Hillside Comnettes reach .500 with two wins
Hillside varsity girls basketball rose to 4-4 after beating Wallsburg 47-35 and Roselle 39-30. Jeanne DeSmedt led Hillside with 17 points in the Wallsburg win, while Yvonne DeSmedt topped the team at 10 in the Roselle game.
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Hillside
Wallsburg
Roselle
Hillside Girls
Vailsburg
Newark
Comnettes
Jeanne DeSmedt
Comettes
Yvette Stafford
Rams
Yvonne DeSmedt
Three Hillside students win Elizabeth Soroptimist Youth Citizenship awards
Tamara J. Ricera wins first prize with $100 savings bond and eligibility for regional contest offering up to $1,000 per region. John Frederick Schierer and Susan Donna Douches win second and third prizes with $50 and $25 bonds. Awards honor service leadership and goal focus for high school seniors.
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Hillside
Soroptimist Foundation of
Dorothy Pinto
Elizabeth Soroptimist Club
Susan D. Douches
Left
Tamara J. Ricera
John F. Schierer
Elizabethtown Schoolmaster Turned Colonel Francis Barber
Francis Barber born 1751 in Princeton rose from Elizabethtown classical schoolmaster to major and lieutenant colonel in the New Jersey forces. He fought at Ticonderoga Trenton Princeton Brandywine Germantown Monmouth Yorktown and died when a tree fell on him en route to deliver a dispatch for Washington.
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Francis Barber
Princeton
Topping R Classical School
Elizabethtown
Matthias
Aaron Ogden
Aaron Burr
College of New Jersey
Newbridge
Hackensack
Joseph Periam
James Caldwell
Thomas Chandler
John Chetwood
Elias Boudinot
Barber
Alexander Hamilton
West Indies
Hamilton
Mary Ogden
Aaron
Mary
Robert Ogden
Congress
New Jersey
Lord Stirling
Blue Mountain Valley
Sandy Hook
Schuyler
Ticonderoga
Trenton
Brandywine
Germantown
Springfield
Monmouth
Yorktown
Newey
Nancy
Ann) Ogden
Lafayette
France
New York Historical Society
Washington
England
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the Hillside Times
Charlotte J. Mitchell
Metuchen
J. Kenneth Roden
Junion Achievement
Union County
Virginia Riley
Delaware-Raritan Girl Scout Council
Joseph C. Famulary
Elizabethtown Gas Company
Korner Devt
JOHN _ GLENN
HOT & Cold Catering
Sun John
Barbara Kulish
American Cancer ,Society
Bristol-Myers Company
Hatfield Wire & Cable Division
Continental Copper & Steel Industries
Jiffy Manufacturing CO
Mece
State Bank
Peed Bersie
Liberty Ave
Tridix Tool & Machine CO
Baron Frederick von Steuben
Elizabeth
Harmonia
Union Square
Scotch Plains
Morris Avenue
Amonia
the Family Savings Bank
Morris Ave
North Ave
Crestwood RD
Middletown
Harmony Road
F D.C Savings
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