Robert Frost Film Wins Oscar in Documentary Study
A Middlebury College library Frost archive based documentary earned an Oscar for best achievement in a documentary. Robert Hughes directed the film Robert Frost A Lover's Quarrel With the World using Frost images from college files and the Ripton summer home. It includes lectures from Sarah Lawrence and Amherst and night footage from Vermont locations. Sponsors include WGBH Educational Television Foundation with support from Boston University Northeastern and Harvard.
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Middlebury
Robert Frost
Middlebury College
Frost
Robert Hughes
Colege Frost
Ripton
Sarah Lawrence
Amherst
Russia
Vermont
Wgbh Educational Television Foundation
Cambridge
Mass
Boston University
Northeastern
Harvard
Whitingham Coed Is Candidate For Class Queen
Whitingham coed Sally Brinkmann leads a field of 10 candidates sponsored by campus fraternities in the quest for the class queen as Middlebury Junior Weekend nears. The event features a parade, a two and a half hour Field House concert Saturday night headlined by The Chiffons and The Coasters, with queen announcements at a Community Chest fair tonight.
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Middlebury
Middlebury College
Field House
The
Chiffons
Joe and the Thrillers
Billy and Lillie and the
Thunderbirds
Coasters
Fra
Proctor Hall
Queen
Sally Brinkmann
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Kappa Delta Rho
Judith Whatmore
Manchester
Mass
Phi Kappa Tau
Eve Palenske
Mundelein
Ill
Zeta Psi
Angelica Goldschmidt
Duluth
Minn
Alpha Sigma Psi
Jane Corbett
Providence
R.I
Pownals Community Calendar and Polio Clinic Update
The Vermont State Fire Fighters Association Auxili ary will hold its quarterly meeting Sunday in Brid port with a 12 30 dinner beforehand. Mrs. Mary O Dell returns home from Thomaston Conn and Gail Campbell travels to Stratford Conn for Stratford Shakespeare festival with Bennington Catholic High School students. The Women s Auxiliary meets Monday at 8 p m at the firehouse to elect officers and plan the spring dinner. Methodist notes include Rev Bagley topic Experiencing the Lift of the Divine Presence and upcoming choir rehearsal May 7. Rummage sale by First Baptist Ladies Aid May 8. Nearly 200 residents receive Type II polio vaccine at Wednesday clinics in the Pownals.
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Vermont State’ Fire Fighters Association
Bridport
Mary O'Dell
Pownal Center
Thomaston
Women's Auxiliary
Pownals
North Pownal Graded School
Oak Hill School
Jennie Stearley
Madalyn Green
Southwest
Frances Gibney
Bennington
Rachel Kenney
Harry W. Beals Jr
South Pownal
Bald Mt. 4-H Club Demonstrates Horse Handling in Troy
The Bald Mt. 4-H Club met April 25 in Troy New York at Lina Boughton’s home for a horse leads changing demonstration. Members later rode at Misty Hills Stables then plan a riding ring project at Bull Head Pond Manchester. An AVM Morgan farm horse show is set for May at Middlebury with Linda Beattie and John Bearden presenting, plus a 4-H members contest. The May 12 meeting at the Moreys West Rupert will feature the annual sugar on snow party.
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Troy
N.Y
Lina Boughton
Misty Hills
Bull Head Pond
Manchester
AVM Morgan
Middlebury
Linda Beattie
John Bearden
Moreys
West Rupert
Vermonter among six chosen for annual 4-H report to nation
Linda J. Curtiss, a 18 year old Middlebury College freshman from Williamstown Vermont, was selected as one of six girls to represent the eastern half of the country in the annual 4-H report to the nation in Washington. She met senators and officials, attended a White House reception with Mrs Johnson, and presented the national 4-H report to the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Budget before traveling to New York for World’s Fair events. Curtiss has eight years of 4-H involvement focusing on clothing food child care and citizenship and recently competed as a state finalist in a national dress review in Chicago. The trip featured a White House Blue Room reception with the First Lady and a bound volume of the report presented to President Johnson along with book ends and a paper weight.
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Middlebury
Linda J. Curtiss
Middlebury College
Williamstown
United States
Washington, D.C
Bury Coed
Oregon
Kansas
Illinois
Indiana
Texas
White House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Budget
New York
Chicago
Linda
Johnson
Babcock To Speak At Marlboro College Lecture
University of Vermont Republican gubernatorial candidate Robert S. Babcock will discuss Vermont reapportionment at Marlboro College on May 4. The 7:30 p.m. talk kicks off the Monday Evening Lectures Series in College Hall.
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Marlboro
Robert’ S. Babcock
University of Vermont
Vermont
Marlboro College
College Hall
Audrey A. Gorton
Garrett Birkhoff
Harvard University
Willene Clark
Two Mass teens killed inRoute 20 crash near Pittsfield Hancock
Police report two 18 year olds Edward Sinopoli and Joseph Nigrelli of Pittsfield died after their car swerved off Route 20 near the Pittsfield Hancock town line. Three others were injured: Donald Robinson 19 and Patrick Mansfield 18 of Pittsfield and Paul Sepanick 18 of Lanesboro.
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Hancock
Mass
APD
Edward P. Sinopoli
Joseph Nigrelli
Pittsfield
Donald Robinson
Patrick Mansfield
Paul Sepanick
Lanesboro
New Commander For ROTC Unit At Middlebury
Maj. George H. Patrick III is named commander of the Middlebury ROTC unit and will become professor of military science. He will assume command July 31 succeeding Lt. Col. Richard H. Maeder, who departs for the War College in Washington. Capt. Richard A. Burr becomes executive officer. Patrick, 36, becomes one of the youngest commanders in the unit’s history.
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Middlebury
George H. Patrick III
Middlebury College Reserve Officers Training Corps
Richard H. Maeder
War College
Washington
Army
Richard A. Burr
Maj. Patrick
Mountain Town Visitors Tour Searsburg and Bennington
The Day families from Smyrna New York visited John and Clara Day in Searsburg and spent time with the Rudolph Day family and the Slaters of Bennington. A pond observation revealed barn swallows flying over the area, confirmed after repeated verification.
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John Day
Kathleen
Joseph Day
April
Smyrna
N.Y
John Clement
Clara Day
Searsburg
Rudolph Day
Bessie
Francis Hagar
South Road
Dorothy
Adeline Slater
Bennington
Corn farmer keeps 64 years of planting and harvest
Thompson Missouri United Press International reports George Neal began farming at age 11 and has planted and harvested corn for 64 consecutive years.
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Thompson, Mo
UPI
George Neal
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Methodist Church
James H. Bagley
Christian Advocates
Pittstown
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Polio Clinics
Arlington
Helene Thompson
Vermonter
Babcock
Pittsfield-Hancock Town Line
Mountain Towns
Carlo Walter — HO
Ke Candle Mill
General Electric
Westinghouse
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