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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1962
Page
3
Last week mailmen carried Christmas cards this week thank-you notes arrive. A reader thanks her mother for beautiful gifts and a rocket for Jimmy. The message notes package arrived in perfect condition and expresses gratitude.
Brooklyn baritone Robert Merrill speaks on how his public reception after the Tonight Show boosted his versatility singing both opera and popular pieces. He discusses upcoming TV appearances on Voice of Firestone and Rodgers tribute, highlighting a warmer public persona aiding his artistry.
AP reports composer Arthur Schwartz arguing that story is the key to Broadway musical comedy success. He says a weak story sinks a show despite great music, while a strong narrative can succeed even with modest songs. He urged music apprentices to embrace experimentation as core to musical theater.
Announcement of the engagement between Susan Martha Barrows Harrington and H Alan Wood. Barrows, from Elsmere and Dorset families, attends Green Mountain College. Wood, of Dorset, is a Middlebury College senior with a biology teaching fellowship and Alpha Sigma Psi president. An April wedding is planned.
Weathersfield Center announces the engagement of Nancy May Hoisington to Dr Roger K Humphreys of Bennington. Nancy May is a Springfield High School graduate who studied at the University of Vermont and now works as a dietitian at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Dr Humphreys a Bennington native with a University of Vermont medical degree, two years in the USAF Medical Corps, and on staff at Putnam Memorial Hospital. A summer wedding is planned.
Washington report notes farmers are ironing out peaks and valleys in production and marketing patterns. The traditional ups and downs in supplies within a production year have contributed to agriculture's economic instability.
Italian born bricklayer Antino Colli entertains crowds from a building scaffold in Buenos Aires by singing arias and Italian songs while traffic stalls. He earns about 100 pesos an hour and keeps performing until police intervene.
Wednesday features turkey chow mein on rice with cabbage salad bread and butter cheese peach and milk. Thursday offers meat stew with vegetables mashed potatoes bread and butter cake and milk. Friday serves fish sticks on a bun with stewed tomatoes and potato chips plus pineapple pudding and milk.
Dorset wedding of Judith Twing McCormick daughter of Mr and Mrs John S McCormick Jr of Manchester and Peter Edward Blodgett son of Thurston P Blodgett and the late Mrs Blodgett of New York City took place Dec 22 at United Congregational Church. The Rev Robert Dana officiated. The couple will reside at Marlboro where Mr Blodgett is artist in residence at Marlboro College.
Miss Sara Louise Wellington and David Dickson Dodge announce their engagement. Miss Wellington, granddaughter of Old Bennington and Emma Willard alumna, works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Dodge, Princeton graduate, U S Army veteran, is a law student at the University of Michigan. A June wedding is planned.
Stephen Manes, 22, a Juilliard student from Vermont, substituted at the Clarion Concert in Town Hall New York after Gold and Fizdale canceled due to an accident. Critics Howard Klein Ted Strongin Louis Chapin praised his Mozart concerto debut and refined shading though some tempo conflicts with conductor Newell Jenkins. Manes to perform with the City Symphony Orchestra of New York January 6 at the American Museum of Natural History, conducted by Maxim Waldow. New York debut at Town Hall March 4.
R Marshall Witten of Williams and Witten in Bennington has been engaged as counsel by two local districts to draft legislation for merging elementary schools into a single district. Harriet Davis and John P. Riddle announced the appointment after the merger study committee urged immediate legal work and a bill for the 1963 General Assembly.
In an eight story elderly housing building in St Louis Charles E Schmidt 72 a retired dairy truck driver and amputee plans to marry Louise Metz 62 who lives on the second floor. Residents enjoy games movies arts excursions and parties as part of a lively schedule project manager Virginia Moerschol says they have become more active since moving in.
Charles Walter Reynolds of 317 Pleasant Street died suddenly Friday while at work at H C Cushman Co in North Bennington. Funeral arrangements are pending at Hanson and Walbridge Funeral Home. He is survived by his mother Mrs John W Reynolds and a sister Mrs Wallace Hall both of Bennington and a brother H Bradley Reynolds of Mechanicville NY. The family will be at the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p.m.
Mary Hanna Shea of 109 Valentine Street died at Putnam Memorial Hospital around 7:30 p.m. Friday after a long illness. Born August 6, 1909 in Bennington she was the daughter of Mrs. Jacob Hanna and the late Jacob Hanna. She married Thomas Shea on September 26, 1927 and worked at Cooper's Needle Shop then Tansitor Electronics until her death. She leaves Andrew Hanna of San Francisco, her mother and husband, nieces and nephews. Rosary at 8 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services at Gibney Haynes and Kane Funeral Home at 8:30 a.m. Monday and St. Francis de Sales Church at 9 a.m. Burial in Park Lawn Cemetery in spring. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today.
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