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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1955
Page
4
A special Oberlin College committee appointed by President Dre William Stevenson is poised to issue a report on the ROTC controversy sparked by an orientation assembly. The debate centers on ROTC program presentation, student demonstrations, and calls from critics that the unit be kept within academic bounds.
Oberlin Inn construction progresses but is two months from completion. The new building will have eight rooms and a dining area with six shops. Frontage along Main Street will be landscaped with trees lawns and towers as planned.
NORWALK Civil Service officers conducted exams for ten Huron Welfare posts. Three people were in the room. two men and a woman sought the senior role at the Children’s Home. The acting county home superintendent was the sole applicant for that post.
Oberlin firemen will hold their annual banquet Monday at 4:14 PM at Martin's Inn. Special guests include City Manager Balan, Walla Smith, department heads, and several local officials.
Dick Bird presents Newfoundland a color motion picture in Oberlin College Hall Auditorium January 21 at 7 30 pm. The talk, third in Oberlin Audubon Tours, debunks myths about Canada's newest province and features birds and mammals from Yukon wilderness. Bird, who has worked with Disney and produced wildlife films, promotes his expanding lecture series and a radio program in Canada. Tickets available at the door or by mail from the Natural History Club Botanical Building Oberlin College.
Two cast members from the Oberlin Community Players production of Arsenic and Old Lace are John Haggard and Robert Fithian. The show runs Thursday through Saturday at the Fall Auditorium with tickets at $20 per evening. Haggard, known as Jake, is an Oberlin auto salesman and World War II radio man who portrays Teddy. Fithian plays Mortimer, a theater critic, and is a Sears trainee who has lived in Oberlin a year and a half after serving in Korea and Japan. Becky, his wife, stars musically in the family.
Oberlin hospital reports a week of births and discharges with several births in Jan and multiple patients discharged. Notable items include a Hirt birth at Edgemere Place and births to Broad Wellington and Webber Oberlin, with numerous discharges such as Mrs Hadgking and son, Mrs Bixby and son, and Mrs Smith and son.
Oberlin College faculty attended major national meetings in Chicago and Columbus. James A. Ross and J G Gunderson spoke at the Speech Association of America convention in Chicago, with Gunderson addressing intercollegiate discussion on debate eras. Arthur L Williams attended the National Conference of the College Band Directors and led the resolutions committee. Joining them were William Dominik and Loren J Barlett in music education. Dominik, Waln, and Williams also attended the Ohio Music Education Association State Convention in Columbus, where Williams chaired a regional band affairs group and led the Da Cana Club for former Ohio Music Educators Association members.
Norman Schmidt of the Oberlin Police Department will become president of the Lorain County Fraternal Order of Police at a ceremony in Oberlin. He and his wife, Willeen, live at 145 Woodland Ave. Schmidt served seven years on the Oberlin force after moving from Bedford nine years ago, previously worked as a stone mason, and served three years in the Tenth Mountain Division of the Fifth Army in Italy where he earned the Bronze Star. He later rose to technical sergeant with ski troops.
Third year Brownies from troops 154 152 and 140 planned a joint Oberlin meeting at Kellogg House with Miss Jatet Holmes of Oberlin College showing slides of the Chalet. Troop 146 led by Mrs. Richard Surger celebrated their first birthday Friday with an investiture for five new girls Kathleen Boos Nancy Rhodes Rita Kay White Mina Law Wonds and Linda Wright. Guests included Jean Fenderson neighborhood chair Mrs G B Stanger Ruth Princshorn Miss Kathryn Whitbeck and Miss Betty Martin.
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