3,000 Tour Municipal Center During Dedication Ceremonies, 1963

3,000 Tour Municipal Center During Dedication Ceremonies, 1963

municipal buildings, public libraries

Article appeared in local paper after the Municpal Center and Library dedication ceremonies on May 5, 1963.

Clipping originally part of the Tenafly Public Library Scrapbook 1963-1970

1963

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3,000 Tour Municipal Center During Dedication Ceremonies
Judge Leyden Commends Community On Completion Of Project

TENAFLY— More than 3,000 persons passed through the Municipal Center between 1 and 5 P. M. and about 150 of them gathered at the Center's east mall at 2 P.M.for formal dedication ceremonies of the building.

Principal speaker at the half hour ceremony was Superior Court Judge J. Wallace Leyden. He spoke on the family as the unit of the community structure and the municipality as the unit of the government structure.

He termed Tenafly a town of outstanding people and said that the Municipal Center was truly a monument to them. The Center, he said, is a great climax to the efforts and work of the town officials and residents.

EXPRESS PRIDE

Other speakers expressed prided in the $1.2 million center, and said they were grateful that the sun was shining for the outdoor ceremonies.

With the conclusion of benediction, offered by the Rev.James McGill to the Mt. Carmel R. C. Church, the rains came. By that time, though, residents were touring the building.

FIRST VISIT

Boy Scout Troop 86 and Girl Scouts served as guides and users, and distributed programs to the public. The 3-building complex including the poise and the fire department building and the T-shaped public-library wing, was open to the public.

Residents gathered mainly in the Council chambers, the library, and scores of children hovered around the fire engines and the police motorcycles. For most of the residents it was the first time they had been in the building which has been occupied since November of last year.

Hundreds of persons participated in some way in the ceremonies. including the Junior and Senior High School bands under the direction of David Dworkin and William Gee.

Master of ceremonies was the chairman of the dedication committee, former Mayor E. Merril Seaberg. The pledge of Allegiance was lead by Guy McKellop Jr., commander of the DeWitt Coleman Post 167, Ameriran Legion. and by Frank
J. Forte, commander of the Frank J. Holden Post, 4701, V. F. W.

Speaking briefly were Mayor Willard B. Knowlton and R. Worth Vaughan. vice-president of the Library Board of Trustees. The invocation was given by the Rev. Henry Powers of the Episcopal Church of the Atonement. and the prayer was delivered by Rabbi Irwin M. Blank of Temple Sinai.

All Borough officials and employees were present and served also as guides to the public. Members of Seaberg’s committee included former Mayors Howard W Booth, Clifton S. Fleet, Stanley D. Cattelle, Emerson C. Church, Robert Gasch, Sylvester G. Farnbam. Richard DeMott, and Amost Kidder.

Others on the committee were Vaughan, Superintendent of Schools Dr. John B. Geissinger, Fre Chief Edmund Hoag. and Police Chief Chester Campbell

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