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Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, June 1, 2012
Volume 4, No. 37
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When he isn’t teaching Near East history and theology at Hartwick College, Bryan Babcock and wife Betsy, this month’s “Farmers of the Future,” are applying experience in international business to organic farming/SEE B1
SUNY Alumni Back In City For Reunion
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The Wounded Warriors, right, and Otsego police and firefighters’ team, left, stand at attention for the national anthem at the start of the Sunday, May 27, game in Cooperstown’s Doubleday Field. In the foreground are, from left, vets Alan Christman, Gulf War; George Tucker Jr., Korea; Bill Bose, WWII, and Bill Haase, Vietnam. Col. Paul Russo, a Bassett physician, sings the anthem.
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EMORABLE TIMES Jim Kevlin/HOMETOWN ONEONTA
undreds of SUNY Oneonta alumni, with family and friends, will be back FridaySunday, June 1-3, for Reunion Weekend 2012, with highlights including a “Taste of Oneonta” promotion in local restaurants Saturday evening. A college president, forensic biologist and philanthropist will be among recipients of annual Alumni Awards to be presented at an on-campus reception at 10:30 a.m. Saturday/SEE A2 SWAIN RITES: Bill Swain, SUNY Oneonta professor emeritus in education, passed away on Memorial Day. Arrangements were incomplete at presstime. Details, www.allotsego.com ANI HONORED: Sixth Ward Athletic Club members Friday, May 25, delivered the $632.50 balance of food to the St. James Food Pantry, completing the 2012 Ani Colone Food Drive. The drive produced $5,600, including $2,328 in cash from Ani’s family and friends, a $2,000 match from the club, and $1,250 in donated food. POLLS TO OPEN: A Republican primary for U.S. Senate and Democratic one for 19th Congressional District is noon-9 p.m. Tuesday, June 26.
From the steps to Cooperstown’s Council Rock Park, the winningest participant in the 50-year history of the General Clinton Regatta, Serge Corbin, right, and his paddling partner, Steve Corlew, watch one of the Memorial Day races cut through Otsego Lake toward the mouth of the Susquehanna. In the background are the Sleeping Lion, a view made internationally famous by James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, and Kingfisher Tower/SEE A-8
Nurse Who Died As WWI Ended Remembered Here By LIBBY CUDMORE “Quiet, but very excited.” “Lots of fun when she got talking.” “Clever, well-read.” “A little plump, satisfactory person.”
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his is how friends and fellow Red Cross workers described Ethel
Scratchard at her February 1919 funeral in Paris, as reported by brother George in a letter to family in Scratchard Oneonta. Ethel was the only Oneonta woman to die in World War I, and this Memorial Day, May Please See NURSE, A6
Grad Liz Kelly hugs her mom, Hartwick College President Margaret Drugovich, who presented degrees Saturday, May 26, at the college’s 81st graduation/SEE A-3
Fund Drive To Return Swart House Corncrib By LIBBY CUDMORE
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he first challenge for pioneering Swart family’s 200-yearold corncrib was getting it out of the Schoharie County mud after last September’s flooding from Hurricane Irene.
TO DONATE: Mail checks to Friends of Swart-Wilcox House, 31 Elm St., Oneonta, 13820. Write “corncrib” in memo line. “When we tried to move it, it was stuck so firmly in the mud that it started to pull apart,” said
Helen Rees, historian at the Swart-Wilcox House, Oneonta’s oldest surviving home. “We had to dismantle it in order to move it.” Betty Kosco, who lives on the original Swart homestead in Middleburgh, donate the strucPlease See CRIB, A6
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