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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1955
Page
3
Rev H Mauriece Felton at the Methodist church Sunday warned of a home shortage and rising divorce rates. He contrasted modern housing with the need for true homes and urged spiritual stewardship, prayer, and commitment to marriage as essential to family happiness.
The Creative Writers group has recessed for the Summer months. Meetings may be called on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the chairman's call. Emile Souvestre is quoted on a digestive metaphor about the stomach.
The senior class prepares for progressive supper and class prophecy projects while the Junior-Senior picnic is set for Daytona Beach. Glee club hosts a Spring Concert at the Community Building with Hallelujah Chorus. Spanish club Fiesta at the cafetorium features decorations and a Mexican hat dance. 9 A class picnic at Santando Springs and Elks Club essay winners are noted. Band members return from Jacksonville with top ratings and praise for the trip.
H Vernon Lee now based at Mount Dora Florida pursues architecture with partial retirement. A Purdue and Chicago School of Architecture graduate, he spent 30 years in New York area before moving to Florida. He popularized cinder concrete blocks in New York, but Florida lacks cinders. He also advanced pre fabricated trussed roof rafters used in public buildings such as Mountain Lakes Public Library in New Jersey. He worked as construction superintendent at Camp Dewey before private practice in Morris County New Jersey. He and Mrs. Lee reside in Sylvan Shores.
Barbara Jo Moore and Eileen Starling of Mount Dora lead a 16 girl Lake County delegation chosen for the 4 H short courses in Tallahassee the week of June 6 11. At the recent Achievement Day in Tavares they earned high blue ribbons in dress making food demonstrations and sewing while several others from the Christian Home and Bible School also won ribbons.
T. M. Thomas reports in his column from East Town that a meeting is set at 8 o clock tonight at the Community hall for a charity project to aid 78 year old Lilla whose home was burned May 1. The community aims to start the relief effort.
A reflective line by Jean Paul Richter equates a mother’s happiness for her child’s good fortune with the awe inspired by nature. The remark links maternal pride to universal beauty, suggesting deep emotional resonance across life’s outcomes.
City files show a May meeting where a letter from A Zera Giles of Leesburg and a petition for Sylvan Shores annexation were reviewed. The council discusses an enactment to permit a holder vote on the plan, previously proposed by the Sylvan Shores Property Association, with little comment.
The quote urged starting social reform by mobilizing mothers as a foundational force. Charles Simmons emphasizes maternal involvement as a catalyst for addressing societal vices and guiding moral progress.
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