Community events and honors in Venice area June 1979
The Greater Venice Area Chapter of The Retired Officers Association hosts a picnic June 10 at Venice Wellfield Park for active and retired officers, widows, widowers, and guests. Saint Leo College reports 217 Dean's List honorees from 974 students. P A Montgomery named to Dean's List. C J Brinker earns PhD from Rutgers, son of local residents.
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Greater Venice Area
The
Retired Officers Association
Venice Wellfield Park
Myron Smith
Edward “Ned” Baker
Saint Leo College
Florida College
P.A. Montgomery
Charles Montgomery
Nokomis
Florida
Venice Club Meeting Postponed After President Resigns
The Venice Area Democratic Club postpones its regular meeting after president Raymond Fly resigns. The executive committee will plan a special meeting and announce time and place. Cheryl Anne Strayer among 341 Longwood College students named to the Dean's List in Farmville Virginia. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert Strayer Venice.
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Venice
Cheryl Anne Strayer
Longwood College
Farmville
Virginia
Robert Strayer
Tihami Road
Bracken to Receive PhD in Educational Psychology at Georgia
Bruce Albert Bracken son of Leo Bracken and grandson of Mrs Phyllis Rosebush of Venice will graduate from the University of Georgia in June with a doctor of philosophy in educational psychology. He earned a 1975 bachelor of science from the College of Charleston and a 1977 master's from Georgia. Bracken has accepted a faculty post at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and is married to Mary Jo Byrne of Altoona Pa. They have a son Bruce Jr.
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Bruce Albert Bracken
Leo Bracken
Phyllis Rosebush
Venice
University of Georgia
Bracken
Bently High School
Michigan
U.S. Air Force
College of Charleston
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Mary Jo Byrne
Altoona, Pa
Bruce Jr
Sunny Land Council Receives 500 Grant for Scout Recruitment
The Sunny Land Council of the Boy Scouts of America earned a 500 grant from the Esther Nicholl's Foundation to fund a year round recruitment drive. Hugh McPherson accepted the check for the council while highlighting recruiting tools for Cub Packs Scout Troops and Explorer Posts to Venice Nokomis Bank administrator Tony Levering. The council, serving Sarasota Manatee and DeSoto Counties, aims for 600 new Scouts in 1979, boosting year end membership to 2830. The Nicholls grant supplies incentive awards survey materials and activities to engage new scouts in the Wonderful World of Scouting.
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Sunny Land Council
Boy Scouts of America
Esther Nicholl
Hugh McPherson
Tony Levering
Venice-Nokomis Bank
Esther Nicholls
Sarasota
Manatee
DeSoto
Nicholls Foundation
Selby Gardens Adds Accessible Ramp For Visitors
Grants from Coast Federal Savings and Loan and the William and Marie Selby Foundation funded a wide cement ramp at Selby Gardens. The ramp, from the waterfall walkway to the north door, improves access to the historic Selby House and Gardens Book Gift Shop, with railings and landscaping to follow.
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Coast Federal Savings and Loan Association
William and Marie Selby Foundation
Selby House
Selby Botanical Gardens
Selbys
Finnish Constructivist art show opens at Ringling
A Finnish Constructivist exhibit opens June 8 in Ringling Museum of Art New Wing Gallery, featuring 15 artists led by Sam Vanni and Jorma Hautala. The abstract works explore space and time through color, line, and geometric form with Finnish landscape tones.
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Ringling Museum of Art
Finland
Sam Vanni
Finnish Academy
Jorma Hautala
Josef Albers
Timo Aalto
Tor Arne
Goran Augustson
Junana Blomstedt
Joma Hautala
Kauko Hamalainen
Outi Ikkala
Matti Kujasalo
Seppo Karkkainen
Ernst Mether
Coulter Graduates From Asheville School in North Carolina
Keith Douglas Coulter II son of Mr and Mrs Robert K Coulter of Nokomis graduated May 26 from Asheville School in Asheville North Carolina. He will attend Stetso University in the fall. The Asheville School founded 1900 is a boys boarding and coeducational day school.
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Keith Douglas Coulter II
Robert K Coulter
Four Bays Drive
Nokomis
Asheville School
Asheville
N.C
Stetso University
North Carolina
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SUN Coast Gondolier
TROA
Selby Public Library
Center For the Transcendental Meditation Program
Venice Woman’s Club
South Venice
St. Leo’s
Venice East Association
Sea Gulls
Venice Nokomis United Methodist Church
Palm Ave
Rutgers
C. Jeffrey Brinker
New Jersey
Charles W. Brinker
Golf Club Lane
Molly Yawn
Betty Chadwick
Indies House
Bay Indies Park
Molly
Waterfront
Betty Chadwin
Brauchen
Randall Hicks
Georgia
Ponce DeLeon
Haslam
Fantasy Island
Sonya Messer
George Spence
Train Hill
Gulf Gate Drive
Dermaculture
Dermacultue
Bradenton
South County
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
Dermaculture Clinic
Sarasota- Bradenton
Tamiami Trail
Bric
Selby Gardens
Ringling
Coulter Grad
Oes
Tampa
St. Pete
Clearwate
Brandon
Lakeland
New Port Ai
Ully
Gulf Gate
Otha
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