Grace Crampsie Smith officially sworn in last night to fill the City Council slot opened by the resignation of Shawn Martell.
A happy time! Big crowd! And a family affair — Grace’s sister, Sr. Anne Crampsie, Life and Ministry Facilitator, Sisters of Mercy, Merion, PA, gave the invocation.
And Grace takes the oath with her daughter looking on–
Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.
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