Girls Club Seeks Data For Reunion
The Bennington Girls Club Alumnae reunion banquet is set for May 14 at the Paradise. Reservations are being made now and members are urged not to wait for invitations. The committee seeks old club photographs and mementoes and asks for information about past events and members from charter members to past presidents.
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Bennington Girls Club
the Paradise
Flora Parker
Jordan
Minerva Holmes
Parker
Francis E. Morrissey
Elizabeth Rockwood
Theologian C S Lewis on God and space
In a Show magazine piece, British theologian C S Lewis countered the claim of Soviet spacemen who say there is no God because they have not seen him in space. He compared belief to discovering Shakespeare only by recognizing an author behind the plays.
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New York
Outer Space
C.S. Lewis
Show Magazine
Shakespeare
Martha Wallace
Miss Wallace
Daily Special
Gary Harbour
PTA Rummage Sale Funds Dental Fund At Bennington
At a recent Open House meeting Bennington Elementary PTA heard that the Spring Rummage Sale raised 94.56 dollars for the school dental fund overseen by hygienist Mrs. Beach Randall. The effort involved many parents, volunteers, and the King's Daughters support aging the program to aid needy children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PTA
Bennington
Lee Shoemaker
Beach Randall
Cora B. Whitney
Robert Outwater
Cochairman
van Vechten Graves
Stephen Gilman
Theodore Beatty
Charles Ulrich
Seymour Shultz
Shoemaker
Philip Noyes
Richard Davis
Arthur Grant
John Mook
Jerry Bartlett
Edward Ransom
Kent Lawson
Myron Woodward
Helen Kehoe
Walter McGarey
Eugene Clark
Wilma Howe
George Hadwen
Benjamin Vail
Glenn Mallory
Winn Peck
Eugene Dawson
Robert LaPorte
Donald Sprague
Lawrence Smith
David Pello
Robert Mayhew
Roy Jacobs
Randall
Henry
Area Nurse Plans European Nursing Tour
Miss Jane McCarthy and Miss Rose McGowan, recent Mary Hitchcock School of Nursing graduates, left Bennington to tour Europe. They report Easter in Rhodes with friends from Agia Sophia Hospital and will travel Crete to Istanbul and beyond, ending with work in Rome around May 20.
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Jane McCarthy
Daniel McCarthy
Coolidge Avenue
Bennington
Europe
Rose McGowan
Maine
Rhodes
Agia Sophia Children’s Hospital
Athens
Greece
Crete
Istanbul
Turkey
Thessalonika
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Vienna
Austria
Trieste
Italy
Venice
Florence
Rome
Miss McCarthy
Bennington High School
Mary Hitchcock Hospital
Hanover
Pancake Eat- Off At Miami University Draws Record
Larry Sadoff aged 18 and Carole Wahl aged 20 won a pancake eating contest at the University of Miami by consuming 169 pancakes in 30 minutes defeating other students in a brisk test of appetite.
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MIAMI
Larry Sadoff
Carole Wahl
University of Miami
Mrs. Rose Lindley Kent Eyes 91st Birthday
Dorset scribe Mrs Rose Lindley Kent prepares for her May 27 milestone while recounting her Mrs America semi final experience and the flood of supportive letters from international readers. Her grandson John C Kent serves at Charleston Maine airfield as staff sergeant.
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Rose Lindley Kent
Dorset
New Field
Charleston
Maine
John C. Kent
Vermont Industrial Exhibit opens with near fifty firms
The second Vermont Industrial Exhibit runs three days at Patrick Gym University of Vermont with 47 firms showcasing industry progress. Sponsored by Associated Industries of Vermont Vermont Development Department and the University of Vermont the event aims to connect Vermonters with the states resources. Ben-Mont Papers Dow Chemical Benn ington Union Carbide Hale Co East Arlington Jerry’s. The show is free open 7 to 9 30 p.m. today noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday with parking for about 600 cars. Federal agencies Small Business Administration Area Redevelopment Administration General Services Administration and U S Army Boston Procurement District will discuss contract applications.
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Burlington
Vermont
Patrick
University of Vermont
Associated Industries of Vermont
Vermont Development Department
Bennington
Ben-Mont
Dobeckman
Dow Chemical Co
Vermont Container Corp
Union Carbide
Hale Co
East Arlington
Spear St
Small Business Administration
Area Redevelopment Administration
General Services Administration
U.S. Army Boston Procurement District
Shower of Music At Benhi Friday
A jazz concert and dance will be held in the Bennington High School auditorium from 8:30 to 11 p.m. Friday featuring a six piece jazz group led by Bob Cathcart and a 14 piece Cambridge New York dance band under Pete Proud. Tickets sold by the Benn di Band and Drama Club or at the door. open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington High School
Bob Cathcart
Dick Center
Pete Proud
Cliff George
Bill Hart
Charles Comstock
Cambridge
N.Y
Cambridge Central School
Bendi Band and Drama Club
DC School Board Maintains Paddling Ban After Debate
The Washington DC school board, in a 5-4 vote, keeps a ban on paddling in DC schools amid a heated debate over a corporal punishment plan by Superintendent Carl F. Hanson. The board also supports indefinite suspension of unruly pupils pending a May ruling on legality. Mordecai Johnson, exHoward University president and board member, urged Hanson to align with disciplinary realities after the Thanksgiving riot.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Carl F. Hanson
Hanson
Mordecai Johnson
Howard University
Johnson
New error stamp find to be auctioned May 16
Collector's Corner reports the New York firm Herman Herst Jr. Co. has a new error stamp discovery not yet reported in philatelic circles. The item will be shown at auction on May 16 with a quip about the Postmaster General possibly hearing of it and a note that the 15 cent Montgomery Blair air mail commemorative will have its own status.
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Wendy Masino
Vermont
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
New York City
Albany
N.Y
New York
Margaret
Brutus
ANTA
Helen Hayes
Herman Herst Jr. Co
Shrub Oak
United States
Philatelics
Montgomery Blair
Air Mail
First Day for One-Cent Jackson Coil in Chicago
Notice lists May 31 as the First Day for the one-cent Jackson coil stamp in Chicago Illinois with a five cent first class mail rate. It urges remittance of five cents per cover and mentions a push to honor Grandma Moses with a commemorative stamp. Washington Press Maplewood New Jersey offers a free four page brochure on the 24-cent airmail invert discovery.
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Silver Spring
Chicago
Ill
Grandma Moses
Washington Press
Maplewood
N.J
Local Father Finds 1955 S Double-Strike Penny
A father counting his son’s piggy bank pennies discovers a rare 1955 S double-strike penny, described as a real find and a notable lucky find for a homemaker.
Red Cross Bloodmobile Seeks 100 Pints Wednesday
Red Cross Blood Program aims for 100 pints at the Elk's Barn on Wednesday in Bennington. Donor recruitment continues by telephone and in person at local industrial plants. previous donors eligible after eight weeks.
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Elk’s Barn
Robert M. Parmelee
Red Cross Blood Program
Bennington
Shaftsbury
Curtis M. Flory
Red Cross
Bennington County
Vermont
New Hampshire
Will
Burlington
Manchester
N.H
Lewis Carpenter
Arthur Grant
Earl Harvey
John Litster
Carmen Napolitano
William C. Sennett
Seymour Shultz
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Girls Club
Rockport Lodge
BUICK
Volkswagen
Eddington, Inc
Main St
Benhi Dramatists
Janet Hayes
Richard Bird
Bennington High School Dramatics Club
Sharon Becker
Ann Marie Goyette
Barbara Garrison
Buckler
Miss Jane McCarthy
By Agnes Rockwood
U.S.A
Australia
Canada
Germany
Dellwood Florists
India
P.S
Cambridge, N.Y. Fairgrounds
Washington County
William Tefft
Greenwich
Ohio
New York State
Tri-State
Tefft
Main Street
Kelly Price
Black
Kelly Road
Davey Oil
No. Benn
Rd. Benn., Vt
Benhi
Emin DC
Collector’s Corner
By Alfred Arnold
Sayles Allhe
All—Service
THE
Vermont and Trust CO
Ward Bellows Falls
Chester Brattleboro Rutland
Red Cross Bloodmobile
Sourciffe N Nursing Home
Kane
Bermudas
Drysdale’s
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