The month of May brings our Program Year to a close. The Delmar Progress Club welcomed a new slate of offices at the annual Spring Banquet, held at Albany Country Club on Wednesday, May 16, 2018. Many thanks to out-going president Joyce Demoly and warm congratulations to in-coming president Debbie Gall. Entertainment was provided by the Tri-County Banjo Band. The club raised funds during the year and awarded scholarships to two exemplary graduating seniors from Bethlehem Central High School.
On May 14, 1913, the Delmar Progress Club organized the Delmar Free Library Association. Bethlehem’s first public library opened in a room on the second floor of a schoolhouse on the corner of Kenwood Avenue and Adams Street. Granted a provisional charter in July 1913 by the Board of Regents, the Delmar Free Library was… Continue Reading
According to the Club’s history, Delmar in 1901 was a hamlet with no sidewalks, no street lights, two churches, a two-room school house and no women’s organizations. Elva Hinman, a well-known woman in the community, saw the need for a woman’s organization in Delmar, following a visit in 1901 to the Woman’s Club of Cobleskill.… Continue Reading