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Bennington Banner

Location

Bennington, Vermont, United States of America

Date

Mar 02, 1962

Page

8

Essay Contest On Young Drivers By SUSAN TAYLOR

Bennington High School is entered in the Vermont Association of Insurance Agents annual essay contest The Young Driver Problem open to all high school seniors in public parochial or private schools A $250 scholarship will go to the best essay Essays must be 200 to 2500 words Include graphs charts and photos Essays due to Principal Geoffrey Graham by April 1 and will be forwarded to the executive secretary by April 6 The winner is announced by the State Selection Committee after May 15.

Bennington High School Vermont Association of Insurance Agents Geoffrey Graham State Selection Committee

Boyle Would Like to Forget the Month of March

New York AP columnist HAL BOYLE jokes about forgetting March after dating a Feb 28 column as April 1. He riffs on March as dull, ambush weather and the absurd idea of abolishing March to gain more days for April and September.

Boyle New York The Society For the Abolition of

Seek Magazines For School Library

Kendall Adams shop instructor at Bennington High School with Kathleen Kelly starts a library of Science and Mechanics Illustrated and Popular Science and Popular Mechanics for the shop math and science departments. He asks for donations of missing issues to complete the collection.

Kendall Adams Bennington High School Kathleen Kelly Mechanics Illustrated Popular Science Popular Mechanics Adams

Bennington Post Office veteran and local notables featured

SAM Patterson longtime Bennington postal worker recalled for 38 years service on village routes and a 1914 Civil Service start. Other items include Mrs Virginia Bryant winning Voice of the Month honors at Southern Bell, JULIAN Van Fleet in Oh Dad Poor Dad in New York, Kake Walk winners, Rev Beyer’s planned retirement, and bennington history notes.

Sam Collins M. Graves Herbert Robinson Tom” Halloran Bennington JO van Fleet William Bales Bennington College Phoenix Theater New York Arthur L. Kopit Jerome Robbins Howard Taubman New York Times Miss van Fleet Madame Rosepettle Walter Kerr New York Herald Tribune Mr. Robbins Dad van Fleet Barbara Harris

Students prep for yearbook deadline as seniors study current events

The school community reports top current events test scores by Stuart El dred and outlines upcoming oral history reports due March 19. Principal Geoffrey Graham travels to a national convention in St Louis while classrooms receive repainting. Coed volleyball champs are named and ski club activities highlighted.

Stuart Eldred Time Magazine Geoffrey Graham St. Louis

Dial 118 time service draws curious tale in Florida

In St. Petersburg the savings and loan operates a 118 time and temperature line. Advertising manager Odette Patterson recalls a mother’s story of her son waking at 3 a.m. to call 118, and shouting to his mother that the operator was still there.

ST. Petersburg Fla Savings and Loan Association Odette Patterson

Piscopo Named To New Position At Federal Liquors

Federal Liquors of Cambridge Mass announces Patrick P. Piscopo of 110 Charles St as Vermont representative effective today. A Rutland High School graduate, he attended the University of Vermont and managed the Bennington State Liquor Store from 1952 to 1957. For five years he served as a local representative of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. He is married with four children and will continue to reside in Bennington.

Richard F. Beyer North Bennington Beyer Bow N.H Concord Newark N.J Dartmouth College North Pomfret Union Seminary New York City Union Church Pocantico Hills Springfield St. Albans Virginia Beyers Europe Federal Liquors, Ltd Cambridge Mass Patrick P. Piscopo Charles St Vermont Piscopo Rutland High School University of Vermont Bennington Metropolitan Life Insurance Co

Space Frontiers Opened by Glenn Moon Mission

Editorial lauds Col. John H. Glenn after his 160 mile high flight and praises NASA Apollo plans to reach the moon in the 1960s. It notes public awe at the space program and the shift from fiction to reality as Shepard Grissom and Glenn become household names.

John H. Glenn Earth Col Glenn United States New York Herald Tribune National Aeronautics and Space Administration Flash Gordon Shepard, Grissom

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