Old Times 01.15.15

75 years ago

Charlie Connell and Joe Valdes are team captains in the big 1940 membership campaign for the Winter Garden Junior Chamber of Commerce [Jaycees]. Members of the winning team will be feted at a banquet, where they will be waited on by members of the losing team. When interviewed, Capt. Valdes requested that members of the enemy team be notified to begin brushing up on their catering manners.

40 years ago

The Town Council of Windermere began the new year with the installation of new members Sam Durbin, Carolyn Greer and Charles Green, sworn in by Town Attorney John Rodgers. Mayor Dean Kinzey presented plaques to outgoing members George Hall, Kathy Matheison and Albert Johnson.

35 years ago

L.E. “Gene” Cappleman, one of Winter Garden’s most valuable and beloved citizens, died suddenly of a heart attack after he had been helping to carry furniture from a burning warehouse behind the Plant Street stores. Helmly’s Furniture Store’s warehouse on South Main Street was the scene of a fire that Fire Chief Jim Briggs described as “probable arson.”

30 years ago

Mark Robitaille assumed duties as administrator of West Orange Memorial Hospital, replacing Harry Dudley, who has held the position for the past nine years.

25 years ago

In recognition of 18 years  of service to the Oakland community as councilman, vice mayor and, on occasion, acting mayor, William Nixon, affectionately known as “the professor,” was honored with a reception that was part of “William V. Nixon Day.”

The Leukemia Society of America will host a “Night in Las Vegas” fundraising event at the Isleworth Country Club. It is being held in honor and in memory of Bill Cappleman, former Winter Garden city commissioner who was stricken with acute leukemia three years ago.