Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 35]

The Detroit Public Library and
~the University~ Center for Adult
Education sill cooperate in an
experimental program. whereby
adult educatjon courses in reading and. literature will be. offer_ ed in Detroit branch libraries;

the program was announced in
a joint statement by Dr. Ralph
A. Ulveling, Director of the Detroit Public Library, and Dr. Hamilton Stillwell, Director ~of the
University Center for Adult, Education, WSU-UM-EMU.

The coursms to be offered are:
READING EFFICIENCY at Hubbard Branch Library, Tuesdays
at 7:30 p.m. heginning February

- 13, and at jefferson Branch Librarv, Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.
besinnine Februarv 14; LITERA
_ TURE OF THE, 20~S taught by
Dourlas J. Robillard. at Sher
wood Pores Rranch ~ Librarv,

Thursdavs at'7:30 nm. hecinnine
February 18 and IDFAS THAT
HAVE CHANGED MANKIND,
tausht by Dr. Milton Covensky,
at Chase Rra@nch Librarv. Tuesdavs at 7:30!p.m. beginning Februarv 13. 54

Advance registration is required for these: courses; for full information on registration procedures, fees and other adult education courses offered in other locations by the University Center
for Adult Education, contact the
Center offic& 60. Farnsworth Avenue, TEmple 3-1400. Registration forms #or the four courses

* biped are dhs selckiale 1

in ~tial Courses
At Public Lit

listed above are aiso. available
from Detroit Branch libraries.

UCS Women
Observe 27th
Anniversary

The Women~s Committee of
United Community Services observed its 27th year of continvous community work at a luncheon February 5 at the ~Masonic
Temple Crystal Ballroom.

Some 500 men and women
were en hand to hear Elsie Abel,
noted Washington newsman for
NBC, discuss ~How We Look to
Them-America~s Impact Overseas.~;

Considered unique in the naticn for its long and outstanding
record of service to the Detroit
community, the UCS Women~s
Committee has as many as 5000
women from every section of the
metropolitan area taking part in
its year-round. activities. Its ~ ef
forts are devoted to educating the
community about the work and
value of all health and welfare
agencies and to encourage women

in accepting responsibility in vol
unteer service.

Mrs. Aaron Gershensen was
chairman. of the annual luncheon
with Mrs. Ruth Stevens as cochairman.

M C GC Announces

New Facilities

Michigan | ~Consolidated Gas
Company announced it will invest $27, 116,500 in new facilities in 1962, an increase over last
year~s eet gees budget of $7,
600, 000.

This jest ~expansion program
is the fifth:largest in the 111-year
history of the company. It -will
bring~ the @#mpatiy~s s*investment
for the 10 yéar period ~to approximatély a quarter of a billion
dollars. ~:

Michigan,Consolidated plans
to construct 182 miles of gas distribution mains and 36 miles of
large diameter transmission lines
this year. It~expects to add 11,
000 new customers.

Nearly $13, 600,000 of the total will be spént in the Detroit
area where the company will construct over 45 miles of new gas
- mains. Relocating gas mains, due
to construction of expressways
in Defroit, will cost the utility
$1,025,000. ~: -

Mighigan.~Consolidated will
spe] $3, 311, 000. including over

afhalf million dollars due to ex
essway construction, in_ its
Grand Rapids District. It plans
to build 67 miles of gas mains
there, which will include an extension of its system to Allendale, site of the new Grand Valley State College.

In its Ann#Arbor District Michigan Consoligated will invest $1,

190,000 worth of new facilities
including 17 miles of gas mains.

The company~s Northern Districts, which include Mt. Pleasant, Greenville-Belding, Ludington, Big Rapids, Cadillac, Traverse City, Manistee and Sault
Ste. Marie, will account for $1,114,500 of the construction bud
get.. The. utility. will build. over
~31 miles of mains in those cities.

Production & Pipe Line District of the company, which has
charge of building and maintaining gas transmission lines, Michigan gas production and storage
field development, will spend
$8, 025,000 this year, over half
of is as a result of. the company~s
acquisition of the Belle River gas
field in St. Clair County.

The company will build 36
miles of 24-inch transmission line
from the gas field south of St.
Clair to the northeast side of Detroit at a cost of $3, 918, 000. Another $1, 482 000 will be spent on
acquiring interests in the field
and constructing gathering and
processing facilities and a receving station.

Mr. Ralph T. McElvenny, president of Michigan -Consolidated,
said that during the year the
company had ~contracted for
large additional gas supplies in
the coming years in order to

~meet the ever increasing~ needs

of its customers.

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Rees ~Ae

~Beautiful Buns For Brunch.

~most influenced him. Dr. Bunche

~the new. issue of Look Magazine.

Dr. Robert

Dr. Robert ~. Weaver, Administrator of the Federal -Housing
and Home-Finance Agency and
George C. Scott, brilliant young
Detroit actor, will be the fea:
tured speakers at the 15th Annual Roosevelt Day Dinner~ spon:
sored by the Americans for Democratie Action on Saturday, Feb.
17, the ADA Detroit Chapter an
nouneed this -week.

The dinner which will be held
in the Grand ~Ballroom of De-7
troit~s Statler-Hilton Hotel ~at
7:30 p. m. will be preceded by
a reception at 6:30 p. m.

~We are fortunate in having
distinguished Americans of the
calibre of Dr. Weaver and Mr.
Scott as featured speakers at
this year~s Roosevelt Day Dinner,~ _ADA _Detroit Chapter
Chairman Henry _Santiestevan
said.;

The view of fhe miany complex
problems facing the nation in the
area of housing and urban renewal and development,~ Santiestevan declared, ~we feel. that
Dr. Weaver's presence in our city is particularly timely.

_ ~Mr. Scott~s appearance calls
attention to the current cultural

upswing in Detroit,~ Santiestevan

ae

added.
Dr. Weaver has headed the na
tion~s top housing home and fi
~New York,~Dr. Ralph J.
Bunche, Under Secretary of the
United. Nations, will receive one

Awards at the convention of the
American Association~ of School
Administrators in Atlantic City
this weekend.

The second Golden Key awed
will be given to 82-year-old Miss
Emma Belle Sweet, named by Dr.
Bunche as the teacher who had

attended Miss Sweet~s sixth-grade
classes in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The awards are annouficed in

Previous Golden Key winners

* | include teachers of former Presi-|.
[dent Dwight D. Eisenhower and
4 ese Arleigh. Burke.

Dr: Bunche says in Look of his
~former teacher:..

~I discovered in Miss Sweet~s
classes. that ning is something
educa tion

of the two annual Golden Key)

Key spokesmen. for the: hundreds of wonien and hours that go
into the fabulous annual ~Fashion Extravaganza~ to be held ~
Sunday, February 18 at 4 PM. at the Latin. Quarter are left to
right. Juanita Chapman, co-chairman Fashion Show;. Violet T. _
pone Founder of the idea nine years ago; Junetta Watt, General

C. Weaver

To Speak Here Feb. 17

nancing agency since his Appoint.

ment by President Kennedy more.

than a year ago. Prior to being
tapped by the Kennedy Administration he was vice-chairman of
the New York City Housing and
Redevelopment Board..

He held cabinet rank status in
the Averill Harriman ~* Administration as New York State Rent
Adtninistrator. During ~his long
~public career ~he~ has ~Séfved- in
~several govern al at)
the city, state and fedérat levels.

George C. Scott is the dynamic force behind~ Detroit~s: fledg:
ling Theatre of Michigan Company whose intention ~is fo. lay
the groundwork for ~a new theatre of the U. S. here in Detroit.

Mr: Scott has-been a Detroit |

resident since 1935. He was a
journalism major at the University of Missouri where his interest in the theatre began. He has

appeared extensively in stock;

productions throughout the U. S.
and Canada and made his Broadway Debut in ~Comes A Day~
which starred Dame Judith Anderson.. *

He has appeared in numerous
movies and television shows and
has won rave notices for his role
of Bert Gordeon in Robert Ross
en~s movie, ~The Hustler.~

Ralph Bunche Honored
By School Administrators

than teaching, and that is the relationship of one human being to
another.~. Sponsors. of the annual Golden
Key Awards are the American
Association of School Administrators, the Council of Chief State
School Officers, the National Association of Secretaries of State
Teachers. Associations, the National Congress of Parents and
Teachers, the National Education
Association, the National Schod!l
Boards Association and the U. S.
Office of ee RAS

~er who died in 1960.has left a be
poetry

~Gerald Manley Hopkins; Keats,,

ear

Chairman, 1962; Lynette Taylor;
~Extravaganza~,
Gamble, (not shown). The ladies
be seen at the show. Tickets. and

Call NOW TR. 3-7851. es proceeds for the Maren of Dimes.

\George Counts

Teacher Leaves -
$6,000 In Will

A retired Detroit sehool teach
quest in excess of _ $6,000 to,
Wayne State ~University. -

Alma Bassett; a WSU a
specified that the money ~be used
for student -leans. She -reeeived }her B.~S..degree in 1926 and M,
A. degree an 1933. Both were in
edueation..

Miss: Bassett taught in Detroit
area schools for 38 years, retiring
in 1941. She then returned to
Standish, ure, her childhood:
home.

A famous interpreter of British
and drama, Robert
Speaight, will be the guest speaker at a meeting of the Friends of
the Detroit Public Library, Wednesday, February 28. Mr.

Speaight, on 4 tour of American

colfeges, sponsored: by the Danforth - Foundation,
from the.works ~of T.-S. Eliot,

Shakespeare and: others in the
Main Library, Woodwatd at Kirby, at 8 p.m. The public is invited. There is no admission charge.~
Mr. Speaight originated the
part of Becket in the Eliot pe
~Murder In The Cathedral, ip
role: he tas played more than
thousand times in F; rinich and
English. He has written two
books on the life and letters of
Hilaire Belloc and has received |
numérous awards arid honors,
ineluding appointment as Com
a baat pen tg to "the rr
vancemént of youth were named
~Honorary Y-Teens at the 69th
-annual meeting~ of the ~Detroit

P~WCA hel

4 T wutte~ Caticarté: En Lithia, re| iota) director. Anti-Defamation
See Erg of Bust Brith: the Rev.

Mi abe uit
métfopotitaf executive ~ director.

atid. Trudy ~Haynes, ~o-chairman, with Edith

will - recite |,

Chaitnan and: Nartator for the

aré adthiring # sample~ froék to
table reservations are available.

To Speak Here

_A distinguished ~Améti~an au:
thor and educator will speak on
~What Can We Really Learn from
Russiant Education?~ at Wayne
~State University~s annual Educ#
tion. convocation on Thursday,
Feb.. 22.

~Dr. George S.-Counts, distingvished _professor. _at _Michigan
State University, will. speak in
the Community Arts-Auditorium

at 5 pm.: Thee is the Fg in a. os

Liberty and Justicé award and a
cash prize of $5,000 from. the Li
canie the beautiful~ bride of Mr.
Herbert A. Lewis, Irs in January.
The announcemént was made by
the bride~s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Willis Ivy.

mérce Alumni.
Post-Valentine~s Day Darice, Saturday, February 17 at Mr. Kelly~s
Balircom, Chene & Garfield. Do- ~;
nation is $1.00. ~Tickéts: may be

te at the Vet- i

te
> Bro ~pastor of if
ee ce ng i geome and 3
~B. Eldridge, YWCA ~ q

Mrs. Hundley, ~eléctéd for a one-. -|year tetm to Read the YWCA of
- | Metropolitan ~ Detroit,
Mrs. Frederick J.

ast

Succeeds
Schumann.
Other officers: chosen for one
j year terms were Mrs. Thatcher
W, Rea; Sr.,--Mrs.
Miller, and Samuel Miller Brownell, as the first; second and third
~vice-presidents, respectively..

Fernand W.. *?

ma

Mrs. James H.. Laird, was nam
ed recording seeretary and Mrs.
Paul 4H, Alexander, ~correspond. ~
ing secretary.

Mrs. Roderick G. Schuster was

elected treasurer, and Mrs. Edward D. Quint, assistant treasur- -
ér.

| BARBARA IVY WEDS

< te

Miss Barbara ~Bloise Ivy be
Pre-Velentine ec

The Detroit Institute of. Com~will Sponsor a

oe ~rs wee of Wwcttion, Durehaeet st thepueie diets pate.
thy - eae Béucation. of: Commies: "
2 Counts~ ook the Challenge - Dussie. Crigler, |:
- Soviet.: jueation~ won. the Proceeds ffom the dance will

be~ used to ptitchase books: for
the DIC libtary and: to give scho-. larships to deserving students.

brary Association in 1987.

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