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February 18, Wt Page IS THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS Sixty years fruits, noodles, macaroni, rice, cereal, peanut butter, flour and sugar. Contributions can be left at the Hope Street entrance of the church, Ridgewood Avenue and Hope Street, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. m. or Sunday mornings during February. The emergency food program, under direction of the Rev.

Maxwell Tow, provided emergency food relief to 400 families snd more than 1000 persons in 1977. classes will focus on Jesus through tbt tyei of those who knew him. Every Wednesday until March 33 the line-tuary at 354 Rock Road will be open, I a for prayer and medltatloo. Those on their wsy to work or other K-tivtties are invited. Another course during Lent Is the Greta Circle, human relations opportunity (or families, led by Gail Sternitzke.

Dorothy Vender Werf will lead a once-a-month series on Good News for Everyone with tbt first session Feb. 38 8 in this service is invited to call the church office. Immediately after the 9 30 service, a group will meet to discuss the sermon during the six Sundays of Lent This View from the Pew will be used by Mr. Dethmert as he develops the series. The Lenten journey continues during the week with a New Testament study of People Who Knew Jesus led by Mr.

Dethmers on Tuesdays, 8 and Thursdays, 10 a m. Following the same theme, students in the church school junior high and senior high i i if Hebble at West Side preparing for Broadway roles and teaching at Stevens. Hebble's music career got off to an early start, when at 16 he was Virgil Fox's assistant at New York's Riverside Church in the late 1950s. Hebble graduated from West Orange High School and entered Yale, where he earned his bachelor of music degree. While still holding down the job as Fox's assistant, be got a master's degree at Juilllard.

Ha also studied composition with Nadla Boulangerin Paris. His compositions and arrangements have been recorded by Virgil Fox, Ted Alan Worth and others. RIDGEWOOD Composer Robert Hebble will be guest organist in the Music at West Side series at West Side Presbyterian Church 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission will be free.

Hebble will be joined by soprano Doris Holioway and the Stevens Institute of Technology Glee Club, led by William On-drick. The program will consist of original works by Hebble as well as his arrangements of Bach, Randall Thompson and Anthony Polistina. A West Orange resident, Robert Hebble's career also includes reviewing choral music for Music magazine, arranging for the Uniroyal, glee club, coaching actors a priest Plywaczyk served in many teaching and administrative assignments, and in 199 was appointed the fourth director of Don Bosco. He served in this of fice until 193. It wu during this time that he alao received his doctorate in education from Fordham.

In 1933 Father Plywaczyk wu tranafered by the Saleslan Society to his native Poland where be later became secretary to the Saleslan Provincial. He stayed In this post until 1933, when he became director and pastor of me Saleslan orphanage la Plock, Poland. He held this office until 1941. Two years after the outbreak of World War II, just moments after he had finished the sacred liturgy, Father Steve wu captured by the Gestapo. The next four and one-half years be spent in Dachau a prisoner of the Nazis.

In May 1945, be wu liberated by the advancing American armies under Gen. George Patton, and wu later sent by his superiors to Paris to serve as a chaplain of a hospital for the next two years. From 1947 to 1966, Father Plywaczyk was stationed In a Saleslan parish in Havana, Cuba, and served at the ume time as a cultural attache to the Polish legation. He returned to Ramsey In the fall of 1956 where he became confessor to the students, an instructor In Latin, and where he lives today in retirement. Father 8teve is the last of 14 children, 11 boyi and three glrli, of the now deceased Andrew and Mary Plywaczyk.

Two other brothers, Stanislaus and Adalbert, were also Saleslan priests, one of whom served as a provincial superior of Poland. A miraculous cure of his mother was used as evidence by ecclesiastical authorities In Rome in the beatification ceremonies of Blessed Michael Rua In 1973, the second successor to St John Bosco, the founder of the Saleslans. Father Plywaczyk was In Rome for the ceremonies. Baptist Church conducts drive for food RIDGEWOOD The Board of Mission of the Emmanuel Baptist Church is conducting a special drive during February for donations of food to fill empty shelves for families served by Northslde Forces in Paterson. The project is known as Kindness Suggested donations include canned meats and fish, stews, hash, powered milk, canned Religious News Peter L.

Gerety of the Archbishop Newark Archdiocese looks over exhibit PR. STEPHEN PLYWACZYK RAMJEY The Rty. Dr. Stephen Pfywaczyk, director emeritus of Don Boko Preparatory High School and last of the cbooTi living founders, wUl celebrate the 60th anniversary of nil ordination to too priesthood with a solemn, concelton tad man of thanksgtvtnf on Monday at 11 a.m. in tht school's chapel la 8t John'i Hall.

A dinner, 11ml ted to only several Saleslan priests and brotben of tht Eastern province, a ipecial request of Fathtr Plywiciyt, wUl follow in tbt faculty dininf room. The principal cocelebranta will be tht Roy. Celeitint Moikal, the Ret. Cheater WlmlewiU and the Rev. Joaeph Haluch, all former pupils of Father Steve and alao former directors of the school.

Msgr. Alexander Kroncsak, pastor of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Wellington, will deliver the homily. Father Celestine Moskal will be master of ceremooJes. Dr. Plywaczyk wu born in Jedlec, Poland, in 183.

After taking his religious vows in 1911 in Radna, Yugoslavia, and after completion of his philosophical studies, Father Steve came to America in ISIS, wu Instrumental in founding Don Bosco High School, and on Feb. 34, 1918, wu ordained priest As a young Saleslan priest, Father Advent Lutheran Church, Wyckoff, Church council and officers were installed Feb. 5. Serving on council are: Harold Bell, John Dessel, Eugene Jimenez, Arthur Johns, Elizabeth Lange, Bert Larsson, Robert Lee, Fred Meuter Claire Nidzgorski, Ralph Petersen, Stephen Ransom and Charles Wilson. Church officers are Claire Tooker, treasurer; Alfred Jacobsen, financial secretary, and William Scherer, secretary.

During Lent, vespers every Wednesday at 8 p.m. the Word and Witness Study Group will meet on Thursday. As a religion project, Mrs. Addesa's 6th grade classes at Mount Carmel School, Ridgewood, have produced their own filmstrip. Working on the filmstrip proved to be quite an adventure.

After a particular topic was selected, each student proceeded to illustrate and compose his subtitles. Later, the 30 vividly painted frames were placed in their proper sequence. With a copy stand, lights and a half with students st St. Luke's R.C. School.

Ho-Ho-Kus. The archbishop visited the local school during Catholic Schools Week. Lenten aim for church GLEN ROCK At the Community Church In Glen Rock Lent Is a "journey In, featuring opportunities for spiritual growth, and a "journey out," focusing on giving to others through Church World Service, One Great Hour of Sharing, the Irvington Home In Ir-vington and the Martin Luther King Jr. Education Center in Paterson. The preaching and teaching of the Rev.

Vernon Dethmers is highlighted throughout Lent with a series of sermons, "His Life and Ours," at the 9:30 and 11 a.m. services. Through the Cassette Ministry the services are taped and distributed. Anyone Interested Directory of Religious Services Allendale The Highlands United Presbyterian Church trwtmtm Turnpike et Beth Haverim (Reform Temple of Northwest Bergen County) 99 iesjS34eaMiajS3 V'a'afeal Cad) lS-im ar 447.1410 Bethlehem Lutheran Church ilnweed Ave. and Cattage Place The lev.

Iwotd H. Mueller O.O., Parter VorJup Smirr. aad I imi a.m. Nada Vkool and Biblr C.lar .10 a m. West Side Presbyterian W.

Ildgeweed Avenue at Monroe Ildgeweed Dr. Melvln I. Compbell 652-1966 9:13 and 1 1 a.m. Horkip Srr-tirr. I kur-k Vkuol iiik urwry larv prutloVd.

-SHARINC A CHEAT OKK" By Dr. IMvin A. Campbrll Ridgewood Christian Reformed Church Dr. John Tlmmer, Potter 77 1 Lincoln Avenue Ildgeweod SUNDAY I a I kurrk Vhoul and Hibk- I la. I a ni.

Miirnin V.i,rkip. 7 p.m. K.rnin N.i. frame 35mm camera, the production aspect of the filmstrip took place. Exercising extreme care, the students snapped their own pictures.

After viewing the completed filmstrip, the students were thrilled and proud of their work. eae Church of the Nativity, Midland Psrk, is providing a Lenten lecture tomorrow and Feb. 24, 8:30 p.m., In Kennedy Hall. The topic will be Eucharist as a Community Event. The speaker will be the Rev.

Stephen Feehan, Immaculate Conception Seminary, Mahwah. eee The Rev. Herbert Cook Sr. will be guest speaker Sunday at the 7 p.m. evening service of the Wyckoff Baptist Church.

The Rev. Robert E. Hall will continue his series of Lenten messages at the 11 a.m. service. At the Wednesday 7:45 p.m.

service, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Prommel, church members who will leave soon for Taiwan to work with handicapped children with the House of Onesiphorus Mission, will speak of their new work. "Gordon Stanley has been appointed to the Board of Deacons, to replace Al Benson, who moved to Illinois. Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Hanna and Charles Van Dyk Jr. were welcomed Into church membership Sunday. eee During the Lenten season the Rev. Ruth Ann Clark will be preaching a series of sermons at the Presbyterian Church, Franklin Lakes, which deal with how Jesus felt about life; the text for Sunday's sermon is from John 16: 16-33.

Families who participate In the church school program will be studying the biblical accounts of the miracles and teachings of Jesus. The topic for this week is "Jesus Calms the Storm." eee A native Israeli, Shalmi Barmore, will speak on "The Holocaust Qimax of a Historical Process," at the Ridgewood Christian Reformed Church, Lincoln and West End avenues, on Saturday at 8 p.m. Pastor of the Ridgewood Christian Reformed Church is Dr. John Tlmmer, who grew up In Haarlem, the Netherlands, during World War II, and whose father hid Jews in the family home's basement during the war. The public is invited to attend the lecture, and a question period and refreshments will follow the speech.

eee On Maundy Thursday, March 23, there will be a Christian Pascal Lamb Supper and Holy Communion at Christ Church In Ridgewood. It will begin at 7 p.m. In the Parish Hall on Cottage Place. eee Pastor Larry McGuUl of Fardale Trinity Church, Mahwah, recently was a guest at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton in the nation's capital. The night before, a group from the New Jersey, New York and Connecticut area met with Ken White, one of the co-ordinators, for a time of fellowship and singing, which Pastor McGuill led.

Members of the Senate and House of Representatives gave testimony to their faith in Jesus Christ, and President and Mrs. Carter spoke briefly. Over 3000 were In attendance. Vnln. 1 3 ejn.

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First Church of Christ Scientist SOS Oodtn Avenue lewen Sermani MOD Drama Club offering ALLENDALE The eighth grade Drama Club of Brookside School presented an adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Man Who Corrupted Hadley-burg." Participating were Scott Corry, Nancy Elberty, Helen Percevecz, Steven Wagner, Colleen Somers, Paul Whalen, Stephen Elkins, Diane Lee, Steven Aaronotf, Eric Victorin, Elizabeth Kadel. Also, Joseph Zan-dalasini, Martha Parowski, Fred Leutenegger, Dianne Diussa and Jeffrey Askildsen. The play was directed by Virginia Bell. Urban League BERGEN COUNTY The annual meeting of the Urban League for Bergen County will be held on Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m., at the Bethany Presbyterian Church, Englewood.

St. Elizobeth's Episcopal 169 Folrmount loed Ildgeweed, N.J. The lev. Ilcherd S. Anderaen lector 444-2299 Sunday Service 1:00 end 10:00 e.m.

10 INI unda I kurrk Vhool. NurMrt rarr pro.idrd. Waekdoyl Turda 9 IMI a.m. Holy (4m-muniim and Prayrr for Hralin. The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Deremwi end lone Ave.

Glen Rock All Saints Church Central Ave. (Off Boca Id.) Otwt tat. J. lav. Ivan H.

Parfrictfe, Midland Park Christian Reformed Church 13 OeeVrle Avenwe lev. Penatd Wltee 4iJ0 m. Wertki Srrlr 7 a at. Venkle Srrlr 10:45 a. Ckarrk Scbeol Peitor 447-J370 lav.

Data i. Cranttan, 44-eS74 Ml a.m. itmlu irr. Ill HI am. unilw o.hw.1 erdnrJa l.trnin M--lln 1 1 i ktldrrn' nra undat nuwnin and idnrla rinhift.

RL4UOG RiKlM 1JJI. Rtdgewoed Ave. Ill In Hail, 10 l. 'I p.m. leglenol Admlnlttretor Kenneth Simpton 7.439 10 a.m.

rkool 1 1 a m. Vnrkip Vnirr Wednetdoy 8 p.m. Prarr Vrirr Chwreh Phone 632.7934 Hal, (mhimIm tatmU Vrw 10 Urarrk Vtiool 10 Church of the Good Shepherd (takKoaat) 47 0edrtn Ave. NJ. 444-4141 lev.

DanaW V. KlnaidU ecter The First Presbyterian Church aada Venklprrlrr Seal, aad IU a a. Ckarrk Vkaol 10 a.m. 4 frtredlt- Ckerrk Kith ee r- Temple Israel and Jewish Community Center A Centervetlvo Cengiegetlon 473 Oreve St. 44-1120 Allan Sthrem, labbl Srrirr: Kriday p.m.

and aturda. 9 a.m. HrliKu nd Nurtrry Srkuol. a m. aiurila.

Juitinr I unr'alMin. I. IWeeweed and Van Dten Avenue Or, Howard i. Hancen Senior Minltter rrlk-M I krMiaa Mix-ultoa proram. Ho-Ho-kus St.

Bartholomew's Church (leUtaaei) 70 Shartaaa He-Mo-K. Tel. M4-501S The lev. Uwi S. Martin.

Jr. (rlet.ln-Cherfe) e.ej. Hoh tarherwl 9:13 a.ni. remit rrir a1 (Jmrrh VaeeJ. Moraine Pram 3r and Sendeya.

Hal; turkari-l 24 eae lie II a.m. tenhie Smtrr, Heir fcereerMl Itf. -Ire eee ilk Sunday Monti Prerrr 'MmmA i tn Oanery (err el Vi 15 aed II John Hewitt Student Mlnlitpr SINDAY 9 00 AD 11:00 A.M. "PREDICTABLE RKBOINDV DR. HOWARD J.

HASt PHtAtHlM. Ramsey Lutheran Church of the Redeemer Wrckerl and Weedland Ave. The lev. Ikherd Creadtck S17414S Utaectehed 1147 Centwry ef Forth Sandey a.m. uadar -r-IOHKI a.m.

Vk.nl. Saddle River Zion Lutheran Church 100 I. Allendale load Saddle liver, N.J. Patter ley Almqulit 327-0655 9 III a m. Thr Vnirr.

9 a umla( Vh.Mil. iwlk anil tlull II A.m. Ihr Vnirr (Nur-r rarr al 1 1 a m. rrirr). Waldwick United Methodist Church IS franklin Turnpike 632-5130 lev.

Fred D. Hoffman 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 1 1 a.m. onhtp 7 p.m. Youlh Fellooahip Wyckoff Second Reformed 475 lefayette WyckoH lv.

Iruc J. Hoffmen, Patter lev. Donald H. Kazan, Aiiec. Potter SUNDAY III a.m.

I hurrh h.l II a in. Miirnin nr. hip Nnrr rarr prmi'lril). 3 p.m. Evrnin Horhip Wyckoff Baptist Church Wyckoff end tuueH Avenue lev.

lobert I. Hell, Patter Sunday 9 III a m. Hihlr all Hn 1 1 a ni. Ilnrnln Uor.hip Vr irr 7 p.m. Ktrnin Vr.icr Wednaldo, m.

llld-vrrk rirr. Unitarian Church 113 Cottege Piece 444-6229 Kenneth I. Potton, Mlnliter 1 1 a m. Vnirr. am Vhool.

I.kild rarr proiidrd Oarrk Srkool (or all ear group el 9i4S a.m. e.ea.j 4edilMMl Olrerelioa of KereartM Tender 7.M end Thunder 9i.W Community Church (tetermee Chew" In America) "On Mm aerfclrte, evei by the Me-Mo-Kirt Inn" 44J-eJ10 Ridgewood Baho'i Faith First Reformed SOS Preteect Ildgeweod 6)2-1953 Perianege Teteahanel 44J-090J Dr. David Chen SUNDAY 4 .10 a m. I hun vhinil. II am.

nr-hip Vrtirr (Nurrr rarr pnitidrd). 7 p.m. Prrr mrrlin. Kte M9WS He VH SO Oak Street 444.1117 llrtofioe. Dlti.tna- a m.

2nd aad 4lk Tor-day United Methodist Church 100 Derten Ildgeweod 632-2161 lev. Oeerge Won, Jr. lev. Trumen I. Dunn ASTOIS Mr.

Peggy Teyler, D.C.I. Mr. Ilcherd Frey Director end Orgonlit 9: 3 a.m. U.Mhip 9: 10 a.m. I kurrk Vlimi HdlHr lhn.uk hlh l.ratlr 1 1 a hi JunHir anil Ni mhi lllk I lar (ilull I U.v..

1 1:13 a in. lirhip (A friendly Welcome Te All) l.karrk Srhool or.hip tlk eer-rrr eed Arlio Pmtreei mm. Inula (Rrformrd Uturrk Amrrire) Mahwah Tk emmanuel Baptist Church Rldaeweed Ave. at Hoe St. Or.

Jrteea Inertkawd Fruit-head dolls embellish library GLEN ROCK A collection of fruit-head dolls, loaned by Mrs. Claire Buxbaura of Glen Rock, is on display at the public library during February. Made and dressed after her retirement by the late Mrs. Claire J. Seyfferth, the mother of Mrs.

Buxbaum, these dolls include likenesses of movie and television stars, historical and political figures. Each costume Is an original design. HI. -II lev. Miriam I.

Icfcerd, AuacJat Mlrweter HI aarrk at Nd 1 1 a.m. I kurrk al orhia Milk. VJ. Pa.lnr larf) UH.mll 4r Grace Church Meedewerook end llbby Avei, lev. Devld S.

Marthell, Peitar a.m. Suada) Vhovl (lar. 1 1 a m. Mnrnln Vor-kip Srr-lr. 7 m.

K-rain orkip rr- WIDNfSDAY 7: IS pa. l.vrnln Prrr M. imi-Old Poromus Reformed Church 11 I.Ira 4r. al Hi. IT HldlfrMfMMl.

VJ. IIIWI.I Hr. tln I Ma-rr. I'aMiir Wyckoff Reformed Church 510 Wyckoff Avenue Wyckoff, N.J. 191-1712 lev.

Donner S. Atweod, Potter lev. Devld J. lech Come and hear this free lecture sas-iti Svnatevl The People of God of Christ Church Parish 4- a.m. rulik- Vkmd f.ir ihr leant.

I MW at. Moral erle. T.O0 p.ai. tvrirr Wedneeeey Prerr. harr and "Med.

I Nawrr awlabtr al all rrtrr) ami I hurt Vhm.l II a in. (Nurrry I arr Vr Irr II ami (leHceeal) Imilr oe te WerMe Stmdey AT Upper Ridgewood Community Church Hllcrett end Folrmount loedt lev. Devld C. Ven Sickle. PeMor 443-4012 9 a m.

II.M-nin lfrarr Ml a m. llxlnr Vnirr 10 a.m. I hunk Vkiail about Christian Science by THOMAS A. McClAIN, C.S.B. of Chicago, III.

Member of The Christian Sciencg Board of lectureship THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 P.M. First Church of Christ, Scientist There'! ne belter in lister way oH ef Nirtawtt lergee Ceuntv It SMIOOLU IXSTRONll II am. (IM tommmnnm) Ramapo Reformed Church IU am. remlljr Vrkr. II.Mthrrnl.

'VJa (Narvr rarr ail-bl rv- i Advent Lutheran Church 777 Wyckoff Ave. e. r-hit H-1 1 a m. I kur. vhiK.t 911 a m.

Xilull 9. Ill a m. Arthur Fortearg, Potter 191-1031 Irieod Id. and W. lamaae a.

wiX.s (Nanrry rerr eeiiaMr). 740 rJ. -eeik I Ml a m. I hon Mhil I 'M A 1 1 a m. ftr.hip Vrlrr mmtrk.U I an- I'nnidrd Ml p.m.

Jr. Ilik aih 10 pm. v. Ilifh 1Hiih Free renklln Ave. end Cetteg Ume Mteweed, N.i.

The lev. Ikherd L. thimafky, lectar Child Core 303 Godwin Avenue Ridgewood, New Jersey Parking cussmiB I444.970O.

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