VAC Names County Chairmen of Easter Seal Campaign
RUTLAND Vermont Association for the Crippled inc opens its Easter Seal drive with county chairmen named as fundraising goals aim to sustain handicapped rehabilitation efforts. The campaign builds on 1967 totals of about $48,000 with no fixed target but continued year over year gains.
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VAC
Rutland
Vermont
Association For the Crippled, Inc
Children’s Rehabilitation Center
Osborne Halsted
Dorset
Dayton J. Wakefield
Morrisville
Bennington County
Harvey Carter
Pownal
Arlington
Edgar Blair
Bennington
Robert McWaters
Landgrove
Lester Cody
Manchester
Joseph Fowler
Peru
John Shuell
Charles Rounds
Readsboro
Brandon Training School Expenses Are Described
Mental health Commissioner Dr Jonathan Leopold detailed admissions and discharges at the Brandon Training School for the first half of fiscal year 1968. Expenditures totaled 999212 dollars, up 218030 from 1967. increases stems from personal services food service and maintenance. During July1 to Dec31 the school admitted 28 mentally retarded individuals and discharged 12. 77 were placed in community programs. End of period resident population 667 with 195 in community placements. waiting list 80. Budget cuts shaved 94169 from the line, with 45400 unspent in personnel and 48769 from unfilled positions. The facility operates at full capacity under state mental health funding.
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Brandon
Jonathan P. A. Leopold
Brandon Training School
Vermont
Department of Mental Health
Mrs. Waite Named To State Board
Governor Hoff announced eight reappointments and six new appointments to Vermont boards and agencies. New appointees include Dr. Lucille M. Coffey to the Board of Osteopathic Examination and Registration, Ethel Vallencourt Waite to the Board of Nursing, Joseph V. Parente and A A Spengler to the Governor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, and Dr. Robert W. Hyde to the Alcoholic Rehabilitation board. Reappointments include Sister Irene Duchesneau to Nursing, Paul E. Dussault to Real Estate, James M. Kane and John Morton to the Apprenticeship Council, Orlando P. Costa to the Recreation Board, C. Douglas Cairns to Scenery Preservation, Dr. Robert B. Aiken to the Personnel Board, and J. Walter Herlihy to the Vermont Planning Council. John D. Pisanelli named chairman of the Real Estate Board through Feb. 28, 1969.
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Burlington
Robert W. Hyde
Bakersfield
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Board
Irene Duchesneau
State Board of Nursing
Paul E. Dussault
St. Albans
Vermont Real Estate Board
James M. Kane
John Morton
Rutland
Allegheny College Choir to perform in Bennington area
Three local churches and Mt Anthony Union High School sponsor the Allegheny College Choir from Meadville Pa for shows on March 17 and 18. The 60 voice group recently toured Northern Europe and will give a public concert March 17 at 7 30 p m at Mt Anthony High School and a student assembly the next morning.
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Allegheny College
Meadville
Europe
First Methodist Church
Bennington
Shaftsbury
Second Congregational Church
Buffalo - Cleveland - Pittsburgh
Riverside
New York City
National Cathedral
Washington, D.C
Goslar News
Goslar
Berlin
Allegheny
London Daily Express
Daily Express
New York
de Vere Gardens
W.S. Wright North
Columbia College
Columbia University
Columbia
Prof
North
Ivan Velikan
Vermont Faces $80,000 Loss in Library Funding Cuts
Vermont will lose 80,000 or more in federal funds for expanded library service after the House Appropriations Committee did not approve full matching funds. Three current programs and institutional library services for state facilities are at risk without a budget reversal before the March 7 House presentation.
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Appropriations Committee
Free Public Library Service
House
Horton
Joseph A. Boisse
Institutional Library Services
Vermont
Domini A. Persempere
Connecticut
Boisse
BolSse
Fund Drive Set by Dollars for Scholars at MAUHS
Dollars for Scholars at MAUHS sets March 11 to 15 for a fund drive to fund scholarships. Dr. William D Worthington announces a door to door drive and letters to area groups. Two charity basketball games are planned, plus an armband collection in the downtown district March 15 from 7 to 9 p.m.
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Dollars For Scholars Group
MAUHS
William D. Worthington
Worthington
Lions
Rotary
Dollars For Scholars Organization
Bennington center to get education funds grant
Sen Prouty announced that the U S Office of Education will fund the Bennington Friends of Retarded Children day care center for preschool mentally retarded children from March 1, 1968 to February 28, 1969. The grant totals 36556 dollars to develop and demonstrate early educational services aiding transition to public school classes. Also mentioned is a note about pianist Walter Bogert and organist Frederick Kinsley at Riverside Church and a biography of Prof North with ties to Eastman and Allegheny College.
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Washington
Winston L. Prouty
U.S. Office of Education
Bennington
Friends of
Town Officers Conference Scheduled in Manchester
Vermont government representatives from many departments will attend the annual Town Officers Educational Conference in Manchester on March 21 at Manchester Elementary School. The 23rd year program draws over 1,000 attendees from more than 200 towns to discuss administrative issues with state experts.
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Department x Social Welfare
Education
Harvey Scribner
Lauritz S. Larsen
UVM
Andrew E
Middlesbrough water main record bites 16 breaks
A Lintzgarth Construction crew on Burlam Road Middlesbrough has fractured a water main 16 times in three weeks. The affected 50 houses faced water outages while the road improvement project continues. The bill totals 2640 dollars, though the Water Board has not billed yet as work remains unfinished.
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Middlesbrough
England
UPI
Burlam_ Road
Lintzgarth Construction Co
Water Board
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