Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: The Chester Hospital has the distinct honor of furnishing five physicians to the United State for work on the French battlefields. Four have enlisted in the Medical Reserve Corps, and a fifth, Dr. Clifford W. Arnold, is a first lieutenant in the Sixth Pennsylvania Hospital Corps. The other volunteers are Dr. Robert Kilduffe Jr.; Dr. William Evans; Dr. John S. Eynon; and Dr. George L. Armitage.
75 Years Ago – 1942: A squeaking hinge on a door in St. Michael’s Church led to the capture of a youth who confessed to robbing the poor boxes of every Catholic church in the city except that of St. Robert’s. The 17-year-old was caught at Ninth and Sproul streets after a chase from St. Michael’s Church where Patrolman Devlin had found him loitering suspiciously inside the church. Devlin had attended a meeting in the church basement and heard a door creaking upstairs. Knowing that no one was supposed to be in the church at the time, he investigated.
50 Years Ago – 1967: A 42-year-old St. Louis man was named president of Delaware County’s proposed community college. He is Dr. Douglas F. Libby Jr., vice president of the St. Louis, Mo., Junior College District and director of the district’s Florissant
Valley Community College. Libby was the “unanimous choice” of the college trustees, according to Trustee Norman Shain. Libby was chosen from more than 70 candidates for the top post at the county’s two-year college.
25 Years Ago – 1992: A plan for another lot in the Newtown Square Corporate Campus, under development between Bishop Hollow Road and West Chester Pike, will be favorably recommended to the Newtown Township Board of Supervisors by the planning commission. A 25,200 square feet building is proposed for a 7.3 acre portion of the office complex which would
serve as headquarters for the International Centre for Diffraction Data, currently located in Swarthmore.
10 Years Ago – 2007: Newtown supervisors and residents will get a closer look at proposed plans from the Berwind Property Group for a town center or by-right development on the Ellis Preserve property at two public meetings May 30 and 31. After more than two years of wrangling with township officials to approve an expansive town center near routes 3 and 252, BPG is expected to present more details for its alternate byright plan at the meetings.