Benhi Catamount Winners Named In George Mason Essay Contest
Benhi Catamounts announce the winners of the second George Mason essay contest at the Christmas assembly. Carol Watkin is the top winner with Joan Mollica and Laurie Doxsee placing second and third. The piece also highlights Gunston Hall links, Cat Chat editorial notes, and school life through late 1960s Bennington student culture.
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Benhi
Richard Caswell
History Department
Carol Watkin
Keith Watkin
West Road
Joan Mollica
Atty
John Mollica
Walloomsac Road
Laurie Doxsee
Arthur Doxsee
Putnam Street
George Mason
Virginia
L. Alden Graves
Bennington
Gunston Hall
Cat Chat Pep Paper Highlights Bendi Events
Bennington High School’s pep paper Cat Chat releases its second issue, issued last Wednesday by the Student Council. It covers sports stories and upcoming events at Bendi, a usual feature of Cat Chat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bendi
Bennington High School
What’s Cooking This Week In Home Economics
This week’s What’s Cooking says time was tight last week. Home projects are underway in the Home Economics laboratories this week and in recent weeks. Projects include sewing, knitting, and various handwork.
Benhi graduates head home for holidays from UVM and more
Bennington celebrates return home for Christmas as many 1965 Benhi graduates at University of Vermont come back with a wave of classmates. Freshmen and sophomores across Benhi linked to UVM Castletown and Norwich campus cycles join family visits, ROTC cadets, and nursing paths while two 1965 grads study at Missouri State College.
Dances Teach in Girls and Boys Gym Classes
Physical education classes last week taught cowboy and pioneer dances from 1750 to 1850, plus progression jazz dances. Teachers Diane Le Blanc, Diane Hanson, Dale Purdy, Amy Gillins, and Susan Gilmore led routines as students learned Harlem Anytime and Greek dance steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hull
Portland
Washington
Cincinnati
America
Diane LeBlanc
Diane Hanson
Harlem
Dale Purdy
Amy Gillins
Susan Gilmore
Andrea Kapetan
Greece
Math Award Honors Paula Dowd In School's Week Program
Judith Burbin's 6th period algebra class adopts Student of the Week with Paula Dowd as first winner. She is praised for friendliness, courtesy, honesty, industry, helpfulness, studiousness and dependability and is daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Dowd of 3 Bradford Place. No eighth grade winner this week. Both classes expect further winners after Christmas vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judith Burbin
Paula Dowd
Paula
Paul E. Dowd
Bradford Place
Holiday Work For Bendi Ninth Graders On Great Expectations
Marianne Reeves, English teacher at Bendi, guides ninth graders through Dickens novel Great Expectations with a Christmas vacation project to illustrate time and setting. Students consider salt and floor maps or character models, and an outline with materials directions and expected results has been collected as they share high hopes for their projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianne Reeves
Bendi
Charles Dickens
Reeves
Gunman Escapes With $309 After Park Chase
In Oakland California a gunman fled with 309 dollars from a service station after a two block chase. A special officer was knocked unconscious when he ran into a tree in Defremery Park during the gun battle.
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Oakland
Calif
UPI
Special Polices
Defremery Park
Pill sparks debate on American morality at AAAS meeting
At UC Berkeley the AAAS symposium discusses the birth control pill's impact. Martin B Loeb argues pills make sex recreational and challenge morality, while other scientists at the session acknowledge its effectiveness and note discussion norms are shifting. A separate Moscow briefing hints at future space rendezvous and comments on potential employer influence in family planning.
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Berkeley
Calif
API
American Association For the Advancement of Science
AAAS
University of California
Martin B. Loeb
School of Social Work
University of Wisconsin
Loeb
Hoosick Falls Couple Announce Engagement
Mrs Dominck Beninati of Hoosick Falls announces the engagement of her daughter Linda Anne Beninati to John Albert Eldred of Potter Hill son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Eldred The bride to be is a St Marys Academy graduate now at Albany Business College The groom is a Hoosick Falls Central School graduate currently in the Army stationed at Fort Hood Texas No wedding date yet set
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Dominck Beninati
Linda Anne
John Albert Eldred
Potter Hill
Kenneth Eldred
Beninati
St. Mary’s Academy, Hoosick Falls
Albany Business College
Hoosick Falls Central School
Fort Hood
Texas
Guess Who Names U.S. Bill Portraits
Washington UPI reports a trivia tease asking who appears on denominations 1000, 5000, and 10000 dollars. The answer lists Grover Cleveland James Madison and Woodrow Wilson as the pictured figures on those bills.
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Washington
UPI
Grover Cleveland
James Madison
Woodrow Wilson
Married Allen Harris in Suffern NY ceremony
SUFFERN New York announces the December 11 marriage of Mrs Tommie Harris of Chapel Hill North Carolina and F Ellwood Allen of Dorell Farm Bennington. The wedding took place at the Kennedy home in Suffern. The bride works as assistant administrator for UNC Chapel Hill graduate dental school. The groom heads Allen Organization Bennington and is a noted landscape architect. They spent 10 days in New York City and plan to reside in Bennington in April.
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Suffern
N.Y
Tommie Harris
Chapel Hill
N.C
F. Ellwood Allen
Dorell Farm
Bennington
John I. Kennedy
Kennedy
Allen
Barbara
University of North Carolina
Allen Organization
New York City
Allen and Warner Couple Tie The Knot In Rutland
Miss Joan F. Warner daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold C Warner of Bennington and Thomas F Allen son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Allen of Middlebury wed December 18 at 2 pm officiated by Justice John W Barrett at 36 Hazel Street Their reception followed at 119 Baxter Street hosted by Mr and Mrs Sidney Tricell Relatives and friends from Middlebury and Bennington attended The groom works for Swift and Co Rutland and they plan to reside in Clarendon
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Middlebury
Bennington
Swift & Co
Rutland
Clarendon
YMCA Bennington Area Schedule Changes This Week
Regular programs at the Bennington Area YMCA are not held this week. Facilities including pool, tables, reading rooms, television, weights, showers, bowling alleys and gym are open 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. with time blocks for girls bowling tournaments on Monday and Tuesday, a girls hike on Tuesday, and a girls volleyball tournament Wednesday. Thursday and Friday open, Saturday closed.
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Bennington Area
YMCA
Luci Baines Johnson to be 15th White House bride
Luci Baines Johnson 18, engaged to Patrick Nugent 22, may marry in the White House as the fifteenth White House wedding. The couple headed to the LBJ Ranch after Christmas. Nugent an Air Force trainee must report to Lackland AFB. Vatican dispensation would be needed for a White House ceremony. Lynda Bird Johnson 21 planned to visit Evanston Wyoming with boyfriend Brent Eastman. The last White House wedding occurred in 1942 for Harry Hopkins and Louise Macy.
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Austin
Tex
UPI
Luci Baines Johnson
White House
Elizabeth Carpenter
Luci
Patrick J. Nugent
LBJ
Waukegan
Ill
Air Force
Nugent
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Patrick O’boyle
Washington
Johnson Ranch
Lynda Bird Johnson
Evanston
Wyo
Brent Eastman
Jackson Hole
Eastman
University of California
Medical School
San Francisco
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Louise Gill Macy
Preparing Children For Tooth Removal
In Ventura California UPI reports Richard Tracy serving a 50 day sentence for a traffic violation has petitioned Superior Court for a wig claiming a jail barber cut his hair short as retaliation for his habeas corpus petitions from Ventura County Jail. In Berkeley UPI notes Dr Dewitt C Baldwin Jr of Harvard Medical School said withholding information from children before tooth extraction is psychologically unsound. He cites a 45 child survey ages 8 to 14 showing moderate preoperative anxiety is normal and helpful with one to two days preparation recommended.
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Ventura, Calif
UPI
Richard Tracy
Superior Court
Tracy
Ventura County
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Drysdale’s
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University of Vermont
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Linda Sibley
Tarrant Sibley
Joanne Vallee
Joseph Vallee
Gail Winn
Fred Winn
Paul Woodard
Paul Woodard Sr
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UVM
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Gordon Garrison
Castleton State College
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Trisha Powsner
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Trish
Norwich
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Edwin Peterson
Charles Wood
Scott Davis
James Davis
Penny Bergquist
Roy Bergquist
Grinnell College
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Iowa
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Samaritan Hospital
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Edward Sibley
Anne Fairman
Ina Fairman
Jeanne Waite
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Leslie Winn
Moscow
UPS
Moscow Radio
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Alexei Yermilov
United States
Alexei Leonov
Leonov
Yermilov
Bennington, VT
Eldred
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Allen-Harris
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Agway Petroleum Corp
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Luci Baines
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