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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1962
Page
2
A 12 member team from the interdenominational advisory committee aims to counter the notion of the harried parsonage wife. They conduct a three year mass interview project for The Minister's Wife led by Boston University Theological School with Lilly Foundation support to publish a guiding manual next year.
Dr. Robert A. Hingson deacon of Cleveland’s First Baptist Church heads Operation Brother’s Brother, a American Baptist Convention effort to vaccinate Liberia’s one million people. He and aides secured medicines valued at $1 million and he is on leave from Western Reserve University where he leads the Department of Anesthesiology.
New York reports religious education groups adopt programed instruction using a teaching machine approach. Association Press plans a Step by Step in Theology with eight frame pages, self-paced questions, and blanks for feedback to assess effectiveness.
A compilation of church schedules across Vermont towns detailing denominations ministers and service times. Entries include St. Columban's St James Federated Church St. Andrew Sussex West Arlington First Assembly of God Dorset East Dorset Hoosick Manchester and other churches with morning Holy Communion mass times worship and Sunday School notes.
Eight five single Greek girls arrived in Sydney on a flight from Athens. One Greek bachelor, George Gnessoilis, complained he was overwhelmed by the ratio. He planned to stay with his brother and avoid women for a month, preferably not Greek.
The Progressive Group of the First Baptist Church held a spring banquet at Mt Anthony Cantry Club. Officers were installed including President Flora Aja and Vice President Marian Vince. Devotions featured a reading titled City of Everywhere. The social hour reviewed the year and set goals for a new education building fund.
Battenkill Grange held its May 16 meeting with home economics awards for sew ing contest class winners Mrs. Carolyn Kreel Miss Dale Mason and Mrs. Janice Coley. The group announced a needle work contest and invited knitters and crocheters to join. Last meeting attendees included Worthy Master Alfred Clayton Betty Clayton Donna Crofut Gregory Wright and Rev and Mrs Kenneth McCrea who received a 1961 young couple certificate.
Local churches in Bennington and surroundings list Sunday worship times lectures Bible studies and youth groups. Notable entries include Bennington Church of Christ at 524 South St with multiple services, First Church of Christ Scientist, Jehovahs Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventist Church, Unitarian Fellowship, Congregational Church, and St Peter's Episcopal with service times and programs.
A Children’s Day program is planned for the 9 a.m. worship at First Methodist church directed by Mr and Mrs Joseph Gee. Students from Kindergarten to sixth grade plus junior and senior high will participate with choir selections and a trumpet sextet. Rev Melvin R McGaughey will preach at 11 a.m. on We Are the Salt of the Earth and Sanctuary Choir will sing Ava Maria. A farewell reception for Rev Frank W Grippin and family is set for 4 p.m. with special music and a fellowship hour.
The Vermont Baptist Convention in Burlington elected leaders for state bodies. Jesse Sunderland was chosen president with Rev Ehrmann Bennett as vice president. Key officers include Alicia R. Bishop clerk Carroll G. Killen Jr. president of trustees A Sidney Edson first vice president and Alexander Huntsman second vice president. Richard A. Kimball treasurer and Leon S. Gay agent. Finance and Budget committees named along with Vermont Baptist Home Inc officers. Articles for Vermont Baptist Home Inc were filed November four at Rutland. The non profit project eyes multiple sites and a minimum salary plan for ministers supporting broader participation.
A farewell reception for Rev. Frank W. Grippin and his family at First Methodist Church follows his move to North Adams Massachusetts. Pilgrim Fellowship plants 60 eponymous plants at Second Congregational Church Sanctuary after last summer’s explosion.
Middlebury College artists gain acclaim in three exhibitions. Robert F. Reiff earns an award in the Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition at Rochester Memorial Art Gallery. Healy’s White River Winter praised as dynamic at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Ann C. Linden earns praise for Frog Hollow at Sprinfield Art Museum show featuring 30 New England colleges. Others from Middlebury, Marier Mader Hal March William Temple display watercolors and oils in the same show.
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