Crescendo of Concerts at Bennington College Carriage Barn
A week of concerts at Bennington College culminated in a well attended Christmas program featuring four alumnae soprano players and guest harpist Joyce Rosenfield. Maurice Ravel and Villa-Lobos pieces impressed and an unusual Indian raga on sitar by Om Prakash Sharma drew a small, captivated crowd. The MIT Concert Band performed Saturday with Schoenberg and Schuller selections. future echoes promise more baroque violin organ and voice performances by Orrea Pernel and others.
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Bennington College
Palestrina
Joyce Rosenfield
Henry Brant
Maurice Ravel
Susan Stewart
Luigi Tavelli
Orrea Pernel
Eileen Carrier
George Finckel
Gunnar Schonbeck
Om Prakash Sharma
New Delhi
MIT
John Corley
Arnold Schoenberg
Gunther Schuller
Reinhoud van der Linde
Tina Calabro
Bookmobiles to Sell Paperbacks in Vermont Program
Free Public Library Service bookmobiles will display 50 standard paperback titles at five regional libraries. Vermont libraries can buy these titles at a discount to stretch budgets, with Rutland News Co offering 20 percent off all items. Librarians may inspect the displays and order directly from the Rutland dealer.
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Montpelier
Vermont
FPLS
Elena Horton
Rutland News Co
Rutland
Pownal PTA Hear Math Coordinator On Modern Arithmetic
Thirty Pownal Parent-Teacher Group members heard Alan Page, mathematics coordinator for Bennington Graded Schools, discuss current arithmetic teaching at the elementary level. He urged calling modern math cone temporary and noted its fit for a fast changing world with a specialized vocabulary. Page said supplementary films are available through the Science Research Association. The group nominated Mrs. Jackson Ostrander, Mrs. Donald Rogers and Mrs. Harold Marshall for officer elections next month. The club reported $351.89 from the Thanksgiving project with turkey awards to Harold Weaver, Harold Marshall, and Rev. Isabel G. King. They voted to buy two World Book Encyclopedia supplements and will sponsor candy gifts for all grades with 333 candy boxes ready for distribution. The attendance prize went to George Daley’s room at the Center School.
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Pownal
Alan Page
Bennington
Page
Benenington
Science Research Association
Jackson Ostrander
Donald Rogers
Harold Marshall
Harold Weaver
North Pownal
Isabel G. King
Pownal Center
Write-in Moyle Narrowly Trails In Walhalla Mayor Race
In Walhalla South Carolina voters showed strong support for Mayor Sam Moyle as a write-in, nearly matching winner Joe T. Rogers with 148 write-in votes versus Rogers’s tally, five more. Moyle was not an official candidate but drew significant backing from mountain town residents.
Mistletoe Market Fades in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma City the mistletoe market has nearly vanished as demand shifts to artificial sprigs. Wholesale florists report little live mistletoe stock and minimal yearly sales, with some farm youth groups still supplying a few sprigs. Mistletoe is the state flower and plentiful, though a parasite to timber trees.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
Oklahoma
Wholeesale House
Future Farmers of America
Sooner
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