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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1963
Page
3
YMCA Auxiliary notes annual Silver Tea will run Friday from 12 30 to 5 p m at the Y. All women invited to learn about the auxiliary aims and activities. The Hobby and Craft Show features stamp and spoon collections and exhibits including paintings antiques quilts and more. Tea uses Nichols silver service and refreshments are baked by auxiliary members.
Miss Lorraine Pinney of West River Grange Townshend named Dairy Queen of Windham County Pomona Grange last week and will enter the state contest May 10 at Randolph Center. She is daughter of Harold Pinney Vermont Soldiers Home resident for eight years. Home staff and friends send good wishes as George Cooledge, Home adjutant and frequent state contest judge, attends again this year.
The Bennington First Methodist Church and Shaftsbury Methodist men join North Adams Massachusetts in a program by Rev. Virgil V. Brailler on What Business Do Men Have in the Church. Brailler, Iowa native with PhD from Boston University, will speak and attend as a Massachusetts delegate to the General Synod in Denver. The Bennington group departs at 6 p.m. with Rev. Frank W. Grippin present.
Thrift Shop benefits from a varied donation haul including wheelbarrow ironing board high chair crib two chenille scatter rugs several spring hats and sleep wear set. Crib reserved for a week amid requests for an electric shaver jigsaw puzzles foot locker radio and men's summer jackets. Special sale on men's shirts planned this week. Mrs Hayward Sargent Hicks and Hayes led last week.
Vermont Library Association will hold its annual meeting in Woodstock on May 13 14. Principal speaker at a dinner May 13 will be David McCord author of several books and editor of The Modern Treasury of Humorous Verse.
The May Fellowship hosted by United Church Women at St. Peter's Episcopal Church drew over 80 attendees. Reports covered International Christian University of Japan and local campus outreach at Bennington College and University of Vermont, with plans to send a delegate, a World Missions focus, and a future World Community Day urging garment donations.
The Four Mohawksmen chorus finished fifth among 13 in Division Two of the Northeastern SPEBSQSA contest at a weekend event in Rensselaer and Albany New York. Members from North Adams and Pittsfield Massachusetts plus Poughkeepsie Kingston Albany Gloversville Schenectady Saratoga and Hudson Falls New York competed. Coaches were Dr Alexander MacLean Williamstown and Leonard Dodge Stamford.
Mrs Thyra F Bjorn spoke on How Mama Got Papa at the Mother and Daughter banquet at First Methodist Church on Friday night. The Swedish author and lecturer described her mother's courtship with a Swedish minister, the large family they raised, and her own calling to writing.
Vermont Old Cemetery Association reports 11 towns represented at Burlington meeting. Treasurer Billings notes a 463.72 endowment. 15 Memorial Memberships named. Towns vote 5 cent tax for cemetery restoration. flag standards purchased for veterans graves. Rixford urges elected cemetery commissioners. 35 colored slides stored. fall meeting to be held in Franklin County led by Rixford and Crowell.
Goddard College in Plainfield plans a new program for adults 26 or older who left college, to complete a bachelor’s degree. The program uses week-long resident seminars and six months of home study per cycle, with each cycle equal to a college semester and a projected annual cost of about 1200 dollars. Initial enrollment limited to 30 students.
Alumnae of the Bennington Girls Club founded 1893 plan a reunion at the Paradise Restaurant on May 14. The committee reports good RSVP response and works to issue tickets for reservations. Notices invited from members who served 1936 to 1947, with 1893 members expected to attend and several surprises planned. Club pictures and mementoes should be mailed to the committee.
Jane Fonda withdraws from a current drama to film Sunday in New York. Collin Wilcox replaces her in Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude as the Actors Studio Theater experiments with flexible casting and short engagements.
Siamese twin brothers Mark and Michael Genovese are six months old in Winston-Salem North Carolina. They joined at the top of the head and have been in hospital since five days old. A physician expects four or five operations to separate them and will test internal connections before any surgery.
Pfc Anthony Tomasi of the U S Army Medical Corps leaves Bennington after a 21 day leave for Fort MacArthur California and a two year tour to Korea in a U S Army medical unit hospital. He trained at Fort Dix Brooks General Hospital and is a 1958 Bennington High School graduate.
Civil Defense and school officials report a Friday evacuation drill in Bennington went like clockwork with students exiting schools within seven to eight minutes. At Ly Stark and Beech Street schools buses moved quickly and traffic changes were minor. Parents and students cooperated. few adjustments planned for next drill.
NORTH BENNINGTON The Norshaft Arlington Little League will hold an all day working party Saturday at the North Bennington Little League field starting at 9 30 a.m. League president Joseph Crossman announced it.
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