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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1955
Page
3
At the Wasco district art festival 60 percent of awards went to Shatter High and Richland elementary schools. Twenty four of 37 prizes were won by their students, with Buttonwillow and Wasco also winning several prizes as noted by co director Mrs Joyce Williams.
Richland School Art students claimed blue ribbons and honorable mentions at the district Kern County Art Festival in Wasco. Winners from grades four to eight include Janet Eslick Gary Sellers Deanna Toews Kathy Bergman Rita Stacy Don Atkinson Jessie Ricketts and Lynda Fosdick. Blue ribbon works advance to Bakersfield for the county final on April 16.
Shafter High School art students earned multiple prizes at the Kern County Art Festival District competition held in Wasco. Winners in watercolor included Cruz Sabedra for Alley and Arleigh Johnson for Symphony. others won blue ribbons in color chalk and related media. District 1 winners advance to Bakersfield for the Kern County Art Festival on April 16.
Several ladies of the St Theresa’s church altar society were entertained at a card party held at the home of Mrs Sally Mortimore with Rosemary Butler as co host. Decorations featured a St Patrick motif and refreshments included cheese pie and coffee. Attendees included Mmes Irene Parker Cosmo Thomas Annie Steinmeir Emily Hodges Celestine Weaver Alfred Weaver Rose Stocker Ella Brown Dee Fairbanks Kathryn Munding Lisle Laughlin and Adrienne Dooley.
Marvin Dirksen Katherine Lorenz Arlene Neuman Russell Bonlie and Marjorie Voth, all students at Pacific Union College near San Francisco, came home last weekend to visit their parents on Riverside drive and Orange street.
Buttonwillow prize winners at the Kern County Art Festival district contest in Wasco include John Richards and Norma Graves with honors in grades four to six realistic and seventh to eighth realistic divisions. Carolyn Boshears earned a blue ribbon in the seventh and eighth abstract division, with Marilyn Tracy receiving honorable mention. Displays run at the library until April 16 before Bakersfield finals for the county.
Marian Beckman, a Shafter post office employee, named manager of the State theater replacing Bill Duerksen who will run the Del Kern drive in theater set to open Friday. Both theaters are run by the same company with Beckman to keep post office duties by day and theater duties by night.
Henry Hildebrand and spouse of Fresno avenue joined by C D Reimer of Dinuba visited Taft to call on Jess Morris and hosted guests Isaac Janzen and his sister Katherine Janzen of British Columbia. The group, all related, enjoyed the visit together.
Mrs. Jay Graham moves with her two sons Kenneth and Dennis from Taft to reside with her mother Mrs. Stella Burnquist on Pacific street. They expect to stay six to eight months until Graham, an employee of Standard Oil, returns from Arabia. The boys have enrolled in local school.
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