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Source: April 1987 Volume 25 Number 2, Pages 75–76


Notes and Comments

Page 75

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Paoli Library Holds Open House

More than 150 persons were present at an open house held by the Paoli Library in January to mark the formal opening of its new quarters in the Meridian Bank building. Short talks were given by several township and library officials.

For the occasion the bust of General Pasquale di Paoli was refurbished, and a sword once owned by General Paoli was put on permanent exhibit in a case on the wall of the Library. Both items had been "entrusted" to the citizens of Paoli on July 4, 1966 by Paul Ferrari, the Mayor of Morosaglia, the birthplace of Paoli in Corsica, "in the name of Corsica and in the name of Liberty".

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Quarterly Included In Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography

Last fall the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission issued the fifth addition to its Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography. The new volume covers the period from 1980 through 1982, and among the periodicals used in compiling this addition was the Tredyffrin Easttown History Club Quarterly.

The compilation includes thirty-one references altogether to articles in the Quarterly, with twenty-three different articles that appeared in it during this three-year period cited.

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More Learning Aids

After Patricia O'Neil, of West Chester, recently read the article of mnemonic devices that appeared in the Quarterly a couple of years ago ["Five Boys Eat Apple Dumplings" in the January 1984 issue (Vol. XXII, No. 1) and in "Notes and Comments" in the two succeeding issues], she sent us a note with a couple of them she remembered, with her daughter's help.

For the system of classification in zoology: KING PHILIP CAME OVER FROM GERMANY SOBER [kingdom, phyllum, class, order, family, genus, species]

For the five major sections of the primitive brain: TELL DI MES MET MEYL [telencephalon, diencephalon, meta cephalon, metencephalon, myelencephanlon]

For the colors on the resistance run: BAD BOYS RAPE OUR YOUNG GIRLS BUT VIOLET GOES WILLINGLY [black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white]

For the order of the planets around the sun: MY VERY EDUCATED MOM JUST SERVED US NINE PIZZAS [Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto]

They also show again that memory aids of this type are also a reflection of social change; we never heard of pizzas when we were in school!

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T-E Junior High School Recognized

The Tredyffrin-Easttown Junior High School has been named one of the top twenty-five secondary schools in the state for the current 1986-1987 school year by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

As a result of this recognition by the state, given under the National Secondary School Recognition Program, T-E is now being considered for national recognition by the U. S. Department of Education in May.

 
 

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