Mrs. Alice Combes Receives UMass BA in English
Mrs. Alice Schauf Combes of 15 Barker Road Cohasset earned a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She attended Dalby Dupier College in New London before transferring. She plans to teach and resides with Abbott C. Combes IV and daughter.
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Alice Schauf Combes
Ales
Abbatt C. Combes II
Barker Road
University of Massachusetts
Boston
Police Chiefs Return From Cape Cod Seminar
Police Chief Jol J. Killesn and Capt. Raymond F L Coakley are back at their desks after a four day VBI seminar in West Harwich Cape Cod. Mrs Mills of 22 Crane Ave reported her $100 Omega wristwatch stolen from the front seat while parked near City Bradlees or the Shire Hills Golf Course.
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Jol J. Killesn
Raymond FL Coakley
West Harwich
Cape Cod
Mills
Crane Ave
Bradlees
Shire Hills
Dog Obedience Class Winners Receive Ribbons
Ribbons awarded for the most improved dog and handler at the Pittsfield Dog Obedience Club beginner class graduation with 21 members in the YMCA gym. Winners include Ya Kay Breck, Alfred J. Campagna, Miss Alice Gardner, Jonathan Kelly, Mrs. Dorothy Mace-Donald, Miss Sharon Cope, and Mrs. Paul Hathaway. Demonstrations by Mrs. Donnell MacCarthy and Jolie Coeur, and Albert. Officers elected at Hearthside Lenox: Robert J. Baumann president. Dornell MacCarthy Simmons, vice president. John A. Addy treasurer. Mrs. Edward A. Simmons secretary. Mrs. Ernest Jacobson member-at-large. Awards to Mrs. MacCarthy and Julie Coeur. Mrs. George Pixley and Sea Isle's Little Lorrie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsfield Dog Obedience Club
YMCA
Ya Kay Breck
Alfred J. Campagna
Richmond
St. Bernard
Shelby
Edward M. Simmons
Alice Gardner
Lee
Heidi
Charles Turgeon
Jonathan Kelly
Dalton
Shamrock
Dorothy Mace- Donald
Basset
Sharon Cope
Dalton and Freck
Paul Hathaway
West Stockbridge
Donnell MacCarthy
Pardle
Jolie Coeur
Birchwood C.D.X
Cenest Albert
Lenox and
Dalmation
Katy
C.D
Hearthside
Lenox
Robert J. Baumann
Dornell MacCarthy Simmmons
Atenideh
John A. Addy
Edward A. Simmons
Ernest Jacobson
MacCarthy
Julie Coeur
Birchwood
Immanuel Church Schedules Summer Services and Meetings
Summer Sunday worship at Immanuel Community Church starts 10 15 am with no Sunday school until fall. No services July 20 through August 10 for summer vacation. This Sunday Rev Charles W Kirkpatrick preaches on The Art of Noting. A committee meeting for all officers is Tuesday at 7 30 pm at Gerald Spaniel’s home.
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Immanuel Community Church
Charles W. Kirkpatrick
Gerald Spaniel
Director of Therapy Is Leaving Riggs
STOCKBRIDGE Dr. Leslie H. Farber, author and director of therapy at the Austen Riggs Center, will leave around Sept. 1 to return to private practice in New York. He plans to devote time to writing and has a long career including St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Chestnut Lodge. No successor has been named.
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Washington Psychoanalytical Institute
Washington School of Psychiatry
Farber
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh
Riggs
GE Ordnance Employes Receive College Degrees
Twenty GE ordnance workers earn degrees from area colleges in varied fields. Recipients include Richard Anderson, Thomas Dailey, Jeffrey Ehrlich, John Gonsky, Robert Goodman, Gerald Harris, Paul Kennedy, Michael Killion, Walter Littles, Gerald Murray, Raymond Quallen, Kenneth Roebush, Vito Salatine, Alphonse Caprio, Joseph Condron, William Godfrey, Ivars Czoss, Ralph Petlograsso, Frederick Richter, and Edward Forget, with degrees ranging from BS in business to MS in management and MBA, from Western New England College, RPI, UMass, and other institutions.
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General Electric Company
Ordnance Systems
Richard P. Anderson
Rockland Dr
Western New England College
Springfield
Dartmouth
Wentworth Institute
Umass
Thomas E. Dailey
Berkshire
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
City College of New York
Jeffrey L. Ehrlich
Highview Drive
RPE
University of Rhode Island
Ordnance
John P. Gonsky
Dalton Ave
RPI
Air Force Academy
Robert V. Goodman
Ohio State University
Gerald L. Harris
Maple St
Lenox
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
Paul §. Kennedy
Mountain Drive
University of Idaho
University of Washington
Walter J. Littles
Richmond
Polytechnic Institute of Brookyn
Gerald E. Murray
Ohio University
Raymond J. Quallen
Asci Drive
Naval Academy
Kenneth L. Roebush
Oak Hill Road
Western Ilinois University
Vito R. Salatine
Northeastern University
General Electric
Lynn
North Adams State College
Alphonse E. Caprio
Bartlett Ave
Joseph E. Condron
Prospect St
Lanesboro
William A. Godfrey
Sampson
Speaker from N H Science Center at Sanctuary Day
G. E. Merrill director of the Squam Lakes Science Center Holderness NH will headline Pleasant Valley Sanctuary Day on Saturday from 9 to 4 30. He speaks at 1 p m on The Nature of Things and will show techniques to engage youth using live animals and visual aids. Merrill has led science centers in Philadelphia and Boston and once helped create a snake island at Camp Becket. Tickets available at the gate.
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N.H. Science Center
G. E. Merrill
Squam Lakes Science Center
Holderness
N H
Pleasant Valley
Merrill
Alvah Sanborn
Berkshires
Camp Becket
Snake Island
Sanborn
Science Center
Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia
Museum of Science
Boston
Berkshire County Planning Commission offers survey aid
Berkshire County Regional Planning Commission voted to assist the Massachusetts Historical Commission with a historic survey of Berkshire County. A letter from Dr. Richard Hale asked for cooperation in gathering records. The cost would be staff time only, with two main benefits: protected landmarks from eminent domain and National Register designation offering limited protection from federal removal.
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Berkshire County
Break-ins Probe at Friendly Ice Cream and Cove Inn
Great Barrington police investigate two burglaries on Stockbridge Road in the early morning. The Friendly Ice Cream and Luncheonette report a $35 cash theft and a broken cigarette machine. Details on the Cove Inn break were not available.
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Great Barrington
Stockbridge Road
Cove Inn
Friendly
Mobile Theatre To Show Films To BMC Doctors
A mobile theatre van will visit Berk shire Medical Center on Tuesday to screen 16 medical films for BMC physicians and house staff from 9 to 2 at the Pittsfield General Unit. Doctors may view films on shock management, neonatal addiction, resuscitation and more, with projectors and headphones provided. Joseph Rice, local Smith Kline and French representative, arranged the Eska van program.
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Berkshire Medical Center
BMC
Pittsfield General
Three Policemen Given Party On Retirement
Three policemen were honored yesterday in the police squadroom at a farewell party. President Leroy M. Fowler of the Police Association presented gold honorary badges and purses to Detective Nicholas E. Hess Sgt. Lorenzo M. Briggs and Officer Orlando T. Duke Pezanelli. Hess and Briggs retired on disability after over 20 and 18 years of service, while Pezanelli retired regularly after more than 20 years. Officers as young as 45 can qualify for regular retirement with 20 years of service.
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Leroy M. Fowler
The
Police Association
Nicholas E. Hess
Lorenzo M. Briggs
Orlando T
Duke
Local VFW Delegates Named for Hyannis Convention
Mr. and Mrs. Hermanski and Mrs. Rose Breen will be delegates from the local VFW to the state convention in Hyannis this weekend. Their names were omitted from a previous list. Mrs. Hermanski will become auxiliary president when the state president is sworn in Sunday and will preside at her first meeting on July 9, reporting on the convention.
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Raymond Hermanski
Rose Breen
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Hyannis
Hermanski
District Court Convictions and Fines From Lenox
Thomas J Flood of Lenox was found guilty of operating to endanger and fined $100 Judge John A Barry also found him not guilty on two counts. Bruce Kirkpatrick of Dalton was guilty of speeding and fined $50. Francis C Mazza of Pittsfield faced a false fire alarm charge and case pushed to June 25. Gerald Demary, AWOL, case continued to June 25 with $1000 bail. Several others fined or continued. Public defender named. arrests dated May 20 on Tyler Street.
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Thomas J. Flood
New Lenox Road
Lenox
John A. Barry
Flood
Atty
Charlies R. Alberti
Bruce Kirkpatrick
Park Ave
Dalton
Tyler Street
Francis C. Mazza
Pittsfield
Barry
Ralph Cianflone
Mazza
Gerald Demary
Peek’s Road
Demary
Charles F. Wick
First St
Carl S. Winters
Cherry St
Carl Wick
John R. Copeland Jr
West Housatonic St
Lucien Laurent
Tyler St
John P. Geary
Paul LeBlanc
Lee
Mary G. Martello
Tueia Drive
Eleanor McCullen
Linden St
Garry Hinkle
Lanesboro
St Stephen's to Dedicate Organ Division
St Stephen's Episcopal Church will dedicate a new gallery organ division Sunday at 10. The dedication honors Elizabeth Sheppard Adams and Donald Weston. Mildred Buttrey leads with Anne Marcure and Alberta Kent as organists and the Senior Choir.
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St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Elizabeth Shepardson Adamwli
Donald Weston
Austin Organ Company
Mildred Buttrey
St. Stephen’s
Anne Mareure
Alberta Kent
Everett Titcomb
Ernest Bloch
Miss Buttrey
Anne Marcure
Pachelbel
Handel
John Dunstable
Medical Society Receives Red Cross Plaque at 21st Meet
Dr. Donald KE Campbell of Stockbridge, president of Berkshire District Medical Society, accepted a plaque on behalf of the Berkshire District Medical Society. The honor recognized its contribution to the Red Cross blood program in Berkshire County, which benefited from 130 doctors assisting last year. Attendees included Miss Abby I Brent, Kathryn Tone, Mrs. Willard Mosher, and Myron F Thompson of Pittsfield.
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Donald KE. Campbell
Stockbridge
Berkshire District Medical Society
Red Cross
Massachusetts
Framingham Motor Inn
Berkshire County
Campbell
Massachusetts Red Cross
Abby I. Brent
Kathryn Tone
Willard Mosher
Myron F. Thompson
Pittsfield
Students Named To Dean's List At Several Colleges
Area students named to dean's list include Peter J. Calderella at Central Connecticut State College in New Britain Mark Alan Hertel at Miami University in Oxford Ohio Peter R. Vanlund Lenox and Robert S. Sandler Union College in Schenectady Rosemary Bonin Ann W Lord Linda Gleason James L Shapiro Mark L Shapiro and Robert M Smith Williston Academy East Hampton plus Carol Ezdula Westfield State College and James Bordeau Nathaniel Hawthorne College Antrim New Hampshire Thee Pittsfield boys at Williston Academy East Hampton are also noted.
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Peter J. Calderella
Walnut St
Central Connecticut
Static College
New Britain
Mark Alan Hertel
Deborah Ave
Peter KR. Amidon
Monterey
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Ann W. Lord
Summer St
Lanesboro
Michael W. Brickley
Marlboro Dr
Bates College
Lewiston
Maine
Susan Toplitz
Allendale Road
Vernon Court Junior College
Newport
Peter R. Vanlund
Lenox
Robert S. Sandler
Jason St
Union College
Schenectady
Rosemary Bonin
Nancy
Annhurst College
Woodstock
Morningside Baptist Adopts Summer Schedule
Morningside Baptist Church switches to summer schedule starting this Sunday with a 9 30 morning worship service and a nursery available for attendees.
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Morningside Baptist
Morningside Baptist Church
Probate filings reveal multiple wills and heirs in regional estates
The Probate Court lists the will of Henrietta Grosso of New Ashford known as Mama Gros for Springs stock shares to Doris Zappulla Amy G Williams and Edmond V Grosso with Edmond’s sons receiving shares and residuary estate shared by all five. Dorothy M Tone of Pittsfield probate shows Eleanor Tone inheriting then two brothers Walter Tone and Richard F Tone as heirs at law. Admin granted for Mary Crane Williams of Groat Barington and Dorel TH McDarby of Lee who died intestate. Williams heirs consist of Alfred of Milford Conn and McDarby heirs are Judith A Peterson and Charles I McDarby.
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Henrietta Grosso
New Ashford
Mama’* Grosso
Springs
Doris Zappulla
Amy G. Willams
Edmond V. Grosso
Dmond B
Stephen J. Grosso
Groat Bartington
Dorel TH. McDarby
Lee
Meir
Williams
Alfred
Milford
Conn
Meirs
McDarby
Judith A. Peterson
Charles I. McDarthy
Obituary for Mrs. William H. Wills in Bennington Vermont
Mrs. William H. Wills 82 widow of former Vermont governor died Thursday at Putnam Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held Saturday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church. She was a Middlebury College graduate and trustee of Middlebury Bennington College and the University of Vermont. A daughter Mrs. Stanley R. Pike survives. she wrote columns for the Bennington Barrier.
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Bennington
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
William H. Wills
Vermont
Putnuima Memorial Hospital
Wills
Middlebury College
Bennington College
University of Vermont
Stanley R. Pike
Funeral Rites for Mrs Elvin Scolville Firuski Held in Salisbury
Funeral services were held for Mrs Elvin Scolville Firuski 57 of Woodland Drive Salisbury after she died from a fall at home. Burial in Salisbury Cemetery. she was born 1911 in New York City and survived by a daughter, a brother, and a former husband Maurice Firuski. She worked as a home service representative for the Salisbury Red Cross chapter for forty four years. Also noted: Tyringham resident William Butler Leipzig 78 died from a heart attack at St Luke's Hospital Pittsfield. Funeral and burial were held in New York.
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Lakeville
Conn
Elvin Scolville Filuski
Woodland Drive
St. John's Episcopal
Herbert Scolvilte Sr
Taconic, Conn
McLean, Va
Firuski
Salisbury Chapter
Red Cross
Tyringham
William Butler Leipzig
Webster
St. Luke's Hospital
Pittsfield
Leipzig
East A7th St
New York City
New York
Funerals Shared From Dalton to Monterey Obituaries
Funeral services were held for Miss Bertha A. Torrey of Dalton at First Congregational Church with burial in Main Street Cemetery. Also noted were services for Mrs. Florence I. Collin and Joseph L. Hadlin at Wellington Funeral Home and Pittsfield Cemetery, with bearers named. Ethel C. Humphrey of Monterey had services at Stevens Funeral Home and burial in Cornshire Cemetery.
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Bertha A. Torrey
Dalton
Vwirst Congregational Church
Patrick C. Finleon
Main Street
Ralph G. Peck
John L. Peck
Howard B. Person
Pauli Gazan
Florence I. Collin
Te Wellington Funeral Home
James W. Knorr
Trinity Methodist Church
Pittsfield Cemetery
Joseph L. Hadlin
Wellington
Merlen C. Levering
First Methodist Church
Joseph TF. Hadlin
Frank M. Hornyak
Edson B. Crashier
Clifford J. Williams
Harry J. McGovern
Calvin David
Ethel C. Humphrey
Monterey
Stevens Funeral Home
Great Barrington
Virgil Vo Brallier
Card of Thanks for Thaddeus Kieltyka
The family of the late Thaddeus Kieltyka thanks friends and staff at St Luke's Hospital ER and the GE Plastics Dept for their expressions of sympathy.
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Thaddeus Kieltyka
St. Luke's Hospital
General Electric Plastics Dept
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