Special Field Day Unites Mountain Schools in Vermont
Mt Laurel School hosts a field day with Mt Laurel students joining Red Brick School Shaftsbury and Otter Valley School East Middlebury. The event marks Vermont’s first statewide special education exercise with contests, lunch, and student involvement, attended by state education officials and district leaders.
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Manchester
Mt. Laurel
Red Brick
Shaftsbury
Otter Valley
East Middlebury
Vermont
John E. Hartigan
William Duffy
Charmaine Richardson
Blanchard Stone
Harold Shepard
Alice Miller
Ronald Hasseltine
Janet Purinton
Red Brick School
Otter Valley School
Mt. Laurel School
Young GOP Sets State Meeting in Manchester
The Vermont Federation of Young Republicans reconvenes in Manchester on June 18 at the Avalanche Hotel after a May 7 recess in Burlington. Federation Chairman James Mann says the meeting will finish by law discussions and vote on proposed changes, including a name change from Vermont Young Republican Club to Federation of Young Republicans.
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Manchester
UPI
Vermont Federation of Young Republicans
Avalanche Motel
Burlington
Federation
James Mann
Vermont Young Republican Club
Federation of Young Republicans
Dorset Map Unveiled By Local Historian Gilbert
Dorset Historical Society members preview a new 52 by 38 inch Dorset map by William Gilbert. The two year project maps all homes and businesses as of 1965 from a 1960 aerial survey, listing historic sites, churches, inns, and quarries with inked portraits and owner names. The map, bonded linen, honors Ernest H. West and echoes early cartography with a Dorset escutcheon and motto.
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William Gilbert
Dorset
National Survey, Inc
Chester
Dorset Historical Society
East Dorset
Donald Johnson
Gilbert Locates
Gilbert
Dorset Hollow
East
National Survey Inc
Ernest H. West
England
Anna Gilbert
Rev Walter Miller returns to North Bennington
The Rev Walter Miller, pastor of St John’s Church in North Bennington, has returned after weeks in Connecticut to recover from a serious illness. The NBHS baccalaureate service is Sunday at 8 p.m. with Jean Mackey and Robert H Nowak performing music and the Rev Melvin McGaughey delivering the address. Congregational women meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. to hold the annual final meeting of the year, bringing silverware and a hot dish or salad, and contribute gifts for the Waterbury project. Proceeds from Gilbert’s town map project support the Dorset Historical Society.
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Walter Miller
St. John’s Church
Connecticut
The
Congregational Church
J. Duncan Campbell
Waterbury
NBHS
Jean Mackey
Robert H. Nowak
Corelli
J. S. Bach
Melvin McGaughey
Methodist Church
Bennington
Baldwin accepted at University of Bridgeport for fall enrollment
Edward Joseph Baldwin of Air Port Road earned early decision admission to the University of Bridgeport for the fall semester starting in September. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Harold Baldwin and will major in physical education after graduating from North Bennington High School next week. James Rigg reappointed to Mt Greylock Regional High School history department for one year in Williamstown Massachusetts. He is a Boston University graduate and previously taught in Norwalk Connecticut.
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North Bennington
Peter C. Vail
Gordon T. Vail
Bowling Green University
William T. Jerome III
Bowling Green
Ohio
Edward Joseph Baldwin
Airport Road
University of Bridgeport
Baldwin
Harold Baldwin
North Bennington High School
James Rigg
Shaftsbury
Mt. Greylock Regional High School
Williamstown
Mass
Boston University
Norwalk
Conn
Bennington Banner contact and subscription rates
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sunday and holidays at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont. It lists newsroom and advertising phone numbers and notes subscription rates by mail within Vermont and elsewhere in the U S with 3 months 6 months and 1 year options.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
Vermont
U.S
Banker to Return to Rutgers for Third Summer Session
Frank E. Buswell assistant vice president of the National Commercial Bank and Trust Company will attend the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at Rutgers State University for a third two week session June 6 to 17 on the New Brunswick campus New Jersey. Buswell among more than 1100 bank officers from 42 states the District of Columbia Mexico Puerto Rico and the Philippines will participate in the session sponsored by the American Bankers Association. To graduate he must attend three sessions two years of home extension study and write a thesis based on original finance research.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Frank E. Buswell
National Commercial Bank & Trust Company
Stonier Graduate School of Banking
Rutgers State University
New Brunswick
N.J
Buswell
American Bankers Association
District of Columbia
Mexico
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Rutgers
White Creek 4-H Club to Meet at Schoolhouse
Rev Maxwell Rice visits Dewey Mc Carts. Jolly James 4-H Club holds a business meeting Saturday at 2 p.m. at White Creek schoolhouse. Dress revue modeling practice to showcase sewing project garments. Parents invited. refreshments served by the Let's Have a Party Group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Creek
Jolly James 4-H Club
Pownal program gains 8088 dollars for dental care
Federal funds of 8088 dollars were approved under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for a Pownal Town School District dental program providing complete free dental care under supervision of five Bennington doctors. The plan moves toward August completion with potential carryover for kindergarten use and strict recovery of unused funds.
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Pownal
Pownal Town
Bennington
Madalyn Green
Pownal Stu
Cello recital and school talks mark Manchester visits
Mrs Ferene MacBride performed several cello pieces on a 300 year old instrument for pupils at West Pawlet School arranged by music teacher Mrs Robert Jordan. In Manchester Mrs Berry Wall spoke to Grade 7 science class at Manchester Elementary on Caribbean shells. Mrs Catherine Merrow was mistakenly omitted from Ladies Auxiliary Battenhill Valley Eagles officers list but was installed as auxiliary treasurer.
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Ferene MacBride
West Pawlet School
Robert Jordan
Manchester
Pawlet
Sunderland
Danby
Berry Wall
Manchester Elementary School
Catherine Merrow
Ladies Auxiliary
Battenhill Valley Aerie
Eternal Order of the Eagles
Merrow
Local Youths and Visits Highlight Memorial Weekend
Dorset Marden Skinner and Miss LaVawn Hewes visit Mrs and Mr Verne Squires this week. Thomas Rumney completes his first year at Norwich University and returns home before summer work in a Long Island lumber yard. Peter Skinner returns from Lehigh University and plans state Highway Department summer work. Mr and Mrs John Schein of East Lansing spend Memorial Day weekend with Mrs Schein’s parents.
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State Highway Department
John Schein
East Lansing
Mich
Schein
J. Ford Shroder
Pownals group raises funds for school needs and trip
The Pow nal Paint-Teacher Group raised 82.45 for the school library and 140 for books for all grades. They will support Grade 8’s Washington DC trip and other annual expenses while the Center and North Pownal Schools played a 10-5 softball game won by Center. Harold Pratt and George Daley led. A wildfire near the White Oakes watershed involved two unoccupied barns owned by David Deans of Williamstown, with Gale Hose Company and mutual aid aiding.
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Baest
Pownal
Washington, D.C
Center
North Pownal
North Pownal Field
Harold Pratt
George Daley
Kenneth O’dell
State Line
White Oakes
Gale Hose Company
Williamstown
David Deans
Mystery ride planned by Wilming ton Mothers Club
The Mothers Club of Wilmington will hold its annual mystery ride Monday. Members and guests meet at Grand Union at 6 p.m.
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Mothers Club of
Wilmington
Grand Union
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Hilltop
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Yale Law School
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