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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1965
Page
8
Tonight 8:40 Berkshire Playhouse Stockbridge presents a light musical comedy. Audience can expect witty farce and classic tunes from the famed forum era at this regional theater venue.
Mr and Mrs Robert T Sullivan of 1 Ridgeway Ave were honored at a surprise 25th wedding anniversary dinner at the Breezy Knoll Inn Pontoosuc Lake Twenty attended A recent cocktail party in Bennington Vt honored them before they moved to Pittsfield in 1957 They were married July 13 1940 in Springfield Mrs Sullivan is Helen Reynolds of Springfield Mr Sullivan a Rutland VT native is a Cascade Paper Co salesman in North Adams The couple have three children Robert J Maureen and Patricia
Roy Wilkins executive secretary of the NAACP and Mrs Wilkins of Jamaica NY attended the concert yesterday at Tanglewood, among a gathering of prominent guests.
NEW BRITAIN Conn Mr and Mrs Myron Birnbaum announce the engagement of their daughter Iris Ann to Howard Arnold Burkat son of Mr and Mrs Leonard Burkat of New York and Stockbridge MA Iris Ann a Penn graduate in American studies continues grad work in communications at New York University Howard Burkat a 1984 Michigan graduate earned an MA in communications from Penn and studied in Sweden during a junior year The couple will marry Sept 12 in New Britain and then reside in New York after a trip to the Netherlands Antilles
Mr and Mrs Philip Hall Bradley of Wellesley Hills and Belgrade Lakes Maine announce the engagement of their daughter Louise Duval Bradley to Gordon Wallace Cox of Old Chatham New York. The wedding is planned for August 28.
Eighty tickets have arrived for the Women's Club fifth summer theater party at Mt. Tom Playhouse Holyoke on August 11 for Jean Kerr's comedy Mary Mary. Two chartered buses depart at 5 25 p.m. with dinner stop at Williams Inn Williamsburg. Tickets for reservations may be picked up today. the event is sold out with a waiting list.
Dalton Mr and Mrs Clif ford Nichols announce the engagement of their daughter Susan Jane Nichols to David Alan Lund son of Mrs Annie G Lund of Nashua New Hampshire The wedding is planned for Oct 9 Susan a typesetter at the Dalton Hinsdale News is a 1959 Dalton High School and 1961 Becker Junior College graduate Mr Lund an aircraft technician at Greylock Airways graduated 1953 Nashua Senior High School and 1959 Wentworth Institute Boston
Mr and Mrs Melvin Fassell of 133 Cromwell Ave marked their 25th anniversary with a dinner at West Shore Sportsmen's Club attended by 58 guests who presented gifts and a purse. They wed July 27 1940 at St Mark's Church.
Vincent J Hebert superintendent of the Pittsfield Department of Parks and Recreation will give an illustrated talk at an AARP meeting. The session is set for 2 pm Thursday at the First Methodist Church, according to local notices.
The Pittsfield Exchange Club sponsored a two day flea market at Berkshire Downs drawing just over 1,100 attendees. The event raised about $800 for the club scholarship fund, roughly 200 more than last year. Organizers Del P. Virgilio and Asel W. Harvey led the event with Howard B. Roraback and George Bramer overseeing food.
Boy Scout Troop 19 held a court of honor at Morningside Baptist Church with Scoutmaster Ronald F. Tooley presiding. Second class awards went to Robert Eckart Harold Smith and Charles Wasson, Thomas Daniels earned his first class badge, and merit badges were awarded with Louis Robesch assisting.
Robert V. Sidway has returned from a month in Europe visiting his son and daughter in law Staff Sgt. and Mrs. Robert H. Sidway and their three sons stationed at Templehof Berlin. The party toured Germany East Berlin and France. Several area families reported returns from trips and a 50th wedding anniversary in Detroit for Henry and Mary Heidel Beisiegel.
Edward M Bailey, son of Mr and Mrs Edward M Bailey of Pittsfield Massachusetts, earned a B S in business administration with a marketing major at Bryant College during the 102nd commencement. He will join Phillips Petroleum in sales promotion after a Navy and National Biscuit Co career and held student leadership roles in ski club art club Tau Epsilon and the student senate Vigilante. He is married to Carolyn J Miller of Adams.
Eighty five attendees gathered for the sixth annual Vittone family reunion at Windsor Pond yesterday. Emerson Vittone of Adams served as chairman with help from Richard and Joseph Vittone. Peter Vittone, age 70, was the eldest present, while three month old Maureen Frances Vittone, daughter of Robert A. Vittone and wife of Poughkeepsie, N Y, was the youngest.
Mrs Rose Kennedy and John F Kennedy brothers accepted a Hyannis Port Harbor painting for the Kennedy Library in a brief ceremony at Hyannis Port Golf Club. The work by Ogden Premner of New York was commissioned by the town Civic Association and depicts the Marlin and the Victura boats used by the late president on vacations at the Kennedy Compound.
Miss Janet Eileen Higgins of Grand Rapids Michigan will marry James J. O'Brien Jr of Holyoke on September 4 at 12:30 PM in Sacred Heart Church on the Notre Dame campus. She attended multiple pre wedding parties hosted by relatives and friends across North Adams and Holyoke including Edgerton Woods Tamburello Ryan and Collins households.
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