Bennington HealthCare: Public Services Survey Snapshot
Bennington area health care is reviewed in a Williams College student led survey. Government services expand access, screen and treat non-acute cases, link to private physicians and Putnam Memorial Hospital. EPSDT and Medicaid guide immunizations, school nurses coordinate care, and Vermont dental and Planned Parenthood programs extend low income access.
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Williams College
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington County
Home Health Agency
Social Welfare
Rachel Kinney
Vermont Dental Care Program
Bennington
Vermont
Childrens
Planned Parenthood
Metric talk and jokes about life with numbers
A column pokes fun at metrication and everyday measures, citing Fenway Park distances, biblical giants in meters, carpentry anecdotes, and oil in barrels. It juxtaposes inches and kilograms with cultural quips and concludes with a statistic about life expectancy and smoking from Dr. Lester Breslow.
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America
Fenway Park
Longtime Bennington postmaster aide marks 26th year
William F. Hurley, assistant postmaster at Bennington, begins his 26th year. He has served under several postmasters, including Ward L. Lyons. Elmer D. Harwood of Dorset resumes rural mail delivery after illness, welcomed by longtime customers. Barbara Burt and Ella Fitzgerald head to New York and Bermuda for two weeks. Mrs. Paul Thayer’s gloxinia with 12 crimson blooms attracts attention. she seeks others with many blooms. South Shaftsbury students raise funds to buy a plow for CARE. Moore's Greenhouses hosts Palm Sunday display despite bad weather. Rupert Marleigh Bingham and Glennarry Barrister’s son and daughter are cast in NBC Flipper. Harry W. Noyes named coordinator for Vermont DOE Instructional Services. Arlington school board discusses potential MAUHS district membership despite previously declining.
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William F. Hurley
Bennington
Ella Fitzgerald
New York
Bermuda
Paul Thayer
North Bennington Road
India
Pakistan
South Shaftsbury Village
Moore
School Street
South Street
NBC
Harry W. Noyes
North Bennington High School
Arlington Memorial High School
General Secondary Education
Marian Taylor
MAU
Howard Kelley
Mauhs
Marriage and public polls shape modern hope and fear
In a fragmentary critique of Ann Landers style polling, the piece questions whether polls measure qualitative judgments on marriage. It notes only about half of respondents answered yes, sketches implications of divorce, and contrasts 19th to 20th century happiness, urging caution against consumerist life expectations amidst postwar cynicism.
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Ann
Landers
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Bennington’s HealthCare
Part
By Sarah Thorne
Putnam
Rutland
Burlington
Elizabeth Land
Boston
Ann Landers
Joplin
Talahassee
Yale
Speersville
Vic
M.R. Montgomery
Boston Globe
Farrah Fawcett-Majors
Goliath
North America
United States
Metric
Lester Breslow
School of Public Health
University of California
Los Angeles
Rupert Marleigh Bingham
Glennarry
Rupert Kennels
Manchester
Dorothy Howe
Landers Poll
Certified Public Accountant
Pittsburgh
William Sherman
Raleigh, N.C
Ralph Nader
Griffin Electric Co., Inc
Main ST
Benn
Regina
Eureka
Hoover
Heens
Treasure Chestivision
J. F. Collins Co
Roberts Drive
North Adams
Mass
Star Tires
Fe.t
Benmont Ave
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