Hoosick Falls Resident Wins Commission
Hoosick Falls resident Alfred S. Whittet has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force after graduating from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB Texas. Selected through competitive exam, he will train as a supply operations officer at Amarillo AFB Texas following his 1960 graduation from Hoosick Falls Central High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Alfred S. Whittet
Alfred Whittet
Saratoga St
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
U.S. Air Force
Officer Training School
OTS
Lackland Afb
St. Whitter
Amarillo Afb
Hoosick Falls Central
Dorset Elementary Hosts Granville High Band
Dorset Elementary School welcomed Granville High School Band for a parents and students program. The Dorset chorus also performed six songs with multicultural titles. Granville, directed by James Johnson, featured 48 members and a standout solo by Anthony Dalton on clarinet.
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James Johnson
Granville High School
Dorset Elementary School
Skinner
Dorset
Granville High
Dorset School
Pablo
the Reindeer
Donald Johnson
East Dorset
Linda Langworthy
Anthony Dalton
Allen Granger wins two medals at New England Festival
Allen Granger of Wilmington earned first and second place at a recent New England Music Festival Association audition in Barre. He won first for an individual tuba solo Scherzo Pomposo by Walters and second for a sextette ensemble, accompanied by band instructor John Hanson.
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Allen
Butch) Granger
Wilmington
New England Music Festival Association
Barre
Walters
John Hanson
Wilmington Volunteer Fire Department
Main Street
Howard Taylor
Parmelee and Howe
Wilmington High School
Glee Club
John Colona
Allan Granger
John Hansen
Frosty the Snow Man
Lionstone
Oscar Dalem Chalet
West Brattleboro
Whitingham
Jacksonville
Dist
Bernard Keasthy
McCarthy
Jack Benjamin
West Halifax Couple Wed Fifty Years
WEST HALIFAX An open house honored Mr and Mrs Leon LaRock on their 50th wedding anniversary set for Dec 24 at the schoolhouse. The couple, married Dec 24 1916 in Marlboro, live in Halifax and run the West Halifax general store with LaRock driving the school bus and serving as a National Forest fire warden. They are active in Pomona Grange Guiding Star Grange state Grange and she is a Halifax Electric Cooperative director and Brattleboro Reformer correspondent. They have five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.
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West Halifax
Leon LaRock
Douglas Carpenter
Bernard LaRock
Guilford
Victor
Olive Allen
Wilmington
Marlboro
Shaw
Halifax
LaRock
Pomona Grange
Guiding Star Grange
State Grange
Halifax Electric Cooperative
Brattleboro Reformer
LaRocks
Shaftsbury Soldier Promoted to Specialist Fourth Class
Sherman L. Moffitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Moffitt, promoted after eight months in Vietnam to specialist fourth class. He trained at Fort Dix where he earned an expert rifleman trophy and completed heavy equipment training at Fort Leonard Wood before deployment to the Far East. He may receive mail at Spec. 4 Sherman L. Moffitt RA11469168 Co.D 169th EN. Bn. Const APO 96491 San Francisco California.
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Shaftsbury
Sherman L. Moffitt
George Moffitt
Vietnam
Fort Dix
N.J
Moffitt
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo
Far East
Co.d
APO
San Francisco
Calif
Humphreys Fly to New Mexico to Visit Jones Family
Mr. and Mrs. David Humphreys left Monday for New York and will fly to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a week with their daughter and son-in-law, architect Arthur W. Jones, at the University of New Mexico. They expect to return December 27 to usher in the New Year. Harlan Coolidge, taken by ambulance to Putnam Memorial Hospital Saturday, is reported by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. John Coolidge, to be feeling better. his daughter Nancy and her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Humphreys
New York
Arthur W. Jones
Albuquerque
Harlan Coolidge
Putnam Memorial Hospital
John Coolidge
Probate admitted for Mary R. Cavanaugh estate in Hoosick Falls
Surrogate A Franklin Mahon admits the probate of the will of Mary R. Cavanaugh who died July 25 in Hoosick Falls. The estate, valued under $7,000, bequeaths equal shares to daughters Agnes B. Cavanaugh and Rita C. Cavanaugh. Agnes B. Cavanaugh named executrix. both daughters reside at 11 Nixon St. Attorney John S. Davison advised. husband Irving Eaton visited from Perkinsville. Bromley Junior Ski program at Dorset Elementary opens Jan 7 offering four free ski days Dec 22, 23, 24, 25. Program costs $2 per student for ski instruction and access to Bromley for free days, under Mrs. Peter Schoffstall. Transportation chaired by Mrs. Leon Edgerton. volunteer instructors coordinated by Mrs. William Gilbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Franklin Mahoney
Mary R. Cavanaugh
Hoosick Falls
Bromley
Dorset
Marm Receives Medal of Honor for Ia Drang Heroism
Army Secretary Stanley R. Resor presented the Medal of Honor to 1st Lt. Walter J. Marm Jr. of Washington Pennsylvania. Marm was among four recipients announced by the White House for valor in the Ia Drang Valley battle in South Vietnam on November 14 1965.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Army
Stanley R. Resor
Walter J. Marm Jr
Washington, Pa
Marm
White House
Ia Drang Valley
South Vietnam
Christmas Vacation Starts for Centenary Student
Judith Anne Weeks of Centenary College for Women Hackettstown N J begins her Christmas vacation on Wednesday and will return January 4. Helene Thompson listed as contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judith Anne Weeks
Centenary College For Women
Hackettstown
N.J
Hoosick Rescue Squad logs 976 miles in November
Town of Hoosick Rescue Squad totals 976 miles in November with 47 calls. Sixty two hours fifty minutes spent on rescue work. 26 emergencies and 11 transfers. Two ambulances operated, including a 1965 Cadillac and a 1964 Chevrolet. second vehicle cited as a major asset.
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Town of
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Town of Hoosick
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Albany Medical Center
Leonard Hospital
Putnam Memorial
Hoosick Falls Health Center
Hoosick
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Fla
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William McKeighan
Salem, N.Y
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Carlo Walter — HO
Brattleboro Club
Our Lady of Fatima Guild Church School Teachers of Wilmington
Church Hall
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
Baptist Sale
Baptist Ladies Aid Society of Wilmington
Alice Robinson
Claire Woods
Caroline Oddy
Hazel Nelson
Ethel Southworth
Marjorie Rice
Eva Wheeler
Yule Tea
Women’s Guild of
St. Mary’s-in-the-Mountains Episcopal Church
Kenneth Kimball
Horace Earle
Lynde Kimball
Frank Green
Bennington
the Wermwow
Ansi
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
BRATTLEBORO + BENNINGTON COMPANY
RUTLAND + BELLOWS FALLS
Chester
Manchester Center
Shell
Johnson Oil Co. Inc
Bennington RD
Bennington, VT
Oern
Spec
Sherman Moffitt
Diane Alden
Peru
Vermont
Windsor
Dibble
Marcen Skinner
Nancy
Edith Beaumont
John S. Davison
Irving Eaton
Perkinsville
Bennington Hospital
Peter Schoffstall
Schoffstall
Leon Edgerton
William Gilbert
Arlington East
Arlington
Helene Thompson
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U.S
Galveston
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