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TOWN CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE
March 5, 1959
The eighteenth meeting of the Town Celebrations
Committee was held in the Selectmen' s Room, Town
Office Building on March 5, 1959 at 8 00 p.m Present
were Messrs Gustin, Hutchins, Cole, Cobb, Bongiorno,
Cronin; Mesdames Litchfield, Williams, Pullen Also
representatives of organizations which may enter floats
in the 1959 parade
Mr Gustin, Chairman announced the theme for
the 1959 afternoon parade, 'Freedom--U S A ", and turned
the meeting over to Mr Bongiorno, who is in charge of
floats
Mr Bongiorno read a letter from the Chamber of
Commerce which announced that three trophies will be FLOATS
awarded for the best floats in three different cate-
gories Youth, Civic, and Commercial The awards will
be made by Chamber of Commerce officials at the review-
ing stand at the conclusion of the parade
Mr Bongiorno received the following list of or-
ganizations which, at this time, definitely plan to
enter a float (He also asked for a name, address, and
telephone number for each float entered )
1 DeMolay 7 Republican Club
2 League of Women Voters 8 Junior Chamber of Com-
3 Prom-Man.aders coerce
L. Y-Teens 9 Youth. Division of the
5 Lexington Senior Girl Baptist Church
Scouts 10 Rotary Club
6 Hayden Indians 11 Lions Club
13 Knights of Columbus
March. 25th. is the latest date for entering
floats The floats will be grouped in the parade ac-
cording to category and a group of floats will follow
each. of the first three parade divisions (Fire Engines
will follow the fourth division )
Mr Gustin has contacted several commercial busi-
nesses in an effort to stimulate interest in entering
commercial floats Raytheon, Arthur D Little, Lexington
Nurseries, Lexington Gardens, and businesses along Rte
128 were suggested as possibilities for commercial
floats ( Commercial signs maybe upto fifteen sure
square
in size )
Mrs Pullen will meet with Dr Crooks of the
Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of drawing up a set
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of printed rules and entry blanks for float entrants .
( Dr Crooks will be reminded that the Chamber of
Commerce is expected to select the judges for the
floats )
Mr Cobb reported that 7000 sheets of paper
CAMERA had been delivered to the Lexington Senior High
CONST School for use by the Photography Club for print-
ing rules and entry blanks for its school-wide
camera contest which has been cleared with Mr
Poehler, Interim Superintendent of Schools and Mr
Warren, Principal of the High School
Mr Cronin will ask Mr Cass of the Camera
Guild of the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society to
name judges for the camera contest
Mr Hutchins reported that the U S. Navy
BANDS Band had sent regrets that it cannot arrange its
itinerary in. order to be in. Lexington. on April 20th
Northeastern. University expects to send
thirty-five to fifty band members to Lexington in
spite of April 20th' s being in a University vaca-
tion period
Boston University will send a seventy-five man.
marching unit, but no band
Other military bands which plan to be in the
parade are Norwich University, Fort Devens, Forst
Naval District and Tufts.
High. School bands which. have been sent invi-
tations but from which no reply has been received
will be contacted personally by Committee members
Mansfield (Mr Gustin) ; Winchester, (Mr Bon iorno) ;
�doburn, ( Mr Cronin ) ; and Gardner, (Mr Cobb
The Committee members were reminded. that the
Committee has a policy of offering a fifty dollar
donation to the school' s band fund plus transporta-
tion )
Mrs Pullen. will invite "Captain Bob", popular
PUBLICITY T V star, to be in the parade The Committee will
take over Theater Guild publicity The Junior Cham-
ber of Commerce gill assist the Theater Guild with
its ticket sale. The suggested ticket prices of two
dollars ( adult) and one dollar ( student) seemed ex-
pensive to some Committee members--Mrs Litchfield
will express to Mrs Biggs the Committee ' s feeling
that tickets of one dollar ( adult) and fifty cents
( student) might draw a larger audience .
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Mrs Pullen will bring to the next meeting a
schedule of publicity for the next five weeks
Mr Gustin passed out printed copies of the
1959 Morning Parade agenda Mr Cronin reported that MORNING
the "Spirit of '761 " will be present for the morning PARADE
parade The Rt Rev Msgr George W Casey, P P of St
Brigitts will give the Invocation Rev Glenn Barker
of Grace Chapel will give the Benediction Mr
Cronin, Marshal of the morning parade, will select
two Aides
The Selectmen and the Clergy will be invited
this week to be in the April 20th morning parade
Georgia Williams
Recording Secretary
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