Emmitsburg Church Organist Retires After Half Century
Euphemia Rotering retires after fifty years as St. Joseph's Church organist in Emmitsburg. Cousin Louella Lansinger succeeds her. The Rotering family long provided church music since 1786, with multiple generations leading choirs and festivals. Rotering, famed for Bach and Beethoven tastes, reflects on music in education and local culture.
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Betty Sullivan
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Emmitsburg
Euphemia Tynon Rotefing
Louella Lansinger
Rotering
Emsmitsburg
Houck
Hughes
St. Joseph's Church
Orean
St. Joseph's Choir
Frack Keefer
Euphemia Tyson Rotering
New Windsor News Briefs and Local Visits
Carroll County superintendent Samuel A Jenness will be guest speaker at the New Windsor Patent Teacher Association meeting Wednesday at 8 p m at the school. The session will discuss Prospects of Our Schools Under the Supreme Court Ruling On Segregation. A film will be shown. 11th grade students, accompanied by Miss Lois Silverberg, took a bus trip to Washington Friday. Mr and Mrs John W Owings and daughter of Westminster were dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Charles Bachman and Mrs David Lindsay. Recent guests of Mrs Gertrude Lambert included Alfred DiPietro James Hooker Miss Miriam Boland and Merie Whitmer of Baltimore. Mrs Francis McEneney and children from Oxford New York spent last week with her parents Mr and Mrs Walter Bankerd. Mrs Ira Young of Philadelphia visited Mrs Norman Myers Wednesday. Pipe Creek Brethren Church adult classes met with Merle Crouse showing slides from his Istanbul Turkey trip. Mr and Mrs George Rupp of Altus Oklahoma visited Myr and Mrs Lester Bullington and Mrs and Mrs Merle Coe. The WCTU met at Mrs Bachman’s home Tuesday afternoon with Mrs William Lovell leading worship and reviewing Fruit of the Vine. Mrs H C Roop read meditations. E C Bixler read letters for approval to congress. Next meeting at Mrs Roop’s home on May 10.
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New Windsor
Samuel A. Jenness
Carroll County
New
Westminster
Charles Bachman
David Lindsay
Gertrude Lambert
Alfred DiPietro
James Hooker
Miriam Boland
Merie Whitmer
Baltimore
Francis McEneney
Oxford
N. Y
Walter Bankerd
Ira Young
Philadelphia
Norman Myers
Pipe Creek Brethren Church
Merle Crouse
Istanbul
Turkey
George Rupp
Altus
Okla
Myr
Lester Bullington
Merle Coe
WCTU
Bachman
William Lovell
H. C. Roop
E. C. Bixler
Roop
Anniversary list mirrors history and births
A reader’s history column lists anniversaries for John Young Mason Henry P Tappan Mother Mary B Ransell Clarence Darrow and others with birth and death dates. It also notes Today In History events from 1175 Paul Revere 1781 Charleston 1847 Cerro Gordo 1906 San Francisco 1945 Ernie Pyle. It closes with Today’s Birthdays and a brief Weekend police blotter summary.
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John Young Mason
Virginia
Navy
Greenville
Henry P ‘Tappan
University of Michigan
Rhinebeck
N. Y
Mary B Ransell
Sisters of Mercy
California
Ireland
Clarence Darrow
Hare
Kinsman
Ohio
Chicago
Richard Iarding Davis
Charles Michelson
Virginia City
Nev
Paul Revere
Charlestown
Boston
Lexington
Charleston
S. C
Willam Dunlap
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Cerro Gordon
Mexico
Joseph E. Johnston
Sherman
San Francisco
U. S. Air Squadron
James H. Doolittle
Shangri-la
Tokyo
Ernie Pyle
Murray D. Lincoln
Columbus
Farm Bureau Life Insurance Co
Raynham
Mass
Basears
W. Sterling Cole
Painted Post
Terre Haute Tod
Stacy May
Max Weber
Russia
Clifford B. Morehouse
Milwaukee
Frederick
Howard H. Rice
Tourmont
Bernard King
William Mutchner
Thomas Harrison
Market Street
Aumen G. Wayne
North
Ray
Third
Market Streets
Dorsey
Franklin Pierce
United States
Farrar Atiaa
South Market St. Frederick
Reserve District No
Farmers and Mechanics
Citizens National Bank OF
Federal Reserve Bank
Unites States
L. Rayhu Specht
William B. Bennett
Kent C. Nicodemus
Henry R. Shoemaker
State of Maryland
Ernest Helfenstein
Jir
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Tevmust
Ada
Prachsat Nerey Philadevitiia School of Practical Meeting
The
Nevws-Post
Frederick, Md
Buyer Insurance Agency NO
Court ST. MO
Chesapeake & Potomac
Baltimore City
Buirek A
Alion
Potomac Edison
Frederick — Taneytown
Mt. Airy
Brunswick
O Sinan
Mare
Agles
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