900 Limit Set For Membership In The Concert Association
Beckley Community Concert Association seeks 900 memberships by Saturday to decide next year’s artists. The drive, begun at a 50-worker dinner at the Beckley Hotel, runs through week’s end unless the cap is reached. President Dr. Ritchie Ware cited 750 members last year and a 150 seat limit at Woodrow Wilson High School.
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Beckley
Beckley Hotel
Ritchie Ware
Association
Woodrow Wilson High School
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Richard Suter
Christopher Lynch
Beckley Committee
Carnegie Hall
New York
Suter
60 Young Beckleyans Attend County Music Club Dance
A semi formal Raleigh County Young Musicians Club dance drew about 60 members and guests at the American Legion clubrooms. The program featured a business session, talks by G F Walker, readings and musical selections by the group and hostesses Mrs. Fred Schultz Mrs. K K Rand and Mrs. Virginia Cooper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Beckleyans
County Music Club
American Legion
Raleigh County
Young Musicians Club
Fred Schultz
Beckley
K. K. Rand
Virginia Cooper
G. F. Walker
C. O. Meadows
Billye Sue Bowyer
Shirley Williams
Virginia Gregory
Schultz
Gloria Biggs
Patsy Talbert
Helen Talbert
Margaret Sharp
Sam Rahall
Sarah Blakely
Barbara Evans
C. L. Meadows
Warren Meadows
Yvonne Souder
A.A. Turner
Rosalie Pauley
Everette Fleshman
Janie Wood
Julia Fleshman
Betty Malcolm
Rochelle Blackburn
Yra Rand
Carolyn Rand
Bob Oy Kosnoski
T. R. Newsome, Jr
Mrs
William Turner
June Baker
Dora Sarandon
Phyllis Barris
Joanne V. Coleman
Elizabeth Baker
Mary Ann Davis
Joan Maples
Phyllis Broyles
Juanita Earehart
Bob Martin
Jackie Williams
Selma Rahall
Katherine Kambouris
Frances Hyde
Douglas Gilmer
Jo Lee Quesenberry
Joan Tolliver
Ann
Gay Kessinger Birthday Party Honored On Eighteenth
Mrs J W Kessinger hosted a party at Smith Avenue home honoring Gay Kessinger on her eighteenth birthday. Guests listed include Rita Persinger Loraine Blevin Eunice Fern Mildred McKinney Edith Barker Barbara Lively and many others. some were unable to attend sending remembrances. Also advertised pattern and sewing notions from Sue Burnett at The Raleigh Register with a spring issue promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Kessinger
Smith Avenue
Gay
Kessinger
Rita Persinger
Loraine Blevin
Eunice
Fern
Mildred McKinney
Edith Barker
Barbara
Margaret Lively
Corda Cooper
Joyce
Joan Price
Martha Godby
Betty Corona
Jane Ann Sparks
Annabelle Pack
Eunice Campbell
Edna
Jean Kessinger
Baren Atkinson
Albert Pack
Richard
Conrad Bowles
Clyde Barker
Sidney Collison
Jack Maynor
Kenneth
Darrell
Southern
Otto Price
Robert Ramsey
John Farrish
Major. Sparks
Glen Ashworth
Milton Young
Martin Smith
Oscar Cooper
Jack Kessinger
Lowell Bailey
Nina Bowl
Scout Leaders Meet Postponed By Weather
Weather forces postponement of the Raleigh County Girl Scout Leaders Association meeting planned for Thursday night. President Mrs. Ruby Wilits stated a definite rescheduled date will be announced later.
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Raleigh County
Girl Scout Leaders Association
Ruby Wilits
Four Beckley Women To Attend State Garden Meet In May
Announcement of a state garden club meeting in Jackson's 18 was made at yesterday's Mountain Top Garden Club session. Representatives from Beckley include Mrs H G Crawford, Mrs M M Ralston, Mrs EB Payne, and Mrs B E Stromp. Hostesses were Mrs Stuart Angell, Mrs W R Fugitt, and Mrs Fred B Stone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beckley
State Garden
State Garden Club
Jackson
Mountain Top Garden Club
Beckley Garden Clubs
H. G&g, Crawford
M. M. Ralston
EB. M. Payne
BE. T. Stromp
Raleigh
Coca-Cola
Raleigh Register
W. Va
Ifty
Cerene Atkins
Kldana Federated Club
Jones
Betty Williams
Stuart B. Angell
W. R. Fugitt
Fred B. Stone
E. Guy Graves
EB. G. Grogan
Floyd Sayre
W. R
Woodrow Wilson High Adds Glen White Graduate to Faculty
The resignation of J. W. Gilmore as chemistry instructor at Woodrow Wilson High School is followed by the addition of Mary Jane Freshman of Glen White to the staff. A Woodrow Wilson graduate, she studied at Concord College in Athens and has been active in 4-H work in Raleigh County.
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J. W. Gilmore
Woodrow Wilson High School
Mary Jane Freshman
Glen White
Woodrow Wilson
Concord College
Athens
Raleigh County
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Hus
Gay Kessinger
Anderson Construction, Co
Birefield
W. Vo
AYDS
Cohen Drug CO
Neville St
Beckley, W. Va
Skelton, W. VA
Beckley Tire & Rubber Co
Fayette St
Gbooril
Dayton
Meni
U.S. Streight
Josephine Coponiti
East Beckley
Peggy L. Tabor
Fred Quesenberry
Glen Gilkerson
Jimmy Adams
Luen Willams
Harry Alford
Johnnie Hutman
Joyce Phillips
Barbara Palmer
Frances Adams
Margaret Ann Bowling
Mary Alice Williams
Maxine
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