Commencement Ushers Named for Concord College Event
Beckley area girls will serve as ushers for the 84th Concord College commencement and baccalaureate ceremonies. Faculty escorts include Gail Fitzpatrick Crab Orchard and Kay Allen Sophia. Kathy Kambouris and Sandra Goodall Beckley among general ushers. Baccalaureate Sunday speaker is Dr John Newton Thomas Union Theological Seminary Richmond Va. Commencement speaker Dr Henry H Hill George Peabody College at 10 a.m. Thursday.
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Concord College
Beckley
Gail Fitzpatrick
Crab Orchard
Kay Allen
Sophia
Kathy Kambouris
Sandra Goodall
Local Garden Clubs Sponsor Youths to Conservation Camp
Two Raleigh County youths won camperships to the Seventeenth West Virginia Conservation Camp at Camp Caesar in Webster Springs. Charles Bowman of Hills Garden Club and James Campbell of Mountain Top Garden Club will attend, joining selections from multiple state agencies to study forest products, conservation, game management, and leadership training for conservation.
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Raleigh County
West Virginia
Camp Caesar
Webster Springs
Charles Bowman
Clyde Bowman
Presty
Towering Hills Garden Club
James Campbell
J. W. Campbell
Mountain Top Garden Club
West Virginia Garden Club
Agricultural Extension Service
Conservation Service
Sportsmen’s Club
West Virginia Forest Fire Protective Association
U. S. Forest Service
West Virginia Forest Council
Appalachian Hardwood Manfacturers Association
The
Soil Conservation District Boards of Supervisors
Caesar
James Campbell Grams
W. F. Keenan
New Optimists Welcome Four New Club Members
Four new Beckley Optimist Club members were pinned at a Thursday meeting at El Chico. Named in the photo are James T. Crawford of Beckley and three others, pictured left to right.
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Beckley Optimist Club
el Chico
James T. Crawford
Beckley
Nine More Join Army at Beckley Recruiting Station
Nine new enlistments at the United States Army Recruiting Main Station in Beckley add names to Uncle Sam's ranks. Enlisted at Fort Jackson are William H. L. Fenney of Holden, Richard D. Leach of Charleston, Ronnie S. Colley of Grundy Virginia, Ronald J. Phillips of Man, Donald G. Gadd of Bluefield, Carroll E. Witt of Bluefield, Edward H. Gilmer of Filbert, Joseph H. Carpenter of Garretts Bend, and Michael DonJohnson of Williamson.
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United States Army
Beckley
Uncle Sam
Fort Jackson
8. C
William H. L. Fenney
Henry Fenney
Holden
Richard D. Leach
Irvena R. Saunders
Charleston
Ronnie S. Colley
Camm Colley
Grundy
Ronald J. Phillips
Nancy G. Phillips
Man
Donald G. Gadd
Maude Gadd
Bluefield
Carroll E. Witt
John P. Witt
Edward H. Gilmer
Filbert
Joseph H. Carpenter
James S. Carpenter
Garretts Bend
Michael Dohnson
Jancis Johnson
Williamson
Profit Is Quick Broadway Payoffs Shaping History
Two of the swiftest Broadway investment payoffs came from Lorraine Hansberry’s first play A Raisin in the Sun and the hit A Majority of One. A Raisin in the Sun recouped its $106,000 cost in six weeks, while A Majority of One recouped its $120,000 investment in a couple of weeks.
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Profit IS Quick New York
Broadway
Lorraine Hansberry
WVU President to Speak at Wesleyan College Commencement
West Virginia University President Elvis J. Stahr Jr. will deliver the main address at West Virginia Wesleyan College’s sixty ninth spring commencement scheduled for Tuesday May 26. The ceremony honors graduates as part of the college’s annual commencement program.
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Elvis J. Stahr Jr
West Virginia University
West Virginia Wesleyan College
WVU to Install Fourteenth President in Commencement
Approximately 167 graduating seniors will hear the fourteenth president of WVU as a climax to the commencement project. Stahr, arriving from the University of Pittsburgh where he was vice chancellor, is a 1936 Kentucky graduate with a master’s from Oxford and a Yale Chinese language diploma.
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WVU
Stahr
West Virginia
University of Pittsburgh
Professions
University of Kentucky
Oxford University
Yale University
Pupil Personnel Administration Article From Handbook
Cecil L. Miller principal of Sylvia Elementary School outlines pupil classification grouping promotion and retention notes on parent reports health safety group insurance testing and conferences with parents. Charles W. Akers assists with the article published for the 1959 Elementary Principals handbook.
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West Virginia Elementary School Principals Association
Cecil L. Miller
Sylvia
Beckley
Miller
Charles W. Akers
Glen Leigh
First woman jailer chosen in Christian County
Hopkinsville Kentucky Mrs Sue Witherspoon a widow is elected as the county jailer defeating two male opponents becoming the first woman to hold the post in Christian County.
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Hopkinsville, Ky
Sue Witherspoon
Christian County
Richmond FFA honors Farmer and Headley at assembly
Richmond High School FFA awarded H. G. Farmer and Harry Headley honorary chapter farmer awards for service. Rodney Smith, president, and James H. Redden, principal, presented the honors Wednesday afternoon during a school assembly. The district FFA chapter runs a farm set up by the County Court.
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Future Farmer of America
Richmond High School
H. G. Farmer
Harry Headley
Soil Conservation Service
Rec
Rodney Smith
Richmond Ffa
James H. Redden
Farmer
Headley Wednes
FFA
Richmond District High School
Zeldia Walker Wins Sears Award For DE Work
Zeldia A Walker senior at Woodrow Wilson High School earned the Sears Roebuck Foundation Award for Outstanding Student in Distributive Education. She will receive a 50 dollar Savings Bond for maintaining at least a B average with no grade below C, meeting work-hour and employer recommendation requirements.
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Zeldia Walker
Zeldia A. Walker
Woodrow Wilson High School
Sears, Roebuck Foundation
Earl Walker
Stanaford
Zeldia
Betty S. Jarrell
Future Teacher Twila McVey Completes Training
Sophia High School student teacher Twila McVey completes training at Sophia. McVey, 1955 Stoco High School graduate and senior music major at West Virginia Tech, Montgomery, is active in bands choirs and music education groups. She teaches Girls Glee Club senior band and elementary bands at Sophia.
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Sophia
Sophia High School
Twila McVey
Remus McVey
Pemberton
Stoco High School
Twila
West Virginia Institute of Technology
Montgomery
Acapella
Judson Walker Named To State Mountaineer Boys State
Judson Walker of Sophia High School will attend the Mountaineer Boys State program this summer with sponsorship from Robert Jenkins American Legion Post 169. He is son of Mr and Mrs Fred Walker and serves as junior class president as well as member of Hi Y Club student council and the football team.
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Sophia
Judson Walker
Sophia High School
Mountaineer
Robert Jen Yen
American Legion Post
Fred Walker
Judson
Toledo man struck by fleeing driver after helping stuck motorist
In Toledo Ohio an apparent accident occurred when 22 year old Larry Roberts lent a hand to a man whose car lost traction in the snow. A woman motorist tried to move the car, ran over Roberts and drove away. Roberts was taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Toledo, Ohio
Larry
Roberts
Burglary Arrest Near Phoenix Home of Mrs Lin senmeyer
Norman E. Dunbar, 57, was arrested while trying to burglarize the Phoenix residence of Mrs. Irma Linsenmeyer. He had just been released two days earlier from state prison after a two month sentence for burglarizing the same home.
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Phoenix, Ariz
Norman E. Dunbar
Phoenix
Irma Linsenmeyer
Dunbar
State People To Be Feted In Nation's Capital Sat.
West Virginia leaders Raymond E Salvati of Huntington and Mrs Jackie Oblinger will receive the States "Son and Daughter of the Year" awards at a Washington D C Willard Hotel banquet. John L Lewis will be honored as "Adopted Son" for his 50 years in West Virginia coal, presented by Senator Jennings Randolph and Congressman Cleveland Bailey. James Kee says interest in the awards banquet is the highest ever with over 200 couples expected for the banquet and double that for the awards ball.
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West Virginia
Raymond E. Salvati
Huntington
Island Creek Coal Company
Jackie Oblinger
Bluefield
Washington, D. C
Willard Hotel
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
West
Martinsburg
Oblinger
Cleveland M. Bailey
Joseph G. Weeda
Wellsburg
Washington
West Virginia Society
Beckley Episcopal house church services win best story
The Episcopal News reports St Stephen's Church Beckley won best story of the year at the West Virginia diocese convention in Morgantown. During Lent the church alternated midweek services in members' homes across eight Beckley areas and near by, with church services in the building. Lay leaders were appointed for each meeting which drew about 12 attendees on average. The gatherings fostered worship and fellowship, with simple refreshments after each session.
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Episcopal News
St. Stephen's Church
Beckley
Episcopal Diocese of
St. Stephen's
Revival series postponed as Bostic funeral shifts start
The tent revival starring George Bostic in Union will open a week later, moving to May 29 and run for a month, after the death of Bostic's father-in-law D. D. Canterbury of Bradley. Canterbury died Wednesday after a long illness and his funeral is set for Saturday.
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George Bostic
Union
Bostic
D. D. Canterbury
Bradley
Red Cross Plans Disaster Dinner
The Raleigh County Chapter of the American Red Cross hosts a disaster dinner at 6:30 p.m. on June 8 in the Appalachian Power Company Building to demonstrate mass feeding under disaster conditions. Mrs. Arthur Reece and her committee run the chow line 6:30 to 7:30 with a program to follow at 7:30 moderated by C. G. Peregoy. Mrs. Deane Brooke leads the planning committee with Mrs. Sherry Winter Peregoy and Harold Feazell on the team. Invitations from S. Austin Caperton invite reservations by June 1, with checks payable to the Raleigh County Chapter, American Red Cross.
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Raleigh County
American Red Cross
Appalachian Power Company
Red Cross
Arthur Reece
C. G. Peregoy
Wilson To Speak On Coal Mine Safety Meeting
Crawford L. Wilson rector of the West Virginia Department of Mines will address the Beckley Chapter of the Holmes Safety Council at 7 30 p m today in the Raleigh County Circuit Courtroom. Interested persons urged to attend.
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Crawford L. Wilson
West Virginia
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Ed Griner
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Seahawk
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