Vermont Academy Headmaster Advocates Private School Benefits
Lawrence E. Tuttle of Vermont Academy addressed the Manchester PTA at Burr and Burton Seminary, arguing private preparatory boarding schools offer balanced study programs, flexible course options, stronger college guidance, and attention to health and individual needs. He noted public schools educate most students and urged private schooling only if public options fail to meet a student’s needs. Weston Cate of the Vermont Education Association is set to speak next month.
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Manchester
Lawrence E. Tuttle
Vermont Academy
Saxton’s River
PTA
Burr and Burton Seminary
E. H. Henry
Tuttle
Newcastle
Henry
Yale
Avon Old Farms School
Avon
Weston Cate
Vermont Education Association
Pownal March of Dimes captains announce assistants
Pownal sections appoint visiting assistants for the upcoming drive benefiting polio birth defects and arthritis. Names listed include Pownal Center East Pownal North Pownal and South Pownal volunteers with Marcel Langlais as general chairman. Church notes cover officers budget and activities. A Jan 16 birth and post office duties also appear along with community events and Peace Corps testing info.
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March of Dimes
Pownals
Pownal Center
Alfred Chenaille
Emerson Bates
Donald Roy
Floyd Patterson
Lynda LaBonte
Barbara Patterson
Susan Gates
East Pownal
David Adler
Earl Campbell
Norman Strobridge
Earl Lillie
North Pownal
Albert Dickinson
Gail King
Susan Pudvar
Laura Langlais
Donna Harrington
Betty Ann Buck
Eileen Dickinson
Marcia Buck
South Pownal
Ralph Walk
Edgar Senecal
Grace Hill
Glenn Sweet
Ronald Paul
Lee Barber
Marcel Langlais
The
Pownall
Hoosick Falls Community Activities Highlight Local News
More than 70 girls joined the newly formed school ceramics club led by Don ald Tubbs with about 20 boys enrolled in ceramics classes, all reported to be excelling. A junior high dance drew 70 attendees featuring the twist and Mexican hat dances. Prizes and scouting gear for National Boy Scout Week come from donations by local Lions Kiwanis Elks Eagles and the American Legion. The Hoosick Falls Women’s Republican Club elected Christina S Stevens president at Elizabeth Byers home with new officers. Hazel M Hill retires. Kiwanis hosted a film Sealed in Glass by George S McKearin highlighting 3500 years of glass history, building on his late father’s renowned glass collection.
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Donald Tubbs
Industrial Arts
The
Lions, Kiwanis, Elks, Eagles
American Legion of
Town of
George S. McKearin
Kiwanis
McKearin
George S. McKearin Sr
Arthur D. Taylor
Winter Wisdom from Vermont Heart Association
The Vermont Heart Association urges readers to swap snow shoveling for skating as a safer winter exercise, suggesting handing the shovel to a capable youngster and visiting a local rink for activity.
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Rutland
Vermont Heart Association
Manchester Tax To Stay Steady
Manchester planning board and zoning commission met with Hans Klunder of the Sewall Company to adjust zoning boundaries as urged by citizens at two hearings on the proposed ordinance. A third hearing is set for next Wednesday January 24 to spell out transient commercial zone regulations. Selectmen met earlier to review the budget and propose a preliminary tax rate of 4.08 dollars, about three cents below last year, with further changes expected to keep the rate near last year’s level.
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Manchester
Planning Board and Zoning Commission
Hans Klunder
Sewall Company
Oakley Porter
Grandma Moses Leaves Estate to Sons and Daughter
Famed painter Anna Mary Moses dies at 101 and leaves her estate mainly to two sons and daughter in law, with grandchildren receiving smaller gifts. The will names Forest K. Moses and Loyd R. Moses of Eagle Bridge as heirs to the farm and home, Dorothy Harrison Moses as $10,000 legatee, and several grandchildren receiving smaller sums. Executors include Sylvester E. Scott, with residuary shares split between the two sons. The home may be used as a memorial to the painter.
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Salem
N.Y
Grandma Moses
Anna Mary Moses
White Creek
Washington County
Forrest K. Moses
Loyd R. Moses
Eagle Bridge
Dorothy Harrison Moses
Marjorie Moses
Edward Moses
Jean D. Harrington
Howard Harrington
Jean Moses Koloseus
Ft. Collins
Colo
Frances Moses
Chicago
Ill
Sylvester E. Scott
Hoosick Falls
Mount Laurel Teacher on Leave of Absence
Mrs. Evelyn Beattie, Mount Laurel School, is on leave until February 26 for recuperation after surgery. Superintendent Rob ert B. Vail says the board granted the leave. replacement for weeks ahead is Mrs. Mary Greenslet of Bennington, who has prior Manchester teaching experience and work with retarded children.
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Manchester
Evelyn Beattie
Mount Laurel School
Robert B. Vail
Mount Laurel School Association, Inc
Beattie
Mary Greenslet
Bennington
Greenslet
Lake Ruled Out As Crash Site
State police and Air Force planes searched Sunset Lake in Benson Vermont after a report a missing B47 bomber may have crashed there. FAA said Albany Civil Air Patrol pilot saw ice tracks and a large hole on the lake.
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Benson
Air Force
Sunset Lake
Federal Aviation Agency
Albany Civil Air Patrol
Mid-Year Exam Time and PTA Movie at North Bennington
Mid-year exams run from Friday through Tuesday next week at North Bennington School. PTA shares a showing of the 1940 Swiss Family Robinson featuring actors like Thomas Mitchell and Edna Best. Meth-Con Youth Fellowship meets at Shaftsbury Methodist Church Sunday at 6 p.m., with a shortened session to hear John Kennedy discuss a new fundraising plan.
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Shaftsbury Methodist Church
John Kennedy
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Mary Dillmann
Conn
St. George’s
Newport, R. I
Brooks School
North Andover, Mass
Vera Langlais
Tel
March of Dimes Workers
First Baptist Church
John C. Hatch
Ronald Brookman
Elizabeth Burrington
Harold Rhodes
Siegfried Tolle
Linda Tolle
Joan Rathbun
Raymond Coulter
Mrs. Rathbun
Walk
Miss Burrington
Mrs. Coulter
Dele
Gates
Bennington Council of Churches
Brookman
Rhodes
Ladies Aid Society
Ladies’ Aid Society
Hatch
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Leland Burdick
Alice Church
Richard Champney
Methodist Church
James H. Bagley
Committee On Nomination
Commission On Finance
Charles Mason
Peace Corps
Edith Beaumont
Central School Notes
GOP
Arlden B. Olson
Wesley Hall
John A. Murphy
Miss Byers
Miss Hill
Chromalox
Area Distributor
D&d
Nichols
Union St
Porter
Moses
Mt. Laurel
Hunt Street
Wilson Ford
Bennington, Vt
North Bennington
Elizabeth Dwyer
Thomas Mitchell
Edna Best
Freddie Bartholomew
Meth-Con Youth Meeting
Hallmark
Valentines
North Bennington RD
PLAID
Walker’s Food Mkt
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