Re-educating values at Vermont women’s rights workshop
Report on ACLU Women’s Rights Project conference in Montpelier highlighting discrimination in employment education and politics. Women described wage gaps and limited career advancement, discussed legal protections, sexist school materials, nonsexist books lists, and campaigns for policy change. The Politics workshop urged female political participation and party reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ACLU
Women’s Rights Project
Montpelier
Richard Kohn
Vermont
Boards of Education
National Organization For Women
NOW
Kalamazoo
Chicago
Ill
Vermont Department of Libraries
Harwood Union School
Martha Abbott
Liberty Union Party
Susan Webb
Louise Swainbank
Christmas workshop brings prints from children
IT'S TIME to hear from the children's side of the library as Christmas signs appear in the Children's room. The first Christmas workshop featured potato prints and many children participated, signaling early festive activity.
Christmas children books and a second workshop planned
The article details a Christmas children’s program with crafts and gift-wrapping, invites all ages to a December 8 workshop, and asks participants to donate a decoration to the library. It also recommends a list of notable children’s books, noting recent acquisitions and urging reading during Advent. It highlights titles by Keats, Hoban, Wildsmith, Lindgren, DuBois, Buck, Robinson, and others, and promotes a “Christmas shelf” of books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Random House
Grandma Moses
Ezra Keats
Macmillan
Russell Hoban
Mole
Moles
Owl
Santa Claus
Brian Wildsmith
Wildsmith
Astrid Lindgren
Coward MacCann
William Pene DuBois
Viking
Pearl S. Buck
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
John Day
Barbara Robinson
Peter Graves earns ski tryout chance for world championships
Peter Graves of Pownal Center and Fort Lewis College Durango Colorado has been named by the Rocky Mountain Division of the United States Ski Association to attend the 1974 World Nordic Ski Championships tryouts in Falun Sweden February 16 24 The U S FIS cross country tryouts will be in Anchorage Alaska January 22 28 The division will send its top 12 men and top 12 women to represent them Graves notes Fort Lewis team readiness and hopes to race after Christmas and return east for events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Graves
van Vechten Graves
Pownal Center
Bennington
Fort Lewis College
Durango
Colo
Rocky Mountain Division
United States Ski Association
Falun
Sweden
U.S
Anchorage
Alaska
Rocky Mountain
Pete
Fort Lewis
School Lunch Menus and Card Party Report
Daily lunch menus from Mt Anthony Union High School and neighboring elementary schools list juice, meats, sides, desserts, and milk for each weekday. The brief notes a Senior Citizens card party on Nov 23 with winners Alice Thompson George Rogers and Isabelle LaBarge and the next event on Nov 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Anthony Union
Bennington
Pownal
Alice Thompson
George Rogers
Isabelle LaBarge
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Children’s Librarian
Bennington Free
Main ST. Tores
Union
Main Bennington
Vtel
Tapers
Greenmont
Troy-Bennington Rd
Armstrong
Armstrong Floor
D Furniture Inc
Elm ST. Bennington
Delta
Los Angeles
Marc Norman
California
Sid Nellis
Lillian Mason
Columbia Pictures
Stanley Kramer
George C. Scott
Faye Dunaway
Art Grant
Durham
N.H
the Banner
New Hampshire Air National Guard
Grant
Laconia-Gilford Lions Club
Air Guard
Lakes
Maine
Massachusetts
Oten
America
Washington
Joy Johnson Royle
Atlanta
Pierre
S.C
Karren Kowalski
University of Colorado Medical Center
Joy Royle
Goddard College
State of Georgia
Ms. Ross
Educational Resource Center
Tulane University
The
State University of New York
Albany
Jeannette Taylor
Seven Hills
DePersio
Oklahoma Health Services Center
Oklahoma State Department of Health
Sherry Shealy
South Carolina
House of Representatives
Ms. Thompson
Pierre High School
Dennis Pratt
Wilford Pratt
Bank Street
Belgium
North Bennington
Arlington
Minerm Books
Vermontiana
Munera Books
Monument Plaza
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