Area Students Featured In Academy Symposium
Castleton State College hosts the first Inter Collegiate Student Symposium of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. Twenty one papers include Loren Siegel on Politics of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Constance Wallace debuts The Novelistic Techniques of Tolstoi. The event features Bennington College students among others and runs with morning and afternoon sessions in history, political science, and literary criticism.
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Castleton
Castleton State College
Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences
Bennington College
Loren Siegel
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King
Constance Wallace
Tolstoi
Obituary and Vermont School Building Authority meeting notes
HOOSICK FALLS N Y Les lie J Tate 71 active in civic affairs died after a long illness at his Hoosick Falls residence He served 28 years as town committeeman 20 years as Hoosick assessor born in Eagle Bridge lived in West Hoosick operated a small farm recently worked for Scott the Florist He belonged to St Mark s Episcopal Church Survived by sister Elsie Scott two brothers Franklin Tate Howard B Tate and nephews Funeral services are Saturday at 10 30 a m at Rob son Home for Funerals and 11 a m at St Mark s Church Rev Joel Miller to officiate Calling hours Friday 7 9 p m at the funeral home MONTPELIER Former Rep Daulton Mann Jr of Peru named temporary chairman of the Vermont School Building Authority at the first meeting Gov Philip Hoff presided The group will meet again in two or three weeks to fill two vacant posts and pick a permanent chairman The Authority was created to back loans for school construction for private and public schools and colleges.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Leslie J. Tate
R.D.1
Mr. Tate
Hoosick
Eagle Bridge
West Hoosick
Scott
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Joel Miller
St. Mark’s Church
Funeral
Montpelier
Daulton Mann Jr
Peru
Vermont School Building Authority
Philip H. Hoff
Mann
Air Force Test Set Here Friday
Sgt. Rudy LaPointe will be at the YMCA Friday at 9:30 a.m. to give the Airmans Qualifying Examination to all area high school seniors interested in taking the test. This will be the only time this year for students or non-students to take the test without coming to Pittsfield Mass. He stressed no obligation and urged consideration of the Air Force as a chosen path.
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Rudy LaPointe
YMCA
LaPointe
Pittsfield
Mass
la Pointe
Air Force
Budget Set by Bennington School District Board for 1966-67
A tentative budget of just over 540000 dollars was worked out by the Bennington School District Inc joint board for the first year of operation in 1966-67 after the merger of the Bennington Graded Village and Greater Bennington Rural districts. The plan covers Molly Stark Beech Street and Hicks rural schools and Bennington Elementary Cora B Whitney village schools with a projected tax rate of 3.61 based on a combined grand list near 15 million. Key expense lines include 330845 in teacher salaries 63925 in other instructional salaries and 47075 administration. total expenses are 727610 offset by 187527 in revenues leaving a 540083 local tax need. The district will not yet run grades 7-12 which move to Mt Anthony Union. the budget includes funds for staff, facilities, transportation and special programs amid ongoing negotiations for union assessments.
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Bennington School District Inc
Bennington
Greater
Molly Stark
Beech Street
Hicks
Cora B. Whitney
Mt. Anthony Union
Mt. Anthony
Union School Board
Ford Foundation
Ian
Bennington South Supervisory Union
Bendi
Alfred T. Granger
Hanover
N.H. Granger
Stark Street
Stewart E. Allen
Graneger
Granger
Howard F.kelley
Mt. Anthony Union School
Kelley
William D. Worthington
Pittsburgh
Benenington
Raymond C. Roy Jr
Stock Averages Report Noon April 21 1966
Dow Jones Bache Albany stock averages at noon show the 30 Industrials at 953.56 with a 2.28 rise, 20 Railroads at 266.04 up .07, 15 Utilities at 139.48 up .03, composite average 341.194 up .47, and a trading volume of 4,300,000.
Meteor Shower Linked to 1861 Comet Observed Now
Astronomy notes that meteor showers arise from comets and persist after the parent disintegrates. The Lurid meteor shower now visible is tied to the 1861 comet, with millions of meteors spread along the comet’s elliptical orbit as Earth crosses it.
Architect Gets Go-Ahead On New School Plans
The Bennington merged district board approved final drafts for a proposed new elementary to be built on Stark Street. Granger Associates will craft floor plans and renderings with 21 classrooms for K-3 and 4-6, aiming to vote on a bond at the annual meeting in July.
Williams College Young Democrats Host Panel Tonight
The Young Democrats of Williams College sponsor a faculty panel on Is There a Republican Opposition tonight at 8 in Griffin Hall. Public welcome. Panelists include Dr Mac Alister Brown, Dr Arthur Silversmit, and Dr Gordon C Winston. Mrs Edward H Cumpston Jr. of Old Bennington serves as one of two chairmen.
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Young Democrats
Williams College
Griffin Hall
MacAlister Brown
Arthur Silversmit
Gordon C. Winston
Edward H. Cumpston Jr
Old Bennington
VFW Post Partners in Lite-a-Bike Safety Drive
Veterans of Foreign Wars Bennington Post 1332 to tape bicycles with reflective safety tape Saturday in cooperation with Shaftsbury North Bennington Pow nal and Bennington fire departments and the Bennington Armory Parking Lot. The program is funded with reflective tape donated by the 3M Company of St Paul Minnesota.
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Bennington Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Ernest Costa
Shaftsbury
North Berington
Pownal
Bennington Armory
3M Company of
St. Paul, Minn
Furnishings sought for BellVille family after fire
Household furnishings are urgently needed for the George Bell ville family of Pownal who lost all possessions Tuesday in a fire that left the Bell ville family and their six children homeless. Mrs. Joseph Hewson, 823-5642, will take messages regarding available furniture.
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George Bellville
Pownal
Bellvilles
Joseph Hewson
Hospital Notes April 20, 1966
Admissions include Isabelle Vallee of Manchester and Mary Moriarty of North Bennington with several other names. discharges list Mary Zullo, Ethel Burdick, Ardita Chase, and multiple others. births to John and John Wiskoski of Bennington a daughter and Lawrence Burdik of Hoosick Falls a son, both dated April 20.
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Isabelle Vallee
Marchester
Charles Fabiano
Hoosick Falls
Mary M. Moriarty
North Bennington
Mabel Delaney
East Arlington
Mary Zullo
Manchester Center
Ethel Burdick
North Pownal
Ardita Chase
Wilmington
Margaret Knights
Wayne Hilliard
Nichole Gile
Ronald Miller
Sarah Longtin
Bennington
Joan Rowe
Lucinda Skelly
Salem
N.Y
Robert Brophy
East Dorset
Walter Ward
Manchester Depot
Mary Skidmore
Sandgate
David Ryder
John Wiskoski
Lawrence Burdick
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Williamstown
Troy
New Britain
Kenneth Kramer
Mary Shultz
Marilyn Dailey
Pat Riley
Betsy Jones
Peter Graves
Natalie Czerwinski
Bob Nadeau
Clifford Fair
A & W Root Beer
Noveck-Shultz
Gary Marsha
Lodi Ann Graves
Betsy Hegel
E. A. Riley
Clark Campbell
Robert Wheeler
John T. Carmody
Riley
Frank Paquin
Bennington Water Department
Bennington Regional Planning Commission
John H. Williams I
Board of Water Commissioners
Central Business
Bennington Village
Grace Harrison
Joan Harkness
Olivia Koppell
Alice Webber
Cornelia Crocker
Charles R.anderson
Richard G. Dundas
Lucien M. Hanks
University of Vermont
Robert S. Babcock
UVM
Windham College
Lyndon State College
Middlebury
Johnson State
St. Michael’s, Castleton State
Norwich University
C. Herschel
David J. Breen
Robert McCook
Tilton
N.H
Joseph Burleigh
Franklin
Denver
Colo
Earl Brailey
Bethel
Rotary Foundation
Rotary
Richard B. Leake II
Ernest Coonradt
Holden
Edward Armstrong
William Castle Jr
Walter Parmenter
Christine Wright
Robert M. Parmelee
Pownal Center
Barber
Garden Club
Stanley Etheridge
A.B. Overstreet
Vincent Pizzano
Thomas Grant
William Deery
John Patterson
Howard Black
Frank L. Haley
Dow-Jones—Bache & Co
Albany
Harte Theatre
Bambi
Tre
New York
Audie Murphy
Saigon
UPI
Ghost IN the
Tomy Kirk
Nancy Sinatra
The
Beatles
the Animals
Herman’s Hermits
Vanopress
Shaffe
Main St
Bennington, Vt
Bennington High
Sacred Heart
St. Francis de Sales
Bennington Catholic High
Roy
Bennington Briefs
Cancer Crusade
George D. Atwood
Robert T. Holden
Walter A. McGarey
Breard Hawks’ Office
John Mook
Margaret Arnold
Marshall White
William B. Flynn
George Buck
Beatrice Gosselin
Donald Jolivette
Atwood
Adelard Roy
Melford Bushee
Edith Bent
Robert Houle
Marcia Locker
McGarey
Ralph R. Bennett Jr
Napoleon Pietryka
Gerald Butler
Fred Kennedy
Fred Baker
Louise Watters
Donald Hemenway
Alfred Thibodeau
Elizabeth Dollard
Caryl Adams
E.R. Coburn
Russell S. Fenn Jr
Dorset
Bennington County
Mittee
Radcliffe
California
Texas
Raymond E. Bender
Social Security District
Rutland
Evelyn St
William Deforge Sr
Burgess Road
Mary Fletcher Hospital
Burlington
W.S. Hall
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Camerman
Carl Sorenson
CBS News
Sorenson
Neil Davis
Wisnews Ltd
Ib Heller
U.S
Bradford Lyttle
Voluntown
Muste
Lyttle
William Davidson
Haverford College
Haverford
Karl Meyer
Chicago
Barbara Deming
Cape Cod
Liberation Magazine
Sherri Thurber
Society of Friends
Quakers
Safford
Gage
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