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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1962
Page
5
Leslie J. Nason offers guidance on managing a 12 year old boy who rushes tests to win and ignores errors. He suggests building security and affection, emphasizing accuracy over speed, setting goals for careful work, and encouraging the child to acknowledge mistakes.
Linn S Wells longtime athlete coach and sportscaster was appointed yesterday assistant to the president of St Francis College in the development office. A graduate of Wilton Academy and Springfield College, his career spanned Mineville Locust Valley Brantford and Bloomsburg Bowdoin Augustana and college leagues and Navy service including leadership of athletic programs and a 1949 Gator Bowl team.
The Twin Cities Broadcasting Company of Lewiston identifies Wells as the familiar play by play announcer for Bowdoin Maine football. He has built a broad media career across the south, midwest, and Pacific coast. After a stint with a west coast national sales group in 1958, Wells returned to Maine with Beatrice Conant of Weld and now resides at Falmouth Foreside. Rev Clarence Laplante calls Wells a native Maine asset for the St Francis College development phase.
Courses in business education will be taught during the University of Maine summer session by Dr. Howard L. Haas of Montclair State College. The six week session runs July 9 to 17 and Haas will offer three courses covering curriculum problems, instructional materials, and teaching methods for non skill subjects. Enrollment in the advanced course is limited to experienced business education teachers.
Sister St. Paul ed Avila Huot of Biddeford has been selected to join Clark University’s Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers of Mathematics. The program runs from July 2 with 41 participants and is funded by a 39,800 dollar grant from the National Science Foundation.
Five building permits worth an estimated 13 400 were issued by Building Inspector Peter Hellige. Recipients include Chandler Route 1 16 Weymouth Street Saco for a 14 by 22 addition Walter Davis New Town Road Biddeford to establish a 35 by 8 trailer Robert Huff Jr 1n Small's Court Biddeford for a 28 by 48 ranch on Jenkins Road Louis Aubin 561 Main Street to move a 16 by 28 garage to Ocean Park Road Allen McInnis New County Road to tear down a wood shed and stable
Mrs. Merton Nickerson of Old Town was guest of honor at a baby shower at the home of Mrs. Charles Stone in Elmwood Drive Laco Gifts featured pink and blue bassinette centerpieces with two cakes, one pink one green, each with a stork and nursery furniture motif. Attendees and guests listed include Ruth Lane Marjorie Lane Bertha Stone Louise Sanborn Priscilla Martin Elizabeth McPhee Georgia Pitman Anita Wood Alice Bourque Eleanor Koutoula kos Edna Lane Beth French Cynthia Sanborn Judith Martin Betty Lamson Anne Koutoulakos Laura Stone and others invited but unable to attend include Jennie Lamson Ethel Bedard Beverly Cheney Meribah Lane Ursula Sanborn Florence Davis Helen Bissonette Geraldine Randall Mary Lou Bedard Linda Wood Janice Lane.
Two Biddeford Post Office officials will have roles in the Tri State branch convention of the National Association of Postal Survivors this weekend at Springhouse. Gosselin is registration chairman and will be assisted by Leo R. Cote, superintendent of mails at the local office. The division covers Maine New Hampshire and Vermont.
Rep Peter A Garland of Maine denounces the Thailand deployment as an expensive war game aimed at deceiving the public about tough action against Communists. He contends the Wolfhound Battle Group lacked ammunition and questions the administration’s motives.
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