Eastern Orthodox Monks Mark Millennium on Mount Athos
Mount Athos in Greece celebrates 1000 years of uninterrupted monastic existence with plans for ceremonies in Athens and Salonika. The Athonite community, founded by Saint Athanasius in 963, now includes about 2,000 monks across 20 monasteries, primarily Greek, with 25 novices admitted annually.
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Mount Athos
Greece
Istanbul
Athanagoras
Athens
Salonika
Nicephoros Phocas
Athanassius the Athonite
Phocas
Crete
Athanassius
Megisti Lavra
Athos
Kalamazoo College Groups to Perform Friday Concert
Fifty eight members of Kalamazoo College music groups under Dr. Russell A. Hammar tour the East and reach First Baptist Church Friday for a 7:30 p.m. sanctuary concert after arriving from Worcester Massachusetts at 2 p.m. A 5 p.m. banquet precedes the performance and Rochester New York is the next stop.
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Kalamazoo College
East
Russell A. Hammar
First Baptist Church
Pope Urges World To Share Resources
Pope John XXIII appealed to men of good will to better use and share the world's resources. He spoke to 30 world leaders in Rome drafting a united appeal against hunger, urging the coming World Food Congress in Washington be a stimulant to action.
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Pope
World
Vatican City
John XXIII
Rome
World Food Congress
Washington
Bishops' Relief Fund Drive Cast Across 17000 Churches
The second phase of the Bishops Relief Fund begins with a Sunday collection in 17000 Catholic churches nationwide including southwestern Vermont. The Lent appeal follows Ash Wednesday drives in over 12000 Catholic schools. Last year the fund aided 40 million hungry and needy people in 77 nations without regard to race creed or color.
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Catholic Bishops’ Relief Fund
United States
Vermont
Bishops’ Relief Fund
Catholic Relief Services
Stowe History Project Honors Bi-Centennial Milestone
Edwin L. Bigelow, longtime Stowe resident and co author of the Manchester history (1961), works on a Stowe history to be published this year by the Stowe Historical Society for the towns bicentennial. Mr. Erickson of Pawlet becomes father. he teaches sixth grade at Manchester Elementary.
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Edwin L. Bigelow
Stowe
Sven Erickson
Pawlet
Rutland Hospital
Erickson
Manchester
E. H. Nickerson
One Great Hour of Sharing Fund Drive Aims High
Protestant churches nationwide observe the 15th annual One Great Hour of Sharing to raise more than 15 million for overseas mercy ministry. Funds support food medicine clothing shelter and relief for disaster survivors and war or political upheaval victims plus educational projects and student exchanges.
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Ministry of Mercy
United Appeal
Catholic Relief Services Aids Overseas Need
Catholic Relief Services reports over 1 billion pounds of relief shipments in 1962, with 2,240 shipments valued at $124 million to 70+ countries. The agency helped 30,000 Cuban refugees resettle in the U.S., supporting education, health, and welfare programs worldwide.
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Catholic Relief Services
Overseas Aid Agency of
U.S
Castro
Latin America
Africa
Computer backs claim St Paul wrote four Pauline epistles
London based researchers using an electronic computer argue St Paul authored only four of the 14 Pauline epistles Romans First and Second Corinthians and Galatians with Philemon uncertain. They base findings on stylistic habits including word usage and sentence starts and plan to publish in Glasgow University work.
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London
St. Paul
Morton
Bennington Lenten Service and Church Activities Planned
A Union Lenten service will be held at 730 p.m. Sunday in the First Methodist Church Bennington with Rev. Leonard Bass Troy District youth director as speaker. The Bennington Missionary Alliance Church hosts guest minister Rev. Gordon Cathey May 14 16. A new Crusaders youth group meets Wednesdays at 203 Safford St for ages 9 to 11.
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First Methodist
Bennington
Leonard Bass
Troy
Gordon Cathey
Christian Missionary and Alliance Church
White Plains
N.Y
Bennington Missionary
The
Crusaders
Earl Chase
Safford St
Missionary Alliance Church
Scott Neville
First Methodist Church of
Bennington-Troy
Methodist
Methodist Church
Church Lenten Plan Outlined For Week Schedule
The Union Lenten service begins in the church with student attendance. First Methodists host activities next week with events including adult membership training at 8 p.m. and Music Committee at 7 p.m. Circle II serves a covered-dish supper at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Commission on Social Concerns meets at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Mid-Week Lenten Service features Rev. Robert Trost of Grace Methodist Church in Troy, N.Y. as speaker.
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First Methodists
D.me
Circle II
Commission On Social Concerns
Robert Trost
Grace Methodist Church
Troy
N.Y
Bennington Area Churches Schedule Services and Events
A long list of church services across Bennington and surrounding towns outlines Sunday School times worship hours and sermon topics. Congregations include North Bennington First Congregational Old Stone Church and St. Marys Catholic parishes among others with varied programs and events through the week.
Activities at Bennington First Baptist Church Next Week
The First Baptist Church in Bennington lists events for next week starting with a 7:30 p.m. session on Tuesday. Details mention boards but are incomplete.
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First Baptist Church
Bennington
Mizpah Circle hosts meeting and plans sale for March
North Bennington Mrs. Arthur Pierce entertained 13 Mizpah Circle members of the Baptist Church. A food sale is set for March 30 at Nadeau's on Main Street. The group will sell Temple T bags and first aid kits replacing dime cards. Airman Robert Thomson returns from radar school for a 37 day leave before an 18 month Air Force tour in Newfoundland. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hall relocate to Sherwood House on Houghton Street.
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Arthur Pierce
Nadeau
Main Street
Temple T
Robert Thomson
Alex Thomson
Bank Street
Bob
Kessler Air Force Base
Biloxi
Miss
Newfoundland
Air Force
Ralph Hall
Sherwood House
Houghton Street
Harrington wins 1000 prize in Ford sales contest
David D. Harrington of Woodford Road, Woodford, Bennington, as Wilson Ford agency sales manager, won the 1000 prize for six months of sales achievement in a New England Ford sales contest. He was notified by letter and check. Harrington, named sales manager last summer, has worked at the agency since 1957. Earlier this week Ford Motor Co. named him to the 300-50 Club for high ranking Boston district salesmen in 1962.
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Ford
David D. Harrington
Woodford Road
Wilson Ford
Harrington
Wison Ford
Ford Motor Co
Boston
Ford Car
Stocking Named English Department Chair at Williams College
Dr. Fred H. Stocking Morris Professor of Rhetoric at Williams College will become chairman of the English Department on July 1 succeeding Dr. Robert J. Allen who is over 60. Stocking has taught in the John Hay Fellows Summer Institutes since 1959 and directed the Bentington College campus program last summer.
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Williamstown
Mass
Fred H. Stocking
Morris
Williams College
John E. Sawyer
Stocking
Robert J. Allen
John Hay
Bennington College
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