Pownal notices honor students and announce local elections
David Smith named ninth grade valedictorian at Pine Cobble School with commencement by William J. Smith on June 7. Betsy Anne Bassen born May 27. pink shower hosted for Mrs Bassen. Children’s Day observed at Pownal Center Church with plants for each child. Two candidate race for three year school board term and nomination deadline today. Jackson Ostrander seeks re election to Union High District board for two years.
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David Smith
William Jay Smith
Pine Cobble School
Willamstown
Pownal Town
David
Andover
Pine Cobble
Wilbur Rice
Old Bennington
Henry W. Bassen
South Pownal
Betsy Anne
Bassen
Jackson Ostrander
Harry W. Beals Jr
Pownal Center
Jennifer Rounds
Stephen Kauppi
Andrew MacKeever
Fletcher Hall
George Andrews
Kenneth Gile
Pownal
David Adler
Pownal Road
Charles W. Rounds
Union High School District Board of
Tucker Chapter 38 OES Meeting Postponed to June 13
North Bennington residents are reminded of a pre school meeting called by the North Bennington Graded School District board for Wednesday at 7 30 in the school gym. The board aims to discuss overcrowding and next steps with voters. Over 500 district voters cast ballots in each bond vote on the union school issue. The Wednesday morning story hour resumes at 10 30 at the library for pre school youngsters. Also 15 children made their First Holy Communion at St John the Baptist Church last Sunday with all white flowers and special choir music.
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Tucker Chapter 38
OES
Barre
North Bennington Graded School
St. John the Baptist Church
Donald Dailey
Arlington Memorial Day Parade Honors Veterans in Big Arlington Parade
Arlington observes Memorial Day with its largest parade to date led by a tank under Capt. John Dempsey. Lt. Col. Fred Ehrich recalls Memorial Day origins as local veterans, youth groups, firefighters and Gold Star Mothers participate in the salute to service members from World War I to present.
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Arlington
Russia
China
Fred Ehrich
John Dempsey
American Legion
The
Legion Auxiliary
Eber White
Thomas Willis
George Russell
Fairfax Ayres
Miner Clark
Earl Prouty
Edward Renner
Orange Baker
Clifford Wilcox
Louis Colvin
Peter Pacitto
Joseph A. Lobravkco
Fred Ford
Burt Hanson
Bennington
Vermont
Civil Air Patrol
Explorer
Fire Department
Bill Safford
Memorial Field
John R. Fisher
Rock Garden
Col. Ehrich
Aleutians
Italy
Ehrich
Manchester Youths In Piano Recital
Nearly 75 relatives and friends attended a Sunday recital at the Seminary gym featuring 16 piano students of Mrs. Althea L. Barstow. Sisters Dulce and Lauren Bongartz led duets and a Carmen based set closed the program with flowers presented to the teacher by Dorothy Goodell.
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Manchester
Seminary
Althea L. Barstow
Dulce
Lauren Bongartz
Louise
Michele Zoufaly
Melanie
Alison Otis
Bizet
Carmen
Ferdinand Bongartz
Arlington Tenpinners 63 Banquet Celebrates Bowling Club
The Arlington Tenpinners women held their May 25 banquet at the Town House in Cambridge with 85 attendees. Anne Secor led the program as minstrels performed while awards went to The Alley Katz, Doris Fisher had top score, and May Andrew, 76, received a standing ovation for perfect attendance.
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Arlington
Town House
Cambridge
Alley Katz
Anne Secor
Blanche Hoth
Elizabeth Baldwin
Claire O’neil
Verna Buck
May Andrew
May
Unusual Toomey Family Celebrates First Anniversary in Manchester
In Bennington County the B M Toomeys mark one year as residents. They have six children from Latvia Germany Yugoslavia Lithuania origin, plus a sixth whose identity was lost in war. The couple adopted Andy and Bill through the U S Committee for Refugees in 1949 and later Mary Ellen joined after a Christmas call.
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Manchester
Bennington County
B. M. Toomeys
Toomey
Toomeys
Fort Edward
N.Y
New York Times
Andy
Europe
U.S. Committee For Refugees
Hubert Humphreys
Bronx
Bill
Madeline Toomey
New York
Albany
Saratoga
Bun Toomey
Hudson Falls
Mary Ellen
Madeline
Grand Central
Mrs. Toomey
Ben Toomey
Tom
Hudson Falls High
Chevie
Jerry
Burr and Burton
America
Bun
The
U.S.A
Camp Sunrise director to lead this summer
Raymond C. Lovely of Green Mountain Council BSA will serve again as director of Camp Sunrise in Orwell this summer. The Burtonian yearbook staff toasted completed work at Colburn House with a banquet last Wednesday night.
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Raymond C. Lovely
Green Mountain Council
BSA
Camp Sunrise
Orwell
The
Burtonian
Colburn House
John Fay
Rev Parker Addresses Burr and Burton Class of 63
Manchester The Rev Godfrey H Parker of First Baptist Church spoke at Burr and Burton Seminary on the meaning of baccalaureate for 43 graduates. He urged values and crisis as tests of true values while prayers and music accompanied the service and a daisy chain procession marked the graduates’ greeting on the lawn reception followed by refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Godfrey H. Parker
First Baptist Church
Burr and Burton Seminary
Parker
Donald Kelly
St. Paul’s Church
Mendelssohn
Malotte
Doris E. Rigney
Joseph Stannard
Patience Brooks
Sally Stannard
Spaulding Seeks Shafts bury School Board Seat Unopposed
Incumbent Lloyd Spaulding filed for a three year Shafts bury school district board term and is the sole candidate. Deadline passed Saturday for filing and the district meeting is set for June 25.
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Shaftsbury
Lloyd Spaulding
Searsburg Town Votes to Relocate South Road Gap
Twenty nine Searsburg residents attended a special town meeting at the River Schoolhouse to vote an additional $4000 for relocating and finishing the South Road gap. Twenty eight unanimous votes supported the project. Nelson E. Williams outlined state aid funds including a $12,200 grant. The Highway Board estimates total cost at $33,050.80 with Searsburg paying $600 and right of way purchases to be town funded. Construction should begin soon and be completed within a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Searsburg
River Schoolhouse
Nelson E. Williams
Ivor S. Pelsue
Highway Board
West Dover Notes on Local Business and Community Groups
The town reports the purchase of Toby Strong's Bucket of Suds by Mr and Mrs Thomas Galwin with Margarete Galwin as summer manager. A West Dover Fire Department Association forms to plan a volunteer department with officers and by law discussions. Mrs Clara LaTerre returns from a four country tour. The town clerk opens a new town office location. Dover gatherings include a school club sale and bake sale. Barn paintings and house painting by local volunteers are noted. Summer church services start and fire department dances resume. Girl Scouts Troop 544 completes an overnight campout as leaders are sought for fall activities.
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Thomas Galwin
Toby Strong
Margarete Galwin
University of Vermont
West
Sundown Lodge
Harold Lackey
Wilmington Volunteer Fire Department
Helen Upton
West Dover
Earl Yean
East Dover
Frank Childs
Charles Frederick
Dover School Club
Dover Common
Ruth Moor
Leonard Hall
Marianne Bartlett
Alice Johnson
Bunty Long
Girl Scouts
Ware’s
Richard Hamilton
Peter Barton
Wayne Rowell
Elsie Poor
Ora Boyd
Jeannette Brown
Barton
Self-Taught Peru Painter To Show in Conn. Gallery
Thomas Reilly Dibble of Peru, a self taught naturalist, will display landscapes, animals and nature studies in oil and graphite at the Rive Gauche Gallery in Darien Connecticut from June 8 to 29. He studied art history at Columbia New School and Stockholm University and has exhibited widely in the United States. The group show includes Alfred Chadbourn Conger Metcalf Ray Ridabock and other noted New England artists.
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Peru
New England
Rive Gauche
Darien
Conn
Thomas Reilly Dibble
Columbia University
New School of Social Research
New York City
Stockholm University
Sweden
France
Italy
United States
Southern Vermont
Manchester
New Circulating Library of Paintings
Palace of the Legion of Honor
San Francisco
Calif
Thayer
Taos
N.M
Nye
Dallas
Texas
Knowles’ Interim
Buffalo
N.Y
Fle
Jaques Seligmann
Mortimer - Levitt
Contemporary Arts Gallery
Berkshire Arts Festival
Woodstock
Alfred Chadbourn
Conger Metcalf
Boston University
Ray Ridabock
Williams College
Taconic Grange Holds Neighbor's Night and Pins
The Taconic Grange will meet tonight for Neighbor's Night. Pins will be awarded to members with 25 years of Grange service. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. James Drummond and sons Tom and Gordon of Cheshire Connecticut and Eleanor Hawkins and Lu Percy of Ashland Massachusetts visiting at Owen Bay House on Lake Champlain.
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Taconic Grange
James Drummond
Tom and
Gordon
Cheshire, Conn
Eleanor Hawkins
Lu Percey
Ashland
Mass
Albert Mattison
Owen Bay House
Lake Champlain
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Wymans
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Virginia Andrews
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Ruth Zimmer
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Ella Pike
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E.H. Nickerson
First Congregational Church
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Burlington
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Maine
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Springfield
Mrs. Dorr Sproat
East
George Ingerman
Montclair
Donald Riker
Montreal
Belgium
Lambert Zoller
Fred Marcols
New Brunswick
N.J
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Saranac
C.B. Harwood
North Carolina
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Paul Smith’s College
Manchester Garden Club
R.E. Heard
Hylda Fullarton
Bennington County Humane Society
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Silver Springs Farm
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UVM
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Wilcox
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Burr and Burton Seminary Alumni Association
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May Christie
Manchester Depot
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Brooklyn
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Seminary Avenue
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Orono
University of Maine
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Carlo Walter
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Simsbury, Conn
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Tel
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Roy Chambers
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Charles Dunn
Wayne Fajans
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Robert Greene
Howard Hosmer
John Mayerse
Guy Nido Jr
Richard Rowell
Lewis Stone
John Willard
Milton Wolf
Ralph Howe Jr
Henry Peck
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Shakertown
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Bette Davis
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Crocc Dee
Poss Gee
Judy Garland
Fran Stacy
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Dhaai Nel Eas
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Latham Circle
Eddie Rich
Ethel Merman
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