Graduation Exercises Set for Friday Evening at Local School
Thirty one seniors from Pilisfield General Hospital’s Bishop Memorial School of Nursing will receive diplomas at 8 p.m. Friday June 11 marking the school’s 80th anniversary. The event at North Junior High School lists graduates from Pittsfield and Berkshire County in three year and other programs with numerous named recipients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pilisfield General Hospital
Bishop Memorial School of Nursing
North Junior High School
Pittsfield
Berkshire County
Cheryl I. Alderman
Norman D. Alderman
Fort Hill Ave
Argy P.amandos
Nick Amandos
Francis Ave
Marianne Henrickson
Henry Henrickson
West Housatonic St
Lesley B. Larsen
Wilbert A. Larsen
Brenton Teri
Patricia A. Rice
Stanley E. Rice
Bushey Road
Carol A. van Bramer
Henry A. van Bramer
Dexter St
Voice Pupils Of Brier Stoller Will Give Recital
Pittsfield Community Music School presents an informal voice recital by Brier Stoller students Sunday at 4 p.m. in the school recital hall. The program spans beginner to professional singers and features two John McLennan songs debuting in Pittsfield. Several students and accompanying pianists from Lenox and Richmond participate, with Shaker songs and duets amid an open-to-public program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield
Brier Stoller
John McLennan
Tyringham
Savanarola Brown
Max Beerbolm
Williamstown
Berkshire Community Symphony
Thomas Griswold
E. Whitney Manning
Paul Nixon
Samuel Wagenheim
Holly Dobbins
Kathleen Lampre
Frank Williams
Mary L McGovern to Become Bride of John Goddean
Miss Mary Louise McGovern daughter of Mr and Mrs Terrence McGovern of 10 High St will wed John Henry Goddean son of Mr and Mrs Henry Q Goddean of 17 Edward Ave Msgr Henry M Burke to officiate at Sacred Heart Church where Gloria Patterson will sing A reception at White Tree Club The couple plan a Pennsylvania motor trip The bride's background includes local schooling and employment at Big N Goddeau a transformer assembler at GE attended Pittsfield High School and served three years in the Navy in World War I
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Louise McGovern
Terrence McGovern
High St
John Henry Goddean
Henry Q. Goddean
Edward Ave
Henry M. Burke
Sacred Heart Church
Gloria Patterson
White Tree Club
Donald Goddeau
Harry
Potter
Pennsylvania
Big N
Goddeau
Pittsfield
Navy
South Pacific
Charity League Completes Season at Pittsfield Guild Meeting
The Pittsfield Guild Holy Family League of Charity concluded its season at the Girls Club with about 40 gifts collected for Our Lady of Providence Home for Children in Springfield. Spring activities netted $315. Miss Helen Coy shared a spiritual reading. Plans for the fall bazaar at the Catholic Youth Center are under way with members preparing booth articles over the summer. A dinner meeting at the Stanley Club on Sept. 7 will feature Sheriff John D. Courtney as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield Guild
Holy Family League of Charity
Our Lady of Providence
Springfield
Helen Coy
Guild
Catholic Youth Center
Stanley Club
John D. Courtney
Miss Tesoniero to Be Married in Cambridge Today
Miss Antoinette M. Tesoniero of 367 Harvard St. Pittsfield and Robin F. Verdier of 20 Marie Ave. Belmont will wed this afternoon at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Harvard Yard. The ceremony will be followed by a reception at Phillips Brooks House. The bride, a Pittsfield High School and Middlebury graduate, will wear a lace and organza gown with daisies. the groom is a Pomona College and Harvard graduate and a physicist. They will live at 4 Leslie Road, Belmont, after a California honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Antoinettte M. Tesoniero
Harvard St
John Tesoniero
Taubert Ave
Pittsfield
Mass
Robin F. Verdier
Marie Ave
Verdier
Albert Verdier
Alladena
Calif
David Noonan
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Phillips Brooks
Bernard Lovell
Amherst
Horn
Eustratios Constantinides
Watertown
Walter Schwab
Chestnut Hill
Laurie Henrikson
Usher
California
Leslie Road
Belmont
Pittsfield High School
Middlebury
Vt.) College
Pomona College
Claremont
Harvard University
Lucie Edmonds to Wed Mr Evans at Pilgrim Church
Lucie Etta Hunt Edmonds of 14 Satinet St. will wed William Theodore Evans of 12 Warriner St at 6 30 this evening in Pilgrim Memorial Church. Rev Dudne M Breeze to perform. Reception at 81 King St. They plan a Quebec trip and home at 12 Warriner St. June 22. Lucie, a Pittsfield High graduate, works at St Luke's Hospital. Evans, custodian of the Onota Building, attended local schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucie Etta Hunt Edmonds
Satinet St
William H. Hunt
William Theodore Evans
Warriner St
William F. Evans
Dudne M. Breeze
Pilgrim Memorial Church
Willie Singleton
King St
Lanny Ross
Boston
Winthrop Evans
Quebec
Canada
Pittsfield
St. Luke's Hospital
Evans
Onota
Farewell party honors Wendell-Sherwood Hotel manager
Robert D. Michael, longtime manager of the Wendell-Sherwood Hotel until its closure, was guest of honor at a farewell gathering held at George Haddad’s Onota Lake summer home. He left yesterday for Scranton, Pennsylvania, with plans for the future not yet announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert D. Michael
Wendell-Sherwood Hotel
George Haddad
Onota Lake
Michael
Scranton
Local VFW Post Ranked Sixth in State by Membership
The local Veterans of Foreign Wars post reached 626 members, ranking sixth in the state. District 9 led membership, with the district unit set to lead the Northampton state convention parade on June 26. Three new members joined, and the post approved funding for an underprivileged boy’s YMCA camp stay and participation in the firemen’s muster parade. July 4 Flag Day events planned at Elks Home. new commander Charles J. Simonelli to take office June 27 and preside July 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Edward Dubiski
VFW
District 9
Berkshire County
Northampton
Ronald E. Plankey
John Zavattero
Frank Pukiela
Cheektowaga
N.Y
Benjamin Bonak
Housatonic
Miss Lydia Bachli Weds Rockport Man Quinn
Miss Lydia Bachli of 151 Bartlett Ave daughter of Otto Bachli and the late Mrs Bachli married James T Quinn of Rockport in a civil ceremony at the Rockport home of Esther Johnson justice of the peace A two week trip to Nova Scotia will precede their residence in Rockport The bride was a life insurance underwriter at Berkshire Life Insurance Co and the groom is a locomotive engineer for the Boston and Maine Railroad
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Bachli
Bartlett Ave
Otto Bachli
Dalton
Bachli
James T. Quinn
Rockport
Esther Johnson
Robert Rowe
Nova Scotia
Berkshire Life Insurance Co
Quinn
Boston & Maine Railroad
Wedding Guests From Far Afield For Mercaldo VanWagner
Out of town relatives and friends travel from Long Island Brooklyn Newark Del Springfield and New York to celebrate Miss Nancy L Mercaldo's wedding to Arthur L VanWagner. The ceremony is at Christian Assembly Church at 1 40 p m with a reception at Green Acres Restaurant Cheshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy L. Mercaldo
Antonio J. Mercaldo
Dewey Ave
Arthur Lee VanWagner
Burton VanWagner
Lansing
Mich
Christian Assembly Church
Green Acres
Cheshire
Salvatore Albanese
Anthony Cusumano
Ralph Mercaldo
Isaac Mercaldo
Robert Meyerhoff
Long Island, N.Y
James Albanese
Alvatore Albanese
Jack Barbera
Paul Catrone
Nick Cipriano
John Cusumano
Anthony Impellizzeri
Robert Hall
John Mercaldo
al Prisco
William Reda
Long Island
Joseph Cusumano
Brooklyn
N.Y
Miss Mercaldo
Robert Hughes
Susan D Arthur graduates secretarial course at Gibbs School
Miss Susan D Arthur daughter of Mr and Mrs James I Arthur of 276 East New Lenny Road has completed a one year secretarial course at Katharine Gibbs School in Boston. She plans to take an executive secretarial position in Boston in August. Miss Arthur is a 1964 Pittsfield High School graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan D. Arthur
James I. Arthur
East New Lenny Road
Katharine Gibbs School
Boston
Miss Arthur
Pittsfield High School
Katherine Paul Observes 71st Birthday Dinner
Mrs. Katherine Paul of 483 South Street celebrated her 71st birthday with a dinner at the Allen Hotel. The occasion recalled her 21st birthday party held there fifty years earlier when the hotel was the Park Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Paul
South St
Allen Hotel
Allen
Park Hotel
Mrs Robert Chapman Honored by 59ers Social Club
Mrs Robert Chapman was guest of honor at a Fifty- Niners Social Club baby shower at the YMCA where she received a gift. Chairmen Mrs Edward D Wood and Mrs Charles S Wetherell led the annual husband and wife dinner at Green Acres Restaurant with summer plans for a picnic, a play, and a trip to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert C. Chapman
Fifty- Niners
YMCA
Edward D. Wood
Charles S. Wetherell
Green Acres
New York
Engagement Announced of Mary Szymanski and Gary Johnson
Mrs William Szymanski of 197 Clark Road announces the engagement of her daughter Mary S Szymanski to Gary A Johnson son of Mr and Mrs Arthur C Johnson Jr of 370 Churchill St The wedding is planned for Aug 7 at Holy Family Church Miss Szymanski a Pittsfield High School graduate attended Berkshire Community College and is a student at North Adams State College Mr Johnson is associated with A C Johnson Jr Inc He graduated from Pittsfield High School in 1962 and Newbury School of Business Boston in 1964
Miss Jane Brous graduates from Western College
Miss Jane Brous daughter of Mrs Samuel L Brous of 60 Brunswick St has earned a bachelor of arts at Western College for Women in Oxford Ohio She majored in mathematics A 1961 graduate of Miss Hall's School she studied at Hollins College for a year before entering Western She plans to pursue a master's degree in mathematics at Miami University Graduate School in Oxford
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Brous
Samuel L. Brous
Brunswick St
Western College For Women
Oxford
Ohio
Hall
Miss Brous
Hollins College
Roanoke
Western
Miami University Graduate School
Notre Dame CCD Plans Dinner
Notre Dame Parish Confra ternity of Christian Doctrine will hold its annual banquet at the Stanley Club tonight at 7 20. Dinner will be followed by dancing. Alfred J. Cote, president of the executive board, will be master of ceremonies. The Rev Paul E Morissette will welcome the group. Edward J Barry, from Sacred Heart Church Berkshire County advisory board, will speak. Cote will introduce the executive board including Jerome N Breault Therese Cote and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notre Dame Parish Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Stanley Club
Alfred J. Cote
Paul E. Morissette
CCC
Edward J. Barry
Sacred Heart Church
Berkshire County
Confraternity
Cote
Jerome N. Breault
Therese Cote
Hal F. van Bergan
Milton I. Shaw
Fishers
Eugene E. Gillette
Parent Educators
Clifford J. Perreault
The
Apostles of Good Will
van Bergan
Teachers
Quota Club Card Party To Aid Boys Club
The Quota Club of Pittsfield hosts a dessert card party at the Boys' Club Lighthouse room Wednesday at 8 pm to benefit speech handicapped students. Door prizes, table prizes, and card games are planned. Chairmen and ticket coordinators are named. tickets available from club members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quota Club of
Pittsfield
Lighthouse Room
Walter E. Epstein
Henry G. Horn
Margaret McCormick
Armand Vernier
Irving Mitkoff
Stephen F. O'Donnell
Jack N. Cancilla
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Donald J. Blair
Lanesbara
Marilyn R. Carpenter
Robert T. Carpenter
Adams
Lana C. Clark
Clifton E. Clark Sr
Great Barrington
Dawn M. Damon
George Bell
Middlefield
Judith ©. Drake
Edwin 9. Drake
Lee
Marjorie Flynn
Linda B. Aldrich
Pelham
Barbara J. Allyn
Canaan
Sandra J. Scott
South Deerfield
Jan V. Loomer
Boylston
Carol E. O'Neal
Falls Village
Conn
Janice E. Reichardt
East Hartford
Flynn
Navi
Larsen
VanBramer
Amandos
Drake
Blair
Allyn
Kanter Rice
Mary L. McGovern
John Goddean
Bride
Harry J. McGovern
Stephentown
Richard H. Potter
Brother
Miss Tesoniero
Wilfred Mr. Verdier
Harvard
Lucie Edmonds
Mr. Evans
Pilgrim Church
Robert Michael
John Galletly
SUN
Ashmere Lake
Hinsdat FE
Local
Nancy Mercaldo
Mrs
Robert Chapman
North St
Miss Szymanski
Gary Johnson
North Adams
Ang. 7
Holy Family Church
William Szymanski
Clark Road
Kanter
Szymanski
Lakeview
Wendell Packard
Dalaten HeEeaetra- Wanaeas
Berkshire
Western College
Notre Dame Ccd
Quota Club
Tuxadas
Cutawaye
Bevel Laake
South Street
BIG Time Wrestling
Bubble Room
Frank Scarpa
Gorgeous George
Wis
Bruno Samnartine
Golden Boy ViSe
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