New Twist on Old Gimmick Helps to Save Lives
Peru Illinois pastor Reverend Ralph Burlingham launched a drive to collect discarded but usable medical gear from Illinois hospitals and churches to ship to overseas mission stations. He aims to supply operating tables sterilized equipment X ray gear and hospital utensils to missionaries led by Dr Hale Henry Cook in India and other stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru, Ill
Illinois
Ralph Burlingham
Peru
Burlingham
Ben Herbster
United Church of Christ
Chicago
Church World Service Agency
National Council of Churches
Hale Henry Cook
India
Downstate
United States
Episcopal Rally Set In Manchester For Vermont Fund Drive
The Episcopal Development Fund aims to raise 400000 dollars for church work in Vermont. A Bennington District rally on Tuesday at 6 30 p m in Arlington Fisher Elementary School will feature Bishop Harvey D Butterfield and campaign director Victor Jones. Local leaders include Frederick B Wolf James Campbell Robert J Fisk and Mrs H Harold Thomson. Solicitations begin April 2 with Easter Day completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal Development Fund
Episcopal Church
Vermont
Bennington
Arlington
Manchester
Wells
Fisher
Harvey D. Butterfield
Victor Jones
Frederick B. Wolf
James Campbell
Clement Belcher
Arthur F. Moody
James S. Holden
Robert J. Fisk
H. Harold Thomson
Bennington church schedules list weekly services and meetings
A dense roster of Bennington area churches lists times for Sunday School Worship and youth and Bible study meetings. Entries include Alliance Tabernacle Crescent Boulevard Church of Christ South Street North Bennington Baptist Congregational and other houses of worship with class and service times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance Youth Fellowship
Area Church Service Schedules Across Town
The list outlines weekly worship times for multiple churches including St Columba St James Federated First Congregational St Pauls Roman Catholic West Arlington First Baptist Pownal Dorset East Dorset Shaftsbury North Bennington and Christian Advent Faith Bible Church with masses services and classes. It notes Holy Communion Mass times Sunday school and weekday services along with youth groups and choir activities.
Bennington church music directors named and events listed
Bennington area churches announce new organist and choir director Mr. and Mrs. R H van der Linde at Second Congregational Church. Kalamazoo College Glee Club will stay in Baptist homes for two concerts with an assembly at Bennington High and a public concert at the Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. van der Linde
Bennington College
Second Congregational Church
Arthur B. Coxsee
van der Lindes
Paul Williams
Kalamazoo College
the Baptist Church
Retarded Youth Director Speaks Across State
The Rev. W. Earle Forman, ex executive director of the Vermont Association For Retarded Children, will speak at multiple venues this week. He plans sessions at Havenwood School Rutland with the Silver Towers Camp Committee, with the Health Department in Burlington, a Newport audience on Community Services for the Retarded, a Springfield Social Agencies dinner, and Manchester on local state and national association ties. He will return to Bennington Tuesday night and resume work Wednesday.
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W. Earle Forman
Vermont Association For Retarded Children
Havenwood School
Rutland
Silver Towers Camp Committee
Department of Health
Burlington
Northeastern Association For Retarded Children
Newport
Council of Social Agencies of
Springfield
Mount Laurel
Manchester
Bennington
First Services in New Tabernacle on Crescent Boulevard
The Christian Alliance Tabernacle on Crescent Boulevard prepares for its first services tomorrow in a newly constructed frame building with brick facade. Rev. Cornelius W. Clarke Jr. and his father lead six months of full time work aided by volunteers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Alliance Tabernacle
Crescent Boulevard
Cornelius W. Clarke Jr
Clarke
William Ashmond
Boston
Christian Alliance
River Street
Two Scouts Earn Eagle Rank in Green Mountain Council
Bradley Stevens of Shaftsbury and Gordon W. Garrison of Bennington qualified for Eagle Scout rank after meeting requirements. The pair appeared before the Council Board of Review chaired by Col Robert W. Chatter with Dr John G. Irons Jr Peter L. Kurdeka and Bartley B. Nourse present. Both noted for Troop 31 and Troop 53 and slated for Camp Sunrise staff this summer. Special Courts of Honor will present their Eagle badges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
Robert W. Chatter
Green Mountain Council
Bradley Stevens
Shaftsbury
Gordon W. Garrison
Bennington
Council Board of Review
Chatter
John G. Irons Jr
Peter L. Kurdeka
Bartley B. Nourse
Stevens
Howard C. Stevens
Eagle Square Mfg. Co
Garrison
Second Congregational Church of
Scientists plan lunar beam experiment using red laser light
American scientists at the University of Michigan will shoot a powerful red laser at the moon and attempt to bounce it back to Earth. The pulses will be brief and may produce a visible red needle in the sky for observers near Ann Arbor. If successful, reflections from a lunar crater could yield a Earth moon round trip in 2 1/2 seconds, part of exploring laser applications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter A. Franken
Moon
Earth
Optical Society of America
Franken
Michigan
Area Ministers Draft Statement On Burial Rites
Area ministers plan a statement on improving funeral practices to better reflect Christian faith. Rev. Frank W. Grippen introduced the discussion at the Bennington Ministerial Association monthly meeting. The Wakefield Association one page guide on The Christian Funeral was circulated. An April 9 meeting at St Peter's Church was set to act on the draft. Dean Hanson and Francis A. Owens attended as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Association
Frank W. Grippen
Wakefield Ministers’ Association
St. Peter’s Church
Dean Hanson
Francis A. Owens
Hanson
Fr John Fradet Named New CCD Director at Burlington
Rev. W John Fradet assistant at St Francis de Sales Church is named diocesan director of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and assistant chaplain of the University of Vermont Newman Club effective March 22. He will reside at the Burlington Newman Center and works with Msgr Fitzsimmons, CCD and CYO advisor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. John Fradet
St. Francis de Sales Church
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine
University of Vermont
Newman Club
Fr. Fradet
Robert F. Joyce
Burlington
Newman Center
James G. Dodge
St. Joseph
St. Francis de Sales
Fr. Frader
Francis A. Hickey
St. Luke’s
Fairfax
Catholic Youth Organization
Edward J. Fitzsimons
CCD
CYO
Msgr
Fitzsimmons
More Catholic Psychiatrists Said Needed
In New York this week Dr. Harvey J. Tompkins, president of the Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists, urged training more Catholic psychiatrists to meet urgent mental health needs and to improve attitudes toward psychiatry within the Catholic community. He noted lingering beliefs that psychiatry is irreligious and that Catholic psychiatrists must deviations from standard techniques to protect religious beliefs.
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New York
Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists
Harvey J. Tompkins
Tompkins
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Episcopal Church Fund
Cornelius W. Clarke
Bennington Church of Christ
South St
G. W. Kieffer
First Baptist Church
Rev. H. Glenn Payne
First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of God
North Bennington Road
Hicks Avenue
Religious Society of Friends
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Kingdom Hall
Main St
Frank W. Grippin
Ellen J. Gird
Ore
The
R. P. Bell
David Montague
Sacred Heart Church
Joseph Wiseman
Msgr. Francis B. Flanagan
Soldiers’ Home
Earle W. Forman
William Peck
St. John the Baptist
Walter F. Miller
St. Peter’s Episcopal
Pleasant
School Streets
Donald A. Webster
Assoc
Church School Adult Bible Group
School of Religion
Second Congregational
Hillside Street
S. C. Greene
P.m., Jr. Pilgrim Fellowship
P.m., Sr. Pilgrim Fellowship
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Burgess Road
Ronald Seeley
Unitarian Fellowship
Bennington Free Library
Union and Silver Streets
North Bennington Baptist Church
Alfred Scott
Congregational Church
Charles J. Parsley
Area Church Services
St. Columban’s
Gerald T. Buckley
East Arlington
Federated Church
Charles W. Grande
Baptist Youth Fellowship
Earle E. Storrs
First
E. H. Nickerson
St. Paul's
Donald C. Kelly
West Arlington Methodist Church
Pownal
First Baptist Church of
First Assembly of God Church
W. C. Nelson
Dorset
United Church
William A. Chace Jr
East Dorset
Union Chapel
Congregational
First Methodist Church
John C. Hatch
Our Lady of Lourdes North
Pownal Center
Isabelle King
Methodist Church
James Bagley
Woodford Hollow
A. J. MacDonald
Alvan Lawrence
Jesus
North Bennington
Sandgate
Edgar W. Johnson
Christian Advent Faith Bible Church
R. E. Smith
A. E. Center
Ass’t
Mary Hodeck
Boy Scouts
Catholic Daughters
Catherine Dermody
Jr. Catholic Daughters
Helen Burgess
Ann Heiner
Christine Ottaviano
Miss Hodeck
Donald Humphries
Daniel Higgins
Dorothy Damour
Holbrook
Vermont Gas Co
Main Street
Union Lenten
Alfred B. Perry
North Adams
Mass
Charles Parsley Jr
Harold McDonald Jr
St. Peter’s
Clinton Blake
Hoosac School
Panama
First Methodist
Victor Watson
Colon
Christian Science Services
Christian Science Church
Mary Baker Eddy
New Tabernacle
Father Smith
Jackson
Catholic Information Center
Elmwood Ave
Burlington, Vermont
John Fradet
Confraternity
Grand Union -Erryps
Triple “S
Grand Union Empire
Dunham’s
Elm St
Dial
Javery
South Street
Call
Ernest H. Javery
Alan H. Page
Walker
Walbridge
Hanson-Walbridge
Canada
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