at 12 34 PM with chicken and lobster salads served. The event includes installation of officers and a business session with annual reports from all committees chaired by President Mrs Raymond Farnham. Committee of arrangements includes Mrs Carl Albee Mrs John Hayes Mrs Loring Addison and Mrs Hildisth Hy Fisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seguin Lodge
Georgetown
Raymond Farnham
Carl Albee
John Hayes
Loring Addison
Hildisth Hy: Fisher
Bath Economic Study Moving Forward With Federal Match
Boston firm is to conduct an economic and physical study in Bath. City Council approved a $5,500 allocation on May 18 for the Planning Board to oversee the initial survey. The plan uses federal matching funds to cover the total estimated 16 000 cost, with about 4 000 allocated to the board and 1 500 remaining in Bath for future, more thorough work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iso
Planning Board
Bath
Haseen
Department of Economic Development
City Council Considers Central License Office Plan
Judkins proposes consolidating all city license applications in one central office to streamline permit processing. He argues current practice requires visits to multiple officials including the city clerk and fire chief and plans to study the issue and make recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Front Street
Judkins
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St. Philip’s Church School
Judy Shea
Sewall Hutchins
Wendy Verney
Harry Shea
James Kaler
Linda Lewis
Pamela Rines
Boylston Hutchins
Jed Colby
Betty Rankin
Joan Kaler
Dean Kaler
Edgar Rankin
James Quinnam
Lincoln Lodge
St. Philip’s Church
St. John's
Pine Cone Rebekah Lodge
Martha M. Robinson
Rebekah Assembly of Maine
H. Kenneth Small
Grand Lodge
C.F
Ellen L. Tobey
Rebekah Assembly
Howard L. Severance
Marie B. Hoffman
Constance MacPhail
Dorothy Tucker
D.D.P
Evelyn Colby
Jennie Robbins
Florencia Roach
Delmas E. Leighton
D.D.G. Mt
Rockland
Round Pond
Hallowell
Auburn
Lisbon
South Paris
Norway
West Buxton
Gray
Kittery
Old Town
Bernice Bailey
N. G
Pine Cone
Bertha Trott
Beulah Lodge
Richmond
Evening Star Lodge
Sheepscot
Senator Bailey
George A. McFadden
Winchester
Carolyn Hall
Mayo’s
Poland
R. Clinton McFadden
Roscoe P. McFadden
Middle Street
White Mountains
Ethel Elwell
Mothers’ Club
Franklin Wright
Falmouth
Everett Wirta
Maine Maritime Academy
Gertrude Wirta
Degga
University of Maine
Orono
Hugh Easermhower
North
New Radio
Dorothy Hallowell
Beverly Kingsbury
Merrill Dickenson
Donald Davis
Dorothy Berry
Robert Goodwin
Elizabeth Richardson
Trudy Loveitt
Virginia Reed
Leona Lawrence
Mildred Knight
Helen Kidder
Verna Smith
Celia Carlton
June Carlton
Juliet Carlton
Gertrude Greenleaf
F. W. Deehan
Reginald Farnham
Kenneth Josselyn
Harland Boynton
Quaker Point
Patricia
B. F. Whitmore
Keith Whitmore
Gardiner
Irving Burnham
Lawrence Burnham
York
Fred Hahnel, Jr
Courtney Stover
Joyce Stover
Gorham State Teachers College
West Bath Grange
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Russell Perry
Dolores Kennedy
Dale Small
Carolyn Hinkley
Lula Alexander
Sandra LeMont
John Curtis
Lorraine Bennett
Harold Brown
Herbert Horne
Vincent Howard
Phyllis Hurley
Richard Joyce
Alton Leavitt
David Leibowitz
Marilyn Perry
Katherine Pratt
Diana Quinnam
Frederick Raynes
Gordon Stinson
Clayton Waltz
Joyce Withee
Philip Withee
Flwood Brown
Roland Pelletier
Sandra Arlene Lemont
John M. Lemont
County Road
Russell L. Hickey
Lloyd Hickey
Brunswick Road
Richmond Methodist Church
Sandra Kiernan
Janice Newcomb
Leon Hickey, Jr
Thomas Limont
Merton Hickey
Lillian Haynes
Dresden
Linda Preble
Sally Trussell
Miriam Blen
Sharon Newbury
United Nations
Carol Souviney
Israel
Nancy Hall
Donna Souviney
Calvin Prescott
Linden Lawrence
U. S
Lyford Beverage
Stanwood Gilman
Donna Souving
Carle E. Longfellow
H. L. and
C. E. Sheldon
Allen Alexander
Cedar Grove
Sandra Flaherty
Methodist Church
Rita Robbins
Inner Wheel
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