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Newspaper
Sunday Dominion Post
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1969
Page
19
Goshen Baptist Women’s Mission Society opens its January session led by Mrs. Boyd Freed who explains the Love Gift during opening devotional. Mrs. James Davis presents a program on loss and renewal with readings and a poem about personal resolutions.
Mrs. Charles Holdsworth announces the engagement of Rebecca Holdsworth of Arlington Virginia to Robert Lee Brooks of Oak Hill. Rebecca works with the Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff Pacific Division and Robert is a senior in dentistry at West Virginia University. A summer wedding is planned. The Love Gift goal for the coming year is $115. Donations will go to the State scholarship fund and a special project.
The Woman's Music Club hosts a January program featuring guest artist Philip J. Faini of West Virginia University. He will present East African music with slides and tapes, perform the Nankasa Dance with ensemble members, and discuss instruments and history from Uganda and Kenya. The 8:15 p.m. event is at the Community House.
Local notes record visitors and moves including Dr and Mrs Byron Bloor hosting grandparents from Idaho, Arthur and Mrs McBride returning from France, Rex Longridge visiting for a Service League dinner, and moving to Summerville South Carolina. Also listed are visits from the Jenkins family of Ahoskie and Country Club Drive, Roswell Reid homecoming, Garlow family gatherings with sons in the Marines and Peace Corps, college departures, a hospital patient, and Birmingham trips.
Mrs Grace H Smith of Sabraton announces the engagement of her daughter Linda G to Harold Knotts son of Mr and Mrs John L Hixenbaugh of Star City The couple plan a March 8 wedding Linda a Morgantown High School graduate and Morgan Shirt Co employee Harold a Wheeling Barbering College graduate with Baby Joes Barber Shop affiliation
Morgantown attorney Robert W. Dinsmore argues there is no local need for a legal aid society, despite Charleston Kanawha County and two other counties already offering programs. He says local lawyers will represent indigent clients, urges education to reduce stigma, and favors student apprentices and welfare workers to raise awareness while noting minimum fees are rarely charged.
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