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The Burlington Free Press from Burlington, Vermont • Page 11

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V' If-. tfji The Burlington Frt Pratt WEDNESDAY, AUQ. 1M7 Dennis, The Menace 11 Vermonters Serve Their Country Court Martial Finds Vermonter Guilty I His wife is the former Mary Present for the trials for Stapp and Perrin was Ron Per Expert Rifleman Second Lieutenant James H. White, son of Mr. was found guilty of failing to receive a pass and reporting back to duty as scheduled and sentenced to confinement at hard labor for 30 days.

He was re rin, 33, brother of Richard Per Lou Olcott, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Tillotson, of 9i Harvey St. Johnsbury.

and Mrs. James H. White of RD 1, Colchester, was among the more than 500 cadets in this year's Air Force Academy, FT. SILL, Okla. (AP)-The Army dismissed Monday charges of breaking restrictions filed against Pvt.

Andrew Stapp, a 29-year-old Merion, soldier who has become the center of antiwar efforts at this southwestern Oklahoma military post. Capt. Ronald E. Boyer of Loda, trial officer for duced in grade from Pvt. E-2 to Army Pvt.

Donald J. Hatha-way, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Hathaway of 21 North Essex Junction, fired expert with the M-14 rifle near the completion of his basic combat training at Ft.

Campbell, April 17. Colorado, graduating class. He received his bachelor ot lington, and the late Clifford L. Kinville, has graduated from eight weeks Army basic training at Ft. Dix, N.J.

Kinville is now attending mechanical school at Ft. Dix for seven weeks. He attended Rice Memorial High School. Carrier Disperser Seaman Donald L. Sharrow, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Donald L. Sharrow of Malletts Bay, is home on a 30-day leave. Sharrow is stationed aboard the USS Ranger attack carrier in Almeda, as a dis science degree ana was commissioned a second lieu nn, who said he was a philosophy major at the University of California at Berkeley. Ron Perrin said he was opposed to the conduct of the Vietnam War and described himself as an "uncommitted radical." 'Scientist Exchange RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -Brazil has announced it will exchange nuclear scientists with Italy under a new section of a general cooperation treaty Stapp's court martial, heard testimony from two witnesses tenant in the Air Force June 7.

The lieutenant has been se E-l. Ex-Nun's Estimate NEW YORK (AP) The Belgian "singing nun," who left her convent to concentrate on recording spiritual folk songs, adds her own touch to "Beatle" John controversial remark about his group being more popular than Jesus. "General de Gaulle is better known than Christ in the ft before upholding a motion by defense attorney, Rudolph lected for pilot training at Vance AFB, Okla. T- 1 I rr it Schware, Denver, to dismiss He is a 1963 graduate of Rice the charges for lack, of evi Memorial High School, South dence. Schware had been retained by the Emergency Civil Liberties Burlington, where he was a member of the baseball and football teams.

perser clerk. Union of New York to defend Stapp and Pvt. Richard G. Per- signed in 1958. The government said Brazil will send scientists to Italy before the end of the year and Italian scientists will begin studies at Brazil's Institute of Nuclear Engineering in late 1968.

world," Jeanine Deckers says in a McCall's magazine interview. The former Sister Sourire adds, "I may not feel this is right, but it is certainly I undeniable." nn, a second soldier on court martial Monday. Perrin, 19, Springfield, p-t tvron f-H "I don't know when your Mother's coming homo. All wt can do it hop and pray that it't SOONl" Carroll Hathaway Outstanding Officer Capt Howard K. Carroll, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur K. Carroll of 4 Murdock Court, Mid-dlebury, has been mamed Outstanding Junior Officer of the Month at Moody AFB, Ga. O'Neil Expert With Rifle Pvt. Terrence S.

O'Neil of 9 Clover Lane was awarded a plaque for shooting the highest score in basic rifle marksmanship in his company at Ft. Benning, Ga. He is a graduate and former instructor in former Mayor Edward A. Keenan's marksmanship-safety program. O'Neil is now at Ft.

Model-lan, finishing his six-month active duty stint as a member of the Vermont National Guard which will end in September. He is the son of Mrs. Mary K. Leary of 25 N. Prospect St.

olio 'i. tm 'if A 'X ijfjfi principal of the new English department at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass Capt. Carroll, a graduate of Sharrow Later, he was a minister and teacher at Craftsbury, and superintendent at Browning- TYPISTS and STENOGRAPHERS We have immediate career openings for several sharp, personable girls. Excellent typing skills essential, shorthand required for stenos. Middle name must be Salary commensurate with background plus liberal company benefits.

Please call Mr. Ogilvie at 877-291 1 to arrange appointment White Kinville Middlebury High School and former student of the University of Vermont, received his BS degree in engineering ton. Mechanical Trainee Pvt. Leslie P. Kinville, 20, Combined tax collections by federal, state and local governments for fiscal 1967 will cross the $200 billion mark for the sciences and his commission son of Mrs.

Mary Kinville of counties. To name ar few: Hubbard, Haywook, Hall, Hudson, Judevine, Kimball, Harvey, Heath, Frye, Graves, French, Fletcher, Kellog, Lawrence, Morse, Nichols, Orcutt, Paddleford, Page, Peabody, Peck, Pike, Niles, Preston, May, Knapp, Williams, Young, Wood, Turner, Weatherbee, Walter, Richardson, Russell, Sanborn, Snow, Spaulding, Stockwell, Stoddard, Streeter, Barnett, Carpenter, Cutting, Darling, Fair, Chase, Crane, Taggart, and Doyle. Hall left the pastorate of the church and bis normal school in 1830 to become upon graduation from the Air Force Academy in 1962. I first time. 38 Central South Bur Monument Honors Founder In 1872, he went to Granby as pastor of the Congregational church, and he died in Brownington on June 24, 1877, at the age of 81.

He published books on the history and geography of Vermont, among others, and it is thought his book on geolory and mineralogy published in 1868 was the first book ever published on these subjects. SIMMONDS PRECISION Panton Road, Vergennes, Vermont 0S491 First Normal School in America Established in Concord Corner an equal opportunity empfoye-r You get extra value on '67 Fords from wagon door-gates that swing out for people, down for cargo (standard equipment SelectShift transmissions that can be used as automatics or manuals. Now your Ford Dealer offers another soon recognized as the most' available and efficient institute of learning in the vicinity. In 1824 an act of the Legislature made the Academy an Essex County Grammar School, therefore eligible to receive rents from the grammar school lands in Con cord. The school had 69 scholars during the spring term of By TENNIE GASKILL TOUSSAINT CONCORD CORNER In this nearly abandoned village, there is a granite monument which bear this inscription: The state of Vermont erects this tablet August 15, 1923, on the site of the FIRST NORMAL SCHOOL IN AMERICA OPENED MARCH 11, 1823 by its Reverend Samuel Read Hall, LL.D originator of American system of teacher training author of the first text-book on teaching published in America.

Pioneer in the use of the blackboard, as a schoolroom appliance. 1824. Children and would-be- -g 6 teachers coming from a distance boarded out in nrivate families. An advertisement inserted in the old Danville. "North Star" newspaper stated, "Board obtained near the Schoolroom mmmm at reasonable rates.

Terms For Common School studies, $2 per term of 12 weeks, Other branches, from $2.50 to $4." In 1923 Mrs. Lydia Flint of Barton granddaughter of Dr. Hall found a record book of the old school containing 224 names of the boys and girls who attended school during the first three Samuel Read Hall the first school for teacher-training in the North American continent, and perhaps the world. He named the school, "Columbian School." The first classes are said to have been held in his own home below the church. When the fall term of school began in October 1823 the name was changed to "Concord Academy" and was years.

Among the names listed are many with descendants now living in Essex and Caledonia trading center for the early settlers. The population was about 800 then, and consisted mostly of farmers. Nine school districts and seven schoolhouses provided the common school education of that day. Concord people had long been dissatisfied with having to support the Guildhall Grammar School nine miles away. Hall's religious and educational efforts were very well I received, and he was given a call to "settle" as their minister.

Before accepting the pastoral duties Hall re-: quested permission from the: church officials to "teach school for training teachers," in addition to his church duties, Hall was ordained and in-1 Samuel Read Hall has been called "The Father of Normal Schools In America," having a school for teacher training at Concord Corner 18 years before a similar school was instituted in Lexington, Mass. The monument was dedi cated during the five day cen-; itennial anniversary held in Concord, March 11 15, 1923, In observance of the founding of the First Normal School on the Western continent. Samuel Read Hall was the 11th child of Samuel and Elizabeth Hall of Crjydon, N.H., born on Oct. 27, 1795. His father, Samuel, was a veteran of the Revolutionary War, and was one of the founders of the First Congregational Church of Croydon.

In January 1796, Hall and his wife and ten children left Croydon and settled in Guildhall. Young Samuel received his first formal education in one of the early district schools, supplemented by more advanced education at home. Both his parents were well educated, especially in the Bible. He was 10 years old when the Essex County Grammar School was organized in Guildhall. Young Samuel led the class in reading, spelling, Morse's Geography and Pike's Arithmetic.

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