Page 2 by the Rev. Charles H. Gilbert Christmas-is all over. But not quite. The tree is still up and smiling with glitter and twinkle and tinsel. And memories. For we like to look over our gifts and cards and enjoy them all over again. One _of the habits of our children was to keep on en- joying Christmas. Dorothy used to begin wrapping up all over again her gifts from the tree which she could hardly wait to unwrap. I think she enjoyed perpetuating the thrill of newness. One of my devotional manuals has for the New Year meditation, ‘I see myself on a path of newness.” What new experience can come to me this year? Well I am game to look for newness anyway, even in religion. That is why I like to try my mind at the Greek New Testament, as one professor told to my brother, ‘‘It freshens it up a bit!”’ That is a good reason for reading from any or all of the new versions; they serve to freshen up the ‘‘old, old story.” Here is something new that happened at our house. A friend gave us (Catherine, but Daddy was inonittoo!) a fondue outfit. I've seen pictures of them and of fondue recipes, and have judged them to be modern version of the chafing dish I used to see on side-tables in dining rooms. But this was something new. And anything new involving cookery sets my daughter’s eyes wide open! So last night I could: tell by the smells drifting in from the kitchen that something dif- ferent was ‘‘cooking.” Call for supper came and I dropped everything to go see what it was all about. There on the table in the kitchen was this new gadget with four forks sticking out of all four corners of the stand. In the middle of the stand was a frame holding not only the forks but an alcohol burner un- derneath and a shiny round cook-bowl. On the range was a cookie sheet with a single large flat baked dough which she cut into bite-size squares. In the shiny cook-bowl was some creamy looking stuff smoking hot. We sat around the table, and Cathy took the long fork with a blue tip and told me I could use the red tipped one. We then proceded to stab a square of the bread stuff just out of the oven, stick it into the glop in the bowl and swivel it around and bring it up. It seemed dangerous to put that hot fork of stuff right into one’s mouth, so I cooled it a bit on my plate and then ate. Yum, yum, yum that was good. And so was another and another fork full. Cathy confessed that she didn’t use any of the recipes in the book, but that did not sur- prise nor worry me. This cheese fondue of her own manufacture and with my diet in mind was good. Fork after fork, piece after piece of whatever kind of dough this was--it was good and I didn’t stop until I knew I had enough! My imagination began to see a great future for that, for in- stance, supposing that fondue bowl had some thick chocolate With the passing of Frances Dorrance Saturday, a segment of Wyoming Valley history drew to a close. The last direct descendant of early Wyoming Valley settlers who gave their name to a section of Kingston previously known as Dorran- ceton, Miss Dorrance died in the Hampton House Nursing Home, Hanover Township. Born June 30, 1876, Miss Dorrance lived for the last few years at the Leader Nursing Home and, after the flood, was moved to the home of Mary Weir at Goodleigh Farms, Dallas. For several years, Miss Dorrance resided on Church Street in Dallas. Many honors accrued to Miss Dorrance during her life, in- cluding. being named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania in 1952. She was the first woman in the United States ' to receive the Distinguished Service Citation from the American Legion and, in 1970, was the recipient of the first J. Alden Mason Award by the Pennsylvania Society for Archaeology. The Society’s local chapter is named in her honor. An alumna of Wyoming Seminary and Vassar College, Miss Dorrance studied at Berlin - University, Germany, for three semesters. She translated books on plant diseases from German to English and these volumes, . titled Plant Diseases, have been ~ used for years by horticulturists and students throughout the nation. Miss Dorrance obtained a degree from the New York State Library School and accepted the position of executive director of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society before becoming secretary of the Hoyt Library when it opened in 1928. A short time later, she was named head librarian at Hoyt, a position she retained until her retirement. Other responsibilities in- cluded service as a director of the Back Mountain Memorial * Library ; secretary of the Hoyt Library Board, secretary of the board of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Com- mission, director of the Penn- sylvania Folklore Society and reorganizer of the Friends of Hoyt Library. Miss Dorrance was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre, and the Wyoming Commemorative Association and Wyoming Monument Association, of which she was the oldest living member. p Funeral services were held Tuesday morning in the First Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Dr. Jule Ayers, pastor, officiating. Interment was in the family plot in Hollenback Cemetery. ST. ANDREWS ORTHODOX CHURCH Huntsville—ldetown Rd. Off Rt. 118 —SUNDAY SERVICES— DIVINE LITURGY 9:30 a.m. EVERYONE WELCOME over that burner. And a plate of puffy white marshmallow waiting handy by. Supposing and then sozzled it around in that luscious dark mess in the bowl. And then out to let it cool some, and then into one’s mouth! Not too many and not to make a meal of them, just for dessert. Not bad! While I was writing a little green truck drove up. Tuffy was tied outside and began his usual bow-wow-wow and I went out and sent him into the house. The man came to the steps then with a Christmas package all done up for me. Well this was another surprise and I was not looking for it as it wasn’t under the Christmas tree. He wanted to know he had appreciated some calls I had made on his beautiful white-haired mother. Calling on her was all the reward I ever needed, for she was full of smiles and gladness everytime I went, and was very nice in laughing at my jokes and acting always cheered up at my coming! Christmas is all over, surprises can still happen! Our stack of greeting cards was running over from each of the three baskets used to hold them from falling to the floor. Woe be to any card that went to the floor! Tuffy likes Christmas cards almost as well as he does Cathy’s lap or tissues from the waste basket! Cards kept coming and some had notes or a bit of money ‘‘to keep Jots from Dot coming.” We could take time to read carefully all the notes and family letters that came with the cards. One of my brother-ministers whom I don’t see often writes a tremendous letter with all the four or five of the family signing or at least having his name included. This family seems to be mostly geniuses in one way or another. One is a social worker, probation officer, up in central New York and her father writes that she does a good job at it too. The mother of this wonderful family (we at- tended the wedding years ago) should have some kind of medal for still getting’ around: and doing what would get anybody else down. We think she is some kind of hero, and I guess her husband thinks so too. Another card came from a man who used to be a frequent caller at our parsonage 30 years ago. When he writes I can almost hear his voice, and this card had a few lines of verse on it that he wrote for our special benefit. Sounds just like him. Many cards have verses by Steiner Rice which express what many of my friends would like to say to me. Still another friend wrote, ‘‘I hope you will be spared to continue doing service for God all through 73.” I might add that I hope also to live to be able to go to my bank with the familiar little coupon book and a check for the next 24 months to keep in mind that this little car had better hold up that long too! Well, some of these days we are going to slow down enough to go over these 336 or more cards that are stacked up here, each one saying in one way and another by word pictures and lovely names things we like to read. Every one that comes makes me say, ‘“Thank God for these and other kind friends and relatives.” And to all readers of The Dallas Post and the circulation manager and editors, God bless but Morgan Completes Leadership Course Army private Robert O. Morgan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Morgan, 391-A Midway Manor, RD 5, Shavertown, recently com- pleted with honors the basic leadership course at Ft. Jackson, S.C. Pvt. Morgan received training in leadership, human behavior, counseling and discipline, problem solving and communications. Presenting the award is Brigadier General Jack MacFarlane, deputy com- manding general, Ft. Jackson. _A 1968 graduate of Dallas High School, he received a B.A. degree in 1972 from Temple University, Philadelphia. Pvt. Morgan is a member of Sigma Pi Fraternity. JOSEPH M. GIBLIN Joseph M. Giblin, 73 died Sun- day night after an illness in the State Correctional Institution at Dallas where he was a resident. Born in Shenandoah Sept. 7, 1899, Mr. Giblin served in the US. Army with the 31st In- fantry in the Philippines from 1921 to 1925. He had been con- fined in the prison the last 27 years. A Concelebrated Mass of Res- urrection will be conducted this morning at 11 in the chapel of the State Correctional Institu- tion with the Rev. Clement L. Kazlauska, CSC, King’s College, officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Hanover Township. LAURA EVA ELLSWORTH Seventy-nine year old Laura Eva Ellsworth died Monday afternoon in Harkness Pavilion Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, where she had been a patient 10 days. She resided at 136 Orchard East, Newberry Estates, Dallas. The former Laura Carey, she lived at 20 Gershom Place, Kingston, for 37 years prior to the flood. A native of Jer- seytown, she was a member of the: ‘Dorrancéton’ United Methodist Church. She was the widow of Dr. Elijah M. Ellsworth, who died Sept. 14, 1970. She is survived by a son, Dr. Robert M. Ellsworth, Englewood, N.J.; sister, Alice Bossert, Howell, Mich.; two grandchildren. The funeral will be held from the Dorranceton United Methodist Church this morning at 11 with the Rev. Arthur B. Mayo officiating. Interment will be in the Denison Cemetery. JESSE W. MILLER Jesse W. Miller, 58, a resident of the State Correctional Insti- tution at Dallas, died Friday. Death was attributed to natural causes. Mr. Miller was born in Kregar June 20, 1914. Private funeral services will be held in the Harold C. Snow- don Funeral Home at the con- venience of the family. Burial will be in Memorial Shrine Cemetery, Carverton. WILLIAM HARVEY William Harvey, 73, Over- brook Avenue, Dallas, died Jan. 5 at his home. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., he resided on Meyers Court, Wilkes-Barre, 47 years. For the past nine months he resided with his daughter, Mrs. Philip Heycock in Dallas. He had been employed by Hall’s Motor Transport as a truck driver 30 years, retiring seven years ago. Following his retirement, he was employed at King’s College. Mr. Harvey was a member of St. Mary’s Church. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Heycock are a daughter, Mrs. Patrick Kinney, Belleville, Ill. ; son, William Jr., Edwardsville; 12 grandchildren. The funeral was held Jan. 8 from the Snowdon Funeral Home, Wilkes-Barre, at 9 with a Requiem Mass at 9:30 in St. Mary’s Church. Blanche Knorr, 78, of 147 S. Memorial Highway, Trucks- ville, died Monday morning in Retreat State Hospital where she had been a patient several years. Miss Knorr was born in Trucksville April 24, 1894, and was a member of the Trucks- ville United Methodist Church. Surviving are sisters, Julia Knorr and Della Thompson, both of Trucksville; a brother, Thomas D. Knorr, Camp Hill. Private funeral services will don Funeral Home, Shaver- town, at the convenience of the family. The Rev. John Topolew- ski will officiate. Interment will be in Mount Greenwood Ceme- tery, Trucksville. - ARABELLA LEVAN Arabella Margaret Levan, Carpenter Road, Harveys Lake, died Saturday afternoon at the home of her son, Don Levan, in Herndon where she had been staying the past two weeks. She was 71. The former Arabella Rutt, she was born in Easton and resided for many years in Wilkes-Barre before moving to Harveys Lake 10 years ago. 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