Pupil postcard returns from farthest distance announced
A school let pupils mail postcards from distant towns and the pupil whose card travels the farthest will receive the tend the school ends June 17. Photos credit Ed Greer.
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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1966
Page
5
A school let pupils mail postcards from distant towns and the pupil whose card travels the farthest will receive the tend the school ends June 17. Photos credit Ed Greer.
Southern Illinois Methodists approve a 1966 67 spending plan of 982357 dollars the highest in the 115 year history of the denomination in the region. The budget raises 3.8 percent from 946343 dollars and funds pension increases world service and benevolences and church maintenance.
At the 115th Southern Illinois Conference meeting, plans to establish a Wesley Foundation at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville received approval. Mrs. Billie Hahs of Collinsville was elected president of the Suzanna Wesleys.
Sister Mary Pauline Grady of the Sisters Adorers of the Most Precious Blood has been named secretary of an international committee in Rome to revise her congregation's constitutions. She is part of the English and publications departments at the Roman Provincial House. The committee includes members from Brazil Switzerland Yugoslavia and Italy. She departed June 3 after research work in Italy in 1962 for the biography Girl in a Hurry about Blessed Maria De Mattias.
Erwin Dain Canham, long time editor in chief of the Boston newspaper and editor of the Christian Science Monitor, is named president of the Christian Science Church for a year as the church marks its centennial. The church began an $11 million expansion in Back Bay Boston, with about 10,000 believers gathering for the anniversary events. Canham, 62, a lifelong Christian Scientist, will continue teaching Sunday school and leads the Monitor in line with Mary Eddy’s teachings, reducing coverage of obituaries and society news. He is known as Spike among colleagues. Born 1904 in Auburn Maine, he studied at Bates College and Oxford, joining the Monitor in 1925.
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