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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973-02-14-LBC-min.pdf C LEXINGTON BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE Minutes - February 14, 1973 The meeting was called to order in Room G-15 of the Town Office Building at 7 30 p.m Present were King Howard, Alan Adams, Steve Politi, Dick Michelson, Tony Mancini, Linc Cole Miriam Butts, Becky Nussdorfer and Pat Wheatley Mike Briana attended as an interested citizen to get a feel for what LBC was doing and thinking King asked if there were corrections to the last minutes The question of whether Mr Campana had attended the last meeting as an individual or as a representative of the K of C was discussed It was decided to revise the minutes to indicate that Mr Campana was here as an individual Attention was brought to a letter dated December 13, 1972 received from Bob Hilton, director of Cary Library which requested a change in the LBC minutes which he felt would correctly describe the situation involving the use of the Library for historical records The committee voted to change the words in the minutes of November 29, 1972 from "seems to close" toldiscussed" In further discussion of Permanent memorial ideas a motion was suggested that the PM committee in its report to the Town Meeting request an extension of one year before its final report This motion had to be held until a quorum is present A copy of the "Bicentennial Newsletter" published by Bicentennial Resources, Inc of Cambridge, Mass was shown to the committee and the question of whether to subscribe was discussed Some of the members felt that we already had enough news information, that the national and state publications were ample Since there was no great enthusiasum for this pub-li ation, i-t-was decided-not-to-subscribe he uationalfy-published j "Bicentennial Newsletter" of the ARBC was favorably criticized A recent issue was particularly praised However a paragraph describing bicentennial plans on page one indicated dates from "July 1975-1976" LBC felt a letter should go to the editors concerning this point and emphasizing the significance of the earlier dates in 1975 The selection of a theme for Lexington's celebration of the Bicentennial continues to be unresolved Mr Harris again met with the committee to strongly urge "0 Beautiful for Patriot Dream" He read his letter previously sent to the committee to emphasize his reasoning The phrase is used in the Masons brochure Other theme suggestions were heard Pat Wheatley spoke for "Let Freedom Ring" pointing out that the Belfry will be used on the stationery Later in the meeting the committee voted by ballot on the following theme's -2_ (- So Proudly We Hail Oh Beautiful for Patriot Dream Let Freedom Ring Let it Begin Here A glorious Past, A Glorious Future Pride in our Past, Faith in our Future No decision could be determined It was also decided that the full committee should help decide this point Therefore a post card with the five suggestions with the highest number of votes will be sent to the voting members to be returned in time for an executive meeting on the morning of February 24, 1973, in G-15 of the Town Office Building King reported that the letters had been sent to Mr Finigan and to Roly Robbins The military unit information had been turned over to Ray Barnes of TCC King reported a successful meeting on January 30 with the Town Manager Ken Briggs has been appointed as director of the Planning Board He will be in charge of logistics planning and will be working in cooperation with Roly Greeley King also described the ground breaking ceremony held at the Marrett Road site for the new $6,000,000 building for the Masons This will be an important addition to Lexington and can help bicentennial planning Mr Maxwell of the Masons will be at the February 28th meeting of LBC King also said that the Parade Advisory group has re-confirmed the parade route and direction with a willingness to revise the direction if need be He also has discussed with Raytheon the subject of some contribution from them in the form of administrative help It is premature at this time to make an overture now but Raytheon is receptive to the idea There will be a Joint Military Coordinating Council meeting tomorrow Linc Cole, Ray Barnes, Don Graham, and King are expected to attend Under unfinished business the proposals of Workshop '75 were considered Copies of these proposals should be in the hands of the members Becky will send to those who do not have them King drafted a resolution to be sent to Workshop'75 along with a letter of appreciation LBC approved the resolution and voted to send it to Bill Page Work- shop '75 has put in industrious hours and their labor deserves to be recognized without delay, There was a long discussion of the memo sent by Roly Greeley to the LBC concerning facilities for visitor's during 1975 and 1976 In commending the thought given to the problems, LBC took a point by point appraisal of the observations he had made LBC felt the figures are low for the number of visitors Perhaps there could be a range suggested, for instance 1-3 million for the grand total On item two there was some question about the reasoning for private rather than public property planning Points 3 and 4 seemed reasonable Point 5 had a negative reaction from the members The committee decided that the first March meeting would be scheduled for discussion with Roly Greeley on these important areas of planning Dick Michelson reported that the C of C is still considering a commemorative coin He showed the Committee examples of two coins which were very attractive One which was used in Concord NH had particularly fine carving Dick said with that type Lexington might be able to have a battle scene on their coin Dick also said that he will talk to the postmaster in Boston about reserving P.O.Box 1975 for use when needed during the celebration King informed LBC that a group called the Middlesex County Festival Week Committee has been formed which is charged with the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the armed forces Hanscom Field, Lincoln and that area will be used for a parade on July 4th, 1975 Military and quasi-military groups will be participating LBC should be aware of this activity A copy of their information will be available to LBC and TCC The reconstruction of Buchman Tavern as a Permanent Memorial project was put to a vote LBC definitely supports the reconstruction of Buchman but would not like to see it as the permanent memorial Dick reported that the Selectmen want LBC to present to them a list of the VIP's to be invited to the Celebration The next regular meeting of LBC will be in G-15 of the Town Office Building at 7 p.m There is a TUM meeting that night so the LBC meeting will start earlier than usual Respectfully Submitted, 5 Q., I ) L Becky Nussdorfer, Secretary