Japanese Art Shown at Williams College Museum of Art
More than 30 modern paintings by Japanese artists from the Cole collection of Roland Gibson are shown at Williams College Museum of Art April 5 25. The museum on Main Street opposite the College Chapel is open to the public without charge. Eight color etchings and wood block prints accompany the paintings many of which are large. The works blend traditional pattern with post war abstract influences shaping a quiet, muted palette.
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Williamstown
Mass
Roland Gibson
Williams Colege Museum of Art
Main Street
College Chapel
Two Manchester Accidents Reported In Police Brief
Manchester Police report two accident incidents. On April 3 a 1958 Buick back struck Miss Betty Treat’s parked car at the Battenkill Inn yard causing about 175 dollars in damage. no injuries. A 1962 Valiant rear ended a 1952 Chevrolet after being forced from its lane near Manchester Molding Co at 12:30 a.m. on Vermont 11-30. the Baker car sustained extensive left-side damage while the Valiant shows about 150 dollars in damage. no injuries.
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Manchester
Dana L. Thompson
Charles Quackenbush
Shushan
N.Y
Miss Betty Jean Treat
Battenkill Inn
Miss Treat
Quackenbush
Clifton Bacon
Manchester Depot
Chevrolet
Clyde Allen Baker
Dorset
Bacon
Baker
Thompson
Vermont
Manchester Molding Co
Clothing Sale For Firefighters Fund In Manchester
Three unidentified local women, known only by phone numbers, organize a used clothing sale to support the Manchester Firefighters Association fund aiming for a new firehouse. The event at Manchester Elementary School Cafeteria runs April 23 from 10 am to 2 pm with ski gear welcome.
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Manchester
Manchester Firefighters Association
Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association
Former Resident Receives Army Commendation Medal
Evelyn M. Harvey a former Shaftsbury Vermont resident and officer candidate at the U S Women s Army Corps Center received the Army Commendation Medal at a April 1 awards review. Presented by Lt Col Elizabeth P Hoisington the honor recognizes her service as legal clerk and in the Military Justice Divisions at Fort Riley from 1963 to 1965 while she attends the Officer Candidate Course at the WAC School. Harvey a 1953 North Bennington High School graduate and St Joseph s Business College alumna joined the service in December 1962 after basic training at the WAC Training Battalion and Naval Justice School in Newport RI. She then worked for Vermont Catholic Charities Inc. prior to her Army career.
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Office of the Staff Judge Advocate
Fort Riley
Kan
Harvey
U.S. Women’s Army Corps School
Here
Women’s Army Corps Training Battalion
U.S. Naval Justice School
Newport
Evelyn M. Harvey
Elizabeth P. Hoisington
U.S. Women’s Army Corps Center
Ft. McCellan
Ala
Eleanor H. Welch
Eagle Street
Shaftsbury
U.S. Army
Poet Williamstown Reading by Galway Kinnell at Williams College
Galway Kinnell will read his poetry at Chapin Library Williams College at 4 30 p m on April 19 The event is free and open to the public Refreshments will be served Sponsored by the New England Poetry Circuit and the Williams English Department Kinnell has won awards from the National Institute of Arts and Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship He translated Villon and other poets and has published What a Kingdom It Was Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock and other works He has lived in Vermont and is now in New York
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Williamstown
Mass
Galway
Kinnell
Chapin Library
Williams College
New England Poetry Circuit
Department of English
Williams
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Guggenheim
Francois Villon
Houghton Mifflin Company
Kingdom
Louisiana
CORE
Mount Monadnock
Vermont
New York
Seven Words of the Cross union Good Friday service in Manchester Center
A union Good Friday service titled The Seven Words of the Cross will be held Friday at the First Baptist Church in Manchester Center from 1 to 3 p.m. Participating pastors include Rev. Robert Dana, Rev. Jerome J. Hevey Jr., and Rev. Godfrey Parker. Worshippers may come and go during hymn singing. The First Congregational Church trustees gift an electric stair elevator from the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Lee, with installation planned. Summer school news notes Burr and Burton teachers attending across universities and institutes.
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First Baptist Church
Manchester Center
Robert Dana
United Church of
Dorset
East Rupert
Jerome J. Hevey Jr
First Congregational Church
Godfrey Parker
Robert T. Lee
Arlington Lions Hear Author Phillip Vier eck
Arlington Lions Club met at the Green Mountain Diner as Shaftsbury author Phillip Viereck spoke about three published works and one in progress. He described an Alaska trip inspiring an Eskimo life book, a tale of a troubled adolescent finding himself, and a 1500s to 1600s Atlantic coastline exploration manuscript. Congressman Stafford to speak April 22. wives invited.
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Arlington
Arlington Lions Club
Shaftsbury
Phillip Viereck
Green Mountain
Viereck
Alaska
Connecticut
Robert T. Stafford
Arlington Lions
Middlebury Alumni Boost Alumni Challenge Fund to $1.19 Million
Middlebury College reports 17 major gifts totaling 1,189,666 since the campaign launch. Arnold R. LaForce, national chair, told 80 volunteers at a weekend meeting. Funds include 727,000 for new academic buildings and 462,666 for endowment. total gifts reach 1,914,666 with 397,500 from an anonymous donor toward a Music and Fine Arts Center.
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Middlebury
Middlebury College Challenge Fund
Arnold R. LaForce
New York
Selectman and Mrs Baker Mark 50th Wedding Anniversary
Arlington couple Selectman Orange R Baker and his wife Alice Twine Baker celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house at the Masonic Temple in Arlington. Guests from multiple towns attended, with meals, a yellow themed cake, and gifts noted. Baker, long active in civic life, has served as selectman and deputy sheriff in prior decades and remains semi retired with Central Vermont Public Service.
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Arlington
Orange R. Baker
Masonic Temple
Massachusetts
Baker
Ralph Lidstone
Wallingford
Edward Lidstone
Ernest Lidstone
Roland Merchant
Robert Eddy
Royal Thayer
Bakers
Shipman Lodge No
U.S. 7
North District
Leon Twine
Amesbury
Mass
Mary Pickett
Fair Haven
Pauline Duross
Johnstown
N.Y
Charlestown
N.H
Agawam
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