50 Years Ago

• Charles R. Longsworth, 46, the second president of Hampshire College, will resign from the position in June 1977, completing six years as head of the liberal arts college. Longsworth yesterday was named president of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia, where, beginning in November 1977, he will be responsible for administering the restored colonial village and 3,000 employees.
• Northampton’s only female mailman loves her job. What she doesn’t love is having other women cheer her on as she makes her rounds with her mail sack. Kathleen Childs, 23, says women will clap when the see her and call out, “all right for women’s lib.” “I can’t stand it. I don’t like them thinking I’m a women’s libber,” Miss Childs said.

25 Years Ago

• The A. G. Edwards Co., a national investment brokerage firm based in St. Louis, has opened an office next to Kinko’s Copies in the mini-mall at 34 Bridge St., where Merrill Lynch had a branch until January. Edwards’ newest office is staffed with four brokers and four support staff.
• The Easthampton School Committee voted unanimously Thursday to ask Mayor Michael Tautznik to formally appoint a School Building Committee to pursue plans for building a new elementary school and renovating and expanding the high school.

10 Years Ago

• Young people who grew up after the HIV/AIDS crisis peaked in the mid-1990s are likely not getting educated on the dangers of needle-sharing and hepatitis C., health experts said Wednesday during a meeting of Hampshire Heroin/Opioid Prevention & Education (HOPE). As cases of hepatitis C spike throughout the state, experts believe that people under 30 are primarily driving the increase.
• Julie Copoulos, 28, co-owner of Small Oven Bakery in Easthampton, has been named one of Dessert Professional magazine’s 2016 Top Ten Bread Bakers in North America. Copoulos said the woman who interviewed her from the magazine told her she’s been “on her radar.” Only one other baker from New England made it onto the list.