MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN
Phoenix Sets County Pattern in Community Center
Sunday. Mar IS. 1951
Four Years' Work
Completes Building
Festival Is Help
1952 Celebration
Scheduled May 24
About five years ago there
were a lot of Rogue valley cit
izens who thought the small
community of Phoenix must be
nuts to believe it could raise
enough money to build a large
community center for its youth
and grown-ups to enjoy.
This was in 1948. Prior to this
the idea had been mulled over
by the Phoenix Thursday club
but there had been no action.
In February, according to an ed
ition of The Mail Tribune,
"members of the Phoenix city
council and heads of various
organizations met and laid first
plans for promotion of a com
munity building."
Idea Catches On
The idea caught on.' But how
was the money going to be rais
ed? The women answered this
question with action. A benefit
card party by the .originating
Thursday club started the ball
rolling and by April 7, by-laws
had been drawn up for the
Phoenix Community and Youth
club. On March 30, it was decid
ed that the proposed building
would be a memorial to the
youth of Phoenix who gave their
lives in World War II. A temp
orary directing board to serve
for three months was elected
with A. C. Lewis as president;
Mrs. George Bourne, vice-president;
Mrs. Bert Stancliffe, seo
retary; and Mrs. Walter Germ
er, treasurer.
On June 9, at a mass meeting
of interested citizens, the group
adopted non-profit corporation
status for the club, with any
resident of Phoenix's two pre
cincts eligible to belong after
paying a membership fee. Lew,
is, Mrs. Bourne and Mrs. Germ
er were reelected for one year
terms and Mrs. Myra Elson was
elected secretary. At this time,
the group had raised $1,200 to
ward the building fund. But it
needed a lot more.
Plan Festival
Things hung on until the next
year when plans were conceived
in March, 1949, for a May festi
val to swell the building fund.
Before this event, however, oth
er methods used for fund-raising
were a boxing show, a bene
fit play by the Phoenix Little
Theater which was performed
at Butte Falls and the Upper
Applegate as well as at Phoe
nix, and the Medford Trail Rid
ers presented a horse show, don
ating all the proceeds to the
building fund. When the first
Phoenix May festival was held
on May 14, 1949, the results
were beyond all expectations.
Then came 1950, when there
was finally enough money. And
the answer to those who said it
couldn't be done was written
on every grey brick of a new
community center building,
which was rushed to completion
by May 14 in time for Dr. Elmo
Stevenson, president of Southern
Oregon college, to officiate at
the dedication ceremonies.
$18,000 for $7,000
The estimated value of the
completed building was $18,000
but it only cost the club about
$7,000 because it was built the
Phoenix way: with volunteer la
bor similar to an old fashioned
house raising, and with donated
lumber and plaster.
Other materials - and labor
were supplied at never more
than cost, and sometimes less
than cost. When the last bit of
dust had cleared from those at
tending to the 1950 festival, and
the weary volunteers were done
with their work, the building
was cup and a $2,500 net profit
was realized from the festival.
But a building wasn't enough
Equipment and other additions
were needed, and there are con
stant maintenance costs. So, the
receipts from the 1951 festival
were earmarked for a much
needed kitchen, which has Just
been completed.
Plan New Room
What about 1952? Added use
of the building now calls for a
combination dining and club
room for use by all age groups
So next Saturday, May 24, the
fourth May festival will be stag
ed with the receipts earmarked
for the new room, building
maintenance and repairs, an en
larged youth group and land
scaped grounds.
As for 1953, who knows? In
terested Phoenix children and
their parents have a lot of pro
gressive ideas for their town and
Community center and will no
doubt continue expansion.
All Use Building
But what of the building? Who
uses it?
Well, just about everybody
For instance, the following clubs
either meet there regularly or
occasionally: Boy and Girl
Scouts, the Neighbors of Wood
craft and the Thimble club, the
First Presbyterian church and
its Ladies Aid society; the Parent-Teachers
association, the
Grange, the Phoenix Lions and
Lady Lions, Volunteer Firemen,
Garden club, Home Economics
Extension units, Thursday club
and the Medford Trail Riders.
Besides these, the primary use
of the building, as a youth cen
ter, is carried out by two age
groups of the Phoenix Youth
club: the pre-teen age group,
(sixth to eighth grades) and those
of high school age only. The
Youth club was first organized
In September, 1950, under the
leadership of Mr. and Mrs. M
E. Norton. For a time the club
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CO-EDUCATIONAL RECREATION Mem
bers of the Phoenix Youth club's high school
group are shown "kibitzing" a ping pong duel
between three players Pictured (left to right)
are Delbert Moore, Phoebe Brockway, Betty
Cummons, Dave Haggard, Phyllis Miller, Dick
Miller and Betty Hopper. Miss Hopper is the
Youth club's candidate for May festival queen.
Besides ping pong, the members also play shut
fleboard at two tables, and dance to records.
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SHUFFI.EBOAHD Shown above enjoying
a game of shuffleboard are members of the
high school group of the Phoenix Youth club.
The members pay a 10-cent admission charge
each time they attend their Wednesday meet
ings and raise funds from dances and other
projects. The building houses two shuffleboards
which were purchased entirely from Youth
club funds. The pre-teen age group (sixth to
8th grades) has purchased pucks (or the boards.
ticlpates In square, modern and
folk dancing. The average at
tendance of this group Is 55, ac
cording to the chairman of the
lhree-mcmher committee 1 n
charge, J. M. Cook. Other com
mittee members are Mrs. Opie
Frailer and Mrs. Larry Law
rence.
In this group the youths
themselves, choose their own
chaperones (always three) and
sign them up personally. Be
sides the chaperones, parents
and visitors are always welcome
at the pre-teen agers meetings
on Friday, from 7 to 9:30 p. m.,
as they are at the older group's
meetings.
During youth nights and
whenever else the building Is in
use, there Is supervision by the
officers and directors of the
Community club and Youth Cen
ter. Heading the non-profit cor
poration for the present year
are Mrs. George Bourne, presi
dent; A. H. MacKintosh, vice
president; Mrs., A. C. Lewis, sec
retary; Frank Lovett, treasurer;
Opie Frazier, Marie Simmonds
Mark Norton, Johnny Klassen
and Larry Miller (student mem
ber from the Youth club), dir
ectors. A sixth director, Earl
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FESTIVAL COORDINATORS A get-together
of past and present Phoenix May festival
coordinators is shown above. Pictured (left to
right) are Mrs. George Bourne, 1949 chairman
and originator of the community center idea
with the Thursday club; Opie Frazier, 1950
, hAn If tt-
chairman and a director for the center's non
profit corporation; Paul Ilartsook, 1951 chair
man; and Curt Fisher, 1952 chairman. The re
ceipts from the festival have gone into the build
ing and Improving of the center.
operated under paid chaperones.
But in October, 1951, a commit
tee was appointed to sponsor the
club composed of Mrs. M. C
Fisher, Mrs. Glen Miller, and
Mrs. Dick Perry. These commit
tee members with the help of
i few parents have chaperoned
'he group every meeting since
.hat time.
Meet Weekly
The high school group meets
every Wednesday from 7:30 to
10:30 p. m. with an average at
tendance of 40. At every meet
ing, each youth pays 10 cents
which goes Into the treasury
The club bought both shuffle
boards (see picture) now in use
in the building and uses its own
funds for repairs and replace
ment of equipment and to buy
phonograph records. The group
is currently sponsoring its own
queen candidate for the coming
festival and recently raised $60
for the candidate at a May 3
benefit dance. Larry Miller Is
president of the high school
group and Miss Helen Harris if
Briscoe, died earlier this month.
See How It's Dona
If you live somewhere In the
Rogue River valley and want to
get a community building for
your area's citizenry, but don't
quite know how to go about It,
why not venture down Phoenix
way this Saturday and see how
it s done? ,
Festival directors promise a
lot of "fun for everyone" with
a variety of events lasting well
into the evening. When Its all
over they will have a new ad
dition for their community cen
ter. You could have the same in
your community. Just ask Phoe
nix. They know the way.
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years and they have had 70 year
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Sept. 15, 1881, he is now 95 and
she is 91. The family has grown
somewhat during that time and
the Sellers have seven of their
children living, plus 34 grand
children and 62 great-grandchildren.
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secretary.
Last February, a pre-teen age
group was formed for those
youths in the sixth to eighth
grades. Each member of this rel
atively new group pays a 10
cent admission charge every
meeting and pop and candy
is sold, with the profits going to
buy needed things such as rec
ords and pucks for the shuffle
boards and ping pong equip
ment. Hold Dances
For recreation, the group par-
fjotr ouw" owtoat.
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