Wells High Inducts Eight Into National Honor Society
Eight students, three seniors and five juniors, were inducted into the Wells High School National Honor Society at a candlelit ceremony in the new Wells Junior High gym. Inductees included seniors Ronald Gordon Carol Hanson Arlene Welch and juniors Kenney Bassett Sally Hutchins Lane Phillips Virginia Tufts Dale Piirainen. The event featured master of ceremonies Francis Mithen candle lighters Joanne Dufort Barbara Pisaruk Judy Mooers Mary Dannert, with remarks by Superintendent Robert W. Johnson and brief history by Robert Saunders.
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Wells High School
National Honor Society
New Wells Junior High School
Ronald Gordon
Carol Hanson
Arlene Welch
Kenney Bassett
Sally Hutchins
Lane Phillips
Virginia Tufts
Dale Piirainen
Francis Mithen
Joanne Dufort
Barbara Pisaruk
Judy Mooers
Mary Dannert
Robert W. Johnson
Robert Saunders
Jay Smith
Georgette Kostis
Kennebunk seeks land lease swap and hall use changes
The Kennebunk Board of Selectmen met with Howard Haskell of Central Maine Power to discuss converting a 20 year lease to a permanent pole rights lease on town land northeast of Sea Road in exchange for about 50 acres of CMP land west of Brown Street. They planned to place a town warrant article to accept the proposal. The panel also allocated town hall use for events including a July antique show, a January charity drive, and a February minstrel, and set February 6 as warrant closing. Classified ad chief Godefridus Tebbenhoff named. He will run the paper’s classified department from Biddeford-Saco Journal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk Board of Selectmen
Howard Haskell
Central Maine Power Company
Sea Road
B. & M. Railroad
Brown Street
Kennebunk
Selectmen
Lillian Hartigan
Nat Lunt
March of Dimes Committee
Webber- Lefebvre Post
American Legion
AMVETS Auxiliary Votes Donor Gifts and Meeting
Abbott-Verville AMVETS auxiliary met at the post home. A donation to Togus was sent after canceling a trip tonight. They also voted a donation to the March of Dimes and invited Mrs. Joan Tenan to a Blaine House coffee January 24. Card party chairmen were named for January 20 27 and February 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott-Verville Amvets
Post Home
Togus
March of Dimes
Joan Tenan
Blaine House
Leona Travers
Irene Guarino
Ellen Clark
Ogunquit Women’s Club Luncheon Plans February Meeting
About 60 Ogunquit Woman’s Club members attended a birthday luncheon at the Ogunquit Methodist church vestry. Tables reflected birth months with hostesses serving seasonally. Guest speaker Mrs. C Roland Dutch discussed club activities worldwide and a state litter cleanup project. Next meeting is February 6 at 2 30 p m with a musicale at Ogunquit Baptist church.
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Ogunquit
Sidney Z. Charak
Russell S. Ireland
Henry G. Lumbard
Lawrence V. Fernald
Theodore Bracy
James F. Deegan
Eleanor M. Eldridge
Harry C. Lord
Paul S. Hazlett
C. Roland Dutch
West Kennebunk
Benefit Coffee Launches 1963 March of Dimes Drive
A benefit coffee at Mrs. Paul Fontaine’s Old Orchard Beach home kicked off the 1963 March of Dimes drive. Mothers March captains and district coordinators were named to organize coffees and workers for the January 29 and 30 events, with plans for a benefit dance and Teen Age Programs projects.
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Paul G. Fontaine
Old Salt Road
Old Orchard Beach
Richard Lamb
Fontaine
Ocean Park
Ellen Clark
Mothers March
Richard Doe
Halfway
David McCallum
Patricia Ingram
Joan Smith
Dorothy Lamb
Donald Cook
West Grand Avenue
Robert Court
East Grand Avenue
Downtown
Philip Auger
Carol Bolduc
Leon Jones
Milliken Mills
James Mullen
Cascade Development
Louis DeAngelis
Making Gelatin Cubes in Ice Tray for Salad
Pour unseasoned gelatin into an untagged ice tray. Let it set then insert the ice cube holder and cut through to form uniform cubes for salad.
PTA Meeting At Beach Reports Health Staff Progress
The January Old Orchard Beach PTA meeting at Jameson School heard progress reports from the health staff and school committee. Frank Manduca announced a February food sale and noted 200 trees were sold at the Christmas tree sale with Key Club assistance. The attendance banner went to Benjamin Grant's sixth grade class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard Beach
Parent - Teacher Association
Jameson School
Howard Slaney
Frank Lawler
Edward Smith
Frank Manduca
Ways and Means
PTA
Key Club
Benjamin Grant
Donald Skilling
Raymond Begin
Stephen Polackwich
Agnes Murphy
Newman
Bagley T» Oeel
Manduca
Harold Horne
Robert Melnick
John E. Trull
Dwight W. McLeod
Joseph Mokarzel
David Marshall
Beach WSCS To Continue Mission Project
The Washington avenue Methodist Church Women’s Society meets at Frances Johnson’s home in Old Orchard Beach with President Mattie Bliss leading. They plan to continue collecting used nylons glasses frames and old jewelry in March and discuss a minister reception and upcoming meeting at South Portland Methodist Church.
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Women’s Society of Christian Service
Washington Avenue Methodist Church
Old Orchard Beach
Frances Johnson
Tripoli Avenue
Mattie Bliss
Florence Benson
South Portland Methodist Church
Elm Street
Elizabeth Garland
Alice Browne
Retta Sait
Hazel Kennett
Barbara Gilbert
Gertrude Leonard
Anna Anderson
Ruth Hodeen
Gertrude Wight
Winners Named In Beach Card Party At St Johns Hall
Mrs Edna Henaire won the ladies high prize for whist at the St Johns Parish hall Old Orchard Beach card party hosted by the auxiliary guild. Evelyn Presley took the ladies low prize with men’s prizes awarded to Albert Pettengill high and John Price low. Queens prize went to Mrs Jan Simpson and special prizes to Mrs Vera Rudy. Bridge prizes were claimed by Mrs Avis Briggs high and Ernest Day. Refreshments were served and another party is set for next Thursday at 8 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Henaire
St. Johns Parish
Old Orchard Beach
Auxiliary Guild
Evelyn Presley
Albert Pettengill
John Price
Jan Simpson
Vera Rudy
Avis Briggs
Ernest Day
Fellowship supper and church committees listed at North Lebanon Baptist
More than 30 attendees joined a vestry supper at North Lebanon Baptist with volunteers including Mrs. Rand Smith and Roberts handling service and setup. A business meeting re-elected Charles Grant as clerk and named trustees and committee members while the pastor led.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Lebanon Baptist Church
Isabelle Rand
Lillian Smith
Ethel Roberts
Ernest Roberts
David Gale
Arvilla Randall
Emma Goodwin
Charles Grant
Fred Rand
Merle Philbrick
George Stuart
Wesley Bamford
Isabelle
Ada Libby
Curtis Bodwell
Sanford Hospital
Bessie Lewis
Gertrude Gale
Gale
Arthur
Croton-on-Hudson
N.Y
Henry Jones
Madison
N.H
Edward Roy
Free Gale
Adra Keene
Merrill Nursing Home
Casco
Evangelical Association
Boston
Gordon Kahrein
Emery Mills
Stuart Grant
Sanford
Fred Gale
Community notices from Kennebunk and surrounding towns
Local clubs and churches report meetings and events around Kennebunk. Activities include the Snickerdoo club planning a January 29 outing at Biddeford’s Wonderbar Steak House, rehearsals for a Feb 22 minstrel show, and multiple gatherings in homes on Winter Street Fletcher Street Intervale Road and Woodside Drive.
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A. Wesley Leech
Leech
Storer Istreet
Maine Association of Nursing Homes
Augusta
Thursay
Fletcher Street
York
Weldon Jones
Bremmer York
Stanton King
Warren Jones
Rawlston Clark
James Cyr
Keith Brown
Webber-Lefebvre Post
Kennebunk Town Hall
Legion Home
Edmund Cashen
Summer Street
Robert Barra
Cashen
John Lindsey
Fred Smith
Ronald Robertson
Martin Billings l
Mary Ann Byron
Joseph Byron Jr
Webber Hospital
Linda Wormwood
Henry Wormwood
High Street
Tri-County
Kittery
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Paul Bedard
Intervale Road
Carolyn Morse
Harriet Garnett
Josef Arentz
Bedard
W.H. Williams, Jr
Woodside Drive
William J. Kelly
Frank Braun
Roy Danis
Williams
Beachwood Road
Dorothy Whicher
Edward Whicher
Arnold Smith
Harry Lapirow
Kennebunk
Inlaw
Marvin
Shirley Ervine Weds USAF Sergeant in Biddeford
Shirley M. Ervine daughter of Mrs Dorothy Ervine of Biddeford and S Sgt. Thomas A. Burgess United States Air Force son of Mr and Mrs William Burgess East Bridgewater Mass were married January 12 at St Mary rectory Biddeford Rev Cornelius J Enright officiated The bride wore a beige fur trimmed suit and orchid corsage Attendants included matron of honor Mrs Leon Grover Best man was Leon Grover Reception at Biddeford AMVETS hall The couple will reside at 99 Green Street Biddeford Burgess stationed at Westover Air Force Base Chicopee Mass The bride a Lewiston High School graduate and the groom a 10 year Air Force veteran.
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Shirley M. Ervine
Dorothy Ervine
Greenstreet
Biddeford
Thomas A. Burgess
U. S. Air Force
William Burgess
North Water Street
East Bridgewater
Mass
St. Mary Rectory
Cornelius J. Enright
Leon Grover
Biddeford Amvets Hall
Ervine
Burgess
Lewiston High School
U.S. Air Force
Westover Air Force Base
Chicopee
Public Roast Beef Dinner at Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall
The Mosaic club with Miniwanca Star club will host a family style roast beef dinner at Robinson Memorial Masonic hall on Sunday. John Strickland, Miniwanca Eastern Star patron, attended Worthy Patrons night at Annette chapter in Saco with Patricia Strickland Jennie Rallis and Kay Mewer.
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Mosaic Club
Miniwanca
River boundary splits Miami school districts
A Miami River houseboat family moved children between districts by crossing the river. Officials say the family enrolls any disenchanted child in the other school by slipping mooring lines and docking on the opposite bank. This has reportedly occurred several times.
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Anchor Aweigh Miami
Miami River
Flood Named Assistant To Delaware Senator
James A. Flood 34 of Dover Del will become administrative assistant to Senator J Caleb Boggs R Del February 15 He has led the News Journal Dover bureau for 3 1/2 years and previously worked for the Cecil Whig and the Baltimore Sun Flood and his wife Mary and five children will stay in Dover until June before moving to Washington.
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Biddeford
Washington
J. Caleb Boggs
Delaware
Sen. Boggs
James A. Flood
Dover
Del
Graham Street
James Flood
Flood
News-Journal
Francis E. Ewel
U. S
Biddefor H High School
Catholic University
Washington, D. C
Cecil Whig
Elkton
Baltimore Sun
Biddeford High
Biddeford-Saco Journal
Mary
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Wells
Biddeford-Saco
Godefridus
Fred) Tebbenhoff
Tebbenhoff
Netherlands
Europe
Charlotte Neveux
Adamsstreet
Amvets Auxiliary
Howe’s Highway Store
Remar’s
Main Street
Saco
OOB
PTA At Beach
Beling
J. Edward Whelan
Charles Rosen
Elaine Deschambeault
Sharon Harmon
Patsy Durant
Richard Hill
Maureen Genthner
Donald Mercier
Lebanon
Shirley Ervine
USAF
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Trusl Nursing
May Street
Rae
UTE Ie
Elm St
Fred Waring
The
Pennsylvanians
Jean Casadesus
Jacques D’amboise
Melissa Hayden
Jillana
Patricia Neary
New York City Ballet Company
Patti Page
Donald Voorhees
Bell Telephone Orchestra
Bell Telephone System
Nbc-Tv
Shevrules
Chevrolet
Parage
Alfred
Frank Chevrolet
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