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Damascus Area Elected Officers and Club News
The Damascus Post reports American Legion officers chosen at their June meeting with Joseph C. Schraum as Commander and Martin Speck as 1st Vice Commander among others. Delegates to the Department Convention in Baltimore were Dedlated Leweck, Tschiffely, Gover, Speck and Duval. Damascus Travel Club elected officers and outlined trips to Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, Williamsburg and Great Smoky Mountains with August meetings planned. Local clubs and community groups reported new members, fund drives for Cancer Crusade totals, and a busy schedule of church and school activities including a fashion show, FHA induction, and graduation notes.
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Luther Burke
Damascus Post
American Legion
Joseph C. Schraum
Martin Speck
Gerald Duvall
Roscoe Pearce
Donald Leweck
Raymond Wilson
Siat
Paul Duvall
Robert Miller
Darrell Fetzer
Department
Baltimore
Cales Tschiffely
Benny Gover
Gerald Duval
Darrington Riggs
Carroll Fetzer
Joseph Schram
Maryland
Charles Tschiffely
Damascus
Methodist Church Educational Building
Egypt
Rodney Duvall
Mary Virginia Dietz
Rie
Cora Fort
Wilma Paxton
Louise Burdette
Evelyn Arnold
Niagara Falls
Philadelphia
Aquarama
Delaware River
Admiral Dewey
USS Olympia
Independence
Williamsburg
Damascus Woman's Club
Raymond Snopp
Roscoe Purdum
Roger Padie
Gladys Patton
Lions Club
Charles Town
Great Smoky Mountains
Hebert Hoover Republican Womens Club
Citizens Community Room
Charles Bresser
Esther Rice
Sam Shipley
Disttrict
The
Cancer Crusade
Edgar Richard
William McGraw, Jr
Ralph Fishpaw
Larry Smith
H. Deets Warfield Jr
Robert Hart
Olver Hilton
Paul Johnson
Sherry McGraw
Pam Burdette
Dorsey Oland
Vivian Clement
Paul Bailey
James Stephens
Robert Snapp
Douglas Jernigan
Elwood Root
Albert Warfield
Percival Coon
Robert Barker
Walter Johnson
Austin Mullinix
Marsha Gue
Reba Merson
Vincent Woodfield
Donna Shipley
Dorothy Beall
Woodfield
Cedar Grove
Leonard Mullinix
Leonard Cobb
Donald Johnson
Harold Hale
Robert Boyd
William Watkins
Wilfred Koontz
Guy Watkins
Herbert Watkins
William Smith
Shipley
Damascus Methodist Church
Candlelight Lodge
Catons
Vile
Wesley Grove Church
Edward Carroll
Wesley Grove
Marshall Baker
Herbert Windsor
James Hawkin
Floyd Rhinecker
J. D. Morris
Ronald Mills
Merhle Staley
Damascus Lions Club
Mary Green
Atlantic City
Damascus High School
FHA
Damascus Volunteer Fire Department
B. D. Gladhill
Earl Pope
Booth
Gloria Newman
Alice Gue
Donna White
Carole Swope
Mary Ellen Shipley
Robert Hurley
Timothy Robert
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Floyd Burns
Pitchford
Westminster
Gue Road
Lorence Brown
Justice
Woodfield Road
Jerry Black