Addison County Volunteers for Community Action records, 1963-1977 (bulk 1970-1977).

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Addison County Volunteers for Community Action records, 1963-1977 (bulk 1970-1977).

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History of the organization's early years (1963-1969) and minutes of meetings (1970-1977) kept by Dr. Estelle Foote, secretary, including decisions about activities to be undertaken, reports on actions of other groups, and needs identified.

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Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity

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Foote, Estelle J.

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Resident of Middlebury, Vt.; grew up in Cornwall, Vt., the daughter of Abram W. Foote, a farmer and politician and the youngest of eight children; attended Middlebury College and the University of Vermont College of Medicine, from 1921-1925, the first woman to do so. Her medical career as a psychiatrist was in Massachusetts and Vermont before retirement in Middlebury in the family home. She is author of several books. From the description of Home economics notebook, 1920. (Sheldon Mu...

Addison County Volunteers for Community Action (Addison County, Vt.)

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Charitable organization formed in 1963 to provide good used clothing to poor people in Addison County, Vt. When the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity was established the two worked together, providing space for the collection, storage, and distribution of used clothing and the volunteers collecting and mending it, and sometimes staffing the Clothes Room. The volunteers took on additional projects to improve the lot of the poor, including working with teachers, Headstart, and church...