Leader Lookback: Concert, volunteers
This is what was in The Evening Leader 50 years ago this week.
MHS INSTRUMENTALISTS AND THEIR DIRECTOR F.C. LOYER RECEIVED PLAUDITS FOR WINTER CONCERT
One hundred fifty-six instrumentalists of Memorial High School and their director, Fred C. Loyer, received plaudits Sunday afternoon following the concert by the Memorial High School Concert and Symphonic Bands.
Their program was much enjoyed by an appreciative audience, one that did not fill every seat in the auditorium but which filled most of the seats. Weather conditions probably kept some of those who had bought tickets from attending.
The compositions chosen for the concert provided an excellent variety. They ranged from A Mendelssohn Fugue to selections from musicales, from a spiritual to a Sandpaper Ballet with the accompanying sound of sandpapering, from a Concerto Americana by Cacavas with the familiar, “Nobody Knows The Troubles I’ve Seen”, “Skip To My Lou”, etc. The harmony and interpretation were excellent.
Director Loyer reminded the audience of the upcoming Band and Choir Festival, District III next Sunday at Bluffton. Some members of the Memorial High School band and choir will participate in the festival program at 3 p.m.
He reminded the audience of the benefit spaghetti supper to be held Friday by the Band Parents at McBroom Cafeteria.
MORE THAN 3,000 HOURS SERVICE GIVEN BY ARC VOLUNTEERS IN ‘70 AT HOSPITAL AND VALLEY NURSING HOME
Red Cross Volunteer workers served a total of 3,024 hours and 42 minutes last year at Joint Township Memorial Hospital and the Valley Nursing Home.
The volunteer workers were recognized for their hours of devoted service at the dinner meeting held last evening at the Valley Nursing Home dining room. The Valley entertained the volunteers with a dinner catered by Villa Cerise in appreciation for their many hours of service.
Mrs. Gary Halbert, chairman of the volunteers, conducted the business meeting during which Mrs. Larry Aufderhaar was reelected secretary and Mrs. Eunice Whetstone was named treasurer.
Mrs. Don Nevergall, director of nursing services, expressed appreciation to the volunteers for their hours of service at both the Valley and Joint Township Hospital.
Mrs. Carl Lilie, Mrs. Whetstone and Mrs. Anna Newell were the committee in charge of the dinner.
Mrs. Newell offered the prayer before the delicious meal.
MIKE YOUNGS PICKED FOR SOUTH ALL-STAR TEAM; MIKE DZALAMANOW NAMED ALTERNATE
Mike Youngs, Memorial High School halfback, was selected by the South All-Star Coaches to play on the South team in the annual football game between the North and South. Youngs is 6’2”, and weighs 210 pounds. He is from Region 9.
Another Memorial High gridster, Mike Dzalamanow was named on the alternate player list. If an opening on the team develops, alternates will be considered, based on need, regional requirements and selection regulations.
The game will be coached by Dave Haines of Sidney High School and will be played Aug. 13 in Canton, Skip Baughman, head football coach at Memorial High School, announced.
DON SNOW, N.BREMEN, PREPARES TO GIVE ONE OF HIS KIDNEYS TO SUSTAIN LIFE FOR BROTHER, REV. JAMES SNOW, IN CALIFORNIA
A New Bremen man, Don Snow, 307 Lane, will give up one of his kidneys so his brother, the Rev. James Snow of Sacramento, California, will have a chance to live.
The operation for the kidney transplant is scheduled for February 16 at San Francisco University Medical Center. The Rev. Mr. Snow, 44, is two years younger than his brother. He is pastor of the First Nazarene Church in Sacramento and was active in community affairs as well as church work until last September when he became critically ill and went into a coma.
Both kidneys are completely dead and the Rev. Mr. Snow required to receive treatments on a kidney machine, three a week, at a cost of $200 per treatment. He has been on the machine since Sept. 3 and takes his treatments at the American Rivers Hospital in Sacramento.
The Rev. Mr. Snow will undergo surgery on Feb. 9 for the removal of his kidneys, and Don and his wife, Bonnie, will fly to California and be with him at this time.
Don, too, has been undergoing a series of tests, the first two at Joint Township Memorial Hospital on Nov. 1. Others were done at Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, where he will undergo surgery later this week during which dye will be injected into his bloodstream directly through his heart to determine which kidney will be the least complicated to transplant. This kidney will then be turned and placed on the opposite side in his brother, the Snows were told.
Don will be a patient in the University Hospital for two weeks. The Snows hope then that he can return by plane with Mrs. Snow to New Bremen where he will convalesce for another four or five weeks.
Don is perhaps the only person in the world who can act as a donor for his brother since there are no other brothers and their sisters are not able to pass required tests. The Snows were told that blood brothers or sisters are preferred because the genes of the recipient are more likely to accept the new kidney from a donor having genes as close to those of the recipient, as they can hope to get The Rev. Donald Snow, retired, of Rapid City, Michigan, is the father of the Snows. He had been pastor of the First Nazarene Church in Dayton for 12 years until his retirement four years ago. While pastor there the congregation built the new church.