Graduation set at Scarsdale and Edgemont high schools
About 360 Scarsdale and 123 Edgemont seniors will graduate Friday night. Scarsdale’s exercises start 5:30 p.m. at the Scarsdale High auditorium with Dr. Kenneth W. Thompson addressing themes of ideals and change. Edgemont will hold 7 p.m. outdoor ceremonies weather permitting, or indoors in the gym if rain. Edgemont speaker is Nandasiri Jasentuliyana of the United Nations.
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Scarsdale High School
Edgemont High School
Aaron Fink
Edgemont
Scarsdale
Kenneth W. Thompson
Scarsdale Board of Education
Rockefeller Foundation
Nandasiri Jasentuliyana
Department of Political and Security Council
United Nations
Ceylon
Jasentuliyana
Library Summer Hours Set for Scarsdale and Greenburgh
Scarsdale Public Library alters Saturday hours to 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. from July 1 to September 2 while other days keep summer times 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Scarsdale’s summer schedule notes Tuesday Thursday Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Greenburgh Public Library closes Sundays and runs 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays July 1 to Labor Day September 4. The overall summer hours list Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays Fridays 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesdays Saturdays 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Scarsdale
Greenburgh
Voters Offered Convention Tours By Two Leagues
Two Leagues plan all day bus tours to Albany for New York State Constitutional Convention coverage. Scarsdale and Greenburgh leagues organize trips for residents and public. Departures target July 10 and 11 with exact times and meeting points in notices.
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Scarsda
Albany
Wil
Lutherance of the Redeemer
Murray Hill
Pe Post Roads
League of Women Voters of
Greenburgh
Eagle Area
Scarsdale League of Women Voters
LWV Constitutional Convention Information Center
Witna Voters of
News York State
Sear-Roebuck Foundation
The
Foundation For Citizen Education
Prize Winning Film Series Will Start Here Tuesday
The Summer Cinema opens its six season with a five part weekly program of prize winning documentaries at 10 am and 8 pm Tuesday in Dyckman Hall Scarsdale Congregational Church Heathcote and Post Roads. Proceeds aid the Reading Clinic in East Harlem with cooperation from churches synagogues and the Scarsdale Village Recreation Department. Tickets at the door 1 for adults 50 cents for children under 12. An intermission offers socializing and refreshments. The opening feature To Catch a Rhino is noted for action photography.
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Dyckman Hall
Scarsdale Congregational Church
Heathcote
Post Roads
Reading Clinic
East Harlem
Scarsdale Village
Scarsdale Hosts 36 AFS Students Before Departing States
For the twelfth consecutive year Scarsdale welcomes 36 American Field Service students arriving Sunday July 16 after a bus trip across the United States. They stay until July 24 and will return to Argentina and Chile. The group joins 3100 AFS students from 59 countries residing in 47 states since last August.’
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Scarsdale
American Field Service
United States
Argentina
Chile
AFS
Vacation Loan Privilege at Scarsdale Library
Scarsdale Public Library announces Vacation Loan with limits of 15 adult and eight juvenile books per card. Loans extend to October 2 for four week adult titles excluding school lists and certain reference works. juvenile titles exclude school lists and new books. A ration reading display is available in fiction.
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Scarsdale Public Library
Community pool referendum passes amid strong village support
The Scarsdale pool measure on the American Legion land won 1623 to 339 with district splits ranging from 61 to 557 for and 83 to 105 against. The plan authorizes a 690000 bond and land swap to build a self sustaining pool, amid plans of potential legal action by Legion opponents.
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American Legion
Heathcote Road
Winston Bradshaw
Citizens Committee
Scarsdale
The
Legion
George Leveille Sr
Village Groups Forms Coordination Drive Elects Officers
The Village Organizations Coordinating Group held its first meeting Monday and elected Alden C. Smith as chairman Willard Dean as vice chairman and Mrs Frank Gordon as secretary The group will compile lists of upcoming matters from participating groups including the Village Board School Board and several clubs to coordinate activities with a view to October reference by the public through the Library.
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Village Organizations Coordinating Group
Alden C. Smith
Willard Dean
Frank Gordon
Town Club
Village Board
Woman's Club
Village Club
League of Women Voters
PTA Council
Conference of Neighborhood Presidents
Friends of Scarsdale Parks
Rotary Club
Realty Board
Chamber of Commerce
Alden Smith
East Scarsdale Board Adopts Road Policy Statements
The East Scarsdale Association approves two policy statements on road building after a village meeting. The group thanks the Mayor and Village Board for appointing a special ad hoc committee to study changes to Weaver Street and the Hutchinson River Parkway and to assess impacts on community and residential values.
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The
East Scarsdale Association
Weaver Street
Hutchinson River Parkway
East Scarsdale
East
Residents urge study on Hutchinson River Parkway changes
Community members request the special ad hoc committee gather the East Hudson Parkway plan materials and traffic studies. They call for distributing the materials to neighborhood associations and area residents so local authorities and the East Hudson Parkway Authority can review them.
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Scarsdale
Hutchinson River Parkway
East Hudson Parkway
Letter Carriers Demonstrate for Higher Postal Pay
Letter Carriers at Chase Road Post Office held a demonstration to protest low wages and call for a pay raise. William Webb displays a sign while passing out handbills. William Smith Jr. of Scarsdale Branch 2677, NA L A, organized the event with the late Vincent Petrichko. Smith cites take home pay under 200 dollars biweekly after deductions for a child and notes current legislation aims to raise pay by about 800 dollars and reclassify steps. He adds post office funding and salaries are set by Congress and Congress would improve career incentives by removing patronage. Demonstrations occurred in other communities as well.
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Chase Road
William Webb
William Smith Jr
Scarsdale
National Association of Letter Carriers
Vincent Petrichko
Smith
Treasury
Congress
House of Representatives
Ogden R. Reid
Senate
Alan Fabry
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DR. Thompson
Board of Education
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Thomson
Northwestern
Thompson
Joseph E. Black
University of Notre Dame
Augustana College
Sioux Falls
Kenneth
Nandasiri
Donald Newman
Jerome Goldstein
Bradshaw
Fred Kunrenther
John Sweeney
E. Scarsdale Board
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