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Newspaper
Sarasota News
Location
Sarasota, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1962
Page
5
Rector John Ellis Large calls for tempering national and personal ambition. He mocks feverish striving, urges self examination to find true purpose, and suggests studying the student pilot’s manual for guidance on a happy landing rather than reckless ascent.
The Library of Congress Talking Books program offers free access to recorded books for Americans who are blind or near blind. Registrants receive a catalog, a metal case with records, and postage free returns. Prisoners contribute as volunteer readers, with examples from Norfolk showing positive parole outcomes.
Rev. Claude O. Tucker will deliver the sermon The Facts of the Hereafter at St Johns Methodist Church 4555 Bee Ridge Road Sunday. Church School starts 9 45 a m and worship at 11 a m. Vamp Methodist Church members attend the evening service at 730 with Rev B D Nysewander preaching. Vacation Bible School begins Monday June 18 at 9 a m for kindergarten through sixth grade with daily sessions 9 a m to 1130 a m for two weeks.
Dr. Otto C. Schlack, 72, retires to a Sarasota home after half a century in medicine. A Chicago-born physician, he served as police surgeon, led Cook County Tuberculosis Hospital, and spent years with circuses including the Gollmar show. He received a 50-year Illinois Medical Society certificate and now reflects on a life with show folk, law studies, and medical advances.
Vacation Bible School enters second week at Whitfield Estates Presbyterian Church with sessions 9 to 11 30 a m Monday to Friday. A Friday 6 30 p m covered dish supper closes the school. Dr B L Bowman will deliver a Father s Day sermon at the drive in church on US 41 midway between Sarasota and Bradenton. The Gopher Club meets 8 30 a m Sunday with Al Buell leading a breakfast program. Sunday School begins at 9 30 a m for all ages.
The annual Vacation Bible School for Sarasota children aged 3 to 16 will run Monday to Friday for two weeks starting June 18 from 9 am to noon. W R Hamilton is pastor, John L Miller principal, with Mrs Jean Stinchcomb secretary and Mrs H J Hoelstad refreshment chair. Department superintendents cover Nursery to Intermediate groups with age specifics. Nursery entrants must have turned 3 before April 1, 1962. Parents should accompany younger children for registration.
The North Methodist Church on the North Trail hosts the Sarasota District stewards meeting on Thursday June 21 at 2 p.m. District superintendent Dr. Harry H. Waller will preside as pastors and district stewards from each church attend. new district pastors will be introduced. North Methodist holds worship June 17 at 8 50 a.m. and 11 a.m. Collier Summers is soloist with Mrs. Ross Caldwell at organ. Pastor Rev. Maurice Beery preaches Power For You.
Florida educators discuss introducing a bona fide course in Americanism to precede studies on communism. The plan centers on 14 to 16 pivotal events and figures since 1776, urging critical, evidence based answers and stressing interpretation of liberty’s costs through history from Bunker Hill to the New Frontier.
First Brethren Church at 150 North Shade and Fruitville Rd. starts a two week Vacation Bible School on Monday June 18 running daily from 9 to 11 30 a m for children aged 3 to 12. Rev J D Hamel frames the program as patriotic Christian education stressing freedom and devotion to the Lord and His Word.
Miss Agnes Burget treats dog sled travel as daily transport between home and the University of Alaska cafeteria. She praises mush driving as safer faster and cheaper than cars in 60 below weather and says faculty and students regularly arrive on campus by sled during winter.
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