Skidmore Aide Presents Czech and Slovak Letters Today
Dr. Rudolf Sturm professor at Skidmore College presented the paper Czech and Slovak Letters Today in Books Abroad at the Modern Language Association convention in New York City. The talk covered trends in Czech and Slovak literature governmental pressure to streamline writing and the writers struggle for freedom of expression. About 13 000 of the association s 23 000 members attended the four Manhattan hotel event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolf Sturm
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs
Modern Language Association of America
New York City
Sturm
Manhattan
Skidmore
Br. Sturm
Charles University
Prague
Harvard University
Slavonic Encyclopedia
Harvard Slavic Studies
Schuylerville Couple Marks 25th Wedding Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Meritt Derby celebrated their 25th anniversary with an open house at their Schuylerville home on New Year’s Day attended by about 100 guests from Greenwich Victory Mills Green Island Quaker Springs Saratoga Springs Fort Edward and nearby areas. Mrs Derby before marriage Marie Thivierge is from Schuylerville. He works for the State of New York and she is a part time clerk at Shapiro’s Store. Attendants were unable to attend. The ceremony was performed at Notre Dame de Lourdes Church by the late Rev Leo Dufort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meritt Derby
RD Schuylerville
Curtis Altheim
Josoph
Leon Derby
Derby
Marie Thivierge
Philip Thivierge
Mr. Derby
Henry Derby
Greenwich
Victory Mills
Greensland
Quaker Springs
Saratoga Springs
Fort Edward
Schuylerville
Local residents spend holidays with family across capital region
Hitehall 499 1018 John Whalen returns home after visiting son and daughter in law Kenneth Whalen Pleasantville. Harold Scottjare wintering in Indian Beach Florida. Norman Harper from Groton Conn visited his mother Merill Harper. Mrs George Foy spent holidays with East Greenbush relatives. Miss Mary Ellen Kanaly nurse at St Peter's Albany returns to duties after holidays. Mrs Ira Adams returns from Corinth. RichMurphy family Lake George hosted visitors. Miss Emily Siliman stayed with Ballston Spa host. Miss Barbara Guay Rochester visited parents Claude Guay. James Quinn Scotia returns after holidays with Edmourde Touchette family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Whalen
Kenneth Whalen
Pleasantville
Harold ‘Scott Jare
Indian Beach
Fla
Norman Harper
Groton
Conn
Merill Harper
George’ Foy
Charles Assini
East Greenbush
Mary Ellen Kanaly
St. Peter's Hospital
Albany
James
Kanaley
Ira Adams
Corinth
Mare Rich
Thomas Murphy
Lake George
Joseph Grady
Emily’ Siliman
Carl Breitbeck
St Pauls Supper Tuesday at St Pauls Church Greenwich
Parish supper and meeting at St Pauls Episcopal Church Greenwich will start Tuesday at 6 30 p m in the parish house. Rev Robert Haven rector of St Ann s Albany will be guest speaker and also chair the diocese promotion department overseeing Albany Churchman TV shows and diocesan news. The event includes a covered dish supper, children entertainment, parish meeting with election of a warden and vestry members, budget approval and reports, finishing with Haven s talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Greenwich
Robert Haven
St. Ann's Episcopal Church
Amsterdam
Department of Promtion
Episcopal Diocese of
Albany
Father Haven
Albany Academy
Amherst College
Episcopal Théological School of
Cambridge
Mass
Binghamton
Camillus
Haven
Police Probe Theft From Red Cross in Saratoga Springs
Spa City police investigate a $43.50 petty cash theft at the American Red Cross offices on 437 Broadway Saratoga Springs. Executive director Betty Barrett reported the loss after arriving at 9:00 a.m. yesterday. the door was found ajar with no forced entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga County
American Red Cross
Broadway
Saratoga Springs
Spa City
Betty Barrett
Schuylerville PTA to Host Guest Speaker and Demos
Don Tuttle of WGY and IWRGB will speak at Schuylerville Central School PTA meeting in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. The agriculture department led by William Stevens will demonstrate ornamental horticulture conservation and other farm topics. A social hour follows. Nearby residents share holiday visits and travels including Gravelle Germain Carman and Germain families with relatives in New Brunswick Montreal and Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Tuttle
WGY
IWRGB
Schuylerville Central School
PTA
Agricultural Department
William Stevens
Donald Gravelle
Somerville
Mass
Anna Barrett
Ten Acre Farm
Cemetery Road
Victor Gamache
Jacquet River
New Brunswick
Montreal
Canada
Harry Carman
New York City
James H. Carscadden
Raymond ‘Germain
Kenneth Germain
Schenectady
Holiday visits and obituaries mingle in Saratoga area notes
Social notes recount Mrs Roland Roberson and guests returning to Boston after holidays, Harmon McNitt’s NYC trip with relatives, and families visiting in New Hartford and Saratoga Springs. Obituary items cover Daniel G Robinson of Maple Dell Saratoga Springs with details of survivors, followed by notices for Mrs Jerry Grolley and Miss Esther Powers with service arrangements and interment plans.
Salem Grange Units Conduct Party Program
Salem Grange units held a Christmas party with more than 30 participants including recitations singing games and a Nativity tableau. Junior Grange plans a meeting January 2 and Subordinate Grange on January 12 while service members prepared tray favors for the Salem Nursing Home and funded two Christmas baskets and a cooked meal. Hebron Valley Grange next meets January 11 and a past Pomona service chair presented an award and discussed Christmas and Peace at the Dec 31 card party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salam Union
Salem
Hebron Valley Grange
Ernest Cleveland
Pomona
Grange
Spa Youth To Get New Hearing
William Howard a 19 year old from Saratoga Springs will be rearraigned in Saratoga City Court before Judge LeRoy Walbridge on petit larceny and parole violation charges. He sought a column nobis hearing claiming he was not advised of the right to counsel. The judge denied then granted the hearing after reconsideration with consent of the district attorney. He is being returned from Elmira to face the charges. Previously he pleaded guilty in 1964 to petit larceny and was sentenced to three months in Saratoga County Jail with execution suspended and two years probation. he violated probation and was sentenced to Elmira in 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Howard
Saratoga Springs
Emira
LeRoy T. Walbridge
Howard
John L. McMahon
Walbridge
Loren N. Brown
Spa City
Elmira
Saratoga County
Agency Meeting on Demolition Program in Saratoga Springs
The Saratoga Springs Urban Renewal Agency will convene at 7 00 p m Monday in City Hall agency rooms to consider a demolition program. Director Donald Veitch will present reports.
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Saratoga Springs
Open House Held By Centenary Church Clergy Couple
Pastor and Mrs. John Colum of Centenary Methodist Church Greenwich hosted an open house on New Year’s Day for about 125 parishioners and friends to celebrate the new year. Refreshments were served by church women, with a festive table centerpiece of Scotch pine, silver, and white bells, reflecting a New Year’s ring theme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John By Columbus
Centenary Methodist Church
Greenwich
Bi Brown
WSCS
Marjorie Sheridan
George Kelly
Richard Williams
Robert Morehouse
Bess. Lansing
Dorothy , Mesick
Mildred Wilson
David Sawyer
Philip Foster
Ada Tefft
Wedding for Gordon Thomas and Lydia Riley at North Bennington
East Greenwich reports a wedding at St John the Baptist Church North Bennington VI. Gordon Thomas married Lydia Riley with relatives Beaty Richards and Bealy from Salem attending along with a luncheon at Mt Anthony Country Club. Other items note hospital discharge and New Year gatherings among local families.
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Henry Richards
Andrew Bealy
Emily. Beaty
Salem
Gordon Thomas
Lydia Riley
St. John the Baptist Church
North Bennington
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Shuffleboard origins traced to 13th century Britain
History notes shuffleboard likely began in Great Britain as shove groat or slide groat. Players used a fourpence groat and aimed to shove it nearest a goal line, a game early in English culture.
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Great Britain
Motorcycle public party and local club meetings noted
A VEW Women Auxiliary public card party is set for tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the VFW Home with Mrs Beulah Kelsey and Mrs Millie Martin as hostesses. The Honey Bees 4 H Club will meet January 14 at 10 a.m. at Ellyn and Lila Howlett’s home. Various residents and visitors are noted, including travels to Miami and Frostproof, Florida, and Germany, with club activities and first aid projects mentioned. The Moon Pilots 4-H Club hosted Bottskill Grange members in North Greenwich with holiday readings, song, and first-aid demonstrations, with the next meeting January 14 at leader Hanton Reid’s home.
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Women’s Auxiliary
VEW
Pali
VFW
Beulah Kelsey
Michael Kopach
Schenectady
Albert Slocum
Easton Methodist Church
Richard Buckley
Case Institute of Technology
Gilbert] Buckley
Henry Ruckeberle
Miami
Fla
David Sawyer
Thomas
Geissen
Germany
Robert Ihna
Frostproof
William Talmadge
Norfolk
Carl McGroaty
Middle Falls
Moon Pilots 4-11
Bottskill Grange
North Greenwich
Ralph Myers Sr
Hanton Reid
Tom Reid
Allan
Saunders
Neal Saunders
Two Accidents Reported In Saratoga Springs
Saratoga Springs police investigated two vehicle accidents early yesterday and a pedestrian injury. At 7:40 am Stuart DeLaurie 22 collided with a parked Edmund Reilly 34. DeLaurie skidded on Nelson Avenue and struck the parked car. Later in Railroad Place a pickup struck William Mortis 34 causing head laceration and foot contusion. driver William Mulligan 32 remained at scene. Investigating Sgt John Cummings.
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Saratoga Springs
Stuart Py Delaurle
Church St
Edmund Reilly
Duel PL
Nelson
Lake Avenues
Lester Ramsdill Sr
DeLaurie
Nelson Avenue
William J. Mulligan
RED 3
Saratoga
John Cummings
St Peters placement tests announced for eighth graders
St Peters Academy in Saratoga Springs will hold placement tests for eighth grade students seeking admission to St Peters High School next fall. Tests begin 9 am Friday Feb 3 at St Peters High School and assess reading mathematics language arts and optional science. An intelligence test measures verbal analogies word reasoning and arithmetical reasoning.
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St. Peter's Academy
Saratoga Springs
St. Peter's
St. Peter's High School
Families Dig Graves For Own Dead Due To Strike
New York AP reports 1700 gravediggers strike delays burials at Jewish and nonsectarian cemeteries. Families dig graves themselves at Beth David on Long Island, paying deposits for tools later refunded. Bodies placed in vaults as strikes enter third day. talks continue with wage demands and fringe benefits in dispute.
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New York
Beth, David
Elemont
Long Island
Warren Rosen
Bob David
Salem area students spend holidays at homes
Gregory McClellan of Boston University relaxes at his Salem home for the holidays. Other returning students include Sharon Dithigan from Plattsburgh, Susan Clark of the College of St. Rose, Lance Spallholz of Union, and Richard Marrazzo a Murray State College senior. Russell Smith of Cambridge Road visits family in West Boyleston. George Roche and family return to Salem after Christmas with relatives in Wappingers Falls. Charles H. Dietrich of Gillette New Jersey, a former Salem resident, is named director of Anti Hydro Waterproofing Co. and A H Products Co, previously Salem Central School math teacher and athletics director. His wife is Catherine Cowan Dietrich, formerly of East Greenwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory McClellan
Boston University
Salem
Sharon Dithigan
State University College
Plattsburgh
Susan Clark
College of St. Rose
Lance Spallholz
Union
Richard Marrazzo
Murray State College
Murray
Russell Smith
Cambridge Road
Lyle Smith
West Boyleston
Mass
George Roche
George
L. Roche
Wappingers Falls
Charles H. Dietrich
Gillette
N.J
Anti-Hydro Water- Proofing Co
Arid-A-H Products Co
Dietrich
Salem Central School
Catherine Cowan
East Greenwich
John M. Cowan
Round Lake community notices and church services
Round Lake events include Wegleyan Service Guild meeting at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Potter with cohostess Mrs. Willard McKean and program led by Mrs. Ralph Williams. Women’s Round Lake Improvement Society annual meeting set for Thursday at 8 p.m. Executive committee 7:30 p.m. Finance Commission meets Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Methodist Church Hall followed by Official Board at 8 p.m. Sunday services list Methodist and Saints Episcopal and Corpus Christi masses with times and clergy names.
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Wegleyan Service Guild
Kenneth Potter
Willard McKean
Ralph Williams
Woman's Round Lake Improvement Society
Thebiary
Finance ‘Commission
Corpus Chusli
Arthur P. Carroll
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Upstate Area News
South Cambridge
Margaret Aiken
Fred Schoen
Mary McClellan Hospital
Norman D. Bolt
New Jersey
Malcolm Hamilton
Crystal Clover
Cambridge Central School
Peter Spink
USN
George Balease
Norcross
Atlanta
Edgar Phillips
Flora Batease
John Pakatar
Troy
Ken Gumear
Delmar
John Hamilton
Mrs. Lincoln, Spink
Hitehall
Myrtle
DeLora
the College OF Saint Rose
New-York
The
Soviet Union
Biology
Spencer and Sidney
Melville and
Hawthorne
Attica
State’ Education Department
Siena
Red Cross
A. W. Nevins
Mary
Yushak
Sasha Kelam
Tunisia
Boston
Michael N Yushak
Harmon’ McNitt
Inlaw
David McNitt
Robert Nevin
Cramer
Robinson
Daniel G. Robinson
Maple Dell
Kark and
Tunison
Howard R. Foye
First Presbyterian Church
Bacon Hill Cemetery
Mildred Clark
Gilbert C. Robinson
Hinsdale
Donald V. Turell
Scotia
Robert L. Williams
Livingston
Richard T. Green
Mabel Swan
Schroon
Lake
Jessie Robinson
Warrensburg
Grace Mason
South Glens Falls
Hugh Robinson
Frank Robinson
Jerry Grolley
Oak
Saratoga Hospital
Grolley
Jerry
Mary Maiello
Angeline Burnett
Latham
John
Michael
Anthony
Albert Grolley
Esther F. Powers
Misther
Powers
Burke
St. Peter's’ Church
Daniel R. Burns
St. Peter's Cemetery
James Conley
Morris le Barron
Ralph Siano
Richard Powers
Thomas Powers
Thomas Sullivan
Salem Grange
Spa
David McClure
Kevin Kelley
John Vanleer
Yonkers
Ricky McGuire
Thomas _Lauteri
William Martin
Bennington
Robert Baird
Ralph Pitts
Paul Baird
Daniel Durram
Argyle
James Malone
Thelma Ashton
John A. Skellie
Robert Reid
Warren Skellie
Donald Skellie
Richard Skellie
Skellie-Coulter
Walter Skellie
James Saunders
United States
St. Peter’s
Cemetery
Greena
Health Department
William Grahasis
Round Lake
W. Williams
Remsen
Ohoes
Vuet-St
Gohoes
Thris
RITE
Wilk
ND Wilson
Clearbrook
P Rolls BY
Campbell’s Soups Eisen' Sist
North
Hogan’s
Frigassee
Maine
Turkey
Nabisco Ass
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