College to Hold Summer Workshop for High School Music Teachers
North Bennington College will run a six week music institute for full time public high school instructors from July 2 to August 11. The program, funded by the American Council of Learned Societies, covers creative music, performance workshops, and curriculum planning with graduate credit possible. A two day conference will invite principals and school board members from participating districts.
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Bennington College
American Council of Learned Societies
Pownals Voter List Refined Ahead of Town Meeting Day
The Board of Civil Authority met Friday night to revise the voter checklist for Town Meeting Day March 6. The revised list allows 789 Pownals residents to vote with six names removed and one added. future meetings are set for Feb 17 24 2 to 4 pm and March 3 at 7 30 pm.
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Board of Civil Authority
Pownals
Lee Barber
Norman Strobridge
Rachel Mason
Harold Hicks
James Sincluhce
Burton Peckham
A. Coleman Mason
Ellen Lillie
Henry Brown
Marcel Langlais
WHS Varsity Beats Arlington 75 to 61 In Friday Game
Wilmington High School hosts Arlington Eagles in a Friday night basketball contest with WHS scoring 75 while Arlington had 61. Junior varsity posted a 42 to 20 win.
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Arlington Eagles
Wilmington High School
Belitt Among Artists Honored by Brandeis
Poet Ben Belitt of Bennington College is named an award recipient among eight artists and writers chosen by Brandeis University for creative arts citations. The March 18 New York City reception includes $1,500 grants. other honorees include Behrman Bogan Cald er Slvka Donleavy Varese Shapey. Jury members include Cunningham Holmes Kunitz Nemerov and Shapiro.
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J. P. Donleavy
David Sl Vka
Ralph Shapey
J. V. Cunningham
John Holmes
Stanley Kunitz
Howard Nemerov
Harvey Shapro
Nemerov
Bennington
Norshaft Lions Club notes from Shaftsbury meeting
King Lion Bluto eyed a theft of the club bell while the Methodist Ladies served a roast beef dinner. Charlie Becker plans a Brattleboro firefighting course. Lions discuss minstrel rehearsals, a Feb 18 bowling match against Arlington, and radiation safety for firefighters. Lion Herb Leonard received a Southwest Teachers Association citation.
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Norshaft Lions
Lion Bump
Charlie Becker
Brattleboro
Norshafts
Arlington
Herb Leonard
Lions
Southwest Teachers Association
Lion Charlie Becker
Not Enough Boosters Halts Snowbound Travel
A meeting was held Monday evening February 19. Sunday morning lacked booster batteries to service frozen cars. Wilmington and Dover garages worked into the afternoon to restore service for skiers and locals. One guest’s car had a transmission so thick it turned the motor like a standard transmission after a slow push.
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Wilmington
Dover
Arlington Community Groups Plan Meetings and Ice Sculpture Craze
Arlington notices report an American Legion Auxiliary meeting on February 13 and a Lions Club vote of 500 dollars for the swimming pool excavation. Dartmouth Winter Carnival highlights feature North Side Story with a cold themed ice sculpture display and elaborate carvings including Igluk and Bearly Twist scenes.
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Vermont Farm Bureau Agents Visit Congressmen in Washington
Vermont State Farm Bureau delegates met Senators George Aiken Winston Prouty and Representative Robert Stafford in Washington during a Northeast regional conference. They opposed HR 10010 to avoid dairy industry harm and backed price supports at 3.40 per hundredweight while considering a voluntary land retirement plan to shrink agricultural output. Senator Aiken pledged careful consideration of co sponsorship for proposed legislation.
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Keith Wallace
Vermont Farm Bureau
Gertrude Hodge
Le‘and Beebe
Muriel Follett
Springfield
George Aiken
Winston Prouty
Robert T. Stafford
Farm Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Sen. Aiken
Fishers Mark 50th Anniversary in Dorset
An open house honored Mr and Mrs James Fisher of Dorset for their 50th wedding anniversary hosted by daughter Clara Ross in Wells. Guests gave a money tree gifts and cards as a four tier cake and refreshments were served. The couple married February 12 1912 in Dorset and have long resided there.
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Dorset
James Fisher
Clara Ross
Wells
Mountain Towns visit spurs Searsburg ski area progress
James Nesci and family from Meriden Conn spent a weekend at the Nesci cabin with Mr and Mrs Mario Lorenzo and their son John. Cars froze up delaying ski time while Leonard F Hatton of Eagle Ridge Inc reports ongoing weekend work to clear the Searsburg parking lot. Next project is laying out trails, aiming to complete this winter. Safer operation planned for the 1962 63 season.
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Ralph
David
Mario Lorenzo
John
Meriden
Rudd Applies for Pownal Selectman Post
POWNAL Robert E. Rudd Jr filed nominating papers with town clerk Rachel Mason becoming the sole candidate for selectman as the filing deadline nears at 5 p.m. today after a recent caucus defeat by A. Coleman Mason. He gathered more than 40 signatures.
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Robert E. Rudd Jr
Rachel Mason
Rudd
A. Coleman Mason
Selectman
North Bennington Church Groups Plan February Meetings
The Miriam Derwacher Missionary Society of the Baptist Church will meet February 14 at 2 p.m. at Mrs. George Delaney's Shaftsbury home. St Johns Sodality will meet February 14 at 8 p.m. in the library. The Mizpah Circle met last week at Mrs. Delaney's with 19 members. Arthur Whitman was installed as master councilor of DeMolay on February 3. The group pledged to clean six choir robes and order palms for Palm Sunday. The annual father and son banquet is set for February 19. Hostesses for March are Mrs. Alfred Scott and Mrs. George Whitman. A social hour followed. Our thermometer notes extreme cold across Shaftsbury and Riverside with readings of minus 20 to minus 25.
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Dorothy Kokoras
Soucy School of Sewing and Design
Lawrence
Charles Kokoras
Pownal
The
Baptist Church
Myra Borden
Jesus
Miriam Derwacher Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
George Delaney
Shaftsbury
St. John’s Sodality
Ralph Lindsey
Stanley Shaw
Alfred Scott
George Whitman
Riverside
Starling’s Third Rochester Chronicle Feature
Al fred A. Starling pens a third column for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
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N. Y
Alfred A. Starling
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
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