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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1965
Page
11
Dalton Rotary Auction set for June 5 19 a.m. includes a 1957 Chevrolet and Ford wagons. Wahconah Regional High School alumni honored at Colby College and Illinois College with scholarships. Junior High Menus listed for week. Pentecost Sunday at Methodist Church features youth class confirmation and Camp Merrill picnic details.
Dalton reports the Circle-K Riding Club hosts its first show Sunday at Norman Kirchner Farm on Kirchner Road. Events include poll bending and cloverleaf with new batters up milk race and ball in the bucket. Gates prizes and free intermission rides for children. Start time 6 p.m.
Dalton reports the first pony draw will begin at noon Sunday at the Red and Gun Club grounds on Windsor Road. Nine teams from four New England states compete. Spectators pay a nominal admission and refreshments will be sold. Proceeds support the club fund for traditional outdoor sports.
The Eagle corrects a caption omission for graduates of Crane & Co. and Byron Weston Co. The three graduates named William A. Sumner Malcolm E. Keeler and Irving M. Witham appeared in the photo, middle center row, from the in-plant conference Management training program.
A compiled schedule of Sunday worship times, Sunday school hours, and church activities across numerous local congregations including Federated Church, First Baptist, Holy Cross Catholic, St. Patrick’s, and Episcopal and Congregational parishes. Entries note pastors, service times, Sunday school, youth groups, and midweek meetings across towns like Canaan, Chester, and Tyringham.
Wahconah Regional High School honors senior Susan Rudd and Loren Cole as top scholars for the Class of 1965. Graduation is Sunday, June 13, in the school courtyard for 193 seniors. Rudd, daughter of Gardner and Marjorie Rudd, will enter Smith College. Cole, son of Donald and …
A public roast beef dinner will be served at Peru Center School tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. Sponsored by the Congregational Church, round and square dancing by the Briar Boys of Savoy will follow. Robert Torrey, chairman of the local cancer fund, reports about $25 collected. Assisting Torrey were Mrs. Hazel McAvoy, Miss Coralie Steele and Wallace Morrison Jr.
Robert Pierce Hinsdale son of Mrs. Carl Pierce will receive his doctor of philosophy in clinical psychology at the University of Rochester. He trained at Pittsfield High School University of Vermont Springfield College and Chicago Theological Seminary. He will join the Rochester medical school faculty and health center after graduation. He is married to Ann Bickford and they have three children.
Hinsdale report notes Rev. Don ald F Saulnier from the Congregation of Stigmatine Fathers is ordained at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. After ordination he serves as head counsellor at Camp Wyoma this summer and has been stationed at Catholic University for philosophy and theology studies. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1961 and is son of Francis C Saulnier and wife from Waltham. His first Solemn High Mass is set for June 13 at St Mary’s Church, Waltham.
Menu items for Monday through Friday list blended juice creamed chicken roast turkey spaghetti and meat balls and more. Weekly selectmen meeting discussed disposing of unregistered cars. Ladies' Aid reports $80.25 profit from smorgasbord. Quilt tied at church parlors for summer bazaar. home products demo set for June 24. Miss Whitefield ill in Paris. Robert and Raymond Stevens relocate pink house purchase from City Savings Bank.
Lee selectmen named seven residents to the Lee Community Action Commission under the federal anti poverty program. Appointed were Mrs. Virginia DeLogan James S. Brown James R. Dimario the Rev. Leslie T. Francis Richard R. Gerlach Mrs. Elwood Beach and William H. O'Brien.
The 1965 Babe Ruth League opens after opening ceremonies Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Lee High field. First game pits S.P.A. against last year’s champions Jay-To, followed by Kiwanis versus Clark Aiken. Both games are five innings and the public is invited.
Becket Legion Post 328 will meet Monday at 8 p.m. at the Legion Hall to elect a delegate to the state convention in Northampton in July. Becket Boy Scout Troop 26 will hold a paper drive Sunday at 2 with instructions for residents to tie papers and place them roadside by collection time.
Lee High School Principal James J. Brown announced the final marking period honor roll. Freshmen with high honors include Fred Besancon Elizabeth Diilman David Edgar Peter Griffin Patricia Hill Sarah Lucy Patricia Nagenti Victoria Samboruk with honors Katherine Betega Allen Blake Kevin Burtt Rosemary DiSimoni Karen Houk John Loring Vicki Sanders Cynthia Smith Robert Stratton Susan Wells. Sophomores with high honors include Sheila Baldisserotto Richard Barbini James Brown Michael Baker Clifford Miller Mary Jane Salinetti Clifford Skowron with honors Linda Biasin Beverly Blache Kevin Blache Ann Buffis Susan Crandall Sally Dunn Barbara Fresia Don Hunter Thomas McCarby Henry Salice Mary Wilson Joseph Zorazin. Juniors with high honors include Pamela Valenti with honors Susan Baluk Michael Brighenti Diane Castranova Thomas Finnegan Nancy Kraszeski. Seniors with high honors include Mary Fenwick Christopher Miller Mary Ann O'Brien Judith Wells Lorraine Wells with honors Fabi a Bettega Marie Buffoni Marianne Coles Laura Decker David Tarmey Steven Hall Patricia Humason Denise Jaquen Loretta Jones Roberta L Mueur eux Carole McDonough Nancy Nolan Heth Pyenson Patricia Samboruk James Stratton and Allen Williams.
Miss Carol Wauszkiewicz daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward J Wauszkiewicz of 8 Reservoir Road will receive her diploma from the Albany Medical Center School of Nursing Sunday She is a 1962 graduate of Lee High School She will complete her program in September at the school of nursing
The Water Department announced hydrants will be flushed starting Monday June 7. No hydrants have been flushed in two years due to a water shortage and the current water is very roily.
Kiwanis members held their annual work party at Sandy Beach Laurel Lake this week. Ten local youths helped with raking shoveling tree cutting and lawn care to ready the beach for its opening later this month. A picnic supper followed.
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