May dance closes Immaculate Conception event at Colt Memorial
Nearly 200 parishioners attend a May dance at Colt Memorial High School Auditorium to conclude indoor activities for the summer. Jimmy Walsh and the Lake Pearl orchestra provide music for general dancing. Honor guests include Judge Edward L. Leahy and Mrs Leahy, Prof George Baldwin, and other local leaders.
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Immaculate Conception Sodality
St. Mary’s Church
Colt Memorial High School
Jimmy Walsh
Lake Pearl
Edward L. Leahy
George H. Baldwin
Leo Cantwell
J. Francis Connell
G. Elton Pierce
Virginia Scott
Margaret Mc
Rhode Island State College President Speaks at Hayes Tribute
Dr. Raymond G. Bressler delivered the testimonial dinner address at the Narragansett Hotel honoring Luther Newton Hayes for five years as Providence division director of Northeastern University. Alumni faculty and students organized the event with Prof John Candlet as finance chair.
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Raymond G. Bressler
Rhode Island State College
Luther Newton Hayes
Providence
Northeastern University
Narragansett Hotel
Hayes
John Candelet
Carl Christianson
Ernest Kilcup
Frank T. Speare
Everett Churchill
Boston
Gren Pirrell
Blaisdell Heads M E Boys Group at State Street Church
Oliver H. Blaisdell is seated as president of the Boys' Club of the State Street M E Church. Officers installed include Vice President Kenneth Sturdevant Secretary Robert Bullock Treasurer Walter Brelsford Librarian George Luther and Ken of the junior group with Vernon Huestis as secretary treasurer.
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Oliver H. Blaisdell
Boys’ Club
State Street M. E. Church
Kenneth Sturdevant
Robert Bullock
Walter Brelsfords
George Luther
Ken
Vernon Huestis
Irish Village Rhodes Feature at Pawtuxet Fair
A miniature Irish village will background the June 2025 Irish County Fair and Home Beautiful Exposition at Rhodes on the Pawtuxet. Gaelic songs, costumes and folklore highlight an older Ireland with carnival acts music and dancing. The event is sponsored by the Irish National Foresters coverage committee of Providence. A model home showing modern living and home decor ideas will accompany the exhibit.
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Rhodes-on-the Pawtuxet
Pawtuxet. R. S
Ireland
Irish National Foresters Cop Verision Committee of
Providence
Botanist to lecture on The Great Swamp at church meeting
Dr Kenneth E Wright a Rhode Island State College botany professor will speak at the church society meeting on May 2 on The Great Swamp He has conducted summers long surveys of South County natural gardens and will use this as a Summer Institute field trip course He will also address the Narragansett Horticultural Society and the South County Garden Club.
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Great Swamp
Kenneth E Wright
Rhode Island State College
Aneta Nor 'Deprimodiur
Ani Tvest
Warwick
Wright
South County
Narragansett Horticultural Society
South County Garden Club
Plans for Spaghetti Supper Move Forward
Plans for a spaghetti supper on Thursday May 26 in the Parish Hall Congregational Street Holy Name Society advanced at a Wednesday committee meeting at Elia Giusti home co chair with Louis Castriotta Assistants include James Salzano Fortunato Caruso Ralph Salvager Ralph Simonell and Raymond Cavallaro The meal is to be served between 12 and 1 for those unable to attend the main supper A further committee meeting is set for next Wednesday evening at the Giusti home on Wood Street.
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Congregational Street
Holy Name Society
Elia Giusti
Louis Castriotta
James Salzano Fortunato Caruso
Ralph Salvager
Ralph Simonell
Raymond J Cavallaro
Giusti
Wood Street
Chained Among the Insane feature in May Boston Sunday
An illustrated account in American Weekly Magazine and the May 15 issue of the Boston Sunday Advertiser recounts sane people living among lunatics in asylums.
Mas Inducts as Worshipful Master at Centredale Lodge
Arthur Cushing and officers of Rogers Williams Lodge No 32 F and A M presided over a Master Mason Degree class at St Alban's Bristol. About 125 masons attended the regular Wednesday night ceremony with Centredale members present. A dinner followed and plans for June 19 divine worship at First Congregational church were made. Clifford Weaver Eddy Benard and C Harold Newman named to arrange July lodge outing.
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Arthur Cushing
Rogers Willams Lodge
No 32
Centredale
St Alban’s Lodge
Bristol
Centredale Lodge
First Congregational Church
Clifford Weaver
Eddy Benard
C. Harold Newman
Wer
Correia Chosen for Boys State Program at Rhode Island College
Frank Correia, a Colt Memorial High School junior, is selected to attend the Little Rhody Boys State at Rhode Island State College in July, announced by Principal Edward J Fitzgerald. A second Bristol area student will also be selected by Fitzgerald for the American Legion project funded by the Bristol PTA.
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Frank Correia
Kearney
Little Rhody
American Legion
Rhode Island State College
Edward J Fitzgerald
Colt Memorial High School
Bristol
Parent- Teachers’ Association
Fitzgerald
Court of Awards for Girl Scout Troops Friday
A general Court of Awards for all members of local Girl Scout Troops will be held at the Reynolds School auditorium Friday afternoon May 20 at 3 45 o clock under the direction of the Badges and Awards Committee of the Council with Mrs J Floyd Huestis as chairman. Demonstrations of skills earned to qualify for these awards will be given by the girls and include Tenderfoot Second and First Class work plus activities under various badges. Mothers, or relatives, or friends of Girl Scouts are invited to attend to learn the scope of the program. Brownies who will fly up next Fall are also invited.
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Reynolds School
Mason family of musicians shaped American musical aristocracy
Daniel Gregory Mason, MacDowell Professor of Music at Columbia, embodies a lineage from Lowell Mason through Henry and William Mason. A prolific composer and educator, he studied with Paine in Harvard 1896, taught in Boston, France, and New York, then joined Columbia in 1909. His Lincoln Symphony premiered with the New York Philharmonic in 1987 under Barbirolli.
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Daniel Gregory Mason
Ascape MacDowell
Columbia University
New England
America
Lowell Mason
Boston
Henry Mason
William Mason
Mason
Harvard
John Knowles Paine
Fie
George W Chadwick
Percy Goetschius
New York Board of Education
Columbia
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Acmahouw Aroheatnes
Wider Rinkaw
Ran
Meget
Muage
Macell
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