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The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 17

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The Berkshire Eagle. Monday. August 23, 1376 17 JSSO is a youth movement 5 g- Condoned from Page 1 ir r. 3 Vf x'-'1 a 2. -4r Tjn to IS jean ago.

Before then, ns. these was a dear split between ad performance in the we have many musi-re not only practicing but a very pruftand affluence on the i they are associated with. Qher BSD members similarly teach at fire BadaamdtntkiB and attract talent-efifiudrats rito the orchestra. Smedvig, Jbr rvanptr. readied aider the BSO's yarpd tnanpeter, Armando Ghitalla.

Saw CMaRa plays with Smedvigs brass raixifi ad Smedvig himself teaches at EC. though bt says fir is most excited abotA her solo reduds in Boston. Marykxi Speaker says fir feh an aspiration to play in an orchestra like this ever since she first heard fir BSO in 1962. BU fir admits that, since moving to five from of her section, she has had a few darts thnwn at her fay older members in back, partly because of her age and partly became of her sex. Miss Speaker won! talk aboil it further.

bil older members like Harry Dickson sense what he calls a certain contempt among some of fir younger players he exdudes Miss. Speaker for the older generation, which leads to -some resentment in turn. He says this ia nothing irique to fir BSO or musicians in general but is part of a broad social trend calling all aspects of the establishment into question. "There is still no orchestra in. the country that has fir family feeling that we do.

says Dickson. Still some of that feeling has lessened in the last 15 years, aid I dont wart it to. The real question is: How inrh of himself does a player wart to give to the orchestra? Another veteran orchestra member, who prefers anonymity, also finds a greater sense of individualism among members today, but he remembers an even more divisive diquishness in the past. What worries him more, he says, is the currert concern' with finances and pleasing audiences, which has led to things like the Pops and rock concerts at Tanglewood. There teed to be no compromise on what we as artists think is the very best, he says.

We had a faith that we would sell tickets because people out there were hungering for art and what is best Now we must worry about survival. Art for the moment is the loser. Still, this musician adds in the next breath, art can! have suffered too badly, because the orchestra performs ambitious programs and still nns the music center, ok of the major orchestral training arademies in the country, without charging the students tuition. other factors are behind i the orchestra. Training i tie Tangiewwxfs Berkshire Muse Center and the Boston University TtagSeraafi frwtifnte are highly in-SrrJ io the preparation of young mu-scaos far orchestra careers.

Both Miss. tpeJu ad Smedvig. for example; pert tera yeas at the music center, and SnefcgsqnnXet was formed there. ta adfithm. accortfing to personnel raagw WiRirai Moyer, audition proce-4ns actrafiy give yotug players cer-tra adwtapn over older ones.

The performer, he says, will come to amistcmed to playing for and with nothing to lose, the rider mnsirian. though more npenmcedL will aomrtimfs freeze up if he afraid for his reputation if he taws. The wtmtim becomes especially says, when an audition at-brefa ateacher and his student, as' SITE under consideration for new city landfill is enclosed in dotted line in this aerial view of the neighborhood just east of Pontoosuc Lake. Southern tip of lake is in the lower right and the YMCAs Camp Sumner is in cleared area to lower left. The two closest housing areas to flic she right of Camp Sanaer.

amd Qzrk Faarf fiajgfi atm (to the east) of the IradSS si fie Tie comes before the Framing Board at 231 QtyHalL Rolf Smedvig Trumpeter plays sglos Furthermore, there are cycles in hiring as one generation of players, such as brought in by Koussevitzky, goes out and another comes in. The BSO keeps no records by age earlier than the 1960s, but Moyer, who was a trombonist in the orchestra in 1955, figures there were 12 players under 30 then. Finally, the orchestra now has a relatively young conductor, Seiji Ozawa, 40. and that, orchestra members say. may serve as an enticement to some younger musicians, although a new generation of younger conductors is appearing all across the American musical scene.

Despite some dissatisfactions, the younger players are proud to be members of the BSO. Even Mss Arzewski, who is regarded as something of a loner by her fellow musicians and argues for rotation of positions within the sections, calls the orchestra wonderful. al Obituaries and Funerals that MincT audi-which candidates play behind a rat recent jotvequality laws it anj bias which audition might have had against payers and women. The num-m the orchestra has risen the ESh to 10 today, and predicts the percentage will in-iather, if oriy because there are than male string students Mrs. J.J.Doecher Horace T.

Cahill, former It. governor QUINCY Horace T. Cahill, '81, a poor boy who rose to be lieutenant governor of the -state and a Superior Court justice for .26 years, died yesterday at City Hospital. Mr. Cahill was ff Superior Court judge from 1947 to 1973, including a three-week stint at a criminal session of Superior Court in Pittsfield in 1954.

He was the states lieutenant governor from 1939 to 1945 under Gov. Leverett Saltonstall. He also served as a state representative for 10 years and as speaker for two years. He is survived by a daughter and two sisters. Mrs.

Nancy Schmer Doscher. 27, of 14 Jason SL tied Smday at the Pittsfield General rent of Berkshire Medical Center after a short illness. Bora in Wahoo. Nek, the daughter of Robert W. and Phyllis Cope Schmer, five graduated from Wahoo High School and was a 1972 graduate of the University of Massachusetts.

She and her husband had been living in Pittsfield for 14 years. Besides her parents rad bus-band, she is survived by a son, Christopher Doscher. one sister, Mrs. Burned Chvtal of Gdon, one brother, Robbie Schmer of Alexantteia, rad a paternal grandmother. Mrs.

John H. Schmer of Harvard, Neb. Calling hours will be WeAies-day at Dwyer Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to A The funeral services and burial will take place Saturday in Wahoo. Friends may contribifie in Mrs. Doschers memory to the BMC Cancer Research Find in care of Dr.

Jesse Specter. Barrington car fire suspected as arson GREAT BARRINGTON Arson is being investigated fay local police as the posable cause of a car fire early this morning that destroyed a 1966 Ford on Brush Hill Road. Police said this morring that evidence of arson was found at the scene of the blaze. The identity of the cars owner, a Canaan, N.Y. resident, was withheld untO he coukl be notified of the incident.

The fire alert was phoned in to police by an anonymous caller at 2:40 this Bln. Delia McCormick STOCKBRIDGE Mrs. Delia Agnes McCormick, 83, a longtime resident of this town, died fins morning at the SL Lukes unit, BMC. Born in Stamford, she was the daughter of John and Bridget Donnelly Broderick and the widow of John E. McCormick.

She was a communcant of St. Josephs Church, Stockbridge. For the past three years, Mrs. McCormick made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Mary T.

Boland of Housatonic, where she was a communicant of Corpus Christi Church and a member of the Rosary Society of that parish. Besides her daughter, McCormick leaves one son, the -Rev. Joseph EL McCormick, of Beacon Hill Boston; one brother. John Broderick of Stamford; two sisters, Mrs. Emil Kratzer and Mrs.

John Barnwell both of Fairfield, Conn; and five granddaughters. The funeral will be Thursday morning at 9:30 from the Sear-ing-St evens Funeral Hone in Stockbridge followed by a Liturgy of Christian Burial at St Josephs Church at 10. Friends may can at the al home tomorrow from 7 to 9 rad Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7to9. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Gty note The Pittsfield Leo Gub, young peoples auxiliary, will sponsor a car wash Saturday from 19 to 3 at the Adams Su-perama on West Street.

Proceeds win go to local charities. DAVID A. DERY J. EDWARD DERY MU edwHIe 2.fi7 rrttr umziR rtLOedaiAd IrarereZhereatfrw A Firftrirtl Fmet ie. crirtAFraeSsL rigrtS ftgres FartSSLfi Bianchi, John F.

(story, page I) Boice, Mrs. Lydia Carson, EmmitP. Decker, Donald K. Donovan, Vincent F. Doscher, Mrs.

J. Jeffrey Graebner, Mrs. Edith Hajdas, Mrs. Helen Iannuzzi, Mrs. Mary McCormick, Mrs.

Delia, Prokop, Ronald J. Rivet, Clarence A. Tietgens, Mrs. Margaret B. Withers, Mari tta A.

Zaleski, Stanley J. Stanley J. Zaleski DALTON Stanley J. Zaleski, 59, of 185 East Housatonic died Saturday at the Pittsfield General unit BMC after a short illness. He was bom in Pittsfield and lived for the past 30 years in Dalton.

Prior to that time he had lived for some years in Hinsdale. He was employed as a machines! at the General Electric Co. for the past 37 years. He was a' communicant of St. Agnes Church and a member of the General Electric Quarter Century Club and a GE fireman.

He leaves his wife, the former Sophie Sadlowski, to whom he had been married 36 years last October. He also leaves three sons, Richard B. and James Zaleski, both of Dalton and Stanley E. Zaleski of Tolland, two brothers, Edward Zaleski of Cheshire and Zig-mund Zaleski of Washington; one sister, Mrs. tEarl Sweeney of Springfield and two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday from' the Dery-Foley Funeral Home with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 10 from St. Agnes Church. Burial will be in the Ashuelot Street Cemetery. Friends may call at the funer-.

al home tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9. Vinfient F. Donovan Vincent F. Donovan, 72, of 12 State died this morning at the St. Lukes unit of Berkshire Medical Center.

He and his wife, the former Evannah OBrien, celebrated their 52nd wedding anniversary in March. Bora in Huntington, the son of the late David and Mary McNamara Donovan, he lived in Pittsfield most of his life and was employed in the transformer department of General Electric Co. for 37 years. He re-' tired in 1965 8nd was'a member of the GE Quarter Century and Pensioners clubs. Mr.

Donovan was a communicant of St. Marks Church. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Vincent P. Donovan of Dalton; a brother, Thomas Donovan of East Greenbush, N.Y.; two asters. Sister Mary Eucharista of the Sisters of Providence, Holyoke, and Mrs.

Mary Powers of Manchester, and six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Calling hours at Dery Funeral Home Will be toiporrow from '2 to 4 and 7 to 9. In lieu of flowers, friends may contribute in Mr. Donovans memory to St.

Marks memorial fund. Reginald H. Forsyth Private funeral services were conducted this morning for Reginald H. Forsyth at Dery Funeral Home by the Rev. Neil F.

Decker, of Berkshire Medical Cremation followed. Mrs. Lydia Boice LENOX DALE-ftfcs. Ldn Traver Bence, 8L dedvesfaaday at Berkshire Hills North basing Home, Lee. Se lad node her home at I Schod SL her son, Belden Boice.

The widow of Charles Bore, she was born in Arana XT, daughter of the late DeWitt rafi Emma VanTassel Traver. In addition to her an. dr js survived by a sister, Iks! Cae-rie Kilmer of Miflertna XY; a brother, Clayton Traver of Copake Falls, N.Y.; child and two children. Funeral services nil be Wednesday morning at Hat the Peck and Peck Finrd Bone, Copake, N.Y. Burial 8 be ia Ancram Union Cemetery.

Calling houjs will be traun from3to5and7toA Maritta A. TSithers LEE Maritta Adms Voters, 54, of Landers Road, tad yesterday at her sooner brae on Greenwater PondmBecbtt. A native and hfdung nata of Lee, she was the ihafflto the late Roy and AfioeFfexar Adams. She was the secretary hr fle womens bowling leagues al Be Lee Bowling a of the Hist Methodist Orab and the Morning Star ntgqtir af the Evening Star Lodge. For flr past several years she was a bus driver far Mnssiti Bb Lines of Great Barrington.

She is survived by fan sok. Mark R. Withers of We Stwb-bridge, Vinton J. Withers. Qem EL Withers, and Matthew 1, Withers, ail of Lee; fine daughters, Mrs.

Janas Hniiby. and Miss Debra Withers, both of Lee, and Mrs. Eiari BarreQ id Lenox; a brother, Viztm JL Adams of Zephyr KBs. Hi; two asters, Mrs. Qacnse Bw-den of Conway and Mrs.

Hamid. Miner of Pebble Beach. and five grandchildren. Funeral services vril be Wednesday morning at Kelly Funeral Home. Brad ndl beinFairmotntCfejnetery.

Calling hours at fin home are tonigtt iron 7 to 9 and tomorrow from 2 to 4 to9. EmmittP. Carson GREAT BARRINGTON Emmitt P. Carson, 54. Street died yesterday evong at FairviewHospitaL Born in Sheffield April 25, 1922, he was the son of Mrs.

Irene Brower Carson and the kaSe Frederick Carson. He wreted for the past five years as a driver for Hie Red ft Gold Taxi Ch. of Great Barrington. Mr. Carson was a Ci Army veteran of World War fi and a member of the James A.

13a-dolo Post, VFW. He aas aba a member of the SotXhern Berkshire Coin UidL Besides his mother at Great Barrington, Mr. Carson his wife, the fanner House; two sons, Richard Orson of Easthamptonand RaS Carson -of Great Barrirgui. two stepsons, David fiiynm of La Porte, Tex, and Babel Emprimo of Fart Cnliins Clio; one step-daughter. Mis.

Partes Ketchen of Great Barringiia, three grandchildren and step-grandchildren. Calling hours at the Births Funeral Home wdl betonxEmr from 2 to 4 and 7 to 1 The funeral will be Waters-day at 11 at fir fund followed by burial in Cemetery, Sheffield. Memorial donations nay be made to the American Cam Society. Margaret Tielgens NORTH ADAMS Mrs. Margaret Belanger Tietgens, 66, of 237 Franklin St.

died last night at the St. Lukes unit, BMC. She had been admitted to the hospital Friday following a short Ul-ness. She was bom in North Adams March 25, 1910, daughter of the late Frank and Margaret Marr Belanger. She attended local schools and was a communicant of St.

Francis Church. She leaves her husband, Russell E. Tietgens; two daughters, Mrs. Robert A. Fortini aid Mrs.

Edward J. Delisle, both of North Adams, and six grandchildren. Funeral services will be tomorrow at 8:15 a.m at the Flynn ft Dagnoli-Montagna funeral home with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at 9 at St. Francis Church. Burial will be in Southview Cemetery.

There are no calling hours. The family has requested the omission of flowers and has suggested that donations be made to the American Cancer Society through the funeral home. Mass, lottery Fridays number BOSTON (UPI) The winning number drawn Cumbers Game is 'payoffs, in exact or- AH 4 digits $3591. First or last 3 digits $501 Any 2 digits 843. Any 1 digit 4.

The payoffs, hi any order: All 4 digits First 3 digits 884. Last 3 digits 884. Above payoffs based on 81 bets. Saturdays number BOSTON (UPI) The winning number drawn for Saturday in the Massachusetts Lotterys. Numbers Game is 5094.

The payoff in exact order: AU 4 digits 87186. First or last 3 digits 81006. Any 2 digits 886. Any 1 digit 89- The payoffs, in any order: AU 4 digits 8229. First 3 digits 8168.

Last 3 digits 8168. Above payoffs based on 81 bets. Concertgoer hldHedm Chester accident (HI5.T8 A 24year-old Enrafcf JL Prokip of 80 Lodlow, was struck by an last Kgbt at 8:30 as akng Route 20 a entry music con- automobile, A Gnfasfr, 201 of East- raaigned this Westfield District charges of operating to nrrat (bring tnder the Juuwfiug ts Russell State Po-rie. Tfc. Prokop was walking the fifcter of Route 20 tart Bi feel west of the jnto-erra of Beadtx Road when he bb track by the eastboundve-ibyGalafiL Rrtap was pronounced at me arrar trom severe rpnes by Dr.

the Hampden ADAMS Mrs. famtgzi, taei fat right at the SL Lukes rat. E22Z. fallowing a kxig ill- North Adams Feft.2L.19i (fanghter of John rad Frances Fvfing Doran. She atsraded ioert schools and grad-SL Josephs High training Hdeptal in New TL art fate- lwrame head raefifie fcwpfai Sie aim ra the mwfing staffs of tfrmnriiJ Hospital Braingpm.Yt.

rad the Mas-General Hospital in be aba worked at the tartrir Gl ri Pitts-fi retried from that com-H juu aga to move to tamed from Florida in iwe with her sot Mr. and FL ftarork. She of SL Grach in North in Pompano a reporter tor Beach Sentinel aet Zan- ffrrfiOrt.IS.Q68. her sm, Janes, she sore John R. of Sixth Adams, two Boxy Gl Doran of fthms rad Edward T.

rf Seal Beach, CaliL; six and two great- will be 8:15 ajn. from fsr fix ft pagnofrMmtagna with a Liturgy of Burial at 9 at SL, Grach. Burial will be Snriici Gauetay. Gaffing bras at the fmeral brae be tonight from 7 to 9 rad bxarrow from 2 to 4 and 7 IXSyJB. nUCeeeka owners cf last bdonpngs the reiuiitj department if tm Ibikhiie Mescal Center that persons who they may have' lost or other personal hantai stop at its check fie collection hrm jaqTnhtpd thprp Mrs.

Edith Graebner Mrs. Edith Graebner, a former resident of Bradford Arms, died Saturday at the Berkshire Nursing Home after a long illness. Born in New Haven, the daughter of Harman and Anna Ullmer Alderman, she was educated there and moved to Pittsfield in 1965 after the death of her husband, Bruno Graebner. Mrs. Graebner was a member of the Golden Agers, the Senior Citizens, and the Bobby Kidney Sunshine Club.

She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Joseph Mirate of Watsonville, and Mrs.1 Ernest SegnaOa of Pittsfield, five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Graveside services will be held at Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, tomorrow afternoon at 2. The services will be conducted by the Rev. Arthur E.

Walmsley of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, New Haven, where Mrs. Graebner was a member while a resident there. Omission of flowers is Friends may contribute to the furnishing fund of the Senior Citizens Cento in Mrs. Graebners memory.

Clarence A. Rivet Clarence A. Rivet, 72, of 33 Plunkett St died Satoday at his home after a short illness. An employe of the former Berkshire Woden Co. for 20 years, and of Berkshire Hardware and the Berkshire Medical Center, he retired in 1960.

Mr. Rivet was a communicant of St. Marys Church and a member of the Knights of Columbus, Senior Citizens and Golden Agers. He was bom in Turners Falls, the son of the late Alfred and Virginia Lenois Rivet, and lived most of his life in Pitts-, field. His wife, the former Rachel died in 1974.

He leaves one son, Robert E. Rivet of Pittsfield, and two sisters, Mrs. William B. Borden of Pittsfield and Mrs. Louis Valley of Turners Falls.

Funeral services will be tomorrow morning at 8i30 from Dery Funeral Home, with a Lit-' urgy of Christian Burial at 9 at St. Marys Burial will be in St. Josephs Cemetery. Calling hours will be today frpm2to4and7to9. Death Notice BOICE, MRS.

LYDIA August 22, 1976 at Berkshire Hills North Nursing Home, Lee, Mass. Mrs. Lydia C. Boice of 8 School Lenox Dale, Mass, formerly of Ancram, N.Y. Wife of the late Charles Boice, mother of Belden Boice of Lenox Dale, sister of Mrs.

Carrie Millerton, N.Y. and Clayton Traver, Copake Falls, N.Y. Funeral service Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Peek Peck Funeral Home, Copake, N.Y. Interment, Ancram Union Cemetery.

Friends may ci at the funeral home Tuesday, 3 to 5and 7 to 9. 54 Bradford Street, Pittsfield 890 East Main Street, Dalton North State Road, Cheshire. R. JACK KELLY IIEARLNC AID SPECIALIST Certified by the National Hearing Aid Society PITTSFIELD HEARING AID CENTER Iric. 345 North St-, Pittsfield Phone 443-1710 We WiD Accept Collect Calls Hoaae or Office Appointment 30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE Ion Must Be Satisfied" Office Hi; 9 to 5 day thra Friday.

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