Saginaw's Past
Y.W.C.A
I received a thank you note from
the Young Women's Christian Association dated August 3, 1955. I have kept
it. At that time their address was at 215_S. Jefferson.
Every year they sponsored a Festival of Nations at Ojibway Island. I
played the accordion dressed in a Norwegian Costume. There was a very good
crowd in attendance.
A newspaper clippings says: John W. Hagerman will be master of ceremonies for
the YWCA Festival of Nations to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on Ojibway
Island. Mrs. Hagerman is general chairman. The program is sponsored
by the YW World Fellowship Committee and Friendship Club. Mrs. J. Cullen
McDonald will be accompanist.
Entertainers and the country they represent include: Ireland--Song and
Irish jog by Jimmy Kanary and Helen Reimann, song by Earl Sanders; Germany--
accordion selections of German folk music by Thomas Kackmeister; Greece-- song
by Miss Electra Anaegon; China-- interpretative day by Mrs. Earl Heckeroth;
Poland-- song by Miss Deolores Glaza; Italy-- songs by Pasquale M. DiSarno and
Miss Glaza; Socotland-- baypipe selections by Charles Murdock and Dale Brown,
dance by Miss Georgiana Bertovik; Lebanon-- song by Wade Hamd; Morway and
Finland-- accordion selections by Miss Dora Humpert.
The choir of Emmanuel Community Church will sing Negro spirituals led by Rev.
Cornelius Monroe with Mrs. Nathaniel Ellis as accompanist.
Other nations represented by ushers will be: Japan, Mrs. Albert A. Bouchard;
Latvia, Mrs. Zina Perkiulis; Italy, Mrs. Daniel A. Markle. Misses Betty Lou
Lehtinen, Sharon Melick, Judy Accetta, Frances Wilkinson, Mary Lou Dunn, Mrs.
Richard M. Maslowski; France, Mrs. Howard Wells; German, Mrs. Rolf Dutzmann;
Scotland, Mrs. George L. Bertovick and Miss Barbara Reid; Mexico, Socorro
Morales.
Assisting Mrs. Hagermann are: Publicity, Mrs. Harzen C Beach and Mrs.
James Allardyce; staging, Mrs. Samuel Brilliant, stage setting, Mrs. Frank T.
Whitney, Mrs. Peter Rambo and Roman Pylypiak; ushers, Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Dutzmann,
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Markle; traffic and seating, Richard M Maslowski, Mrs.
Theodore F. Ford, Mrs. Charles H. Skrochi, Mrs. Manual Herrera, Mrs. Ray A.
Woods and Miss Olive Corbett.
I was fortunate to play for their gathering for a Halloween party at their
building and it sure seems like that was the building.
Hope this helps solve a mystery.
Dora Humpert Haubenstricker
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