Bette Davis returns to alma mater
PROMINENT GRADUATE HONORED—Cushing Academy, Ashburnham, paid tribute to its famous graduate, Bette Davis, when school and postal officials unveiled the U.S. Postal Service’s 14th Legends of Hollywood commemorative postage stamp—Bette Davis, a 1926 graduate of Cushing Academy, Friday, Oct. 17, in the school auditorium. Taking part in the ceremony were, from left, Headmaster James Tracy, Ronald Stuart and Theodore Iorio, school trustees, and Mark Sibley and David J. Avery, officers in charge of Winchendon and Ashburnham Post Offices respectively.
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