Harvest Festival Plans Shaping Up at Caroline High School
The 1955 Annual PTA Harvest Festival will be held at Caroline High School in Denton on October 19 from 2 to 9 pm. Mrs. Maloney and Mrs. Dulin chair the food committee with hot dogs to cakes on the menu. Activities include dances, games, movies, a farm market and bake sale, and chances for a home-grown turkey and a 12-pound cured ham.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline High School
Denton
Robert Maloney
Robert Dulin
Julia H. Wilson
Wilson Cohee
Fred Asilton
Workshop For Girl Scout Leaders Held In Denton
Mrs. K. T. Everngam chairing a Leaders Workshop on Saturday October 15 from 10 a m to 3 p m at First Methodist Church Denton Topics include Crafts Badge Senior and Games Programs for Brownie Intermediate and Senior groups with singing helps. Registration 25 cents. nursery care provided. attendees to bring handbooks guides notebooks and lunch. Coffee and tea served.
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K. T. Everngam
Denton
First Methodist Church
Herschel Terry
Dover
Dorothy Gamber
Wicomico Girl Scout Council
Poster Contest Winners Announced by Harvest Festival
The Denton PTA Harvest Festival Committee announced winners for a poster contest with 39 entries from Denton students in three age groups. Judges were the Denton School of Art adult class. prizes were gift certificates. First place: 8-12 Mary Ann Fleetwood. 5-7 Carolyn Stivers. 1-4 Mary Eleanor Duffey.
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PTA Harvest Festival Committee
Denton
Denton School of Art
Mary Ann Fleetwood
Ricky Asilton
Bill Dempsey
Carolyn Stivers
Jean Scudder
Bronwyn Walsh
Martin Gets Past President's Pin At First PTA Meeting
One of the largest PTA crowds filled the High School Auditorium as new president Dr. Martin outlined goals. Highlights included classroom visits, an opening ceremony, a Past President's Pin, budget approval of 1,550.64, and plans for adult education while stressing PTA as a non profit all-citizens group to improve Denton schools.
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Martin
PTA
Mothers only
Board of Education
actro
Greensboro
Federalsburg
Local Scout Drive Kicks Off Denton Campaign Event
The Special and Advance Gifts phase of the 1956 Boy Scouts finance drive launched at the Brick Hotel in Denton. Leaders and Scouters chaired by James Owen Knotts plan gifts of 25 dollars or more, with Jim Pyle as luncheon speaker on preserving heritage through Scouting.
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Boy Scouts of America
Brick Hotel
Denton
Camp
Rodney
James Owen Knotts
Jim Pyle
Del- Mar-Va
Pyle
Council
Wilmington
H. Bruce Ayars
Tri-County
H. R. Hughes
Caroline County
E. W. Nuttle
Nuttle
John C. Shanks
Del-Mar-Va
Winter adult education courses announced for Denton area
Caroline County Board of Education and the State Board of Education announce two adult courses at Caroline High School. One course covers typing shorthand and bookkeeping. the other covers home economics with furniture repair and maintenance. Courses run second semester from January 9 to April 30, with a $2 registration fee per semester.
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Caroline County Board of Education
State Board of Education
Denton
Caroline High School
county
state departments of education
Caroline County
Frank Gerhardt
A. J. Fletcher
PTA
State Teachers To Meet In Fifth Regiment Armory Baltimore
Governor Williams will address about 10 000 teachers at the opening general session in Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory on October 20. Dr Thomas G Pullen Jr and Dr Ethel Alpenfels accompany the program with talks linking education to the future and anthropology. The event runs three days with 174 exhibits and student musical performances by Wicomico High School Band All Maryland chorus and All Maryland orchestra.
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G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Baltimore
Williams
Fifth Regiment
America
Thomas G. Pullen Jr
John Fisher
Baltimore City
Thomas D’Alesandro Jr
Ethel Alpenfels
New York University
Billie Davis
Davis
Maryland State Teachers’ Association
Wicomico High School
Andrew Jupina
All-Maryland High School Chorus
Helen M. Hosmer
All-Maryland High School
Reginald Stewart
Girl Scout Council Meeting in Chestertown Night
All registered adult and senior Scouts are urged to attend a council meeting at Reed Hall Washington College Chestertown on Tuesday October 18 at 8 p m The main topic is the Denver Resolution proposing a national registration fee increase from 1 to 2 dollars per year with one dollar kept locally and one sent to national headquarters Delegates must be well informed to vote in line with council wishes and to ensure proper representation for the October meeting
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Reed Hall
Washington College
Chestertown
San Francisco
Denver
Homemakers Fall Rally Set at Camp Mardela
The Caroline County Council of Homemakers Clubs will hold its annual Fall Rally at Camp Mardela on Monday October 24 at 10 30 a m Mrs Ralph Horsey of Denton is chairman The program includes invocation by Mrs Howard Harris group singing roll call and introductions plus Health Department services by Dr Edwin G Riley of the Caroline County Health Department and a pantomime segment
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Caroline County
Howard Harris
Health Department
Edwin G. Riley
Caroline County Health Department
Health Association To Hold Annual Meeting In Denton
Caroline County Health Association president Harry H. Rieck announced the annual meeting will be held Thursday October 20 at 8 p m in the health center in Denton. Reports from Nursing Mental Hygiene Cancer Polio Red Cross Tuberculosis Salvation Army Crippled Children and Adults Welfare School Health Rehabilitation and American Legion Auxiliary will be presented. An election of the Board of Directors will occur. Members and the public are urged to attend.
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Harry H. Rieck
Caroline County Health Association
Denton
Salvation Army
American Legion Auxiliary
Circles of First Methodist Denton Meet Next Monday
On Monday October 17 the circles of First Methodist Church Denton will meet. Circle 1 hosts Mrs James Clarke at 8 p m Circle 2 meets Mrs Herbert McAllister at 8 p m Circle 3 gathers at Mrs Howard L Hager at 2 p m Circle 4 convenes at Miss Madge Jump's home at 2 p m Circle 5 convenes at Mrs Naomi Tribbitt at 8 p m.
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First Methodist Church of
Denton
James Clarke
Herbert McAllister
Howard L. Hager
Madge Jump
Naomi Tribbitt
Maryland Youth Attending Parley This Weekend
Caroline County's assistant home demonstration agent Marybelle H. Remsburg will accompany about 60 Maryland youth to Jackson's Mill West Virginia for the annual men and women's training conference October 14 to 16. Two Talbot County officials James W Goodman and Nancy L Joseph will also attend.
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Caroline County
Marybelle H. Remsburg
Maryland
Jackson’s Mill
W. Va
Talbot County
James W. Goodman
Nancy L. Joseph
Slip Gover Training Meetings Completed
The Home Furnishings Leaders of 13 Homemakers' Clubs spent 3 days at Camp Mardela last week making slip covers. Miss Vivian L. Curnutt demonstrated each step in the fitting and construction of a slip cover and helped the women individually as needed.
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Camp Mardela
Vivian L. Curnutt
University of Maryland Extension Service
Nina Schoenfelder
Betty Smith
Ridgely Young Homemakers
Albert Krueger
Mary Emmons
Homemakers’ Club
Presto
C. Van Schaik
Joyce Trice
Smithson Homemakers’ Club
Raymond Smith
Murray Spicher
Double Hills Homemakers’ Club
Rebecca Voshell
Nelson Covey
Preston Young Homemakers
Five Caroline Countians Named to Aid Handicapped Group
Five members of the Caroline County Committee to Promote the Employment of the Physically Handicapped were named including Frank Tarburton Chestertown chairman T Noble Jarrell Jrr Goldsboro and others Martin Sutton Ridgely Dr Edwin G Riley Denton Theodore Fletcher Jr Preston and William Bratten Federalsburg Aiding the local group Fred Pritchett Cambridge will announce a meeting date The Leaders Training meetings on Slip Covers covered fabric selection and styling demonstrations with Mrs Nelson Covey Mrs Percy Harding Miss Curnult and Mrs Rogers teaching techniques for coverings and bias tape
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Caroline County
Frank Tarburton
Chestertown
T. Noble Jarrell Jrr
Goldsboro
Martin Sutton
Ridgely
Edwin G. Riley
Denton
Theodore Fletcher Jr
Preston
William Bratten
Federalsburg
Fred Pritchett
Cambridge
Nelson Covey
Percy Harding
Curnult
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