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SWARTHMORE, PA., JULY 12, 1940
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Morning   Schedules   Successful
Despite Threatening Clouds;
Afternoon, Evening Events
Flourish Under Clear Sky
Off to a damp but hopeful start, the
children's Fourth of July parade which
annually opens the Borough's Independence Day celebration was a gallant success. Although the rain which
had fallen steadily throughout the night
stopped just in time for the parade to
start, many parents kept their young
hopefuls at home. In spite of this the
entries were numerous and original,
putting the judges, Mrs. A. M. Lackey,
Mrs. C. MacDonald Swan and George
F. Corse on their mettle to make decisions.
Promptly at 9 A. M. Burgess John
HJ Pitman, Dr. George B. Sickel and
Alexander Dryden began marshalling
the transformed children in lines before the judges. Patsy McCahan, Barbara Sickel, Louise Archbold, Mary
Corse, and Mary Margaret March carried off honors in the girl's bicycle division. Weston Clarke, as Uncle Sam
with his War Relief Chest; Bobby Fawcett, Ralph Estes and Cary McDaniel
won the awards in the boy's bicycle
section.
Little Ann Vlachos, dressed as a Red
Cross nurse was tops in the girl's tricycle    division   while   Katherine   and
Mary  Alice  Trepp  as  Messengers  of
Peace were runners-up. Jean Galbreath,
Barbara Schumacher* and Betsy Earnshaw, received prizes in this class also.
In the boy's tricycle brigade Donald
McElwee, astride a G. O. P. elephant,
Billy   Frauenfelder,   riding  a   spirited
sorrel horse, young Arthur Jones, taxiing his small sister, and David Di Bell
were given prizes. Sterling Williamson
and Gail Benjamin received awards for
decorated scooters.
In the wagon corps, Joan and Suzanne   Harrar,  Fred  Schoff  and  Allan
-Willis».MJch»el.McCone and his horses,
Jennifer McCone and Jean Brown were
judged the best.
The original section aroused much
comment. Jodie Whitehair, as "Miss
Swatmore" a bathing beauty carrying
a flyswatter; Carolyn Wilcox as the
Statue of Liberty providing sanctuary
for Andrea Wilcox, dressed as a war
refugee; Helen and Billy Hoot, depicting The Swarthmorean as the
"People's Choice"; Mildred McCowan,
as a drum majorette; Craig Peel as a
navy recruiting officer; Nan Pitman in"
a costume of 1861; Larry Franck as
Superman; Billy Froebel as a hunter;
John Avila, as a Mexican farmer leading one strutting hen; Jay Crawford as
a little Admiral, received awards in
this section.
The pet section proved one of the
most popular. Alice Hornaday won first
place with her wagon load of six eleven-
day-old kittens, each sleepily wearing
a red white and blue necktie; Frances
Pearson with her dog "Hawaja";
George Robert Swan dressed as a fisherman and leading his dog; Carol Livingstone and her cat "Smoky"; Eleanor
Shanklin and "Butch" carried off
coveted prizes.
Two entries tied for prizes in the
float division. One was a sailboat, complete with a large red cellophane sail
and Skipper Jimmy Wolfe.
Michael Reynolds, in an antique
coach, and Harold Johnson, who pushed
him, received awards also.
Gym Shelters Games
The crowd adjourned for the children's and adults' games to the High
School gymnasium where the adults under the leadership of Mrs. Carl deMoll
and Burgess Pitman stole the show
in the north corner with paper races
and potato races. Four heats of the
former found Earl Anderton and Mrs.
Russell White, W. W. Smith and Mrs.
Howard Kirk, Irwin Galbreath and Mrs.
Anderton, Nancy Fawcett and Ross
Thompson coming in as firsts, and receiving canned peaches.
Four potato races found Mrs. Robert Allison and Mrs. John Pearson taking first place and Kitty Pitman and
Mrs. Howard Kirk taking seconds in
the ladies races; Mervin Burgett and
Envin Galbreath winning, Dr. Trepp
and Mr. Anderton placing second in
the men's races. All were rewarded with
ash trays and miscellaneous prizes.
The climax in the Adult Corner was
* *he 'surprise' event for "the* frien,' a Sigh'
competition in putting nipples on baby
bottles and drinking from them to the
amusement of the gathered crowd until
they were rewarded with "cocs" as substituted bottles.
The high light of the children's games
Camera Shots of Independence Day Here
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Standing out (way out in front in the opinion of your local weekly's staff)
in the 1940 Fourth of July Parade's Original Section was the representation
by Helen and Billy Hoot of The Swarthmorean as "The People's Choice."
At the right they were caught by E. R. Laws in a quiet moment. Actually Billy
rushed in and out of the crowd in his role of paper boy.
Lower left, appear Janeth and Joan Thomson, weary but happy, enjoy
ing two of the popsicles which were distributed at the close of the morning
games to all contestants and pony riders..Eagerly anticipated by the children
the popsicles are an annual treat awarded to all instead of individual prizes.
THE
PEOPLES
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Offer Twenty British
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In the upper scene during the water sports on the Crum tllter Larry Rayfield
has just succeeded in submerging Gordon Bierman in a splash; paddlers
Cappy Bierman( left) and Bob Hastings (right) having steered for a show
down. A portion of the crowd intent upon the canoe race about to start in the
distance is shown in the lower picture.
was the older girls' experimenting in
paper costuming which brought designers to the fore under the guidance
of Mrs. James E. Evans and Mrs. Richard P. Emery. Betty Morse as the "Tin
Man" won, with her crew of two
helpers. Others who were close runners-
up were Libby Rutan dressed as a Statue of Liberty by Nancy Henry; Emily
Smith dressed as a Spanish girl by Jane
Messick; Jessie Gilbert as a ballet
dancer dressed by Nancy Van Alen.
Mrs. E. R. Laws, Mrs. Charles Israel, Mrs. Sergeant B. Brewster, Mrs.
David McCahan, and Mrs. Alberto
Avila carried on the game program for
the younger girls, while Mrs. Philip
M. Alden and Mrs. Frederick Lang
supervised the pony rides and Ambrose
Van Alen and Clarence C. Franck were
in charge of the games for boys. Pop-
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Library Vacation
The Public Library will be
closed on Saturday afternoons
during July and August. The
hours on Saturday are 9:30 to
12:30. In addition to Saturday afternoons the Library will be
closed the second and third weeks
of August, August 12 to 26. It
will reopen on Monday, August
26.
PRESIDENT OF
COLLEGE ALUMS
Raymond K. Denworth Assumes
New Post in Swarthmore
Association
To Plan Country Week Event
The meeting of the Swarthmore
Country Week Picnic Committee to
plan this month's annual picnic will be
held in the Council Chamber, Borough
Hall, at 8 o'clock next Monday evening. All  interested  are invited
RAYMOND K. DENWORTH
Elm avenue resident is new head of Alumni Association at
Swarthmore College where he graduated twenty-nine years
ago.
Raymond K. Denworth, of Elm avenue, is the newly elected president of
the Swarthmore College Alumni Association for the fiscal year beginning
July 1.
Mr. Denworth, who has taken an
active part in alumni affairs since his
graduation from thc College in 1911,
succeeds Allin H. Pierce, class of 1919,
as head of the Association.
He served on the committee of faculty, board members and alumni which
functioned from 1935 to 1938 to study
college-alumni relationship and he
strongly advocated the reorganization
of the Alumni Association several years
ago. He was largely responsible for the
inauguration of an Alumni Executive
Secretary in 1938. An active member of
the Swarthmore Club of Philadelphia
he was chairman of its banquet committee last year.
During his days as a student at
Swarthmore he was vice-president of
the Athletic Association, captain of the
debate team, a member of the junior
varsity football team, president of the
Eunomian Literary Society, president of
the Student Government Committee and
permanent president of his class.
After leaving Swarthmore he attended the University of Pennsylvania
Law School where he was graduated in
1917. The same year he was admitted to
thc Pennsylvania Bar and began the
general practice of law in Philadelphia.
Since 1921 he has been associated with
the firm of Drinker, Biddle and Reath.
He is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the Union League, the Phi Kappa
Psi, Delta Sigma Rho and Phi Delta
Phi fraternities. In 1926 he married
Hilda A»lna Lang, a__ member -.of. ?thfc
class of '17, Swarthmore College. Mrs.
Lang is now secretary of the Swarthmore School Board. They have one son
and three daughters.
Mrs. Chester Roberts, of College avenue, was named treasurer of the Alumni
Association.
Community   Group   Headed   by
Mrs. R. C. E. Ullman Works
With College to Hasten
Salvage Task
Swarthmoreans have opened their
doors to over 20 British children by offering them homes for the duration of
the war.
At the instigation of Swarthmore
College, a community committee has
been formed to place British children in
secure American homes during the
present conflict. President John Nason
appointed Mrs. R. G. E. Ullman to
serve as chairman of the committee
which heard Dr. Frank Aydelotte explain the machinery by which children
can be placed and the need for haste
in filing affidavits, at its organization
meeting last Saturday afternoon in
Whittier House.
The committee is working directly
through a college office headed by
William Aydelotte. Through this office all affidavits are cleared and cabled
to England where they must arrive before children can leave England. Mr.
Aydelotte connects the committee's efforts with those of the United States
Committee for thc Care of Refugee
Children.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard C. Ashton, Mr.
and Mrs. Edward M. Bassett, Rev. and
Mrs. David Braun, Rev. and Mrs. Clarence Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh F.
Denworth, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond K.
Denworth, Rev. and Mrs. J. Jarden
Guenther, Mrs. William I. Hull, Dr. and
Mrs. William Earle Kistler, Dr. and
Mrs. Frederick Luehring, Mr. and Mrs.
John Marshall, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
G. Myers, Mr. and Mrs. John Pitman,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank -Ss* Reitzel, Mr.
and Mrs. Claude C. Smith, Mr. and
Mrs. George Schobinger, Mr. and Mrs.
Peter E. Told, Mr. and Mrs. J. Archer
Turner, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. E. Ullman,
Mr. and Mrs. Francis. V. Warren, and
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wolters constitute
the  committee.
This central group is extending its
work through local church organizations. Mrs. Leonard C. Ashton heads
the work in the Presbyterian Church,
Mrs. C. F. Wolters directs it for the
Episcopalian Church, Mrs. William
Earle Kistler for the Methodist Church
and Mrs. Francis V. Warren for
Friends Meeting.
Mrs. Frederick Luehring continues,
as a member of this local committee, to
represent the American Association of
University Women which had already
begun to seek homes here for the children of British University Women.
During the past week, Dr. and Mrs.
David McCahan, Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
Stoddard, Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Rincliffe,
Dr. and Mrs. F. S. Gillespie, Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel C Harris, Mrs. A. U.
Fairbanks, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Street,
Mrs. Sargent Walters and Mrs. Margaret Freedley have offered Swarthmore homes to British children. Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Bumstead, of German-
town, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter McCain, of Manoa, have also applied for
children. Dr. and Mrs. J. Vernon Ell-
son, of Upper Darby, have agreed to
take one, two or three children in the
hope that it will keep a family together.
Mr. and Mrs. Octavius Narberth are
waiting to receive their five grandchildren and their mother. Dr. and Mrs.
Clarence Clewell, and Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh F. Denworth have volunteered
to welcome children into their homes.
Mrs. Ullman is grateful for the hours
of clerical help which the committee
has given to this work, and thanks Mrs.
E. Grafton Carlisle, Jr., who has offered
her services for secretarial assistance.
"Thanks, One and All"
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We wish to thank all those
who helped make the July 4th
Program so successful: the members of the committees who planned so carefully that their programs proceeded smoothly in
spite of the doubtful weather; the
canvassers who sought contributions of gifts and money; the
chorus which greatly enriched the
evening program and those whose
contributions made possible the
"events ofithe-vday.
John H. Pitman
P£ter E. Told
Co-Chairmen    Swarthmore
Business   Association's  4th
of July Committee.
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