President Roosevelt to get unique invitation for 50th Anniversary Johnstown Flood. Washington, D.C., June 30. Senator Joseph Guffey, (D. Pennsylvania) today received from the Johnstown, Pennsylvania "quintuplets" a unique invitation which he was asked to present to President Roosevelt requesting his attendance at the 50th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. The girls represented the sponsors of a golden jubilee of the flood which will open National Flood Control Week, May 31, 1939. In the photograph, left to right: Enid Koontz, representing "Flood"; Anna C. Taylor, as "Do Nothing"; Sen. Guffey, Eleanor Oliver, as "Growth"; Betty A Kenner, as "Fellowship"; Gloria Geis, as "Mercy," 6/30/38