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VOLUME 27—NUMBER 45
SWARTHMORE, FRIDAY,  November 11,  1955
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Welcome Party Tues.
ToHonorNewMembers
Nutrition Specialist Will
Speak Following
12:30 Dessert
Twenty-seven new members of
the Swarthmore Woman's Club
will be entertained at a dessert
party, prior to the open meeting,
scheduled for next Tuesday afternoon at the club. Mrs. S. L. Alt-
house, chairman of the home department, will present Louise
Hamilton, nutrition specialist of
the Pennsylvania State University
Extension Service, as the after,
noon's speaker.
Miss Hamilton will address the
club on "The Most Efficient Way
To Use Your Freezer in Preparing for the Holidays." She will be
accompanied by Ruth Mangus,
who is the extension home economist for Delaware County. Miss
Hamilton has charge of all phases
of nutrition work in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania.
The dessert party, which will be
held at 12:15 fn the downstairs
lounge, will be in charge of the
membership chairman, Mrs. Robert B. Clothier, assisted by Mrs.
Roy Snape. In addition to the new
club members, honor guests will
be Mrs. Judson Hoover, president
of the club; and Mrs. Frank
Keenen, past president. The committee assisting with arrangements includes:
Mrs. Julius Fincken, Mrs. Walter Black, Mrs. William GUI, Mrs.
William Taylor, .Mrs. -Alfred
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For Jr. Club Program
"Our. European Vacation", an
account of travels and experiences
in Holland, England, Germany,
Italy and France, will be presented jointly by Mrs. Karl Fox
and Mrs. Peter. Miller before
members of tbe Swarthmore Junior Woman's Club on November
15 at 8 p.m. at the clubhouse.
Traveling with the Presbyterian
Church Chancel Choir of Swarthmore, Mrs. Fox and Mrs. Miller
had the unusual opportunity to
stay in private homes, to meet at
informal gatherings and even to
penetrate the Iron Curtain in the
eastern sector of, Berlin. Their
intimate account of attitudes, customs, and ways of life of neighbors abroad—illustrated in part
by motion picture film—promises
an exciting and interesting evening.
Local Postal Driver
Receives Safety Award
. J. Wallace Steigelman, Borough
letter carrier, was presented with
a National Safe^DriVer Award for
five years of accident free driving of postal vehicles at a cere^
mony conducted at the Swarthmore Post Office on Tuesday
afternoon.
The Rev. John Kulp opened the
proceedings with a prayer, after
which Burgess Joseph Reynolds
presented Mr. Steigelman with the
award. Also present were chief
of Police Thomas Bateman; G.
West Cochrane, president of the
Business Men's Association; Alfred Carney; Peter E. Told, editor
bf The Swarthmorean; Postmaster
and Mrs. Charles H. Grier; Assistant Postmaster Francis Harvey; Superintendent of Mails John
McCandles, and a group of employee* from the local office.
N. Y. Glee Club to Give
Open Concert Sat.
The Swarthmore community is
invited to attend a concert by the
New York University Glee Club
on Saturday evening, November
12 at 8 pan. in Clothier Hall.
The program will be under the
direction of Alfred M. Greenfield
who is regarded as the pioneer
of the current practice of singing
Handel's "Messiah" in its original form.
In recent years the Glee Club
has twice been invited to give
performances in . the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, has
sung Mozart's "Great Mass" with
the Vassar College Choir, and recently presented a program in
Town Hall in New York City.
Welsh folk music sung in its
original language is a feature of
the club's repertoire.
Carolyn L. Blundin
Passes Away Tuesday
Park Avenue Resident
Had Lived Here
43 Years
\ Carolyn L. Blundin of 319 Park
avenue passed away Tuesday
morning, November 8. She had
been bedridden with a heart condition since her senior year at
Swarthmore High School in 1024.
Miss Hlundin, the daughter of
Mrs. Martha S. Blundin and the
late Leon C. Blundin, was born in
Philadelphia on August 3, 1906
and moved to the Borough at .the
age.jpf shtkXJi^l2. Although1 con*
fined to bedlfor so many;years,
she took .an active interest in all
local and national affairs and for
many years ran a magazine agency
from her bedside. She was a mem.
ber of the local Presbyterian
Church.
Besides her mother, Miss Blundin is survived by two sisters,
Mrs. Arnold Luder of 233 Dickinson avenue and Mrs. Arnold H.
Redding of Kansas City, Mo., and
two brothers, Laurence, of the
Park avenue address and Richard
F. of Hobart, Ind.
Funeral services will be at the
convenience of the family.
Services Held Tuesday
For Samuel D. Clyde
Chester Realtor Had Lived
In Borough 33
Years
Samuel D. Clyde, for many
years a resident of Swarthmore,
died at his home, Swarthmore and
Ogden avenues, on Saturday, November 5, just two days after his
83rd birthday. Mr. Clyde had been
in poor health for several months.
.The son.of the late John E. and
Bertha Ott Clyde, he was born in
Chester in 1872. In 1003 he married Louise Mitchell of Wellsboro.
They moved to the borough in
1922.
Mr. Clyde was senior partner in
the firm of Sweeney and Clyde,
Chester, founded in 1858. He was
a director of the Chester Merchants and Mechanics Building
and Loan Association, a one-time
director of the Chester Chamber
of Commerce and of the former
First National Bank of Chester;
and past master of Chester Lodge,
F and AM.
He was a vestryman and senior
warden of the Trinity Episcopal
Church in Swarthmore.
Mr. Clyde was a member of the
Union   League   of   Philadelphia;
the Art Alliance of Philadelphia;
Chester Kiwanis Club: Philadel-
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POST OFFICE HOURS
The Post Office windows will
be closed and no delivery will
be made on Veterans Day, Friday, November 11. The lobby
will be open from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m. for the convenience of box
holders.
Carroll Frey Buried
Sat. in Chester County
Editor-Historian Succumbs
In Taylor Hospital
November 3
Funeral services for Carroll
Frey, editor and historian, were
held last Saturday at a funeral
home in Media, with the Reverend
Andrew Mutch, of Wynnewood,
pastor emeritus of the Bryn Mawr
Presbyterian Church, officiating.
Burial was in the Philadelphia
Memorial Park at Eraser, in
Chester. County.
Mr. Frey, who was 61 and lived
at 308 Ogden avenue, died November 3 in the Taylor Hospital
in Ridley Park. He was an authority on the history of the Independence Square section and for
many years was editor of Penn
Mutual Life Insurance publica-
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Purse Snatcher
Operates Here
The purse of Marguerite Rupert
of   the   Co-ed   Salon,   Park   and
Dartmouth avenues, was snatched I arranger  and  lecturer,  will talk
from her in front of the super to  her  audience  on  "Christmas
Trinity Auxiliary to
Present Holiday Fair
Many; Bootfis, lecturer,
Artist Wili Highlight
Annual Event
The annual Holiday Fair, sponsored by the Woman's Auxiliary
of Trinity Church, North Chester
road, will be held Wednesday,
November 16, from 2 pjn. to 9
pan. and Thursday, November
17, from 10 ajn. to 5 pan.
According to all reports, this
will be an ideal time for
Christmas shoppers to take
advantage of the Hobby Shop, the
Small Fry Corner, the Doll Table,
Apron Booth, festive Decoration
Table, or Bookshelf.
Mrs. Valentine L. Fine, chairman of the Holiday Fair, and her
assistant, Mrs. J. Alfred Calhoun,
have disclosed tiie addition of
several attractions this year.
Blanche  Scarlett   Phelps,  flower
market,. Chester road and Rutgers avenue, at 5:10 Monday evening.
Several residents witnessed the
incident but were unable to catch
the culprit whom they described
as a tall, slender youth of about
16 years of age with dark, wavy
hair and wearing a dark jacket
He escaped down Rutgers avenue.
Miss Rupert was en route to a
bus which would take her to her
home at 117 White street, Chester.
The purse, minus a wallet which
had contained forty dollars and
important cards, was found the
next day in front of 112 Cornell
avenue.
Police state that this is the first
case of this nature in the borough
in 15 years.
High School Band
Win Parade Prise
The Swarthmore-Rutledge High
School band was awarded a $50
third prize in the best appearing
band category at the Chester Hallowe'en parade. There were 15
musical organization* participating.
Arrangements and Ideas" Thursday, November 17, at 10:30 ajn. in
the Cleaves Room of the church.
Peggy Zangerle,. charcoal and pastel artist, will be sketching portraits of fairgoers both days. Mrs.
William W. Watkins, president of
the auxiliary, has created a puppet presentation of Hansel and
GreteL And Mrs. Orlando Shoemaker returns to read samples of
handwriting . . . personal and
otherwise.
The committees and their chair,
men who intend to dispel Christmas shopping worries are:
Holiday Decorations, Mrs. W. N.
Ryerson and Mrs. R. Blair Price;
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Member of the Bar
William Cornell Archbold of
Media, and formerly of Swarthmore, was notified November 2,
that he had passed bis Pennsylvania Bar Examinations.
"The son of Mrs. Sergeant B.
Brewster of North Swarthmore
ayenue, Mr. Archbold is a graduate of Syracuse University and
George Washington University
Law School.
School Book Fair
Opens Thurs., Nov. 17
The first elementary school
Book Fair to be held in Swarthmore will open in the All-Purpose
Room at Rutgers Avenue School
oh Thursday morning, Nov. 17,
at 9 o'clock. It. will -continue,, for
two days with mothers in charge
from 9 a.m. to 9 pjn.
The Fair seeks to Interest
youngsters in good satisfying literature. Good books feed a child's
imagination and stir his interest
to learn and know ahd understand
this complicated world of ours.
The Book Fair is a worthy cause
on another score—proceeds will
be used to purchase needed reference books for the elementary
schools.
Final plans have been completed by the fifth grade mothers'
groups who are sponsoring the
Fair with the help of Mrs. Anne
Pennell. Mrs. Foster Gearhart,
fair chairman, has announced the
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H. Albin. Violinist
To Appear Here Sun.
Herbert Albin, German violinist, will appear . in the Clothier
Memorial at 8:15 p.m. Sunday
under the auspices of the William
J. Cooper Foundation and the
department of music at the college*
Mr. Albin will present a program of Sonatas by Telemann,
Bach and Schumann. The public
is cordially invited to attend.
Police Ask Help
A case of indecent exposure,
the second in the Borough within
the past month or so and the
fourth since August, occurred on
Princeton avenue near the High
School last Friday morning.
Police are hampered in apprehending this* type of offender due
to the fact that witnesses neglect
to detect the license number of
the car used.
Chief Thomas Bateman asks the
cooperation of local parents in
stressing to their offspring the importance of concentrating on getting and memorizing the license
number of any car involved in
unseemly events, and reporting it
immediately to tiie police department '
Home-School To Hear
"A Worried Mother"
Needs of School District
To Be Discussed
Tuesday at 8
"What are the needs bf the
Swarthmore-Rutledge School District?" will be the topic of the
opening meeting of the Home and
School Association to be held next
Tuesday night at the High School
Auditorium at 8 p.m.
Mrs. C. H. Yarrow, playing the
part of "A Worried Mother" will
be moderator for the program and
will put all of the perplexing
questions she has about children's
education to a panel of experts
on the local school situation. The
panelists will be three members
of the School Board, David J.
Vint, Jr., Samuel Carpenter and
John Spencer—plus three representatives of the Laymen's Committees which are now studying
school needs, Charles Topping,
John W. Carroll and Horace
Tantum.
John   Honnold,  president  of
the association, will preside, and
the program will be under the
direction of Maurice Webster, Jr.,
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Library To Celebrate
Book Week Nov. 13-19
240 New Children's Titles
Will Underline Slogan
,    "Let's Read More"
Sprightly book marks featur- \y
ing a parent owl reading aloud to
beguiling little owls will be distributed by Swarthmore Public
Library's Librarian Bettina Hunter to the Library's young readers
during Book Week, November 13-
19. The Book Week slogan is
"Let's Read More."
Two hundred and forty new
children's books will be on dis-.
play in Library hours for the
week, going into circulation at
the week's end. They include
books about adventure, science,
people, poetry, art, places, animals,
and facts. There are new titles
of Science Fiction, mysteries and
new additions to the Landmark
and World Landmark books, the
Childhood of Famous Americans
series, the First Books and Ail-
about Books.
Among the well-loved authors
and their new books are: (for the
youngest readers) Anderson's
"Blaze and Thunderbolt," Bemel-
mans' "Parsley" (a deer), Coats-
worth's "Mouse Chorus" (in
verse)", Austin's "Brave John
Henry," Dr. Seuss' "On Beyond
Zebra," Marie Hall Ets' "Play
With Me," plus the very special
Frasconi "See and Say" (in four
languages):
(For the next in age J2 readers)
Brooks* "Freddy and the Baseball
Team from Mars," Lenski's "San
Francisco".'. Boy,"* • Norton's "The
Borrowers Afield", deary's "Bee-
zus and Ramona," plus two Miss
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ADULT FORUM SPEAKER
Gerald Baily, British Quaker
and a member of the British
Quaker Team visiting China, win
give his impressions of the visit
at the Adult Forum -Sunday
morning in the Friends Meeting
House. He win speak at 9:45.
Writer and lecturer, Mr. Baily
will be .a member of tiie Quaker
Team at the General Assembly
Meeting of the United Nations, a
position he has served in before.
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