Becket Teachers Row Sparks Early Becket-CMS Rift
A Becket Becket-Chester-Middlefield Teachers Association dispute erupts after W S Moulthrop becket consolidated school principal submits a protest letter. Three school committee candidates favored his view at a town caucus as resignations followed and a hotly contested special election was set to fill vacancies. The civil war over policy centered on recognition and professional procedures.
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Becket
Eagles
Pittsfield
Becket-Chester-Middlefield Teachers Association
Stacy
Wendell 5S. Moulthrop
Becket Consolidated School
Moulthrop
Vermont
Lyndon State College
Lyndonville, VI
Westfield State College
Teachers Association
Arthur W. Sullivan
Ater
Sullivan
Burt
Rod
Kenneth A. Damon
Massachusetts Teachers Association
MTA
National Education Association
NEA
Mr. Moulthrop
Moulthron
Edward F. Downey Sr
Becket School
Roland A. Daigle
Selectmen
Vincent Nevins
School Union No. 4
Daigle
Wahootah Regional
Becket school politics spurs recall and resignations
Becket residents faced a clash over a principal’s partisan activity amid town elections that brought Kenneth Gillette onto the School Committee. After resignations by three committee members, debate centered on governance, ethics, and a state inspection report criticizing teaching quality and policy absence, in a town disrupting its Becket Consolidated School’s course.
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Becket School
Kenneth Gillette
Becket
Gillette
Constance Mulholland
Wathconah
Berkshire Week in Review Seesaw Tram Fight
The Mt Greylock tramway battle shifts through courts and legislature as the Protective Association loses a suit on the lease and a construction contract, while anti tram bills face mixed prospects in the Massachusetts House. Two Air National Guard pilots die in a B-52 style crash nearby, and a drive in theater case ends with a Superior Court win for promoters. A Becket school caucus decides candidates for three seats as towns consider a tri town regional district. Regional utility plans consolidate and local honors, sales, and appointments fill Berkshire pages.
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John M. Noonan
Superior Court
Mt. Greylock Protective Association
Mt. Greylock Tramway Authority
Noonan
State Supreme Judicial Court
House
Ways and Means
Committee On Rules
Supreme Judicial Court
Route 7
Cooper Lane
Great Barrington
Board of Appeals
St. Joseph's High’s
Paul Perachhi
Pittsfield Federation of Teachers
Anna Blaney
Leonard R. Spencer
George A. Wechter
Becket
Mitchell J. Mulholland
William Elovitta
Arthur L. Johnson
Dalton - Hinsdale News
Lenox
Loria S. Carter
NAACP
Alabama
Lewis H. Seager
Wahconah St
Edward F. Johnson
Egremont School
Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum
Walter W. Sisson
Berkshire County
Jaycees
Phs
Deas FP. Amideri
Monterey
State Department of Public Works
Pittsfield
Nikolas P. Ruscie
Professional Photographers of America
Priory of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel near Williamstown
The Carmelite Brothers bought Thorvale Farm in 1952 and now use the 720 acre Lewis estate as a novitiate. Twelve novices live there under Father Brocard with a year long probation, strict silence, no radio or TV, and study in a setting overlooking Mt Greylock.
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Sinclair Lewis
Carmelite Brothers, Inc
Thorvale Farm
Lewis
Rome
Mt. Carmel
Palestine
Brocard
Apostolic Ministry
Anthony Wholley
Brendan Hourihan
St. Joseph's Priory
Whitefriar’s Hall
Washington, D.C
Father Flanagan
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South, Berkshire Weekly
Rembrandts
New York
Amsterdam
America
France
National Gallery
Washington
Wendell
Berkshire Week In Review
Mt. Greylock Reservation
AIR National Guard
James A. Miller
New Marlboro
Robert E. Raeder
Millbrook
Mary “Macy
Pell
Williamson Pell
Carl E. Beck
East. Granby
Conn
Raeder
Beck
Mitchel J. Mulholland
William Eloviria
Arthur EL. Johnson
Stockbridge
West Stockbridge
Western Massachusett, Electric Co
Connecticut Electric
Nextbeast Utilities
Albee
Frank
Lanesboro
Alston
Hillford
Falls Village
Appel
Jacob W
Dalton Barres
Antonio
Pittsfield Beck
Carl
East Granby
Bloomberg
Jeanne R
Pitsfield
Housatonic
Germain
Charles D
Pittsfield Hart
Joseph
Haswell
Ark
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Berle
Arilla H
Bittsfield Kessler
Henry
Lanesboro Lambert
Walter A. Jr
Pittsfield Leavy
Francis J
Pittsfield Eynch
Northeast Utilities
New England Electric System
People In Print
QO Omega
Edquarters
Omega Watches
Kahl’s
J. F. Kahl Co
North Street
American Gem Society
Aemester
Slendar Dict
Ewindiog
Merrasistont
RCA & GE
RCA Transistor
Newell St. Opp. Hibbard School
Hi- 2
Bobby
North Berkshire Weekly
By Richard Regin
Ion
Order
St. Albert’s Junior Seminary
Middletown
Marian Bradley
Williamstown
Brocard Connors
Rogin
Stetson
Federal Street
Elm Street
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