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Bethany Second Graders See Seymour Post Office
The pupils of the second grade of the Community School took a trip to the Seymour Post Office last Tuesday. Mr. Forst, Postmaster, conducted the group through the Post Office departments and over to the railroad station to witness the arrival of the mail train and the unloading of mail and parcel post packages. The children had taken some of their valentines along to mail. They were allowed to cancel the letters and were shown how mail is sorted and made ready for delivery by local and rural mailmen. Two boxes of live chicks in the express office caused much comment. The children made the trip as part of their study of community institutions. They have constructed and have been using a play post office in their schoolroom. This visit greatly increased their interest in the project.
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Woodbridge Notes
The Woodbridge Fire Department answered a call at 6:40 P.M. on Wednesday, February 14, for a fire in a barn belonging to Robert Hitchcock on Baldwin Road. Eighteen men and three trucks answered the call and in less than an hour had the blaze under control. The department's portable flood-lights proved to be of great assistance.
The cast for the play, Wormwood Manor, to be given by the Woodbridge Club in April, has been selected and is rehearsing Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings.
The Woodbridge League of Women Voters will meet at the home of Mrs. Wadsworth Stone, on Fairgrounds Road, at 2:00 P.M. on Monday, February 26. Mrs. William Nyham, of New Haven, the guest speaker, will discuss the question, "Should we have a fair system of representation in Connecticut?"
In addition to receiving a free subscription to "The Amity Star," each Woodbridge boy who goes into service is given a carton of cigarettes by Howard Bell, proprietor of the Blue Check Service Station on Amity Road.
The Woodbridge Club will hold two dances at the end of the month: one for the High School-College Group on Friday, February 23, with Pamela Jewett as Chairman; and a Senior dance on Saturday evening, February 24, for which Mrs. Thomas Seymour is making the arrangements.
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Mental Hygiene Society Urges Building of Essential Structures
Dr. John Dollard, of the Department of Psychology at Yale University, President of The Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene, Inc., last week announced a resolution passed by the Executive Committee of the Society, emphatically supporting the appropriation of $750,000 for the building of a Study Home for emotionally disturbed children.
Said Dr. Dollard: "If the citizens of Conencticut could be marched past a group of these helpless and disordered children they would build with their own hands the cottages needed for their care."
Dr. Dollard presented the stand taken by The Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene as follows: "The urgent facts are (1) Many hundreds of small children in Connecticut become seriously ill emotionally every year. (2) These children cannot be treated at home and cannot be placed in foster homes. (3) There is no way in which treatment for such children can be bought because the facilities for the kind of treatment which will help them do not exist.
"The need for such a Child Study and Treatment Home has been clearly recognized by Connecticut citizens since 1943 and the project has existed since that time. A serious and sensible study of the problem has been made and an adequate, economical solution has been put forward. Cottages for these seriously ill children should be built now. Even in this time of economy the governor and the legislature want and mean to meet these needs which are most critical. The Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene urges support of legislation this year to meet this urgent need for a Child Study and Treatment Home."
Director of Orange Play Has Had Wide Stage Experience
Mr. Warren Chamberlain, director of the Paugusset Club's production of "Dear Ruth," which will be presented by the Community Players at the Orange Center School on February 23 and 24, has a wide background of dramatic experience.
Last year, Mr. Chamberlain won high acclaim for writing, producing and directing a play called "Life in a Revolving Door," a hilarious satire on life in a hardware factory which was presented as an employee program at Sargent and Company, New Haven, where Mr. Chamberlain is employed.
During the war Mr. Chamberlain produced and directed scores of shows for servicemen while he was on detached duty from the Ninth Air Force. His work and personal showmanship were so successful that he was invited by the famous Gridiron Club of Washington, an organization of newspapermen, to present an imitation of the late President Roosevelt at an annual dinner at which Mr. Roosevelt was the guest of honor. Chamberlain's performance was received with such enthusiasm, particularly by Mr. Roosevelt, that he was asked to repeat it on many occasions. In addition to the shows he handled in this country, Mr. Chamberlain produced and directed servicemen's programs in London and Manchester, England, and in Paris and Nancy, France.
Follwoing the war, he wrote and directed shows for the Veterans' Administration in a series caled "Get That Job" to help veterans rehabilitate themselves in civilian work.
A graduate of Boston Univesity and of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, Mr. Chamberlain has also done exptensive work with little theatre groups throughout New England including the preesentation of plays in Waterbury and Bridgeport. In adidtion, he has done considerable radio work, including acting stints with a number of radio daytime dramatic serials.
Committee Heads for Orange Play
Member heading committees for the Paugusset Club's production of "Dear Ruth," which will be presented by the Community Players of Orange at the Orange Center School on Friday and Saturday of this week. Standing (l. to r.): George Brixner, Jr., Arthur Chambers, Jr., George Seyfert. Seated: Mrs. Ben Chase and Robert Pastorius.
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