Milford chronicle., 1960-10-28
LEWES

American Education Week. will
be observed in Lewes Special Sch
ool District Nov. 9, when the class
rooms will be open to visitors.
Parents and friends are expect
ed to visit the schools and see the
students in their daily classroom
environment.
The theme for this years Week
is not only concerned with the pre-
sent, but it is concerned with the
entire decade ushered in by 1860.
The theme is Strengthen Schools
for the Sos
American Education Week is
sponsored by the National Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers,
American Legion, U. S. Office of
Education, and National Education
Association. Its purpose is to in
form the public of the accomplish
ments and needs of the public SCH
Ools.
Saturday, October 90. is the date
for the 1860 Halloween Jamboree
in Lewes. This occasion marks the
annual Halloween celebration by
the entire community as well as
the Lewes P. It. AS major fund
raising event of the year.
Bayard V. Coulter, chairman, re-
ports that the booths, containing
a variety of homemade food and
notions, hot dogs, soft drinks, and
ice cream, win be set up in the
Fire Hall on Savannah Road, and
will be open at $50 pm. Booth
chairmen are Mrs. Apollo ]. Kiel-
basa and Mrs. John K. Kobe;
James S. Maull heads the building
committee.
The parade, under the chairman
ship of Preston Foskey, will form
at pm. at Fourth and Market
Streets and will get under way at
1880 pm. Registration for masquer-
aders in the parade will be held in
Bethel Fellowship Hall entrance
from $50 until parade time.
Lewes School Band will be in
the line of march. Bands from near
by communities have been invited
to participate. Many prizes will be
offered for bands, floats, and var
ious categories of masqueraders.
Mrs. Alfred Stango is chairman of
prizes and judges.
Following the parade, Judging
and awarding of prizes, there will
hR q nnn-hnrI1- off, e.
9th, and 9Th grade boys and girls,
to be held near the judges stand
in front of the Fire Hall. Music
viii be furnished by records. There
will be a teen-age dance on the
second floor of the Fire Hall from
until 1880 pm. Chuck Mailet,
local disc jockey. will spin the
Dlatters; there will be a dance con-
test and prizes. The Teen-age
Dance Committee consists of Mr..
and Mrs. Granville Carey and Dom
aid jefferson.
l.. Rhodes Vessels, student at
Lewes High Schools, recently at
tended the National Youth Con-
ference on the Atom, in Chicago,
Ill.
Rhodes, the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. Allen Vessels of Lewes Beach.
vas one of four Delaware students
% make the trip. The young men
we're accompanied by one of Lewes
High Schools science instructors,
Warren S. Schneider, from Phila- |
lelphia International Airport by
ct.
Over 500 persons attended from
I'LL parts of the country, including
more than 300 high school science
Students chosen for their interest
md excellence in the field of sci
,nce and more than 200 outstand- |
ng high school science teachers.
The program consisted of talks
md panel discussions by nation
authorities. fol-
owed by group discussion sessions.
Sessions were held at the Mu-
scum of Science and Industry. BY
means of bus tours, the partici-
'ants visited one of the Atomic
energy Commissions three prin-
'lpal laboratories and also the
Dresden Nuclear Power Station.
The conference was sponsored
'y 62 electric companies serving
1t least 3S states; the Delaware |