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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1957
Page
7
Seniors and Kiwanis Club members gather for a luncheon as the club announces its annual $500 scholarship to a qualifying senior. The event highlights include entertainment and a report of the club’s youth sponsorships and fundraisers.
Eighteen Mount Dora students were inducted into the National Honor Society in a formal ceremony. Charter seniors formed the Mount Dora chapter with six seniors as charter members and Charles Wareing elected president. Officers for 1957-58 will be chosen next fall.
The Mount Dora Home Demonstration club will hold its annual picnic at Gilbert Park on June 12 at noon followed by a regular business meeting. Mrs. Mary Borner vice president will preside. Attendees should bring their own table service a covered dish and coffee or tea. Arrangements are by Mrs. Edna Conelly Mrs. Mabel Saunier and Mrs. Borner.
Mount Dora Public Library adds Philip Wylie The Innocent Ambassadors detailing a world tour with husband wife, noting liberty themes. Critics hail it as a 1957 literary highlight among new non fiction including John Foster Dulles study and numerous fiction titles from Rose Macaulay to Rene Von Nebesky-Wojkowitz.
IceHouse Players and Mount Dora leaders challenge residents to fund a new community theater by buying $100 life memberships or risk losing donated land in Sylvan Shores. President Al Crone and Mrs. J. W. Shaw press for business and civic backing to realize a shared cultural center in the Golden Triangle.
Mount Dora High School will discontinue the girls basketball team next year amid schedule pressure from boys athletics. Miss Betty Ann Haynes, the girls P E teacher, announced the plan Tuesday and cited lack of enthusiasm as the reason. The athletic committee made the decision, with three boys teams planned and a B string added.
Brig. Gen. Stoyte O. Ross and family face funeral plans for Stoyte Jr after he drowned in the Main River while abroad. The 16-year-old student at a Frankfort school was capsized with a companion. his body to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The general, stationed in Copenhagen, leads Military Assistance and Advisory Group.
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