Sewickley Herald headlines from this week in 1952
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In the news this week 71 years ago:
• Sewickley public schools were set to open Sept. 3 with 1,000 students expected on the first day. Kindergarten through sixth grade were to report at 8:45 a.m., while high schoolers were to arrive by 8:30 a.m. Teachers ready to welcome students included Mrs. Barr, a reading support teacher; Albert Krasic, a music teacher; and football coach Lyle Fox and his assistants, Earl Hogue and Lee Mowrey.
• The Edgeworth Athletic Club’s softball season was nearing its end with an impressive 41 wins and 8 losses. The Herald proclaimed it “without a doubt, one of the best softball aggregations in Western Penna.” The team won first place in the Suburban Softball League, beating the Fairhill Recreation League in a three-game series. At publication time, the team was set to play its fourth game in the Amateur Softball Association tournament in Pittsburgh.
• An “unprecedented” agreement was reached at a meeting called by the Sewickley Valley Board of Trade. The presidents of several civic organizations met with the leaders of the local Republican and Democratic parties, with all agreeing to work together on a joint effort to ensure a record registration of voters and a record vote in November in Sewickley.
Participating organizations included the Young Woman’s Civic Club, the Woman’s Club of Sewickley Valley, the Century Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Business and Professional Women’s Club, the American Legion and the Parent-Teachers’ Association. The new coalition agreed to not only help register voters, but also to provide transportation to and from the Sewickley Borough building’s registration office and to provide childcare services if needed.
Robert J. Angros, chairman of the effort, told the Herald that “every effort will be made by the civic groups to make the registration work non-partisan right down the line, adding that it was most important to the welfare of our country that the vote be cast to the highest potential in the fall, regardless of party affiliations.”
• Jo Godley moved to Sewickley in preparation for starting a job as an engineer at the American Bridge Division of U.S. Steel. Godley was the first woman to earn a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering at Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University) and had formerly worked on structural design analysis for Cleveland’s $32 million Innerbelt Freeway.
“In the not too distant future, women engineers will be as common as women doctors,” Godley told the Herald.