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Contains 243 Results:

"35th Annual Meeting". St. Paul Pioneer Press., September 24, 1964

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 014.01.08.2a
Scope and Contents Newspaper clipping depicts four people shaking hands in greeting. The caption reads as follows: The Settlements on the Cutting Edge of New Frontiers were discussed Wednesday night by Prof. Clarke A. Chambers, University of Minnesota history department, guest speaker during the 35th annual meeting of the Hallie Q. Brown house, 553 Aurora Ave. Following his talk Chambers met officials of the community house. He is shown here with, left to right, Mrs. Earle T. Onque [Alice S.],...
Dates: September 24, 1964

"Golden Agers Enjoy Thanksgiving", 1962

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 014.01.08.2b
Scope and Contents The following is an excerpt from the newspaper clipping: Twenty-two years ago when the late I. Myrtle Carden was the executive at the Hallie Q. Brown Community House, 553 Aurora ave., Mrs. Duke Coram of Top O' The Morn in Savage, Minnesota, and the late Mrs. S. Edward Hall combined talents and came up with the organization of the Golden Agers. This group has been a boon to active persons in the community over 65 years of age and since that time many such groups have been...
Dates: 1962

"Golden Age Units May Adopt Song[...]". Sunday Pioneer Press., circa 1960

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: 014.01.08.2c
Scope and Contents

Newclipping includes an article reporting on a woman, Elizabeth Ream of Hummelstown, PA, writing a song about aging titled "The Time of Our Lives".

Dates: circa 1960

"St. Paul Population Center Fixed at 456 St. Anthony", circa 1950

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 014.01.09.1a
Scope and Contents Excerpt from newspaper clipping reads as follows: If Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Golden occasionally get the feeling that there are a lot of people around them, it's understandable. Their home at 456 St. Anthony is at the exact center of St. Paul's 311,000 plus population. The elderly couple--she was 71 in January and he'll be 71 in June--have lived in the house, which they rent, the last 23 years. They have no children. Married 43 years, the Goldens have lived in St. Paul...
Dates: circa 1950

"Housing Unit's Oldest Resident Sings at Times, Eats Better", circa 1960

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 014.01.09.1b
Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Mrs. Julia Williams, four score and 16, who has never lived so high in the sky as now, can stand in the balcony window of her twelfth-floor apartment and really let the world hear When the Saints Go Marching In. She is the oldest resident in the Central apartments at W. Central and Kent where more than 200 people, mostly elderly, occupy new apartments completed last Spring by the St. Paul housing and redevelopment...
Dates: circa 1960

"Hallie Q. Brown Golden Agers enjoy Easter party", undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 014.01.09.1c
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clipping reads as follows:

The Golden Agers of Hallie Q. Brown Community Center had their annual Easter party on April 9th. Mrs. Mary Whiterka, Emiline White, Ella Hickman, Margie White, Irene Jackman and THelma Mayer were extended birthday greetings and a gift at the party. The Easter egg hunt was won by Mrs. Henrietta Potts.

Dates: undated

"At Hallie Its Paint, Paper". St. Paul Pioneer Press., March 1965

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 014.01.09.2a
Scope and Contents An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows: Culture at 553 Aurora ave, is tempera paint blown through a paper straw. It is a piece of paper twisted into a three-dimensional mobile. It is a free play period full of children eager to act out a feeling they want to share with others. It is, above all, a Saturday kind of fun that may bring new fame to Hallie Q. Brown, the settlement house that for 36 years has been a bulwark against...
Dates: March 1965

"Golden Agers of Hallie Q. Brown Visit Flower Show", March 16, 1965

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 014.01.10.1a
Scope and Contents

An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:

The Golden Agers of Hallie Q. Brown, St. Paul with their supervisor, Mrs. John M. Patton visited the Flower Show at Dayton's in Minneaoplis on Teusday, March 16. About 40 of the senior citizens boarded the bus and were thrilled with the trip to see the flower exhibits and later have dinner at the Forum.

Dates: March 16, 1965

"Senior Citizens Hobby Exhibit Deadlines Set", April 3, 1965

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 014.01.10.1b
Scope and Contents

An excerpt from the newspaper clipping reads as follows:

Applications to exhibit at the 10th annual Senior Citizens Hobby fair April 29 through May 1 must be made prior to April 19, it was announced Friday by the sponsoring Greater St. Paul United Fund[...] Entries are limited to persons 60 years and older.

Dates: April 3, 1965