100 Years Ago: 1922
The Great Lakes String Quartet comes as the next entertainment to the Auburn Chamber of Commerce series. The quartet will entertain Tuesday evening, Feb. 14, at the Webster School building.
50 Years Ago: 1972
The latest annual report of the Dr. Gard W. Twaddle Nurses’ Endowment Fund shows an addition of $3,687.50 to the principal in the last fiscal year, the 17th since the fund was established in November of 1954, in honor of the late Dr. Gard W. Twaddle. The largest addition during the year was a $1,000 bequest in the will of the late Mrs. Oscar R. Hahnel Sr. “The principal of the fund now totals nearly $46,000, which at today’s interest rates provides a substantial annual sum for assistance to nursing students,” Dana S. Thompson, chairman of the Board of Trustees, declared, in making the latest report on the fund’s activity.
25 Years Ago: 1997
Members of the Auburn Exchange Club will meet at 11:15 am. Tuesday at the Lewiston High School library for rededication of the newly installed Freedom Shrine. Guests will include Auburn Mayor Lee Young, Lewiston City Councilor, President Frank Kelly, Principal Rick Sykes, shrine designer Richard Doucette and presidents and student council members from each class of the high school. A regular luncheon meeting will follow at Rolandeau’s Restaurant, Auburn when Nancy Trembly and Margaret Lane will explain the role of an alternative revenue coordinator. Youth of the Month candidates were present at Tuesday’s meeting. Attending were Ben Ray of Edward Little High School, Nicole LaBonte of St. Dominic Regional High School and Kim Dionne of Lewiston High School.
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