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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1960
Page
4
The College of the Holy Cross and Our Lady of the Elms in Berkshire County sponsor their fourth annual Christmas ball Tuesday from 9 to 1 at the Stanley Club. Alan Grieve's orchestra will provide music and tickets are available from students or at the door.
Twenty one children of the Jewish Community Center Nursery School under Mrs. Irving Siegel directed a Chanukah festival play yesterday morning. Leading roles in The Menorah Maker were Robert Saylowski Jr Lynn Savko Kaufman and Jonathan ate.
Mrs Daniel J Healy announces the engagement of her daughter Mary Kathryn to Robert Thomas Rice son of Mr and Mrs Stanley E Rice of Bushey Road The September wedding is planned Miss Healy a 1960 St Josephs High School graduate works in the New England Telephone traffic department She was a 1960 Miss Pittsfield contestant Mr Rice a 1957 Pittsfield High School graduate is a North Adams State College sophomore
Carol Grace Cimini, a GE ordnance department clerk typist, and Richard W. MacCartney, a journeyman steelworker, plan a June wedding. The couple, both Pittsfield natives, become engaged after parties hosted by the bride’s parents.
James D. Wheeler of Northamp ton receives a $300 scholarship from the Golf Course Superintendents Association. He attends Stockbridge School of Agriculture majoring in agrostology and was a dean's list student last year. A Marine Corps veteran, he served three years and supervised Forest Park Country Club last summer.
Santa Claus will visit three local hospitals on Christmas Eve to cheer children confined to bed. He will be joined by Jack Ryan of the Hi-Fi Club, monkey Cokey, and the Skip & Rusty duo who will sing and invite kids to join in. The 6:45 start runs until 8 p.m. with fruit baskets, candy, and toys provided by the Optimist Club and Hi-Fi Club.
At 2 30 p m a performance of A Christmas Carol is scheduled at the Kate McComb Playhouse in Great Barrington, offering a holiday theatrical event for local audiences.
Capital shows film slots for Cinderfeile at 1:09 3:50 9:25 and Desert Attack at 1:88 4:10 2:25 with Flaming Star at 2:30 5:54 9:00 Palace lists Desert Attack 1:88 4:10 2:25 Flaming Star 2:30 5:54 9:00 Anies Square schedules The 3 Worlds of Gulliver 2:30 5:45 6:60 Jezzboat 1:00 4:10 7:30 County timetable on Page 22.
Miss Doris Buckley daughter of Mr and Mrs Herbert L Buckley of Lanesboro has been named to the staffs of three Boston University publications while a freshman She serves on the editorial board and business staff of Searcher SCAN and BU News and is active with WBUR FM and BU TV She also chairs CGE Christ mas party for children of Nazareth Orphanage and helped with the drama club production Joan of Lorraine
Nancy Helen Donahue daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond A Donahue of 15 Garden Street becomes engaged to Airman 3.C George A Howes USAF son of Mr and Mrs George E Howes of 235 North Street The couple plans marriage Nancy is a GE ordnance department stenotypist and Pittsfield High School 1959 graduate The groom is a 1958 Dalton High School graduate and has served in the Air Force for a year stationed at Westover Air Force Base.
George Allen will present a ski moving picture Mount Snow Holiday at the Rotary Club luncheon at 12:15 Thursday noon in the Wendell Sherwood Hotel. The film will be introduced by C J Hamilton of the Dalton Rotary Club.
An old covered bridge built of hand-hewn timbers over Mary's River near Chester cost $400 to construct, sold in 1872 for $2,000, and served Randolph County mud system until 1930 when a steel concrete bridge was built. It is now a picnic site maintained by the county historical society.
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