BBS Sings to Open SVAC Arts Festival in Manchester
A capacity audience heard Burr and Burton Seminary Glee Club perform at the Southern Vermont Art Center marking the SVAC Festival of the Arts opening and the school's year end. The 150-voice mixed chorus, under Doris Eastman Rigney, featured soloists Prudence Humphreys Patience Brooks and Jeannie Goodell, with Sharon Peck's electric organ medley delighting attendees. Proceeds supported a new piano for the Glee Club as galleries and gardens showcased sculpture and paintings by Southern Vermont Artists celebrating their 35th anniversary.
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Manchester
Burr and Burton Seminary
Southern Vermont Art Center
Art Center
Doris Eastman Rigney
Glee Club
Cain
Bach
Hayden
Prudence Humphreys
Patience Brooks
Brother Man
Ringewald
Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Michael Zamebalis
Purcell
Jeannie Goodell
Francis Markey
Bruce Meachem
Meachem
Sidney Meachem
Dorset
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Sharon Peck
Londonderry
Wayne Peck
Sharon
Wantastiquet
Stratton
Joseph M. Stannard
Charles C. Stannard
Stannard
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church
Doreset Playhouse
Dorset Players
Carnevan Theatre
Jeannie Goodall
En Bateau
Debussy
Jeannie
Prudence
Jackson
Southern
Vermont
Harvard Law To Graduate Dorset Youth
Dorset native Bayard Halsted will receive his Harvard Law School degree in Cambridge on June 11. The Dorset Elementary School alumnus attended Deerfield Academy and Princeton University, then served three years as a U S Navy legal officer. He plans a New York bar review this summer before joining White and Case in September.
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Dorset
E. Bayard Halsted
Osborne Halsted
Harvard Law School
Cambridge
Mass
North Rupert
Deerfield Academy
Princeton University
U.S. Navy
Halsted
New York City
New York
Wall Street
White and Case
Bennington College Names New Faculty Members for Fall
Bennington College announces three new faculty for the fall term. Sculptor Phillip King joins replacing Anthony Caro on a one term basis and hails from London with Cambridge and St Martin's background. Composer-pianist Vivian Fine joins the Music Division, with prior posts at NYU Juilliard Potsdam and writings for dance. Paul T. Gray will teach The Actors Ensemble and Contemporary Trends in Theatre with credentials from Brooklyn College and the University of Iowa.
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North Bennington
Bennington College
Phillip King
Anthony Caro
St. Martin’s School of Art and Sculpture
London
Cambridge University
Christ College
King
St. Martin’s
Rowan and Heffers
Paris
Boise
Henry Moore
England
Vivian Fine
Music Division
Juilliard School of Music
State University of New York
Potsdam
Connecticut College of Dance
Vassar College
New York City
Paul T. Gray
Playwrights Repertory Company of
Gray
Brooklyn College
The
State University of Iowa
Gold Wedding Anniversary for Mr and Mrs Briggs in Jacksonville
Mr and Mrs George Briggs celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary at their Jacksonville home with an open house party starting at 10 a.m. hosted by their daughter Mrs Byron Morse. Briggs served as town clerk and treasurer of Searsburg for 50 years retiring in 1961.
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George Briggs
Jacksonville
Byron Morse
Briggs
Searsburg
Woodford
Vermont
Caravan Theatre Opens Summer Season at Dorset Playhouse
Dorset's Caravan Theatre launches 11 week summer season starting June 25 with Janus by Carolyn Green. Patricia Carmichael leads, Elizabeth Franz as Eliza in My Fair Lady July 30, and Any Number Can Die mid August. New lighting, equipment upgrades boost the venue for the season.
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Dorset
Dorset Playhouse
Caravan Theatre
Patricia
Fred Carmichael
George Blanchard
Susan M. Richardson
Carolyn Green
Carmichael
George Bernard Shaw
Lerner
Loewe
Patricia Carmichael
Elizabeth Franz
Eliza
Henry Higgins
Valhalla
N.Y
Gertrude Berg
Cedric Hardwicke
Playhouse
Dorset Players
New England
Top Students Named At St. Marys
Hoosick Falls report names Allen Petell valedictorian and Margaret Hoag salutatorian of St. Marys Academy. Petell, son of Robert Petell, presides over Student Council and aims for St. Bonaventure College pre medicine. Hoag, daughter of James Hoag, is Student Council vice president and Elks Youth Leadership Award recipient, plans X ray tech school at Mary McClellan. Separate New York item notes Columbia University School of Engineering marking its 100th anniversary with a 15 story building containing 55 labs and classrooms.
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Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Thomas Cook
OSA
St. Mary’s Academy
Allen Petell
Margaret Hoag
Petell
Robert Petell
Petersburg
National Honor Society
Glee Club
CYA
St. Bonaventure College
Hoag
James Hoag
East Hoosick
Sodality
Elks
Miss Hoag
New York
UPI
Columbia University
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Danby Pupils Present Annual Musicale at Borough School
Danby Borough School and Scottsville School pupils staged an annual music program for parents and friends. Grades 1 and 2 performed a song story with rhythm band, Grades 3 and 4 sang in parts and offered Do-Re-Mi, Grades 5 and 6 presented foreign folksongs and Vermont songs, Grades 6 and 7 chose Hail to Vermont and rounds, and Grade 8 from Scottsville performed early American songs including The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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Danby
Danby Borough
Scottsville School
Parents and Friends
Elizabeth Wheelwright
Georgia Carabeau
Frances Mitchell
Vermont
Ruth Rogers
Scottsville
Henry Clemons
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New School For Social Research
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New Hampshire
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