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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1959
Page
13
Oberlin reports the board of education approved a 30 acre site for a high school building after a brief night session. Superintendent Robert W. Duncan announces the project as the city plans a new school facility with required permits and licensing steps discussed.
A man pleaded guilty in a case related to a view car incident and the case was dismissed after the plea. Prosecutors cited the agreement terms and the judge approved the dismissal following the plea.
Oberlin Board of Education rejected paying tuition to enroll a partially deaf four year old in Lakewood Special Education. Trustees will draft a policy on tuition aid for handicapped students before acting on similar requests. The board also partnered with Lorain County Child Welfare for financing mentally retarded training at Prospect School with yearly renegotiation.
In Oberlin a student narrowly misses a Westbound dump truck and a girl rider blasts through a red light at Lorain-North Professor Street. Judge Goldthorpe warns motorists that students and locals alike run red lights and calls for safety. council reports savings on a new police cruiser and notes municipal income from criminal cases.
The Oberlin College Graduate School of Theology completes three chapel windows in a beautification plan led by late dean Leavend A. Stidley. Funds are being sought for two more, and the existing windows will serve as studio exhibits until installation.
Oberlin organist and Grace Lutheran Church choir director Robert Fountain, on a Fullbright in Berlin, paints a vivid contrast between East and West. He notes the East's rigid order, bombed streets, and austere life against West Berlin's vitality and freer culture, while describing local churches and the city’s ongoing rebuilding. He also mentions political tensions with an ultimatum for Berlin to become a Free City by June 1 and West Berlin’s rejection of it. The report includes his reflections on German education and music, self-defense, and the differing pressures of postwar life.
Oberlin Grange hosts Miss Donna Born who spoke on the Lorain County exchange program as part of a countywide international youth effort. The Grange also voted to donate to CARE and approved two aid applications while planning the Elyma Junior Chamber award and a county banquet.
The Oberlin Community Welfare Council executive board, whose January session was postponed, will meet Saturday at 1 30 p m at OCWC headquarters 48 Lincoln Street.
The Wight in Mexico will be the theme of a family supper and missions program at First Methodist Church on January 27. The event is sponsored by the church school department.
The Fisk University Jubilee Singers will give a concert at Finney Chapel, Oberlin, Friday at 8 pm, presented by Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Directed by Matthew Kennedy, the group is hailed as masterly exponents of the spiritual and one of the era’s finest singing ensembles.
The note lists various church events with uncertain times and locations. It mentions Bile Soeur meeting at 3 36 in a pastor's study, a Church service at gin and a 7 pm church gathering, plus a Brownies meeting and a Meth lodit Church event at 3 35 pip.
Four circles of the Woman's Safety for Service at First Methodist hold meetings this week with three on a Monday evening and the fourth on Wednesday at 6 15 pm. Monday Esther Circle members will attend a gathering.
P Sacks of the Spanish Department at Oberlin College was named to two offices by the Modern Language Association of America. At the MLA and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese meeting in New York he was elected Editor of the Comparative Romance Linguistics Newsletter and appointed to the Comparative Romance Linguistics section publication.
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