Alumni and Friends Fund New Hoosac School Building
Hoosac School in Hoosick New York dedicates its $20 000 dining hall built by local labor with gifts from about 250 alumni and friends. Dedication Saturday at 3 p m follows a 11 a m coffee hour and noon buffet. events include a 4 p m soccer game and a cross country meet with Lenox and Cornwall schools as part of Parents Weekend. The school says the edifice is valued at 200 000 though actual cost to the school was 110 000. enrollment is at full capacity. One Vermont youth, George Whitmore, is noted among the attendees.
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Hoosick
N.Y
Hoosac
Tiberius Hall
Memorial Dining Hall
Lenox School
Cornwall School
Martin Lowenfish
New York City
Clinton H. Blake Jr
Paduke Named After Chickasaw Chief in Jackson Purchase
Paducah Kentucky, a western riverport, is named for Paduke the Chickasaw chief who represented the tribe during the Jackson Purchase. The article notes the origin of the city name and its historical link to Indigenous leadership.
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Paducah, Ky
Kentucky
Paduke
Bennington Library hosts Hicks six novelists talk
Granville Hicks spoke to a capacity audience at the Bennington Free Library on a Friends of the Library program. He highlighted six leading American novelists through Melville's no and yes, praising Malamud, Baldwin, O Connor, Bellow, Salinger, and Updike for their exploration of human nature and ideals. A question period followed the half hour talk and a library business meeting was held with reports on services, programs, and upcoming events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granville Hicks
Saturday Review
Bennington Free Library
Friends of the Library
Herman Melville
Hawthorne
Hicks
Baldwin
Flannery O’connor
Saul Bellow
Augie March
Bellow
Malamud
John Updike
Barth
Brarian
Glenn Payne
James Merunowicz
James Conroy
Robert Gibbs
Robert Santway
Gerald Finnegan
Friends
Thomas Foster
Frank Silvernail
UNICEF Drive Kids in Bennington Wear Goblins as Angels
Miss Ellen Gird chairs an annual UNICEF drive in Bennington where seven churches organize children to collect funds. Dressed as devils and witches, the youngsters will carry orange and black UNICEF cartons to solicit pennies and later tally coins at church Halloween parties.
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Ellen Gird
United Church Women
Bennington
Unicef
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
Fairdale Farms
Children’s Fund
Gird
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