Christmas Eve Handball and a Stranger Named Billy Brawn
A Schenectady YMCA handball tale follows William J. Brawn, once an American Locomotive Co. employee, who faced financial ruin after 1929 and loneliness in later years. A Christmas Eve walk leads him to the YMCA, a game, and a lifeful turn after a sports columnist’s story. He later wills sixty thousand dollars, then changes the plan to favor a charitable bequest, living ten more years before dying in Buffalo.
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Schenectady
al DeSantis
Times Herald-Record
State Street
Western Gateway Bridge
Mohawk River
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Billy Brawn
Seward Place
Warren
Richard
Polak Gives 1000 Dollars to Band Trip Fund
Middletown The Middletown High School Band moved closer to its Florida trip goal after Bernard Polak president of Polak's Frutal Works donated 1000 dollars. The gift brings the fund to 20000 dollars toward a 28000 dollar trip to St Petersburg for the Festival of the States.
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Middletown
Bernard Polak
Polak
Frutal Works
Florida
Eleanor Spears
St. Petersburg
Fla
Spears
Gift of remembrance honors Miss Worley at Middletown school event
In Monticello, pupils and teachers recalledMiss Worley at a gift presentation for her long service at the David Moore apartment complex on Genung Street. She spoke of discipline and honesty, recalled relatives, and noted her great grandfather helped found the area. Other attendees included Robert Wallace and Joan Eager Marshall, with several relatives listed. Also in Monticello, the county personnel office announced six Civil Service job vacancies: psychiatric social worker, police patrolman, and police dispatcher. Applications for social worker and dispatcher due Jan 9, patrolman due Jan 16.
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Genung Street
Miss Worley
Monticello
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Buffalo
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Jane Halstead Gardner
Myrna Brown Corey
Mike Corey
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Jacob Gunther
Myron
Perry
Eager
Ethel Shorter
Frank Shorter
Charles Grey
Guam
Stivers Austell
Pennsylvania
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Georgia
Myra Jordan
Miss Warley
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