Three Towns Vote for Joint Junior High Study
Manchester Dorset and Sunderland school boards agreed to study a shared junior high for grades seven to nine, targeting March town meeting to form a union district. Estimated cost around 1 million, with 265 students projected, requiring additional towns to join and a new board to raise funds for a full study.
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Manchester
Dorset
Sunderland
March
Clifford B. Harwood
Burr and Burton Seminary
State Department of Educa
Neil E. Cross
Cross
MES
Muriel Linde
Jean Kendall
Arlington
BBS Progress Reports Due First of Year
Burr and Burton board committees study vocational education progress and the school’s relation to the community. Chairman E. Roger Wilcox expects reports after January 1 and aims to clarify slow growth in vocational facilities. Headmaster E. H. Henry had earlier doubted expansion would begin this year. The second committee will address school direction and relations to educational improvements locally.
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Manchester
Burr and Burton
E. Roger Wilcox
Wilcox
E. H. Henry
Cornerstone Blessing at St Paul's Church Manchester
In Manchester Center the cornerstone of the new St. Paul’s Catholic Church on Bonnet Street will be blessed at old St. Paul’s on Seminary Avenue before the 9 a.m. Thanksgiving Day Mass. Rev. James B. Murray will perform the blessing, placing the stone in the building under construction since early spring.
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Manchester
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Bonnet Street
Manchester Center
Rensselaer and Washington Counties Attend Farm Bureau Meet
Syracuse hosts the 11th annual Farm Bureau meeting at the Hotel Syracuse with attendees from Rensselaer and Washington Counties including Frank Cipperly George Scott Clyde Baker Alan Weir and others. Five hundred heard national secretary treasurer Roger Fleming discuss past strengths and future challenges while Ed Fallon of Agway warned of a looming collision between food production and consumption. Dr. David Call urged quicker reliable public information and William Beasley highlighted legislative program progress amid shifting farm influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N.Y
Rensselaer
Washington
Farm Bureau
Frank Cipperly
George Scott
Clyde Baker
Hoosick Falls
Alan Weir
Charles Edwards
Schaghticoke
Roger Moseley
Buskirk
William Jolley
Salem
Ben English
Cambridge
Ray Johnson
Easton
Dick McGuire
Roger Fleming
David Call
H.E. Babcock
Cornell University
William Beasley
Erie County
Buffalo
Dorset several Vermonters among Bentley College freshmen
Registration shows 646 first year students at Bentley College in Waltham Massachusetts, part of a total 4 111 day and evening enrollees. Vermont student Robert Dern son of Mr and Mrs Claude Dern is listed among the new class. Other notes cover local families traveling for holidays and property sales in Dorset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Dern
Claude Dern
Vermont
Bentley College
Paul H. Forristall
Waltham, Mass
Coast Guard
Stephen F. Rosencrantz
John N. Rosencrantz
Operation Friendship plans under way again
Dorset plans to host graduate students from New York City for Christmas from the day after Christmas to December 31. International House in New York City sponsors the program which last year brought 27 students to towns from Arlington to Granville. Dorset hosts may apply through Dorset chairwoman Mrs. Kenneth Demarest or Manchester chairwoman Mrs. Berry Wall. assistants include Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes and Mrs. C. Skinner.
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New York City
Vermont
John L. Hawkes
Arlington
Granville
Dorset
Jackson Matthews
Peru
International House
Hawkes
United Church of
C.skinner
Doctor O Neil Office Closure Notice
Dr. O Neil announces office closure from November 24 through November 27 for a short break. Patients are advised to plan ahead for appointments and prescriptions, and to contact the clinic with urgent concerns during the closure window.
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O’neil
Selected Hoosick Falls Musicians in Chatham Festival
Hoosick Falls Central School sent nine band members and 11 senior choir members to the New York State School Music Association Sectional Music Festival in Chatham Central School. The 386 students from 27 schools rehearsed Friday and Saturday, with a grand concert at 2 30 p.m. Saturday. Accompanists included H Luther Everly Eloise Canzeri and William Gaylord of the 99 member Senior Band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Chatham Central School
H. Luther Everly
Eloise Canzeri
William Gaylord
HFCS
Mt Laurel School to stage program for board night
Mt Laurel School students will present a program for the school board Wednesday night. Principal Evelyn Beattie says the program demonstrates the effects of team teaching begun this year. Refreshments by Blanchard Stone’s home economics class. Participating students include Judith Betit, Richard Kuebler, Jean Cottrell, Faye Eldred, Anita Niles, Linda Baertschi, Sally Stetson, Susan Eddy and Patty Shaw. Guest conductors are Esther Scott, Jack Alexander and Allan Gillespie. Other schools listed include Averill Park Poughkeepsie Delmar Catskill Coxsackie East Greenbush and many more.
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Manchester
Mt. Laurel
Evelyn Beattie
Blanchard Stone
Judith Betit
Richard Kuebler
Jean Cottrell
Faye Eldred
Anita Niles
Linda Baertschi
Sally Stetson
Susan Eddy
Patty Shaw
Geraldine Cornell
Marla Goodermore
Sharon Hall
Debbie Harrison
Helen Hayes
Valerie Wright
Terry Durkee
Charles Frazier
Allan Marcil
Bernie Paquette
Steve Lapp
Joseph Shaw
Esther Scott
Northport
L.I
Jack Alexander
Bedford Public Schools
Allan E. Gillespie
University of Connecticut
Averill Park
Poughkeepsie
Delmar
Catskill
Coxsackle
East Greenbush
Germantown
Gilboa
Grand Gorge
Hudson
Tannersville
Valatie
Castleton - On - Hudson
Lebanon Springs
New Paltz
Philmont
Ravena
Rhinebeck
Hillsdale
Stone River
Roxbury
Roxbury, Rensselaer
Wappingers Falls
Chatham
Webutuck, N.Y
Pooh Corner Opens Monday in Wilmington
Mary Lou Taylor and Martha Covert start a nursery school in Wilmington at St Mary's in the Mountains Episcopal Church. Four and five year olds meet Mondays Wednesdays Fridays 9 30 to 12 30. three year olds Tuesday Thursday. Activities include cooperative play, reading, art, music and dancing. Sessions run through Feb 17 with a Christmas recess Dec 24 to Jan 1. spring term March 5 to June 9. Contact Mrs Taylor at 464 5416. Covert formerly taught at Eaglebrook School in Deerfield Mass.
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Wilmington
Mary Lou Taylor
Martha Covert
West Dover
Pooh Corner
Episcopal Church
St. Mary’s - In - the - Mountains
Taylor
Covert
Eaglebrook School For
Deerfield
Mass
Pownal PTA awards Thanksgiving turkeys to three residents
The November project committee of the Pownal Parent-Teacher Group awarded Thanksgiving turkeys to C. W. Wilson, Mrs. Daniel Pratt and Mrs. Irma Shoff. The project raised $401.10 to bolster funds for school equipment. Boy Scout Troop 347 meets tonight at 7 in the Scout Hut. Pownal Town District schools close at noon Wednesday for Thanksgiving and resume Monday.
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Pownal
C. W. Wilson
Daniel Pratt
Irma Shoff
Boy Scout Troop 347
Wedding and community notices from South Cambridge
Mr and Mrs Alfred Schoen of Gannon Road attended the wedding of Ulricka Maeskat in Greenwich Conn. Floyd Pratt recently spent a 30 day leave with his parents and has now gone to Camp Hueneme Calif. Mr and Mrs Harvey Bailey will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Nov 28. Mrs Bailey is a patient at Mary McClellan Hospital. Joy Hamilton a Cambridge Central School band member participated in the All state Music Festival at Hudson Falls. North Hoosick circuit churches hold Thanksgiving communion service at Eagle Bridge Methodist Church with Rev Oswald A Muller in the pulpit. Miss Daughn Austin returned to Mary Hitchcock Hospital School of Nursing Hanover NH after a week with her parents Mr and Mrs James D Austin Jr. She will be home soon.
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Alfred Schoen
Gannon Road
Greenwich
North Shire Servicemen’s Families To Tape Messages
Families of Viet Nam servicemen may record voice messages at First Baptist Church in Manchester at 8 30 p.m. Friday, free via the American Red Cross. Participants include families from Arlington, Dorset, Landgrove, Manchester, Peru, Rupert and Winhall. Tapes must reach Bennington Post Office by Dec 1. Readied ahead, tapes will be recorded privately. arrangements coordinated by the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Vermont with Mrs. Robert Mattison.
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Manchester
Viet Nam
First Baptist Church
Bennington County
American Red Cross
Arlington
Dorset
Landgrove
Peru
Rupert
Winhall
Post Office
Bennington Post Office
Bonnet Street
National Society of Colonial Dames of America
Vermont
Robert Matti
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BBS
Robert J. Greene
County ST
Bennington
Hoosick Falls Central School
Judith Cramer
Beaumont
Fleming
Ed Fallon
Agway, Inc
Fallon
Marchen Skinner
Coast Guard Academy
Constance Maderia
Mazzie
St. Mary’s-in-the-Mountains
David Humphreys
New York
Ogden Pleissner
Milch
Arthur Steere
East Dorset
Sherburne
August Schramm
Dorset Hollow
Justus DeVries
Wilton
Conn
DeVries
Mary Lou
Vassar College
Nancy
Schramms
Mary Ellen Moore
Weathersfield
Moore
Schramm
Mad Tom
Tores
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Finast
Arthur E. Patten
Blue Cross
Blue Shield
Center Street
Rutland
Helene Thompson
The
Pownals
Vera Langlais
South Cambridge
Margaret Aiken
North Shire
Hoosick
Ada M. Breer
Hoosick Fire Auxiliary
Harold A. Lohnes
Ellsworth Stevens
Harrison J. Philpott
Roy Warren
Edward J. Hetherington
John Fletcher
Nassau
Robert Bovie
Phillip A. Lewis
Alfred Blumenthal
Amityville
Justin Mueller
Robert L. Clayton
Harned-Fowler
American Legion
Mattison
Edith Beaumont
Richard Hustler
Mary McClellan Hospital
A. J. Wirmusky
Town of
James Cusack
Susan Warrick
Joseph Conway
Marie LeBlanc
James Moore
Debbie Baker
Harry Harrison
A Wade
Tiny
Whitney
Carroll Drug Store
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