Bennington Altrusa Club Hosts Prospective Members Dinner
The Bennington Altrusa Club held the year's first dinner meeting at the Mt. Anthony Club with area women seeking membership and several out of town guests attending for orientation.
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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1963
Page
3
The Bennington Altrusa Club held the year's first dinner meeting at the Mt. Anthony Club with area women seeking membership and several out of town guests attending for orientation.
Boston University hosts BCHS students for the New England Scholastic Press Convention on Oct 25 26. Michele Sears Christine King Patricia Prandini and Kathy Ruland attend with moderators Sister William Marie and Sister John David.
Diane LeBlanc a Benhi sophomore leads this year’s Deep Thot on the Catamount staff. The article lists student activities including FHA involvement, a North Adams photo, a knee injury, and plans for the Leadership Training Conference on Nov 12 with leaders from several colleges.
Cub Scout Pack 53 held its season kickoff at the Second Congregational Church social hall. Cubmaster Gerald Stowell urged volunteer den mothers and committeemen, with two dens already active led by Mrs Sally Decker and Mrs Florence Daugherty. cheerful Webelos groups overseen by Donald Littlefield and Robert Reynolds, plus six advancing Cubs, enjoyed costumes and judging. refreshments included cider donuts and apples.
Mr. Richard Caswell purchases an eight room ranch style home on Jefferson Heights. Mrs Caswell serves as girls physical education instructor at Benhi.
Benhi social studies teacher David Jareckie writes from Berkeley about the University of California, noting a vast campus, diverse student body, large class sizes, and intense study. He describes courses, reading lists, top speakers, and campus culture as his family settles at 1522 Henry Street Berkeley California.
Benhi's debate club representatives attended a Brattleboro workshop to kick off this year's forensic activities. Participants included Freda Betts Ann Marie Goyette Steve Maier with adviser James Conklin. The event featured a Dartmouth vs University of Vermont debate and group sessions with lunch and poetry prose demonstrations by Steve Mailer.
The Thrift Shop in the town building rear operates Fridays 2 to 5 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m. to noon. Volunteers Clifton Phillips Cross Turner helped last week with Saturday Jonah Fuller and Caroline Darlington. Items include coats dresses dishes blinds suitcases carpet bag and requested winter gear for children and adults. A wall clock needs replacement and donors are thanked for hats and jewelry.
The Catamount Radio Club held its fall meeting outlining plans for a radio class at Molly Stark School and seeking help from local amateur operators led by teacher Joseph Gee. Members approved a 7:30 p.m. net time on Thursdays and set monthly meetings November 14 with officer elections.
Benhi's boys physical education program, led by Art Gage, begins with touch football and daily calisthenics. As temperatures drop they move to the gym for crab-soccer and later plan wrestling, volleyball, basketball, tumbling, gymnastics, and reconditioning before a return to softball in spring.
In Tampa Florida the AP notes that while earthworms remain a top bait many anglers employ alternatives such as live mice soap balls corn peas raw potato turnips and popcorn reflecting local fishing customs and versatility.
Richard Joseph Ricky La Flamme 20 son of Mr and Mrs Walter J LaFlamme of 116 Fairview Terrace has started basic training at the U S Navy Training Center Great Lakes Illinois. He enlisted Wednesday through Navy recruiter Chief Ervin Cain of North Adams Massachusetts who visits the YMCA there on Tuesdays and Fridays. He was sworn in at Albany New York and flew to Great Lakes with a companion from Adams Massachusetts. A 1962 graduate of Bennington Catholic High School he was employed by The Bennington Banner before enlisting under the Navy graduate school program.
Danny Kaye's UNICEF travel film Assignment Children will be screened at Harte Theater Friday evening and Saturday afternoon October 25 and 26. The documentary follows laughter and hardship of Asian children facing disease and malnutrition, highlighting health improvements from UNICEF medicine amid the UN drive.
The American Hospital Association reports payroll expenses are the largest hospital cost, making up about 67 percent of total budgets. In Chicago on October 31, the note highlights payroll as a primary expense for hospital operations.
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