Junior League marks 60 years with volunteer service
Betsy Hansen-Pruss profiles High Point Junior League members celebrating six decades of civic work. Provisional members train on community service, choose in service assignments, and log about four hours weekly. Since 1952 they joined 78,000 Leagues across the US Canada and Mexico undertaking 103000 volunteer jobs.
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Betsy Hansen-Pruss
Junior League of
High Point
Junior Service League
League
Baxter Freeze
Assn. of
Junior Leagues of America Inc
United States
Canada
Mexico
Edmund Lunken
Association
Thrift Shop Aids High Point Junior League Funds
The Thrift Shop on N Wrenn Street began in 1935 to provide low cost clothing and household items while financing League projects and gifts to Salvation Army Family Service Bureau YWCA and others. It sells clothing donated by members and some locally consigned items plus appliances draperies and more.
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High Point Junior League
Thrift
N. Wrenn Street
Salvation Army
Family Service Bureau
Ywca Building Fund
League
R. K. Hoke
High Point Junior League Celebrates Sixtieth Birthday
The High Point Junior League marks sixty years with children theatre projects serving 9 000 students in local schools and a new community art show and sale on March 21 at Schraffts clubroom. The group also distributes 210 books for health crafts puzzles and manners to handicapped and Day Center programs.
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High Point
Chidren
Armfield
Schraffts
League Starts Things It Can't Finish
The Junior League pursues new city services, funds, and clinics, then hands them to public bodies or United Fund agencies. It underwrites salaries, donates equipment, and supports schools for exceptional children, but the group says it never finishes a project, yet keeps its babies alive.
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United Fund
High Point
North Carolina
Family Service Bureau
American Assn
Young Women's Christian Assn
League
Armfield
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Armfield School
Are Ways
Thrift Shop
Stew- Dean Thomas
Art Stone
Joe Temple
Sustaining League
R. L. Brinson Jr
Louisettes
Brinson
F. Voorhees Jr
Voorhees
Alma Elkins
Linda Kennedy
Zella Sheperd
Craig
Fun Books
Janet McCurry
Nancy
Joanne
Janet
Parents of
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Center School For
Virginia Fraley
Dents
Dal Bayles
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