Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lending Varsity experience in the outside contests will be Bill Fitz, Varsity first baseman, and Jack Forte, first string captain and second baseman. Pitchers on Samborski's list of possible starters are Bill Harrison and Bill Foster, with either George Strout or Bill Hickey as battery mates. John Harrison is at shortstop, and Bob Carlson at third base. In the outfield George Taylor or Fred Glimp, Bob Peterson, Chip Gannon, and Dick Guidera are among the possible starters...
Hill's business is booming. There were 650 adoptions in the province last year. According to Hill, everybody concerned is happy-the natural parents (in illegitimacy cases), the foster parents and the children. Dr. Whitton called Alberta's adoption system "unhappily casual." In particular she struck at Uncle Charlie's "export traffic in Alberta babies," reported that ten percent of all adopted Alberta babies last year went to U.S. applicants, many of whom arranged the whole thing by mail. Dr. Whitton suspected that some babies had "again changed hands . . . and for a consideration" in the U.S. adoption...
...case, wrote Dr. Whitton: "If these babies are suitable for adoption, they are a valuable national asset and the whole Alberta policy is puzzling; if they are not suitable for placement, it is a dastardly thing to send them to foster homes in a friendly neighboring country." Her suggested remedy: recasting of Alberta's Child Welfare Act to reduce the "unjustifiable powers" of province officials...
...Bill Foster, who pitched a full game for Eliot Monday, lasted four innings for the losers before being relieved by John Young. Adams-Dunster cause, setting down after three fairly wild innings to complete five frames before bowing to Tom Sylvester in the last...
Chip Gannon reached scoring position for the Deacons in the first inning by stealing second after getting on when the Eliot shortstop threw a weakly hit ball into the dirt. Foster then walked Harrison and Gannon scored from second on a single by Hicky. The second Deacon tally followed as Harrison, who had advanced to third on the play, darted home on a passed ball...