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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1961
Page
18
Fragmentary report notes a group called Swent VO opening membership and preparing a drill schedule for a 708 season. Mentions Mr Fish recruiting, horn play, soprano and baritone roles, and a parade appearance with a Portuguese organization in Warren and Columbus areas.
The Bristol Lions Club and Baptist Players jointly sponsor a community play titled A Ready Made Family to benefit the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation of Bristol. The three act production, directed by John Drew Colt, is led by Lions Club and Baptist Players executives and slated tentatively for mid November at YMCA venues.
The Reynolds School Auditorium hosted a Columbus Day program on Wednesday afternoon October 11 featuring the sixth grade class of Antoinette Garista supervising music by Joan Arnold. The program included poems by John Sullivan Elizabeth Lume and Elizabeth Armstrong a picture story by Janet Young Karen Guido Theresa Almeida Elaine Principe Jane Holdsworth Sandra Sousa Deborah Aguilar and Deborah Paiva a song Columbia the Gem of the Ocean a recitation by Anne Campagna and Jane Zeitler an acrostic by Susan Smith et al a staged Map Maker with Christopher Columbus Stephen Gancz Nicholas Dupont and others scenes in Lisbon court of Ferdinand and Isabella and a monastery garden plus an interval piano selections by Anne Campagna and the class concluding with Three Little Ships led by Richard Federico as announcer.
Dick Leger will call the square dance as part of a harvest festival hosted by Battery C 243rd RI ARNG. The event on Saturday Oct 21 will be at the RI National Guard Armory on Metacom Ave. Tickets available from Battery NCOs. Open to the public and many are expected to attend.
Rotary Club lauds Mrs Russell J Donovan for directing a past years entertainment. Emma and Earl Rounds provided piano and organ accompaniment, Miss Nerone led makeup, James F Meiggs and Sons handled scenery and lighting, with various Rotarians presenting tributes after the show.
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