Weigle Recalls War Service and Liberal Arts Leadership
Carleton College in Minnesota. He served as a Captain in the Air Force attached to the Chinese Army in India and the General Staff at Kunming. After the war he joined the US Department of State and later became president of St. John’s. He led liberal education commissions and earned degrees from several colleges. He is a Phi Beta Kappa member and belongs to multiple historical and scholarly societies.
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Carleton College
Minnesota
India
Kunming
US Department of State
St. John’s
Weigle
Commission On Liberal Education
The
Association of American Colleges
Maryland Permanent Advisory Commission
Dr. Weigle
Northfield, Minn
Luther A. Weigle
Yale Divinity School
Washington College
Lasalle College
Notre Dame of Maryland
Bard College
Phi Beta Kappa
American Historical Association
Maryland Historical Society
Projects At Dyer Library Come To Close
Two National Library Week projects at the Dyer Library Saco ended with prize awards. Be An Easy Reader winners were John Lamb Julie Davis and Laura Thompson with several honorable mentions. The Something For Everybody at the Library coloring contest also announced winners and participants listed.
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Dyer
Saco
Paul Hill
Michael Goulet
John Lamb
Ann Lebrecque
Laura Thompson
Linda Lachance
Julie Davis
Dyer Library
National Library Week
Pauline Nadeau
Brenda Rumery
Tony Belanger
Louis Linscott
Robert Roberts
Kathy Keirarn
Danny Boothby
Dianne Samson
Tim Crowley
Bonnie Nadeau
Lynn Croteau
Kay Ducharme
Jocelyn Mondor
Sandra Ouellette
Frances Pelletier
Sandra Pelletier
Debra Rouvillard
Howard Ricker
Robert Larivere
Brenda Croteau
Diane Martin
Kathy Martin
Denise Monder
Martin Leavitt
Carrie Joszy
Debbie Samson
John Ana
Megan Thomas
Joyce Leary
Melissa Clappison
Susan Rounds
Shirley Monroe
Christopher Clough
Maria LaVopa
Darrell Preakes
Donald Linscott
John Anagnostis
Eric Purvis
Ann Jalbert Laurie Simard
Vicky Cressy
Thomas Jordan
Danny Howard
Florence Michaud
Roxanne Bourgeois
Ralph Mitchell
Toni Belanger
Less Mackinnon
Susy Hutchins
Lynn Simard
Sharon Raymond
Karen Poulin
Marc Grover
Judy Rondeau
Kathy
Paul S. Hill
Kennedy Endorsement Questioned as McGovern Support Stays
Sen. Edward Kennedy said in a Boston Globe interview his sympathies lie with George McGovern but an early convention endorsement would be risky. He noted Nixon could seem unbeatable only with favorable world events, and that blacks and Chicago voters would not transfer support easily to McGovern.
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Boston
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Boston Globe
Sen
George) McGovern
Kennedy
Washington
Robert Healy
Globe
McGovern
Ae McGovern
Healy
Nixon
China
Moscow
Middle East
Europe
Humbert Humphrey
Humphrey
McCarthy
Bobby
Chronology of Offensive Developments in Vietnam War
Timeline tracks five weeks since North Vietnamese offensive across South Vietnam. Key events include heavy artillery hits on bases March 30, near Quang Tri by April 1, B 52 strikes, Hanoi declarations, continued bombing, naval shows of force, resumption of Paris talks, troop withdrawals announced by Nixon, and shifts in South Vietnamese defenses.
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South Vietnam
Quang Tri
North Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Hanoi
U.S
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Haiphong
Paris
Nixon
Vietnam
Pentagon
Henry Kissinger
Moscow
Texas
Laird
Saigon
Jeu
Kissinger
le Duc Tho
North Vietn
William P. Ro
Naurity Council
U.S. Proposal for Vietnamese Peace Plan Details
The document outlines a plan to halt shipments within North Vietnam's waters and calls for a four month troop withdrawal after all American prisoners are released. It also envisions an internationally supervised cease-fire in Indochina to end hostilities.
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Ures
North Vietnam
U.S
Indochina
St John’s College President to Speak at Biddeford Graduation
Dr. Richard D. Weigle, president of St. John’s College in Annapolis, will deliver the commencement address for the St. Francis College Class of 1972 in Biddeford on May 21. He will speak on In Defense of Liberal Education.
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Biddeford
Richard D. Weigle
St. John’s College
Annapolis
St. Francis College
Peter V. Sampo
Weigle
St. John’s
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Yale University
China
Yale Union Middle School
Changsah
Hunan Province
Yale-in
Growing Parents Teachers Association roots in 1897 founding
The Parents Teachers Association began as the National Congress of Mothers on February 17 1897. Britannica notes the group now has about 1.5 million members and has doubled its membership each decade.
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The
Parents Teachers Association
National Congress of Mothers
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Biddeford City Manager Question Not On Ballot
Biddeford City Charter Commission voting eight to zero decided not to place the city manager form of government to a vote. The meeting occurred in Mayor Gilbert R. Boucher's office with eight commissioners present.
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Biddeford
Gilbert R. Boucher
Atty
Willie Pomerleau
Roger Gobeil
George DesRoberts
Camille Bolduc
Norman Racine
Marc Bouthot
H. Clifford Berry
Peter Truman
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