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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1967
Page
6
Manchester bank records 84th annual meeting at Masonic Hall with board of directors re-elected.
Hoosick Grange celebrated January birthdays at the Jan 11 meeting. Officers and members discussed house number plates, new draperies for the Grange Hall, and a mortgage burning ceremony with New York State Grange Master Russell Curtis and Rev Edith Cr Reynolds invited as honored guests.
In Chapin Hall Williams College, the first of three Music in the Round concerts features works by Piston Beethoven Sydeman and Shostakovich. Performers include Hegyi Carrier St Amour Doblin Hanford and Hegyi directed series enters its Berkshire debut with audience surrounding the stage. Series tickets available at reduced door rate. students admitted half price. dates for the next concerts are March 3 and April 28.
The Hoosick Falls Central School Board set February 7 at 7 30 p m for a public hearing on a proposed 50 percent property tax exemption for owners over 65 under the law. The hearing precedes a regular board meeting at which adoption action will follow.
Manchester selectmen reviewed 1967 budget proposals with Town Manager James L Woodard Tuesday night but deemed figures incomplete. Tax Collector Todtschin noted about 22000 in taxes uncollected Jan 1 1967, with 9000 collected and 13000 remaining. A charter committee for the town remains under formation. The area educational television channel will be adjusted for better pictures, with master antenna installation to follow. School plans to start program next year as a curriculum aid. Albert Waytekus was hired to replace Gordon Brownell on the school buses. one more driver needed as daily ridership sits at 1591 and is expected to rise by 80. Buses Nos. 6 and 10 will be replaced, with No. 10 kept as spare. Town granted use of buses to transport children to a ski area with supervision and no ski gear on board. Supt. Leonard reported multiple teachers association meetings and another planned, with February as target for action. Four school board members will attend an Albany institute during the Constitutional Convention. Hoosick Falls Central School will host the Rensselaer County Music Festival on March 4.
Seniors named include Ruth Thurber and Linda Peckham entering Career Academy and Albany Cosmetology programs. Bonnie McClellan and Mary Jane Bisson will attend Oswego and Oneonta liberal arts tracks. Linda Southworth enters Chandler School for Women Boston business program. Sally Stetson and Lynn DuRoss pursue liberal arts majors at Oswego Geneseo. Karen Pokines attends Albany Business College secretarial program.
Mrs T Wylie Kinney departs Sunday for an 80 day round world voyage aboard the Rotterdam, returning near late April. Mrs Brenda Parsons, along with Mrs Florence Rath, flies to Puerto Rico then St Thomas and St Croix for 10 days. Mr and Mrs Ralph Stiles visit Bermuda with Mr and Mrs Lawrence King. David Humphreys returns from the Putnam Memorial Hospital. his wife also comes back from the same hospital.
Community residents were told work will begin within a week on renovating the Arlington Community House. Mrs. Jesse Squiers asked people to remove personal items from the kitchen by Saturday night or they will be discarded. Nine year old Melanie Andrews suffered a spiral leg fracture while ice skating and is recuperating at home. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wright plan a Canary Islands trip for several months, taking along their artistic tools. The Wrights will join artist Ivan Albright and his wife there. The Dorset Nursing Association sponsored a second well baby clinic in Dorset and East Rupert drawing 22 babies. Dr Elizabeth Byrnes and nurse Ellen McCooey assisted, with others helping. Mrs. James Chrisman, daughter of Mrs. Dennis Roberts, left for Florida with her two children to join her husband on a base after service in England, planning to return to Vermont in April. Dennis and Mrs. Roberts returned from Oceanside to assist Mrs Payne with her newborn Marion Francis, born January 5, weighing 10 pounds 5 ounces, father Francis Payne who died in the service last spring. The Roberts also met the Chrisman family during the visit.
Orrin Beattie a Rotary Club member and selectman spoke at the Manchester Rotary Club meeting this week. A clergy and laity meeting on Christian education in the community will gather February 15 at noon at the Colburn House.
Hoosac School in Hoosick Falls announces a long range plan to double enrollment from 71 to 140 within ten years. March will see the start of a $135,000 dormitory for 33 additional students on the 750 acre campus, with further housing, a gymnasium, enlarged chapel, and expanded scholarship funds planned. An initial $25,000 wing is being raised by New York State affiliated groups, dedicated to Frances Perkins, former secretary of labor. Architect Martin Lowenfish named for the cement block dormitory with cedar paneling and family housing for faculty.
A Burr and Burton Seminary committee met for its first session to craft recommendations for the Board of Trustees regarding the private high school’s future role. Members discussed district reorganization, master planning, and Burr and Burton’s possible participation in a regionalization plan while remaining private. Also noted, Williams College professors Robert Williams and Robert Waite received American Council of Learned Societies summer research grants for Russian German relations work.
Dorset and three neighboring towns postpone March vote on forming a junior high district. Aimed to meet January 26 in Montpelier with the Temporary Commission of School District Reorganization. Participants include Supt. Neil Cross, Terry Tyler, Albert Lawrence, and local school board members.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Bernd Foerster will speak at the PTA Founders Day banquet on Feb 1 in Hoolick Falls about the architecture of the region. He will outline local buildings, cite research, and reference his book Architecture Worth Saving in Rensselaer County while noting ongoing work on Albany County architecture. He holds multiple community roles and has published and produced related works. The event includes a roast beef dinner at 6:15 PM. reservations via Mrs Sutton.
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