The Doylestown Correspondent

VoL 6 No. 4 (22) doylestown historical society FALL 2019

Inside:

Page 1: Hellyer Building

Page 2: Archival Collections

Page 3: Pieces of History From the President

Page 4: Society Activities

Page 6: Local Happenings

Page 7: Featured Personalities

Page 8: Officers, Board & Staff Museum Shop Membership Opportunities

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T he department store at 50 North Main Street was built in 1897 in the Rom-

anesque style, inspired by build-ings at the 1893 Chicago Exposi-tion. A.S. Hellyer and Sons Dry Goods and Notions rose three stories above the sidewalk, con-structed of Pompeian brick with Indiana limestone trimmings and containing a total floor space of 14,000 square feet. Balcony, cor-nices and railings were of galva-nized iron, and along the front were the two largest plate glass windows in the county (according to the Daily Demo-crat of December 16, 1897). The store’s basement offered “5-and-10-cent” articles and household goods; the first floor held groceries, candy, shoes, clothing and general mer-chandise; the second floor displayed millinery, outer wear, carpets and rugs; the third floor rooms were used for various fraternal lodge meetings. Hellyer’s was successfully owned and operated by Samuel A. Hellyer (1859-1924) until his sudden death in 1924. The building was sold in 1925 to Morris Goldberg of Jenkintown, a well-known mer-chant who planned to remodel and re-open the department store. Unfortunately, the story of the next eighteen years cannot be verified. Somewhere during that period, 50 North Main Street housed an American Store which was the precursor of the Acme grocery stores, directly competing with the nearby A & P store located on the first

floor of the Scheetz Department Store on the corner of East Court and Pine Streets. Meanwhile, Frank T. Reynolds (1900-1974) managed the furniture department of the Scheetz Department Store. The Intelligencer reported, “The department was praised when a suit sold in the late 1800’s was brought back as a trade-in for a new modern suit. This suit was made of such fine quality horsehair that it was practically as good as the day it was purchased. This speaks well for the quality of the furniture the store sold and continues to sell.” In 1943, Reynolds purchased the old Hellyer Building and moved the furniture department to that location, maintaining the Scheetz name. He served as a president of the Doylestown Chamber of Commerce and continued as pro-prietor of the furniture store until 1951, when the property was sold to the county.

The mission of the Doylestown Historical Society is to preserve and celebrate the creative and historic significance of Doylestown and its neighboring communities.

THE HELLYER BUILDING

Editor’s Notes

Our society was founded by the Honorable Ed Ludwig (1929-2016) in 1995. This newsletter’s name is a derivative of the first Doylestown newspaper, The Pennsylvania Correspondent, estab-lished in 1804, predecessor to The Intelligencer.

“Monument Square 1910” by Jerome Schmalz (1946-2001)

OUR ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

Intelligencer inventory 1958-1999 - Featuring over 100 categories including sports, local personalities, featured columnists, events, police and crime, schools, fashion, real estate, weather, regional and local elections, court news and many other topics, the Intelligencer collection is now available for public access. Researchers are welcome and have been calling and e-mailing to set up appointments for special projects in areas of interest. The Intelligencer collection has been a very popular visitation spot accessed by other historical society members and authors, as well as the curious and interested seeking photos or favorite columns from the past. The Doylestown Historical Society is happy to extend a welcome to use this wonderful new resource.

Archival Reciprocity - In our efforts to continue best practices to collect and archive artifacts that fit into our mis-sion statement, items find their way to us that deserve a more appropriate repository serving a different community. Many other repositories share this spirit of mutual support, and one such artifact has recently been sent to us by the Re-search and Collection Specialist of the Franklin & Marshall College Library: the Military Section of the 1943 Doylestown High School yearbook. This is a compilation of students who entered the armed forces in that year, additional service personnel, photos and messages from hometown heroes. We especially appreciate the redirection of this artifact to our repository, and we look forward to using this material and sharing it with our Doylestown community.

Doylestown Historical Society houses a broad range of photos, documents and other resources significant to the history of the Doylestown area. These materials are available for review and study. We welcome the public to research at our site and on our website. If you have a question for our research team, a suggested donation of $25 will greatly support continued efforts at the Society. To access our holdings, please call the office at 215-345-9430.

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THE HELLYER BUILDING (continued)

The County of Bucks acquired the building from Reynolds to relieve the crowded conditions in county offices. It was re-modeled for this use and “the Planning Commission was the first department to move into the spacious office building, occupying part of the third floor,” according to the local newspaper. It became known as the Bucks County Admin-istration Building. The Bucks County Free Library was established in 1956, and in eight months it boasted a circulation of 132,000. Housed in the basement of the courthouse it was eventually moved into the 5,000 square foot first floor of the Bucks County Admin-istration Building at 50 North Main Street. A newspaper article dated May 22, 1969, reported that the library “is much larger than you think. It has access to many thousands of books which are not on its shelves but which you can borrow through inter-library loan. A teletypewriter in-stalled at the Bucks County District Library Center, Doylestown, speeds up this service to you.” Another article, dated June 28, 1978, read, “Anyone searching for information of a specific subject published in the library’s comprehensive collection of approximately 100 periodicals on microfilm can use the reader-printers to advantage.” The librarian added, “Frequently there is a waiting line.” By 1980 the county headquarters plus the Central Bucks branch of the library were occupying 15,000 square feet of the county building and were growing. Overcrowding necessitated the eventual construction of a new faciitiy at 150 South Pine Street. After the Doylestown Branch of the Bucks County Free Library relocated in 1988, 50 North Main Street continued to function as an extension of the county offices until the new Justice Center construction was completed. The county offices lo-cated in the Hellyer Building moved into the administrative offices within the former courthouse. No longer needed for office space, the county sold the building to Stephen Worth in 2018. The property is to be developed into “mixed residential and retail with four homes, retail and office space” according to the Intelligencer on July 26, 2019.

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PIECES OF HISTORY D o you have a piece of Doylestown history to entrust to

the Historical Society: an interesting artifact, a story to tell, a mystery to solve? Donated pieces will be cataloged and preserved if accessioned into the collection. On-loan items will be digitized for posterity and then returned to the owner for safekeeping.

Our nation is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing and the Society has a bit of astronaut history in the archives too. As Stu Abramson puts it, “The road to the moon passed through Bucks County,” or, more specifically, through the Johnsville Naval Air Development Center in Warminster Township. In one of his Bucks County stories, author Carl LaVO tells the story of our own Fletcher Walls who, in 1957, was a young pathologist and Naval petty officer assigned to Johnsville to test the effects of extreme G-forces on rhesus monkeys. The primates lived freely in a large chamber at the station known as “the Monkey Room.” At one point there was a rhesus breakout that caused quite a ruckus. Fletcher recalls, “They escaped the mon-key room and ran into Hatboro. We got a call that a gorilla was in one woman’s backyard!” Fletcher’s research came to an end in 1959 when two monkeys survived a flight on a Jupiter missile traveling in excess of 16,000 mph and hitting 38g’s. Manned space flight began with the members of Astronaut Group 1, all of whom trained at Johnsville. Below is an official 1961 Navy photograph from our Intelligencer collection which shows Scott Carpenter (1925-2013), one of the Original Seven. He is being briefed by Dr. Randall Chambers (1927-2007) prior to a sim-ulated space flight on the NADC centrifuge. Vital in the training and conditioning of our early astronauts, the Johnsville base was decommissioned in 2004. The mighty centri-fuge is now an 11,000 sq. ft. event venue and part of a science museum recalling our community’s role in the Cold War and Space Race.

From the President:

I’ll start with a sincere ‘thank you’ to the more than 75 people who contributed to our Barn Preserva-tion Campaign. Because of you we are now in a position to repair the external area of our barn and to make some needed improvements to our archive area. We are greatly appreciative of your support. Please see page 5 for an update on the progress of the barn preser-vation work as well as other maintenance projects recently completed or currently underway. The other big news around the society is the upcoming release of our newest publication, Neshaminy, the Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal. This has been an ambitious project for which we have partnered with the Bucks County Writers Workshop to produce an excellent literary work published on a semiannual basis. If you at-tended our kickoff ceremony on August 1, you are already anticipating its release. Please see more information on page 6 and join us at our table during Bookfest on Octo-ber 13 when the journal will be officially available for sale. John Halderson, who manages our website, has been busy making upgrades and improvements. If you haven’t visited the site lately, here are some of the items you may be interested in viewing: Under HISTORY ONLINE, we have added finding aides describing many of OUR COLLECTIONS (courtesy of Donna Rhodes and the collections committee); INTERESTING PEOPLE OF DOYLESTOWN and HISTORICAL MARK-ERS around town are also recommended viewing. Under DOYLESTOWN’S FORGOTTEN EXPLORER (courtesy of Tony Palazzolo and accessible under the HOME tab), check out the interactive map of William Edgar Geil’s travels around the world; and at the bottom of the page there are links to complete copies of several of Geil’s books in searchable pdf format. Finally, past NEWSLETTERS are available under the ABOUT tab. It just keeps getting better! We have started to use a popular service called Constant Contact to alert members of upcoming events via email. If you have not received at least one of our emails within the last month or so: (1) we may not have your correct email in our files, or (2) the email we sent found its way into your spam folder rather than your inbox. Please contact our office if we need to update your email address. In the area of coming events, we have begun a joint project with Ed Ebenbach and his Telecommunications Advisory Board (TAB) of Doylestown Township. The TAB has assembled a first rate staff of people and some excel-lent equipment. We will begin to digitize our collected video histories of prominent Doylestonians. The end result will be a video anthology. This will not be a quick process but in the end will be a significant contribution to the preservation of our joint legacy. In closing I’d like to once again express my gratitude and appreciation to Susan Perloff for her continuing contribu-tions and expertise in keeping the landscaping of the front of our historic building looking great. Stu Abramson

NEW BOOK IN PROCESS

~ CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS ~

Kathryn McKenna, author of Man About Town, is start-ing work on her next volume, this one about the lost town of New Galena in New Britain Township, Bucks County. “If anyone has photos of the area prior to the creation of Lake Galena. . .such as photos of structures in the village of New Galena, photos of the lead mines, or photos of the mine railway. I would love to BORROW them to scan. I promise to return any photos loaned and, if used for any publication, I'll give you credit. Thank you!”

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SOCIETY ACTIVITIES Check the DHS website often for current events

DHS will also be par-ticipating in the

Plein Air Festival through the streets of Doylestown, Thurs-day, October 3. Artists from all over the United States will compete in the fourth annual county-wide festival, produc-ing art from life, as opposed to in the studio. The week-long juried show will award more than $15,000 in prizes. Take an architectural tour, including participating artists at their painting sites in our town. Walking tours will begin at the Doylestown Historical Society, 56 South Main Street, at 10:00 AM and 2:30 PM. Regis-tration suggested:: 215-345-9430.

T he 28th annual Doylestown Arts Festival begins this year with Art Week, Sunday, September 1, through Friday, September 6.

Art Week will showcase art installations in local venues, including the Doylestown Historical Society Museum. Featured at 56 South Main Street will be photographer Ron Moran’s unique metal prints of Bucks County and local coastal scenes, Laura Silverman’s Doylestown watercolors, Jessica Alise’s oil pastel botanicals, Sabrina Fasano’s glass art, and gem creations by Saddle & Stone and Ga-briele Angela. Look for the “Open” sign, as hours will vary this week.

S aturday and Sunday, September 7 and 8, more of Ron Moran’s work will be on dis-play and available for sale in our Barn Gallery. Please put this exhibit on your route

as you tour the Doylestown Arts Festival that weekend.

E vents abound in Doylestown this fall and the Society is in full partici-pation mode. On Saturday and Sunday, October 12 and 13 ,

Doylestown will host the Bucks Couty Book Festival. This two-day event, according to Facebook.com, is for “book lovers young and old (and) features professionally published authors with author panels, book sign-ings, and more!” On Sunday the Society’s booth will feature the new writers journal, Neshaminy, (see page 6) as well as a table of books and rare maps from the Museum Shop.

treasures

in the park

On October 12th from 9:30am-1:00pm, join us for our first Treasures in the Park event. A trove of unique large and small estate sale items and fun attic finds will be featured in the Doylestown Historical Society barn gal-lery and Society Gift Shop. You may find a favorite Windsor chair, framed art, an ar-chival item or antique toy, for yourself or as a gift.

rides

ENCORErides presents a Historical Treasure Hunt on two wheels. Join a guided bicycle ride through the streets of Doylestown to discover and learn about the history of our town. Riders will meet in the park at 56 South Main Street on Sunday, September 29 and ride from 1:00–3:00 p.m. (rain date October 6). The Doylestown Historical Society Museum will be open so you may also tour its exhibits. Teams will be given sites to “find” during the ride and prizes will be award-ed to the most successful team plus free gifts for all partici-pants. Food and drink will be provided, so come out and join the fun!

Register at 484-682-4324 $10.00 per bicycle - BYOB (Bring Your Own Bike!) Benefits Doylestown Historical Society

Painting by Nathan DiStefano

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SOCIETY ACTIVITIES

FOUR AUTUMN WALKING TOURS OF DOYLESTOWN

Historic Doylestown - DHS Volunteer Eric Tobin will lead the 10:00 am tour on second Saturdays through October. Beginning with a brief background of historic Doylestown, he will trace the history of downtown's finest buildings.

Explore Doylestown - DHS Board Director Mike Kendrick will lead the 10:00 am tour on fourth Saturdays through Septetmber, revealing fascinating facts of Doylestown

Man About Town - DHS Volunteer Mitch Aglow leads a 1:00 pm tour of town on sec-ond and fourth Saturdays through October. See Doylestown through the eyes of Lester Trauch, journalist and writer of the Intelligencer “Man About Town” column from 1955 to 1981. (Look for the delightful book of the same name on sale in The Society Shop.)

Doylestown Halloween Tour - October 26 only! DHS Board Director Mike Kendrick will lead the 10:00 am tour on October 26. Experi-ence the hidden secrets of land once owned by Native Americans, navigated by escaped slaves who followed the night stars, and home to a major stage coach route of the region! Learn about the rumored hauntings, nearby buried treasure, pirates in Bucks County, “accidental” fires that caused chaos, and sightings at early dawn, in this family-friendly Halloween tour!

Please meet in the Society Gift Shop, 56 South Main Street. Plan on one hour for your walking tour. Tours are $10 per person. Pre-register at 215-345-9430

AG WORKS DISPLAY An off-site permanent exhibition by

the Doylestown Historical Society

The Doylestown Agricultural Works was constructed as a farm machinery factory in 1867. Selling products global-ly, it became the town’s most significant industry and greatly contributed to America’s industrial growth. In its declining years, it was owned by General Motors’ Sampson Tractor Division (1920-21) and others. Manufac-turing operations ceased in 1937. The exhibit tells the story of this historic building and reflects farming implements made there, such as the Doylestown Thresher which won first prize in at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Other metal work provided park benches for New York, Philadelphia and Atlantic City, and the bronze gates for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia. The building, now restored and developed into offices, shops, and restaurant space, is located on Ashland Street near Main Street and is open to the public on weekdays.

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS Thanks to the generosity

of our membership 2019 continues to be an exciting year of site c h a n g e s f o r t h e Doylestown Historical Society. Projects are fin-ished or nearing comple-tion on the exterior of the Syd and Sharon Martin Barn. New and repaired siding, dam-aged areas refurbished and fresh paint are complete or in process. On the interior, look for the soon-to-be-installed professional art hanging system on freshly painted walls in the Edgar and Keren Putnam Gallery on the ground floor of the barn. This will allow us to change exhibits and feature artists without damaging the walls of our gallery. The improved facade of the McGill School House, the pub-lic entrance for our site exhibits, the Society Shop and the offices of the Doylestown Historical Society, is near comple-tion with fresh paint and refurbished architectural details to welcome our guests. And finally, the paved and lined parking area behind the barn is now available for use, accessed from Hamilton Ave-nue. (Please respect the “RESERVED” signs.)

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HISTORICAL HAPPENINGS

SOCIETY TO PUBLISH LITERARY JOURNAL

WITH WRITERS WORKSHOP

DHS, in partnership with the Bucks County Writers Workshop, will publish a new literary magazine entitled Neshaminy, the Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal, to be officially released and available for sale at this year’s Bucks County Book Festival, Saturday and Sunday, October 12 and 13 in Doylestown. Please visit us at our outdoor vendor’s table on that Sun-day and purchase your personal copy. Neshaminy will focus on presenting the rich historical legacy of our area in interesting ways. In addition to classical nonfiction articles and essays, the journal will include historically-based fiction, poetry, memoirs and other art mediums. For the inaugural issue, a nine member advisory panel selected Bill

O’Toole’s ”World Famous Bucks County Casino,” Natalie Dyen’s ”Oscar Hammerstein, Highland Farm,” and David Jarrett’s “Behind the Rebellion” for top honors. Honorable Mention certificates were awarded to Will Kirk, Linda Wisniewski and Don Swaim. A submission by Central Bucks-South High School students Rachel Nulty and Tara Brouda will be included in the up-coming issue. Photographs by Ron Moran and illustrations by Pat Achilles will also be featured. A launch event for the Journal was held at the Society on August 1. A reception was held in the Society’s pocket park at which time Neshaminy’s editorial staff was introduced and author awards were presented. A video was recorded by Tom Brunt and is available on YouTube via the Society’s website.

Photography by Ron Moran

THE MILLENNIUM WALL

The sculpture pictured here was dedicated in 2000 and made possible by the generosity of the Thompson Organization and the talent of sculptor, Stephen Snyder. It stood near the corner of Broad and Court Streets but, contrary to popular belief, it was not part of the original Doylestown Public School which stood here from 1889 until it was destroyed by fire in 1973. The wall was disassembled earlier this year, carefully labeled and stored in the borough to be reassembled in a new park which is planned for the current PennDOT property at the corner of Broad Street and Atkinson Drive, and in conjunction with the relocation of the borough hall. In the meantime, construction is underway at the Court and Broad Streets site to build a new parking garage, a 2-deck structure with spaces for 153 cars. For those old enough to re-member, Joni Mitchell may have gotten it right in her 1970 song which featured the lyrics, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot!”

From left: Don Swaim, founder of the Bucks County Writers Workshop; Stu Abramson, President, DHS; David Updike, managing editor, Bill Donohue, associate managing editor

Bill O’Toole accepts the award for his story of Lenape tribe members

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FEATURED PERSONALITIES

“History Lives” On After 7 plus uninterrupted years, Susan Abramson is stepping down as author of the popular “History Lives” article which has appeared weekly in the Bucks County Herald and is repeated on our Facebook page. But History will continue to live on in the ca-pable hands of Jean Rollo who took over authoring duties of the article this past August. Jean takes on this assignment in addition to her role as co-editor of this newsletter. We thank both Susan and Jean for their exceptional spirit of volunteerism which we hope is appreciated by their readers. Comments and suggestions are welcome via our Facebook page or by email at info@doylestownhistorical.org.

W e always knew these two ladies were amazing volun-

teers, but after recently interview-ing them, all I can say is, “WOW!” I had no idea and I’m happy to share with you the results so that you can say “WOW” too! ~Chery Halderson Janet Gruver has lived in Doylestown her entire life, begin-ning on the 56-acre Cope family

farm (the current site of Olde Colonial Greene on Limekiln and Shady Retreat Roads) where her father farmed much of the land on. Edison School (now Kutz Elementary) is where Janet attended grades 1-8 and was a member of the last graduating class (1951) from the Doylestown High School. Janet remembers winter sleigh rides and horse and buggy trips with her grandfather on dirt roads to Clymer’s store where her grandfather brought potatoes and apples to barter for goods. Following graduation Janet worked at the Sommer Maid Creamery on Union Street (now Frater’s Electric) as a bookkeeper until 1955. She married Robert Gruver in 1954 and stayed home raising their four children. In 1967 she started working at Neshaminy Manor in various clerical jobs until they sent her to Gwynedd College for her Medical Records Certifica-tion. She worked in the Medical Records Department there until she retired in 1995. In the meantime, Janet had begun part-time work at Hess’ Department store (in the Doylestown Shopping Center on North Main Street) where she worked as Customer Service Manager from 1989 until the successor store, BonTon, closed in August 2018. Society board member, Jonathan McSurdy, persuaded Janet to volunteer at DHS around 2011. It was then that she met Milt Kenin, and she has worked alongside Milt helping with multi-ple projects ever since. Currently Janet also volunteers in the gift shop. She says, “I’ve seen lots of changes over the years in Doylestown. We’ve lost a little of the ‘country’ effect but we’ve seen wonderful restorations of old churches and homes. I grew up here and have always liked history!”

Paula Rose viewed the “Geil of Doylestown: Forgotten Explor-er” film at the County Theater back in 2015 and was intrigued by the project. Recently retired, she wanted to learn more about what “goes on” at the Doylestown Historical Society. Paula soon began working on the second floor of the Magill Schoolhouse where she was set up on a computer to begin the task of entering the name of every Doylestown High School graduate from 1892 to 2015. She believes it took her over a year to finish that project! Paula was born and raised in the Philadelphia area. After graduating from Temple University, she lived in Jerusalem, Israel for three years, working as a technical typist at Hebrew University’s Institute of Mathematics. In 1971 she married Max Rose (owner of Leonard Rose & Sons plumbing) and moved to Doylestown, where Max had lived most of his life. Paula and Max have a son and daughter and four grandchildren. In the early 1980’s, Paula worked in the children’s bookstore, Booktenders, and then for John D. Toner, Esq. There she spent five years as a paralegal and another five as an administrative assistant before going to work for Conti-nental Property Management as a Property Manager. She was a board member for the Center for Learning in Retire-ment at Delaware Valley University, regularly taking classes there as well. She participates in exercise and dance classes and is “Grandmom extraordinaire” to her grandchildren. Some of the Society projects that she has held “near and dear” have been creating finding aids for the Geil Collection, filing drawers and drawers of Intelligencer photo negatives in chronological order, and organizing many years of borough building permits. Currently she is typing up finding aids for numerous archival boxes containing various collections. In addition, she is always willing to help out during DHS special events. A faithful volunteer, Paula tackles every job she’s given with enthusiasm and always sees it through to the end.

DHS always needs great people to work on scanning, research, data entry, public relations, special projects and more. If you are interested in spending a few weekday hours with the history of Doylestown, please complete the Vol-unteer Application on the Society website, or call Donna Carcaci Rhodes at 215-345-9430.

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Officers & Board of Directors

President/CEO—Stu Abramson* Director of Operations—Donna Carcaci Rhodes*

Executive Vice President— Syd Martin* Vice President—Betty Strecker Secretary—Tina Mazaheri*

Treasurer— Chris Nardo*

Staff Fletcher Walls*—Administrator Milt Kenin—Senior Archivist

Marianne Aglow—Cataloger Mitch Aglow—Tour Guide Tom Brunt—Social Media Karen Forbes—Accessions

Nicole Frederick—Research Assistant Janet Gruver –Gift Shop/Museum Greeter

Chery Halderson—Communications John Halderson—Webmaster & Archivist

Mike Kendrick*—Tour Guide Susan Landgrebe—Gift Shop/Museum Greeter

Jean & David Lausten—Videography Grace Moore—Gift Shop/Museum Greeter

Ron Moran—Photography Tony Palazzolo—Historian

Jean Rollo— Assistant Archivist Paula Rose—Archival Support

Tom Shutkin –Website Support J. Kurt Spence—Researcher

Gloria Tabares—Gift Shop/Accessions Eric Tobin—Tour Guide

Chery Halderson & Jean Rollo — Newsletter Co-Editors

Bob Byers* Dick Millham* Daniel Carchedi Michael Nunno H. Christopher DelPlato* Jon Rudolph Vail Garvin Jonathan M. Sharaf John Gribb Jeff Toner* Mike Kendrick* Marv Woodall Sharon Martin Steve Worth Jack McKenna

*Executive Committee

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