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Contains 243 Results:
"Senior Citizens Seek Center Like Mill City's ", April 25, 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 014.01.10.2b
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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:
Last week about 100 elderly people, 30 of them representing senior citizen groups with an estimated 1,500 members, organized in an effort to get a "drop-in" center or downtown council house similar to one in Minneapolis. The organization--the Representative Assembly of the Senior Citizen Center--is the brainchild of Thomas A. Smith, 71, of 2147 E. Fourth St., who said he got the idea at a meeting about two...
Dates:
April 25, 1965
"Workshop to Air Economic Opportunity Act April 24", April 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 014.01.10.2c
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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:
The economic opportunity act will be explained to persons who might be eligible for its benefits at a workshop from 1 to 4 p.m. April 24 in Dayton avenue Presbyterian church, Dayton ave. and Mackubin st. The workshop will be sponsored by the Twin City chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., an organization composed of mothers and children with a program designed to provide constructive educational, recreational and...
Dates:
April 1965
"Open Forum by Senior Citizens Due", May 17, 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 014.01.10.2d
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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:
An open forum discussion on the topic, What us the Purpose in FOrming a State Council? will be led by Henry J. Morgan at the St. Paul Area Senior Citizens' legislative council meeting at 1:30 pm Monday in the YMCA auditorium, Ninth and Cedar St. Also on the program will be a movie, African Disturbed, and a selection of songs presented by Hallie Q. Brown Senior Chorallers directed by Mrs. J.M. Patton, director of...
Dates:
May 17, 1965
"Fashion, Fun and Frolic Can Help Fill Life for Senior Citizen", circa 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 014.01.11.1a
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An excerpt from the newspaper reads as follows:
In connection with the [Emporium's Annual Senior Citizen's Hobby Fair], two senior citizens, a fashion coordinator, a dress buyer and a United Fund senior citizens committee chairman got together recently to discuss fashion for the elder citizen. Here are some of their conclusions. It's good for the morale of older persons to feel well-dressed and to know there are fashions for them. Many aren't aware that there are lines on the...
Dates:
circa 1965
"Fair to Honor Senior Citizens", circa 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 014.01.11.1b
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An excerpt from the newspaper reads as follows:
A Northfield woman and South St. Paul man will be honored as outstanding senior citizens Thursday at the Minnesota State Fair. Marie Piesinger, 81, a retired pharmacist, and Fred E. Lawshe, a former school teacher, will receive awards at the night grandstand show during Senior Citizens day at the fair.
Dates:
circa 1965
"Henry Thomas is New Executive at Hallie Q. Brown", circa 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 014.01.11.1c
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An excerpt from the newspaper reads as follows:
It was announced this week by Walter W. Fricke, president of the Hallie Q. Brown Community House that Henry R. Thomas, 57, of 809 Aldrich Ave. N., Minneapolis is the new executive director of the St. Paul community center.
Thomas has resigned his post as executive director of Phyllis Wheatley House where he has been executive head for a quarter of a century. In commenting on Mr. Thomas' acceptance of the Hallie Q. job,...
Dates:
circa 1965
United Fund Agency award, May 14, 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 014.01.11.1d
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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:
Mrs. William L. West, 796 Fairmount Ave., president of Hallie Q. Brown Community House is congratulated by United Fund president James F. Owens Jr., upon being selected as the outstanding member of a United Fund agency board of directors. This first annual award was presented at the Fund's annual meeting May 14.
Dates:
May 14, 1965
"Projects for Elderly Work Two Ways", September 26, 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 014.01.11.2
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An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:
The women, residents of the Valley and High Rise apartments, are among some 40 elderly St. Paul men and women who have joined a sewing project enabling them to serve others although they are without much money or have no transportation. It's a project that works two ways. The senior citizens have a useful activity and Our Lady of FGood Counsel home for terminal cancer patients gets a much-needed supply of pads, hospital...
Dates:
September 26, 1965
"Like Autumn, Age is the Golden Time", October 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 014.01.12.1
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Image cut from a newspaper clipping has the following caption:
Residents of some of the city's homes for the aged attended the recent "old Folks" party given by the St. Paul Sunshine federation in St. Paul's United Church of Christ.
Dates:
October 1965
"Old Age: Tragedy or Fulfillment", circa 1965
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: 014.01.12.2a
Scope and Contents
An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:
Whatever the viewpoint, old age--or what passes for it in today's parlance--is an important preoccupation of the century which has done momst to encourage it. It has its own science, geriatrics. It subscribes to an in-group magazine, Maturity. It is courted by travel agencies, dance schools and real estate promoters. In St. Paul, it even has its own retail outlet for hobbycraft: Senior Citizens Sales, at 379 Minnesota...
Dates:
circa 1965