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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1970
Page
6
North Bennington Baptist Women’s Fellowship opens its fall season with a Tuesday social rooms gathering featuring a 6:30 p.m. covered dish supper.
Arlington Boy Scouts hold their first meeting of the season at 6 30 p.m. led by Scoutmaster Dan Mattison. The Arlington town band rehearses Thursday at 7 30 p.m. at the music box.
The Vermont affiliates of the National Council of Senior Citizens will hold their first annual convention in Montpelier on Friday Oct 9. About 400 delegates and visitors are expected for a one day event at The Tavern with speeches from officials and a Hee Haw musical show by visitors from Willimantic Connecticut during the afternoon.
Robert D. Leister a former Hartford High School science chair and former Rochester High School principal has won a Ford Foundation grant to work with northern New England secondary students. He will develop environmental education self reliance and survival programs starting Sept 1 1970 through Aug 31 1971. He will collaborate with Vermont Department of Education and the Vermont Environmental Center at Ripton and participate in Outward Bound programs in Maine Minnesota and Connecticut. The Ethan Allen Council Boy Scouts of America Rutland will host a leaders dinner Sept 19 at Camp Plymouth Tyson with 150 southern Vermont leaders attending to review 1970 71 programs and registration procedures. Scouting serves nearly 5 000 boys in 163 units across southern Vermont. Scout Executive Douglas R Crichton will preside with council staff and commissioners.
Wellesley Massachusetts Dr Alan D Ferguson director of the New England Board of Higher Education announced an invitational conference with the New England Regional Commission for about 100 leaders in government and education on October 7 8 1970 in Kennebunkport Maine. The meeting will evaluate a regional training center for middle and upper level public managers to address a regional manpower shortage and bolster state and local government services.
Johnson State College announces Duncan C. Stephens as Director of College Relations, handling press releases alumni affairs and public relations. Stephens runs Vermont Management Services in Jeffersonville and will serve part time after leaving Edmond Germain’s PR duties to focus him on the Economics Department. He previously worked at McGraw-Hill in New York and was director of marketing for Madonna Mountain.
The Manchester Elementary School book exhibit, planned for Sept 14 to 18, has been postponed until books arrive. Anne O Leary of Manchester is among 15 Vermont girls in Trinity College’s 152 member freshman class, its largest ever. The First Congregational Church hosts the Christian Education Workshop on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Coffee will be served by Circle A. Sunday Church School starts Sept 27 for nursery through Grade 8.
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