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TOWN CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE
November 12, 1959
The ninth 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, Mrs Pullen and Messrs. Cole, Douglass, Cobb,
end Cronin. Also present were Mr Bentley S. Hutchins
and Commander Irving Macey, U.S.N. , Boston Navy Yard, a
Lexington citizen who is interested in town operations
Mr Cole read a letter from Mr Miller of the U N DAY
ALBJCC in which he thanked members of the Committee
for their attending the October 31 meeting of the
Jewish Community Center when foreign students were
their guests
Mrs Pullen reported about a party given by the
United. World. Federalists for all pupils who had entered
the U.N. Essay Contest. Mr Wm Roger Greeley spoke
about old Lexington About 100 were present.
A letter was read which had been sent by the
two high school faculty members who had accompanied
the two essay crntest winners on their trip to New
York.
VOTED To pay Miss Helen McIntyre $24 19 for
United Nations material used in her class at the high
school
Mr. Cole reported that Dean Edward K Graham of THANKS-
B U had declined the invitation to be Thanksgiving GIVING
speaker because of a previous engagement , but he would
like to be invited again next year.
Hancock Press will print the programs
Mr Cole had spoken to Mrs Sanborn Brown, wife
of M I.T. Professor Brown, about the possibility of
her husband' s being Thanksgiving speaker. He is out
of town
Mr. Bongiorno, not present, had sent a report APRIL 19
on floats
Mr Douglass spoke of the Historic Heritage
project of the Jaycees and of their many- ideas . He
will ask Mr. Frank Bateman, Chairman of the project,
to attend the Dec. 3 meeting of the Committee
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There was discussion about the Guest of Honor
It was the consensus of the Committee that no speech
be made by the honored guest
Mrs Pullen and Mr Cobb were authorized to go
before the Board of Selectmen in regard to the publish-
ing of a booklet about April 19th Celebrations in Lex-
ington The Committee felt that some of the expense
of the booklet could be defrayed by using the Leroy
Brown Fund
MISCEL- Mr Cronin presented a gavel to Mr Cole It
LANECUS was made from an elm from the Green
Mr Hutchins presented 1958-59 Committee members
with copies of the Boston Historic Sites Commission
which had been promised to them last spring
Georgia Williams,
Recording Secretary