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TOWN CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE
May 21, 1959
The twenty-ninth meeting of the Town Celebra-
tions Committee was held in the Selectmen ' s Room , Town
Office Building on May 21, 1959 at 8 00 p.m Present
were Messrs Gustin, Hutchins, Bongiorno, Cole, Cobb;
Mesdames Pullen and Williams
Also present was Mrs Roger Kaufman, United
Nations Essay Contest Chairman for League of Women
Voters of Lexington
Mr Gustin explained the background of the United
Nations Essay Contest to Mrs Kaufman UNITED
NATIONS
Mrs Kaufman stated that the League of Women DAY CONTEST
Voters will supply a United Nations Essay Contest
topic and a bibliography to the High. School and to
Cary Library It is hoped that the students will do
research during the summer The contest will be held
in the Fall under the supervision of Miss McIntyre
The League of Women Voters and the Celebrations Com-
mittee will make suggestions to the Assembly Committee
of the Student Council that there be a High School
assembly devoted to United Nations Day at which time
prizes could be awarded and the winning essays could
be read (Mrs Pullen and Mrs Kaufman will visit the
High School in the Fall )
"Describe the world a member of the Lexington
High School class of 1970 will face if there is no arms TOPIC
control"
Mr Cobb suggested the qualifying statement
Ana show how factors or agencies unat exist today
might have been utilized to change this world picture "
Mr Cobb will apply for a United Nations Day
assembly at the High. School for October twenty-third
A letter has gone out from the Town Celebrations
Committee to all organizations of the town suggesting
that recognition of United Nations Day be made in an
October meeting
V F W Post 3007 submitted a bill for $125 00 MISCEL-
to the Celebrations Committee to cover expenses for LANEOUS
entertaining several extra drill teams and a band at
its reception It was voted that the Celebrations VOTE
Li Committee will send $75 00 as originally promised )
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Mr Gustin reviewed other bills A bill for
cleaning old flags used on the Common and buying new fl
ones will be submitted to the Committee
Monday, May twenty-fifth, at )+ 30, at Cary Hall,
has been set as the time for the replacement of the
1958 "Lady Lexington" photograph with. the 1959 one
Georgia Williams
Recording Secretary