Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-07-21
What's Done By
Community Service
PRESIDENTS Report

TIesloent A. Fred Cyr of the Com
munity Service issued Thursday a
bulletin OF Community Service work
up to the present time. A very clear
and informing statement is given of
the local accomplishments of the pro-
position of the community service.
Fairgrounds have already been es-
tablished as follows College play
grounds. located south end Colby
Campus. Roland Fotter and Harriet
Pearce. directors. Open each day from
y A. NJ. to P. NJ. Average daily at
tendance $50. King street play
ground. known as the Thos. Lessard
property. Lionel Soucier and Lucille
Jones. directors. Open each day 9 A.
M. to P. M. Average daily attend
ance 300. G. w. Burrill is supervisor
of the Fairgrounds Activities suited
to various ages and groups are taught
by the directors. Inter playground
contests are being organized.
Adjacent the college playground, a
suitable place for swimming will soon
he opened. Certain hours each day
swimming will be permitted under
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swimmers will be organized and
taught how to swim. Extraordinary
precaution for safety will be planned.
A baseball league is being organ
lied for boys under II years of age.
Four teams have joined the league
and irregular a schedule of games starts
Saturday, July Is. A Judge Lands
will be selected to settle disputes.
The players voted that Smoking on
the fields during the game disqualifies
the player for remainder of game and
the next schedule game"
A tennis association is being or
ganized, the membership includes two
divisions-men and women. Consd-
cradle interest is being aroused and
later in the summer tournament in
singles and doubles for city champion
ship will be played.
Informal horse shoe pitching has
been promoted through the distribu-
ton of several sets of equipment to
various points in the city. A tourna-
ment for city championship in singles
and doubles will be played September
1.
The industries will be asked to en-
ter teams in volley ball and it is ex-
pected that a league Of, least six
teams will be organized. A cham
pionship tournament open to all teams
in the city will be scheduled for about
September 1. The game is new to
Waterville and the recreation direc-
tors will instruct the players in the
art of the game.
There will be a ccmnUnity- wide
program of music. In co-operation
with existing musical organizations
seeking to develop forms of express
sion.
Neighborhood centers will be estab-
lished, working in cooperation with
school authorities and patrons to es-
tablish activities at school locations,
offering recreation for all ages.
The department of social recrea ton
encourag ges social events for adults
as well as for younger people in
lied agencies, and other groups 1t
will train and supply volunteer lead
ers and enlist the general public in its
efforts to establish a sound funda-
mental program of wholesome rec
reatiOn for the entire citizenship of
the city, cooperating with all
other agencies to attain this end.
The work of the .-ramatic depart
rnent will be educative. 1t proposes
to promote and conduct institutes
through which volunteer coaches will
be trained and developed and who in
turn will render assistance and ser
vice to groups that desire to take up
dramatics for self improvement or
for personal, group, or community
recreation.
Through the observance and rem
dering of appropriate programs on
special days such as Fourth of July,
Labor Day. Thanksgiving and Christ
mas, the development Of a spirit of
community comra deship and COM
munity pride.
The organization is as follows:
Officers: President. A. Fred Cyr;
first vice president, Herbert c. Libby:
second vice president, Mrs. George F.
Johnson; secretary, Mrs. Anna NJ.
Drummond; treasurer. Cyril Jolly.
Members executive committee at
large: Rev. Narcisse Charland, Geo.
f. Vose, Rev. c. A. Knickerbocker
and Mrs. A. F. Drummond.
Publicity committee: George E.
Vose. chairman; Cyril Jolly and Anna
NJ. Drummond.
Finance committee: Hon. Leon o.
Tebbetts. chairman; DR.. E. 7. Hill.
f X. Atwood, Sam Freeman, George
T.. Vose and Mrs. A. f. Drummond.
Board of directors: T. E. Ashcroft,
81 Pleasant street; f. *. Atwood,
Lockwood Mill; DR.. G. G. Averill.
Keyes Fibre; Mrs. Charles Barton. so
College avenue; George K. Boutelle,
Ticonic bank; James L. Boyle, los
Main street: Harry n. Brawn. 165
Main street; Mrs. Maybelle- Brown,
l46 Main street; FIR. Charland. 81
Elm street; A. f. Cyr, 40 Main street;
Mrs. l.. A. darcy, 1O4 Silver street;
Arthur Daviau, Z Chaplin street;
Thomas f. Delaney, "a Ash street:
Mrs. Herbert Dinsmore, Silver Ter
race; Mrs. A. F. Drummond IS
Burleish street; Mrs. Anna NJ. Drum
mond, 173 Main street; Harold Du-
bord. City hall: Mrs. H. L. Emery,
"A Burleigh street; Samuel Freeman.
IS Main street; S. A. Green. 251
Main street; DR.. Frederick T. Hill. Ill
Main street; Mrs. G. F. johnson, 8
Heath street: DIR. A. Jolly. 231 Main
street; Cyril NJ. Jolu, 165 Main
street; Rev. E. A. Pollard Jones, 20
Center street; c. A. knickerbocker. 45
Elm street; Otto Larsen. So Main
street: Herbert c. Libby. 73 Plea SAINT
street: F. w. Manson, Sentinel: c. A.