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May 25,2016 |
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Dear CCS Alumni and Friends….it is getting close!!! Sure hope you have sent or are ready to send in your registration for the Orange and Black Scramble and the All Classes Reunion. Remember, if you just want to come and enjoy the fellowship without the meal, you do not have to register but there is a $7.00 fee for dues. If there are extra meal tickets available you are welcome to purchase them at the gate also.
The 150th Anniversary Celebration of the Village
The Class of 1976 would like to thank everyone who helped us locate missing classmates. Letters were mailed/emailed this week. If anyone did not receive either, please let us know. The class is planning an informal gathering on Friday evening beginning at 6:00 PM at the home of Tammy Langlois, Greene Road. Bring your choice of beverage and a snack or appetizer to share. We encourage everyone to join in the happenings in the village and at the Legion on Saturday.
Dave
McNeilly , '76
Best wishes! Margaret
(Farrara) LeStage, class of '62
Mary
Bates Muckle '59
I won't be going.
ATTENTION: There may be some confusion between CCS Alumni and Friends and the website Classmates.com. ClassMates,com is a business that offers to connect ALL schools across the country. They are free up to a point BUT they have a membership charge to use their data base. I am not affiliated with ClassMates nor is the CCS Alumni Association. I do the CCS Alumni and Friends website and newsletter on my own with my own personal accounts.. There is absolutely no charge I would never ask your credit/ debit card number or would ask you for any money.
FROM KEN GOTTRY, CLASS OF 1968 Norman Rockwell & CCS Principal The display case as you enter CCS has an exhibit about Rockwell's painting Young Lady With a Shiner. The setting of the painting is the CCS Principal's Office. It was the *only* principal's office in 1953. When Jimmy Leone's elementary principal's office was built as part of the 1958 addition, the office by the front door became known as the Main Office. Today, it is the Elementary Office.
When the "new school" opened in Sep-1951, Ernest Bodenstad was the principal. The secretary was Leah Knapp Dusha. They were the models you can see through the partially opened principal's door. Rockwell was a stickler for details. He had the CCS principal's door taken off its hinges and delivered to his studio in West Arlington, VT. He took many photographs of the door to get every detail just so. Norman Rockwell & United Nations & Cambridge Paul Adams '64 and Pauline Adams Grimes'65 (and maybe their brother Carl and sister Mary Beth) were models for Norman Rockwell. They were in the 1953 painting United Nations. Rockwell never finished the painting. Rockwell reshaped the painting, publishing it in 1961 as his famous Golden Rule painting. Alas, during the reshaping, the Adams were removed.
Last year the paintings were restored and in December there was a
re-dedication ceremony at the UN. The Adams were guests of honor.
Pauline has some great photos of her grandchildren in the General
Assembly auditorium and of her in one of Rockwell's paintings.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
Reunion Plans or Not. Just click on Reply.
Simply state: Going or Not Going or Still thinking about it. Of
course you are not limited to MY words....write what you would like
to. Challenge a friend, classmate, family member to reply.
Example. I am going and I am asking John Doe Class of 19__ if she
or he is going.
ATTENTION: MAYBE YOU CAN HELP THE FIRE DEPARTMENT We would love to pay for these fireworks by donations from the area businesses and public. Part of the history of the fire department was our annual carnival and firework display. Any donations can be mailed to the Cambridge Volunteer Fire Department, PO Box 554, Cambridge, NY 12816. Please write "fireworks" in the memo Save July 16th on your calendars for a day of celebrating our history
Thanks to all who have sent in responses to the assignment!! I
pray your Memorial Day Weekend is a safe and happy one. Please
remember those who gave their lives so you still have the freedoms
that you are enjoying. Give thanks to the Lord that we have men and
women who love this country enough to put their own lives in danger
for us.
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