Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watching the first night football game ever played in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (before 40,000 spectators), Sports Editor Vernon ("Curley") Grieve of Hearst's Examiner got so excited last week that he thought he heard voices. Wrote Grieve: "When Mayor Elmer G. Robinson turned on the floodlights ... a huge gasp escaped from the throng and it rolled upward like escaped steam from a huge boiler. It was then-unanimously-that the crowd mumbled: 'This is grand. This is what we need and want...
...Wallpaper. After years of patching and making-do, the little church had finally had a major overhauling. As he arrived to lead the rededication service, the Rev. Samuel W. Robinson, superintendent of the 110 churches in the Methodists' Vmcennes District, could hardly believe his eyes. Sunlight gleamed on freshly waxed pews and on baskets of asters, zinnias and chrysanthemums. There were new cream-colored walls, a sturdy upright piano, and new runners on the aisles. Crisp new hymnals filled the racks...
When the morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
...church still owed $200 on its $2,700 worth of overhauling, but a $50 donation started off a collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young people were again taking an interest in church. Brother Gourley ran his eyes proudly over the chapel as the late afternoon sun flooded through its new windows. Said he: "We have great hopes...
Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. '20 was elected president of the Clubs for the year 1949-50 to succeed William M. Akin '19; Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 was reelected secretary, and H. S. Payson Rowe '23 was chosen treasurer to succeed Robinson...