Baccalaureate Service At Hood College Honors 1956 Graduates
Hood College seniors and families filled Coffman Chapel for the Sunday morning service. Speaker Mrs Agnes Rogers Allen of Reader's Digest contrasted 1956 graduates with those of 1900 while Rev Richard G Urban urged a spiritual life focus. Mrs Allen noted changing female responsibilities and opportunities shaping modern young women.
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Urban
Harper’s Magazine
Frederick Lewis Allen
Allen
Hood College awards degrees and honors at 63rd commencement
Hood College granted 75 degrees to graduating seniors and awarded honorary doctorates to Mrs Agnes Rogers Allen of New York and Dorothy Fosdick of Washington DC at the 63rd commencement in the Hudson Outdoor Theatre. Dr Louis B Wright addressed the class of 1956 on The Lost Art of Reading and the college announced the new science building to be named Lillian Brown Hodson Hall of Science, funded by the Hodson Trust and others with $70,000.
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Agnes Rogers Allen
New York
Jorothy Fosdick
Washington
Andrew G. Truxal
Hood
Lillian Brown Hodson
Wright
Republicans Make Health Issue The News
The Frederick area reports Republicans frame health as a key issue in local politics. Party leaders stress policy impacts on healthcare access and costs as they campaign ahead of upcoming elections.
Democrats Cite Ike Health as Campaign Issue
In Washington on June 21 the Democratic chairman argued that Republicans attack President Eisenhower’s health and absence from the White House. He insisted the public can discuss the president’s physical capacity to perform his duties, while noting that opponents used TV and news footage to push the health matter. The piece also recounts various college ceremony moments and honors.
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Butler
Eisenhower
White House
Washington
Paul
Alec Smallberg
United States
Democratic National
Abraham Solar
Nathany
Presi-jhis
Strouse
Jack Jacobson
Weissman
Ident
Jack Cohn
Laurence Ware
William Sel|heen
Bledy
Meyerszer
Chertoff
Tional Council
Israel
Buller
Roosevelt
Truman
Tree
Defends State-Financed Medical Care Program
Baltimore June 3 14 percent The State financed medical care program is defended against charges by City Comptroller R Walter Graham. Dr Huntington Williams Baltimore health commissioner denies a trade for whisky via prescriptions. Each prescription is checked after filling by a Department of Health employee. A Negro physician reportedly has over 2000 charity patients due to program withdrawals by others.
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Baltimore
R. Walter Graham
Huntington Willams
Graham
Williams
Leon Abramson
Department of Health
Trussed Up Body Is Identified
Baltimore detectives identify a trussed, weighted body washed ashore as 19 year old Helen Polores Johnson of Baltimore. Autopsy cites gunshot wound to the chest. identified by her father William and brother Thomas from a blouse matching the body’s jacket. Missing since May 29, body found near the Potomac River Bridge at Morgan Town, Charles County.
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Baltimore
Potomac River
Helen Polores Johnson
Miss Johnson
William
Thomas
Morgantown
Charles County
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Beethoven
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Mid- Atlantic
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South Africa
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George F. Howe
Brunswick
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Severna Park
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Laredo
Tex
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Westbury
N. Y
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Miss Urban
Patrcia Ann Fowler
Scranton
Barbara Harden Tovell
Eccleston
Oa College Board of Trustees
Dominica Mileto
Annapolis
Paul L. Althouse
Frederick's
Evangelical and Reformed Church
R. Paul Smith
Hagerstown
Board of Trustees
Fosdick
Truaal
Columbia University
Smith College
United States Department of State
Cordellj Hull
John Foster Dulles
Department of State
Office of War Information
Reader’s Digest
Staley Park Fieldhouse
A. E. Hayward
E. E. Champlin
Darlene Dutrow
Larry Staley
W. W. Corbin
Nicowera
Discover
Packard
Zynome
Packard Clipper
Reed’s
Middletown, Md
Middletown
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Fidelity: Building & Loan& Association
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Fredericktown Savings Institution
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