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Program booklet for the Homecoming and 50th Anniversary of the Shrewsbury Public Library dated November 8th, 1903-1953.
Page 2 Dates in Our History Social Library, Town Hall 1792 Shrewsbury Free Public Library 1872 Jubal Howe Memorial Library 1903 Artemas Ward Annex 1925 NUMBER OF READERS: 5,047 Adult Department 4,200 Juvenile Department 847 There are about 52,000 volumes in the Library, 3,000 volumes in the Schools. Two DEPOSIT STATIONS: Edgemere Market, Edgemere Fire Station, Harrington Avenue, Fairlawn LIBRARY HOURS: Main Library - 1-8 P.M. Juvenile Department - 12-6 P.M. Edgemere Market - Store Hours Fire Station - Tuesday and Friday - 7-8 P.M. The Library hopes in the future as in the past to provide such additional services as the growing community requires. Page 3 Program PRESIDING MR. LESTER HUNTER Chairman of the Board of Trustees GUEST SPEAKER MRS. MARION T. RUDKIN Tea in the Artemas Ward Room. The new planting in front of the library is dedicated to our guest of honor, Dr. Myrtle Smith, secretary of the Board of Trustees from 1926 to 1953. Library Staff Librarian Gertrude E. Robson Assistants Mrs. Philip Wilder, Avis M. Kemp Children's Librarian Mrs. Olive G. Nason Assistant Mrs. Gladys E. Pratt Custodian Belton S. Wall Board of Trustees Lester Hunter, Chairman S. Erwin Bacon, Mabel Jacobsen John F. Britton, Ernest A. Larrabee Herbert M. Carleton, Clara Lerner Edith Dean, Rev. Edward W. Lynch
Tea Committee Mrs. Harold G. Clayton, Chairman Miss Dorothy M. Churchill, Mrs. Harold J. Hamilton Mrs. William J. Elliot, Mrs. Eveleth V. Hill Mrs. John M. Fallon, Mrs. Laurence H. Lougee Mrs. Warren J. Gauch, Mrs. Edward S. Ross Mrs. Albert J. Gifford, Miss Sara M. Warren Mrs. E. Stanley Wright Homecoming Committee Mrs. Lester C. Hunter, Mrs. John F. Botton Mrs. S. Erwin Bacon, Mrs. Herbert M. Carleton Mrs. Ernest A. Larrabee Ushers Carole Flynn, Nancy Culver Nancy Flynn, Norma DiChico Carol Johnson, Lois Shaw Eleanor Gaucher, Sandra Shaw Flowers and decorations by courtesy of: H. A. Cook & Sons, James A. Green Francis B. Harrington, F. Harold Holland, W. E. Morey, Flowerland, Littlefield and Rossi Flowers.
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