Burr and Burton Names Library for Walter Hard
Manchester Burr and Burton Seminary Trustees unanimously approved naming the library The Walter Hard Memorial Library. Walter Hard, a graduate and longtime friend and trustee, was a famed poet and co owner of the Johnny Appleseed Bookshop. His widow survives. Initial cataloging is by librarian Mrs Homer Ellis. A formal dedication is planned later this year. Student memberships are provided at Mark Skinner Library. The Walter Hard Memorial Book Fund, plus Earle Hill and W K Barry memorial funds, will house special and donated books open for contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Burr and Burton Seminary
Walter Hard
Mr. Hard
Johnny Appleseed
Homer Ellis
BBS
Mark Skinner
Cial
Hard
Earle Hill
W.K. Barry
Ellis
Garth H. Caldwell
Richeville Rd
Union St. Manchester
Zion Episcopal Church
Wallingford Club
Worthy Inn
Reginald Counsell
Alice Hobart
Elizabeth Lund
Burlington
Shaftsbury Halloween Party For Local Kids
Shaftsbury plans its annual Halloween parade and party for all area youngsters on Monday evening. Children should assemble at East and Main Streets at 6 30 with firemen guiding a route along Main Street Church Street Cleveland Avenue Route 7 to the firehouse East Street. Candy bars, refreshments, games supervised by YMCA staff, and prizes in age groups are on offer with coin donations collected to cover costs.
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Shaftsbury
East
Main Streets
Main
Church Street
Cleveland Avenue
Four Corners
East Street
YMCA
Stuart Hill Family Hosts Son-in-Law
Edmund M. Scheiber Jr. returns home on leave after his commissioning as a 2nd Lt in the Air Force on Oct. 21 at Lackland AFB Texas. He will travel with his wife Judy Hill to Robbins AFB in Macon Ga on Nov. 2 after visiting with friends and relatives in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunderland
Edmund M. Scheiber Jr
Air Force
Lackland Afb
Texas
Judy Hill
Stuart Hill
Robbins Afb
Macon
Community notices and events in North Bennington area
North Bennington notes report National Catholic Youth Week activities with St John s Church parish mass and dance social. Congregational Women s Fellowship with guest John Riddle on affluence and poverty. Democratic Town Committee meeting at East Arlington fire house. World Community Day at Second Congregational Church. Navy enlistment of Christopher Wickenden. Whitcomb couple wintering in Sarasota. local hot lunch program starts next week. PTA offers dance classes for grades 6 to 8 with room remaining. Shaftsbury voters urged to support Town Representative on Nov 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CYO
St. John’s Church
Women’s Fellowship
Congregational Church
John Riddle
Bennington- Rutland
United Church Women Project
Second Congregational Church
Bennington
John Kennedy
Christopher Wickenden
Arthur Wickenden
Mechanic St
U.S. Navy
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
NBHS
Wickenden
Williamsport Junior College
Williamsport
James L. Whitcomb
Sarasota
Fla
North Bennington
Eileen Barton
Gladys Barney
Donald Knapp
PTA
John Carmody
Joseph Curran
Curran
UNICEF Coin Drive By Mountain Towns In Wilmington
Mountain Towns Coins for UNICEF will be collected in Wilmington on Halloween by Future Homemakers of America members with Grades 1 to 6 assisting. Maple Farms Dairy provides UNICEF containers. UNICEF marks 21st year and won the Nobel Peace Prize last year. A dollar helps 20 children with milk for a month. a dime buys antibiotics for blindness. a nickel funds penicillin for two children with yaws. One penny buys six glasses of milk.
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United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Unicef
Wilmington
Homemakers of America Club
Maple Farms Dairy
Career Night At St Marys College and Career Night
Eighteen colleges and professions were showcased at the annual College and Career Night at St Marys Academy Hoosick Falls. More than 300 students and parents attended as hosts guided visitors through discussions in classrooms and the auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lambert
R.N
St. Luke’s Hospital
Pittsfield
St. Mary’s Academy
Hoosick Falls
Elizabeth Rowland
Patricia Smetanka
Mary McClellan Hospital
N. Y
Robert Hayden
Home School Association
General Assembly
Charles A. Bauman
O.S.A
John A. Murphy
Union School Problems Explored in Whitingham
Whitingham School study committee discussed enlarging the Whitingham School and a proposed union high school for Readsboro Whitingham Halifax Wilmington Searsburg and possibly Dover. They will contact the original designer Peter Dingman and present preliminary plans to town meetings in March.
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Whitingham
John Chernyak
Greenfield
Mass
Whitingham School
Windham Southwest Supervisory Union School District
Readsboro
Halifax
Wilmington
Searsburg
Dover
Alton Holbrook
New England Power Company
George
McIntyre
Jacksonville
Gov. Hoff
Peter Dingman
New Jersey
Wilmington Lions Plan Halloween for Kids
The Wilmington Lions met at the Long Jim Inn. Ernest Gay could not attend. The club outlined its Halloween party with a costume parade at the high school at 6 30 p m. Judging at 7, prizes for costumes games and apple bobbing, a dance for grades 7 to 12 until 10 p m with music by Civis. Eugene Karwoski chair of arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington Lions
Long Jim Inn
Ernest Gay
South Newfane
Lions
Ade
Civis
Eugene Karwoski
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Burr and Burton
Spe
Speeder
N.Y
Curtis Carey
Congress Street
Village Justice of Peace
Robert Shiland
William Bohmer Jr
Snow Street
Terry Carey
Pownal
Bohmer
Congress
Carey
Chet Ringheiser
Elizabeth Dwyer
Arlington
Helene Thompson
Democratic Town Committee
East Arlington
William E. Dailey Sr
Vermont
John Alden Woodstock
Mary McClell
Carlo Walter
Economical O’brien
St, Louis, Mo
UPI
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Lawrence F. O’brien
Lois Barney
Lois Mattison
Robert Baker
Manchester Depot
Barney
St. Marys
Frank Kriro
Albany State College
Thomas Hyland
Victor Panico
Siena College
George Dougherty
Walter Smith
Cobleskill
Donald Bradley
Dorothy Bruno
Hudson Valley Community College
William Murphy
Frederick Murphy
Albany Junior College
Jane Allard
Frank Buswell
National Commercial Bank
Frank Miller
Philip Martinez
Joseph Pender
Robert Hardy
Rocco Verrastro
A. White
Albany College of Pharmacy
Rita Jones
Margaret Haggarty
Raffee Ellis
General Electric Company
James Shaw
Tom Pitkin
Sears, Roebuck & Co
John Liporace
St. Joseph College
Leo la
Snelling
Duncan F. Brown
Burlington, Vt
Dick Snelling
By Kenalene Collins
Fran Stacy
Hazel MacDonald
Mary Monroe Hawkins Memorial Library
Inver House
Inver Mouse Bistillers
PULA
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