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Newspaper
Forest Park World
Location
Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1976
Page
3
Local summer previews spark Forest Park coverage with neighborhood interviews. The column will feature residents with hobbies and talents, starting with a handicapped man who makes bells purses writes poems and sings. July and August plans follow.
Proviso Township High Schools adds a grade school girls gymnastics program at East campus from June 21 to July 30. For grades 3 through 12, the schedule runs daily Monday through Friday with Beginners 8 to 9, Intermediates 9 to 10, Advanced 10:30 to noon. Tuition is 24 dollars for 30 sessions, 18 dollars for a second family member. Registration ends June 24 at Proviso East girls gym, Maywood.
William Vinton, counseling supervisor on the adult unit at Riveredge Hospital 8311 W Roosevelt Rd, was named an Outstanding Employer by fellow workers during National Hospital Week. He oversees evening activities and was commended for boosting morale and expanding the unit’s evening program.
The Forest Park Library Friends host a Wednesday night film showing as part of the Bicentennial series. Gone West documents Westward exploration in a 50 minute piece. Admission is free and the public is invited.
About 150 residents volunteered to donate blood on Saturday as part of the American Red Cross Blood Assurance Program. The Forest Park event yielded 108 units, with organizers hoping for 225 donors and noting 150 participants equaled one in a hundred residents. The next bloodmobile is Friday September 10 from 4 to 9 p.m. Call 771-3136 to schedule.
Park District of Forest Park has not raised enough money for the July Fourth event. Director James Sarno says with the Bicentennial celebration less than two weeks away the funding quota is not met. Community members are asked to donate to the July Fourth Celebration at 7501 W Harrison St Forest Park IL 60130.
Forest Park residents graduated from Triton College River Grove on June 1 with a list including Rhonda L Alterson Cathy L Bacon Kathy M Begani Kathleen L Boettcher Steve E Bogdan Donna J Brach and many others such as Susan Brennan Michael J Cappelletti Raymond F Carlson John K Cibula Kathleen M Connelly Pamela A Crandall John J Fabbrini Wayne Fox Constance M Grill Pamela A Hjorth Evelyn P Hogan Wendy J Hull Debbie R Hunt Dennis S Incavo James A Jacobitz Gerard B Janney Fred Kuecker Debra S Lossau Janet H Luby Michael T Mare Timothy R Molzan Patricia A Padalik Edward C Pedziwiatz Vincent Piscopo Raymond Rodriguez Armando S Serafini Nadine Shuda William J Sisson Jr David J Stefan Gary M Stetler Betty L Sweverland Terry J Uidl Conrad G Vanek Linda J Waswil Richard A Wolf Martin G Zatelli.
Lloyd J. Luke has been named Proviso East High School director of bands by the District 209 Board of Education at a June 14 meeting. A University of Iowa graduate with a honors degree in music education, he plays multiple instruments and has arranged pieces performed by Iowa Hawkeye bands in Chicago Evanston and Iowa City. Luke has recorded for RCA Hal Leonard and the Karl King Foundation and previously served as student conductor and marching band manager at Iowa. He studied under Morgan Jones who led Proviso East bands 1964 to 1968.
Theresa Zingery of 447 Circle Ave has been named the 1976 recipient of the C C Taggart Memorial Scholarship at Proviso East High School. The $300 award funds her Northwestern University studies this fall as she enters New Careers in Education. Zingery, active in drama, choir, and Madrigal Singers, heads the Proviso East Thespian Troupe.
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