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Newspaper
Brookfield Magnet
Location
Brookfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1950
Page
4
The annual event featured music by Thureday war and an organ salute. Connie Rogers, Cach $e, and others shared a panel on opportunities and choosing work. Students formed a poster contest with prizes of 5, 3, and 2 dollars. The Lettermen’s rally and a dance followed with decorations intact despite lights.
Helicopter air mail service is now available in Brookfield with a three daily dispatches on weekdays and one on Saturday. Letters dropped by 6 p.m. to any U S city reach the next day with options for special delivery on weekends and holidays. Air mail costs three cents more, stamps or Air Mail notation required if no air stamp. Overseas routes promise hours rather than days to European and South American cities.
Riverside-Brookfield Patron's council hosts an annual reception and tea for incoming Freshman mothers. The event on Tuesday May 2 at 2 80 p m in the high school cafeteria invites eighth grade mothers and all patron's council mothers. Room Mothers Refreshment and Hospitality committees led by Antoinette Blaser Joseph Harazin and Templeton organize the event to help mothers meet the faculty.
Guatemalan student Luis O’Meany spoke to Riverside-Brookfield High School Spanish classes about Guatemala. He studies medicine at Wilson Junior College in Chicago and plans to return home to practice surgery. Local influence by Mr. and Mrs. E. Dunbar helped bring him. Mrs. Dunbar promotes student outreach to younger pupils with Guatemalan songs and dances. O’Meany discussed cultural differences and social norms, noting jeans could label Guatemalan girls as social outcasts.
Meaning of Faith will be the topic of the sermon next Sunday at 11 o clock in the Hollywood Community church. The choir will sing Lead Me Lord by Gus tav Harker. Sunday school meets at 9 45 am and a choir rehearsal is held every Wednesday at 7 pm at the community house.
Molear coordinates arrangements as four column notes celebrate Mrs. A. M. MacPheat of Rockefeller Ave on Tuesday April 25. Congratulatory wishes go to Mr. and Mrs. William Smith of Woodside Ave for their twelfth wedding anniversary April 16. Cast of a play includes Mrs. Bjort Schmenti Mrs. Sproat Mrs. Winson and others as reported to Hollywood readers inviting more news via Brookfield 9269.
An hour of music will be presented by piano pupils of Mrs. T. Nedved and violin students of Mrs. Williams Overholt in a combined recital at the Presbyterian church parlors. Friday evening May 3 begins at 7:30. Friends are invited. Pianists include Sue Kessler Riverside Jeannete Lussow Forest Park Gay Sross Linda Kocour Brookfield Judy Hans Juan Nancy Kolar Dean Rogeness Hollywood. Violin players Ellen Wasz Brookfield Carn Schlaman Lyons George Pizak Timothy Cohen Marion Thompson Hinsdale Noel Nedved Hollywood. The Portia Manor bridge club met last Tuesday at Mre.Chas. Whittman Forest Park. Prizes went to Mmes. M. Corleto A. Bebinger and R. Ziszik. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Luzadder Chicago visited Mrs. Beryl Olsen and Billy Grand Grove Saturday.
A religious film based on the parable of the Good Samaritan will be shown at the Church of Christ at Forrest and Grant on Sunday evening in April at 2 o clock. The film titled Who Is Mr Neighbor? starts a series of Jesus parable films with classes conducted in recent Sundays. All are welcome including children.
Reserve army flying officers are invited to attend the regular training meeting of BR Fight of the 9628th Volunteer Aviation Reserve Training squadron at Oak Park Village hall at 7 50 p m Tuesday. Three training films will be shown reports Jack Trammel LaGrange public relations director for the squadron.
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