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Newspaper
Scarsdale Inquirer
Location
Scarsdale, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1956
Page
2
New York State motor vehicle fatalities reached 479 in the first quarter of 1956, up 15 percent from a year earlier, the Motor Vehicle Commission reports. Personal injury and property damage accidents also climbed, with pedestrians and drivers facing heightened risk as officials urge safer driving and enforcement.
Potter Place athlete Jim Gerrie receives his second varsity lacrosse letter at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a midfielder and mechanical engineering major. He also made the North All-Star squad set to face the South All-Stars on June 9 at Hobart College.
Eighteen Scarsdale residents received Harvard University degrees on June 13.Recipients include Robert A. Brown Jr Madison Road Master of Business Administration and James S. McDonald Garden Road MBA among others. degrees span Master of Arts Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Laws and Master of Education with several honors.
Miss Mary Ellen Andrews of Buckingham Arts and Miss Patricia Ann Florence of Montrose Road earned Bachelor of Arts degrees from the College of William and Mary on June 10. Andrews belonged to Pep Club, Chorus, House Committee, Spanish Club, Delta Delta Delta, and worked on the literary magazine and yearbook. Florence served as secretary treasurer of Orchesis, was in French Club and Pi Beta Phi, played intramural tennis, hockey, swimming, basketball and volleyball, and made the Dean's List.
A Charter Signing Ceremony launched the Saw Mill Chapter of Women's American ORT with its first meeting on June 6 at Mrs. Milton K. Cowen's Longview Drive home. Greenburgh residents attended this introductory social, and a Fall program is planned by the chapter committee to further ORT's mission of helping people help themselves.
Charles B. Gulick II of Old Army Rd graduated June 10 from the University of New Hampshire after a four year agricultural course. He served as vice-president of Alpha Gamma Rho and president of the 4H leaders club and has been appointed 4H club agent in Windsor County Vermont.
Claude Woessner Jr of Paddington Road earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of the South Sewanee Tennessee on June 11. He served on the executive committee of the Order of Gownsmen and Acolyte's Guild and was active in the yearbook staff Pan-Hellenic Council and Kappa Sigma fraternity as president vice president and secretary.
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