Sloan Funds Awarded to Four Williams Freshmen
Four Williams College freshmen are named Sloan Scholars among 134 nationwide to receive renewables in the 35 colleges program. Recipients range from 200 to 2000 dollars, and Williams reaches 30 total scholars in the foundation’s yearly effort funding about one million dollars and 360 students. The four Williams honorees are Thomas M. Hellman Fitchburg Robert B. Wallace Beverly Kelley V. Rea Ann Arbor and Jon C. Mesvig St. Pete.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Williams
Sloan
Sloan Foundation
Foundation
Thomas M. Hellman
Fitchburg
Robert B. Wallace
Beverly
Kelley V. Rea
Ann Arbor
Mich
Jon C. Mesvig
St. Pete
Bennington District Merger Meeting Called For Citizens
School boards invite residents to an Aug 1 meeting at Bennington Elementary to discuss merging two districts. The merger aims to create a unified district with shared facilities and improved curricula, forming citizen study committees to draft plans.
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Citizens Committee
Bennington
Molly Stark
Union
Bennington High School
Brando’s Mutiny on the Bounty Nears Final Cut
Hollywood reports MGM’s rough-cut Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando runs three hours forty minutes with an estimated final cost near 25 million dollars. Brando battles studio critics over ending and Tahiti location spending, aiming for a new interpretation of the mutineer.
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Hollywood
Marlon Brando
Brando
MGM
Tahiti
Open House Saturday For Golden Wedding Of Lucius Geeways
Open house honors the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Geeways. The event runs Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. in the social rooms of the Eagles Hose fire station on East Main Street. Friends are invited.
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Lucius Geeways
Lucius Goewey
Eagles Hose Fire
East Main Street
Forest Festival Week Activities Are Planned
Charles Hayward of Bennington chairs the county forest festival planning after attending a Montpelier meeting with David C. Barton. Gov Keyser will proclaim Oct 7 to 14 as Forest Festival Week highlighting forests to state and national welfare. About 2600 seventh and eighth graders enter an essay contest on What Vermont Forests Mean To Vermonters. The week peaks with dedication of the one millionth acre in the New England Tree Farm Association on Riley Bostwick’s Rochester farm.
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Charles Hayward
Bennington
Bennington County
Montpelier
David C. Barton
New England Tree Farm Association
Riley Bostwick
Rochester
New England Mother Wins Spot on U S World Parachuting Team
A 31 year old Massachusetts mother, Nonie Pond of New Salem, will be the sole New Englander on the U S squad for the world parachuting championships in Orange, selecting Aug 11 to Sept 3. The team includes five men and four women facing 24 nations, including Russia, with Pond aiming to be the top female placer. Her husband Nathan is a parachuting instructor and her family helps with the jumper.
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New York City
Dance Educators of America
Ronnie Charbonneau
Nancy Finnegan
Amy Gillians
Barbara Lawless
Dolores Heiner
Darlene Lauzon
Cecelia Greene
DEA
Lloyd
Orange, Mass
New
Mrs. Pond
Sebastian Pond
Pond
U.S
Russia
Nonie Pond
New Salem
Mass
Orange
Children’s Corner Fair Feature At Vilage Green Fair
St Peters Episcopal Church announces a Village Green Fair on the Parish House lawn Pleasant Street Aug 9 from 3 to 9 pm. A Children’s Corner features a puppet show by Camp Wynakee Dorset directed by Mrs Kurt Wieneke with two performances at 3 30 and 4 30. The event offers pony rides, merry go round, dart games, lemonade stand, penny pitching, wishing well, fish pond grabs and pony rides directed by Mrs Franklin Frantz and her son Dick.
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St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Pleasant Street
Jon Kennedy
Edward Ransom
Sterling Wilson
William Miller
Harold Green
David Jareckie
Henry Steel
Richard Leake III
S. James Wolfe
Arthur Murphy
Franklin Frantz
Mantle Tops League in Batting Runs and Homers in 1956
New York Yankees star Mickey Mantle became the last MLB player to lead his league in batting RBI and home runs in the same season, achieving the feat in 1956.
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NEW York
UPI
Mickey Mantle
New York Yankees
Thrift Shop Offers Various Goods and Requests
On hand items include large women s dresses a 9 by 12 fiber rug men s trousers a kitchen table a traverse rod canning jars a small suitcase and a 36 inch white cotton shag rug. Requests have been made for a tricycle and a doll carriage. Workers last week were Mrs Daniel Sargent Mrs Bradford Smith Mrs Joseph McDermott Mrs Royal White and Mrs Edna Sweet.
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Daniel Sargent
Bradford Smith
Joseph McDermott
Royal White
Edna Sweet
Business gifts to colleges rise 33 percent in 1960 61
New York UPI reports the council on Financial Aid to Education says business corporations boosted gifts to U.S. colleges and universities by 33.1 percent in the 1960 61 academic year, compared with two years earlier.
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New York
UPI
Council On Financial Aid To Education
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