Benhi News Highlights Boot Camp Visits and School Life
Former Benhi Cat Steven Hansen returns from eight weeks at Great Lakes boot camp and heads to Norfolk for naval duty aboard the USS Enterprise. Chris Williams, class of 1963, visits after eight weeks at Great Lakes and prepares for five months on the USS Vulcan in Norfolk. Students and staff engage in sports, drama, and club activities as the new year starts, with seniors hosting dances and freshmen adjusting to initiation changes.
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Benhi
Steven Hansen
Boot Camp
Great Lakes
Ill
Steve
Norefolk
Chris Williams
Chris
Norfolk
Boilerman
Navy
Lester Jipp
Vergennes
Jipp
Stratford students visit Shakespeare Festival for Henry V
Seventy six Benhi seniors teachers and parent drivers traveled to Stratford Conn to view the American Shakespeare Festival production of Henry V. Thirty nine students rode a school bus with two teachers and a driver while thirty seven came in private cars. Before the play they toured the festival museum and a garden noted in Shakespearean plays. A spring trip is planned for all seniors and top English students in 10th and 11th grades.
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Benhi
Stratford
Conn
American Shakespeare Festival
Paul Kirsch
Eupha Bonham
Myron Woodard
Waldo Holden
Phil Hall
Charles Comstock
Carroll Killen
Richard Davis
William Oldendorph
Kennedy to address National Council of Churches assembly
President Kennedy has accepted an invitation to address the triennial general assembly of the National Council of Churches in San Francisco next December.
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San Francisco
Kennedy
General Assembly
National Council of Churches
Seminar Begun For Beginners In Home Economics
Benhi's home economics department starts a new seminar for junior and senior girls new to the subject. Joyce Goyette directs an informal class with personal attention, forming individual projects in clothing, furnishings, textile painting, knitting, and food prep. Seven students are Carolyn Hall, Patty White, Kathy Graham, Lee Gershaneck, Cheryl Jacobs, Lorraine Lillie, and Priscilla Proud.
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Benhi
Joyce Goyette
Carolyn Hall
Patty White
Kathy Graham
Lee Gershaneck
Cheryl Jacobs
Lorraine Lillie
Priscilla
New Study Room Opens for Honor Society at Benhi
A new study room in the Benhi basement formerly used by the band room provides twelve desks with lamps and four fluorescent lights. Honor students may use the room without teacher permission or passes, a move praised by Sherri Zyne and Freda Betts as a quiet, self disciplined space that boosts personal study during free periods.
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Benhi
Sherri Zyne
Echo I satellite visible in evenings across New England
The Smithsonian reports Echo I, a 1960 balloon satellite, will be visible in the northeast each evening this month. Times for Boston area show highest points near dusk with final fades into Earth's shadow after about 10:20 p.m. Listings include specific dates and two viewing times per night.
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Cambridge
Mass
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
New England
Earth
The
Smithsonian
Boston
Visit to Greece Planned by Mrs. Kennedy
Mrs. John F. Kennedy will take a private two week trip to Greece in October. She will depart Washington October 2 to join relatives near Athens and travel by commercial airline. The First Lady, recuperating after the birth and death of her third child, is at Newport with Caroline and John Jr. and had spent the summer on Cape Cod.
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Greece
Mrs. Kennedy
Washington
John F. Kennedy
White House
Kennedy
Newport, R.I
Caroline
John Jr
Cape Cod
Massachusetts
Senator Aiken Calls REA Credit Controls a Slap on Wrist
Senator Aiken criticizes a Senate Appropriations Committee move requiring the Rural Electrification Administration to notify Congress 60 days before large loans. The measure accompanies a farm spending bill totaling over 6 trillion dollars with 495 million for REA loans. Aiken notes the REA has provided about 4 billion in long term loans at 2 percent interest and cautions against hindering nationwide programs.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
Sen
George D. Aiken
Vermont
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
Aiken
Agriculture Department
Spessard Holland
D-Fla
Future Homemakers Hold Faculty Tea
Diane LeBlanc reports that Benhi's Future Homemakers of America hosted a faculty tea on September 6 in the home economics room. About 35 faculty members attended as homemade cookies accompanied coffee and tea provided by the school. The group may make the event a monthly affair.
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Benhi
Homemakers of America
Sub Alvin Promises New Look Beneath Ocean Depths
New Bedford report describes Alvin the first American built deep diving submarine planned for delivery to WHOI late 1963 or early 1964. The 22 foot, 11 ton craft features an 8,400 pound steel sphere for two occupants, depth potential beyond 6,000 feet, and sphere release for buoyant ascent.
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New Bedford, Mass
Alvin
Allyn C. Vine
The
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
WHOI
Everett S. Allen
New Bedford Standard-Times
General Mills, Inc
Minneapolis
Vine
Alvin Submarine Prototype Aims for Deep Sea Trials
Naval Research Office funds Alvin a 575000 dollar research sub with four knot cruising speed and six knot bursts. It dives to 6000 feet in 30 to 45 minutes, stays underwater up to a day, and uses a 82 inch sphere with 14 inch top propellers and a 1200 watt external light system. Initial lake tests at Minneapolis expected within 60 days with pilots Rainnie Jr Larnard and McCamis and Dr Earl Hays directing. A second piece notes Chemetron’s welding road show travels the U S in a 30 foot bus demonstrating NCG gas shielded arc welding gear.
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Naval Research Said
Office of Naval Research
Alvin
Minneapolis
Woods Hole
Chicago
UPI
United States
Chemetron Corp
NCG
House Panel Expands Anti-Bias Bill With Two Sections
The House Civil Rights subcommittee added two sections to the civil rights bill, covering voting rights and school desegregation. The move brings four of seven parts sought by President Kennedy into the measure while leaving key public accommodations, federal funds withholding, and job opportunity provisions for future action.
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House Committee
Washington
House
Kennedy
Emanuel Celler
Dn.y
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