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Source: July 1981 Volume 19 Number 3, Page 68

Foreword

Page 68

When the article on the Walker School by Molly TenBroeck and Elizabeth Weaver was read at the April meeting of the Club, twenty-two former pupils of the school and members of their families held a "reunion" in conjunction with the meeting. The meeting was held at the old Walker schoolhouse, now the residence of Miss Marguerita Oneil, through whose courtesy our cover illustration, drawn by Stephen MacNeill, has been made available.

Virginia Kolderup's article on the Trinity Presbyterian Church's Vietnamese resettlement program was originally prepared as an application for a Freedoms Foundation award for the Minister, Dr. Robert W. Bohl, and was later also accepted by the Session of the church for its archives as a record of the church's participation in the effort. (Dr. Bohl, incidentally, was awarded a Humanitarian Activities Award for his part in the project.)

Perhaps one of the more interesting sidelights to when Beverly Sills sang in Berwyn, reported by Bob Goshorn, was the immediate recognition of her talents by the local newspapers, even though she was at that time just at the start of her illustrious career. After the summer series of plays and operettas which included her performance, the Berwyn Theater once again became a motion picture theater.

Part III of Elizabeth Rumrill's listing of burials at St, Peter's Church, based on the research of Miss Ellen Gooding, takes the alphabethical listing of nineteenth century burials through the letter "P".