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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1962
Page
3
At a class reunion a lighthearted crowd swaps jests about long ago outfits marriages and upward moves. The comments skew toward romance wealth and aging while the fly on the wall notes the sharp barbs and playful boasts amid reminiscing.
Miss Constance Joyce Beecher and Joseph David Taylor announce their engagement. Constance, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thornton D. Beecher of Fort Smith, is a legal secretary and St Scholastica graduate. Joseph, son of Mrs. Leona Taylor and H. L. Taylor, is a Fort Smith Junior College graduate and Air Force reservist with the 184th Tac Recon Sq. They plan an early fall wedding.
The Green Mountain Home Demonstration Club elected officers for the year led by President Mrs. Caroline Carey and Vice President Mrs. Anne Patterson. Highlights included a trip to the United Nations with speakers Anne Patterson Alice Harrington and Janet Harrington. An outing is planned for Heartwellville on Sunday June 17 and an auction of parsonage furniture and donated items is set for 10 a.m. at the former First Methodist Church parsonage.
Benny Goodman and his jazz band reached Tblisi the capital of the Georgian Republic after rainstorms grounded them at Sochi for a full day Thursday.
Mr and Mrs Leroy P Watson of North Bennington announce the marriage intention of their daughter Deborah Ann to Richard Charles Wilkinson son of Mr and Mrs Charles Wilkinson of Bennington. Deborah is a North Bennington High School graduate 1960 and radiology school alumna. Richard is a Bennington High School 1958 graduate, four years in the Navy, now employed in Troy New York. An August wedding is planned.
Mr and Mrs Irving Holland of North Branch Street announce the engagement of their daughter Sandra Jean to Gary Arthur Hoag of Union Street. The wedding is scheduled for June 30 in Bennington.
Mrs. Mary Curtis Coulter of Scott Street will receive her B S degree in education at North Adams State College commencement on Sunday. Bradford Smith of Shaftsbury will deliver the address at 7 p m on Taconic Hall lawn. Sixty five bachelor degrees and twenty master of education degrees will be awarded.
Former U.S. Treasurer Elizabeth Rudel Smith said she will marry Albert W. Gator of Greenbrae on June 22. Smith resigned from her post in the Kennedy administration last April and backed Gov. Edmund G. Brown, who won the Democratic nomination in California. Gator is a former chairman of the Federal Maritime Board.
April gasoline tax receipts in New Hampshire totaled 1,030,641 dollars, up 35,665 dollars from the prior year. Road Toll Administrator John J. Mara released the figures.
The First Congregational Church of Old Bennington hosts the noon wedding of Miss Mary Evelyn Jerome and James R. Lindsay. Attendants include Mrs. Walter R. Miles and Linda Gavec among others. After a Bermuda trip, the couple will reside at 967 North Rochester Street in Arlington Virginia.
A three day workshop for school lunch staff begins Monday at the University of Vermont. Two hundred participate in the 10th annual conference with talks on Teenage Nutrition and School Milk. A panel presents Teen-Age Views on School Lunch and topics include Work Simplification Safe and Sanitary Food Service. chest X-ray bus will be available for health screening at Marsh Hall.
Women of Moose schedule Friday clam night with Vernon Colvin in the kitchen. Officers meet June 12 at 7:30 p.m. and lodge at 8 p.m. Clarence OConnor, state director, to discuss the Northeast Moose convention in late September. A June 16 member dance features Rockwood's Orchestra. Also covered is the marriage of Valerie Ann Breen to Alan Lee Knapp performed May 26 at Federated Church East Arlington with details on attendants and reception. The couple plans a New England honeymoon and settles on a farm in Arlington.
Eleanor Patricia McCory daughter of Mrs. Charlotte McCory and the late Herbert McCory wed Norman R. Taft son of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Taft on June 2 at the First Baptist Church in Manchester. Rev. Edgar W. Johnson officiated. The couple plans to reside in Manchester after a Maine honeymoon.
Miss Marjorie Hungerford and Richard Sutherland will wed today at Whiteside Church in West Cambridge. She has enjoyed three pre nuptial showers hosted by Walter Hungerford, the Sutherlands on Glen Ridge Road, and a personal shower at her West Cambridge home with family.
Miss Lin da Bahan daughter of Mr and Mrs Horton Bahan and Leon Smith son of Carl Smith were married at East Arlington Methodist Church Friday night. Rev Charles W Grande pastor performed the ceremony with attendants Mr and Mrs Earl Conlin. Both couples attended Arlington Memorial High School.
West Hartford announces the engagement of Priscilla Ann Holman daughter of Mr and Mrs William H Holman of Beechwood Road to David Dwight Thomas son of Mr and Mrs John D Thomas of Alexandria Minnesota The bride to be is a Hall High School and Hartford Secretarial School graduate and medical secretary The groom to be is a Choate School alumnus and Trinity College senior He is grandson of Theo L Thomas of Bennington Vermont and Dr and Mrs George Sheldon Adams of Yankton South Dakota.
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