50 years ago - Jan. 21, 1960

From The Smyrna Times,
Jan. 21, 1960

Wallace renamed Clayton Bank president

Stockholders of the Clayton Bank and Trust Company reelected all directors and officers of the bank for the ensuing year at the annual meeting held January 13. Named to new terms as directors were Mrs. Beulah S. Blendt, Clarence S. Collins, Jr., Dr. R.W. Comegys, Bernard Morman, Albert J. Pleasanton, John J. Roth, Sr., Ernest F. Smith, Jr., and Samuel C. Wallace.

At the reorganization meeting which followed, Mr. Wallace was reelected president for the year 1960. Others installed in administrative posts were Mr. Roth, vice president; Mr. Collins, secretary; and Mr. Morman, cashier and trust officer. All were holdovers from 1959. Harold Schmittinger was retained as counsel for the bank.

Shades of Sadie Hawkins! Gals on loose again

A Sadie Hawkins Dungaree Dance is planned by the Silver Eagles, to be held Saturday, January 23 from 8 to 11:30 p.m. This gives the girls an opportunity to ask the boys to go to the dance and pay for their entertainment for that evening.

Barry Pritchard, president, has announced that the Silver Eagles’ Valentine dance will be held on Saturday, February 13 from 8 to 11:30 p.m., with regular admission prices. The dance will be a dressy affair and the music will be furnished by the popular dance band The Fabulous Corvettes.

The following committees were appointed by the president to plan for the Valentine dance: Richard David, Nicholas Rosello, publicity; Bruce Ennis, Charles Mast, Tom Mills, and Eric Neidhardt, decorations….

Eagles (2-2) face tough Lewes 5; alumni attraction carded Tuesday

Lewes’ highly-publicized Pirates sail into town tomorrow night for a clash with Smyrna’s basketball Eagles. The down-staters, a perennial court power, again feature a strong array in the person of 6-foot-7 Lenny Maul, football star John Morris, and company.

Smyrna athletic officials anticipate a near capacity house for the Lewes attraction, mainly to see the high-scoring antics of the lanky Maull, tallest player in the state.

Local court fans will also be treated to the annual alumni battle next Tuesday evening in the high school field house. This contest, always a favorite on the Smyrna schedule, will display such former Eagle standouts as Lenny Pleasanton, Sam Jacobs, Phil Voshell, Bill Shane, Lin Doughten, Karl Gebhart, Edgar Cox, Donald Poore, Jay Knight, Turk Orvis, and others.

Opposing the “old pros” will be the 1960 Eagle aggregation of Joe Walker, Bob Eckhart, Wayne Cole, Jim Fischer, Harold Moffitt, Chappy Lucas, Barry Pritchard, Brandy Jones, Bob Boyer, Newlin Wood, Dave Passmore, Corrado Melega.

A faculty quintet composed of Charles Williams, Bill Horney, Bob Everett, John Dickinson, Joe Orlando, Tom Mulligan, Phil Toman, Dave Fauser, Andre Muelanuer, Louis Callaway, and “Pop” Michaels will engage the junior varsity in the preliminary clash at 7 p.m. Brandy Jones, Eddie Sterling, Bob Pritchard, Bo McCoy, Alan Haley, Andy Roth, Bill Stafford, Eric Neidhardt, Glen Busker, and Gary Harvath will square off against the teachers.

Smyrna evened its log at 2-2 Tuesday night with a 47-44 victory over visiting Chestertown. Joe Walker, Bob Eckhart, and Wayne Cole scored all the Eagle points in pacing the win, Walker totaling 20, Eckhart 16, and Cole 11.

Dover routed the Red and White last Friday by a lopsided 70-45 count. Eckhart’s 12 points were tops in defeat.

Bamberger joins speakers’ bureau favoring New Day plan

Formation of a speakers’ bureau for the “New Day for Delaware” Committee in Kent County was announced today by George Ehringer, Kent County chairman of the committee.

Members of the non-partisan speakers’ bureau are: Robert L. Bamberger, Smyrna; Lionel E. Griffith, Abbott T. Lewis, and the Rev. Paul E. Habry, all of Dover. Harold C. Schmittinger, Dover attorney is chairman of the group.

The function of the bureau, according to Mr. Ehinger, is to explain to interested groups in the county, the eleven-point legislative program which Gov. J. Caleb Boggs has proposed to Delaware’s General Assembly.