Morse High senior reception draws 600 plus crowd
More than 600 attendees gathered Saturday night at Morse High School to honor the 1955 graduates. Joe Avery’s orchestra provided dancing music in a gym decorated with a sea shore theme including driftwood, lobster traps, buoys, a net and a boat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morse High School
Joe Avery
Loring R. Addison
John M. Conley
Conley
Catharine Leonard
Katharine Conley
Robert Haggett
Elizabeth Bull
Charles Haggett
Paul Johnson
Diane Bailey
Haggett
Miss Bull
New Meadows Yacht Club Plans Active 1955 Season
Plans for the 1955 season announced for the New Meadows Yacht Club note early clubhouse and grounds preparations. July begins with a fish chowder and dance, July 3 sees a Quahog Bay trip, and July 4 features racing and water events starting at 1 p.m. Dances occur Saturdays. officers include Commodore Owen H. Williams and Vice Commodore Theodore Watson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Meadows Yacht Club
Kennebec River
Casco Bay Power Squadrons
Quahog Bay
Rac
Ing
Owen H. Williams
Theodore Watson
Lawrence Small
Jack Barry
John R. Gilmore
Watson
Elmer Williams
Frank Hilton
Vic Testa
Earl S. Burgess
Charles L. Eastman
Harold P. Small
Two Clubs To Have Field Day At Sebasco Saturday
Plans for a gala field day feature the Colonial club of Bath and the Woodfords club of Portland meeting at Sebasco Lodge on Saturday. About 60 members from each club will compete in golf bowling tennis swimming horseshoes and ping pong during the day and play bridge pinochle and cribbage in the evening. Events begin with golf at 10 a.m. and bowling at 4 p.m. Cards follow at 7 45 p.m. A banquet offering three dinner menus will be served at 6 39 p.m. committee members Fred Morton George Barker Dan Scully and Roland Robinson invite additional participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonial Club of Bath
Woodfords Club of
Portland
Sebasco Lodge
Fred Morton
George Barker
Dan Scully
Roland Robinson
Richard Thompson Appointed Plant Design Engineer
Richard I. Thompson, longtime Bath resident now in the Bath Brunswick district, was honored at a Sedgwick dinner with 30 friends as he is named plant design engineer for the Portland engineering staff of New England Tel. He and Mrs. Thompson plan a move to the Portland area. attendees included his parents, a daughter Carolyn Lemont, and son Richard W., Morse High School graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard I. Thompson
Allen Street
Bath-Brunswick
New
Mr. Thompson
Emery M. Thompson
West Shore Road
Southport
Thompson
Carolyn Lemont
West Bath
Richard W
Morse High School
New Pastor Rev. Martin Sargent Opens Winter Street Church
The Rev. Martin Van Buren Sargent becomes Winter Street Congregational church pastor and will deliver his first sermon Sunday. He and Mrs. Sargent with three sons Merritt Paul Job reside in the parsonage on Washington street after moving from Foxboro Massachusetts where he led Bethany Congregational church. Sargent, a native of Elizabeth New Jersey, previously led Harvard church Oak Park New Jersey and was ordained 1944 in Weafield New Jersey. Mrs. Sargent daughter of Dr Paul Sederer is an artist with a contralto voice and oil painting talent active in church council work in New York City. The Rev. Sargent succeeds Rev. Richard J. Schaper, who left last November for a Connecticut pastorate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin van Buren Sargent
Winter Street Congregational Church
Sargent
Merritt
Paul
Job
Washington Street
Bath
Foxboro
Mass
Bethany Congregational Church
Elizabeth
N. J
Harvard Church
Oak Park
Heidelburg College
Tiffon
Ohio
Union Theological Seminary
New York City
Weafield
Paul Sederer
Union Seminary
Commission On Painting
Alfred Barr
Museum of Modern Art
National Council of the Churches of Christ
U.S.A
Richard J. Schaper
Winter Street
Connecticut
Bath's Legion Cadets Win In North Andover Contests
Bath's Legion Cadets captured first place in a four mile parade during North Andover centennial celebrations. The event drew 48 units despite rain delays and featured teams from Fitchburg Fitchburg Lawrence Salem and Boston among others. The Legion Cadets impressed judges and thousands of spectators with uniforms and precision marching as they performed near the North Andover town hall reviewing stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion Cadets
North Andover
Mass
New England
Kingsmen
Fitchburg
Queensmen
Pontiac Chieftains
Lawrence
Sons of Italy
Salem Clippers
Salem
Holy Trinity Cadets
Boston
Most Precious Blood Crusaders
Junior
Marine Drum Corps
The
Most
North Andover Town Hall
Boothbay Harbor Girls Hurt In Auto Crash
A Boothbay Harbor girl, 12, Barbara Cooper, sustained a fractured leg, while her sisters Gertrude 14 and Lucille 10 suffered minor cuts and bruises in a crash on High street near Fisher School at 1.20 am Saturday. Passengers Robert Neilson 19, who operated the car, and Stanley McDonough 18, were uninjured. Neilson faces a driving charge in municipal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothbay Harbor
High Street
Fisher School
Barbara Cooper
Gertrude
Lucille
Robert Neilson
Pine Street
Stanley McDonough
Neilson
Bath Civil Defense Alert Declared Most Successful Yet
Bath officials praised the civil defense drill described as the most successful held there. The yellow alert arrived at 11.02 am with full notification by 11.06, followed by a red alert at 12.35 pm and the all clear at 12.41 pm. Traffic halted and the public largely sheltered as Police Chief Edward L. Gaudreau reported near total cooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Edward L. Gaudreau
Mr and Mrs Hart Return Home After California Trip
Mr and Mrs Eugene G Hart arrive back at 39 Granite Street on a Tuesday following several weeks in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene G. Hart
Granite Street
California
Spanish War Veterans Convene in Portland for 82nd Convention
Ernest Edgar Kateon from the Spanish War Auxiliary led 16 Bath members at the 82nd United Spanish War Veterans Convention held in Bosworth Hall Portland. The Bath Auxiliary performed the candlelight service and exemplified rituals. Dorothy Wright received corsages, and Rose Fournier presented past department presidents. New Maine Department officers from Bath were Dorothy Wright chaplain Anna Swain guard Demerise Swain color aide Beatrice Burns historian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Edgar Kateon
United Spanish War Veterans
Bosworth Hall
Portland
Bath Auxiliary
Jessie Morrell
Old Rugged Cross
Dorothy Wright
Rose Fournier
Old Orchard
Jussie Morrell
Nora Gran
Beatrice Burns
Annie Brooks
Pauline Stapies
Myrtle Wilson
Bertha Witham
Bath
Bina Staples
Maine
Anna Swain
Demerise Swain
Ida Breed
Rose Lightbody
Mattie Swain
Ethel Roderick
Annie Johansen
Mabel Breed
Rebekah Lodges Meet in Bath District Gathering
Lois M. Knight presided at the Rebekah Lodges district meeting in Bath No. 10 with about one hundred members from twelve lodges including Queen Esther Bath Beulah Richmond Evening Star Brunswick Pine Cone Wiscasset. Edna P. Hagar of the Maine Rebekah Assembly was honored guest. gifts were exchanged for the guests and longtime members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois M. Knight
Rebekah
Bath
Edna P. Hagar
Rebekah Assembly of
Maine
Queen Esther Lodge
Beulah Lodge
Richmond
Evening Star Lodge
Brunswick
Pine Cone Lodge
Wiscasset
Pine College
Hagar
Knight
Athena C. Gillespie
Men Swim Ashore After Pleasure Craft Hits Rocks
Three Reading men ages 40, 50, and 85 swam about 300 feet to shore for help after their 26 foot boat ran aground on rocks off Small Point Beach Sunday noon. Coast Guard towed the craft to Small Point harbor with help from local residents. no damage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading, Mass
Small Point Beach
Coast Guard
Kenneth Gray
William Harvey
William Slatfield
Clyde Whittaker
Kennebec River
Popham
Arthur
Sewall Williams
Small Point
Small Point Harbor
John Zanni
Reading
Whittaker
Williams
New Dresden Bridge Set to Open in July
The Lower Bridge over the Eastern river at Dresden is nearly finished and due for public traffic around July 1. The 257 foot steel concrete span replaces the old condemned structure and cuts seven miles off Bath to Richmond travel while offering scenic views of Merrymeeting Bay and Swan Island Wildlife Refuge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dresden
Norman E. Jackson
Pittsfield
Kennebec
Bath
Richmond
Maine
Gardiner
Augusta
Cedar Grove
J. Horace McClure
Kennebec River
Woolwich
Lightning Strikes Campbell's Pond Injures Bath Family
Three West Bath residents, Mr and Mrs Stanley Williams and their 15 year old daughter, escaped serious injury after a lightning bolt bounced from a power line transformer at Campbell's Pond. They received treatment from a Bath doctor and were not hospitalized. The family dog was unsettled but unharmed. The bolt knocked out electrical service, struck the transformer, then hit the Williams home causing only minor damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Bath
Stanley Williams
Williams
Turpies to Leave for Scotland Visit Thursday Night
Mr and Mrs William Turpie of 76 Greenstreet will depart from Logan Airport Boston at 8 p.m. to visit his parents in Scotland after 21 years apart. They travel with son Martin and daughter Alison, reach Prestwick Friday morning, then Glasgow for a family reunion with Mr and Mrs John Turpie and sisters. They plan a tour of Scotland England Paris and Ireland before sailing July 21 from Southampton aboard the Queen Mary to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Turpie
Greenstreet
Martin
Alison
Scotland
Mr. Turpie
Turpies
Logan International
Boston
Prestwick
Glasgow
John Turpie
William Donaldson
John Mailer
Southampton
New York
England
Paris
France
Ireland
John R Newell Receives Honorary Degree At Maine
John R. Newell president of Bath Iron Works was among eight honored with honorary degrees at the University of Maine Orono 104th commencement. The citation cites his career from Bethlehem Steel to BIW including roles as assistant to the general superintendent and president since 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Newell
Bath Iron Works
University of Maine At
Orono
Newell
Arthur A. Hauck
Bath
Maine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Able Industrial Executive
Bethlehem Steel Co
Bath Iron Works, Inc
Nathan W. Watson Elected President Bath Alumni Association
Nathan W. Watson was elected president of the Bath Alumni Association at the annual banquet reunion at Morse High School Friday evening honoring the graduating class. More than 600 attended a lobster salad dinner in the gym before the business meeting. Oldest graduates present included Mrs May Purineton of Taylorsville and Judge Arthur J. Dunton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath High School Alumni Association
Morse High School
Warren F. Hawley
Western Avenue
Marguerite KE. Hennessey
Amy Hogan
Jennie Main Howe
Elvira Coons Plant
Scott Morse
Harriet Scott Lermond
Ira B. Robinson
Margaret Lundrigan Keegan
Harry Tl. Day
Florence Rand Calderwood
Sadie Neagle White
Nathan W. Watson
Bath Alumni Association
Harry E. Ring, Jr
Merritt E- Mitchetl
A. George Moses
Robert L Jewell
Edwin R. Andrews
John A. Greene, Jr
Linwood W. Temple
Elmer B Williams
Charles Sweariyven
Frederick de Hillers
Alumni Association
Hawley
Frederick D. Hill
Herbert Calderwood
Association
Wilmer I. Voorhees
May Purineton
Taylorsville
Sarah Adams
Costello P. Hall
Albion Corliss
Elizabeth Haggett
Arthur J. Dunton
Rupert H. Baxter
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Miss Conley
Malcolm Hamilton
Bernice Green
Mary Talbot
Elvira Peec
Herbert Flint
George Lawrence
Norma
Sebasco
Richard Thompson
Martin Sargent
Winter Street Church
Mr. Sargent
Bath's Legion Cadets
William U. Niss
Bath Iron Works Corp
National Association of Cost Accountants
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Niss
Lybrand
Cost Accountant
United States
Lybrand Awards
William M. Lybrand
Ross Bros. & Montgomery
Cost Accountants
Grace Casey
Gillespie
Nellie Milliken
Maud Getchell
Brewer
Rebakah Assembly of Maine
Esi
Campbell’s Pond
John Newell
Univ. of Maine
Western Ave
William H. T. Gove
Gove
St. Paul
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