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...boiling mad! It's a damn shame that the "no Christmas in Marblehead" edict [Dec. 12] was handed down, and it's also too bad that it had to make the national news scene. As a Jewess, I am embarrassed for others of my religion if they were part of the reason that Christmas celebration was banned. I certainly want my own son to learn about and uphold his religion and its traditions and ideals. But boy-oh-boy. I also want him to know that there are others in this world who believe differently than he does...
...STEPHEN H. YOZELL Marblehead, Mass...
...hamlet of Marblehead is well named...
...forbidding not only carols and trees but gifts and Santa Claus as well. In protest, outraged fathers marched around Coleman's home at night carrying Santa balloons, and 50 children picketed an emergency meeting of the school board. They carried signs reading SCROOGE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN MARBLEHEAD and SANTA HAS DONE NO WRONG-DONT SUSPEND HIM FROM SCHOOL...
After the emergency meeting, School Board Chairman Richard Farrell declared last week that "the whole thing was a great misunderstanding" and "the program of observing religious holidays in Marblehead schools will continue as in the past." In Marblehead as elsewhere, it seems, the best Christmas policy is no policy...