Wells PTA Hears Talk By New Superintendent
Wells PTA met at the Wells Elementary school auditorium with Robert W. Johnson, new Wells superintendent, presenting Teaching as a Job and praising staff and community, as teachers from Wells High, Wells Junior High, Wells Elementary and Ogunquit Village schools were introduced. The program included staff listings, a coffee break, and planning for a Community Birthday calendar project and membership efforts ahead of the October 2 meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert W. Johnson
New Wells
Wells
Wells-Ogunquit
Parent‘Teacher Association
Proram
Ells High School
Johnson
PTA
Henry Hampe
Russell K. Noyes
Wells High School
Wells Junior High School
Donald J Goodwin
Robert L. Arlin
Marion Davis
Marie Hatch
Ethel Weymouth
George L. Langille
Elizabeth Snow
Carl E. Merrill
Fred S. Strout
Vincent Trincia
Pearl A. Wakely
Richard Wakely
J.W. Basketball
Noyes
Harry DeShon
Beatrice Spiller
Albine Watson
Raymond A. Johnson
Richard L. Baston
Carroll P. Beals
The
Wells Elementary School
David R. Ellis
Irene Allen
Phyllis Colbath
Eleanor Hutchins
Jane Ritter
Elizabeth Beals
Pauline Johnson
Elizabeth Estes
Brenda Cochrane
Norene Whitten
Edith Colby
Dorothy Ward
Judith Ellis
Margaret Belleau
Ogunquit
Ogunquit Village
Eleanor Adams
Rachel Perkins
Helena Rode
Carolyn Davis
Merriland Ridge
Stanley E. Johnson
Arthur H. Tufts
Orrin B. Saunders
Millard W. Adams
Gilbert V. Grant
Robert Bragdon
Kennebunk Events and Local Disturbances Noted
Kennebunk residents take time off work at Colemans Gulf Station as a week away. Ambulance crews transport Mrs. Perkins of West Kennebunk and Gary Pierce to Webber hospital. Church groups plan meetings at Drakes Island cottage and in Kennebunkport. Joan Strickland enters University of Maine in Orono. AMVETS auxiliary holds regular meeting at Post home on Walnut street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Dyer
Kennebunk Landing
Coleman
Gulf Station
Kennebunk
Ralph Smith
Kennebunkport
George C. Reed
Kittery
John Strickland
Seaview Avenue
Joan
Orono
University of Maine
Amvets
Post Home
Walnut Street
Old Orchard Beach Society Notices
Carroll W. Bent has returned home from Webber hospital after a week’s stay. The Old Orchard Beach Art association holds its season opening meeting at the high school cafeteria at 7 30 tonight with refreshments served and Mrs. Gertrude Eastman presiding. The Miniwanea Star club meets Friday at 8 p m at Robinson Memorial Masonic hall with members asked to bring dish towels as final plans are made for the visit of Star of the Valley chapter from Valleyfield Quebec.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll W. Bent
Webber Hospital
Saco Avenue
Old Orchard Beach Art Association
Gertrude Eastman
Miniwanea Star Club
Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall
Star of the Valley Chapter
Valleyfield
Quebec
Ex-Beach Teacher To Attend Confab In Swampscott
A former Old Orchard Beach teacher joins Connecticut State Planning Committee members planning the 13th annual New England Reading Association conference to be held October 1 and 3 at the New Ocean House in Swampscott Massachusetts. Catherine Hector, now an elementary supervisor in Connecticut's Department of Education, is among the planners. NERA executive board includes from Maine Gertrude Prinn Dr. James MacCampbell Richard Babb and Phyllis Theriault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Orchard
Connecticut
New England Reading Association
Swampscott
Mass
Catherine Hector
State Department of Education
New Ocean House
NERA
Maine
Gertrude Prinn
James MacCampbell
Richard Babb
Phyllis Theriault
Priscilla OFS Hosts Invitations At September Eastern Star Meet
Priscilla Chapter Order of the Eastern Star held a September meeting at Masonic Hall Wells with multiple invitations announced. Conductress Mrs. Claire Tracy will assume station September 21 at Guest Officers Night in Annette chapter Saco. Other guests and sessions include Minivanca Old Orchard Beach September 23, and Star of the Valley Quebec visit September 27. Additional invitations cover Adalt Night Beulah Cumberland Mills Esther Night Piscataqua Kittery and Conductress Night October 4 at Iona Portland. Tea events, inspections, and Star club meeting September 28 at Mrs. Elaine La Pierre’s Wells home were noted along with Ruth Night October 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priscilla
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Highpine
Wells
Claire Tracy
Annette
Saco
Minivanca
Old Orchard Beach
Star-of-the-Valley
Quebec
Marion Chadbourne
Beulah
Cumberland Mills
Priscilla McIntire
Esther
Piscataqua
Kittery
Tracy
Iona
Portland
Marjory Fernald
Mildreth Kimball
Esther Linscott
Westbrook
Mildred McIntosh
Ruth
Springvale
Ctober
Sanford
Sarah Orne Jewett
South Berwick
Ocean Masonic Lodge
Ocean Lodge
Masonic School of Instruction
Star Club
Elaine la Pierre
Hartigan Talks Business At Kiwanis Meeting
John F. Hartigan of Components Inc presented a company overview at the Old Orchard Leach Kiwanis club gathering in the American Legion hall. President Edward Jackson presided, with Captain Robert Reid at the piano and guests Brigadier James Simonson, Benjamin Westgate, and Harry Tabor in attendance. The community supper is set for October 10 at 6 30 p.m. at the Robinson Memorial Masonic hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Hartigan
Biddeford
Sheila Witham Has Party On Birthday
Miss Sheila Witham daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Witham Fletcher street was guest of honor at a party for her seventh birthday Monday evening. Gifts opened and cake baked by Mrs Witham followed by refreshments. Attending were Betty Ann Gary and Craig Leech Diane Cindy Evelyn Bush Linda and Laura Lindquist Sheila Campbell Pamela Hanscom and several others. Absentees sending gifts were Belinda Cowgill and Mrs Albert Cowgill Kennebunk and Mrs Juliette Dubeau Lake Alfred Fla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheila Witham
Earl Witham
Fletcher Street
Mrs. Witham
Betty Ann
Gary
Craig Leech
Diane
Cindy
Evelyn Bush
Linda
Laura Lindquist
Sheila Campbell
Pamela Hanscom
Richard Leech
Joseph Bush
Henry Hanscom
Helen O’blenns
Elsie Bouchard
Mary Holden
Margaret Bouchard
Vicki
Belinda Cowgill
Albert Cowgill
Kennebunk
Juliette Dubeau
Lake Alfred
Fla
Lat in study rises among US high schoolers
The share of American high school students taking Latin has grown over the past decade and now ranks second to Spanish in popularity among modern languages offered.
Beach AMVETS Plan Annual Field Day Oct 1
Abbott-Verville AMVETS post met at the Post home in Old Orchard Beach to plan fall and winter activities. The annual field day will be Sunday October 1 at Taraze wich farm in Biddeford. A softshoe challenge with Saco post is slated as an event with refreshments and a small charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott-Verville Amvets Post
Post
Walnut Street
Old Orchard Beach
Tarazewich
River Road
Biddeford
Junior Amvets
Jerry Jacques
Dan Quarino
Tom Bill
Jim Robichaud
George MacDonald
John Travers
Felix Neault
Auxiliary
Main Street
South Street
Beach Post
Saco Post
Harold Strout
Saco
Bath Post
Strout
Bill
Jacques
Births and local social notes from Cape Porpoise area
Cape Porpoise notes report the birth of an eight-pound boy to Mr and Mrs Bruce Wakefield on September 12 with Helen Dodge of Kennebunk as mother and the father at Great Lakes Naval Training Center. The piece lists local visits, club activities, church openings, a career school enrollment, a medical update on Dr Raymond L Whitney, and a York County Firemen’s association lobster supper attended by 250 members and guests with slide show by Everett residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Wakefield
Bruce Wakefield
Helen Dodge
Kennebunk
Grant Ross
Irwin, Pe
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Arundel Womens Republican Club
York County
Charles Bradbury
Carriage Trade
Pier Road
Boston
Frank Bradbury
Jean
Thomas Bradbury
Church-on-the-Cape
Florence Nunan
Ardelle Maling
Herbert Estey
York County Postmasters Association
West Newfield
Carol Bilderback
Grace Downes Air Career School
New York City
Raymond L. Whitney
Maine Medical Center
Ernest Ridlon
Laerroad
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Gregory Baxter
Massachusetts
Maude Richards
Langsford Road
Somerville
York County Firemen’s Association
Cape Porpoise
Paul Nelson
Everett
Nelson
Algot Nelson
James Sblomiey
Frank Fitzgerald
Malden
Navy Midshipman Succumbs to Cramped Sea Fox Quarters
Dick Webster, 20 from the University of Kansas, serves as a reserve officer candidate aboard the submarine USS Sea Fox for a five week cruise. The tall midshipman, at 6 feet 5 inches, finds the cramped quarters and low overhead gears especially uncomfortable during the voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
Navy
Dick Webster
Webster
Sea Fox
University of Kansas
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Edmund Cashen
Clement P. Wight
Dial WE
Confab
Priscilla Ofs
Racar
Hartigan
N. P. Scontras Real Estate Agency
Sace
Beach Amvets Plan
Dan Guarino
James Rouichaud
Richard Morse
Veterans Hospital
Togus
Cape
Alice M. Crowell
Henry C. Meyert
Eliot
Henry de Wildt
Lucy Lord
Marion Clark
Albania Merrill
George Emmons
Elsa Henry
Prentice Kittredge
Russell Kittredge
Paul
Alfred Street
Spruce
Bangor
Bancroft
Martjin
Brewer
Wamsutta
Hockanum
Worumbo Eboniques
Packard