Newspaper article:Page 1 of Wooster Daily Record,published in Wooster, Ohio on Saturday, June 25th, 1927 - April 12 2023
- Article title
- Wooster Band Heads Parade for Champion: Wooster and Wayne County Citizens Invited to Help Welcome D. Lucas Home
- Newspaper title
- The Daily Record
- Date of publication
- 1927/06/25
- Page number
- 1
- Organization
- Industry
- Recreation > Performing Arts / Spectator Sports / and Related Industries
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"A parade, headed by the Wooster Board of Trade band, and a program of congratulatory speeches will welcome Dean Lucas back to his home in Congress next Tuesday evening when he returns from Washington where he won the national spelling contest.
It is going to be a regular "Lindbergh day" in Congress, and the demonstration will be given in just the same spirit as was that at Washington recently when the conqueror of the Atlantic reached home.
And Dean Lucas, reports from Congress say, is a youth very much of the type of Lindbergh, quiet, unassuming, and not at all inclined to be egotistical over his great achievement.
The victory won by Lucas is, without doubt, the greatest honor that has ever come to the school system of Wayne County.
Supt. C. A. Gibbens, who upon request of Congress school officials will be chairman of the evening, suggested today that it would be altogether welcome if schools of schools of Wayne County would send delegations to Congress for the event to participate in the parade.
"We would be glad to have a delegation from each school, and suggest that they designate themselves by carrying banners bearing the name of their school", Supt. Gibbens said.
The people fo Wooster and Wayne County generally are invited to attend.
Young Lucas is scheduled to arrive in Akron Monday afternoon from Washington. he will be introduced at a number of Akron theaters Monday evening by representatives of the Akron Beacon journal, which sponsored the local district contest won by Lucus. Tuesday the boy will be taken to his home where a justly proud mother and father will greet him.
The parade Tuesday evening will form at the Congress Methodist Church at the south edge of the village, and march to the school house, where the celebration will be held on the school lawn The Congress High School orchestra will aid the Wooster band in providing the music.
Supt. Gibbens today was arranging the details of the program.
A representative of the Akron paper will talk and a telegram has been dispatched to Congressman John McSweeney requesting him to return from Washington for the occasion.
Robert Essick, the boy's spelling teacher, will talk, and young Lucas himself will be given the opportunity to tell just how he won the contest and how it feels to be national spelling champion.
The Congress committee in charge of arrangements for the occasion includes Z. E. Stewart, M. A. Cook, J. T. Blue, J. W. Ferguson, M. T. Ruff, John Barnard, Arthur Schultz and O. A. Yocum."