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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1965
Page
26
Laneshoro parish bells to ring before services. church school day June 13. parish supper and bazaar recipes, corsage for organist. Girl Scout Town Association delegates named for 1965-66. Bicentennial pageant practice. Lions Club Ladies Night chairmen chosen. Lions scrapbook award noted. dances through summer. plumbing and heating ad copy appears.
In Lanesboro the standings of 15 bicentennial queen contestants were released today. Rankings by souvenir plates sold and votes from shoppers place Mary Garrity first, Patricia Oparowski second, Rosemarie Mathes third, followed by Sonia Keller Sandra Johnston Shirley Guinan Christine Regan Linda Waterman heroine Stokes Barbara Oparows ki Jane Lord Janet Vreeland Nancy Pennetti Patricia Green and Joanne Zurrin. By June 3 the top five will be finalists. The queen will be crowned at a June 21 banquet after votes are tallied on June 18, with four runners-up forming her court.
Hinsdale society notes Mollie A White returns to Stonehouse Road after wintering with friends and relatives in New York and New Jersey.
voters in East Chatham rejected a plan to swap elementary grades with Canaan, keeping 1st through 3rd at East Chatham and 4th through 6th at Canaan. Canaan backed the change 37 to 1, East Chatham 29 to 96, with law barring another vote for five years unless reversed.
A weekly school menu from Mount Greylock Regional outlines daily offerings. Monday features glazed luncheon items and candied sweet potatoes with mashed potatoes, wax beans, peach halves, vegetable soup, bologna sandwich and potato chips.
Lt Governor Eliot L Richardson will address Parents Day at North Adams State College with about 275 parents expected for the biennial event. The report covers speakers and campus activities in the North Adams area.
Hancock New Lebanon Central School taps Lin da Whitman Mary Gould and Susan Southard for the National Honor Society. Ceremonies held Tuesday at a school assembly. Selection based on scholarship citizenship character and leadership. SEOUL Korea AP Japan and South Korea to sign a formal agreement to establish diplomatic relations early next month.
Worthington The Hill town Choral Society under Mrs Roberta Covell presents its spring concert Sunday at 815 p m in the Cummington School auditorium Violinist Alicia Edelberg will perform the violin obligato in Rubinstein Seraphic Song Mrs Edith Hathaway of Worthington is soloist Bradford Fisk of River Road opens with Schubert Omnipotence tenor solo Daniel P Dunlevy son of Mr and Mrs Raymond K Dunlevy Muntington Road received Air Force Association Medal for top ROTC cadet at University of Wyoming Ellen M Granger daughter of Mr and Mrs C Francis Granger Old North Road has graduated from LaBaron Hairdressing Academy Springfield
The Dalton Congregational Church hosts a 7 am communion service on Sunday with breakfast and an 8 15 address by Rabbi Harold Salzmann of Temple Anshe Amunim Pittsfield on Modern Judaism and the Ecumenical Movement. Sponsored by the Men s Club, the event is open to all men of the church and community. reservations with Robert Hall are requested by Saturday evening.
Meal plan lists daily menus Monday through Friday with items such as patties, mashed potatoes, corn, plums, and a mixed lunch on Friday. John Tefts of Hackensack, Nebraska, visits his brother and sister-in-law Peter I Tests of Skyline Trail as the guest in Middlefield.
The annual May Day festival kicks off Sunday at 2 30 with a Main Street parade to the Community House led by the Royal Blue Angels Drum Corps. Miss Diane Engner will be crowned Queen of the May by last year’s monarch Charleen Toplin. The queen’s court includes Sherry Quick Jean Franklin Eileen Donovan Donna DeGeorgis and others all Wahconah Regional High School students. Also noted is a Red Cross bloodmobile visit at the Community House Monday noon to 12:45 with a push for donors amid shortages and the E D Jones strike. A stag party for James H Duquette and a church yard charity car wash are listed among weekend events with proceeds benefiting the Ellen Fund.
Captain Andrew M. Casey of 232 Park Ave Pittsfield the U S Army Reserve commanding officer has been chosen speaker for Memorial Day at Main Street Cemetery May 31 Lt Col Franklin L Couch chairs the day Casey a Viet Nam veteran served 20 combat operations as adviser to Viet Nam forces and earned the Bronze Star He is son of Pawtucket RI Public Safety Director and Mrs Andrew F Casey and attended Providence College two years before earning OCS at Fort Benning He also served two years in Germany and is a qualified parachutist fluent in French Spanish and Viet Namese.
The Dalton School Committee expands programs adding full time roles in physical education and music. Five elementary grades and three higher grades gain extended instruction. Staff changes include Philip Lennoa as fulltime PE, Barbara Turner moving to full-time, Ralph Salamone and soon two fulltime music teachers, and art staff increasing from one to two next year. Also noted is a $1,082,048 real estate tax levy, up $90,097, with 2,301 parcels billed. A Rotary Club auction June 5 at Dalton Tractor Sales aims to fund scholarships. donations may be arranged through J. Edgar Bardin.
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