Dorset Community News Highlights and Aftermath
The Baker family welcomes a seven pound twelve ounce son born February 26 on P Street. Maplewood 4-H Club reports 24 members at first meeting under Mrs. McFall with officers including Nini Lee president and Marcia McWayne vice president. PTA dance nets $30 profit. Dorset Playhouse production of South Pacific grossed $850 with about $500 net. Town Meeting Day luncheon planned at Dorset Elementary to support the hot lunch program. volunteers include Mrs. Irving Jones and Mrs. Gordon Mooney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Baker
P Street
John III
Theresa
Bonnie Jones
Maplewood 4-H Club
Robert McFall
Nini Lee
Marcia McWayne
Helen Warren
Mildred Clough
Roberta Baldwin
Theda McWayne
Anita Parks
Paul McWayne
John Coolidge
William Cairns
Ethel McWayne
Miriam Tifft
East Dorset Committee
Harold Beebe
Robert Dressler
Victoria Pinsoneault
Gordon Mooney
Dorset
Dorset Playhouse
SRO
Dorset Players
William Gilbert
Ted Cook
Manchester
Dorset Pta
Irving Jones
Jones
Lillian Stannard
Merwin Wells
Joyce Miller
New Director Named At Green Mountain
Dr. Raymond A. Withey of Green Mountain College announces Franklin G. Minton of Troy New York as director of college relations. Minton, 10-year RPI public relations veteran, will start March 15. former Pottsville Journal editor and Marine Corps veteran brings sports publicity and PR leadership to the college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville
Rensselaer Public Relations Department
RPI
All-Out Effort in Dorset Red Cross Drive Plans
Dorset prepares a month long Red Cross drive led by acting chair Mrs Peter Blodgett with a large group of solicitors. The note recalls last year s blood program totals and gamma globulin distribution and highlights Red Cross water safety certificates issued to 2 152 200 people as the 50th anniversary is marked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorset
Red Cross
Peter Blodgett
R.S. Fenn
Charles Smith
Robert West
Russell Fenn
Helen Howard
Orla Reed
Katherine Child
Robert Leonard
George Finlay
Sydney Meachem
Brenda Parsons
Leon Edgerton
Ernest Edgerton Jr
Helen Bryan
David Gilbert
Raymond Bushee
Ada Towslee
Vincent Cepela
Leland Palmer
Eugene Weber
Clyde Zollars
Frank Burke
Ruth Taylor
Grace Duncanson
L.L. Riley
Robert McIntyre
Barbara Scadding
Arthur Joyce
Edith Snare
James Lee II
K.K. Harding
William Barrows Jr
Russell Parks
Ray Foote
Rufus Gilbert
Margaret Thompson
Gloria Jones
William Gilbert
Albert Knowles
Ford Shrader
George McWayne
Stanley Towsley
William T. Burns
Robert McFall
Harry Sheldon Jr
Malcolm Cooper
Manchester
Arlington Cubs Celebrate Birthday of Boy Scouting
Arlington Cub Scouts held a birthday party at Fisher School for Troop 1 Ridgefield Park New Jersey. Joseph Galli spoke on England and America scouting history with drawings. Earl Howard awarded prizes to Cubs including Charles Marra John Hess Joseph Thompson Ricky Davis Kevin Walsh Michael Hill Sam Pike William Hall and others. Den 4 won attendance banner. Den 3 earned silver cup. tug of war won by Den 1. ice cream and cake followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Galli
Den 3
England
America
Earl Howard
Cubs
Charles Marra
John Hess
Joseph Thompson
Ricky Davis
Kevin Walsh
Michael Hill
Sam Pike
William Hall
Charles Howard
Bear
Roy Lundeen
Barry Mattison
Ray Lufkin
Daryl Brown
Wolf
John Burke
James Corey
Denner
Robert Masi
William Brown
John Kendall
Gold Arrow
Joseph
Den 4
Den 1
Williams debaters win McGill Annual Debating Tournament in Montreal
Williams College teams won first place at the McGill Annual Debating Tournament in Montreal tied to the McGill winter carnival. About 45 to 50 schools competed. Williams sophomores Ronald J. Bettauer of Teaneck New Jersey and David B. Young of Columbia Missouri topped the negative side on the resolution that the United States and Canada should be joined politically and economically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
McGill
McGill University
Montreal
Williams
Ronald J. Bettauer
Teaneck
N.J
David B. Young
Columbia
United States
Canada
Pownal Board to revise checklist and appoint election clerks
The Board of Civil Authority finalizes plans for revising the voter checklist and naming ballot and assisting clerks for Election Day. Checklists are posted in town offices and neighboring stores. Absentee ballot applications must arrive by 9 p.m. Friday. Scout troop plans a winter survival campout March 7 and 8 at Sucker Pond with 14 scouts registered and four new members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Civil Authority
Pownal Center
Champney’s
North Pownal
Powell’s
South Pownal
Rachel Mason
Mason
Boy Scouts of
Pownal
Sucker Pond
Timothy Wright
Alan Strobridge
Craig Heil
David Walsh
Lake Wales, Fla
Gulf Ridge
Arlington Considers Old Station for Town Offices and Vault
Arlington voters weigh buying the railroad station for town offices and a vault versus building anew. Estimate shows station plus lot at about 8500 and vault 4000, with potential tax loss from selling the station. a new site near Olney Hill would require a separate record-storage building and adequate parking. Also discussed is adding a kindergarten with a 12896.50 budget and locating space over the post office to meet state law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arlington
Olney Hill
Public Records
Montpelier
Leon Wagner
Williams Tolear Down Greylock Hall
The 37 sophomores housed in Greylock Hall at Williams College will move during the week of March 15 to allow demolition of the old Greylock Hotel purchased in 1937 for dormitory use. Demolition enables early start on four Greylock residential houses and a dining-hall building at Routes 1 and 7. Bids for the new construction expected back March 18. the project may delay if bids are too high. Sophomores are to vacate Greylock Hall by March 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamstown
Mass
Greylock Hall
Williams College
Greylock
Greylock Corner
Architects Collaborative of
Cambridge
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