Ben Belitt Wins National Arts Awards in 1960s
Ben Belitt, Bennington College poet and faculty member, is named one of 24 cash award recipients by the National Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He will receive $2,500 and join a ceremony in New York on May 19 with other winners across literature music and art.
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Ben Belitt
Bennington College
National Institute
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Belitt
Institute
Academy
New York
Quarterly Review of Literature
Blumenthal
Union League Civic and Arts Foundation
Creative Arts
Brandeis University
Rimbaud
Lorca
Neruda
University of Chicago Press
New York City
University of Virginia
UVM Summer Courses Open at Bennington College
The University of Vermont will offer seven courses this year at a Bennington summer session the first ever in southern Vermont. Classes run June 24 to August 5 daily for 75 minutes with 9 am to noon registration on June 23 and pre registration by June 1. Readings cover psychology education English literature and math taught by Bennington College and Williams College faculty and University of Massachusetts and Burlington teachers. Special tuition free access for teachers in the ten district Ford Foundation project area.
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University of Vermont
Bennington
UVM
Bennington College
Louis Carini
Lauren R. Stevens
Williams College
England
America
Peter F. Jeffery
Burlington
Richard D. Harper
University of Massachusetts
Ford Foundation Project
Vermont
Lyndon
Castleton
First Weekend Drills Held by National Guard 86th Engineer Co
The 86th Engineer Company held its first weekend drill April 24 25 with Sgt John Andrews and Sgt Robert Reynolds teaching squad drill and fortifications. Sunday covered CBR training and land mine warfare while the bridge platoon built a light tactical raft on Lake Paran. Two new recruits joined and recruitment offers were extended by Sgt Griffen Smith and Sgt Harold Andrew at the Armory.
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86Th Engineer Company
John Andrews
Robert Reynolds
Walter Babcock
Donald Violette
John Wellman
Thomas Stemp
SP5
Richard Record
Lake Paran
North Bennington
George Dickie
Neil Trembley
David Robare
Edgar Lemieux
Richard H. Morse
Edward Morse
School St
Bennington Catholic High School
Leo L. Farrington
South Branch St
Salem
86Th Engineer Co
Griffen Smith
Harold Andrew
Capt
Dempsey
Guardsmen End Aircraft Course In Virginia
Two Bennington Army National Guard officers Capt Robert F Comar and 1st Lt Richard P Sawyer completed a 14 week aircraft maintenance officer course at the Army Transportation School in Fort Eustis Virginia The course covered field and depot maintenance of Army aircraft Capt Comar assigned to Holyers Detachment 37th Infantry Divisions 37th Aviation Battalion an ANG unit in Ohio He is a 1945 Bennington High School graduate and 1951 University of Vermont graduate The captain and wife Hope reside in Worthington Ohio Lt Sawyer son of Mr and Mrs Daniel Sawyer lives at 140 Ben Mont Ave Bennington and serves as aircraft pilot in the 186th Aviation Company an ANG unit in Burlington He is a 1953 Bennington High School graduate and lives with wife Gail at 107 Lyons St Bennington.
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Fort Eustis
Bennington Army National Guard
Robert F. Comar
Richard P. Sawyer
Army Transportation School
Comar
Holyers
37Th Inf
37Th Aviation Battalion
Ohio
Bennington High School
University of Vermont
Helen A. Comar
Barber St
Hope
W. South St
Worthington
Sawyer
Daniel Sawyer
Ben Mont Ave
186Th Aviation Co
Burlington
Benningston High School
Gail
Lyons St
Bennington
Catholic Daughters Plan Election and Events
The Catholic Daughters of America will hold a monthly business meeting Tuesday at 8 p.m. Officers will be elected. A 50th anniversary dinner is set for May 16 at Paradise Restaurant with tickets available now. reservations due by May 9. A rummage sale is planned for Friday May 7 at the K of C rooms. Anne Cummings chairs and members should donate clothing. In Washington, Vice President Humphrey led a Happy Birthday serenade for Rep. Barratt O’Hara at a Capitol Hill reception as colleagues urged him to stay in Congress.
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The
Catholic Daughters of America
Catherine Murphy
Paradise
Anne Cummings
Washington
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Rep
Barratt O’hara
D-Ill
House of Representatives
O’hara
Johnson
Afl-Cio Bakers Union
Capitol Hill
Congress
Morrissey Memorial Fund Reaches 4828 After Donation
An anonymous gift of 1710 boosted the Morrissey Memorial Fund at Putnam Memorial Hospital to 4828. The fund will become an endowment with annual interest used to honor late attorney Francis E. Morrissey, who helped lead a 1955 drive that funded the hospital’s east wing.
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Francis E. Morrissey
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Robert D. Stout
Stout
Morrissey
Vermont Counties Get Federal Aid for Drought Cleanup
Four Vermont counties Rutland Orange Bennington and Windsor will receive 112000 in federal funds to repair drought damaged land. Senator George D Aiken notes the aid is assured with the second supplemental appropriations bill passage. Funds come from the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service.
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Washington
UPI
Vermont
George D. Aiken
Senate
Rutland
Orange
Bennington
Windsor
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service
Vermont Democrats Seek Candidates for 1966 Slate
Rutland May 1 Vermont Democratic State Committee meeting at Hotel Berwick 2 p.m. to discuss bylaw amendments and begin developing candidates for the 1966 elections. State chairman Daniel J. O'Brien says the party will work to present a full slate of qualified Democrats to voters and win a majority in both houses of the legislature.
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Rutland
Vermont
Democratic State Committee
Berwick
Daniel J. O’brien
Democratic Party
Area Dancers On The Barn TV Program In Schenectady
The Bennington Senior Rockettes the Junior Rockettes and Miss Nancy Finnegan of Celia Greene School of Dance appear Friday on The Barn on WRGB Channel 6 Schenectady from 8 to 8 30 p m. Finnegan performs Moon Goddess while the Senior Rockettes present a modern jazz routine and the Junior Rockettes perform a tap number with listed dancers. Warner Bros buys screen rights to The Grave Makers House.
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Bennington
Rockettes
Nancy Finnegan
Cecelia Greene
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Elliot Offner
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Melrose
Canada
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N.Y
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Bill Hogan
Cadillac, Inc
West Main St
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Morrissey Fund
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Main St
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Edinburgh
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Kathy Chenaille
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Peggy LeBlanc
Hollywood
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