Me in the Green Glen and Other Books Review Notes
Book reviews cover Warren novel Meet Me in the Green Glen with Sunderland Spottwood Cassie and Angelo Passetto, Simenon When I Was Old, Eleanor Whitney Invitation to Joy, and Cecelia Holland The Earl. Reviewers note stately pace, literary style, and strong but uneven storytelling, with biographies and historical fiction highlighted.
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Matilda
Anjou
Henry I
England
Stephen of
Henry II
Fulk
Earl of
Stafford
Thierry Ironhand
Rannulf
Hugh
Henry
Stephen
Miss Holland
Earl
Miss Holand
Doug Anderson
UPI
Charter changes face Middlebury voters
Middlebury voters will consider charter amendments in the general election. Proposed changes include appointing the town treasurer by selectmen, increasing the board of selectmen from five to seven, electing high school and elementary directors at town meeting, requiring school boards to have estimated budgets ready before Town Meeting, quarterly auditor reports, printed minutes filed in two libraries and the town clerk’s office, a recall procedure for elected officials, publication of payroll and board vacancies, and prescribed timetables for budget publication and hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlebury
Board of Selectmen
Dartmouth computer tracks cancer victims in New Hampshire and Vermont
A high speed computer at Dartmouth College manages a cancer registry of over 8,000 patients in New Hampshire and Vermont, enabling on demand analysis and personalized radiation treatment planning. The Kiewit Computation Center stores about 97 data items per patient, totaling over 710,000 facts, to aid epidemiological studies, health planning, and hospital performance comparisons.
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Hanover
N.H
Highspeed
Dartmouth College
New Hampshire
Vermont
Kiewit
Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital
Dartmouth Medical School
Frank W. Lane
Department of Therapeutic Radiology
Lane
Dartmouth
DTSS
Cancer Registry
Division of Public Health
Vermont argues New York sludge report is whitewash
Vermont Water Resources Commissioner Martin Johnson blasts a New York report on Lake Champlain sludge deposits near Ticonderoga as a whitewash. Vermont has sued New York and International Paper Co. to remove the deposits, contending they lower water quality. The report claims sludge is decomposing and dissolved oxygen standards remain unmet, noting improvements after IPC shut its mill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin
New York Environmental Conservation Agency
Ticonderoga
N.Y
Vermont
New York
The
International Paper Co
Lake Champlain
IPC
Williams students seek new Williams Inn design from Treadway
In Williamsport Massachusetts a petition signed by over 800 Williams students calls on Williams College to press the Treadway Company for a better Williams Inn design. Endorsed by the College Council, the drive is led by Andrew Bader and Bradford Paul. The petition urges replacing current designs if Treadway cannot deliver an acceptable plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Treadway Company
Williams Inn
Williams
Andrew Bader
Williams Record
Bradford Paul
The
Advocate
Treadway Corporation
Nuke foes seek to avert more radio waste discharges
The New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution urged the AEC to prevent similar radioactive water releases after Minnesota discharges. They cite Vermont Yankee and Monticello plants and question regulatory conformity and future use, warning of public health risks. The group linked political pressure to licensing as irreversible operation looms.
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Putney
UPI
New England Coalition On Nuclear Pollution
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Minnesota
Vermont Yankee
Esther Poneck
Coalition
Poneck
Monticello
Connecticut
Mississippi
Deane C. Davis
Vernon Atomic Generating Plant
Vermont social concerns group plans for 1972 year
Burlington report shows the Vermont Conference of Social Concerns forming committees for the 1972 annual meeting under Daniel Holland. The board approved foster care forums with NASW, funding for five state areas, and collaboration on bills for social issues with legislators. Next board meeting set for January 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Vermont Conference of Social Concerns
Daniel Holland
National Association of Social Workers
Vermont
NASW
Holland
Wayne Calderera
Jim Howland
Robert Hatfield
Margo Jean Hathaway
Savings bank names trustees in North Adams
Mrs Violet R Krum of North Adams and Edward T Flynn of Williamstown were named to the North Adams Hoosac Savings Bank board of trustees at the annual corporators meeting. Krum is the bank's first woman trustee and a longtime employee. Flynn is president of a local funeral home and lives with his wife Florence Nagle and their six children in Williamstown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Adams
Mass
Violet R. Krum
Edward T. Flynn
Williamstown
North Adams Hoosac Savings Bank Board of Trustees
Krum
Humphrey Krum
Robert Bashevkin
John Hess
George H. Bateman
John C. Cashin
George A. Fairs
Atty. Bernard Lenhoff
William E. Senecal
Mounted Posse re elects Maj Van Steemburg
The Bennington County Mounted Posse held its December meeting at Hart Baldwins Burgess Road home. Maj Cornelius H Van Steemburg will continue as commander after being instrumental in forming the unit in 1966 and leading search and rescue efforts. New officers elected for 1972 include James Beattie as executive officer Nancy Gwordz secretary and Carol Gleason treasurer. A fences talk by Nancy Gwordz and winter hoof care instruction by Scott Van Steemburg followed the business portion. Refreshments were served by Mr and Mrs Baldwin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Hart Baldwin
Burgess Road
Cornelius H. van Steemburg
Mounted Posse
Posse
Maj
van Steemburg
Massachusetts
New York
Bennington County
James Beattie
Nancy Gwordz
Carol Gleason
Scott van Steemburg
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the Green Glen
Robert Penn Warren
Random House
Sunderland Spottwood
West Tennessee
Cassie
Drudge
Murray Gilford
Angelo Passetto
Spottwood
Warren
All the King’s Men
Jeanne Lesem
Georges Simenon
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Simenon
Jules Maigret
Richard H. Growald
Eleanor Searle Whitney
Harper & Row
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Whitney
Billy Graham
Ohio
Eleanor Whitney
America
Frederick M. Winship
Cecelia Holland
Knoph
Middlebury Town
Gerald
Morrissey, Inc
Bennington, Vt
Swayze
Richard W. Mallory
Ronald R. Knapp
County National Bank
Main Street
James W. Merunowicz
Republican Town Committee
County National
Treadways
Walker
Maixer
Baldwin
Town & Country
Granth Restaurants
Esso
Winslow
J.H. Winslow
First National Stores
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Finast
Greenberg
Home & Bunding Supply Center
IM. Greenberg
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