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WW " ' Region State Rutland Daily Herald Monday Morning, June 17, 1996 Windsor, Windham & Bennington Page STATE II 12 Summers Past Southern Vermont Digest Okemo Employees Win Scholarships LUDLOW Tim and Diane Mueller, owners of Okemo Mountain Resort, have announced employee scholarship awards in the amount of $500 each to four students. This years award recipients are Aimee Bartlet of Reading, Chrissie Marzano, Jennifer Acree and Sean Flint. The awards are presented yearly to high school seniors and college students who work at Okemo Mountain Resort each season. Criteria used to select the recipients include academic achievements, extracurricular activities and a topical essay. Members Discuss The Monday Club MANCHESTER Manchesters Monday Club is well into 101 years of continuous meetings. Four women started this ladies literary circle in 1895. On Wednesday evening, June 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Congregational Church, the Manchester Historical Society will present a program on Manchesters Literary Heritage: The Monday Club, by its members. The club meets on 16 Mondays a year to discuss topics and books. I Programs are laid out, books or topics are assigned to members to report on, and records are kept (more than 28 volumes of minutes to date). There have always been only 16 active members, a small number of honorary ones, and a very small turnover: from 1939 to 1969, only seven places opened up. The present membership includes: Margaret Ellis, Gail Rice, Kay Ambrose, Madeline Harwood, Mary Lou Burdett, Elizabeth Counsell, Nadine Hays, Sally McVie, Trudy MacDonald, Judy Harwood, Phebe Ann Lewis, Joan Shaw, Barbara Cross, Sally Treat, and Ann Kearton. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. Arthritis Group Discusses Cooking SPRINGFIELD Springfield Hospital will host the arthritis support group in a discussion and video presentation on Cooking in Comfort With Arthritis, on Thursday, June 27, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Bring cookies and a recipe to exchange. For more information call 674-2626. Doctor Discusses Menopause Facts BENNINGTON Separate the facts about menopause from the myths by attending a seminar titled Menopausal Management: Facing the Challenge of Change on Thursday, June 20, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. The seminar, given by gynecologist Glen MacKenzie, M.D., will include information about what to expect and what, if anything, can be !done about it. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion. The workshop will be held in the seminar room at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center and is sponsored by the Wellness Connection. Pre-registration is required. There is no charge. For information or registration call 447-5076. Actors, Directors Assess Weston Playhouses Impact By SUSAN SMALLHEER Southern Vermont Bureau WESTON Vermonts oldest summer theater company, the Weston Playhouse, called back alumni this weekend for celebration and reassessment. Four of its more famous alumni spoke about the role the Weston Playhouse played in their careers, and the three managing directors of the nonprofit theater spoke about changes in store for theatergoers. Actor Christopher Lloyd, famous for his roles in the Back to the Future film series, and Taxi TV series, said he came to Weston during the summer of 1964, as the baby brother of Sam Lloyd, a Weston community actor himself and then-owner of the Weston Bowl Mill Christopher Lloyd came back to Weston during the summer of 1990 to play Sherlock Holmes after his success in Hollywood. Others in the panel were Hollywood casting director David Rubin, whose credits include Get Shorty, Four Weddings and A Funeral, The Firm, and My Cousin Vinny. From the New York theater came John Lee Beatty, a Tony-winning Appearing at the Weston Playhouse for a discussion Saturday were (from left) David Rubin, John Lee Beatty, Christopher Lloyd and Clark Gesner. scenery designer whose credits include A Delicate Balance, The Sisters Rosensweig, and Aint Misbehavin, and Clark Gesner, the author and composer of "Youre A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Rubin came to Weston via Am herst College, where the former longtime director Walter Boughton taught. Rubin said at the end of his freshman year he came to Vermont to work and earn $42 a week. Beatty said he came to Weston in 1970, between college and graduate school at Yale University. The set designer said he made some big mistakes at Weston, particularly spending too much on building sets. Beatty said he was called into the office to be chewed out because he had overspent his budget for Fin-ians Rainbow. The budget in those days was $25 for a play, and $35 for a musical, he recalled. His sin was spending $42. Beatty also recalled that in 1970, the actors and crew were treated to three meals a day. But the food was so wonderful, the actors were eating too much and they went to the director to complain they were gaining too much weight. They should have put (the money) into the scenery, quipped Gesner. Gesner came to Weston more recently, through knowing Steven Stettler, one of the three producing directors of Weston. Gesner, who is approaching his seventh year at Weston, said he was in the eighth grade when he got his first job in the theater, working at the Orleans (Mass.) Theater during the day and ushering at night. Lloyd, the most famous alumni, (See Page 13: Weston) Still True To B.F. By ROBERT F. SMITH Herald Correspondent BELLOWS FALLS Perfect weather brought out a large crowd to enjoy Bellows Falls 59th annual alumni parade on Sunday. Graduating senior Chelsea Bis-bee was chosen Alumni Queen by her classmates. She rode on the class float with her court: Jennifer Burns, Monica Curtis, Melissa Cassidy-Fairchild and Jessica Pleasant. Bellows Falls claims to have the most active alumni association in New England, and this years parade demonstrated that with over 20 classes represented in the parade, 14 entering floats. The Annual Alumni Association meeting that followed the parade had nearly 200 in attendance and 30 classes represented. There were 52 entries in the pa-(See Page 13: Bellows Falls) Vacation Weekend By PATRICK SCANLON Herald Correspondent SPRINGFIELD With winter gone and the weather warm and brilliant, Vacations was the perfect theme for the 1996 Springfield Alumni Parade. A large crowd filled the flag-lined downtown on Saturday and even the thought of vacation seemed to pump up the collective creative juices as evidenced by the many outstanding floats on hand. When the judges completed their work, class of 1961 carried home the Grand Prize of $500 with an outstanding float called Hawaiian Bunch. The most original prize went to the class of 1981 with a float depicting a trip to the gambling dens of Las Vegas. The class of 1951 took second place with their ever-needed Suitcase. With the resignation of Public (See Page 13: Springfield) Meet Our MARKETING EXPERT rnoto ny itoneri r . nmun One of the highlights of Sundays alumni parade in Bellows Falls was the float of the class of 1976. This years float duplicated the classs senior year float in all but one regard: Men substituted for the girls who made up the queen and her court 20 years ago. Photo by Patrick Scanlon Sammy the Clown, whose wife is a graduate of Springfield High School, shows a doughnut seed (looking much like a Cheerio) to Megan Harrington, 6, during Springfields parade on Sunday. (See other photos. Page 13) Michael McGhee Personal Considerations McGhee May Not Run For Senate By Si) SAN SMALLHEER Southern Vermont Bureau SPRINGFIELD Republican candidate Michael McGhee of Springfield said Sunday he may have to pull out of the Windsor County Senate race because of personal problems. McGhee said he had met recently with county Republican leaders, but he said it wasnt true that he had opted out of the race. McGhee, a former Springfield selectman, said that the personal problems were not serious, but that they would be time-consuming, and he was still trying to weigh whether he would have the time for a countywide race. The personal matters Im dealing with would take up the time 1 would need to run a winning campaign and I wouldnt run unless 1 could win, said McGhee, who works for the Cooperative Fire Insurance Co. Im not sure 1 can give it 110 percent, which is what is needed for a (See Page 13: McGhee) Current Use A Hot Issue In Chester By DIANA ASHWORTH Herald Correspondent CHESTER Public concern over the states plan to shift current use program costs to towns brought local legislators to a Chester Select Board meeting last week. Sen. Ruth Harvie, R-Windsor, and Rep. Aili Farrar, D-Chester, told board members that legislators had not had all the facts about the proposed changes when they voted, and they were now having second thoughts about the impact of the changes on taxpayers. I don't think any of us who voted on this had any idea what the ramifications were, Harvie said. Ive agonized over this. There were many variables not considered. I thoroughly support holding a one-day special meeting of the Legislature to vote to delay any changes in the current use program until 1997. 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