Retired priest Whitcomb pursues seashell sculpture in Sarasota
The Rev James L Whitcomb, longtime Hoosac School rector, pictured in the St Petersburg Times on March 10 pursuing abstract sculptures from seashell fragments. He volunteers at Sarasota's Church of the Redeemer and has spent decades rebuilding troubled youths through a craft therapy program. Three pieces are shown Flight Into Egypt Annunciation Gabriel and Dancing Girl. Plans for an SOS Children’s Village in Morrisville move ahead with private funds and local volunteers.
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James L. Whitcomb
Hoosac School
Hoosick
St. Petersburg
Fla
Lois
Joseph Steinmetz
Sarasota
Fr. Whitcomb
Church of the Redeemer
New York
Steinmetz
Egypt
Annunciation
Gabriel
Sarasota Herald - Tribune
Temple Emanu-E]l
The
Brotherhood of Man
Hemisphere
Morrisville
Ann Garahan
George van Santvoord
Bennington
James G. Dodge
St. Francis de Sales Church
Vermont
SOS Children’s Village
PO Box
YOU Day Observed by 4000 Members and UNICEF Contest
You Day marks a year of UNICEF driven by youth groups with Seven teen and the U S Committee for UNICEF. The third annual contest awards a 500 dollar savings bond top prize, 200 dollars second, and 25 dollar bonds to 15 runners up. Deadline is April 30.
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Unicef
United Nations Children’s Fund
Seventeen Magazine
United States
U.S
Starry Jimmy Durante troupe to aid St Anthony's parish
The Jimmy Durante and star studded troupe will perform again to benefit St Anthony's parish. Rev Thomas A De Luca OFM announces the show to be held Thursday night May 2 at RPI Field House in Troy New York.
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Jimmy Durante
Troy
N.Y
St. Anthony’s Parish
Thomas A. de Luca
OFM
RPI
Aiken protests truck fees to ICC over northern rate hike
Senator George D. Aiken R Vermont protested to the Interstate Commerce Commission against a southern conference plan to raise less than truckload rates into Vermont New Hampshire and Maine by 15 percent and truckloads by 6 percent effective April 15. He warned the move would hurt Vermont businesses with carpets and other goods among affected commodities.
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Washington
George D. Aiken
R-Vt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Motor Carriers Conference
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
DeMolay Seeks to Build Better Citizens From Teens
Marl-Benno Chapter of DeMolay marks its 44th anniversary since the 1919 founding in Kansas City. The chapter has about 30 active members. The organization, founded by Frank S Land and nine youths, aims to shape boys 14 to 21 into better citizens.
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Order of DeMolay
Marl-Benno
Kansas City
Bennington
The
Frank S. Land
Frank Land
DeMolay
Essary
Jacques DeMolay
Knights Templars
Philip of
France
Frank Marshall
de Molay
Local group attends DEA conference in New York
Mr and Mrs Rene DuCharme members of Dance Educators of America traveled to New York City for a material session and teacher meeting at the Waldorf Astoria. They were joined by Gail Ann Horst and Mrs W B Flynn with several students attending both teacher and student sessions. Flynn substituted for a late arriving Pockette.
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Rene DuCharme
Dance Educators of America
New York City
DEA
Waldorf Astoria
Gail Ann Horst
DuCharme
W.B
Janet) Flynn
David Chaffin
Rene Cassano
George Bruneau
Barbara Powers
Andree Bruneau
Barbara
Andree
Tommy Pockette
Springfield
John Carmody
Union Street
Moorsville
N.C
New York
Jack King
Flynn
National
New England Hikers Confer 27th Annual Meeting
The New England Trail Conference will hold its 27th annual meeting on March 30 at the Public Health Auditorium, UMass Amherst. The event gathers about 40 hiking groups to share trail reports, with afternoon talks on Africa safari, White Mountains and Alps climbing, plus a nature film and a 5:30 dinner at the Amherst Methodist Church. Reservations go to Miss Edith Libby in Northampton.
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Public Health
University of Massachusetts
Amherst
Mass
New England
Vermont
Green Mountain Club
Bennington
Alberta Stutsman
Wilbraham
Kathleen Bevis Judge
Jackson, N.H
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Alps
Charles Holle
Watervliet
N.Y
Methodist Church
Edith Libby
Bedford Place
Northhamption
Senate Delays Seat Belt Bill In Vermont
In Montpelier the final House action on the seat belt bill was delayed due to wording technicalities. The measure would require seat belts in cars built after 1964. The House approved four bills and sent several others forward including harsher penalties for unlicensed livestock dealers and a hydraulics brake fluid standards bill.
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Charles Winegard
Robin
Delray Beach
Lady Fitters
North ST
Men’s & Boy’s
Cie Uper
Union ST
Aiken
Barre and
Montpelier
ICC
Laurence Walrath
Langdon Cummings Sr
Greater Barre
D. Dexter Davis
William Bruneau
Richard Powers
Hoosick Falls
Legion of Honor
Main
N.E
Main Stree
Bennington, We
American Gem Society
Music Shop
Senate
House
Legislative Draftsman’s Office
Bargain Corner
Elm Street
SRD
Arte
Mama
Sol Ody
Bas
Bennington Road
Hamburg
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