The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-23
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OAKVTLLE SCHOOLS
 REPORT ON DRIVE
SOren Neidt, William Nur- ginger, Bruce BatdOrf
 Each to Get Bonds

Oakville, April 23-During the week of April 18th through April 2Oth the United National Clothing Drive was held in all the schools of both Oakville and Watertown. Twenty-Five Dollar War bonds were offered by the factories of Oakville and Watertown to the pu- pill in each school who brought in the greatest weight in used cloth ing. Women from the various churches volunteered each day to weigh the clothing.
 At South School 182 children contributed 694O 1-2 pounds. Soren Neidt held first place with 666 1-2 pounds; Milton Gardner, second with 456 pounds; Russell Pope with 283 1-2 pounds; Angela Sprano with 28o pounds and Robert Stack with 251 pounds.
 At Polk School 1898 pounds were collected. William Wurdnger held first place with 287 pounds. Ac- cording to grades, 2nd 3rd grades were highest with 756 pounds, Miss Constance Gibbons teacher; Grade and 4 second place with 688 pounds Mrs. Florence Gibbons, teacher; Grades l and 2 had 3o4 pounds Miss Florence Thornhill teacher; and kindergarten 90 pounds, Miss Betty Olson, teacher
 At Falls avenue school 1065 pound were collected. Bruce Bat dorf held first place with 20 1-2 pounds collected, David Vosburgh collected 102 pounds and Billy Paige collected 98 pounds.
 Soren Neidt, William Wurzingel and Bruce Batdorf will each re- ceive a $25. War Bond. Splendid work was done in the collections at all the schools, in Oakville a total of 9903 1-2 pounds of used clothing
 Church Calendar For The Week
 At the Union Congregational church Sunday flowers in the memorial vase were presented by Mrs. Byron Cameron in memory oi her husband.
 The Pilgrim Fellowship went on a hike Sunday afternoon and held their service out of doors with Charlotte Andrews in charge.
 Monday eveu'"g at 7:30 the Gravy club v..l hold their meet ing in the church hall with Ever ett Roger as leader.
 The annual meeting of the Council of Congregational Womer of Connecticut will be held al Center church, New Haven, We'd nesday at 10:30 a. m. Dr. Frank Labach will tell of his two years work in South America. There will be a film shown How to Con- quer War"
 Wednesday evening at 7:30 thu Boy Scouts will meet under scout. master Walter Thorne in thu church hall.
 The Senior Girl Scouts will meet in the church parlor at 7:30 under the leadership of Mrs. Arthur Hare
 Thursday the Senior Choir vii meet for rehearsal at 7:30 p. m. Next Sunday the Pilgrim Fellow. ship will have supper meeting after which pictures will be showr God Who Touchest Earth Witt Beauty They will collect tho Cent -A-Meal banks in the after noon.
 On April 18th and 18th at 7:30 members of the Junior High o4 South School with the assistance o! the 5th and 9th grades will present And It Rained", an operetta 1T two acts.
 The book and lyrics are by Els. telle Merryman Clark with music by Adele Boiling Lee.
 The operetta is being directed by Mrs. George Pelzer.
 The main characters, in the or. der of their appearance follows MT. Wise-James Spino; Mile Ca ray - Jean Finnemore; Denni! Black - Richard Sprano; Maizi' Black-Virginia Green: Mrs. Wise Jean DiPrimio; Maibelle Rich Della Mennillo; John Rich-Syl' ] vester Desmone; Curly Rich-Billy Hassel Steele Black-Francis Lee chi; Jack & Fred - Albert Zacca' ria and Lawrence Osborne. The story of the operetta deal! with the Black and Rich families Years ago, Steele Black moved west with his wife and young son His boyhood friend, now the veal thy John Rich, with his daughter Maibelle, decides to go west to lool for them.
 Maibelle is anxious to secure ar old mirror that belonged to he family but is now in the possession of the Blacks.
 Dennis Black returning iron college on the train hears Maibell' speaking of his father and deter mines to watch her.
 Meanwhile a severe storm wash es away the railroad bridge and tht party is forced to take shelter 1T a summer hotel where the prob lems of both families are success fully worked out.
 Those having dancing parts II the operetta are: Glenna Jacobs Frances Murphy, Violet Yakulevici Adrian Boi. Frank DeLuca, Harolt Garner, Betty Avellani, Irene Car ter, Rose Fusco, Dorothy Massi cotte, Lorraine Morrow, RuSsel Pope, Judith Wiesen. Ann Godic Ghita Malanga, Dolores Stance Emanuel Carosella, Edward Fa bianski, Michael Famigletti, Fre' Carosella, Peter Karasuk, Merit Turrell, Robert Vadnais, Rober Vosburgh.
 And these are members of tn chorus:
 Barbara Atwood. Betty Avellan1 Janice Baker, Adrian Boi, Clair Bova, Irene Carter, Sandra Cestai Robert Christopher Jean Ciriellc Dorothy Daniels, Helen Daniels Mary Delio, Frank DeLuca, Alic Donaghy, Alfred Durante, Michae Ego, Nancy Franzese. Rose Fusce Harold Garner, Anna Johnson l -