UN Charter ideals spark MAU Model United Nations event
The excerpt recalls the UN founding charter and notes MAU High School's Model United Nations at St Peter's Church on February 18 1976. It highlights the tradition of MAUHS and the Model UN Steering Committee inviting freshmen and sophomores to weekly meetings after school for two congress sessions and neighbor school invitations.
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Mt. Anthony Union High School
St. Peter’s Church
Mauhs
U.n.’S Congress
Model United Nations Steering Committee
Students from 39 schools attend AIC Model Congress in Springfield
On Jan 15 about 175 students from 39 New England and New York schools traveled to Springfield Massachusetts for the American International College 36th Annual Model Congress. Mt Anthony Union High School sent four delegates Gail Moskovitz J P Morrissey Ed Horstmann and Carole Minke who presented a bill to restrict tobacco smoking in specified public places. The event featured five sub committees and a banquet for judging. Awards went to John Larry Rockville High School first place Most Outstanding Delegate and to Wally Walters West Springfield High School second place with scholarships to AIC. Honorable mentions included six students from various New England schools. The Most Outstanding Bill award went to Agawam High School for a national standard no fault bodily injury insurance on public highways.
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New England
New York State
Springfield
Mass
American International College
AIC
Mt. Anthony Union High School
Gail Moskovitz
J. P. Morrissey
Mt. Anthony
M.A
Ed Horstmann
Carole Minke
Renate Wheelock
Andrew Cheseldine
Judy Harrison
John Larry
Rockville High School
Rockville
West Springfield
William Dowding
Southwick High School
Southwick
Mona Hamlin
Brattleboro Union High School
Brattleboro
John Graves
Peterborough
N.H
Nick Carr
Durham
Agawam High School
Agawam
Favorite sons and the 1976 Democratic nomination
The piece surveys favorite son contenders like Robert Byrd Ella Grasso Hugh Carey and Jerry Brown and notes that the 1976 contest may hinge on brokered delegates. It traces the history from Van Buren and Clay to McGovern reforms and highlights key figures in several states as potential unpledged delegates.
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Martin van Buren
Henry Clay
New York
Kentucky
Connecticut
Ella Grasso
Hugh Carey
Albany
Erastus Corning
O’connell
George McGovern
California
Jerry Brown
Brown
Pennsylvania
Milton Shapp
Texas
Lloyd Bentsen
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
New England
George Wallace
Sanford
Surviving Winter: A Humorous Handbook Preview
A 1975 essay satirically treats winter as a bully and offers tongue in cheek survival tips. It mocks cold weather diction and forecasters while urging readers to focus on March 21 as a hopeful end date. The piece reflects the era’s jokey tone about seasonal hardship and indoor fires as solace.
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Virginia
Snow cleanup ordinance passed by village trustees
The village trustees pass an ordinance requiring residents on specified streets to clear sidewalks within 24 hours after a storm or face a $2 daily fine. The piece notes related community events and local updates from Bennington, including theater, rehearsals, and local figures.
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Steele MacKaye
Jane Austen
Bennington
Franz Carl Lorenz
The
Chamber of Commerce
Elections Rule Set On First Tuesday In November
On this date in 1845 Congress fixed national elections to occur on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. In 1931 seventeen Communists confessed conspiring with Leon Trotsky to undermine Stalin. In 1948 General Eisenhower said he could not accept a nomination from either party. Nixon announced a 1973 peace deal with North Vietnam for a 60 day US withdrawal.
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Congress
Leon Trotsky
Josef Stalin
Dwight Eisenhower
United States
Nixon
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
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