Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920: Residents of Prospect
Park were considerably disturbed and annoyed on Sunday by a number of individual gathering at a certain rendezvous, at times becoming quite loud and boisterous, suggesting the atmosphere usually generated upon such occasions before the late John Barleycorn passed over.
75 Years Ago – 1945:
Two of the ten boys who took leave from Glen Mills School on Wednesday have been identified by state police as the vandals who broke into the Markham School at Concord that evening, rifling desks, burning report cards and papers and making away with some articles stolen from desks and the first aid kit. First aid bandages and gauze and tell-tale pencils and other school supplies found on their persons served to link them with the school robbery.
50 Years Ago – 1970: Some 30students from Pennsylvania State University’s Delaware County campus in Chester participated in a cleanup project at Camp Upland this weekend. The students, under the supervision of Dean Edward Liner and Professor Greg Morris, worked on the mess hall, Fellowship hall, and nature building, painting, plastering, scrubbing and cleaning.
The university students are one of several groups who volunteered their services to fix up the existing buildings which had been badly vandalized and subject to decay during the two years the cam stood idle.
25 Years Ago – 1995:
The Chadds Ford Historical Society has found an inventive way for people with disabilities to “visit” the society’s two historic restorations. A new 15-minute videotape called “Sharing the Spirit,” presents a guided tour of the circa
1725 home of John Chads and the Barns-Brinton House, a restored colonial tavern. Since our colonial ancestors never imagined their homes would become historic attractions, the narrow doorways, halls, and steep staircases can make it difficult today for people with disabilities to tour these structures.
10 Years Ago – 2010: Upper Darby High School’s indoor drumline, undefeated locally, placed third in the nation at a competition in Dayton, Ohio. Jason Majerczak, drumline director, expressed his pride in the performance at the Winter Guard International to win the bronze medals. “We preach to our music students that hard work and dedication will always prevail and on April 17 it did,” Majerczak said.