(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

10 years ago – May 8, 1993

Fifth-graders at the Glenburn Elementary School are learning the value of giving their time, skills and hospitality to less fortunate people in the Bangor area.

The 48 pupils in the class will buy food, cook a meal, then serve more than 100 hungry people at the Salvation Army’s Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen.

Adding special meaning to the project is the fact that the kids raised the money for the meal through a huge popcorn sale that netted $451.

The menu they will prepare includes corn chowder, crackers, Italian sandwiches, celery and carrot sticks and, for dessert, a choice of fruit-juice bars or dessert bars. The group, with teachers Sari Ohmart and Janet Ecker, shopped at a local grocery store.

25 years ago – May 8, 1978

ORONO – The Cadette Girl Scouts of Orono have participated in two projects to meet the “Challenge of Active Citizenship.” Eight Scouts visited Homes Unlimited in Bangor, a residence for handicapped young adults; and six Scouts visited the Orono Nursing Home.

At Homes Unlimited, the girls made homemade ice cream with the residents, and held a sing-a-long with guitar accompaniment. Participating were Scouts Ellen Homoa, Robin Owen, Caralynn Davis, Sheryl McCormick, Liz Chesley, Kate Clark, Sharon Vadas and Melanie Blesse

The Scouts met one afternoon at the Orono Nursing Home and assisted residents with craft projects: Maybaskets were made. Cookies were furnished for refreshments. Scouts assisting were Kathy Soule, Elizabeth Carr, Becky Rowe, Helen Soule, Kelly Murphy and Liz Chesley.

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ORONO – The fiction study group of the local woman’s club met at the Senior Citizen Center for a covered dish supper.

Guest Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Orono author, spoke about her forthcoming book, which will feature the life of an eye surgeon in India. Members participated in a program of brief book reviews. Mrs. Stanley Roberts also was a guest. Hostesses for the evening were Beatrice Hamilton, Mrs. Merton Round, Mrs. Herbert Hutchins and Mrs. Edward MacLaughlin.

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BANGOR – Sandra Hake, a senior at Husson College, won the National Business Education Association Award of Merit for outstanding achievement in business education.

The award was presented to Hake at an awards banquet by Dolores Renaud, chairman, business education, and academic vice president Ronald Seltzer.

50 years ago – May 8, 1953

BANGOR – Members of the senior special home economics class at Bangor High School will present a style show during a girls’ assembly.

The first scene of the show will be presented in an original skit written by Carolyn Maddocks and Joan Larson. The scene is set in a school clothing classroom and is written in a humorous vein, although based upon actual classroom incidents.

The part of the teacher, Miss Turnpike, will be played by Carolyn Maddocks. The scene will be introduced by Mrs. Outofdate, chairman of the school board. Others taking part in the scene will be Nancy Hackett, Connie Huntington, Beverly Landry, Joan Larson, Nancy McGouldrick, Barbara Shaw, Eunice Simpson, Sharon Whetmore and Delores White.

The second scene, the actual style show, is set in a beach shop, filled with customers. Joan Larson will read the description, calling the following models to the front: Dorothy Berry, Ruth Bailey, Wilma Dunton, Virginia Roberts, Becky Rudge, Sally Farnham, Georgia Ketchu, Janet Savoy and Mary Walker.

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Mr. and Mrs. George Coffin of East Hampden have received word that their son, Sfc. Vernon Coffin, is en route home after 15 months in the Korean war area. Sfc. Coffin graduated from Howland High School and from Husson College in 1950. He enlisted in July of the same year and completed a personnel manager’s supervison course at the Adjutant General’s school at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.

After a 30-day leave, Sfc. Coffin will go to Fort Devens for discharge, after which he will re-enlist.

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BANGOR – An incubator will be purchased for the Bangor Osteopathic Hospital by the Women’s Auxiliary, according to plans made by the auxiliary at a meeting held at the home of Mrs. Edward Ropulewis, Old Town.

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BANGOR – It’s harmony singing night in Bangor. Seventeen quartets from Eastern and Northern Maine, including one from Canada, will converge on the Bangor Auditorium for the fourth Bangor Daily News Parade of Quartets Contest.

There’s nothing quite like harmony singing, for both the participants and the audience. Each year since the event started, a capacity crowd has been in the auditorium.

Included among the star-studded array of talent will be guest soloist, 18-year-old pianist Kathryn Foley of Winterport.

100 years ago – May 8, 1903

OLD TOWN – Considerable interest is taken in the game of next Saturday when Manager Farrell will scrape up the best ball players to be found about here to put in against the young Methodists from the East Maine Conference Seminary in Bucksport, who have been playing very fast ball. Nothing is given out from headquarters as to the make-up of the Old Town team, although it is understood that two or three good men are already as good as landed. If there is a game at the University of Maine, a large delegation of cranks will go down to see it.

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BANGOR – H. Grattan Donnelly’s four-act play “The American Girl,” which has been seen in Bangor several times before and always with general satisfaction, was given in the Opera House to a good-sized and appreciative audience. “The American Girl” is a comedy-drama of considerable merit, and in the cast are a number of clever people – notably comedian George F. Hall, and Gracie Russell and Daisy Stampe, the two pretty children who continue in their original roles of Prince Roy and “the little Lady.”

Several persons who had seen Thomas Jefferson in “Rip Van Winkle” say that he gives a really excellent performance, and is so much encouraged by the criticisms he has received that he has made up his mind to continue to act, year in and year out. One of the young man’s most intimate friends said, “There is a persistent rumor that Tom played ‘Rip’ frequently before, three seasons ago, at one-night stands when his father was under the weather and that on these occasions the simple-minded country folk did not realize they were looking at the son instead of the father.”

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin