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TOWN CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE
November 5, 1959
The eighth meeting of the 1959-'60 Town Celebra-
tions Committee was held in the Selectmen' s Room of the
Town Office Building at 8 :00 p m Present were Mrs
Litchfield, Williams, Pullen and Messrs Cole, Cobb,
Cronin, Bongiorno, Douglass and Howard.
The Celebrations Committee reviewed the United U.N WEEK
Nations program for this year and felt that it went ac-
cording to plan and recommended that a similar program
be followed next year
At a party given for foreign students visiting
Lexington, the Celebrations Committee was represented
by Mr & Mrs Lincoln P Cole, Jr , Mrs Gerald Litch-
field, Mrs Sidney B Williams, Mr Donald Cobb, and Mr
William Bongiorno The party was given by the A L B
Jewish Community Center
Parker School has made a special request to the
Committee that it be considered as the next site for
the planting of a United Nations tree Mrs Pullen felt
that the new William Diamond Junior High School would
be a more appropriate site for the tree planting (The
Committee postponed the decision until a later meeting )
Mr Cole reported that Dean Edward K Graham of THANKS-
the B U. Graduate School will be pleased to be the GIVING
Thanksgiving Service speaker if November 22 is open on
his calendar Mr Cole will know by tomorrow.
Rev Henry Clark of Hancock Congregational
Church will be pleased to Five the Invocation but men-
tioned that he may have to leave before the end of the
service to attend a 9 :00 p m meeting which he has al-
ready scheduled
Thanksgiving Service program was reviewed and
awaits the addition of the speaker' s name for printing.
A letter should go to the Council of Churches
requesting that 10 ushers for the Thanksgiving Service
be supplied by the Council. Temple Isaiah and the
Jewish Community Center will supply 4 additional ushers
For next week' s Lexington Minute Man, Mrs
Pullen plans an article announcing that there will be
the third annual Thanksgiving service on November 22
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APRIL 19 Acceptances have been received from the bands of
Maynard and Reading High Schools r^`
Needham and Belmont High Schools have sent regrets that
they cannot participate
The meeting adjourned at 8 :50 p m
Georgia Williams,
ecording Secretary