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TOWN CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE
March 12, 1956
The thirteenth regular meeting of the Town
Celebrations Committee was held on the evening of
March 12 in the American Legion Room with all members
present except Mr Foster Mr Lewis reported that
General MacArthur and his wife would not be able to
come and be our guests of honor on April 19 After GUEST OF
much discussion it was decided that Mr Lewis call HONOR
Mrs . Rogers to ask for her help in finding a guest of
honor for us, especially General Twining
Mrs LaPorte came for the second visit to get
final instructions for the early morning parade
After reading Mr Belcher' s resignation Mr Lewis
suggested that we invite Mrs LaPorte to take his
place on the Committee It was so voted.
Mr Lewis distributed copies of the schedule
that he had made up as tentative. The Committee
accepted it as tentative to become permanent
Feports from various members included the
following REPORTS OF
COMMITTEES
1) Mr Sawyer - working on the stands and
will take over the public address system, too
2) Mr. Gillespie - H S. bands accepted to
date Woburn, Gloucester, Maynard, Needham, Lex-
ington Junior and Senior
3) Mr Hutchins - finished invitations to
military personnel will writenow_to-ROTC-and Band
at University of Massachusetts
I ) Mr Rooney - making plans for Fourth
Division with maybe some teams onstilts and special
bicycles for break in floats; also, will confer with
Mr Lamont about how and where to go for cups or
symbols for awards
5) Mrs Litchfield - will write to churches
withbells right away
6) Mr Gustin - anxious for positive action
of some kind for publicity.
7) Mrs Cheever - Acceptances so far
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a. Military: Colonel Dunlop, Bedford Air Force
Flight and Color Guard, Graves, '`
Bedford Air Force
Col .John S O'Brien ( for Herter) ,
Boston
Major Gen Wm. H Harrison,Jr ,
Boston
Otis Whitney offers State Police
help (he can' t come)
b Others Knights of Columbus, Lexington
Aux. #11 - Lexington, Car
Lexington, Red Cross, station wagon
Civil Air Patrol, Somerville (will
visit us April 10)
Scouts in early morning parade
c 4.th Div Rainbow Girls - Drill Team
Lexington Grange - float
4-H boys and girls - float
Fire department
Lions Club - float
Tandem Club - float
Girl Scouts - float
Boy Scouts - float
League of Women Voters - float
P T A ' s - combined to make one
float (maybe)
Under new business plans were made to publi-
cize the day' s theme by running off a lot of copies
of the suggestions for the It in "Let It Begin Here"
and distributing them to organizations in town, es-
pecially town meeting on March 19. We would have a
boy and girl scout at the doors to hand to Town Meet-
ing Members such copies
Mrs Litchfield was asked to get in touch and
thenwrite to these three town residents to act as
judges for the float awards Mr Worthen, Mr Ripley,
and Mrs Parsons.
Mr Lewis asked Mrs Litchfield, Mr Gustin,
and Mrs Cheever to meet on Wednesday evening, March
14, to make plans for Mr Lewis to answer any ques-
tions on the budget at town meeting
Mrs Cheever was asked to write Mr Mather,
President of the University of Massachusetts to
invite him to come to Lexington on April 19
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Mr Lewis asked the Parade Roster Committee
(Lewis, Rooney, Hutchins, Bashian, and Dearborn) to
meet on Friday evening, March 16.
The meeting adjourned about 10 15 p.m
Edith B Cheever, Secretary