This is a follow-up of last week’s column taken from a copy of a 1948 Enterprise … so more stories from ’48.

More than 300 members of The Catholic Daughters of America opened their Biennial 21st Convention with a ceremony at St. Agnes Church in Lake Placid.

“The Most Rev. Stephen J. Donahue, Auxiliary Bishop of the Arch-Diocese of New York and State Chaplain of the Order, will officiate at the memorial Mass for deceased members of the State CDA.”

A few highlights:

“At 8 o’clock tomorrow evening at the Lake Placid Club, the Lake Placid Court, Mary Elizabeth and St. Bernard’s Court of Saranac Lake will present entertainment that will be open to all members and their friends.

“A seminar, ‘John Henry Newman’, presented by the Lake Placid Court will include the following participants:

“Alice Barton, Catherine McDonald, Louise Campbell, Kay Laing, Hazel Thornton, Grace Ormsby, Alice Bryant, Blanche Ormsby, Margaret Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Walker and Doris Allen.

“The Saranac Lake Court will present a dramalogue, ‘The King’s Highway’, under the direction of Miss Esther Mirick, (Emily Fogarty’s aunt).

“Those taking part are Joan Duprey and Phyllis McCormick, heralds; Walter Ryan, trumpeter; Ellen Hanning, Mary McCormick, Josephine Griffith, Irene Lewis, Mary Donnelly and Gertrude Butler, guardians; Helen Murphy, seeker; Margaret Buckley, madonna.

“Miss Buckley will also be soloist. She will sing ‘Ave Maria’. Pilar Benero, pianist and Isabelle Gordon, violinist, will be the accompanists.”

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Piano and voice recitals

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“Spring recitals were presented Sunday afternoon and evening in the Music Room of the Hotel Saranac Arcade for parents and friends by pupils from the piano class of Miss Loretto Leonard.

“Of special interest in both programs was the First Movement of the Mendelssohn Concerto in G Minor played by Gloria Sweet.

“Pupils presenting the afternoon recital were Susan Chance, Lizane Wright, Patricia Keough, June Gladd, Raymond Pratt, Anne Mitchell, Janet Merkel, Daniel Steidl, Mary Pozzi, Mary LaPan, Emily Woodruff, Stevenson Gurley, William Hopkins, Betty Gladd, Irene Gorrow, Roger Mitchell, John Klein, Irene Christie, Sylvia Farrington, Frederick Parsons, Ronald Keough, Barbara Woodruff, Helen Drutz and Barbara Altman.

“Those in the evening recital were Charles Bunker, Carole Elliot, Mary Hobart, Gloria Quirk, Louise LaPoint, Barbara Stringham, Carol Haselton, Elizabeth McKillip, Sally McKenty, Phyllis Krinovitz, Katherine Leetch (Fred Rodel’s Mom); Marjorie Billings, Betty Woodruff, William Gurley, Peter TenEyck, Barbara Quigley, Joan Haselton, Nancy Everett, Claire Edelberg, Joan Conklin and Phyllis McCormick.

“A quartet consisting of Claire Edelberg, Barbara Quigley, Joan Haselton and Nancy Evertt played a movement from a Hayden Symphony, Rosalyn Reibel, from the voice class of Miss Mary Gremore, sang a solo. Miss Irene DeLisle and Miss Leonard played a duo and Katherine Leetch sang the Brahms Cradle Song at the close of the program.”

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New clinic at Trudeau

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“Organization of a new diagnostic chest clinic at Trudeau Sanatorium was revealed today in the 63rd annual report of Trudeau Sanatorium for the year ending Sept. 30, 1947 which has just been published.

“The new clinic plan involves no additional cost to the institution because it has all the necessary facilities, personnel, laboratories and other equipment and since approval by the Trustees these are being integrated into the operating unit.

“Patients who come for study and diagnosis have the service of a medical staff of excellent training and long experience in diseases of the chest as well as the advantages offered by the bacteriological, biochemical, physiological and x-ray departments. Rooms have been set aside for such patients in one of the cottages.

“When the study has been completed, patients are returned to the physicians who referred them to the clinic with complete findings and recommendations.

“The report also listed a goal of $125,000 for the 1948 Trudeau campaign. Included in this was $20,000 for replacing x-ray equipment, $5,000 for surgery fund to assist patients, $1,200 for fluoroscope, $5,000 for free bed fund, $6,742 for kitchen and dining room renovations.”

The story went on to list all the expenses including $2,400 for a new dump truck and concluded with this paragraph:

“Total operating expenses of the institution for 1947 were $545,363.82. A gross deficit of $158,146.59 remained at the year’s conclusion.”