Berkshire County clubs host talks and tours in Berkshire area
Meetings include Mount Holyoke Club in Williams town with Richard A. Johnson on continuing education for women through literature. Berkshire Museum Garden Club offers a cookery supper and a program on a kitchen garden. A tour of gardens at Street Hall follows the program. Rotary Club and St Joseph's High School plan gatherings. Elm Court wins redwood lawn furniture as Berkshire Gay Women's Club Ward's Day door prize.
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Berkshire County
Mount Holyoke Club
Williams+ town
Philip Hastings
Richard A. Johnson
Berkshire Museum Garden Club
Berkshire Garden Center
Stockbridge
Roy Boutard
Elm Court
North Egremont
Berkshire Gay Women's Club
Pittsfieldden
Lenox Garden Club Plant Sale Plans and Events
The Lenox Garden Club has set a plant bazaar for Tuesday May 20 at the Hancock Shaker Community Inc with 10 assistants handling annuals perennials hanging baskets and herbs sold on the porch and in a barn area. The Women of St Stephen's Church held their annual dinner May 5 and elected officers for church groups and chapter chairs across St Barbara's St Mary's St Catherine's and St Elizabeth's with gifts to retiring leaders and remarks by Rev Canon David Crockett. The sale supports conservation and horticultural projects including Proctor Garden Berkshire Garden Center and planting at the Corner House of the Stockbridge Historical Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox Garden Club
Hancock Shaker Community, Inc
George Denny
Terry Halcock
William F. Barrett Jr
John Talbot
R. Curt Hasenclever
St. Stephen's Church
Robert E. Vincent
Howard J. Latimer
Samuel Pullano
United Thank Offering
Claire Ogden
Washington Cathedral
Mildred I. Buttrey
Christian Social Relations
W. Anderson Williams
Altar Guild
Bruce B. Gravitt
Miles M. Hapgood
Arthur J. Harrington Jr
Donald B. Kuntz
David Crockett
Western
Massachusetts
Ellwood Burdsall
Robert Rathvone
Peter Borie
J. William Clark
Benjamin Roeder
Lawrence Bloedel
Robert §. Midbard
Elmer A. Euston
Garden Club
Proctor Garden
Berkshire Garden Center
Stockbridge Historical Society
Mrs Jon Rich Heads Barbertones Chorus
Mrs Jon K Rich elected President of the Barbertones local women’s barbershop chorus of Sweet Adelines Inc. Other officers named with a troop of committee chairs. Installing officer Mrs Eugene Pressier and rehearsal under Mrs Matthew J Dempsey Jr for a May 28 sing-out at West Shore Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jon K. Rich
Barbertones
Sweet Adelines, Inc
Frederick P. Garner
John J. Cullen
Donald Taylor
Norford L. Newton
Henry C. Hyde
Sally Pettibone
Sandy Mispel
Devra Sana
Gladys Hunter
Jane Chapman
Ways and
Eugene Pressier
Matthew J. Dempsey Jr
West Shore Club
Goodermote Honored At Retirement Party
Leland Goodermote of Garden St. was honored at a retirement party held after 29 years with General Electric. The event drew 75 friends and relatives, with a dinner-dance at Lakeview Restaurant. A World War I Auxiliary penny social at the White Tree Club raised $475 for the group.
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LaLeche League
Madonna Hall
the &J. Luke's School of Nursing
Leland
Goodermote
Garden St
Furday
Lakeview
Sted
Fred Sevier
Stuart Keough
Bushey Road
Hillsdale
N.Y
John Brooker
Lee
Goodermore
General Electric
White Tree Club
Michael J. Higgins
Dalton
Leon Provost
William Guinan
Christie Coessel
Pittsfield
Community events and society notices stream in agenda
Family swim for boys at the Boys' Club 8 15 to 9 30 Tonight. Musical event An Evening of Yiddish Music by Sholom Secunda at Temple Anshe Amunim 8 30 p.m. Tomorrow mother daughter swim at Girls Club 7 p.m. Penny Social by Daughters of Lebanon Barrett Hall 7 30 p.m. Mrs Robert M Raod Mrs John H Fisher and Mrs Benjamin M Bowers named state chapter delegates to the Convention of Supreme chapter PEO Sisterhood Sept 29 to Oct 2 in Des Moines Iowa. Mrs Elmer E Hinton of Wellesley installed as president of the Massachusetts state chapter succeeding Mrs Rood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sholom Secunda
Temple Anshe Amunim
Robert M. Raod
John H. Fisher
Benjamin M. Bowers
Supreme Chapter
PEO
Des Moines
Iowa
Elmer E. Hinton
Wellesley
Massachusetts
Rood
Music Festival To Be Thursday At Pomroy School
The final section of the Grade 6 music festival directed by Miss Josephine A. Denright will be held Thursday at 1 45 pm in the new Pomroy School addition. About 120 pupils from Bartlett Mercer Pomeroy Russell and Stearns schools perform songs and folk dances under the “Musical Sounds” theme. Accompanists are Mrs Wilma Coleila and Miss Connie Otto. Donald Horsman will arrange tape recordings. This year 872 sixth graders have participated in the four sections. Also, Berkshire Tangle-Aires Harmony Inc will present a spring show Saturday at 8 pm at North Junior High School featuring Rogues Four Key-Notes and Pinker-Tones with Noel Sears as master of ceremonies. Tickets from England Brothers or chorus members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine A. ‘Enright
New Pomeroy School
Bartlett
Mercer
Pomeroy
Russell and Stearns
Wilma Coleila
Connie Otto
Donald Horsman
Berkshire Tangle-Aires
Harmony, Inc
North Junior High School
Rogues Four
Poughkeepsie
Providence
R.il
Tangle- Aires
Pinker-Tones
Noel Sears
Berkshire Hillsmen
Robert E. Beals Jr
England Brothers
Kochs Host Garden Club Hot Dog Roast After Cleanup Day
Mr and Mrs Robert E Koch of 333 East New Lenox Road hosted a hot dog roast for adults and children following the ninth annual East New Lenox Road Garden Club cleanup day. The club's current project is sharing perennials with the OCA Center. Donors may call Mrs Alexander Parkinson or Mrs Richard C Bailey to contribute perennials.
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Robert E. Koch
East New Lenox Road
OCA Center
Alexander Parkinson
Richard C. Bailey
Skirting the Issue in Northampton and a Call to Action
The piece opens with a Northampton anecdote about civility and aging values, then shifts to Nobel biologist George Wald’s MIT speech urging action to protect life on Earth. Wald, a Harvard teacher with 350 students, argues education feels irrelevant and students doubt the future, signaling a crisis in teaching and learning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northampton
Smith
Matthew Arnold
George Wald
MIT
Harvard
World birth control plea at Notre Dame sparks alarm
McNamara warns of rising population strain and possible famine while urging a world birth control program. Critics counter that agricultural tech would hasten ecological collapse, leaving no time for future learning or civilization. The speaker cautions that modern cities exceed sustainable limits and perilous choices loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tient
Robert McNamara
University of Notre Dame
Mr. McNamara
Notre Dame
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Stamey Club
Kiwan-Aimiees
Lenox House
Anto
Cross
St. Joesph’s High School
Joseph W. Ryan Jr
Dalton Ave
Pittsfield High School
Nature
Sydney
Eagle Classified
Curt Gowdy
Massachusetts Mutual Savings Bank
Mutual Savings Banks
Berkshire County Savings Bank
North St
City Savings Bank
Great Barrington Savings Bank
Great Barrington and Sheffield
Park St
Lee Savings Bank
Lee, Mass
Lenox Savings Bank
Lenox, Mass
St. Stephen's Women
Mrs
Jon Rich
la Leche League
Penny Social
Daughters of Lebanon
Barrett Hall
South Congregational Church
Main St
Tangle
Aires
Kochs
Cynthia Seton
Wald
Northhampton
New York City
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