Bennington senior wins Glascock Poetry Contest prize
Roberta Elzey a Bennington College senior literature major won the Kathryn Irene Glascock Poetry Contest at Mount Holyoke College South Hadley Massachusetts. She memorized her poem for the audience of about 75 with judges Denise Levertov Peter Viereck and Rolf Humphries.
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Roberta Elzey
Bennington College
Kathryn Irene Glascock
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley
Mass
Roberta
Bard
Bryn Mawr
Brown University
Harvard University
Mount Holyoke
Denise Levertov
Peter Viereck
Rolf Humphries
Robert Lowell
Muriel Ruckeyser
Etry
Catherine Osgood Foster
Bennington Selectmen OK Water Main Project Overrun
Town board details final costs for the Globe Union plant water main extending from Willow Road U S 7 to Vermont 67A and the plant boundary. Gross costs totaled 62 486 with credits by Globe Union and others reducing net spend to about 500 over the 60 000 appropriation. contractor McNab Construction 34 654, retainage set at 5 percent for six months with bond option.
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Bennington
Globe Union
Willow Road
U.S. 7
Vermont
Globe
McNab Construction Co
Williamstown
Mass
Central Foundry
Newark
N.J
McNab
Burton L. Winslow
Selectmen
David A. Deans
Deans
Norton Barber
Winslow
Mendel Heredity Exhibit Marks Fair Centenary
New York reports the 100th anniversary of Gregor Mendel’s discovery of heredity will be celebrated at the World’s Fair with a Mendel Garden exhibit in the Vatican Pavilion. The 3000 square foot garden will honor Mendel and demonstrate his plant heredity findings using pea varieties cultivated by the Augustinian monk in Bruenn Brno. William L Laurence helped prepare explanatory text for an illustrated folder outlining Mendel’s laws in plain language.
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New York
Father Gregor Mendel
Vatican Pavilion
Mendel
Vatican Complex
Father Mendel
Bruenn
Austria
Brno
Czechoslovakia
William L. Laurence
Science Writers
United States
Bennington County Registered Nurses Elect Officers
The Bennington County Registered Nurses Association met at West Mountain Farm Arlington May 24. Mrs Jo Berry–president–led a large gathering honoring two deceased nurses Elizabeth Murphy and Erna Camradt while naming officers and praising fund raising and the Well Baby Clinic reports.
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Bennington County Registered Nurses Association
West Mountain Farm
Arlington
Jo Berry
Hazel MacDonald
Leona Sausville
Helene Nolfe
Annette Belisle
Olga Sausville
Janet Bellemare
Marie Hauck
Helen Bearden
Hauck
Jean Sorenson
Elizabeth
Leslie) Murphy
Erna Camradt
UVM Honors Retiring Dean Paul Miller
Burlington Vermont longtime UVM College of Agriculture and Home Economics dean Paul R Miller will retire June 30 after a career starting as agronomy professor in 1931. A June 17 dinner in Marsh Hall will honor him. Thomas W Dowe will succeed Miller on July 1 as Vermont Experiment Station director.
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Burlington
Paul R. Miller
UVM College of Agriculture and Home Economics
Marsh Hall
Dean Miller
College of Ee
Home Economy
Seph E. Carrigan
Miller
Portugal
Economic Cooperative Administration
U.S
Ordem Do Merito Agricola
Vermont
Iowa
Iowa State College
Michigan State
Appletree Point
Thomas W. Dowe
Fish Tags Tell Story From Vermont Angling Case
A Burt H. McNeil of Mechanicville New York sent two flat metal tags from Vermont Fish and Game in May. Each tag records a special number and growth data for two brown trout released as 8 and 9 inch fish in 1963. The department notes the rapid growth to 19 and 20 inches by age two and says processing tags informs management and rewards anglers who return them.
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Montpelier
Vermont Fish and Game Department
Burt H. McNeil
South Main St
Mechanicville
N.Y
F&g Mpl Vt
Vermont Fish and Game
Dept
Vermont
New York-Vermont
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Bennington Planetarium
Bennington Free Library
Paul W. Bohne
Richard Diamond
Bohne
Burt Bros
Dacron & Cotton
Madras
Town & Country
Main ST
Mary A. Baker
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Alice Fitzgerald
Virginia Lonergan
William Worthington
Marcel Lewis
Julius H. Manes
Lausville
Betty Wood
Patricia Wilcox
UVM
Paul Miller
Adele Baa
Salem’s
Bera
Ead ‘Market
Ab Thecnienn
Jobaweel
R.ce
the New Grad
Atkins. Jewelers
St. Bennington
The
Modernaire
E.T. Williams
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