Lecture Planned at Marlboro on Mansion and Child
Marlboro College hosts an 8 pm Monday lecture January 2 by Charles T Samuel s assistant English professor Williams College. Topic The Mansion and the Child. Public invited. International guests arrive under Operation Friendship include Polish nuclear physicist Ludwik Kowalsky Japanese student Yuzuru Nakabe and English chemistry student Richard Moss staying with local hosts.
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Marlboro
Charles T. Samuels
Williams College
Marlboro College
Storey
Peru
Dickens
Steven Farnum
Scrooge
Wesley Johnson
Bob Cratchit
Thomas Dibble Jr
Marley
James Hulett
Fred
Elizabeth DeSchweinitz
Wanda Norse
Deborah
Columbia University
Thomas R. Dibble
Yuzuru Nakabe
Richard Moss
Bernard Baker
Russell Inn
International House
New York City
Vermont
New York State
Richard P. Taylor
Local church meetings and holiday family news in North Bennington
North Bennington Norshaft Lions meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Shaftsbury Methodist Church. Women’s Fellowship of the Congregational Church meets Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the church. Mrs. Arthur Jones leads small group discussions. Mrs. George H. Elwell hosts her extended family visiting for the holidays from Memphis and Wooster, with members teaching and studying at Vanderbilt University School of Law and the College of Wooster.
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Norshaft Lions
Shaftsbury Methodist Church
Women’s Fellowship
The
Congregational Church
Arthur Jones
George H. Elwell
Alan Arfken
Max Spencer
Memphis
Dairymen Plan Marketing Meeting at Manchester
Dairymen from Manchester Bennington and Rutland counties will gather at Grange Hall to discuss milk marketing on January 11. The day includes a 10:30 a.m. start, a 12:30 dinner, and a 1:30 p.m. panel with Aplin Webster Arms Seward and others on market developments and cooperation.
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Manchester
Bennington
Rutland
Grange Hall
Cooperative Federation
Richard Aplin
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Fred Webster
Usda Federal Extension Service
Northeast
United Farmers
Eastern Max Producers
Northern Farms
NEMPA
Dairyman’s League
Former resident uses Colburn House in Manchester over Christmas
Mrs. Duncan Miller, formerly of Manchester and now living in Oakland Maine, spent Christmas weekend there and used the Colburn House as headquarters. Firemen responded at 8 10 Thursday night to extinguish a mattress fire at the Duffany residence in Manchester Depot. Fire Chief Lynford W. Bourn said firefighters confined the blaze to one room with moderate damage.
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Duncan Miller
Oakland
Maine
Colburn House
Duffany
Manchester
Lynford W. Bourn
Hoosick Falls Fire Destroys Dolan Avenue Barn
Hoosick Falls residents Roy and Mrs. Draper recently returned from Florida while the local Fire Department battled a Thursday afternoon blaze that reduced a Dolan Avenue barn to ashes. The property belonged to W. Bissonette. Mrs. Gilman Carver of 32 River Street is hospitalized in Cambridge with pneumonia after being taken there by the Hoosick Rescue Squad.
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Roy Draper
Hoosick Street
Florida
Dolan Avenue
W. Bissonette
Gilman Carver
River St
Mary McClellan Hospital
Cambridge
Federal Forester Risdon Retires After 30 Years of Service
Manchester report notes Edward D. Risdon retires from the U S Forest Service after more than three decades. A small informal gathering at 3 p m at the local office will honor him with a retirement gift and letters from Forest Service colleagues nationwide. He began in 1935 with the CCC, later served in Green Mountain National Forest and Northern Ranger District before joining the Central District in Manchester. Risdon, a trusted timber measurement expert, has been a forest check scaler and lives with his wife Florence in Mt. Tabor.
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Manchester
Edward D. Risdon
U.S. Forest Service
Forest Service
Forest Service Office
Risdon
Federal Service
CCC
Danby
Green Mountain National Forest
Northern Ranger District
Rochester, Vt
Central
Florence
Mt. Tabor
Whitney son of local residents enlists in Navy
Robert G. Whitney son of Mr and Mrs William L Whitney enlisted in the U S Navy for four years. He left by plane from Springfield Massachusetts Tuesday for ten weeks of basic training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station Illinois. Whitney graduated in June 1966 from North Bennington High School and has been employed at Eagle Square Mfg Co.
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Clifton H. Miller
U.S. Army
Europe
Patricia Ann Bisson
North Pownal
Paul Miller
West Fulton
N.Y
Fort Dix
N.J
Fort Monmouth
Miller
Signal Corps
Orleans
France
Rolland Roy
Pownal
Robert G. Whitney
William L. Whitney
U.S. Navy
Springfield
Mass
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Ill
Whitney
North Bennington High School
Eagle Square Mfg. Co
Stephen M. Freely
Henry Freely
Shaftsbury
Freely
Bennington High School
Ben Mont Co
Christmas Weekend Visits and Charity Appearances
Arlington residents Mr and Mrs Joseph Mooney of Pittsfield Mass and Mr and Mrs Robert Keefe of Nashua NH spent Christmas weekend with Mrs Sarah Doyle. Miss Inez Smith and Mr and Mrs Edward Doyle joined for dinner. Maureen Mooney and Bill Keefe stayed with their grandmother. Princess Marta Sue Crawford has been busy entertaining at Caverly Child Health Center Brandon Training School the Children's Home in Burlington and the Home for the Aged in Rutland during the holiday season and has performed at area children's Christmas parties.
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Joseph Mooney
Pittsfield
Mass
Robert Keefe
Nashua
N.H
Sarah Doyle
Inez Smith
Edward Doyle
Maureen Mooney
Bill Keefe
Princess Marta-Sue Crawford
Caverly Child Health Center
Brandon
Burlington
Home For the
Rutland
Williams Middlebury Win Sloan Grants to Four New England Colleges
New England colleges Williams College in Williamstown Massachusetts Middlebury College in Middlebury Vermont Mt Holyoke College in South Hadley Massachusetts and Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts received a total Sloan Foundation grant of 1.55 million dollars to bolster science education. Middlebury also received a 300 thousand dollar grant from the Charles A Dana Foundation to finance the first phase of its Science Center costing 3.1 million dollars.
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New York
UPI
New England
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Williams College
Williamstown
Mass
Middlebury College
Middlebury
Mt. Holyoke College
South Hadley
Smith College
Northampton
Charles A. Dana
James I. Armstrong
Peruvian student arrives for three month stay in Hoosick Falls
Ricardo Soriano, 16, from Lima Peru, arrives at Kennedy Airport and will attend HFCS for a three month visit through the International Fellowship Program. He will choose classes with Dale Mihuta on Tuesday. Two South American girls have been guests for a month, with another girl expected in January.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Robert Mihuta
Dale
Hill Road
Hoosick
Ricardo Soriano
Lima
Peru
Ricardo
South America
HFCS
Kennedy Airport
Mihuta
Santiago
Chile
Charles Filkins
Frederick Miller
Robert Stetson
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Arfken
Spencer
Elwell
College of Wooster
Wooster
Ohio
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Matapoisett
Mason Welling
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William A. Flood
Bonnie
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Evanston, Ill
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Connecticut
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Pownal Pioneers 4-H Club
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Crescent Manor
Sourcliffe Nursing Home
Jennie Fowler
Louis Harris Sr
Ernest Welch
Regina Therriault
Avis Peckham
Lauriston Wilcox
Harry Andrews
A. Coleman Mason
Jill Snow
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Joanne Miller
Patty Andrews
Edith Beaumont
Grafton
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William E. Burns
River Street
Mary Alice Cluett
Sanford Cluett
Johnson Hill Road
RED Cross
Lawrence A. Wheaton
Wilder Ave
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Athens
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Fran Stacy
Arlington
Helene Thompson
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World of Light
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