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Newspaper
The Spectator
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1949
Page
5
The Joliet Township High School 1933 class will hold its annual reunion with a 6:30 PM dinner at the Ottawa Street Methodist Church on May 11. Reservations chairman Mrs William Longley Schroeder of 606 Whitley Avenue leads the event.
The Men's Forum club meets in the YMCA dining room tonight to discuss whether parenthood has failed. Members will gather for a regular weekly meeting and participate in the scheduled discussion.
At 6 15 dinner begins as President Emil Nelson presides and Robert Brown leads the program. The notice recalls the record homing pigeon flight from Arras France to China covering over 7000 miles.
The Joliet Township High School band presents its annual spring concert featuring soloists and ensembles. Edward Bishop, alumnus and guest conductor, will direct S S Monterey and a Porter Kern Overstreat medley. Don Kramer and Bruce Woodman lead solos, with a cornet trio and horn quartet joining. The program includes Kreisler Liebesfreud rearranged for the trio and Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 finale. Tickets on sale at the band office. The concert occurs next Friday evening in the school auditorium.
The Joliet section holds its annual banquet in the Terrace room at the Woodruff Hotel on Saturday evening May 21 at 6 30. Dr Farrington Daniels of the University of Wisconsin will speak on Atomic and Solar Energy. A social hour and dancing follow from 10 to midnight. John Hancock’s signature appears first on the Declaration of Independence as president of the Continental Congress.
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