Rubin Mettler Heads TRW Returns to Shafter Home
Rubin Mettler, longtime head of TRW, visited Shafter for Easter weekend Mettler Family reunion at the Veterans Hall. The Stanford-educated engineer and Navy veteran rose to chairman of a global firm with six billion dollars in annual sales and more than 100000 employees, famed for pioneering the Pioneer Ten and space electronics. He credits Shafter with shaping his early life and remains grateful to the community he still calls home.
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Rubin Mettler
TRW
Shafter Community
Shafter
Mettler
Veteran's Hall
Stanford University
Navy
Los Angeles
Solar System
Earth
Cinderella shines as Richland Junior Theatre appeals
Debbie Hardin credits strong community support for the debut Richland Junior Theatre production Cinderella. The well attended show boosted intermission sales past 750 for the SCICON fund at the Intermediate School, with a cast party bouquets and gifts from students and staff adding to the memories.
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Debbie Hardin
Richland Junior Theatre
Scicon Fund
Miss Hardin
AAUW Shafter-Wasco marks fifth anniversary event
The AAUW Shafter-Wasco Satellite celebrates its fifth year with a May 23 meeting at Pat Bryant’s home 1 Shafter Avenue at 7:30 p.m. Members will share cookies, plan the coming year, and Mary Lee King recounts the satellite’s founding and growth to 22 members across diverse professions.
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AAUW
Shafter-Wasco
Pat Bryant
Shafter Avenue
Mary Lee King
Shafter
Sandy Larson
Bakersfield
Sandy
George
Jeanette Wheeler
Jeanette Hereself
Shafter Press
California
Delano-McFarland
Tehachapi
Taft
Tehhachapi
Shafter- Wasco
Jane Lollar
Betty Petrie
Shafter-Wasco Investors Group
Cathy Miller
Dean Witter Reynolds
Wasco
AARP plans program from Living Museum
Louise Henderson of the California Living Museum near Bakersfield will present at the Shafter Veteran's Hall on Monday May 21 at 1 30 p m. The slide show will display facilities and animal life while a commendation to AARP for five donated park benches is presented and their value credited toward a 1000 dollar contribution goal.
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Louise Henderson
California Living Museum
Bakersfield
Shafter Veteran's Hall
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Jennifer Janzen
Wicked Stepmother
Lisa Houser
Cinderella
Candace Allen
Shop Shafter First
Chamber of Commerce
Betty
Pat
Bros At
Birdseye
Tub
Bonnie Hubbard
VEGAL
Hicke
Pares
Lux
AARP
Living Museum
Henderson
M Pet Globe S. Test Guan Oun Geis
Union & Insurance Plans
Woolworths
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