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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1950
Page
7
Acton seniors receive diplomas at the Acton Woman's Clubhouse. Dawn Richards Connie Lee and Lee Tucker win scholarships and PTA honors. Robert Barnhart tops class with major science medals and Harvard scholarship prospects. Juniors and seniors earn scholarships, awards and college placements.
Commander Edward Higgins of the coal Legion Post presented its medal for Good School Citizenship to 1949 and 1950 awardees. Honorees include last year graduates Miss Joan Cooke, Robert Frost and the Class of 1950 winners Miss Doris Morse, Robert Barnhart. Morse received Acton Variety Club scholarship and $25 for extracurriculars, given by Dawn Edwards. Program features processional Pomp and Circumstance, orchestra directed by John M. Priske, invocations, addresses by Eve Jean Lee and Marguerite Goldthwaite, vocal numbers, class gift by Carl Simeone, and awards by Superintendent Whitman.
Pearson vice principal William OConnell presided as diplomas were presented to graduates. The event featured remarks by Donald Severance and a benediction by The Rev John York followed by a reception for the class. Names listed include Robert Barnhart Barbara Bartlett David Byers Jean Cameron Dorothy DeSouza Ethel Davis Eleanor Gates Marguerite Goldthwaite Avis Graviti Elizabeth Harper Richard Herrick Sylvia Hope Kenneth Kienow Elizabeth Lee Irene Lehtinen Frederick MacIntyre Robert Major Donald Morse Doris Morse Alice Page Shirley Pellett Ruth Pinello Dawn Richards Philip Rimbach Herbert Schmitz Carl Simeone Donald Spinney Frank Towne Constance Tucker Edward Weatherby.
Funeral services were conducted Friday at two o'clock for Clancey William Hunter from his Gleasondale road residence. Rev. Robert B. Dempsey of the Union Evangelical Church led the service. Bearers included Elmer Eldridge Hudson Warren Eldridge West Concord Walter Stephenson Bolton and Stanley Wendell Stephenson Stow. Burial was in the Brookside family lot. Fowler Funeral Service of Maynard arranged the funeral.
Stow Pilot Grove first and second grades close Friday noon June 16. Glengondale third and fourth grades close Friday June 16. Junior high graduation at Stow town hall Friday June 16 at 2 30 p m. Hale high school baccalaureate Sunday June 18 at Gleasondale Methodist church with three Stow church ministers. All are invited.
Stow Grange notes a Patriotic and Memorial night led by Miss Reba Wood. The next regular meeting is Tuesday evening June 20 at Stow Town Hall with Shirley Grange meeting jointly.
The senior National Honor Society officers are president Carl Simeone vice president Alice Rose Page secretary Elizabeth Jean Lee and treasurer Frank Oswald Towne. Senior class NHs members include Robert Barnhart Sylvia Hope Irene Lehtinen Herbert Schmitz Dawn Richards and Elizabeth Lee Constance Tucker. Junior NHS members are Evelyn Anderson Wilhelmina Knippel Barbara Holbrook Carole Lampila Marilyn Moore and Mary Starbuck.
The Acton Garden Club hosted a spring flower show at the Acton Woman's Clubhouse with tea served by a committee led by Mrs. Caroline Derby and Mrs. Benjamin Derby. Prizes were awarded across ten classes for single specimens, arrangements, and themes, with special gold stars given for an original stage setting for a June Wedding by Mrs. Norman McIntosh and Mrs. John T. Sleeper.
Concord couple Mr and Mrs Daniel Viles announce the birth of their daughter Cynthia Ann on June 8 at the Waltham hospital. She is the third child for the Viles family, joining Deborah Louise and Daniel F III, and Mr Viles is formerly of Concord.
Most Rev Richard J Cushing D D Archbishop of Boston administered the sacrament to 78 boys and girls at St Bernard's church Concord in an impressive ceremony last Thursday. Assisting were Rev Michael Burke Rev John Foley and several other pastors with sponsors Mrs Thomas J Healy and Richard P Sullivan. Altar boys listed include John Buckley Donald Mulcahy Leo McKenna and others. names of the confirmands follow.
Harold Freeman of Center Place Boston Mass undergoes major operation on May 25 at Massachusetts General Hospital White Building and, after transfusions, remains on danger list with slight improvement reported. Robert A Smith eldest son of Mr and Mrs Allison P Smith of Greatroad gave lectures and missionary work and was a weekend guest of Rev Roger Cousins in Sutton NH.
In Fort Worth Texas Lee Henry failed to start his car and sought a garage. Returning he found the thief had already started the car and left it running, leaving no pursuit.
The Farnhar Warlisle herd of 37 registered Holstein Friesians completed its final test year with an average 450 pounds butterfat and 12 301 pounds milk. Testing was under the Herd Improvement Registry program of the Holstein Friesian Association of America with milking twice daily and supervision by the University of Massachusetts in cooperation with the national Holstein headquarters.
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