In Memoriam A Playwright and His Work at Bennington
Marc Blitzstein, composer playwright and former Bennington College Playwright in Residence, died at 58 after a Caribbean incident. He linked Brecht and Weill to Broadway, planned an opera on Sacco and Vanzetti, and worked on two Malamud based operas during his Bennington year. He had been supported by the John Golden Foundation for residency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Marc Blitzstein
Martinique
Bennington College
Berthold Brecht
Kurt Weill
Blitzstein
John Golden Foundation
Omar Shapir
Robert Hock
Sacco and Vanzetti
Metropolitan Opera Company
Ford Foundation
Bennengton College
Sheilah Marlowe
Fire Chief Shares Emergency Skills With Arlington Cub Scouts
Arlington Fire Chief C. Lee Marsh leads Pack 34 at Fisher School teaching emergencies first aid and fire protection. Den 3 earns attendance cup for second straight time as awards honor Wolf Lions Bobcat pins and Arrow recipients.
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Arlington
C. Lee Marsh
Cub
Fisher School
Den 4
Den 5
Den 3
George Hess
John Kendall
Peter Hirsch
Wolf
Nelson Rudd
Hoosick Falls Welcomes New Eagle Scout John E. Barber
John E. Barber of Troop 64 sponsored by the Church of the Immaculate Conception passed his Eagle Scout test January 21 in Glens Falls and will receive his insignia in early March. He has served as patrol leader and assistant senior patrol leader and earned the Ad Altare Dei Award in May 1963 at Albany’s Cathedral.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
John E. Barber
Joseph Barber
Glens Falls
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Mendham
N.J
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Albany
Community notices from Bennington area churches and groups
Activities include a school dance for grades six to eight in the gym from 7 30 to 10 00 sponsored by the senior Girl Scout troop. Sunday worship at 11 a m with Rev Thomas Street guest preacher. Congregational Women’s Fellowship meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m featuring a film The Gift. PTA meeting Monday at 8 p m at Bennington High School with Dr Robert Hamilton speaking on Abnormalities of the Normal Child. Villagers' Home Demonstration group meets at the library for Party Menus with Mrs Robert McWaters. snacks and tea sandwiches prepared by Mrs William Van Orman.
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Thomas Street
Congregational Women’s Fellowship
J. Duncan Campbell
Arthur Wickenden
Parent Teacher Association
PTA
Bennington High School
Robert Hamilton
North Adams State College
Robert McWaters
William van Orman
North Bennington singer to solo at New York library
Alice Marie Nelson daughter of Mr and Mrs Gerald D Nelson of North Bennington and a Bennington graduate will sing as mezzo soprano soloist at the Countee Cullen Regional Branch Library in New York City on March 25 at 8 p.m. The program will feature Bach Vivaldi Poulenc and folk songs with accompanist Leonard Taffs who teaches at Juilliard Neighborhood Playhouse and NYU.
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North Bennington
Bennington College
Alice Marie Nelson
Gerald D. Nelson
Bennington
New York City
Countee Cullen
West 136Th St
Gram
Bach
Vivaldi
Poulenc
Leonard Taffs
Julliard
The
Neighborhood Playhouse
New York University
Youth Fellowship to Pittsfield Roller Skating Party Tonight
Community group plans a 6 pm departure from the Pownall Center to Pittsfield for a roller skating outing. The report also notes a 45th wedding anniversary celebration for Mr and Mrs Herbert E Blake Sr of South Pownal after a letter from Senator Winston L Prouty.
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Pownall Center
Pittsfield
Herbert E. Blake Sr
South Pownal
U.S
Winston L. Prouty
St. Raphael’s Church
Williamstown
Green Mountain Valley
4-H
Albert Dickinson
James A. Edgerton
North Pownal
VanVeghten Enters Manchester School Board Race
Rutherford M. VanVeghten announces his bid for the Manchester school board joining Eugene Kayatta and Howard B. Ambrose who seeks re election. VanVeghten, a New England Telephone supervisor, Army veteran and Green Mountain College alumnus, has five children and seven grandchildren.
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Manchester
Rutherford M. VanVeghten
Eugene Kayatta
Howard B. Ambrose
van Veghten
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Green Mountain College
Youth Week services and polio clinic in Manchester
In Clara May Hemenway absence Edith Greenberg will head the town office. Youth Week at First Congregational Church features a sermon by Richard Coburn. A Vermont Health Department Sabin oral polio clinic, sponsored by Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association, will be held Tuesday Feb 4 with free Type I vaccine for ages two months to 30.
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Clara May Hemenway
Edith Greenberg
First Congregational Church
Richard Coburn
Francis Coburn
Vermont Department of Health
Manchester
Burr and Burton
Burr and Burton Seminary
Manchester Welfare and Nursing Association
Batten Kill Hearing Set For Feb 26
Vermont Water Resources Board announces a Feb 26 hearing at the Manchester Elementary School auditorium on the Batten Kill and its tributaries Camden Creek and White Creek. Report material will be provided for attendees and area officials and citizens are urged to attend and present views. Also notices for earth fill dam hearings on Tweed River tributaries in Sherburne and the White River in Royalton set for Feb 18 at Sherburne Center and South Royalton.
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Manchester
Batten Kill
Camden Creek
White Creek
Vermont Water Resources Board
Reinhold W. Thieme
Tweed River
Sherburne
White River
Royalton
Sherburne Center
South Royalton
Gale McCullough studies Indians in North Dakota
Miss Gale McCullough daughter of Mr and Mrs John G McCullough of North Bennington is recording Indian songs and legends on Fort Bert hold Reservation during Bennington College non resident work term. The project spans a primitive North Dakota area with few telephones isolated houses and exposure concerns carried out with the American Friends Service Committee. She plans to return to campus in March as a Bennington College junior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Bennington
Gale McCullough
John G. McCullough
Fort Berthold Reservation
Bennington College
North Dakota
American Friends Service Committee
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Elizabeth Dwyer
N.Y. Library
Pownals
Vera Tranglais
Women’s Fellowship
Pownal Center
Fletcher Hall
Charles W. Rounds
David Niles
Hall
Marian Anderson
Miss Nelson
VanVeghten
Youth Fellowship
St. Patrick’s
Town Hall
Church Board of Control
James H. Bagley
Pownal
B&m
Finast
First National Stores
North Bennington Rd
Bennington, Vt
Nichols
Tarpoon
Union ST
Constance M. Jordan
Polio Clinic
Vermont
Ruth
Curt
Wwawww
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