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Newspaper
Irvington Gazette
Location
Irvington, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1960
Page
2
A long list of neighborhood notes recalls events from five to ten years back. Clergy honors, school incidents, church traffic changes, elections on assessments, marriages, bus accidents, and residents moving abroad or to Yonkers fill the city’s memory.
Church notices from Irvington Presby terian, Emaculate Conception, Aldersgate Methodist, First Church of Christ Scientist, Episcopal Church of St Barnabas in December 1960. Details include service times, Sunday schools, pastors, and religious instruction for children. Listings feature Holy Communion, sermons on rediscovering the Bible, and holiday Advent observances.
The Tarrytown YMCA offers a winter Slimnastics and Swimnastics program for women led by Mary Swensen. The evening includes spot reducing and team sports, followed by recreational swimming and beginner classes. Schedule features Friday sessions with various activities and a note of YMCA’s Community Chest participation.
A devotional meditation extols a historic figure born in poverty who acts without wealth or travel, heals through service, and inspires vast literary and musical focus without writing books or founding institutions. It cites biblical verses to emphasize salvation through Christ. The piece frames belief as the path to salvation and comments on faith versus worldly power.
Bell System televised science hour “The Thread of Life” explains human heredity. Dr Frank C Baxter guides viewers through the creation of life from a single egg cell with 29 chromosome pairs, detailing gene arrangement and the astronomical odds of exact duplication. Special advisors include Dr James F Crow and Dr Norman H Horowitz.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Irene Weaver of Matthiessen Park, who died Friday December 3 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Born October 9, 1905 in Staten Island, she was the daughter of George Matthews and Mary Messeran Matthews, resided in Irvington over twenty years, and is survived by her husband Joseph C. Weaver and four daughters. Monsignor John J. Cuneen said the Mass at Immaculate Inception Church and interment followed at St. Peter's Cemetery, Staten Island.
Fragmentary note indicates a regular meeting of the Seamen's Institute with a guest speaker. A quoted passage from Lyman Abbott and Shelley is included, praising purity and character. Readable portions suggest a small, invited audience and discussion of personal virtues.
Kiplinger Magazine reports 42 800 freshmen may enter 285 accredited colleges for the spring term. Despite crowding, 23800 openings exist for unfilled seats at 237 colleges. 1312 transfers and 12000 juniors noted. Typical on campus costs range 1100 to 1750 dollars for residents and 700 to 800 for day students.
The Mothers Club of Conception Church Hed individuals invite past members to a Rosary service at 8:30 PM on Thursday in memory of Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Cunneen who died December 1. The club’s regular meeting is set for Tuesday December 13 and plans for a Christmas party have been cancelled.
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