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Thursday, Juna 4, 1963 SENTINEL SST
Hovsepians Moved
Into First House
By Dickran Y. Hovsepian
My wife and I were not the first arrivals in Twinbrook,
but we did move into the first house built in the develop
ment Old hands in the area indicate that this, coupled
with our arrival date of April, 1950, places us among the
“first settlers,”
I should like to treat of one
aspect of Twinbrook life that
has impressed me most, and
which I have watched with a
great deal of interest It has
been the gradual but steady
growth from a parochial, area
oriented viewpoint to a solid
and Intense interest in the larg
er affairs of the city.
Perhaps the first major step
In this direction was the involve
ment in solving the city’s water
and sewer situation of 1953. Lo
cal wire action was well-directed
and organized. Very soon, it be
came apparent, however, that
Twinbrook’s problem was only
a segment of the larger one fac
ing the dty. We found others,
in all parts of the city, equally
concerned with solutions to the
problem.
Contacts were quickly made,
and faces and places began to
take on new meaning: Rock
crest, Silver Rock, West Rock
ville.
Twinbrook stepped into a new
era in community relations
which have had a profound and
lasting effect on our outlook.
The subsequent actions in the
nonpartisan city elections weld
ed the citizens together as noth
ing before or since has achieved.
As a matter of interest, over 90
per cent of the registered voters
in Twinbrook cast their ballots
in the 1954 elections. Rather im
pressive!
As the new era in the city’s
administration began to take
hold, the inevitable challenges to
local autonomy and existence be
gan to rear themselves. There
were challenges to our planning
and zoning, water and sewer,
taxation and other authorities.
At one stage, our very right to
existence was questioned.
The challenges emanated from
local county, regional and state
levels, from all shades of opin
ion, seeking to divide the city
and create discontent with the
existing and projected order of
business.
The Twinbrook community
accepted these challenges, not
on a local basis, but joining with
other organizations and the
city’s governing body, to take
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positive and solid actions to ar
rive at equitable solutions, and
to forestall any Incursions of
the city’s right to self determin
ation. It went further, and sup
plied highly qualified men and
women to serve on the city’s
permanent boards, commissions
and committees, to insure that
orderly progress would take
place.
Perhaps the most dramatic
evidence of Twinbrook’s matur
ity, was the manner in which it
met its first problem in integra
tion. Of natural concern was the
impact on the community. Nev
ertheless, after handling this in
a remarkably cool and collected
manner, Twinbrook went on to
assert the need to resolve the
larger issues at stake.
These were: the health and
welfare of the Negro family in
volved; the obligations of the
All America City of Rockville;
and the social conscience of our
citizens.
I don’t think there will ever
be any turning back for Twin
brook. Having once tasted the
heady brew of concerted, wide
spread citizen action, the “pop”
of local effort alone would be
tasteless and insipid.
Urban Renewal
Scale Model
To Be Unveiled
ROCKVILLE A three
dimensional scale model of the
midcity urban renewal area will
be unveiled here in about 30
days.
The Mayor and Council Mon
day night awarded a contract
for building the model to Lester
Associates, Thomwood, N.Y.
The amount involved in the
contract is $2,550.
In other business, the Council
reappointed the auditing firm of
Murray and Jonson, Arlington,
Va., to examine the accounts
and records of the dty for fiscal
1962-63. The firm has been
retained by Rockville for the
past three years.
Municipal League to Hear
From Rockville Officials
Two of Rockville’s top offi
cials will be among program
partidpants at the 15th annual
conference of the Maryland
Munldpal League opening Mon
day at the Commander Hotel in
Ocean City.
Effective annexation proceed
ings utilized by state munidpal
ities will be discussed by City
Manager Walter A. Schdber,
who has been closely assodated
with crucial land acquisition
moves that have resulted in
Rockville’s growth in the post
war period.
Russell L. Montney, director
of planning and Urban Renewal,
for the dty, will be a member of
a panel selected by League offi
cials to discuss Urban Renewal
as it affeds Maryland communi
ties.
Also representing the city at
the conference, which will con
tinue through next Tuesday,
will be City Attorney William
A. Linthicum, who is also legal
advisor to the Munldpal
League; Mayor Frank A. Ecker
and Mrs. Jean Horneck, city
clerk. Other members of the
The Twinbrook I Know
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ica City awards, the determina
tion that sparked the building
of swimming pools and church
es, the courage to oppose re
peatedly undesired zoning re
quests, the enthusiasm for in
creasing recreational and cul
tural programs are by no means
diminished. On the contrary,
these virtues continue to find
expression daily although in
different ways as appropriate to
changing needs. And some of
these needs are outside of Twin
brook.
What I am saying Is that,
since Twinbrook Is no longer
growing outward physically,
more and more It is extending
Its energies beyond its boundar
ies! To be sure, internal Twin
brook problems occur and re
quire attention, but with increas
ing frequency the talents of
Twinbrook are being brought to
bear on matters of city-wide In
terest. And this is as It should
be, for It Indicates a recogni
tion of wider horizons and a
growing consciousness of being
an Integra] part of the City of
Rockville.
The trend is clear and will
certainly continue. For even if
Twinbrook were fully self-suf-
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City Council are planning tenta
tively to attend.
President of the League,
which is composed of officials
of cities and towns throughout
the state, is Mayor Calvin M.
Mowbray, of Cambridge. Among
top guest speakers will be Hon.
Brooks Hays, special assistant
to the President, and former
Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin,
recently elected as mayor of
Baltimore.
Lone Oak Elementary
Expansion Dedicated
ROCKVILLE A new addi
tion to the Lone Oak Elemen
tary School was dedicated last
week in ceremonies featuring a
talk by Dr. Clifford Beck, a
member of the Board of Edu
cation.
Located at 1010 Grandin
Avenue in Rockville, the school
has been expanded with the
opening of added space provid
ing a library, four classrooms,
a teachers’ lounge, lavatories
and storage facilities.
ficient, which it is not, and its
adult residents like myself were
thoroughly satisfied with a
hypothetical self-sufficiency, our
vistas would broaden with the
expanding geographic interest
of our children as they progress
from elementary school to
Broome Junior High to Richard
Montgomery. As every parent
knows, these youngsters of ours
have a strong attachment to
Rockville, and the stability
which derives from having firm
roots in a “home town” is in
deed a good thing and deserves
nurturing and encouragement.
For us in Twinbrook, then, deep
ening interest and concern for
the city as a whole merely re
flects a growing appreciation
that if all segments of the com
munity stand united, problems
will more easily be resolved, and
all will stand to benefit there
from.
Looking to the future, I fore
see Rockville continuing to grow
at a rapid pace. Within a very
few years we will have a com
pletely new downtown provid
ing better commercial and pro
fessional services to all of us,
and we will undoubtedly have
expanded recreational, cultural,
and other facilities providing
Faceless Suburbia
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Treatment Center manned by
volunteers, many from Twin
brook, who perform vital chores
that enable a youngster with
twisted limbs to undergo loving
treatment that will enable him
to run again.
Twinbrook spawned a group
called Citizens for Good Gov
ernment that fought a pitched
political battle in 1953-54 and
took over Rockville’s govern
ment reins and has held them
ever since.
And, typical of Twinbrook, it
spawned a CGG opposition
group called Federation of In
dependent Voters that is out to
seize the governmental reins
from CGG in next April’s city
elections.
It has shopping centers, ultra
modem as befits a new subur
ban community, straddling both
sides of Veirs Mill Road which
slices through Twinbrook where
merchants know their custom
ers on a personal basis and give
them that kind of special serv
ice.
Twinbrook's outlook is young.
And this is easily explainable.
The community is made up al
most entirely of the young
young married* to middle-aged
people and hordes of kids.
improved public service as well.
As we move toward these goals,
I am confident that Twinbrook,
while retaining its identiy, will
be in the vanguard of progress,
imparting its dynamism and its
neighborly cooperation to pri
vate and public ventures alike.
Let us in Twinbrook mobilize
our resources, not for glory and
not for local aggrandizement,
but simply to do our share and
more than our share to make
our town, Rockville, a finer
place to live, to raise our fam
ilies, and to call home. This is
the Twinbrook I have known
and the only one I wish to know.
Ballman Heads
The Counsellors
Bethesda Attorney B. George
Ballman has been elected chan
cellor of The Counsellors, a
Montgomery County group of
lawyers formed to support con
tinuing education and self-im
provement in the field of law.
Ballman succeeds Robert S.
Bourbon, an assistant attorney
general for the state. Other new
officers of the group include
Edward Layne, vice chancellor;
Herbert W. Jorgensen, scribner,
and William Miller, exchequer.
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Grandma and grandpa live
somewhere else.
The first name listed in the
current Twinbrook "Community
Guide is Abbott, Edward and
Patricia, 1923 Rockland Ave.
And the last is Zolly, Mark and
Mary, 509 Linthicum St.
In between Abbott and Zolly
are the names of the others
along with their telephone num
bers and in Twinbrook you don’t
use the telephone book, you use
the “Community Guide.”
Twinbrook depends on Rock
ville for many governmental
services, streets and sidewalks
and dog laws and local ordinanc
es. And it looks to the County
for its courts and schools, and
police protection and major lo
cal laws.
And, of course, it depends on
the State of Maryland for its
major laws.
But Twinbrook depends on no
one to decree the unique form
of community life its residents
have carved out of Montgomery
County farmland to establish
their “way of life.”
It’s a COMMUNITY, as much
so as Thornton Wilder’s “Our
Town” or any small town any
where in the U.S.A. And resi
dents there, fiercely proud of
this, intend to keep it that way.
Woodlev Gardens
Committee Named
By City Council
A five-member Woodley Gar
dens Park Committee was estab
lished by the Rockville Mayor
and Council last week.
Members included John
Lewis, chairman; William Han
na, Donna Eldridge, Mrs. Betty
Marshall, and Lila Thomson, all
residents of the west end com
munity.
The committee will function
in connection with the develop
ment of the city’s new five-acre
recreational area on Nelson
Street and in the future devel
opment of 20 adjoining acres of
land acquired by Rockville for
a public park.
U.S. Treasurer
Will Speak Here
The Women’s Democratic
Club of Montgomery County
will hear U. S. Treasurer Kath
eryn Granahan speak on the
President’s tax program, June
12, 8:30 p.m.
The meeting, open to the pub
lic, will be held at the Maryland-
National Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission office, 8787
Georgia Ave., Silver Spring.
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