If you attended the fund-raiser for Roell Schmidt you deserve all the accolades I can muster.
As usual, the food at a pot-luck dinner was good. The bar at this one was moderately priced at fifty cents a beer. There were drawings for prizes (including a TV), plants were for sale, and one palm tree was sold for $80 plus and donated to the nuns at St. Roch’s. All contributed to the net proceeds of the event.
My guess is about two hundred people attended (including children). The spirit at the affair was one of keen neighborly concern but without a sense of duty or obligation. And, if those at the dinner did not leave with at least a small lump in their throats, I misunderstood all the proceedings.
Originally published in The Paper, December 1975.
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