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Mar of fibirecford . lllil ll ,- s 3' ei LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. Chester L. Knauss, Dr. President C. E. Kearney, Jr., Mr. David S. Shermer Robert M. Heft, Mrs. Margaret B. Larson, Mr. Mr. J. Paul Farrell, Dr. Clifford B Bryce. Harold Blid, President William T. Morgan, Vice- in memoriam MR. CHARLES B. DAVIS Mr. Davis, a member of the Board of Directors, died on September 1, 1957, after an extended illness. Superintendent of an Allegheny County Warehouse, Mr. Davis had served the McKeesport Board from l 1954. 59. .
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