Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1958-03-20
Hits for Mrs. Va,
Mrs. IA. |. R. Maintains
Pretty Dizzy Pace

immaculate necessity.
But that's what happened. And
before you could say "Montgom-
cry County Society for Crippled
Children and Adults" Joseph
Gecraert, Rockville builder, had
not only offered a new temper
airy house but a two-acre site for
4 permanent building in one of
the loveliest locations in the area.
Now the new building has been
promised for occupancy by June
Is with the help of Mr.. Geeraert,
John Samperton who donated his
services as architect and Subur-
ban Maryland Builders who are
doing the construction at cost.
The building fund has grown
in the past year through the
scrimping and saving and money
raising of the Parents Auxiliary
and the Board of the Society and
individual contributions such as
the $4,000 from Charles E.
Miller, Bethesda developer.
When the Center opens in its
new home on the corner of Twin
brook Parkway and Baltimore
Road, it will represent the COM
bined efforts of lot of people
in the county.
But Mrs. Reese doesn't stop
there. THE most beautiful build
ing in the world is no good with
out operating funds" says
Madam President, and off she
goes in another whirlwind.
This years Easter Seal fund
drive has launched $4,000 letters
on the county aimed at goal of
$4,000. Church groups, some 200
volunteers and the entire Junior
Woman's Club of Silver Spring
have been stuffing and address
ing envelopes like mad all
month.
Today at the Congressional
Country Club the second annual
Easter Seal lunch will be held
with GarfinckeFs fashions to en-
tice the famous and near-famous
of the county. AS her chairman
for this important event, Mrs.
Reese has chosen Mrs. Robert E.
Moran, of Potomac. DR.. Moran is
on the Crippled Children's medi-
cal advisory board.
On March 90 Easter Lily
Parades will be held in all the
main shopping centers of the
county under the direction of the
Western Junior High students
and Jobs Daughters.
In the meantime, coin contain
ers are waiting to catch the dimes
and dollars in 81 county schools
and in numerous stores. The Sill
yer Spring Boys Club helped dis
tribute the containers which this
year for the first time are also
going into parochial schools!
After the Easter Seal drive,
Mrs. Reese has a whole series of
plans to carry out before her re-
tirement on August 81.
There is the continuation of
the swimming program and the
speech therapy for a number of
board of education special classes
children who might otherwise
lose ground in the summer.
New ventures are the use of
Gray Lady volunteers as speech
and physiotherapy aides, a
speech nursery school for the pre-
schoolers and a training program
for future speech and physio-
therapists from the University of
Maryland and the county's high
schools.
The Society has come a long
way from its beginning eight
years ago in one room in a
church in Silver Spring. Mrs.
Reese points with pride to the
fact that the Montgomery speech
therapy program started with the
loan of the Society's one thera-
pist to the board of education.
The Society is a county or
ganization operated by and for
county people and keeping up the
county growth. Another matter
of pride is that no child has ever
been turned away because of in
ability to pay for the services
offered.
Mrs. Reese's ancestors
migrated from New England to
Appleton Wis, generations be.
fore her time. She graduated
from the Wisconsin State College
at Oshkosh and taught until she
met Mr.. Reese who was working
with the state board of vocational
education at that time.
In June, 1912, the Reeses came
east for three months" when
Reese was called to the War Pro-
duction Board. He stayed with
the federal government for 10
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reese and sons
Evan and Tom moved to a house
on Baltimore Road in 1916 when
that area was way out in the
country"
When Rockville encircled them