Nongraded Schooling Considered at Taneytown Elementary
Taneytown Elementary staff discuss adopting a nongraded primary program based on reading levels to allow individual progress without using pass or fail. Normal primary completion expected in three years with variability. a six-year elementary span. Visitors from Villa Cresta School in Baltimore County offered insights. Wisconsin cases also studied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taneytown
Betty Gass
Novella Phillips
Louise Biffle
Frank Vargny
Villa Cresta School
Baltimore County
Elizabeth Yoder
Clyde Wilhide
Keysville Road
Gene D. Rush
Villa Cresta
Concensus
Milwaukee
Appleton
Wisconsin
America Today in History Highlights and Birthdays
Notable events and birthdays listed include 1681 William Penn charter for Pennsylvania, 1864 Grant named Union commander, 1955 Soviet editors visa to U.S., 1961 Berlin soldiers, 1963 Humphrey on nuclear tests. Birthdays note Sherman Billingsley, John Fey, Richard Johns, Carter Crews McGhee. Voliva’s Zion City background also cited.
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Wiliam Penn
William Fenn
Charles II
America
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Ulysses S. Grant
Union Army
State Department
U.S
Berlin
Germany
Senate Disarmament Committee
Hubert H. Humphrey
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Zion City
Newton
Ind
John Alexander Dowie
Christian Catholic Apostolic Church
Dowie
Voliva
Richard Byrd
Antarctica
Soviet Russia
Italy
Chicago
Sherman Billingsley
Enid
Okla
John Theodore Fey
University of Vermont
Hopewell
Richard H. Johns
Los Angeles
Carter Crews McGhee
Waco
Texas
Students Stage Winter Recital Across March Evenings
Piano students of Mrs Eliza beth Convey performed a winter recital at Colonial Music Shop studio on March 5 and 6. Photos show groups of students on Thursday and Friday nights with names including Patti Zigler Marc Tre es in the Bay Baltimore AP Middle River flood imagery and a German shepherd named Patricia Bidle. Duke and Alicia figures appear in scattered captions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Convey
Colonial Music Shop
Patti Zigler
Marc
Bay
Baltimore
Middle River
Conowingo Dam
Susquehanna River
Baltimore County
New Midway School Dedication Opens New Addition
The New Midway PTA dedicated a new addition including a multi purpose room library office and kitchen with cafeteria use. Attended by the Frederick County School Board County Commissioners State Senator John A Derr and others. The dedication featured a Walkersville band a chorus a prayer and remarks by Dr James A Sensenbaugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parent-Teachers Association
New Midway School
Frederick County School Board
John A. Derr
Frederick County
House of Delegates
Jesse Nicodemus
New Midway Pta
Donald Wachter
Irvin Creager
Walkersville
New Midway
H. Edward Fisher Jr
Grace-Mount Zion Parish
James A. Sensenbaugh
National Elks Head To Be Here
Ronald J. Dunn of Oneida New York will attend Frederick March 24 for the initiation of 40 candidates into the local Elks Lodge. Exalted Ruler C Lease Bussard said this marks the first time a Grand Exalted Ruler has joined a Frederick class initiation. Dunn is a trial lawyer and former city judge, past president of the Madison County Bar Association, and a member of the New York and American Bar Associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald J. Dunn
Oneida
New York
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Frederick
Elks Lodge
C. Lease Bussard
Frederick Lodge
E. Robert Bowlus
Maryland
District of Columbia
Elks
Madison County Bar Association
New York and
American Bar Associations
Community Chest
Madison County
Scout Official To Visit Lodges In Maryland And D.C.
A Boy Scout Council member and a trustee of the Oneida Public Library for a decade plans visits to Elks Lodges in Prince George s County and Washington before assuming duties in Frederick. The trip highlights community outreach and regional engagement by local civic leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scout Council
Oneida
Building Contracts Rise in Maryland in January 1964
Maryland January contracts for new construction totaled 85.68 million dollars, up about 38 percent from January 1963. F. W. Dodge Co. reported a breakdown of 36.233 million in nonresidential work up 67 percent, 32.471 million in residential up 16 percent, and 16.976 million in nonbuilding up 34 percent.
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New York
Maryland
F. W. Dodge Co
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Know
Duke
William Willard
William Convey
Leon Brust
Jeff Hansen
Bruce Davis
Wanda Brust
Kay Kalt
Marsha Kessler
Margie Verdi
Joyce Morrison
Peggy Grubb
Linda Culler
Patricia Bidle
Deye
Alicia
Juan Deyes
Montez
Albie Pearson
Deyes
Los Angels Angels
Advertiser
W. Patrick St
Rev. D. Ward Albright
Cadillac
KEY
Chevrolet Sales, Inc
Patrick Street
First Church of the Nazarene
Fairview Ave. and
7Th St. Frederick, Maryland
H. E. Heckert
National Elks Head
Larry T. Campbell
Yellow Springs
Ft. Detrick
A. F. Summers
C. Burton Cannon, JR
Delbert S. Null
Leslie U. Hutzell
Coppermine Rd
Woodsboro
Guernsey
M. F
D. B
Statesman
FORD
H.P
Donald Butt
Glenn Trout
James G. Trout
Emory Catshall
Liberty W.S.C.S
Western Maryland Trust Co
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