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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1961
Page
16
Ridgeville High School plans an accelerated college preparatory track with 203 credits to graduate, a must‑participation plan, and a four‑year sequence in English foreign language science math and social studies. The program adds 17 new courses and aims to meet enhanced state standards.
The Class of 1961 in North Ridgeville hosts a memorial dance titled Shades Unlimited on Saturday from 7 30 to 11 p m. Top events include dance contests a Destruction of Music at 10 45 and two cases of Coca Cola given away. The event open to grades nine through twelve features groups Shades and Ionolones providing music.
The newly formed GOP group met at Town Hall at 8 p m led by William Gardner as president with Clifford Perryman vice president Norton Henry recording secretary Paul Krueger corresponding secretary and Sterling Vhs treasurer About 20 members attended They adopted a constitution by Eric Johnson Urban Buescher and Fred Schwender A nominating committee named Perryman Finegan and Underwood The May meeting will join with the Women’s Club at Town Hall
The Ridgeville Methodist, First Baptist Sugar Ridge Road, First Congregational Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville Church of God on North Lear Nagle Road, and St Peter Rowan Catholic Church on Center Ridge Road list weekly worship times. Services include morning worship, Sunday schools, youth groups, and midweek Bible studies, with mass times for the Catholic church on Sunday and weekdays.
The Cub Scout Pack 153 meeting in North Ridgeville has been postponed from tomorrow night to May 4. It will start at 7 30 p.m.
Kiwanis sponsored circus offers two shows at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Ridgeview Shopping Center in North Ridgeville. Community book drive for Wilcox School libraries seeks hardbound books for grades one through six. Scouts will canvass for donations Sunday.
G L Draper of North Ridgeville, son of Mr and Mrs E Linden Draper, has been chosen for the Washington Semester program at Muskingum College. The sophomore history and political science major will study governance in action at American University, sharing dormitory housing and a tuition arrangement with his home college. The program supports fellowships after graduation and is open to honor students from cooperating colleges meeting course requirements.
Ridgeville High School PTA elected Lynden Brow as president for 1961 62. Ira Bainbridge as vice president, Mrs Shirley Wilson as secretary and Don Christiansen as treasurer were named. Delegates to Lorain County PTA Council include Mrs Charles Ingersoll. Installation to be held next month. Americans spent 1 625 000 000 on travel abroad in 1957, sixteen times 1923.
Republican Women's Club decided yesterday to run a doughnut and coffee booth during Homecoming from September 1 to 4. President Mrs Norton D Henry accepted the club charter from Mrs Harriet Bishop chairman of women’s activities of the Lorain County Republican Executive Committee. They were invited to attend a showing of Operation Abolition in Amherst on May 15. Mrs Walter Stickler of Columbia Station reviewed Senator Barry Goldwater’s Conscience of a Conservative.
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