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Volume 049-3 - July 1995 (8 pages)
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Auburn Street to a new location on Ridge Road, it became
impossible for high school students to march in the annual
parade. Nevada Union High School still cooperates by allowing the Future Farmers, under Mr. Bob Paasch, to bring the
carts from Safeway and Shop and Save stores so that the food
can be sorted and the boxes filled more easily. With the boys
enthusiastic help, it is possible to get over a hundred boxes
filled before the noon hour is over.
The Future Teachers come and help in the toy distribution.
Usually members of the high school chorus or the cheerleaders participate in the Donation Day parade. Food collected at the high school is divided for distribution by the
Elks Club in Nevada City—since the high school became a
union school serving both cities, this seemed only fair.
For more than ten years Betty Hammill brought a sumptuous lunch (baked ham and sandwich material, with cookies,
fruitcake, and coffee) to the women filling boxes on Donation Day. The school nurses are of inestimable help to the
society. They are in the best position to know which families
are in real need. Since the start of our ongoing dental program which provides clinics for children whose teeth need
care, the nurses have done a remarkable job.
Throughout the many years, the parade has changed with
the times. Among those proudly walking have been former
students from all the schools, many no longer in existence—
Watt, Grant, Washington, Lincoln, and Columbus come to
mind. The children of Bell Hill still march, though now they
are housed in the seventh schoolhouse built on that piece of
ground which has served Grass Valley students since 1853. In
recent years, children from Union Hill have been bused in to
join the town students. Children from Mount Saint Mary’s
elementary and high schools have taken part since 1965,
when Sister Mary Paule thought it would be appropriate to
join the public schools during the Ecumenical Year.
For many years the parade has been led by a bagpiper. The
late Dr. Arch McPherson was the first, later joined by Dick
Merritt. After Dr. McPherson retired, Dick led the parade,
followed by members of the Lions or Rotary or the county
supervisors—whoever feels inclined to march. Once, in the
1920s, Senator Thomas Ingram led the marchers, and he
probably would be proud to know that in later years the
Society would have two members bearing his family name.
Beginning in the 1960s, the food was collected and boxed
in the Veterans’ Building on South Auburn Street. In the
following decade, the Hennessey School auditorium began to
be used for this purpose, which worked especially well because of the cooperation of Margaret “Midge” Scotten [the
Hennessey School secretary until 1992, when she retired
after 46 years of service]. If it rained, the children marched in
the halls and didn’t feel quite so cheated when they couldn’t
march in the parade through town. Each year when one of the
local clergymen comes to bless the food, he seems very
impressed with the sight of all the youngsters so eager to be
giving at the Christmas season.
sm, Ladies Relief Society members sorting donations on desks at Lincoln School. (Photo from Ladies Relief Society.)
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