Girl Scout Band Seeks Drums for Memorial Day Parade
Neighborhood 12 girls from Bennington area organize the only Girl Scout Band in Vermont State Council. They borrow drums and cymbals and seek donations or affordable purchases. Cadette Troop 160 held a dance at St Peter's Hall with 30 attendees and a King and Queen, while Cadette Troop 10 prepares for a Court of Awards. Families are urged to attend and support award ceremonies and a neighborhood name contest closes June 1.
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Vermont State Council
Bennington
Marden Roy
Norston St
St. Peter’s
Gail Godeck
David Care
Walter Knights
Jack Hurley
Edna Kemmerer
Beverly Petrelis
Sacred Heart Parish
Bennington County
Charles W. Thompson Jr
Elks Announce Bennington Scholarships for Flag Day
Albert T. Ray chair of the Elks Scholarship committee names the winners to be awarded during the Flag Day ceremony on June 14. Ellen Jane Shoemaker receives $100, Joan Flynn $50, Barbara Kenyon $25, with Kenyon also earning the Elks youth leadership award of $100. James Moore wins the boys' $50 prize.
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Albert T. Ray
Elks
Bennington Lodge of Elks
Ellen Jane Shoemaker
Bennington
Joan Flynn
Bennington Catholic
Barbara Kenyon
North Bennington
Kenyon
James Moore
Prep Club Originator To Speak At GBA Dinner
Harry Coholan executive vice president of the Everett Chamber of Commerce will speak next Thursday May 28 at Mt Anthony Country Club in Bennington honoring the first Bennington Prep Club class. Nearly 100 area seniors completed an eight session program and toured local plants to prepare for work.
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Prep Club
Harry Coholan
Everett, Mass
Chamber of Commerce
Bene Nington Prep Club
Coholan
Everett
Greater Bennington Association
Mt. Anthony Country Club
Barton L. Jenks
Shaftsbury
Bennington
Arlington High School
Two Walker Youths Earn Distinction in Science and Dairy Poster
Robert Walker, a Bennington High junior, presented Observations on Infinity at the Junior Academy of Science meeting in Orono and was elected to the Junior Academy along with peers from Maine New Hampshire and Vermont. Joan Walker, a sixth grader at Bennington Elementary, is among ten Dairy Poster contest winners and will have her poster displayed at the Barre Dairy Dinner.
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Molly Stark
W. Philip Walker
Merson Street
Robert
Joan
Bennington High School
Junior Academy of Science
University of Maine
Orono
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
State Department of Education Agricultural Services
Barre
Two Workshops For Teachers This Summer
The Bennington Southwest School District sponsors two summer workshops for teachers at Molly Stark School. The first, June 15-26, 8 am to noon, on child motivation taught by Dr. Earl Houston. credit available if a prior workshop credit exists. Registration by May 22 with $5 fee. tuition not to exceed $25. The second, Aug 17-28, Grades 1-6 math instruction led by Dr. Jean Hurst. registration by June 5. tuition not to exceed $20. credits available for participants who took the first workshop.
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Bennington Southwest
Earl Houston
State University College
Potsdam
N.Y
Molly Stark
Dr. Houston
Supt
Leon E. Wagner
Union St
Supt. Wagner
Local CDA Court To Be Active In State Convention Events
Court St Andrew Catholic Daughters of America will participate in the 20th biennial CDA convention at Burlington May 24 and 25. Miss Mary Kanane supreme secretary will be guest of honor. she is noted for civic religious and service work and holds national and state roles in the organization.
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Court St. Andrew
Catholic Daughters of America
CDA
Burlington
Vermont
Anne Cummings
Mary Sennett
Catherine Dermody
Edna Purcell
Patricia Perrotta
Catherine Deery
Estelle Hoth
Catherine Murphy
Louise Harris
Mary Frances Murphy
Mary C. Kanane
Union
N.J
Kaneane
Catholic Daughters
Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity
Miss Kanane
Union County
White House
NBC Editor to Open Home in Arlington
Mr and Mrs Kennedy Ludlam of Annandale Virginia will open their Rockwell Road home in Arlington on June 7. Ludlam longtime outdoors editor for NBC Washington division and columnist for the Washington Post was named an Honorary Tar Heel by Governor Terry Sanford at a Wilmington North Carolina meeting. Their Arlington residence sits near West Mountain Farm.
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Arlington
Kennedy Ludlam
Annandale
Rockwell Road
Ludlam
National Broadcasting Company
Washington Division
Washington Post
North Carolina
Terry Sanford
Wilmington
N.C
New Hearing Set On River Valley Basin Project
The second of four public hearings on water resources in the Connecticut River Valley is scheduled in St Johns, U S Virgin Islands. The $2.7 million Connecticut River study is part of a national basin plan to be completed by 1970. Brig Gen P C Hyzer noted Congress and water resource experts seek improved flood protection as much work is already done yet planning remains incomplete.
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New England
Corps of Engineers
Congress
Hyzer
Connecticut River
Art Historian Lawrence Alloway Lectures at Bennington College
Art historian Lawrence Alloway returns to Bennington College for the second of three lectures titled Notes on Art in New York. He will ask Do Art Critics Need Pictures with colored slides and Barn 1 on campus as the venue. Admission is free and open to the public.
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North Bennington
Lawrence Alloway
Bennington College
New York
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