Laughter Keynotes School Workers’ Dinner Honoring Wade E. Miller
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
June 4, 1953
June 1953
Middletown, Ohio
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The non-teaching employees of Middletown schools last night honored retiring superintendent of schools Wade E. Miller at American Legion Home with a banquet filled by laughter, song, memories and Toastmaster Hugh Butler. Typical of the evening’s activities was the moment when Butler, who kept up an all-night patter of jokes, claimed to have lost a prepared lengthy speech. He accused Miss Betty Newkirk of hiding his remarks. But some observers observed that the toastmaster had probably never written the thing in the first place. The banquet [did not feature] one of the usual hour-long wisdom-packed speeches which excite the innermost reaches of the mind. Instead the audience was subjected to an hour of light remarks which made people laugh and sing...
The non-teaching employees of Middletown schools last night honored retiring superintendent of schools Wade E. Miller at American Legion Home with a banquet filled by laughter, song, memories and Toastmaster Hugh Butler. Typical of the evening’s activities was the moment when Butler, who kept up an all-night patter of jokes, claimed to have lost a prepared lengthy speech. He accused Miss Betty Newkirk of hiding his remarks. But some observers observed that the toastmaster had probably never written the thing in the first place. The banquet [did not feature] one of the usual hour-long wisdom-packed speeches which excite the innermost reaches of the mind. Instead the audience was subjected to an hour of light remarks which made people laugh and sing...
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