Step Back in Time features community news items from The Daily Star 25 and 50 years ago.
50 years ago
Sept. 14, 1959
SCHENEVUS _ Dedication ceremonies for the relaying of the cornerstone of the Masonic Temple at Schenevus will take place at the Schenevus Valley Lodge 592, at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Featured speaker will be Judge Carl W. Peterson of Ilion, state deputy grand master. In 1952, Judge Peterson was elected Justice of the Supreme Court of the Fifth Judicial District.
He has held many Masonic offices and was district deputy grand master of Fulton-Herkimer-Montgomery Masonic District in 1939-40.
Judge Peterson has also been a member of many Grand Lodge committees, and is a member of almost every Masonic organization. He was made an honorary 33 degree Mason by the Supreme Council in Boston in 1951.
The traditional ceremony of corn, oil and wine will be used in relaying of the cornerstone. Harold Chamberlain, Maryland, master of the lodge, will be host, assisted by William G. Weber, senior warden and Charles B. Staley, Schenevus, junior warden.
Matthias E. Smith, Worcester district deputy grand master of Otsego-Schoharie District, will participate. Among the Masonic notables present will be all Grand Lodge officers of Otsego-Schoharie District.
25 years ago
Sept. 14, 1984
Following the first Farmedic course taught in Otsego County by John Colegrove of Edmeston, Otsego County is now one of 40 in New York State whose emergency squad members have been trained in farm rescue. A total of 20 men and women completed the course.
The Farmedic course was developed in 1982. One of the originators of the program is Kevin McGinnis, now manager of the emergency program at Bassett Hospital.
Completing the course were: Larry Lamb, Bernie Zeh, John Griffith, Michael Basile, Terry Covert, Deborah Clegg and Jack Burch of the Hartwick Emergency Squad; Duane Trask, Elsie Terpenning, David Vadney, Theresa Oellrich, Phil Baumes and Rich Snider of the Laurens squad; Tom DiMarten of Oneonta; Barbara J. Ives of Worcester; Michael O'Mara and Joseph Hulburt of Otego; Irene Bourgeois and David Kelly of West Oneonta; and Tina Colegrove of Edmeston.
