Williams College graduation set for Sunday
Williams College in Williamstown Massachusetts will award 291 seniors 23 master’s degrees and eight honorary degrees at its 179th commencement on Sunday. James Reston of The New York Times will speak and receive an honorary degree. Exercises start at 2 p.m. with the procession led by Berkshire County High Sheriff John D. Courtney. If weather forces a change, the program moves to Chapin Hall at 2:30 with ticketed seating.
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Williams College
James Reston
The
New York Times
Mission Park
Berkshire County
John D. Courtney
Chapin Hall
Hoosick Falls Seabee Home from Vietnam
Hoosick Falls N Y East Sam Cottrell son of Mr and Mrs Cortland Cottrell of Wilson Hill Road arrived home Tuesday morning after completing his second tour in Vietnam. Serving with Seabees team 0511 at Dang Ha the routine six months then rejoined his MCB5 Battalion for a month and a half before return to this country. He had first tour four months then trained for Seabees. he returned to Vietnam last Sept 1 and now awaits orders and 30 day leave before reporting to California. He plans to wed June 22 to Doris Mason of Pownal.
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Hoosick Falls
N. Y
Sam Cottrell
Cortland Cottrell
Wilson Hill Road
Vietnam
Cottrell
Seabees Team
Dang Ha
California
Doris Mason
Pownal
Ormsby DAR Chapter Plans June Meeting and Awards
The annual Ormsby Chapter DAR meeting will be at Dr and Mrs Clifford Harwood home on June 16. School closes for summer vacation after a special assembly period. Athletic certificates and insignia will be awarded in boys and girls basketball skiing baseball softball and golf. Perfect attendance honors will be given. Graduating class will receive report cards when they return caps and gowns Sunday. Junior sophomore and freshman reports available in front hall from June 19. Final reports include fourth marking period grades yearly averages and diploma credits. A large turnout is expected for the 50 year class at the Mt Anthony Country Club Bennington banquet and ball Saturday night. Class of 1918 represented by Vermont towns and out-of-state members from New York Massachusetts Connecticut and Florida. Five year classes also hold reunions. Banquet reservations through Mrs William H Bell Arlington.
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Dar
Clifford B. Harwood
BBS Alumni Association
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Bennington
Vermont
New York
Mass
Baptismal Services Planned by Hoosick Area Churches
Hoosick Two area churches schedule baptismal services for June 9 with Hoosick and West Hoosick Baptists meeting at specific locations and times. A list of youths to be baptized includes Colleen Pierce Elizabeth Sharkey Timothy Holzhauser Dany Tilley Anna Chaplin Donna Chaplin Amy Moseley and Michael Durkin. Church leaders are guiding instruction and upcoming governance and fellowship plans. The West Hoosick board meets June 11 to discuss an organ committee crisis project fellowship deacon and CABA delegate and shared retreat use among Berlin Hoosick Hoosick Falls churches. A June 16 report with slides on ABC Boston sessions and the inter church committee kickoff follows.
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Raymond Sharkey
Timothy Holzhauer
George Holzhauer
Dany Tilley
Ernest Tilley
Anna
Donna Chaplin
James Chaplin
Amy Moseley
Roger Moseley
Michael Durkin
Vevia Woodard
Lyman Rudd
West Hoosick Baptist Church
CABA
Hoosick
Sunday School Rehearsal At First United Methodist Church
Shaftsbury Franks Stacy notes all Sunday School pupils must attend a 7 PM rehearsal at the First United Methodist Church for the Children’s Day program set for Sunday during the 10:30 AM worship. Herbert Hulett returns home from Florida with Genevieve Kerland as guest. Norshaft TOPS meets Tuesday at 7:30 PM at Library Hall, North Bennington, with white elephant gifts for a Scotch auction. Arlington H Gleason Pete Mattoon, longtime horticulture writer and former Garden columnist, has had a stroke at his Cape Cod home and can no longer write. He contributed to the Berkshire Eagle and Springfield Union.
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Library Hall
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Mass
Mattoon
Berkshire Eagle
Springfield Union
Horticulture
Massachusetts Horticulture Society
Pownals Plan Bus Runs for Mt Anthony Meeting
A special meeting at Mt Anthony Union High School will include bus transportation with stops at North Pownal Fire House South Pownal Fire House and Pownal Center Fire House starting at 7 15 p m The Bennington Taxpayers Protective Association petition led the call for reconsideration of business from the May 13 union school annual meeting Seventeen scouts including Michael Pettibone Bruce Pettibone Michael Andrews Miles Rogers Alan Langlais Arthur Thompson Mark Bottesi Michael Moore Leon Hilliard Jonathan Rounds Randy Moore Jeffrey Rounds Scott Lampman Clyde Mears Mark Lucier Burt Lucier and Roger Wilcox register for a week at Camp Sunrise Orwell Scoutmaster Rolland Roy said medical forms will be distributed and the 7 50 fee due within two weeks for those not yet paid The troop departs June 30 at 11 a m from the Scout Hut returning July 6 at 1 p m Contact Marcel A Langlais at 823 1716 with transportation help Gear will be moved by truck and left at the Scout Hut June 8 5 6 p m Parents Day at Camp Sunrise is July 3 with meal reservations available by calling Roy at 823 7850
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Harry Andrews
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Camp Sunrise
Orwell
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Bruce Pettibone
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Miles Rogers
Alan Langlais
Arthur Thompson
Mark Bottesi
Michael Moore
Leon Hilliard
Jonathan Rounds
Randy Moore
Jeffrey Rounds
Scott Lampman
Clyde Mears
Mark Lucier
Burt Lucier
Roger Wilcox
Rolland Roy
Marcel A. Langlais
Roy
Hoosick Falls Seniors Plan July Outing
Hoosick Falls seniors discuss a July bus trip and Lake George outing. A Monday 2 p.m. committee meeting will arrange details, with Frank Irick as chair and William Greenwood among members. A second committee plans snack bar duties at Weir Reynolds Swimming Pool as a fundraising effort, chaired by Mrs. Perreault.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Ken Allen
Motang Oa
Lake George
Frank Irick
William Greenwood
William Kamm
Mary Levine
Weir-Reynolds
Miss Levine
L. J. Steineau
Weekend visit notes and upcoming assignments for clergy
Walloomsae The Rev. Thomas Welch of the University Seminary Ottawa Canada enjoyed the weekend with his uncle Charles Bender. He will be deacon at Blessed Sacrament Church in Albany this summer. Miss Margaret Hoag and Miss Andrea Hoag fly to Jacksonville Florida this week to visit their uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Clyde Stophel for two weeks. Andrea graduated June 2 from St Joseph College in Bennington.
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Thomas Welch
University Seminary
Ottawa
Canada
Charles Bender
Thomas
Blessed Sacrament Church
Albany
Margaret Hoag
Andrea Hoag
Jacksonville
Fla
Clyde Stophel
Andrea
St. Joseph College
Bennington
Arlington Helene Thompson Parade and Sale Schedule
The Yankee Doodlers form at 11 30 a m Saturday in Ludlow for an alumni parade. On Sunday they meet at 1 p m at the Crawford home for a comb sale drive.
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Ludlow
Crawford Home
Manchester Zoning Commission elects Bongartz chairman
The Manchester Zoning Commission elected Ferdinand A. Bongartz as chair at its third meeting. Ethel P. Wells was chosen clerk as the seven member panel continues drafting a simple zoning ordinance under old statutes and plans a subdivision rule. The panel will seek town planning input and review ordinances from other towns to guide North Shire land use plans.
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Manchester
Town
Vermont
Ferdinand A. Bongartz
Ethel P. Wells
Bongartz
Peru student studies town economy for Peace Corps stint
Peace Corps trainee Frank Spadine of Scranton Pa, part of a six week Putney center course, was dropped in Brattleboro area to study local economy and schools. He is among 39 Pennsylvanians preparing to teach in Iran and will continue training for three more weeks before departing New York for the Middle East.
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Frank Spadine
Scranton
Spadine
Peace Corps
Putney
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Iran
Brattleboro
Springfield
Chester
Rockingham
University of Pennsylvania
Teedes
New York City
Bill Johnson
Peru General Store
Big Bromley
Bruce Smart
Thomas Reilly Dibble
Dibble
West Arlington News Highlights NROTC Cruise and Local Visits
Tom Pelham, son of Mr and Mrs Eugene Pelham, departs for Boston then Norfolk for a four week NROTC cruise on the USS Randolph with mine school in Charleston to follow. He completed his first year at Tufts and will return in fall. Visitors include Mr and Mrs George Fromm of Rochester and Mrs Adelaide Benson with Rev Guy E Kagey of Baltimore. A June 1 surprise anniversary party honored the Kageys with 17 guests. Stephen Kenny, son of Mr and Mrs John Kenny, finished his first year at RPI and returns home for the summer.
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Eugene Pelham
Boston
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George Fromm
Rochester
N.Y
Emmett Mattern
Adelaide Benson
Guy E. Kagey
Baltimore
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Benson
Stephen Kenny
John Kenny
Sandgate
Rensselaer Polytechnics Institute
Troy
Arlington GOP Women Hear Candidate at First Meeting
Mrs Made line B Harwood candidate for senator from Bennington County urged Arlington Republicans to join organized women’s clubs and link with state and national groups during the Arlington Republican Women’s Club inaugural gathering at Mrs D S Kendall Jr’s home. Bennington County club president Mrs Joseph Caracciola urged attendance at the Vermont Republican Women’s luncheon in Burlington on June 15 as a group topic. A nominating committee was named with Mrs Thomas Coleman Mrs Harry Burgess and Mrs Richard Wood. The next meeting is scheduled for June 25 with time and place to be announced.
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Arlington
Madeline B. Harwood
Bennington County
Arlington Republican Women’s Club
D.S. Kendall Jr
Harwood
Joseph Caracciola
Bennington
Republican Women’s Club
Vermont
Burlington
Thomas Coleman
Harry Burgess
Richard Wood
Joe Hall Returns Home After 11 Years in Facility
Friends announce Kenneth J. Joe Hall has left Caverly Preventorium Pittsford after an eleven year stay. Doctors confirm recovery complete and he can resume normal life, with support from Sunderland area community and Gerald Raftery noted as a contact.
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Kenneth J
Joe’ Hall
Caverly Preventorium
Pittsford
Taxpayers Grieved At Manchester Hearings
Fifty taxpayers in Manchester attend listers hearings at the firehouse as complaints mount over property values. Avalanche Motor Lodge management threatened to sue three sisters and the town over an allegedly unfair assessment.
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Manchester
Listers
Avalanche Motor Lodge
Kindergarten Open House Set At Manchester
Manchester Elementary School schedules an open house for future kindergartners and parents on Wednesday from 10 30 to 11 30 a m Mrs Carol Wehner kindergarten teacher for the 1968 69 school year will lead the session She and MES Principal Robert P Wood urge attendees to acquaint themselves with the classroom and teacher.
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Manchester
Carol Wehner
Town Band Revival Sought In Manchester
Raymond H. Brown of Rutland directs the Manchester Elementary School band and the Manchester School Board seek to revive a town band for Manchester. A meeting with Brown is set for Tuesday at MES at 7 p.m. in the band room with adults and youths asked to bring instruments. Brown, a U.S. Army Band School graduate, was hired by school directors in February and previously collaborated with Napoleon Ianni, under whose direction the combined Manchester School and Town bands flourished.
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Manchester
Raymond H. Brown
Rutland
Manchester School Board
Brown
MES
U.S. Army Band School
Napoleon Ianni
Manchester School Band
Manchester Town Band
Hoosick Falls knitting group plans Latham trip
Members of the Senior Center knitting class led by Sister Mary Anna of St. Marys Convent will visit the Provincial House in Latham on June 17. Attending are Mrs. Anne Perreault Miss Mary Levine Mrs. Jennie Hewitt Mrs. Mary Walsh Mrs. Katherine Hughes Miss Jean Dewar Mrs. Florence Sigmund and Mrs. Dorothy Moses with Mrs. Albert Waythus aiding transportation.
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Mary Anna
St. Mary’s Convent
Latham
Anne Perreault
Mary Levine
Jennie Hewitt
Mary Walsh
Katherine Hughes
Jean Dewar
Florence Sigmund
Dorothy Moses
Albert Waythus
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