Benhi PTA Votes Citizenship Award and Literary Focus
The Bennington High School PTA approves a Benhi Citizenship Award to honor class seven through twelve students for classroom, school and community spirit. The award runs March 12 to May 1 with a May assembly presentation. The PTA also promotes the new Focus literary magazine and a foodless food sale in April. Guest Philip F. Smith of Williams College urges emphasis on adviser recommendations and student activities for college admission and notes scholarships can cover costs.
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Bennington High School
PTA
Kirby White
Benhi
Focus
Arthur Taylor
Philip F. Smith
Williams College
Smith
WWI Veterans Auxiliary Installs New Officers
Newport VI 1955 Thursday department president Mrs Edna Hopkins supervised the installation of officers for the World War I Veterans Auxiliary. New officers include Mrs Lillian Johnson president Mrs Margaret Knights senior vice president Mrs Rose Greenwood conductress Mrs Nellie Hollister chaplain Mrs Alta Callahan guard and Mrs Sarah Kenson secretary treasurer. Lunch followed at the president's home.
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Edna Hopkins
Newport
Edna Lloyd
Lillian Johnson
Margaret Knights
Rose Greenwood
Nellie Hollister
Alta Callahan
Sarah Kenson
Teachers address high school drop outs at Bennington meeting
At the Bennington Teachers Association gathering on March 1, members discussed high school drop outs. A 35 minute film titled Drop-Out traced a student’s decline due to poor home life and weak reading education, highlighting crowded classes and lack of individual help. Steps proposed include special reading courses, sports involvement, and on the job training to reengage students.
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Bennington Teachers’ Association
Thrift Shop Announces Spring Half Price Sale
The Thrift Shop plans a spring sale with merchandise at half price and requests coats suits hats and furniture. Readership is asked to donate items such as chairs tables lamps dishes vases jewelry a screen piano bench and a studio couch while noting a vacancy in the scribe position left by Miss Caroline Darlington.
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Thrift Shop
Caroline Darlington
Richard van Santvoord
Lillian Kleine
Clarence Daley
Dan Sargent
Sidney Edson
Leah Cook
Municipal Court Proceedings in Bennington Area
Judge Eugene V. Clark presided as multiple defendants faced charges in Bennington Municipal Court. Helen Dicranian, cited for unlicensed operation, stated a New York license though residing in Vermont. defendants faced charges ranging from breaking the peace to careless driving, with bail set for several and fines totaling over $55 for Tarbell. Additional cases included fire insurance fraud, petty larceny, and traffic violations with sentences and probation assigned.
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Eugene V. Clark
Helen Mae Dicranian
Maple St
New York
Vermont
John A. Burgess
Dicranian
Robert S. Peare
Winhall
Wallace Pearce
Joseph M. Bartlett
Rutland
David M. Babson
Bennington
John F. Taylor
South Street Extension
Douglas L. Guerard
Center Brunswick
N.Y
Troy
F. Ray Keyser Jr
Guerard
Rensselaer County
John Cain
George F. Griffis
Harry J. McDermott
Arlington
Wilcox
Literary Group Brings First Magazine Focus to Benhi
The Benhi Literary Association releases Focus a student written magazine with 13 works chosen from 18 members. Editor crew includes Ann Marie Goyette Judy Manes Jane Ker Mark Donovan Sara Pike and others. Copies are sold at Evans News and the Benhi bookstore.
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Focus
Benhi Literary Association
Literary Association
Benhi
Joanne Vallee
Sherri Zyne
Jay Crozier
Larry Moskovitz
Lorelei Lewis
Judy Manes
Ann Eddington
Ann Marie Goyette
Jane Ker
Mark Donavan
Sara Pike
Wendy Wyatt
Nancy Danish
Linda Sibley
Alysson Aja
Judy MacDonald
Ralph Watson
Janet Carpenter
Ann Bahan
Jane Shoemaker
Evans News
Benhi Grad Authored Satirical Auto Biography Novel
Robert Newton Peck, once of Bennington now in Springdale Conn, writes The Happy Sad ist a humorous satire on advertising. Published by Doubleday the book is billed as a distinguished American autobiographical novel about a totally undistinguished American nobody. Peck attended Bennington High School class of 1945.
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Robert Newton Peck
Bennington
Springdale
Peck
America
Bobby Kennedy
Bennington High School
Five Day Forecast for New England and Maine
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts five day temperatures across northern New England Massachusetts and Rhode Island near normal with Maine and eastern New Hampshire and Massachusetts 3 to 9 degrees above normal. Total precipitation averages over six tenths of an inch with rain or snow in northern New England Tuesday and again with rain south portions and rain or snow north portions around Thursday night or Friday.
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Boston
U.S. Weather Bureau
New England
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Maine
New Hampshire
Adams Pleads Guilty to Speeding in Small-Town Court
Adams pleaded guilty to speeding and was fined 15.10 dollars including costs in the local court.
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Cyrus F. Tarbell
Pawlet
Arlington
Tarbell
Robert S. Carli
North
Adams
Scientific Gains Could Save Two of Three Cancer Victims
AP Science Writer reports that nearly two of every three cancer patients could be saved today if science is fully applied. Dr. John R. Heller of Sloan-Kettering cites detection, public cooperation, and access to best treatment as key factors, with potential cure rates varying by cancer type.
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Phoenix ,Ariz
John R. Heller
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York City
American Cancer Society
Science Writers Seminar
Heller
New York
National Cancer Institute
Tasmanian Monster Mystery Draws International Interest
Pieces of a mystery carcass found on Tasmania's west coast will be flown to foreign scientists for analysis. The 20 foot by 18 foot object weighs 5 to 10 tons and remains partly buried in sand. Scientists from the CSIRO say it defies known invertebrates, and Tasmanian Museum officials will request results from tests. Local experts say the creature is marine but not a whale.
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Hobart
Tasmania
Bruce Mollison
Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
Tasmanian
St Patrick Day parades drawn into Catholic concerns
Rev Edward T Cooke of Maywood New Jersey argues in Information that St Patrick Day parades harm the church schools and Irish community. He recalls marching in New York parades and warns of misperceptions and risks of undemocratic imagery. He opposes tying Irish identity to Catholic education on the great day.
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New York
Edward T. Cooke
Information Magazine
a_ national Catholic monthly
Paulist Fathers
Father Cooke
Our Lady Queen of Peace Church
Maywood
N.J
Open Season On Rattlesnakes Near Sweetwater
In Sweetwater Texas volunteers of the Junior Chamber of Commerce completed a three day rattlesnake hunt. The 2392 fewer rattlers were captured and reptile curator Bob Jenni of Lincoln Park Zoo Oklahoma City will take them home. He plans to keep some sell some to other zoos and extract venom from others.
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Sweetwater
Tex
Postman’s kiss causes jaw to lock in Rochester
Police report Arthur Heveron 43 a Rochester postal worker kissed his wife Sunday and his jaw locked. He was taken to Genesee Hospital to have the jaw set.
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Rochester
N.Y
Arthur Heveron
Heveron
Genesee Hospital
Lawrence S Mayers Peace Essay Contest Opens Winners Named
A donation of 100000 boosts the Lawrence S Mayers Memorial Peace Essay contest for 1962. High school seniors may win prizes including 1000 bond or college scholarship. nine second prize bonds. 15 medallions and a peace book. Essays due by May 1 1962 with topics from Kennedy or Oscar Darwin quotes.
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Lawrence S. Mayers
John F. Kennedy
United Nations
United States
Oscar John Darwin
Texaco Inc
Miss Bonham
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