The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1950-03-23

According TO tne daily papers,
Mayor Mills left over the week end
for Today trip to the Midwest.
If that is correct, l wonder who
the guy was at the Monday luncheon
meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Chamber of Commerce, that pres
ident Arley Sica kept referring to as
"the Mayor"
| got a kick out of seeing John M.
Miller, vice-president of the Hag-
erstown Shoe and Logging Company,
taking a pair of shoes to a shoe re-
pair shop to get fixed last week. It's
quite evident that Johns motto is
Live and let live"
History was made at a recent meet
ing of the Baltimore Rotary Club
when Bruce Dancer, newly elect-
ed member of the club, was initiated.
Sitting at the head table during
the initiation ceremonies were his
father, Roy Dancer, Sr., past dis
trict governor of Rotary, and his
brother, Roy Dancer, Jr., president
of the Hagerstown Rotary Club 1t
is my understanding that this is the
first time in the history of Rotary
that a member has been initiated in
the presence of his father and broth
er, both of whom are high ranking
Rotarians.
Last Thursday was Ladies Day at
the weekly luncheon meeting of the
Kiwanis Club, and as was fitting to
the occasion, lady really stole the
show. l am referring to Mrs. Doug
lass Blair Kendrick, the former Miss
Dorothea Reynolds, of Hagerstown,
who was the guest speaker.
The wife of Lieutenant Colonel
Kendrick, personal physician of Gen
Douglas Macarthur, Mrs. Kendrick
spoke of her experiences in Japan
and brought her talk to a conclu-
sion with a number of fine pictures
taken by her and her husband, which
she very graphically described as
they were thrown on the screen.
One of the most polished speakers
l have ever listened to, Mrs. Kend-
rick is also endowed with a sense of
humor that is literally priceless, and
her description of the voyage to ia
pan was really a classic.
Usually a service club group of
men, if the meeting isn't over
promptly at 1870, gradually start
drifting out, and perhaps the finest
compliment ever paid to Mrs. Kend-
rick was the fact that although she
did not bring her talk to a close I'M
til ten minutes to two, not single
member of the club left his seat.
Congratulations to the EX-Hi-Y
Club for the grand job they are do
ing in their drive to get new uni
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School Band and the Majorettes.
81 And congratulations also to Radio
Station WEI for their wonderful
cooperation in putting on Call the
Band Wagon" This program, which
l heard on Monday night, invites the
public to call in their offers to sub
scribe to the fund. These calls in
turn are transferred to a group of
young people in cars, who go direct
to the address of those who call in
and pick up the subscription, and 1
am very glad to be able to report
that on Monday nights Call the
Band Wagon" the response from the
public was fine.
Oyer year ago, in this column, I
called the attention of my readers to
the need of new uniforms for our
High School band, and I am tickled
to death that at last something is
being done about it.
Lie 1lldliy l1S1lOS VI w l11ldIll ..
Hess, Jr., son of Rev. William S.
Hess who was the beloved pastor of
the Presbyterian Church from 1915
to 1910, will be glad to know that he
is really going somewhere in the
musical world.
Mr.. Hess, who is a graduate of the
Juilliard School of Music, was a
featured tenor soloist at a recent
concert of the National Orchestral
Association held in Carnegie Hall in
New York, and sang Mozart's CAB
duction from Seraglio" and ''Durch
die Walder," from Weber's Der
Freischutz," and was warmly praised
by the critics.
He has been a member of the
opera group of the National Orches-
trail Association since it was formed
in 1910, and is soloist of the Marbel
Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue,
New York of which Doctor Peale
is the minister.