Diverse Norheast Trip News Highlights Local Residents
Wilmington Dover society notes detail multiple trips and visits. Guy Nido Jr and family plan a Mich vacation to visit John Lundberg. Farm Bureau convention attendees travel to New Hampshire. Several residents relocate, visit relatives, or attend weddings and reunions across New Jersey, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guy Nido Jr
Niles
Mich
John Lundberg
Ray Corkins
Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co
Balsame Dixville
Notch
N.H
Edward Atwood
Woodstock
Reginald Martin
Boy Scout Fund
Lawrence Scott
West Main
Beth Smith
Ray Hill
Rene Wisler
The
Precision Machine Works
Scott
Elizabeth Streeter
Hammond Map Co
East Orange
N.J
Ruby Streeter
Shearer Hill
Andrew Chidsey
Easton
Ralph Howe Jr
Daniel Mazur
San Carlos
Cal
J. Peter Reanie
Marlboro
Walter LeFort
South Mer
Eagle Scout Award to Be Presented in Hoosick Falls
Anthony J. Wirmusky will receive the Eagle Scout Award at a Court of Honor in Hoosick Falls New York. The ceremony for Troop 64 starts at 7 30 p m in the Church of the Immaculate Conception parish hall. Wirmusky joined Troop 64 in October 1959 and earned all ranks up to Life. Carl Burt Mohican Council district scout executive will present the award. The North Pownal Parent Teacher Club elected officers Harold Pratt president and others. Members plan a room count to award cash for parent attendance and contribute monthly toward a club dinner next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Anthony J. Wirmusky
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Wirmusky
North Pownal
Harold Pratt
Harvey Burdick Sr
Albert Dickinson
Edward King
Robert E. Rudd Jr
Richard Champner
Harold Marshall
Leo Bisson
West Arlington Grange Looks to Award for Community Progress
The West Arlington Grange reports 598 hours donated to improvement projects led by Jesse Harrington as chair. They rebuilt Millard Vaughn barn after a fire, provided a picnic area and bathing beach, maintained the Grange Hall, and sponsored dances and street fair cooperation with Arlington Community Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Arlington Grange
National Grange
Sears-Roebuck Foundation
Jesse Harrington
Millard Vaughn
Grange
The
Arlington Community Club
Father’s Day Founder Identified As Mrs. John Bruce Dodd
In New York UPI reports the creator of Father’s Day is Spokane Washington mother Mrs John Bruce Dodd. She launched the movement in 1910 to honor her father the Civil War veteran William Smart who raised six children on an eastern Washington farm in the old fashioned way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Greenwich
Conn
Pamby
Carnegie Foundation
New York
Lele Kauffman
Pine Manor
Washington University
St. Louis
Bob Kauffman
Choate Preparatory School
Fred de Peysters
Sandgate
Woodbury
Long Island
Valerie
Sue
Barlow Goff
California
Pelham
Adair Brown
Mamaroneck
Woodard
Prudy Kuhl
Hohokus
N.J
Watergate
Marvin Slutsky
Arlington High School
UPI
John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Wash
William Smart
Enrollment Surge Regroups Classes in Pownal Districts
A record first grade enrollment prompts class reorganization in Pownal and North Pownal Schools. Oak Hill reports 32 pupils under Mrs Shirley Kelly while Mrs Florence Harries teaches 19 in North Pownal with others shifting: Harries 19 and 5 in grades 1–2, Landau 23 across grades 2–4, Worden 22 in 4–6, Pratt 20 in 7–8, totaling 89 students. Pvt Chester Mattison, son of East Pownal residents, on two week furlough after Fort Dix training. he'll report to Fort Leonard Wood September 13 to begin engineering studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pownal
North Pownal
Oak Hill
Shirley Kelly
Florence Harries
Harries
Terry Landau
Richard Worden
Harold Pratt
Pvt
Chester Mattison
Ralph Mattison
East Pownal
Fort Dix
N.J
Mattison
Bennington High School
Fort Leonard Wood
Prayer policy varies as New England schools start year
Cambridge teachers may decide on classroom prayers as a formal ruling by the school committee looms. Boston and other New England districts begin with moments of silence or patriotic songs while some schools conduct limited prayers or readings, sparking debate over the Supreme Court ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Boston
New England
North Brookfield
George S. Frizzell
U.S. Supreme Court
Aime G. Morin
Supreme Court
Joseph S. Durkin
Martin Leach
Rochester
N.H
New Hampshire
Manchester
Rhode Island
Maine
State Department of Education
Episcopal Church
Montpelier
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Wilmington
Dover
Bradley Mevers
David Jacobs
Lauren Clough
Jefrey
Jacques White
Nellie White
Hermit’s Island
Small Point
Mt. LaFayette
White Mts
Clough
New England Baptist Youth Conference
Susan Clough
James
John Boyd
Washington
Richard Timmerman
Whitefield
New Jersey
Muriel Barber
Hinesburg
Guido Cimonetti
Burlington
William
Tanya Fubko
Bradley Myers
York
Northampton High School
Earl Streeter
Putnam Memorial Hospital
Harold Deyo Jr
Brattleboro
Mary Maynard
Peter Maynard
Richard Scribner
Dublin
Guy Nido Sr
Wallace Sage Jr
Yvonne
Andrew Crawford
Strausberg
Richard Boyd
Castle Hill
American Baptist
Richard Chapman
Benjamin Bernard
Anne Davis
Cape May
Arnold Bernard
Coast Guard
Eagle Award
PTC Elect
West
Arlington
West Arlington
University of Vermont
Charles Shea
Vermont
Leslie Gallup
Connecticut
Sanford Kauffman
Father’s Day Founder
H. Greenberg & Son
Sealtest
Pownals
Vera Langlais
Swifts
DAISY
Hamburg
Jack Frost Sugar
Cole Pine
Welchade
School Street
N.E
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