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"Welcomed with open arms, lots of love and friendship": Group of representatives from Montana hail study visit to India
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): The national capital is hosting ten representatives from the American state of Montana, who are in India on a study visit. The Americans praised their experience in the country and hailed India, calling their time here 'magical'. While speaking to ANI, Jason Smith, member of the board of directors of the Montana World Affairs Council, said, 'I've had the good fortune to visit India twice before. I've been eager to come back, and coming back with this group of young people and seeing it through their eyes is very special. I've always found my time in India to be magical. The people are warm and wonderful. The sights and the sounds are so unique. There's no place like it on planet Earth.' He noted that being in India with a group of eager students has made the experience much more special. Smith said, 'To be in this place with so many warm and wonderful people, with an eager group of young people, has made it just that much more special for me. There are so many wonderful things about living in Montana in the United States. It's beautiful, it's rural. There are many open spaces, but we do not have good Indian food. For someone like me, who loves to eat good food, being in Delhi and sampling some of the finest Indian dishes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is a real treat'. Jason Smith is one of a group of ten representatives from Montana, comprising seven high school students and three chaperones (from World Affairs Council, Montana), who are on a study visit to India. Clara Depuy, while speaking to ANI, mentioned that she is looking forward towards exploring the fauna and flora of India, which is vastly different from that of Montana. Upon her visit, she highlighted, 'I've already learned so much just about expectation versus reality. Coming to India, I did not have anything to expect, but I had these kinds of preconceived notions just from what we learn in school or what we see from over on the other side of the world. And I think that's important to know that not everything is always exactly as it seems from the media, or just what you see on the outside'. Lara Larson, a graduate from Lockwood High School in Montana, told ANI, ' It's been really, really exciting to be able to come to a place that's so wildly different from something that I'm used to. So many flavours, so many colours, it's been so exciting to experience. I'm really, really excited for the Taj Mahal... I'm also really excited to experience the culture and learn more about the religion, especially. We read Siddhartha in our world class this year, and it felt very well timed with this trip because I really enjoyed that book, and I'm really looking forward to talking to people and getting to learn more about how people live their lives' Emily Brandenburg told ANI that reading about Siddhartha made her feel connected to India because it was her first experience with a 'non-Westernised version of religion'. She expressed enthusiasm for Bollywood and the Indian film industry. Alli DePuy, a teacher, told ANI, 'We have been welcomed with open arms, with lots of love, with delicious food and friendship.' The Consulate General of India selected the delegation in Seattle after their outstanding participation in EconoQuest 2025 at Montana State University and Academic WorldQuest 2025 at the University of Montana in Missoula. (ANI)
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Scholarships: June 1, 2025
Quinn Wagner, a graduate of Muhlenberg High School, is receiving a $10,000 Lighthouse Guild Scholarship to attend Cornell University. The guild awards scholarships across the country to students from across the country who are legally blind and will be entering college or attending graduate school this fall. The awards are based on academic excellence and merit. DAR scholarships The Berks County chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has awarded good citizen scholarships to the following students: Samuel K. Reese, Fleetwood High School, $1,300; Emily R. Albert, Wilson, $1,000; Abigail A. Dawson, Boyertown, $900. Reese plans to major in finance/accounting at Grove City College. Dawson plans to major in cinema, TV and media production at Kutztown University. World Affairs Council The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading awarded the $5,000 2025 Alan Miller Scholarship to Anthony Fiore, a senior at Wilson High School. Fiore plans to study public policy and public health at the University of Alan Miller Scholarships are awarded annually to seniors planning to pursue further education in international studies, political science, public administration, or related global studies. American Heritage American Heritage Credit Union awarded $1,000 scholarships to Angel Altringer, Twin Valley High School; and Norah Fischer, High Point Baptist Academy Information is provided by the sponsoring organizations
Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Business
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Scholarships: June 1, 2025
Quinn Wagner, a graduate of Muhlenberg High School, is receiving a $10,000 Lighthouse Guild Scholarship to attend Cornell University. The guild awards scholarships across the country to students from across the country who are legally blind and will be entering college or attending graduate school this fall. The awards are based on academic excellence and merit. DAR scholarships The Berks County chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has awarded good citizen scholarships to the following students: Samuel K. Reese, Fleetwood High School, $1,300; Emily R. Albert, Wilson, $1,000; Abigail A. Dawson, Boyertown, $900. Reese plans to major in finance/accounting at Grove City College. Dawson plans to major in cinema, TV and media production at Kutztown University. World Affairs Council The World Affairs Council of Greater Reading awarded the $5,000 2025 Alan Miller Scholarship to Anthony Fiore, a senior at Wilson High School. Fiore plans to study public policy and public health at the University of Alan Miller Scholarships are awarded annually to seniors planning to pursue further education in international studies, political science, public administration, or related global studies. American Heritage American Heritage Credit Union awarded $1,000 scholarships to Angel Altringer, Twin Valley High School; and Norah Fischer, High Point Baptist Academy Information is provided by the sponsoring organizations
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- General
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Police seek information about shooting of firearms in Turners Falls
TURNERS FALLS — Montague Police are asking anyone with information about incidents involving the shooting of firearms on Third Street early in the morning on Monday, May 26, to reach out to them. Police are investigating reports of shots fired around 2 and 5:30 a.m. Monday. Nobody was hit or otherwise injured. The incidents are believed to have been related. No arrests have been made. Anyone with information relating to these incidents is asked to contact Montague Detective Sergeant Joshua Hoffman at 413-863-8911. Chicopee City Council to vote on wording of ballot questions 'Global order has been upset': World Affairs Council gauges tariff war impact on Western Mass Zoo at Forest Park staff: See a fawn? Don't touch it Medicaid cuts will 'wreak havoc' on state's health care system (Viewpoint) NH man gets prison for stalking, threatening DCF worker over several years Read the original article on MassLive.
Boston Globe
15-03-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Larry Buendorf, Secret Service agent who saved Gerald Ford, dies at 87
Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up As Ford crossed the street and made his way through Capitol Park, shaking hands with well-wishers, Buendorf followed at his shoulder, watching to make sure no one reached for the president's watch or held his hand too long. He happened to be looking in the right direction when a red-robed, red-haired woman began to pull a .45-caliber pistol out of an ankle holster while standing about two feet from the president. Advertisement 'I see it coming and I step in front of him, not sure what it was other than that it was coming up pretty fast, and yelled out 'Gun!'' Buendorf recalled in a 2010 oral history for the Ford Presidential Foundation. 'When I yelled out 'Gun!' I popped that .45 out of her hand. Agents hear this, they covered the president and they're gone. So now you've got this guy in a suit with this big .45 wrestling with this little girl.' The assailant, Fromme, was a diminutive 26-year-old member of the Manson Family, the cult led by convicted murderer Charles Manson. Buendorf was not wearing a bulletproof vest at the time and feared he might be shot by a potential conspirator. He and Fromme continued to struggle over the Colt semiautomatic pistol, which contained bullets in the magazine but not in the chamber. Advertisement 'She was pulling back on the slide, and I hit the slide before she could chamber a round,' he said. 'If she'd had a round chambered, I couldn't have been there in time. It would've gone through me and the president.' As Buendorf brought Fromme to the ground, witnesses heard her shout: 'Don't get excited! It didn't go off! It didn't go off!' After Buendorf handcuffed her and other agents forced her against a tree, she continued to repeat: 'He's not a public servant. He's not a public servant.' The president went on to meet with Brown, as planned, and delivered his crime address to lawmakers without mentioning the assassination attempt. Ford later told Buendorf that even first lady Betty Ford passed the morning without realizing what had happened. When he spoke to her afterward on Air Force One, she asked him, 'So, how was your day?' Buendorf also carried on after the assassination attempt, turning Fromme's gun over to a colleague before going 'back to work,' he said, 'because we were one down on the shift.' Seventeen days later, Ford survived another attempt on his life. He had just spoken to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco when a woman named Sara Jane Moore fired two shots with a revolver, before being subdued by police and a Marine Corps veteran, Oliver Sipple. (The president, unscathed, was issued a new piece of protective gear: a beige trench coat with a bulletproof liner.) Buendorf was in Sacramento at the time of the second attack, testifying about the previous assassination attempt. He said that Fromme had not been on the Secret Service's 'radar screen' as a threat, but that the scenario of her attack was incorporated into the agency's training programs. Fromme was sentenced to life in prison later that year, after a chaotic trial in which she tried to call Manson as a witness and threw an apple at a prosecutor. She was paroled in 2009. Advertisement For his actions in Sacramento, Buendorf was awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award and the Secret Service's Valor Award. The episode left him transformed, he told the New York Times: 'I started taking life one day at a time; I started appreciating people more.' It also left him recommitted to the job at hand. When Ford continued to interact with members of the public after the attack, Buendorf recalled in the oral history, 'that's when you go to your agents, and you go, 'Tune it up, boys, because we've got a job to do and we cannot fail.'' The third of four children, Larry Merle Buendorf was born in Wells, Minnesota, on Nov. 18, 1937. His father ran a local business, Merle's Fix-It Shop, and died of a heart attack days before Buendorf turned 17. His mother, who remarried in 1960 and worked as a grocery store checkout clerk, later told The Washington Post that Buendorf 'sort of took over for the family.' She added that 'he put himself through college' at Mankato State, now Minnesota State University at Mankato, where he studied business education, played basketball and was a hurdler on the track team. After graduating in 1959, he joined the Navy and served as a pilot on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. He had a stint in Naval Intelligence before joining the Secret Service's Chicago field office in 1970. Two years later, he began working on the presidential detail, protecting Richard M. Nixon and later Ford and Jimmy Carter. Advertisement Buendorf continued to work with Gerald and Betty Ford after they left the White House, directing their postpresidential detail for 10 years. He retired to join the U.S. Olympic Committee, as the USOPC was then known, and spent the next quarter-century safeguarding Olympic athletes and training sites. 'You feel like you had a cocoon whenever you traveled with him,' Rulon Gardner, a gold-medal-winning wrestler, told the Colorado Springs Gazette in 2018. 'You put him in a 450-degree oven and he's as cool as ice. The man will not sweat.' Buendorf married Linda Allen in 2013. In addition to his wife, survivors include a daughter, Kimberly, from an earlier marriage; a stepdaughter, Stephanie; a brother; a sister; and three grandchildren. Even after he retired from the Secret Service, Buendorf remained in touch with Ford, speaking by phone almost every Sept. 5, the date of the assassination attempt. 'The anniversary date was like a birthday,' he told the Mankato Free Press in 2007. The duo never discussed the attack itself, he said, but talked instead about skiing or their families.
