Frederick County Homemakers Mark 50th Anniversary
Frederick County Council of Homemakers Clubs celebrates a half‑century since the Extension Service formed the first clubs in 1914 and notes the evolution from simple sewing groups to a federation of 39 clubs with about 1000 members. The history traces WWI food drives, 1920s education, WWII rationing, and postwar community programs led by local women. Next Week: Great changes in recent times 1950.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Agriculture Extension Service
Frederick County
William Wallace
Skyline Homemakers Club
Wallace
News and Post
U. S. Department of Agriculture Extension Service
U. S
Emory C. Remsberg
Buckeystown
Emily Ebner
Emmitsburg
Jefferson
W. Hayes Brown
Esther Nelson
Frederick Girls’ High School
Thurmont
Federation of Rural Women’s Clubs
Frederick County Council of Homemakers’ Clubs
Extension Service
Red Cross
Homemakers’ Club
Germany
Africa
Japan
Reading Critic Series Teaches Judging From Norms
A column advocates critical reading to become an observer and judge of texts. It emphasizes using norms and reasons over personal preference, critiques critics, and urges open-minded evaluation of novels, plays, and poems. The piece notes editors and opinion writers shape views and urges questions and logic in forming judgments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
United Nations
Panama
Cuba
Viet Nam
Ana Nares
Frederick
Maryland
Engagement Announced for Katherine West Schnauffer
Mrs William Schnauffer Court Square announces the engagement of her daughter Katherine West Schnauffer to Paul H Sarver son of Mr and Mrs Jack G Sarver of Buffalo New York Katherine, a graduate of St Margaret's School in Tapphannock Va and Brenau College Gainesville Ga, teaches at New Market Elementary School Sarver is a Syracuse University graduate and works as general services supervisor at the Frederick plant of Corning Packaging Company A late fall wedding is planned after his Army Reserve duty at Fort Jackson S C.
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William Schnauffer
Court Square
Katherine West Schnauffer
Paul H. Sarver
Jack G. Sarver
Buffalo, N. Y
Schnauffer
Dr. Schnauffer
St. Margaret’s School
Tappahannock
Brenau College
Gainsville
Alpha Gamma Delta
Travel Club hears talk on Hong Kong
Frederick Travel Club members heard Lieutenant Laurance George, chemist at Fort Detrick, describe his Hong Kong trip last fall. He narrated by colored slides, detailing the harbor view from Victoria, bustling ferries and typhoon harbors, crowded tenements, modern shops, and hillside homes, highlighting Hong Kong as a major East port and colony with over three million residents.
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Laurance George
U. S. Army Biological Laboratories
Fort Detrick
Frederick Travel Club
Hong Kong
George
Kowloon Peninsula
New Territories
Victoria
Red China
Lieutenant George tours Hong Kong landmarks and markets
Lieutenant George visits Victoria Peak by cable car to view Aw Boon Haw’s home and gardens with priceless furnishings. He tours Kowloon Peninsula and New Territories as the colony’s market gardens, Aberdeens junks and sampan taxis ferry patrons to floating Chinese restaurants, and a Hong Kong bathing beach in October proves cool for locals yet suitable for him.
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Victoria Peak
George
Aw Boon Haw
Kowloon Peninsula
New Territories
Aberdeen
Lieutenant _ George
Hong Kong
Massachusetts
Local Teacher From Frederick Attending National Science Institute
Carl C. Emerick of Frederick Maryland is among 86 high school math and science teachers selected for the eighth annual NSF Summer Institute at Clarkson College of Technology Potsdam NY running July 6 to August 28. The NSF funded program aims to broaden subject knowledge with course credit possible toward a Master of Science from Clarkson. Emerick, a maths teacher at Elm Street School, is attending for a second year.
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Carl C. Emerick
RFD
Frederick
Maryland
National Science Foundation
Clarkson College of Technology
Potsdam
N.Y
NSF
Clarkson
Emerick
Elm Street
Gondoliers Operetta Benefit By Frederick Rotary Club
The Rotary Club of Frederick presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers at Frederick High School Auditorium for the benefit of the Frederick Track and Field Club and the Boy Scout Capital Campaign. The musical, staged by Montgomery Light Opera Association, follows two gondoliers who may be royalty and ends with a happy ruling. Advance tickets are on sale at local shops and schools.
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Gilbert and Sullivan
Rotary Club of
Frederick
Boy Scout Capital Campaign
Bara‘taria
Gianetta
Tessa
Barataria
Colonial Music Shop
Hood College
Frederick High School
Fort Detrick
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Frederick County Council
Frances Gerber
Merryland Tract
Middletown
Braddock
Walkersville
Ballenger
Urbana
New Market
THE
Reading Laboratory, Inc
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Travel Corner
Mexico City
Cuernavaca
Canfield Himes
Taxco
Old Mexico
Acapulco
Mexico
Shirtee W. Schuettinger
Boyer Travel Agency
National Palace
Diego Rivera
Zocalo Chapultepec
University City
Xochimilco
Pal Jcandlewax
Linace of Fine Arts
Tiffany
Simmons Gateway Tours
Seaboard
Schullinger
Boyer Traves Agency
South Frederick
Tater
Edna B. Dykes
Reba Sutely
Robin Green
Gwen Fogle
Lois Willis
Janice Turner
Bridget Quesnberry
Dancella Baker
Kathy Snoots
Vickie Little
Jennifer Whiting
Darlene Windsor
Patricia Davis
David Hodge
Roland Wood
Charles Jones
Douglas Biggus
Wendi Nickens
John Smith
Roger
Frank J. Keefer
Don Hobbs
James Covell
Ralph Kolb
Jarius Staton
Joyce Keeney
John Shriner
Cathy Masser
Virginia Cook
Joey Baker
Sandra Miller
Charles Whiting
Bruce Gray
Bernard Wolford
Antonio Hill
Gwendolyn B. Henson
Vanessa Gaither
Gail Snowden
Kathy Sheppard
Cathy Swann
Virginia Long
Patricia Gardner
Melody Brown
Valerie Turner
Janet Lentz
Lily Folk
Doris Danner
Jeffrey Edwards
Julian Jackson
Marvin Thompson
Debra Oram
Charlotte Gant
Sharon Kline
Carol Blackburn
Patsy Burtner
Gloria Gosley
Betsy Fenton
Julie Stoner
Bonnie Zim
Jerry Barr
Warren Farr
Julius Jackson
Betty Weddle
Renita Freeland
Susan Snider
Vicky Michael
Gary Biser
Gary Foreman
Pat Green
Thomas Hobbs
Robert Winpigler
Douglas Adams
Ralph Bowers
Vera Hail
Beverly Luby
Marilyn Ambush
Jackie Jenkins
Rhonda Herbert
Gary Lawson
Marsha Ridgely
Brian Federline
Robert Anderson
Roxanne Makel
Cindy Lentz
Kay Barger
Shearlean Lee
Patty Simpson
Jackie Staley
Tanya Biggs
Patty Beall
Bernice Cosley
Carol
Schley
Teresa Tyeryar
Victoria Hosley
Debra O’brien
Natalie Onley
Beverly Parker
Helena Green
Jennifer Lee
Rose Etzler
Kenneth Turner
John Thomas
James Rollins
Vickie Stream
Kristine Bradley
Back Row
Shelly Foreman
Cynthia Fredericks
Denise Thomas
Sonia Graham
Tommy Keller
Jerome Williams
John Bonner
Jerry Colliflower
Eugene Thomas
Cindy Hill
Edith Ingram
Patti Sowell
Marsha Thomas
Brenda Hulland
Travel Agents
Shirlee W. Schuetttinger
Schueltinger
Romaini Perez
Ren. Motu
Travel Club
Rotary Club
W. Earl Hawkins
Woodsboro
Miriam Lorraine
David John Andrews
Walter J. Andrews
North Hills
Miss Hawkins
Walkersville High School
Lankenau School of Nursing
Philadelphia
Lankenau Hospital
Andrews
Temple University
Delaware Management Company
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