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ST. ISABEL'S TO BEDEDICATED SATURDAY

Father Miguel M. Goni announced that the new St. Isabel's CatholicMission will be dedicated th i s Saturday afternoon at four. HisExcellency Most Reverend Coleman F. Carroll, Bishop of Miami,will officiate at the dedication and the first Mass to be said in thenew building following the dedication ceremonies. The Most Rev.Msgr. Joseph H. OeVaney will also participate. The Clergy of thearea has also been invited to attend.

The Catholic Mission has been established on the Islands forabout four years. At first, services were held in a house owned byPriscllla Murphy on Tulipaway, and when it became too small, Mrs.Olivia C. Hoile of Columbia, South Carolina, donated the use of abuilding near the Shell Basket.

Sanibel Island is thought to have been named for Queen Isabel ofSpain. She, in turn, was named after St. Isabel, Queen of Portugalin the 14th Century, St. Isabel, whose Feast Day is on July 8, didmany works of charity during her lifetime, but was especially notedfor her peace-making attempts between various Heads of State Sheis therefore known as a special Advocate for Peace.

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DOES YOUR TEACHEREVER FUSS AT YOU?

'"Oh yes, but she lets you know she loves you even when she DOEShave to fuss at you."

Her love of children and unselfish devotion to teaching them hasbeen Nancy McCann's contribution, toward making ours a little betterworld. So it wasn't surprising t'at the residents of our Islands gathered,at the Sanibel Elementary School Monday a week ago to honor this littlelady, muey loved by us all, who ie retiring.

No one else would HAVE the job but intrepid Nancy, just elevenyears ago, came to Sanibel and Its one room frame schoolhouse thateven lacked adequate sanitary facilities and faced the problem ofteaching the entire six grades of the Elementary School. Her formerstudents attest to the good job sho did.

An ardent baseball fan, she has taught all the children to understandand play our national game with enthusiasm.

At first she had a house on Tulipa Way bur soon built her ovi;little bungalow and became a really permanent resident.

Her energies have not all Been confined to her school hut she pro-found time to take an active part in Church and Civic affairs.

Summers she has spent traveling in Hawaii, Europe and aroun.1the United States and she shares her mrereKtini* experk-ncus wii',her children ant! her many friends,

A steady stream of Islanders parents, studrntK, former .sand friends flowed through the Sanibel Elementary School the eof June 7 tn honor Miss McCann. She received a pin engraved "Sanil-1954- i%5" from the P.T.A., presented by Lee Count> Superintend! • •<of Schools Ray Williams who attended with Mrs. Williams, Assist.^Superintendent Ray Pottorf and Mrs. Pottorf also attended. MiMcCann also received gifts-of silver from her many friends.

Following a series of dinner parties in her honor Miss McC'a-i.left on the 14th for a short visit with friends in Clearwater ami wihgo on from there to Farmingtoh, Illinois, to welcome a new gr:m<!.nephew who arrived last December, She will return to Sanibel \M-.><in the summer.

Welcome, Nancy, to the ranks of the retirees!

WATER ONWe're very pleased to be able to announce that the public rest.

room and shower facilities at Turner Park are now fully equipped,have running water and are open to the public. This is a great noon,and all of us thank Commissioner P.A, Geraci and the others whoworked to get this accomplished.

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American Legion Post 123and the ladies of the Auxiliarymet jointly at the AmericanLegion Home the evening ofthe 8th of June. Tentative planswere made for installation ofofficers which will be precededby a buffet dinner-date to beannounced later. (Tentativedate.Tune 18)

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WHO'S WUO ON QAMBBh

Miss HILDA B, RITTER ofNorth Tarrytown, New York,who has purchased a bayfrontlot on SanibeT through the San-ibel-Captiva Real Estateoffice,was on the Islands one daylast week to arrange for theconstruction of her new home.

Sanibel has aecome popularwith the Girl Scouts. RecentlyTroop 40 from Vero Beachwas at Snook Apartmeuts.

This past week-end Zic Zacwas headquarters for Troop 42of Jacksonville. In spite of theheavy rains, the girls managedto do a little shelling, swim-ming, hiking and sightseeing.Since the shelling was not allthat could be hoped, CAROLNIX presented each of the visit-ing girls with a collection ofshells to take home.

A highlight of their tripwas a tour of the MARTINS'home, Gray Gables, the oldesthabitable house on Sanibel. PATand GINGER LINDSEY a r emembers of Troop 42 anddaughters of LOUIS and KITTYLINDSEY, longtime friends ofTOM and MARY NIX,

The Manse of the SanibelCommunity Church was the set-ting for the marriage on June7, 1965 of BURTON R. HART-M AN and Miss GERRY BURTONat 10 a.m. performed by Rev.THADDEUS ELMORE ALLEN.The Hartmans a r e Captivaresidents.

MARSHALL and HAZELTABACCHI are back at theirVilla Capri following a recenttrip to enjoy a good rest anda spate of Italian gourmet food.

HAL and JOYCE IRWIN areback at their Fenton, Michigan,home but are already home-sick for their beloved Sanibeland will be counting weeks 'tilthey return.

LEE WOOSTER (Mrs. WardW.), to whom Sanibel was homefor many years, is in Leices-ter, N.Y., at present, and isout of the hospital and doingfine following a recent seriousfall. She plans to return to herLakeland, Florida, home in thenot too distant future.

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PRISCILLA MURPHY hasa trip planned (arouptf the 20th)to the Yucatan Peninsula insearch of additional specimensto add to her collection ofshells but while she is awayANNE JORDAN and ROY BA-ZIRE will be in the office forbusiness as usual and will haveMrs. MATT CLAPP with themas girl friday,

BOB, KATHERINE and VIR-GINIA KLOTZ recently madea trip to Tarpon Springs andadjacent areas and came backto the Islands with many in-teresting additions. Have youseen their sponges? Intriguingas waste baskets—or to sita pot plant in for an unusualcontainer.

The home of PHIL and RUTHHUNTER was the scene of greatactivity one night recently whenMARSHALL TABACCHI,NORMCHAMBERS, BOBDORMERandAL MUENCH gathered thereto assemble the kneeling bench-es for the new Catholic Church.

ELSIE MALONF/s return toSanibel the 15th was the be-ginning of unpacking the loadsof specimen shells which sheand h u s b a n d DAN'L hadgathered from Atlantic City,N.J., to the Florida Keys. Com-bining pleasure with business,the whole clan gathered and theyenjoyed every minute visitingwith all their family and whilein and around Baltimore, theirformer home, had the fun ofseeing some old friends too.

While Daddy was loafing,sister was nursing sunburn andMama was building housesacross from the Sea HorseShop, "SCOTTY" CLARK, tenyears old, was on the Govern-ment Dock at the lighthousefishing and really hit the jack-pot with a ten and a half poundsnook, a five pound redfish,trout, moonfish, sheep-head andten catfish. Needless to say,sister COLEEN was agog andMama and Daddy, Major andMrs. HAROLD CLARK, wereadmiringly proud.

Mrs. MARGARET CRESPOof Joliet, 111., and daughterMiss MARJQRIE CRESPO whoshares an apartment in Orlandowith the NEWMANS' daughterPEGGY, were on Sanibel r e -cently and went fishing withBILL and KAY NEWMANaboard JAKE STOKES' boat.Kay caught her first snook andMrs. Crespo her first :—a 14pounder, 34 inches long. Mrs.Crespo also hooked four tarpon,one a huge fellow, but her linewasn't strong enough to holdhim—a pity because she washoping to bring one in whichwould out-do the family recordnow held by her husband whocaught a forty inchmuskie whilefishing in Canada last year.

DANIEL BAZIRE returnedto Sanibel this week. He'll bespending the summer in theGrass! cottage on ButtonwoodStreet in Sanibel Estates.

Rear Admiral and Mrs.CARLOS CARDEZA have re -turned to their home, The Moor-ing, on Sanibel and will remainfor the summer. With themare their houseguests, Mr, andMrs. THOMAS R. JAY of Hous-ton.

This is a first Island visitfor the Jays and they are look-ing forward to collecting spec-imens of marine life for St.John's School, a private schoolin Houston where Mr. Jay isProfessor of Mathematics.

Mrs, Jay was graduated withhonors from the University ofHouston last week. For someyears she has been personalsecretary to Mrs, Cardeza whois known professionally as Dr.MARY ELIZABETH SCHLAY-ER.

PRISCILLA MURPIIY's of-fice has been very active r e -cently, reporting six sales,Mrs. A. CLAYMOI.LMAN, for-merly CATHRYN KIKWITT,sold h e r furnished duplex,"Tangelo / \ in The Colony toMr. and Mrs. JOSKPII MURPHYof Summit, Now Jersey, whofor many yearn have vacationedat The Colony. Tins was thethird Colony home sold by Pr i s -cilia in the last year. Mr. andMrs. CHESTER L. KENNEDYof Lockport, Illinois, purchaseda bayfront lot in Sanibei F s -states from LEONARD KEL-LER of Coral Gables; Mr. andMrs. DRAPER DANIELS ofLake Bluff, Illinois, home own-ers on Sanibel, purchased twolots in Castaways Estates onClam Bayou from DEAN MIT-CHELL; Mr. GERALD G,SCHAFFITZEL of Waukesha,Wisconsin, purchased a lot: inthe Rocks Subdivision fromVIRGIL D. BRYANT; Mr. andMrs. JAMES W. CAKE of Lev-ittown, Perm., purchased a par-cel on Gulf Drive in the oldLACEY tract from PriscillaMurphy, Finally, Priscilla soldanother lot in La Costa IslesSubdivision on La Costa Island,this one to Mr. and Mrs. BYRONL. RICHARDS of Chicago, III.viay we welcome all the above\ew property owners to ourislands.

GERRY and FLORENCEMARTIN have returned to theirSanibel home 'Gray Gables' af-ter a short visit to Alabama.Grand-daughter ELLEN camewith them which will be goodnews to the younger youngladies on the Islands who al-ways look forward to Ellen'sjoining them in the fun rhingsto do in the summer.

MORE GRADUATION NOTES

Added to our list of Islandgraduates are Pearl West andMozella Jordan, both of whomtook night school courses atDunbar High School in FortMyers and were awarded theirhigh school diplomas last week.

ISLANDER 6-17-65

WARTIME ON SANIBFby ethel sn>

Life on Sanibel Island dur-ing the war years was verydifferent from the free un-restricted ways of living inpeace years. There were notso many of us and there wasa group of soldiers quarteredin the large beach houses westof Casa Ybel, At night therewas a patrol of two men whowalked the beach from the lighthouse to the bridge every twohours. Charlotta Matthews atIsland Inn set aside a sectionin one of the large refriger-ators in the. Inn kitchen forthe men on the patrol and itw a s filled with sandwiches,cookies, milk and cold drinks,and all sorts of goodies forhungry soldiers. The Inn wasnever locked and they gratefullycame in at all hours and helpedthemselves. We all contributedhut the Inn supplied the most.

We residents had to go toa r m y headquarters in F o r tMyers and be photographed,finger printed, and identified.Fj)ouglas Clapp and I went to -gether for the ordeal. We bothlooked like we belonged to theRouge's Gallery by the time"/ c got photogr aph ed. Everybeach cottage had to cover everywindow facing the Gulf withblack so that not a glimmer oflight showed up. There werekerosene lamps in those daysso it was not so difficult toshut out the light.

We had some kind of a partyfor the boys one afternoon eachweek at the Community House.The younger girls danced, the

music was from the Victrola.We played cards, and all sortsof games. There were someserious conversations. Life onSanibel was quite a change forthose young men that were usedto being at home or in a city.Of c o u r s e the refreshmentsw e r e always enthusiasticallyreceived and they were variedand ample.

Charlotta Matthews was thehead of our war effort on theIsland and she reported everyIncident to the lighthouse orBailey's S to re . Both of theseplaces had direct contacts onthe mainland. There were manyinteresting incidents but themost exciting of all happenedto me.

One evening when it was justgetting dark I had driven home,had put the car in the garage andtook the cocker, Dolly Varden,down to the beach to see thelast rosy glow from the sunset. It was almost dark and Iwas looking west at the lastfaint l igh t . Suddenly andwithout any sound, I saw an oilbarge blow up. Tugs were con-stantly towing strings of oilbarges in the waters off San-ibel. Several times we had seenperiscopes of German sub-marines come to the surfaceoff shore. Close in too. Butnothing had ever happened. Butthis time it had happened in abig way! Almost stunned I couldhardly think! But at once Irealized that I should report toCharlotte and she would get in

touch with the Army post. SoI got my car out and drovequickly to the Inn and toldCharlotta that I had s^en a

German submarine blow up anoil tanker on the horizon beyond.It was dark by that time andthere was nothing apparent nowin that direction. Since my carwas there, at the Rocks, andthe m o t o r going, Charlottaasked me to go and report.Douglas Clapp went with me andI never got to the lighthouseas quickly as that trip. I shoutedto the soldier who came rushingdown the lighthouse stairs. Hehad a telescope and went backup and we drove home.

We found out when we gotback that right after we hadgone the whole barge burst intofire and floated past the Inn.It was still a terrific fire whenit reached the lighthouse. Wenever heard anything about it,but of course to blow up anddestroy the oil barges was atall times an objective of theGermans.

So living on an Island out-post during the war was ex-citing and there was never adull monent!

SHELL CLUB

The Board of Directors nfthe Sanibel-Captiva Shell Clubmet at the home of Mrs. HarveyMeyer, president, Thursdayevening, May 27, After a tourof the Me/ers' new shell house,where one corner has beenset aside as a library for ShellClub books, the members lookedover the history book whichhas been kept up to date byBernice McCaul, historian. Theboard voted to make CharlottaMathews an honorary memberin recognition of her workthrough the years in furtheringinterest in shells and shelling,Mrs. Elizabeth Adler, programchairman, is hard at work get-ting together a complete sched~ule for the season which willopen in November.

If your would like to jointhe Shell Club as a new memberjust contact Edie Mugridge andshe will supply the necessaryform. Your membership will beappreciated. Other membersattending were Dorothy Jere-miassen, secretary; MaryPurdy , hostess chairman forSanibel and Mary Nix, publicitychairman.

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RIP VAN WINKLEby carol nix

Recently the members of thefifth and sixth grade class inthe Sanibel Elementary Schoolgave a play to the first, second,third and fourth grades.

It was a version of RipVan Winkle after his slumber,written by Becky Miller. JanetWooster starred as Rip VanWinkle and Carol Nix was hiswife Sip Van Winkle, JeanneWooster was Bessy VanWinkle, Kitty Gesser was SusanVan Winkle and Roger Carlinstarred as Junior Van Winkle.Bonnie Brown was the Queenand Donna Wiles the King,Jeanne Wooster was also WitchHazel the J4th, Joan Millerwas the witch's stolen daughter.Minx. Becky Miller played therole of Granny, the witch'smother and was also narrator.The Winkle family was quite asight to behold with patches,rips, holes, and soot coveringtheir clothes. Rip Van Winkleand Junior were supposed tobe very stupid.

The play turned out to bequite a comedy and everybodyenjoyed it thoroughly.

ON BUILDINGBIGGER BIRD BATHS

Noted the new and largerbird bath in front of PriscillaMurphy's office and learnedthat it was not a terrific in-flux of additional featheredfriends but the size of theregular visitors who may beobserved about five o'clockevery evening cavorting there,A mother hawk and her youngone come regularly to bathe.We are sure it is a motherhawk because the young onesits and watches her and everso often screams "Ma." Themother hawk was so violentwith her ablutions that sheknocked over the original bathand broke it so the new oneIs set four inches in the groundand Is cemented together towithstand her onslaughts. Birdlovers might like to stop byand invade her privacy—doesn't seem to perturb herin the least.

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FISHING FOR SHADOWS-PART IIby henry nielson

Deceptivily motionless heagain sailed right over the baitafter smelling it cautiously,only to make a great circleand come back to investigatethe tidbit. This time he pickedit up, ,:,another eternity beforehe attempted to swallow it,Gerald stood transfixed look-ing down at the moving shadow,his feet planted far apart, readyfor the impact that was sure tcfollow. The line tightened slowlyas the big fish started to moveaway from the ship, I suddenlynoticed Gerald was trying toget a turn of the line aroundhis arm, I knew what that wouldmean. I made a mad dash overto Mm hollering excitedly forhim to let go of the line, burwe were both too late, for bynow the fish must have feltthe sting of the shatp hook,

and with his over sized tail slap-ped the water in an enormous-.plash that completely coveredus both with a shower of spray.The line parted as if it werea 10 pound thread, Geraldtumbled backward taking mealong in his fall, that landedus in the dishpan full of dirtydishes that he had neglected;o wash after supper. The noisewas devastating as the dishesflew in an directions and be-

fore the echo had died away,Bill came running upon deck,clad only in his shorts. "Whatin tarnation are you two damfools up to?" He angrily asked."I thought we had struck amine or something."

After picking ourselves upfrom the deck amongst thebroken dishes, we explainedabout the monster that hadcaused the accident. "Well justdon't stand there and look stu-pid, get a heavier line and achain,, we will tie it to the winchand I will show you how to getthe son-of-a-gun."

In a flash Gerald was backwith another line and a freshbait. The line at ready, weall watched intensely as the"Thing" moved in again."Heave hot let er go" hol-lered Bill at the top of hisvoices as he swung the stoutmanila rope with the chain overhis head, sending it over theshadow.

Excitement mounted againas we watched the dark shadowcome gliding in to the bait.As before, it hesitated whileinspecting the bait, then madeanother turn around the"Ranger," Once again he movedtoward the lure,, .for a splitsecond he stood over the four-five pound of Grouper.. .thenhe grabbed it.;.The issuingshower that followed his de-parture left the three of uss t a n d i n g open-mouthed andsoaking wet. With a two footof one inch manila danglingi'rom the rigging, the mast ofthe "Ranger" shook like somegiant hand had bent it to thewater and then let go again.

Gerald and I wanted t.o tryit again with still heavier rope,but Rill said "No UKO, it won'tbe back," ile was right, al-though we looked for him forquite sometime, he never didreappear.

"Bill, what kind of a monsterdo you think it was?" I asked,"Oh that! That was a smallHammerhead^ We used themfor bait when we fished forBIG fish in Haiti," he saidas he went back to his in-terrupted sleep.

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This is a far cry from aweek ago—the chorus nowsings, Rain, Rain go away—we have had it! (Ed. note-Yes,but it 's good for us!)

Miss ANN BAILEY and twogirls from Arizona drove fromTucson to Clearwater, Florida,in three days. Ann came on tovisit her grandmother on Cap-tiva for a week. Mrs, BAILEYand h e r granddaughter w i l lleave for Illinois and Michiganon Wednesday. Ann spent herspring vacation on the Islanda year ago, and enjoyed her-self so much that she drove2100 miles for a few moreswims in the Gulf.

Mr. EMMETT BUTTER-FIELD and his granddaughter,JUDY, are back on Captiva fora week or so. Judy's motherwill arrive tomorrow and theywill motor back north together.

LARRY GAVIN is so elatedover the AmericanLegionMer-it Award presented him at theclose of the school year thatthe broken wrist he sufferedlater isn't nearly as hard tobear.

Mr. and Mrs. T.M. BOLGERof Miami Beach have chosen avery bad weather week to visitour beautiful Island for thefirst time. However, they aresticking if out for a completeweek at Mid-Island Cottagesand loving every minute of it.

Other guests this week areMr. and Mrs. ALLEN SAUSKERwith their two daughters, ALIN

ANN and SUSAN. Aim Ann hasjust completed her first yearat the University of North Da-kota in Grand Forks and Susanwill be a senior in Westhope,North Dakota, high school whereher father has a hardware store.

Accompanying t hem a r eMrs. S0FL1S SAUSKER, motherof ALLEN and MARGUERITEFLORES, and Mrs, CLIFFORDJOHNSON, mother of Allen'swife ADELINE.

Mr. & Mrs. PARKF.RMILLSare adding to their home. Twobedrooms with a bath inbe-tween are in the making.

Mr. & Mrs, ALVIN BLANK,Jr., with their f ive lovelydaughters, have come to liveon Captiva for a few weeks.We are so happy to have youall here to bulge the populationon our charming little street,Palm Avenue.

Mrs. MARGIE SPANG ar-rived back on Captiva last night:.She was brought in by BUDDYBOBST in the Sea Plane. Margiestarted working at the NutmegHouse last Saturday.

MIKE D. STHFJANO and hisfishing partner are back atthe Shannon Cottages for an-other round of fishing. Weatheris not too promising, but goodluck.

COVERED DISH SUPPER

A pleasant time was enjoyedby ail who attended the covereddish supper Tuesday night.atthe Sanibel Community House.Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Snook andMrs, Delmar Reynolds werehosts.

Ar the business meetingwhich followed, Mrs, Tom Nix,president, announced that rheBoard of Directors had electedMrs, Russell Rupert to fill thesecretarial vacancy and Mr,E.B. Bryant co fill the vacancyoi5 the Board.

The following committeechairmen have accepted ap-pointmenr by the Board. Mrs.Ken Walters is in chai'ge ofmembership as well as theactivity book. Mr. John Ridgewill serve as chairman for the

live exhibit at the 1066 ShellFair and Mrs, John Ridge wilthead the Driftwood Shop,

Mrs. Nix announced thai adonation of $50.00 had bt-cnvoted toward the base for 'lieRobert E. Lee Memorial.

A letter from Ted Randcii,member of the House of Repreaentatives, pertaining to thenaming of the new bridge span-ning the Caloosahatchee wasread.

Mr. and Mrs, Sidney Keevilwere welcomed. Although theyjoined the association last year,this was the first time they'dhad an opportunity to attend.

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