COMMUNITY REPORT

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October
1975
ARBA Federal Region III
Virginia Group Makes
Funds Do Many Things
Arlington County Bicentennial Commission in Virginia
operates on a limited. budget, but how it stretches the little
money it has can well serve as an'inspiration and a model for
many other communities. Here's what the Commission, which
is chaired by Edward F. Sayle, does:
? Maintains a Community Information Office staffed by a
secretary on a half-time basis who responds to telephone
and letter inquiries; keeps a mailing list of community
leaders, officers of organizations, etc.; schedules speaking
engagements; issues news releases; and makes available to
Bicentennial planners a reference collection of informa-
tional materials, fund-raising ideas, and the like.
? Publishes a 4-page multicolor bimonthly newsletter which
gets maximum exposure with a limit of 1,500 to 2,000
copies each issue. These are mailed to officers of some 300
local organizations and editors of newsletters; local, state
and national figures within the community; key business-
men; schools, libraries, etc.
? Radio Billboard. Since last January 1, a local all-news radio
station has been airing "On This Day," a syndicated pro-
gram about a mythical journalist, Jonathan Penn, as a
public service. The program, purchased by the Commission
last year, is heard twice-a-day, six-days-a-week, and features
a "billboard" or announcement of county Bicentennial
activities.
? Maintains a speakers' bureau made up of Commission,
public officials, and others.
? Awards Certificates of Recognition to organizations,
businesses and individuals who develop acceptable Bicen-
tennial events, projects and programs.
? Sponsors competitions such as those for design of an
emblem used on bumper stickers, buttons, posters, tote
bags, etc. Current competition in letters, "What the Bicen-
tennial Means to Me." Those adjudged the best are read on
the radio program, "On This Day," with the writer awarded
a prize.
? Encourages formation of Student Bicentennial Committees
in public and parochial schools which will be the nucleus of
a county-wide Youth Bicentennial Commission. Commit-
tees develop their own programs and projects and raise
whatever funds are needed. In a Bicentennial Week earlier
this year, one school had a history fair, a competition for
writing a Bicentennial play, a "liberty" tree planting which
was produced and filmed, and a Bicentennial banquet..
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Donald B. Strasburger, Regional Director
Memo From
The Director
With this issue, Federal Region I I I is initiating the
first of a series of reports designed to keep Bicenten-
nial planners in the five-state region of Delaware,
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia
informed of what others are doing to make the na-
tion's two hundredth anniversary of independence a
memorable observance and, hopefully, to serve as a
clearinghouse, small it may be, for a useful exchange
of ideas.
The response to our request for information that
would be helpful and informative to others in formu-
lating and implementing Bicentennial plans was most
gratifying despite the fact that the months of July
and August are not noted (due to vacations) for a
high degree of productivity.
It is hoped that you understand that it is possible
to report a fraction of activities only. What interests
us-and should interest you and others in com-
munities privileged to fly the ARBA flag-are the
more unusual events, programs and projects which
can be undertaken with a minimum of official fund-
ing.
Your attention is called to the item describing the
many activities of the Arlington County (Va.) Bi-
centennial Commission. This commission's program is
being achieved this year with a minimal budget-
$8,200! I think you will agree that's stretching
money-wise dollars. But there must be other com-
munities with fewer activities doing an equally good
job with fewer funds.
A reminder: The Region III office, situated a short
walk away from Independence Hall, serves as the
liaison between the state commissions and ARBA
headquarters in Washington. We're ready to assist you
in whatever way we can. So send along the reports
and newsletters on restorations, unusual means to
raise funds, crafts and the like. These are grist for the
roundup mill.
October is "Ethnic Month" in Delaware.
The Delaware American Revolution Bicentennial Com-
mission is recognizing the state's many ethnic groups with
programs designed to create a new civic awareness of their
significant contributions to American heritage.
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Designated Bicentennial Communities in the five-
state Federal Region 111 totaled 612 as of September Won't Lack For
24. College/University Bicentennial Communities
numbered 68. This is the regional BINET box score:
College/University ?
Bicentennial
Communities
Bicentennial
Communities
Delaware
39
3
Maryland
89
8
Pennsylvania
306
27
Virginia
103
20
West Virginia
75
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Speakers Bureau Involves
College. Faculty Members
A Bicentennial project other regional committees might
want to institute-a speakers bureau involving faculty members
of area colleges-is being sponsored by the Lancaster (Pa.)
Country Bicentennial Committee.
Twenty faculty members from Elizabethtown College,
Franklin and Marshall College, and Millersville State College
have prepared Bicentennial-themed talks on subjects ranging
from A to V (art to vocal music). Each program is scheduled
to last 30 to 45 minutes followed by a question-and-answer
period. Some consist of recitals or slide presentations.
The wide range of topics include: The American Revolution
and American Society, America's Vocal Music Tradition
(lecture/recital), The American Tradition in Art (slides),
Drama in the American Revolution, Religion and the
American Revolution, The American Tradition in Music, Mr.
Jefferson and the Declaration, The American Soldier in the
Revolution, Growing Up In America - Schooling, Then and
Now, Benjamin Franklin's Great Lady-friends, and After Two
Hundred Years - American Liberties Now and Then.
Information on the speakers bureau is contained in a leaflet
which regional Bicentennial committees can obtain by mailing
a large (No. 10) stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
Marilyn Davidson, Program Coordinator
Bicentennial Speakers Bureau
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, Pa. 17603
Limited Budget,
(Con t'd from Pfw/e 1)
Students raised funds for the events with a pizza party and a
car wash day.
The Commission serves as the focal point for theme events.
A folk festival drew 35,000 persons and a 125-unit Independ-
ence Day parade drew a similar number. An old-time. Fourth
of July in the parks had 5,000 competing in games with
entertainment by local talent. The annual fireworks display
drew an estimated 65,000 spectators. Funds were raised by
community events. For a Bicentennial ball, a local hotel do-
nated the use of three ballrooms; three bands donated services;
and a soft-drink firm provided refreshments and decorations.
These are some of the things a community (Arlington
County has 160,000 pop.) can do with a minimum of official
funding. Arlington's most valuable resource, says Chairman
Sayle, is its citizens who carry out the theme: "The Bicen-
tennial is not something you watch, it's something you do."
Memorabilia
The Bicentennial will have its share of mementoes and
souvenirs just as did the 1876 Centennial.
The memorabilia of a hundred years ago are avidly sought
by collectors. Among the items still to be found (at high
prices) are still and mechanical iron banks modeled after
Independence Hall and iron and glass banks that are miniature
replicas of the Liberty Bell.
One of the more prized items, a rarity, is a card game called
"The Centennial Game of the Revolution." It is owned by
Mrs. Betty Robbins of Allentown, Pa. She found the game
among her late father's effects.
The game consists of 52 lithographed cards each having a
brief bit of history printed on the back. When properly
combined, the 48 cards depict four scenes: the surrender of
Fort Ticonderoga, Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown, Perry's
naval victory on Lake Erie, and the naval engagement between
the Constitution and the Guerriere.
The four remaining cards are imprinted with lithographs
showing the arrival of Columbus in America, the 1876 com-
memorative seal of the U.S., an American eagle, and bust of
George Washington. The object of the game was to collect 12
cards forming one of the lithographs. Players drew and
discarded cards with this in mind. Once a player formed a
picture, he could "retire" his opponent by demanding his
cards.
While there are any number of items being offered to the
public as reminders of the Bicentennial, only those com-
memorative products manufactured by licensed firms can dis-
play the official Bicentennial symbol and the legend,
"Officially recognized commemorative of the American
Revolution Bicentennial Administration."
Items licensed to date include: paperweights, jewelry and
medallions, a series of 100 ingots depicting 100 events in
American history, belt buckles and belts, tri-cornered denim
hats, ARBA embroidered emblems and appliques, plastic
plaques, labels and bumper stickers, ceramic mugs, com-
memorative spoons, auto and bike license plates, men's blazers
and co-ordinated slacks, ARBA facsimile of the Great Seal of
the United States.
Also, ARBA logo buttons, games, handcrafted clocks, play-
ing cards, ARBA patches and posters, the Declaration of
Independence etched on a copper plate, models of historic
landmarks, men's neckwear, men's sport shirts, tote bags,
commemorative ring, pressure-sensitive bumper sticker with
reflective safety background, molded plastic label and scatter
pin, pennant, white metal tray with ARBA symbol, quilt and
pillow kit, 5-strong banjo, dulcimer and plickett.
The exterior of the oldest homestead in Scranton, Pa., the
Tripp house, was repainted in September by University of
Scranton students as part of a Bicentennial project for the
community.
Built in 1812 by Isaac Tripp I11, the house is the site of the
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Pays Tribute To
Peter Muhlenberg
It was Peter Muhlenberg Day October 1 in Woodstock, Va.
The clergyman who ended a sermon in 1775 with the
words, "There is a time for everything-a time for peace and a
time for war," was honored in a day-long program during
which a plaza was dedicated in his honor.
Virginia Gov. Miles E. Godwin, Jr. was the principal speaker
at the dedication which was attended by three generations of
Muhlenbergs headed by Frederick A. Muhlenberg, a Reading,
Pa. architect, and a daughter, Mrs. Howard S. Hufford, a
sculptress.
Peter Muhlenberg, who was born in Trappe, Pa. and whose
German-born father became the leader of all Lutheran groups
in the colonies, studied for the Lutheran ministry but was
ordained an Episcopalean in order to insure his legal status in
Woodstock.
While ending his sermon on that Sunday in 1775, Muhlen-
berg removed his vestments to display a Continental Army
officer's uniform. He enlisted volunteers and marched a regi-
ment to Cambridge, Mass. to join the forces of General Wash-
ington on whose staff he served, retiring as brevet major
general.
Following the war, he entered political life in Pennsylvania
and later served three terms in the U.S. House of Representa-
tives.
Statues of Muhlenberg are erected at the nation's capitol,
on Philadelphia's City Hall plaza and in Allentown, Pa., site of
Muhlenberg College.
The Shenandoah County Board of Supervisors has declared
October 1 a permanent memorial day. Muhlenberg was born
October 1, 1747 and-died October 1, 1807.
Bicentennial `Vignettes'
The West Virginia Retailers Association is calling attention
to the nation's 200th birthday with a series of "Bicentennial
Vignettes." The first of 12 vignettes, short sketches of 11
"Retailers Who Stood for Independence," was mailed with the
association's August bulletin. Vignette No. 2, included with
the September bulletin, deals with "The Ordeal of Mary
Ingles," a pioneer woman who, with her children, was taken
capitve by the Indians in 1755 in what is now Blacksburg, Va.
She was taken to Kentucky from where she escaped.
Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence the
11 retailers `were outnumbered by occupation only by the 23
lawyers. The retailers were Roger Sherman and Roger
Williams, Connecticut; Elbridge Gerry and John Hancock,
Massachusetts; William Whipple, New Hampshire; Francis
Lewis and Philip Livingston, New York; Joseph Hews, North
Carolina; George Clymer and Robert Morris, Pennsylvania and
Stephen Hopkins, Rhode Island.
O n ~fflckey
John S. Mickey, executive director of the Dela-
ware American Revolution Bicentennial Commission,
died August 18 in Wilmington of a cerebral
hemorrhage. He was 49 years old.
Mickey, who came to Delaware in '1972 from
Birmingham, Ala., where he had held a similar posi-
tion with that city's Bicentennial organization, was
credited by Gov. Sherman W. Tribbitt with enabling
Delaware "to acquire stature in Bicentennial planning
throughout the United States."
"The Delaware Bicentennial celebration has truly
experienced a significant loss," the governor said. "As
our Bicentennial celebration progresses, we will all
remember the fine man who laid the groundwork for
1976."
Dr. E. A. Trabant, commission chairman and
president of the University of Delaware, praised
Mickey as a "dedicated and committed individual
who made contributions to the development of the
Delaware Bicentennial celebration plans. His presence
will be missed."
A Wilmington Morning News columnist, Bill
Frank, characterized Mickey as "the nicest and
gentlest man I've known in a long time."
"He was the essence of patience and endurance,"
wrote Frank. "He had a wonderful way of controlling
frustrations and disappointments and it is a pity he
did not live to see the Bicentennial through."
Mickey, a native of North Carolina and unmarried,
had been engaged in civic celebration management for
a number of years. His first of 21 celebrations was the
sesquicentennial of Irving, Ky.
Memorial services were held for Mickey on
August 22 at Trinity Episcopay Church in Wilming-
ton.. Internment was in Mt. Airy, N.C.
Trooper To Reenact
Caesar Rodney's Ride
Caesar Rodney's historic ride in 1776 to Philadelphia to
vote for independence of the 13 colonies will be re-enacted on
the 200th anniversary of the event next July by a Delaware
state police sergeant.
He is Sgt. Gerald R. Pepper, a member of Delaware Gov.
Sherman W. Tribbitt's security staff and an enthusiastic horse-
man.
Pepper, a native of Delaware who owns a 23-acre farm and
two purebred Arabian horses, volunteered to re-enact
Rodney's horseback ride from Dover to Philadelphia when he
learned it was being considered as a Delaware Bicentennial
event.
Pepper, who will be garbed in colonial costume, plans to
use both horses on his ride. His route will be the median strips
of the Dover-Wilmington highway and Interstate 95 from
Wilmington to Philadelphia. He anticipates the trip will take
Art students of East Scranton, Pa. junior high school 20 hours.
wanted to get involved in the nation's Bicentennial. It was Rodney's favorable vote that broke a deadlock in the
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Region III Active
Ethnic/racial involvement in the Bicentennial at all levels is
expected to gain momentum with appointment by ARBA
Administrator John W. Warner of a 24-member advisory com-
mittee formed at the suggestion of the Bicentennial Ethnic/
Racial Council (B.ERC).
In Region III, more than a score of programs involving
blacks, ethnic groups and native Americans are in progress.
Three of the 'programs have been given grants by ARBA
totaling $36,600.
Of the region's five states, Pennsylvania's $304,000 leads in
grants for ethnic/racial programs. The largest grant, $100,000,
was made by the Bicentennial Commission of Pennsylvania to
the Allegheny County Bicentennial Commission for planning a
Park of All Nations to highlight the traditions and cultures of
the many ethnic groups in the county (Pittsburgh).
The Bicentennial Committee for Educational Projects
(BICEP) was given $96,400 for research and preparation of
historical and educational programs about the contributions of
black Americans to the Revolution. For another black-
oriented, project, the Frankford Revolutionary Community
Project, the Pennsylvania commission granted $25,900 and
ARBA $14,600 for six programs focusing on the contributions
of blacks during the Revolutionary War in Philadelphia's
Frankford section.
Philadelphia is matching $250,000 in funds allocated by
foundations for Bicentennial projects of ethnic groups in the
city. About 25 projects already have been approved for fund-
ing, including programs by Chinese, Germans, Greeks, Irish,
Jewish, Puerto Rican, Russian, Afro-American, Albanian,
Filipino, East Indian, Hungarian, Scottish and Ukranian
groups.
Delaware State College, a predominantly black institution
in Dover, has a $20,000 ARBA-funded program consisting of
lectures, ethnic days, drama and black art. In another project,
the state is_planning a multimedia exhibit and,TV package on
black heritage and culture exemplified through crafts, arts and
paintings.
Maryland's Bicentennial Commission has allotted $11,000,
which ARBA has matched, for mobile and stationary Afro-
American exhibits. The project envisages converting a church
into a cultural center.
Baltimore County is filming the life of Benjamin Banneker,
who became the first black to receive a presidential appoint-
ment when George Washington commissioned him to assist in
surveying and laying out the nation's capital-to-be in Washing-
ton. Banneker, a clockmaker, astronomer and friend of Thomas
Jefferson, was born in Baltimore County and lived there until
his death in 1806. The American Bicentennial Committee of
Catonsville has chosen "The World of Benjamin Banneker" as
its Heritage '76 theme.
Maryland has two other projects focusing on black
Americans, Virginia two and West Virginia one. Virginia and
West Virginia each have two Binet-listed ethnic projects and
Maryland and Pennsylvania one each. Pennsylvania has the
only listed native American project, the recreation by Kutz-
town of an Indian village.
BERC will hold a regional meeting November 3 in Phila-
delphia.
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Opens Bicentennial
West Liberty State College in West Liberty, W. Va., one of
68 colleges and universities in Region III to gain ARBA
recognition to date, opened its commemoration of the Bicen-
tennial on September 10 with a convocation address by the
Hon. Harold H. Baker, Jr., U. S. Senator from Tennessee, and
dedication of its new Science Center.
The college's many Bicentennial activities will conclude
May 15, 1976 with commencement at which the Hon. Robert
C. Byrd, U. S. Senator from West Virginia, will be the speaker.
During the academic year, the college plans two art exhibits
staged by the Smithsonian Institution, monthly displays of
Bicentennial books, a Ben Franklin kite flying contest, five
Bicentennial-themed "You Are There" films, two concerts, a
recital and a musicale, and a public forum, "America and
Appalachia: Horizons of Hope." The latter is a series of nine
monthly meetings, each with a distinguished speaker, to
discuss significant public policy issues pertinent to the bicen-
tennial year.
Three four-year scholarships have been established by the
college for the best Bicentennial-themed work of art, best
scientific project, and best paper presented by an area high
school senior.
Homecoming festivities on Saturday, October 4 included
a Bicentennial parade in downtown Wheeling, an afternoon
football game featuring crowning of the Homecoming-Bicen-
tennial Queen and a half-time show, "Heritage of America,"
by the college's marching band, and a President's Bicentennial
Ball.
James L. Chapman is president of the college. Chairman of
the Bicentennial Committee is Clyde D. Campbell. Robert S.
Bahney is coordinator and project director.
Delaware Students
In Exchange Program
A unique student exchange program will see 13 Delaware
high school students visiting England and as many from there
visiting Delaware to learn more about the Revolutionary War
and that time period from opposite points of view.
Known officially as BICEN (Bicentennial Interculture
Exchange Network) the program is the Delaware Board of
Education's Bicentennial project. Its developer is Donald R.
Knouse, superintendent of social studies for the State Depart-
ment of Public Instruction. Project director is John Morgan,
Middletown High School social studies teacher.
The students-nine girls and four boys-will spend three
weeks next winter in England researching their projects
through document study and visits to historical sites. At the
end of the school year, each will make a presentation of their
subject to other students and to community groups. Their
material also will be used in study courses focusing on the
Revolutionary War period.
The 13 students from England-the number is symbolic of
weeks in Delaware on their
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For Bicentennial
History series
Authors for histories of Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia
and West Virginia for the 51-volume Bicentennial State
History Series have been selected by the American Association
of State and Local History. The writer for the history of
Maryland is yet to be named.
Those commissioned are Dr. Carol E. Hoffecker, Delaware;
Dr. Thomas C. Cochran, Pennsylvania; Dr. Louis D. Rubin,
Virginia, and Dr. John A. Williams, West Virginia.
Dr. Hoffecker, associate professor of history at the
University of Delaware, is author of "Wilmington, Delaware:
Portrait of an Industrial City 1880-1910" and "Brandywine
Village: The Story of a Milling Community." Both were
published in 1974.
Dr. Cochran, a
economic history,
noted scholar of American business and
now a professor emeritus, was formerly
When blind and other visually impaired persons
visit Philadelphia for the Bicentennial they will be
aided in their orientation by three 3-D braille-
lettered bas reliefs depicting historic buildings in the
Independence Hall area.
The "maps" are now in the Orientation Center for
Independence National Historic Park. They were
made possible by a grant from the Guild of Opticians
of Philadelphia. The basic forms were made by five
volunteer students from the Philadelphia College of
Art under supervision of the Architectural Workshop.
The Volunteer Service for the Blind produced braille
annotations for the bas reliefs from texts supplied by
the National Park Service.
Maryland Commission
Publishes Guidebooks
Franklin professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania
prior to his retirement. He is presently Director of the
university's Bicentennial College and chairman of the editorial
board, Benjamin Franklin Papers, University of Pennsylvania
Press. He is author of "American Business Systems" (1957),
"Social Change in an Industrial Society" (1972) and
"American Business in the Twentieth Century" (1973).
Dr. Rubin, former associate editor of the Richmond (Va.)
News-Leader, and an authority on southern history and
culture, is University Distinguished Professor of English at the
University of North Carolina. He is author of "Thomas Wolfe"
(1955), "No Place on Earth" (1959), "The Faraway Country"
(1963), "The Writer in the South" (1972) and co-author with
Blyden Jackson of "Black Poetry in America" (1975).
Dr. Williams is associate professor of history at West
Virginia University where he teaches the history of West
Virginia and Appalachia. He is author of "West Virginia and
the Captains of Industry: The Politics of a Colonial Economy
in Appalachia," which is scheduled for publication this year.
The first of the history series of each state and the District
of Columbia, which is being funded by the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities, is scheduled to appear next January.
Other volumes will follow over the next two years.
Maryland's rich historical and architectural heritage has
been catalogued in a set of four guidebooks titled "Landmarks
of the Revolutionary Era in Maryland" and published by the
Maryland Bicentennial Commission.
Miss Louise Gore, Chairman of the Maryland Bicentennial
Commission, said the attractively designed books are designed
to provide visitors to the state, as well as the state's own
residents, with "a deeper appreciation of Maryland's role in
the nation's fight for independence."
The books divide Maryland into four regions: Western
Maryland, Eastern Shore, Central Maryland and Southern
Maryland. Each book contains an introductory essay
characterizing the region and its role in Revolutionary history.
Brief descriptions are given to significant manors, dwellings,
mills, churches and public buildings of the times, and direc-
tions to each of the sites. The guidebooks can be ordered
singly for $1, or in a special folder containing all four, for
$3.95, by mailing a check or money order to: Division of
News and Publications, Maryland Department of Economic
and Community Development, 2525 Riva Road, Annapolis,
Md. 21401. Marylanders must add four per cent sales tax.
Check Events For BINET Files
Bicentennial planners are being urged by ARBA to check
events now carried in the Bicentennial Information Network
(BINET) to determine which have been unreported, revised,
completed or abandoned in order to update files.
ARBA defines an event as "something occurring at a
particular time, at a particular place, with particular
participants and a particular audience." Such events are in-
cluded in ARBA's Calendar of Events. Projects not leading to
events are carried in the Official Master Register of Bicenten-
nial Activities (OMR).
Event planners should obtain the required forms for listing
of information from their state commission or write or call
directly to BINET-EVENTS, American Revolution Bicenten-
nial Administration, 2401 E. Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
20276 or Tel.: [phone].
formation on Bicentennial events are now on sale through the
Government Printing Office. The "National Calendar of Bi-
centennial Events," a 42-page booklet, provides summary in-
formation about events of national and international
significance. It lists 350 major events, including titles, dates,
city and state, description, admission and reservation informa-
tion, and name, address and telephone number of contacts for
further information. The cost is $1.05.
The 542-page "Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial
Events" provides details of all events - local, state, national
and international - occurring in each' state, listed by dates.
The register, cross-referenced by city and date, is published
quarterly and costs $5.70.
For copies, write to Bicentennial Publications, Superinten-
dent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington,
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Allentown, Pa. will be the Bicentennial music capital next
June 14-17 when 13 high school bands representing the 13
original states compete for awards totaling $22,500 in the
Festival of Colonies Bands competition.
Pennsylvania and Virginia, along with Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Rhode
Island, have already selected their hands. Pennsylvania's
representative will be Wilson High School of West Lawn,
Reading, while Virginia's band will be that of the Robinson
Secondary School of Fairfax.
The competition is -being sponsored by the Lehigh County
Bicentennial Association and is endorsed by the Bicentennial
Committee of the Thirteen Original Colonies. The Bicentennial
Commission of Pennsylvania appropriated $40,000, Lehigh
County $10,000, for the event expected to draw 2,100 bands-
men.
Besides the cash awards, trophies will be presented each
winning unit while each band will receive $1,000 for participat-
ing. Cash awards will be: first place, overall, $3,000; second
place, overall, $2,500, and third place, overall, $2,000. Awards
of $500 each will go to first place winners in parade, concert,
sight reading, and field show. The bands must enter all phases
of the competition.
The festival will begin the night of June 14 with opening
ceremonies at the Allentown school district stadium with
competition among bands in military drill and parade and a
concert by the U.S. Navy band. In the parade, each competing
band will be preceded by its host, a Lehigh County High
School band.
Pope May Attend
Philadelphia To Be Site
Q f Eucharistic Congress
Philadelphia will be the site next August 1-8 of a worldwide
spiritual gathering of Catholics and other Christians attending
the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, the first time in
50 years that the event has been held in the United States.
Several million Catholics and other Christians are expected
to attend-people representing many races, nationalities, and
ethnic and cultural groups. The Congress will focus on man's
needs in today's world: the need for God, for bread, for
freedom and justice, the Spirit, truth, understanding, peace,
and Jesus, the Bread of Life. It is from these basic human
hungers that the Congress draws its theme, "The Eucharist and
the Hungers of the Human Family," and its motto, "Jesus,
the Bread of Life."
Health permitting, Pope Paul VI is expected to attend.
Archbishop William W. Baum of Washington heads the Com-
mittee on Participation of Christian Churches. Bishop John
Maury Allin, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the
United States, Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of the Greek
Orthodox Chruch in the Americas, and Dr. Robert J. Marshall,
President of the Lutheran Church in America, are co-vice
chairman. The committee consists of 45 representatives of
various Christian denominations. It meets regularly to plan the
program, liturgies and worship services, hospitality, and
promotion of all Congress events.
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During the next two days the bands will compete on an
alternating basis in concert and sight reading during the day
and in field competition at night. Sight reading will be held at
the high school in nearby Emmaus. The festival will conclude
on June 17 with presentation of awards and a band concert.
Nationally known band conductors will fudge the competi-
tion. They are: Earl Dunn, Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.,
and president, National Band Association; Al Wright, director,
Purdue University band; W. J. Julian, director, University of
Tennessee band, and William Moffitt, director, University of
Houston band.
The Festival of Bands Committee says it has reserved
"hundreds of rooms" in area motels and hotels for parents and
friends, of the visiting bandsmen who will be guests in the
homes of county high school bandsmen.
Deputy Regional
Director Named
James R. Smith, active in identifying the role of black
Americans in building the nation, was sworn in September 8 as
Deputy Director of ARBA's Region III.
In announcing the appointment, following approval of his
recommendation of Smith for the post by John W. Warner,
ARBA Administrator, Regional Director Donald B.
Strasburger said:
"We are fortunate in having a person of Jim Smith's caliber
to assist in carrying out the work of this agency. He is taking
leave from his business where he was heavily involved in
Bicentennial programs on behalf of a number of civic
organizations. His interest and concern for a Bicentennial
celebration which includes the total community is consistent
with the desires of ARBA."
As president of Philadelphia-based Jim Smiths Consultants,
a public relations firm, he served as consultant to the
Baltimore News-American, the nation's oldest black daily
newspaper, and to the Stephen Smith Geriatric Center, the
first home for black aged. He also was a columnist for the
Philadelphia Tribune and guest host on WPHL-TV,
Philadelphia. His firm is presently engaged in developing
Bicentennial projects for the First Episcopal District of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Smith is a former circulation public relations manager for
the Evening and Sunday Bulletin of Philadelphia and has won
national recognition for his work with young people.
`Wonderful West Virginia'
As a prelude to the state's Bicentennial celebration,
Wonderful West Virginia magazine devoted its August issue to
tracing 200 years of the state's history through old prints,
articles and 13 pages of color photos.
Editors of the magazine, published by the West Virginia
Department of Natural Resources, describe the issue as "the
most significant" it has published and said it would be a
collector's item. Thirty per cent of the magazine's 90,000
circulation is outside the state with issues going to more than
150 foreign countries.
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