Kennebunk Social Notes Mixed With Military News
Mrs John A Scott of Malden Massachusetts spends the summer at the Landing. Fire department responded to a train track fire in Arundel. Pvt William Davis on 20 day leave from Camp Lejeune. A3C Rowena Arsenault returns from basic training for 15 day leave. News includes local visits, travel routes and military assignments. Also mentions Lt Richard Barr and family visits, birthday dinner for Mrs Willis Gowen, and a Kennebunk Baptist church meeting helper roster. Motto of Kentucky: United we stand divided we fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Scott
Malden
the Landing
Kennebunk
Arundel
Boston and Maine
William Davis
U. S. Marines
Paris Island
S. C
Camp Lejuene
N. C
Arsenault
Otis Air Force Base
Cape Cod
Mass
Frank Richards
Edgecomb
Ashton Hoyt
Forrest Warren
Warren
West Kennebunk
Robert Pickett
Elizabeth
Edward
Syracuse
N. Y
Max Pickett
Dorothy Buzzell
Haverhill
Patricia Taute
Kennebunk High School
Nancy Bowley
L.P.N
Gerald Crocker
Shirley Brown
Gowen
B.O.V
Kennebunk Baptist Church
Lillian Clark
Genevieve Currier
France
Burleigh
Minnie Robbins
Wells Legion and Auxiliary Installed Jointly in Wells
Joint installation ceremonies for Wells Legion post and auxiliary were held at the Wells Legion home on Eldredge road. Officers installed included John Harrington and Arthur Tufts among others. auxiliary officers were led by Mrs Sheila Tufts with absent first vice president Mrs Arlene Mooers to be installed later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elbridge
Leroy Hanson
American Legion and Auxiliary
Wells
Eldredge Road
Arthur H. Tufts
John F. Harrington
Harry Alpren
William J. O'Connell
George Pimentel
Roby P. Littlefield
Albeo G. LaPierre
Charles Clark, Jr
Millard W. Adams
Thelma Stevens
Sheila Tufts
Rosette Alpren
Dorothy Fitch
Min Biehler
Winifred Harrington
Marion Wormwood
Elaine LaPierre
Arlene Mooers
Mrs. Smith
Eldridge
American Legion Nd Auxiliary
Wells Legion
Fenwick W. Chick
Alber G. LaPierre
Mario Wormwood
Elaine
Henry Hampe
Wells Area
Post
Legion
The
William O'Connell
Loriston Littlefield
Theodore Handrinos
Auxiliary
Lof
Tufts
LaPierre
Cadet Tracy Receives Civil Air Patrol Proficiency Award
First Lt Alexander Hamilton presented the Certificate of Proficiency to Cadet Technical Sgt Charles R Tracy at St Margaret parish hall Old Orchard Beach. The award allows Tracy to enter the Air Force as an Airman Third Class and he becomes cadet commander succeeding Cadet Lt Irving Tate who serves as advisor until July. A candy drive funds a radio. contact Mrs Steven Halasz Ocean Park Rd Saco. Cadets heading to a Plattsburgh NY encampment for two weeks include Lt Hamilton Cadet Tracy Cadet Gilbert Cadet Halasz and Cadet Berrer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Civil Air Patrol
Alexander ‘Hamilton
Arundel
Saco
Charles R. Tracy
St. Margaret Parish Hall
Old Orchard Beach
Tracy
Air Force
Sgt
Irving Tate
iSteven I. Halasz
Ocean Park Road
Air Force Base
Plattsburgh
N. Y
Hamilton
Sgt. Tracey
Wayne Gilbert
Gary Halasz
David Berrer
Idlewild patient at Maine Medical Center named James C. Smith
James C. Smith of Idlewild Avenue is a medical patient at Maine Medical Center. The Washington Avenue Methodist Church Women’s Society plans a Thursday outing to Mrs. Richard Bliss's home in Standish. Members will bring pot luck dishes and coffee or tea will be supplied. They depart church at 10 30 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James C. Smith
Idlewild Avenue
Maine Medical Center
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Washington ‘Avenue Methodist Church
Richard Bliss
Standish
Open House At Coach's Day Camp Slated
An open house will be held Sunday at 1 p m at Coach's Day Camp on Olympia Avenue at Halfway. Director Bill Pawlikowski invites the public to view facilities including two swimming pools tennis courts and other play areas plus the camp’s wood and adjacent areas and how they are used.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia Avenue
Bill Pawlikowski
Beach Teacher Accepts Post At Portland
Mrs. Christine Armstrong resigns after ten years as head of home economics and five years as dean of girls at Old Orchard Beach High to become head of the home economics department at Portland High. She has held school lunch program supervision from 1951 to 1958 and will begin in the fall. Armstrong, daughter of the late Charles and Annie B. Dolbier, is a graduate of Old Orchard Beach High, Nassau Institute and the University of Connecticut with additional studies at several universities. She taught nutrition during World War II and organized the Canteen Forces during the 1947 forest fires. Previously, she taught in Falmouth schools and, with her husband, ran the Breakers-by-the-Sea hotel since 1945. She is active in local education groups and sororities, and has two sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christine Armstrong
Old Orichard Beach High School
Portland High School
Armstrong
Portland
Charles
Falmouth
Breakers-by-the Sea
West Surf Street
York Teachers Association
Miniwanea
Order of the Eastern Star
St. John Episcopal Guild
Old Orchard Beach P. T. A
Delta Kappa Gamma
Kennebunk Town Votes on Road Extensions and Transfer
At a special town meeting in Kennebunk only 20 residents attended. Voters accepted extensions of Woodside Drive and Birchwood Road in the new development, plus the extension of Colonial Drive to Smiths Wood Road. A $1000 transfer from surplus funds to the planning board enables the selectmen to enter contracts with state and federal agencies for municipal planning, following Ernest Smiths amendment. Attorney Albert W. Emmons acted as moderator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk Town Hall
Planning Board
Woodside Drive
Birchwood Road
Colonial Drive
Ernest Smith
Albert W. Emmons
Bible Class Plans Outing At Harvey Church Vestry
The Harvey Bible Class met at the church vestry for supper at six hosted by Persis Moulton and Virginia Varney. President Lillian McCrellis led a business meeting planning the annual outing for July 11 with place to be announced. Members approved helping WSCS with a public supper to support the building fund. Faith Ehler spoke to the group along with many listed attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey
Persis Moulton
Virginia Varney
Lillian McCrellis
WSCS
Faith Ehler
Mae Nadeau
Dorothy O’blenns
Mae Giles
Jessie Hanson
Myra Towne
Mae Smith
Marion Hoyt
Gertrude Dutch
Ethel Littlefield
Gladys Nedeau
Alice Moore
Betty Pawlaski
Social Notes From Cape Porpoise and Nearby Towns
Cape Porpoise hosts include Mrs Lillian Nunan with relatives from Springfield and Waltham while George Lush visits his grandparents in Bangor. Residents Mrs Doris MacKenna and Rev Henry Megert appear in church events. A Rose Bowl tea at Langsford House benefits church additions. Numerous local engagements, travel, and school recognitions are listed among community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Nunan
Douglas Huskins
S. Linstrom
Springfield
Mass
William Nordstrom
Waltham
Skipper Joe's Point
George Lush
Bangor
George Emmons
Ernest Ridion
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
Doris MacKenna
George Harriman
Women's Guild
Langsford House
Aoe
Tad” Dowson
Sterling ‘Ser
Cambridge
Dow Cottage
Charlene Elliott
Kezar Falls
Consolidated School
Kennebunkport
Henry Megert
Methodist Church
Robyn Miller Ridlon
Gary Ridlon
Richard Clayton Nunan
Clayton Nunan
York County Council American Legion and Auxiliary
South Berwick
Beatrice Wakefield
Alberta Redmond
Ardelle Maling
Kennebunk Girl Joins WAVES for Boot Camp
Miss Suzanne Soucy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Waterhouse of Kennebunk, will depart June 26 for nine weeks of boot camp at Bainbridge Maryland after enlisting in the U S WAVES. A Kennebunk High School graduate, she was active in band F H A and various school activities including student government and arts staff, and belonged to the Methodist Youth Fellowship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suzanne. Soucy
Reginald Waterhouse
Kennebunk
U. S
Bainbridge
Miss Soucy
Kennebunk High School
K. H. S. Band
Future Homemakers of America
State of Maine
State of Maine F. H. A
Art Club
Rambler
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Youth Center
Wells woman’s church group sets annual banquet
Members of the Young Women’s Church group from Wells First and Second Congregational churches plan their annual banquet tomorrow evening at Wheeler’s Inn in Cape Neddick. Mrs. Joan Dusseault handles reservations. Ernest Crowley of Saltaire Kenne ls Wells returns from New York with his Bedlington terrier Amerdale Half Nelson, showing strong wins in Greenwich and Long Shore shows. He will judge the Vancouver Kennel club show in Vancouver, Washington, with assignments across collies, boxers, Doberman pinschers, and terrier groups for best in show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells First and Second Congregational
Wheeler's Inn
Cape Neddick
Joan Dusseault
Ernest Crowley
Saltaire
Wellesley
Mass
Framingham
Crowley
Vancouver
Wash
New Principal Named For K Port School
Merle S. Jones of Fryeburg has been elected principal of the Kennebunkport Consolidated School and will start his duties with the new school year. Jones brings eight years in elementary teaching, three in high school, twenty-two as a superintendent, and service on the University of Maine Session staff. He is a Farmington Normal and University of Maine graduate, with further graduate work in Boston. His wife Doris Jones, also a teacher with a bachelor’s in education, will join Park Street School as a fifth grade teacher. They have two married daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merle S. Jones
Fryeburg
Kennebunkport
Jone 55
University of Maine
Jones
Farmington Normal School
Boston
Doris Jones
Park Street School
Kennebunk
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Edmund Cashen
Kentucky
E. G. Foden Co
Portland, Maine
AES
Frank W. Kridel
45Th St
8Th Ave
New York
Zeckendorf
Wells Legion, Auxiliary
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Chevrolet
America
Chevy
Fisher
Mill City
Chevrolet Corp
Alfred Street
West Kennebunl
Cape
Fairfield Twins
Joseph and
John
Gary Eaton
Susan Cortell
Gail Brown
Barbara Stirk
Margery Fairfield
Shelley Higgins
Peter Landry
Steadman Seavey
Kenneth Fairfield
John Hutchins
Amy Landry
James Fairfield
Dale Nunan
Ronald Wood
Caroline Sipala
Philip Stirk
Patricia Seavey
Eleanor Turner
Larchmont
Dollie Merrill
Kennebunk Miss
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Suzanne Soucy
Boone Chevy Showrox
OLD Charter Distillery CO
Louisville, KY
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