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Damascus Firemen Banquet Held In Mount Airy
Damascus Volunteer Fire Department held its annual banquet in Mount Airy's Firemen's Activities Building. Franklin Easterday welcomed guests, Rev. Jacob Berlin offered the invocation, and E G Jewell acted as toastmaster introducing chiefs, officers, and guests from Hyattstown, Laytonsville, Gaithersburg, New Market, and Montgomery County agencies. Highlights included seven members honored for most alarms, 14 trophies won by the company, the Lawson King trophy retired, and Joseph Serrin installing new officers led by President Francis Leizear.
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Luther Burke
Damascus Volunteer Fire Department
Mount Airy
Franklin Easterday
Jacob Berlin
St. Anne’s Episcopal Chapel
E. G. Jewell
Hyattstown
John Cooley
Cooley
Earl Edwards
Earl Edwards and Mrs. Edwards; Mr. Airy
Edward Rimbey
Rimbey
Delbert Beall
Mount Airy Department
Beall
Laytonsville
Jack Barnsley
Barnsley
Ulysses Griffith
Griffith
Gaithersburg
Byron Miller
Miller
New Market
James Hahn
Hahn
Earl Ridgely
New Market Department
Marberry Gates
Montgomery County Fire Board
Jana
Gates
Joseph Hawkins
Montgomery County Police Department
Mirs. Hawkins
James P. Kerr
Damascus Fire Department
Kerr
Joe Serrin
Montgomery County Association of Volunteer Firemen
Serrin
Kenneth Howes
Ladies Auxiliary of
Damascus
Howes
Earl Pope
Donald Shipley
Hubert Mulllinix
Ronald Watkins
George Easterday
Arthur German
Bester Runkles Sr
Lawson King
Frank Volk
Joseph Serrin