PR sey PAGE EIGHT 1 ET happening in the THURSDAY 2 Meeting of the Dallas Area Lettermen-Booster Club, 8:30 p.m., Dallas American Legion... FRIDAY i 3 ‘World Day of Prayer ser- vice at the Trucksville United Methodist Church educational building...Bl- ood pressure clinic, 10 a.m. to noon, . First Eastern Bank, Dallas = SATURDAY 4 Juvenile Diabetes Foun- dation Telethon, Watres Armory, Scranton...Annu- al Firemen’s Banquet of the Kunkle Fire Company 7 p.m. at the Beaumont Inn...Scout Troop 225 a Ei, SUNDAY 5 “ Worship with your family at the church of your choice... MONDAY 6 Regular monthly meeting of the Back Mountain - Baseball Organization, 8 p.m., Dallas American Legion...”The Amazing Kreskin’’ will appear at Luzerne County Com- | TUESDAY 7 : Bloodmobile visit at Gate of Heaven, Dallas 1:30 to 6:30 p.m...Special meeting of the Lake- Lehman Board of School: Directors, 7:30 p.m., in the Music Room of the WEDNESDAY 8 Meeting of the Kunkle United Methodist Church. Women, 7 p.m...followed at 8 p.m. by a slide presentation...Meeting ‘of the Dallas Woman's Club, Prince of Peace . | Village Shopping Cen- Jackson Twp. paper . rye or the Music Room oF Qu ie fer... ‘drive, Hazeltine’s gas De - station, Plymouth Moun-* | tain Road... 1 : 3 i -¥ lA Wii J ny J J aN HOR hold serving committee. Mrs. Xdith Boice of Idetown entertained as dinner guests last Monday night, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Hoover, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Long and daughters Tricia, Traycie and Terianne, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Moyer, Herb Jr., Connie and David Lloyd, Mrs. Elmer Hoover of the and Roxie Hessler. ~ On Tuesday Mrs. Helen Hoover, Mrs. Margaret Moyer, and Mrs. Edith Boice visited Mr. and Mrs. Dean Long and family of Warminster, Pa. Mrs. Claire McKenna is recuperating at the Nesbitt Memorial Hospital where Gensel enlists in Army Warren J. Gensel, son of Roland and Shirley Gensel, Town & Country Manor, Lehman, has enlisted in the U.S. Army. He left Friday, Feb. 24 for Fort Jackson, S.C. where he will receive his basic training and schooling for an ad- ministrative specialist. From there he will go to Fort Benning, Ga. to attend jump school. Upon completion of his training, he will be stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C., with the 18th ABN Corp. as an administrative specialist. Warren is a 1976 graduate of Lake Lehman "High School and attended Luzerne County Com- munity College. Shaver elected ACLD state vp Joe Shaver, president of local ACLD chapter, was elected to vice-president of Pa. state association when elections were held at Valley Forge Pa. recently. He took office in January and will represent all counties in Pennsylvania. The group’s public meeting is March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Room of the Hotel Sterling. The speaker will be Joe Brislin of Luzerne Company Inf. Unit 18 director of Pupil Personal services in- volving L.D.Children. r The Dallas Post welcomes letters to the editor she has been a patient for two weeks. \Mrs. Elmer Hoover has recovered her automobile, from her garage where the roof caved in on it, with only a broken back window and a couple of dents. Lenny Karasek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Karasek, of 149 Pinecrest Dallas, is a patient at Nesbitt Hospital and a student in 7th grade, Dallas Jr. High School. It’s Inevitable A man knows he’s getting old when he scans the menu without first staring at the waitress. : BRADFORD (PART) LUZERNE (PART) MONROE (PART) PIKE (ALL) WYOMING (ALL) WAYNE (ALL) Pa. 18704, or call Thanks, Frank “by Joan Kingsbury Barber shop quartets, a very popular form of en- tertainment, are certainly not as numerous as in their organization determined to preserve this American style of music...the Society for Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quarter Singing in America. ’ The international organization was founded by Owen C. Cash and co- founder Rupert Hall 40 years ago to ‘‘perpetuate an old American in- stitution, barber shop quartet and invoke vocal harmony and good fellowship among its members’. Today SPEBSQSA has a membership of 38,000 members from every state in the United States and some Canadian Provinces. There are 780 chapters that range in size from 25 to 200 members. There are 16 districts, the largest being with a membership of 5,000 members. Local members belong to this district. The organization has no are tested for voice placement when an in- dividual joins, but having a voice like a professional is not necessary. ° In addition to singing for many audiences in hospitals, at bazaars, and banquets, our local chapter presents two concerts each year, one in the spring, the other in Mid-August. Some proceeds from these concerts are donated to the Institute of Logopedics, fering from com- municative handicaps. Their slogan for this en- deavor is ‘‘we sing that they shall speak’. The Institute of Logopedics assists those with problems of delayed speech, and language, stuttering, articulatory defects, cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, hearing loss, aphasia, cleft and mental retardation. Since : 1964, SPEBSQSA has earned in excess of $2 million for the Institute. "Eight of the 50 local chorus members are Back Mountain residents. Bob Carey, Dallas, is serving as upcoming concert. Daniel Phillips, Harveys Lake, co- directs the chorus along with Ray Patsko of Wilkes- Barre. There are two quartets in the local chapter. Joe Fry, Trucksville, who sings lead, and Phil Brown, Shavertown, who sings tenor, are members of the Tag Masters Quartet. Baritone Harry Howell, Dallas, is a member of the Check Notes Quartet. Other chorus members are Bob Lawrence, Dallas; Ted Rebennack, Shavertown, and Ken Smith, Dallas. On March 3 and 4 the chorus will present their annual spring concert at 8 p.m. at Meyers High School. Two guest quar- tets, the Note-Wits, a comedy group from New Jersey, and Talk-About- Town, of New York will also appear in the concert. Irving Berlin Tunes will be the theme for this year’s concert. Such noted classics as ‘White Christmas’, ‘‘Easter Parade’’, ‘‘Alexander’s Ragtime Band’’, and ‘God Bless America’ will be on Lori Gaylord, Dallas Area Senior High Shcool musician, has been selected to appear in the 1978 edition of Who's Who in Music, a national listing of outstanding high school musicians, according to Mrs. Florence H Sherwood, choral director. Lori, a senior, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Gaylord, 185 Lewis Ave., Trucksville. She recently placed first in the regional chorus auditions at Montrose as an alto two and qualified to go on to the regional chorus at Carbondale March 30 and 31 and April 1. She is a member of the Dal-Hi Choristers, Les Filles du Monts, Chansonaires, the Senior High School Mixed Chorus, and the marching ‘and concert bands. Lori is also a piano accompanist and organist. She will serve as accompanist for the musical Anything Goes in April and in the same month will be presenting her senior piano recital. LBotts the program. William A. Zdancewicz, president of the chaptey and public relations chairman, explained that the group maintains an open membership all year round. Any man interested in joining ‘‘the largest the world” is welcome to attend their meetings held each’ Monday night at 8 p.m. at the Volunteer Hose Company No. 1, Scott Street in Swoyersville. ‘Tempera’ workshop Sister Dorothy McLaughlin, RSM, director of graduate studies at College Misericordia, has an- nounced a special, graduate art workshop to be held at the college in March. The workshop is ‘Egg Tempera Painting” and will be instructed by noted local artist Hope Horn. The first session of the one- credit offering will be held at the college on March 4. A second session is scheduled for March 18. 0 Se + i ot 4 PO— in ee
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