Scholarship Offered
The Title 1 Robert J. Watson Scholarship was established in 1989 to honor the memory of Robert Watson, Title 1 director for the Lynn Public Schools. The scholarship will provide $1,500 for one or more graduating seniors who have been accepted into a post-secondary undergraduate program. The scholarship may be awarded to any student who participated in a Title 1 funded program for at least one academic year at any grade level.
Fred Natusch is Honored
For Nstar Customer Care
Vineyard resident Fred Natusch, a veteran lineworker at Nstar, recently received the company’s Champion for the Customer award for outstanding dedication on the job.
In a release, the electric utility stated Mr. Natusch is known by coworkers and customers alike for his strong work ethic and caring response to customer calls.
Ecological Eating: New
Discussion Group Begins
Menu for the Future is the title of a new discussion group at the Vineyard Haven Library. The group workshop is designed by the North West Earth Institute, the source of the previously successful library programs Choices for Sustainability and Voluntary Simplicity.
Spring Slips In
The English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote about “spring coming slowly up this way,” and his words hold clear meaning on the Vineyard in early April. Raw winds cut across the faces of passengers disembarking from Steamship Authority ferries in Vineyard Haven; horses seek shelter in pastures in Chilmark and West Tisbury; Main street in Edgartown, splashed with late-afternoon sunshine, can be filled with eerie silence.
SQUARE SUPPORT
Editors, Vineyard Gazette:
The following letter is being sent to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission:
We are writing this letter in support of the Bradley Square project.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I find it scary that I live in a country that is so misogynistic that the citizens would prefer to elect a goat for President rather than a woman. The fact that the population is 52 per cent women should clinch it but it doesn’t look that way. Which is another thing that scares me.
I admit that this election has me thinking with my heart as much as my head but, you know, it’s our turn, damn it. After centuries of men messing up, don’t you all think it’s time for a woman to try it?
Who Was Charlotte?
From the Vineyard Gazette editions of April, 1958:
