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TO4N CELEBRATIONS IS COVMITT 'E
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SEPTEMBER 2', 1960 ••
The first meeting of the 1960-'61 Town Celebra-
tions Committee was held in the Town Accountant 's Office
of the Town Office Building at P 00 p m Present were
Mrs Litchfield, Mrs Fo Lro Nilliarns, and Messrs
Cronin, Cobb, Homaard, Bonrfiorno, Douglass and Gilman
Also present were Fre Philip Pullen and Mr Lincoln
P Cole, Jr , former members of the Committee and Mrs
Rog r Wilson, representative of ti-e League of Women
Voters in charge of the United Nations Contest
Mr Cronin, Chairman, welcomed Mrs B rtrand
Fox, 18 Ednewood Rd and Mr Martin A Gilman, 56
Bloomfield St , who were recently ap •oi rated to 3 Year
terms on the Celebrations Committee by the Do r1 of
Selectmen
Mr Cole, rerre enting the Men° s Club of the U N DAY
Church of the Redeemer, reque ted information as tc
the availability of speakers abouo the United Nations
for orvani.zatio is such as the Men a Club (He was
referred to tie United Nations ' Council in Boston
which has a Speakers' list )
United N tions Essay Contest Mrs Pullen reported
th t Dr William Way, Youth Chairman of the Lexin,'ton
Rotary Club, had e -pressed tc her the Rotary Club's
intention to underwrite the entire cost of the prize
trip to the United Nations in New York for the 2 Essay
Contest winners and their chaperones
VOTED That the Rotary Club be informed that the
Committee accepts its offer for sponsoring and under-
writing the expenses of the prize trip to t'-e United
Nations for the 2 students, who win the United Nations
Essay Contest, and their 2 chaperones
Lura Wilson reported that the United N tions
Essay Contest for 1960 will be writtei on October U•,
on tie subject , "United Nations Achievements in
Securing Peace, " Miss Helen McIntyre, the High ''chool
teacher in charge of the contest, will turn the essays
over to the L 4k .V (Mrs Wilson) , who will give them
to the judges, who will be selected by the L W V
VOTED That Miss McIntyre be authorized to spend up
t50 of Celebrations Committee funds for United
Nations material
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Mr Cobb will check on arrangements for. the -,
United Nations ' Day Assembly program at the High School
He stated th=at the school would prefer that the assembly
be held near the end of the school day perhaps , at 1 30
p m (Mr Douglass will invite Mr John Hinchliffe,
President of the Rotary Club, to be present at the High
School assembly )
United. Nations ' Day Tree Planting Miss Maxfield,
Principal of Parker School, has been advised that the
1960 tree-planting ceremony will be held at Parker
School on United Nations ' Day, October 24, and that an
appropriate pror'ram should be planned for the early
part of the morning
Mr Howard inquired as to the possibility of the
tree ' s being furnished ty a private organization, such
as the Junior Chamber of Commerce , which would like to
participate in the observance of United Nations ' Day in
some way The tree has heretofore been furnished by
Le dnigton's Park Department (Mrs Litchfield will
speak to Mr Mazerali of the Park Department about this
possibility )
United Nations ' Day Publicity: Publicity for United
Nations ' Day has been planned The League of Women
Voters will handle publicity about the Essay Contest,
and Mrs Fox will prepare publicity about other phases
of the observance
THANKS- The Lexington High School Auditorium has been re-
GIVING served by Mr Cobb for the fourth annual Thanksgiving
Community Service on November 20, 1960 from 7 30 until
o 30 p m
Mr Cobb will speak to Mrs Sandberger, Director
of Music for the High School, and he will invite the A
Capella Choir of the High School to sing The choice
of an anthem will be left to Mrs Sandberaer
Mr Homsrd had prepared a letter which will be
sent to clergymen who are being invited to participate
this year Their order of participation in the service
is determined by rotation of the 3 Faiths, and rotation
of the Protestant clergymen according to the length of
their stay in Lexington
Mrs Litchfield will write to Mrs Mercy, Chair-
man of the Board of Selectmen, and will request that
she read the Governor's Proclamation at the Thanksgiving
Service,
Ushers will be supplied by the Council of Churches
Flowers should be ordered for the podium and for
the speaker' s wife
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Speaker : Mr Howard was authorized by the Committee to
invite Dr Jacobs , President of Trinity College, to be
the speaker. He would be expected to rive a message,
appropriate to the Thanksgiving Season, of bout 20
minutes in length It has been a policy of the Com-
mittee to try to avoid having practicing clergymen as
speakers (Dean Graham of Boston University had in-
dicated last year that he would, be the speaker for. the
1060 Thanksrriviim Service, but has since moved out of
the area )
Mr. Gilman brought up the subject of an offer of
an honorarium to the speaker but the Committee felt that
t- is should not be done
Because of the success of th' luncheon last APRIL. 19
year, the Committee agreed that the Battlegreen Inn
Dining Room should be reserved immediately for the
April 19, 1961 luncheon
Budget : Mrs Litchfield outlined Celebretioss Committee TSCEL-
expenditures for 1059-1960 and it was decided that ;;,40no LAVROUS
would be a reasonable amou: rt to request of Town Meeting
for the huda t of the Committee for 1960-19(1
Stationery It was the consensus of the meeting that
Committee members ' names should be omitted from the
le terhead of t e Town Celebrations Committee stationery
Thereby, the necessity of reordering new stationery each
time Committee personnel changes would be eliminated.
(Mrs Litchfield , i11 inquire about the cost of sta-
tionery in lots of 1000 and 2000 sheets and will report
back to the Co-nyittee )
Georgia Williams ,
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