Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1956-03-01
By Elaine WOjtan0wski
GA 4-889S


master for pack 4S3 in Twin.
brook. Norman Persons six
months of hard labor reached a
rewarding climax at the Blue and
Gold Dinner last week as his re.
tirement conceded with the of.
fetal Boy Scout Week celebra.
ton.
Honor guests at the dinner held
at Richard Montgomery High
were Mayor and Mrs. Dickran
Hovsepian, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Dickson and Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Downes of the PTA (pack
sponsors) and Herbert Wilson of
the Washington Boy Scout Coun-
Gil.
Mayor Hovsepian was made an
honorary cub and made the
awards for the evening. Den One
earned the honor flag. Den Four
won the best display" title for
the month for their expert han
ding of the table decoration.
Den Seven was honored for its
presentation of the best Skit,
History of Scouting" The skit
covered the steps taken by a boy
on his way from Bob Cat Cub to
a Senior Boy Scout and as a part
of the play.
Boys who received their promo.
tons from the mayor were Tom
Dolea, Wolf; Gerald Oyama and
Ben Sellers, Bear, and Kern Wore,
Lion.
On Tuesday capacity class of
IS started their civil defense
training course. Mary McQueeney
and Bill Landaeta have been
pleased by the enthusiastic re-
Spouse of their neighbors and
they promise to make the course
as interesting as it is worth
while.
On Saturday, Capt William
Berry, the newly elected chief of
our Rockville Fire Volunteers,
will instruct a class in fire fight.
ing in the basement Of the fire
house.
Mary is particularly grateful
for Chief Berry's cooperation in
this program. She was reluctant
to start even small practice fires
in her own house. This course,
or lesson, is to cover the quick
action that will bring a small
fire under control. It's no substi.
tute for calling the fire depart
ment
A group of would-be square
dancers got together last Satur-
day at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stanley Ruthberg to see if it is
true that anyone can do it,"
Having walked through three
dances without sustaining seri-
Gus injury, they promptly chris.
tened themselves the "Twinbrook
Twirlers" and do-si-do'd away into
the night, while we decided that
a basement is a many-splendored
thing-ballroom, bomb shelter
and bicycle park.
Since we spent the week hiber-
mating with our children and the
vaporiZer, our contacts with the
outside" were rather limited and
while we gathered very little
news we had time to ponder such
things as the nature of the WON
en- who do the telephoning for the
influenza study.
One might expect them to be in.
telligent, polite, efficient and in.
terested in their work, but they
manage to surpass such expecta.
tons consistently.
Maybe what they have is the
vanishing talent known as bed.
side manner. If the institute
could reduce this quality to serum
and inoculate our diplomatic
corps and other carriers" the
worlds prognosis would undoubt.
edly be improved.
Our weeks confinement EN-.
phasizes the fact that our $50
ciaP news is limited to our i'm.
mediate neighborhood People
out of hailing distance are ap-
parently too shy to telephone.
We are sure there is a gay so.
cial whirl in North Twinbrook,
Twinbrook Forest and the west
side Of South Twinbrook, and we
should be most happy to provide