Music gift for Bicentennial from Long Beach educators
A Friday meeting at the Elks Club in Long Beach gathered music educators from 18 area schools and JCPenney reps to unveil a Bicentennial gift portfolio of sheet music for band, orchestra and chorus. The 100 minute collection includes historic pieces dating to 1770, rediscovered Sousa, and five new works by Baker, Dello Joio, Hailstork III, Leigh and Nixon with contributions from JoJo and Nixon. The project, certified by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, aims to reach 30,000 schools nationwide and 4.5 million students.
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Long Beach
Jcpenney Company
Elks Club
Wayne Christensen
Penney's
Fifth Street
Pine Avenue
Alice Gallup
Long Beach Unified School District
Jcpenney
John Gates
America
Eng
Land
France
Germany
Philadelphia
New York
David Baker
Norman Dello Joio
Adolphus C. Hailstork III
Broadway
Mitch Leigh
Charles Burr
Roger Nixon
Richard Franko Goldman
Leonard de Paul
Thor Johnson
Music Educators National Conference
Leigh
Baker
Nixon
Tom Paine
JoJo
Hailstork
Portfolios Endorsed as Bicentennial Gift for Americans
The Portolio program receives enthusiastic endorsements from the Vermont Maryland and U S Bicentennial commissions and the U S Information Agency with teachers and students praising its impact on the celebration.
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Vermont
Volunteers reinventing roles in a changing era
Wendy Borcherdt of the AJL outlines a shift in volunteers as women enter work, youth seek control, and urbanization alters identities. She notes declining membership, demand for careerlike tasks, coordinations among agencies, rising costs, and the rise of para professional roles shaping new volunteer careers.
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Wendy Borcherdt
Association of Junior Leagues
AJL
Area 6
Mexico
Borcherdt
Los Angeles
Peace Corps
VISTA
William James
High-rise gardens a challenge in New York
Mrs J Stewart Hooker creates Versailles like gardens atop a Manhattan penthouse overlooking the East River and Queens, with 20 rooms of formal greenery and fall chrysanthemums. Her circle includes Annenberg sisters, Walter Hooker’s publishing empire, and designer friends who cultivate city terraces with professional help.
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New York
East River
Queens
She
Annenberg
Walter
Britain
Palm Beach
Lop
Kerry Fitzgerald
Turtle Bay
Greenwich Village
Johnny Appleseed
David Jeffries
Stanley Mortimers
Petunias
Charles Revson
Bill Blass
Fitzgerald
California
Florida
Needle arts classes at Wilson High Adult Center this summer
Wilson High School Adult Center in Long Beach offers free needle arts courses this summer for adults 18 and over. Classes run 6:30 to 8:30 pm in Room 306, with knitting and crocheting starting June 23, quilting on Wednesdays from June 25, and needlepoint and stitchery starting June 26. Open enrollment. space permitting, 35 students per class.
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Wilson High Adult Center
Long Beach Unified School District
Park Ave
Wilson High School
School
At Wit s End Run of Good Luck Ends with Loud Thud
A humorous column chronicles a string of odd everyday mishaps and petty successes across a week. The narrator, in a wry tone, notes small conveniences and one big worry that better times will suddenly turn sour as a car crashes into a garage wall.
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Rhoda
Also Mentioned on This Page
Curt Johnson
Charlotte Curtis
N. Y
Palazzo D’inverno
Winter Palace
Mrs. Hooker
John Dun
J. Daniel Demichelis
Illinois
New Hampshire
Demichelis
First National City Bank
Wit’s End
By Erma Bombedk
Col. Sanders
Avon
IRS
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