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Services, Pool Keep
Lititz Residents Busy
Memorial Day couldn’t have
been more full tliis year!
lu fact between the Memori­al
Day services and the open­ing
of the Lititz Springs Pool
you could have kept busy
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and had
a good time doing it.
And tha t seems to be ju s t
wtiat a lot of Lititz residents
decided to do.
The bunds s ta r ted marching
down tlie s treets of Lititz at
10:30 a.m., ending up a t the
Meraviau Cemetery where
children placed flowers on the
graves of veterans, the firing
sq u ad gave a salute to the
dead and Major John Bowman
gave the Memorial Lay ad ­dress.
For those who wanted to
rise a little earlier on Memori­al
Day the Itothsviile parade
began a t 8;: 30 a.m. and moved
to the Lu th e ra n Cemetery
where Howard Liissinger, past
commander of the Lititz
American Legion, gave the ad ­dress.
By noon the swimming pool
opening was in full swing with
a chicken barbecue presided
over by Graybill Miller.
Then, a f te r the eats, the
more th an 1000 attending
Weit President
Of Srickerville
Lions Club
Jame s Weit was elected pres­ident
of th e Baron Stcigel
Lions Club a t the meeting held
recently a t the Clay Hotel,
othe r officers elocted were as
follows, Jame s Hehnly, 1st
vice-president; Paul Ober, 2nd
vice-president; George Walters,
J r . 3rd vice-president; W. E.
Hickman, secretary, assisted by
Frankffiu Snyder; F r a n k
Snyder, treasurer.
Wallace Busser, Lion
tamer; Alien Slobcr. tail
twister; Irvin Brunibaeh and
Clarence Stauffer, directors
(Continued on Pago 2)
area res idents had a choice
of listening to the Ju n io r High
School Band a t the handstand
in the park or taking the
children over to th e pool lor
a round of games.
The dedication itself s ta rted
at 2:15 p.m. with Benjamin
Forrest, former mayor of the
boro, giving the dedicatory ad ­dress.
Mayor Ar th u r Griswold
did the honors with the ribbon
cutting officially opening the
pool.
From then till 9 p.m. the
new pool was open free to the
public, and the public took
full advantage of the fact.
And then from 7 to 9 p.m.
the teen set were given their
pa r t in the affair when the
Gladiators opened up with the
twist and a dance was held
beside tlie pool.
STOP THERE! Warwick Graduates Ninety-five
At Ceremonies On Wednesday
On Wednesday al 8 p.m. in
tlie Warwick High School a u ­ditorium
ninety-five youngs­ters
will make the transition
from s tudent- to alumni as
they march up to receive their
diplomas.
The ceremonies will he
marked by four speeches.
Three of them, to he given by
i J a n e t Reidenbaugh, Pearl W.
i Martin and Claudia Hos tetter,
will give the students view
i poinl with, .the .topic, “ Ven­tu
re Into The Unknown’’. , will
The four th will be’ given and
by Lewis C. Turner, well in g ”
sing “O Brother Man’’
"The Heavens Arc Tell-during
the program.
known educator and lecturer,
who will present the tradi­tional
commencement address.
The musical as well as the
academic side of the class
will, receive recognition with
Phillip Mummcrt giving a
trombone solo and William
Hump singing “ I Have My
Songs” .
The Senior High Glee Club
Pool Tickets
Selling!
It looks a s though, despite
predictions otherwise, the Lititz
Springs Pool may be suberibed
to the limit before the first
three weeks of th e season are
over.
While results from the ticket
sale d u r in g the dedication of
the pool on Wednesday have
not yet been received the pool
is already half subscribed.
Aud pool committee officials
hope, with the dedication sales
to bring the to ta l up over the
two thirds mark.
This would give th e com­mittee
only 100 more family
tickets to sell d u r in g the next
three weeks to bring the pool
receipts up to the budgeted
amount.
The committee announced
•this week th a t over 2 5 tickets
were sold a t the Open House
on Sunday afternoon.
The large tu r n o u t a t the
pool dedication is expected to
bring tick e t sales for..th«,dedi­cation.
to o v e r . fo u r times the
open house sales.
Alert School Bus Driver
Aids Police In Arrests
An a le r t school bus dr iv e r
was responsible for two of
tlie a r re s ts in the borough this
week when he reported the
license* numbe r of two cars
tha t passed the bus while it
was discharging passengers.
Miriam Krick. Meclianies-burg,
and Sam Santiago, Lititz
111, were both charged by
P a tro lman Jame s Lucas before
Jus tice of the Peace Paul
liiehm with passing a stopped
school bus a l t e r they were
identified by the ir license
numbers.
In other eases this week
Nevin Melvin Bucher was
prosecuted on Wednesday by
P a trolman Uissinger before
Jus tic e of the Peace Harold
Kauffman with too fa s t for
conditions.
On Sunday Patrolman Jim
Lucas pulled off two more a r ­res
ts when he caught both
Martha H. Huber, Te r re Hill,
and Verna X. Martin, East
Earl, bucking traffic on East
Orange Street. Martha Huber
was also prosecuted for vio-
I lu ting a flashing rod light.
Bo fill of them were brought,
before Jus tice of th e I’eace
Dielini.
Jim Lucas’s fifth arres t of
the week was made when he
noticed a cur on East Main
Stre e t driving on the left hand
side of the highway.
After investigation the
driver, Robert M. Evans,
Narvon, sixty-onc, was found
to be intoxicated. He was
brought before Jus tice of the
Peace Diohm and committed
to the Lancas ter County Jail
in d e fau l t of bail.
P a tro lm a n F re d L ucas stops one o f a
long line of Lambert Hudniit c a rs d u rin g tlie
police blo ck ad e in Lititz which la s te d for. o v e r
th re e h o u rs on Monday a fte rn o o n . Local police
were c o o p e ra tin g w ith s ta te police in an a t­tempt.
to catch th e m an who robbed th e
Mountville Bank.
(R eco rd -Ex p ress P h o to )
Three And A Half Hour Road Block
Fails To Catch Mountville Robber
Boro Tightens
Liquor Laws
Borough Council tightened
up the borough’s liquor laws
a t the meeting Tuesday night.
At the suggestion of Chief
Hicks the eouneilmeu passed
an ordinance which will pro­hibit
anyone under twenty-one
from purchasing, a ttemp t­ing
to purchase, carrying, or
drinking any alcoholic bever­age.
The ordinance was passed
a fte r Chief llicks told council
that, as present s ta te laws
stand, a juvenile is safe from
any liquor prosecution over
liquor unless he shows a false
identification card to the
liquor salesman.
And to make tlie law stick
council added a $.10 to $100
fine or 30 days in jail as. the
penalty if caught.
Ever wondered ju s t how
many ears -travel through
Lititz d u r in g an- afternoon?
Well the Borough Police
a re now in a position to tell
you—down to the last bump­er!
Th is vital information was
jmsit about -the only thing
tha t the Liti.tZ police did un­cover
on Monday when, for
three and a half hours, they
stopped every ear coming iuto
or going out of Lititz.
The two rood blocks, set
up a t Lincoln Avenue and
Broad St., an d a t Second St.
and Broad Sto were each
manned by two- members of
the Lititz force in an a ttempt
to catch the g u nman who rob­bed
the Mountville branch of
the Fulton National Bank.
From i> i> iu, to 6:30 p.rn.
tlie police stopped every -thing
wining into the borough' but
ua r ry a bank robber did they
find. - ,,
T h e block was set up at
Woodridge
Party la
Wednesday
The Woodridge Swim Club
wil hold their annual Fashion
Show and Card Pa r ty on Wed­nesday,
Ju n e 6, starting, a t
12:30 p.m. a t the.pool.
Hertzler's, Lancaster, will be
showing tlieir fashions abd
dessert will bo served.
It is reques ted tha t those
making up tallies for cards
bring their own cards.
The rain date for the show
will he Thursday, J u n e 7.
General Chairman of the
event is Mrs. George B. Sear-les,
Jr. She is assisted by:
Mrs. f^aul McCloud and Mrs.
Robert Watts, co-chairman of
re f re shments : Mrs. Howard
Minnich and Mrs. Martin Kutz,
fashion show; Mrs. Edward J.
Kowalewski, Mrs. Ar th u r Gris­wold,
and Mrs. Clair M. Beck­er,
tables and chairs.
Mrs. John Wenger and Miss
Mildred Young, tickets ; and
Mrs. Elwood Zug and Mrs.
Charles LeFevrc, prizes.
tli-e reques t of -the s t a te police
who believed th a t the robber,
driving a blue and white Dod­ge,
might possibly t r y to
make his escape via one of
th e roads coming th ro u g h the
borough.
When asked to e s tima te the
number of cars Lititz police
stopped d u r in g the block Chief
llicks es timated it a t over a
thousand. Each of th e ears
was passed only a f te r local
police b ad checked th e license
number, and the d rive r; in
the case of cab trucks the
re a r of tlie truck was also
opened.
Thirty-Three Will Receive
Diplomas At Linden Hall
Dr. D. Luke B ieme sd e r f e r .p .m. with the Lantern Cere-president
of Millersvilic State jmouy on the Upper Campus.
College, will be the speaker at
Rev. Helmich Will Give
Baccalaurate Address
The Rt. Rev. Carl J. H e l - |u a l ” . Two anthems, “ Praises
We Sing To Thee O God” , by
Hayden, aud “Send Out Thy
Lig h t” , by H. Smart., will he
rendered by the choirs.
SUPERVISORS MEET .FB I.
AT BRUNNEEVILLE HOME '
Tlie Warwick Township su­pervisors
will hold their mon­thly
meeting on Friday even­ing
a t the home of secretary,
Aaron N. Martin, liriiiitierviile,
Brethren Hold Last Services
In Center Street Church
A Homecoming and Anniv­ersary
service will be held in
the Church of tlie ISrelhren on
Sunday, Julie 3rd at 10:31)
a.m., This will he the final ser­vice
in t lie present building
and completes seventy five
years for Hie local congre­gation.
The Rev. Olden D. Mileliell
paslor, will preach on the
theme “Our Voyage" and John
C. Ilerslicy, church historian,
will participate in the service.
rl'he combined choirs will sing.
The Lititz church was organ-wit
li Mrs. James Shank, acc­ompanist.
ized as a new congregation on
J a n u a ry 10, 1914 and met in
the white church oil Willow
Street, now used by the Duuk-a,
rd Brethren. ,
The following cha r te r mem­bers
are living and will receive
recognition on Sunday morn­ing.
Mrs. Anna Gross, Mrs.
Florence Gibblc. Mrs. John
Harwick, Mrs. Lizzie ller.-hej.
Mrs. Laura Iforshey, Allen B.
Keller, Mrs. Minnie Longe-tieoker,
Mr. and 'Mrs. John M.
Miller, Miss Lottie Xios, Mrs.
Lizzie Walter, Mrs. Ella
Withers. Mrs. Anna liorn-boi-
ger. and Mrs. Homer
Sturgis.
A ceremony of appreciation
w ill b e in c lu d e d in the service
when g ra titude will be express-ed
for the 3 6 years of useful
service for the present church
building. Members of the
building committee who served
iu I P 26 for the present build­ing
a re still active in church
work. They are: Graybill
Mi tin well, chairman, Mahlon M.
Garman, secretary; and John
M. Miller. Special recognition
will lie given these men as well
as -others who have been mem­bers
of the church for 36 years.
The church will move into
th e new- building d u r in g the
week on June 4t.h at 300 West
Orange Street and will hold the
first, services on Sunday, JVtue
I Oth, Dedication services will
he held on Ju n e 14-17.
the Commencement Exorcises
a t Linden Hall to be held on
Monday, June 11 a t 10:00 a.m.
in the Moravian Church.
The Commencement aetivi-
't.ids wilt begin on Saltirdniyr
Ju n e 9th with a Coffee Hour
for the Alumnae a t .10:30 a.m.
iu Mary Dixon Chapel Music
Room.
Mrs. Alfred Melzer and Mrs.
Robert Nick of the Lititz-
Lancastpr Branch will' he in
charge. The Alumnae Lunch­eon
will he held in the School
dining room a t 12:13 P.M.
followed by class Reunion at
4:00 P.M.
“ The Great Big Doorstep,”
a play, will he presented by
the Drama Claus a t 8:00 p.m.
in tlie gymnasiufu-audit.oriinn
directed by Miss Patricia, t-lii 1-
livan.
The Revorond Walser Had-
(lon Allen D.l). of the Central
Moravian Church,-. Bethlehem,
will prcapli the Sermon to the
gradua te s on Sunday, June
10th a t 10:30 a.m. in the
Moravian Church. The Aca­demy
Class Day exercises will
be held on the Lower Campus
at 2:30 p.m. followed by tlie
Garden Party at 3:35 p.m.
The Closing Vesper Service
will he a t 6:00 p.m. in Mary
Dixon Memorial Chapel. The
activities will close a t 9:00
Alfred Douple
President Of
Farmers Bank
Alfred Douple. former vice
pres ident of the F a rme r s Na­tional
Bank, 3 2 1 E. Second
Ave., was elected president of
the hank by -the hoard of
directors on Monday morning.
lie succeeds Paul Bom ber­ger
who died earlier this year.
Douille was .vice president,
cashier and trust, officer of Hie
bank for 17 years tint retired
from (he former position Iasi I
January. He joined the bank
as a toiler in 1914 a f te r g ra d ­uation
from the Lancaster
Business College.
He is also a past president
of the Lancaster County Chap­ter,
American Ins titute of
Banking, and lias long been
active in th e civic affairs of
Lititz. An active member- of
tlie Lititz Moravian Church,
lie was cited in 1951 by
Franklin aud ¡Marshall College
“ in recognition of outs tanding
church mansUip."
A veteran of World War I,
he served on the Lititz Boro
Council, the Lititz Bicenten­nial
Committee, Public Library
Assn., Lititz Springs P a rk
Commission, Red Cross As­sociation
for the Blind, and
the Community Chest.
Linden Hall
Class o f ’62
•“ The '■tbtrtj*^lt*l'bfr ’g1+1ff'in the
gradua ting class represent
seven -statoa, two foreign coun­tries
and Bermuda. By coin­cidence
the two honor students
lived in Saudi Arabia. Joan
Cunning-ham, Hie valedictorian,
now resides in Easton, Pa.,
hut the home address of Bar­bara
Wright, the salutariau, is
Dhahran. Abqaiq. Saudi Ara­bia.
Other members of the class
a re as follows: Rebecca Baker,
Ardmore, Pa.; Mary Barger
Newtown Square, Pa.; Sherry
Bowes, Bethesda, Md.; Jane
Biichanau, Phillipsburg, Md.;
Margaret Campbell, Swartli-more,
Pa.; Sylvia K. Clemens,
Bradford, Pa.; Kendra Cornell,
Brewster. N.Y.; Yvonne Coug-nehc,
Buenos Aires, Argentina,
S.A.: Karen Grubbs, P it ts ­burgh,
Pa.
Sharon Hagerich, Jo h n s ­town,
Pa.; Snellen Herr, Lam­peter,
f’a.; Margie Hile, Clear­field,
Pa.; Brenda, Milken.
Toms River, N.J.; Barbara
Jo u re t, J e ane t te , Pa.; Debbie
Keith, Manchester, Conn.;
Caroline K e r r , Cleveland
Heights, Ohio; Mary Lina-berry.
Silver Spring, Md.
Julie Mayne, Ilaileye, Ber­muda;
Lee Anne Miller, Cala-sauque.
Pa.; Marea Noonan,
Wellesley Mills, Mass.; Linda
Robinson, Short Hills, N.J.;
(Continued on page 4);
illicit, pastor of the Lititz Mo­ravian
Congregation, will de­liver
the sermon a t the Bacca­laureate
Service of tlie class
of 1962 a t Hie Warwick High
School.
The Rt. Reverend Helmich
will use as his subject, “Op­portunity
Unlimited.”
Also participating in the
program, scheduled to begin
at 7:3.0 p.m., Sunday, June
3, in the high school a u d ito r ­ium
will bo The Reverend
Robert M. Myers, pastor of
St. L u k e ’s United Church of
Christ, Iiititz, and the com­bined
choirs of the Trinity
Evangelical Congrega.t i o n a 1
Church of Lititz and St.
Luke ’s United Church of
Christ. The combined choirs
will be directed by My. Harry
II. Neidermyer. with Mrs.
Gary Garner, organist. The
school organist is John Yer-ger.
,
Tlie processional, to which
the 9 5 gradua te s cuter, will
be “ Pomp and Circumstance”
by Elgar. Hymns will be
“This Is IVPy F a th e r ’s W’orld”
and “Lead On O King liter-
The Class Of
June, 1962
Listed below a re th e mem­bers
of tlie grad u a t in g class
of Warwick High School, June,
19-62.
Adair, Cathieen
Bachman, Robert L.
Boose, Jame s Richard
Botchoff, Natashia
Brubaker, Donald Reist
Brubaker, John J.
Bucher, Norman Jackson
Buchter, Claudia Je anne
Clair, Rochelle E.
Dagen, Terry Vincent
Dennis, Donna Louise
Diehm, Jame s Wa r ren
Dissinger, Gladys
Doster, Joseph Eugene
Dussinger, Marÿ Sue
Ear-hart, Ba rb a ra J.
(Continued on page 4)
Marion Fosdick Is Named
“Woman Of The Year”
BUSINESS WOMAN
The Invocation will be pro­nounced
by the Rev. William
Grosz, pastor of the Brunner-ville
Evangelical United Bre­thren
Church while the Bene­diction
will be given by tho
Rev. Richard E. Maurer of
Hie Holiness Christian Church
Harold Swisher, high school
principal, will present the Sen­ior
Class while G. Marlin
Spaid, supervising principal,
will give out the diplomas.
Among the awards to be
given during the ceremonies
are: The Alumni Award, to
the Senior with the highes t
average for Senior year; The
Science Award, by Baush X.
Louth, to Hie Senior with the
highest average iu science for
four years; the Chemistry
Award, by the American
Chemical Society of ' South
Ea s t .Pennsylvania; The Amer­ican
Agricultural Fou n d a tio n .
Award, to the boy with the
highest average in vocation
agriculture, by the Society of
Farm Women No. 1 ; The
American Agricultural F o u n ­dation
Award, to - th e girl with
the highest average In voca­tional
homemaking, by the So­ciety
of Farm Women No. 1.
The DeKalb Award, by the
DeKaib Corp., to the out­standing
Senior agr iculture
student; The Lancaster Bar
Association Award, for- wr it­ing
the bc3t essay on tour ing
the White House; The Dan-forth
Award, by the Danforth
Foundation, for the student
who is Judged to have th e
greatest ch aracter and per­sonality;
The C. A. Monaghan
Indus trial Arts Award; The
Bernie Rider Memorial Ath­letic
Award, to the o uts tand­ing
Senior athlete; The Social
Science Award, by th e Lion3
Club; and the Warwick
Union Teachers Association
Award,
Maribn Fosdick, Lititz R3,
was named “Woman of the
Year" by the Pennsylvania
Federation of Business and
Professional Women a t their
convention in Pittsburgh on
Saturday.
Tho citation is presented to
the member who has contr i­buted
most, in the opinion of
the judges, to the advance­ment
of Hie objectives and
ideals of tho . Federation of
Business and Professional Wo­men
’s Clubs.
Miss Fosdick, a teacher of
business at McCaskcy High
School, lias been a member of
the Fedora Lion since 1 952..
In recommending Miss Fos ­dick
for the award the presi­dent
of the Lancaster County
club, Frances B. Loudsdorf,
s tated:
“ To us, the most outs tanding
contribution Marion is making
lo the advancement of Federa­tion
objectives is through her
chosen profession — Leaching
— teaching a subject which in
itself extends opportunities to
potential fu tu re members, as
well as teaching refresher
courses to women currently
employed. To he a teacher Of
business subjects was her one
desire, and this goal was real-
W-wick Teachers
Receive Grants
Two more Warwick teachdf3
were given g ran t s by the Na­tional
Science Foundation to
attend courses d ur ing the
summer.
Mr. Roehm will he a tten d ­ing
the Coss In s titu te of Tech-onology,
in Cleveland, Ohio
and will s tudy mathematics .
William Felger will be a t ­tending
Kansas State for the
summer to study biology.
Both courses of s tudy will
ru n from June until August.
Marion Fosdick
ize-d slowly and laboriously.
Lacking funds for college on
graduation from high school,
Marion persisted and literally
educated herself while various ­ly
employed as bookkeeper,
newspaper office worker, and
finally teaching ^at the elemen­tary
level and junior high
school level to acquire the
necessary funds. It took e ig h ­teen
years before the coveted
advanced degree was acquired
(Continued on page 4)
/
TRIP TO THE LIBRARY
Second g ra d e Lililz stu d e n ts m ad e th e ir
firs t tr ip to th e Publie Lib rary la st week, an d
eaine out w ith a- s ta c k of books. P ic tu re d
choosing tlie ir " fa v o rite ” a re L, to K.; Monica
Sleep, •lohn Kauffman, Claire Ivilbourue, E d ­ward
Roseuqiiist, Bruce Hen ry , Jeffrey Yoder,
aud Vicki Gochunuuer.
( Record-Express P h o to )
BIBLE SCHOOL TO B E G IN
A Bible school for all ages
will be held each evening a t
7:15 p.m. from Ju n e 11 to 22
in the Lititz M e n n o n'i t e
Church, Fro n t and Wa te r Sts.
Pa rke Herr, super intendent,
announces the re will be class­es
for every age and everyone
is welcome. >
Community
Calendar
May 81— 6 :30, P.M. — M e n ’s
Softball - Brethren vs.
Springs Bar.
7:30 P.M. — Stamp Club
meeting a t the Recreation
Center.
Ju n e 8- -Baccalaureate Service
at. the Warwick Union
High School.
Ju n e 4 - 8:30 A.M.— P.P. & L.
Co. meeting a.t the Re­creation
Center.
0:80 P. M. —Men’s Soft-ball
- Springs Bar vs.
Man heck’s.
8:00 P.M.— American Le­gion
Auxiliary meeting.
Ju n e ,»— 6 : 30 P.M. —- M e n ’s
Softball - Boford va. Bre-
I liren.
7:30 P.M. — RothaviUe
Fire Co. meeting.
Ju n e 6— 12:30 P.M. — Wood­ridge
Swim Club Card
Party - Rain Date Ju n e 7.
6:30 P .M.—Men’s Softball
- Hoffy’s va. Springs Bar.
8:00 P.M. — Commence­ment
Exercises at the
W a r w i c k Union High
School.
Ju n e 7— No School.
6: 30 P.M.—L i o n s Club
meeting at the General
- Sutter.
' 6:30 P.M.— iMen’s Softball
- A.B.C. va. Diehm and
Kepner.
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