JANUARY 1, 2016

Dear CCS Alumni and Friends, Happy New Year.  May the Lord bless you with a safe, happy, healthy and success year in 2016
I hope one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to participate this year in sharing in the newsletter.  Also hope that attending the All Classes Reunion in July has been put on your Bucket List!!!

Congratulations to the CCS Girls Basketball team for their 47-33 victory Wednesday night in the title game of their own Cambridge Holiday Tournament.
 http://m.poststar.com/sports/basketball/high-school-and-prep/girls/article_8088c2a2-fb47-5ab9-8af2-c890f76c3efa.html?mobile_touch=true

Thure Johnson 1964 Lakeside, California
 Merry Christmas to all the CCSer’s may you have a wonderful Season and wish all the best. Still working but glad to on the upside,

Mary Ann McMorris Bassett 1962 Concord N.C.
 Merry Christmas to All Cambridge Alumni, and families
 (Mary Ann contributed a winter picture of a painting of her family farm.  It can be seen in the Seasons: Winter section of our website)

Marie Royal McLenithan (Class of'57)Newtown,Ct.
Happy Healthy New Year to all!


 FROM THE “LET’S ASK KEN” FILES
Hi Ken:  What can you tell me about the old Chaplet Works?  Our step-granddaughter is living in an apartment there and I was telling her what I remembered about it, but couldn't remember what they actually did. Thanks, Betty


 Hi Betty-There are two meanings for *chaplet*: (1) something similar to rosary beads; and (2) a thin tube used in hinges. This building was used to assemble the chaplets. Old fashioned hinges were made of a hollow tube into which was placed a cylindrical core ... or something like that. I think the actual foundry work was done at the building on the east side of Route 313 just south of the junction of 313 and East Main Street (behind McLenithan's farm). This was the old Lovejoy factory where they made the Cambridge Plow in the late 1800s.
Picture can be found here: http://www.ccsindians.com/Cambridge%20Interesting%20Stuff/hingetubeandshirt.htm
Mary Ella Arnold (Casey Whitten) Class of 1949,  told me how her father, Harry Arnold, used to bring home chaplets and cylinders and they would be paid piecemeal to assemble them while sitting around the kitchen table.

I don't remember the sequence of names but the Chaplet Works was also called Cambridge Hinge and Tube ... which better explains what they did in that building
Ken

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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