Arlington Garden Club Noted At Vermont Federated Meeting
At the 33rd annual Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont meeting in Springfield Arlington Garden Club received merit certificates for the flower show schedule junior outreach and special achievement. The club won yellow ribbon third place in the show with one arrangement entered. The president noted a 60 member cap with a waiting list and outlined plans for horticulture projects, field trips, litter control and new garden books while announcing the August 30 biennial auction to fund flowers, services, and local projects. Christopher Jespersen, ill at Putnam Memorial Hospital, was reported able to receive visitors.
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Springfield
Federated Garden Clubs of Vermont
Arlington Garden Club
Vermont
Arlington
C. Robert Given
Christopher Jespersen
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Bennington Field
Garden Club
West Arlington Green
Summer Movie Series At McCullough Library Opens
North Bennington children can attend a weekly summer movie series starting Wednesday at 1 pm. Three films will be shown each week for one to one and a half hours over seven consecutive Wednesdays at McCullough Library. The program is free to all area children. Mrs. Cathryn Miles announces the series and 1969 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award books are available for summer reading.
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McCullough
Cathryn Miles
Miles
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Sheltered Missionary Adopts Bolivian Field Work
Ruberta Galusha, 27, daughter of Shaftsbury residents, serves as a Methodist missionary with Alfalit in La Paz Bolivia. She leads a two month old pilot program teaching women to read with functional primers, targeting highlands valleys and jungles, and hopes literacy becomes a national education department priority. She chose full-time church mission work over Peace Corps, plans to return to Cochabamba soon, and notes church groups often pool resources for regional health and education projects.
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Shaftsbury
Cochabamba
Bolivia
Ruberta Galusha
A.R. Galusha
Auberta
la Paz
Alfalit
Ruberta
National Department of Education
Dona Pancha
Peace Corps
Vista
Church
New Jersey
Suburbia
South America
America
Nelson Rockefeller
Methodist Church
Latin America
U.S
Galusha
AMHS graduation honors two valedictorians amid student activism
Arlington Memorial High School celebrated its Class of 1969 with two valedictorians Stephanie Mahler and Betsy Moody. Gerald Raftery urged grads to build the future as rapid global advances continue, while Mahler and Moody addressed new campus activism and science’s role in society. Awards recognized scholars, scholarships, and citizenship. Dartmouth commencement also noted Barry B. Griffith, Bennington High alumnus, earning a degree and planning law school.
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Arlington
Gerald Raftery
Arlington Memorial High School
Raftery
la Mancha
AMHS
Stephanie Mahler
Betsy Moody
Catherine Corcoran
University of Vermont
Gordon Howard
Southwestern Vermont Education — Association
Katherine Elwell
Vermont
Miss Mahler
Miss Moody
March of Dimes
Anna Webb
Danforth Foundation
Susan James
Daniel Clayton
Kathryn Clayton
Sandra Corey
William Towne
Arlington Chapter
Daniel
Paula Squires
John R. Wilson Trust
Miss Squires
Red Mt
CES
Deborah Mattison
Arlington Alumni Association
Helen Henning
Patrick Thompson
Varsity Club
Barry B. Griffith
Charles Griffith
Polygraphic Lane
North Bennington
Dartmouth College
Griffith
Bennington Catholic High School
Dartmouth
Ushers and Tabard Fraternity
Pownal Lions Plan Little Baseball Field Development
The Pownal Lions Club reports approval from school officials to use land behind North Pownal School for developing a regulation field for the Pownal Little Baseball League. A directors meeting is set for June 25 at 7 p.m. at King Lion Charles Kokoras's home. The next business meeting is Monday, June 23 at the Club House Lounge with happy hour at 5:30 and dinner at 6 p.m. sharp.
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LIONS
Pownal Lions Club
Nor- Shaft Lodge
North Pownal
Pownal
King Lion
Club
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Randolph
Chimney Hill
Mt. Haystack
Wilmington
Leo Berman
Sheilah Miller
Rockefeller Foundation
Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil
Brazil
Argentina
Manchester
Melanie Otis P.O. Box
Pauline Martin
Augusta
Gertrude Robinson
Seminary Avenue
Reginald Jennings
VFW
Voice of Democracy
The
Pownals
Honument Plaza Shopping
Nichols
Safari
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