Well Adjusted People and the Balance of Life
A study notes well adjusted individuals show security, self trust, goal setting, effort, awareness, responsibility, resilience, civility, and a balanced view of material needs. It argues contentment comes from aligning desires with attainable goals and maintaining faith in personal roots.
Letters From Guatemala After Earthquake Destruction
A Vermont Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala recounts the February quake. He describes adobe homes collapsed, churches gone, pervasive fear, and disease spreading as aid agencies rush food and medical supplies while rescuers dig out the dead and wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Guatemala
Bradley Rixford
Bradley
Peace Corps
East Highgate
Guatemala Relief Fund aided by Lyndon students
Lyndon State College students start the Guatemala Earthquake Relief Fund to aid survivors. Local drives collect returnable bottles and cans and cash donations, to be sent to Partners in Americas for food and medical supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyndon State College
Guatemala
Partners In Americas Organization
Guatemala Relief Fund
Lyndonville
Vermont
Winter hard on buried Vermont water main and local news
Frost penetrates exposed areas as a water main sits five and a half feet below the surface. Electric thawing services reach 24 homes. Local contests award prizes and a statewide bond issue discussion heads to voters. Notables include education leaders and restaurant industry appointees. Measles vaccine clinic serves 300 children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover A. Lyons
Water Department
Bennington County
The
Red Cross
Lois Harrington
Bennington High School
Nostalgia in the stamp album and a Maine collector tale
A memoir recounts early stamp collecting sparked by Nellie Wight and The Youths Companion. The author recalls foreign stamps, missionary mail, and a shift from foreign to domestic stamps, noting postal histories, changing country names, and a 1963 Yankees contract milestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Wight
Youth’s Companion
Boston
Perry Mason Company
Perry Mason
Mrs. Stone
Gladstone
Tennyson
Whittier
Jewett
Hardy
Kipling
Huxley
United States
Newfoundland
Iran
Nellie Wigh
Boston Daily Evening Transcript
Transcript
Companion
American Boy
Nellie
Mozambique
Indiana
Humor Guide for Bureaucrats by Dr James Boren
The guide presents three maxims from a former State Department official and Bureaucrats association leader. It suggests thoughtful delegation when in trouble, and cautious mumbling when in doubt, reflecting a humorous view on bureaucratic conduct.
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Will Rogers
Will
Vermont
Environmental Conservation Agency
Montpelier
Waterbury
James Boren
State Department
The
National Association Professional Bureaucrats
Ponder
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Republican Party
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American Association of School Administrators
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