Page 3, The Cougar Cry, November 26, 1975
DOES YOUR LIFE NEED A LIFT?
Do you feel like your life is hur
rying by? wasted? boring? hum
drum? Wilkes Community College
can make you shed these feelings
and make your life interesting and
alive. Don’t expect to find “The
Fountain of Youth” sitting at home
watching soap operas, in fact, you
won’t find it anywhere, but going
back to the cloistered halls of learn
ing can help you get perspective on
your life. I know.
In 1958 I kissed the world of
education goodbye. I knew all there
was to know, I had a job, and, more
than likely, I would be getting mar
ried and raising cliildren.
Well, I did get married and for
fifteen years 1 stayed at home clean
ing house, cooking, taking care of
three children, and doing the many
things women at home do for their
families. As the children began to go
to school and need help with home
work I realized that I had let my
own mind get dull and stodgy.
Simple arithmetic, sentence struc
ture, even spelling no longer came
easily; I had to really work at it.
After several years of feeling in
adequate I spent (“wasted” would
be more appropriate) months getting
up the nerve to enter into the world
of learning again. I was not smart
enough; I would feel terribly old
sitting in a class of young people.
These were only two of the many,
many excuses I used to put off
what I knew I was going to do any
way.
Registration day almost gave me
a nervous breakdown. I was sur
rounded by young people, and I
couldn’t seem to do anything right.
I just knew I was doing the wrong
thing. The first day of classes, how
ever, I found myself with many
people who had been away from
education for as long as and even
longer than I had. It is hard to tell
how many women are coming back
after several years of raising families;
but Tom Whittington, Registrar,
told me that of the 1059 female
students attending classes, it would
be safe to assume that the 731 part-
time female students would be over
18 years old.
Wilkes Community College, along
with all other community colleges,
has helped women, who thought
their days of learning were over,
reach a potential even they didn’t
think they had.
For myself, attending classes at
-WCC has lifted me out of the hum
drum and helped me realize some of
the ambitions I have kept hidden,
even from myself.
Eileen Lowe
Visitor from Outer Space? No, it’s 7 year old Kevin Card-
well. Kevin is the son of Richard Cardwell, a second year
Drama student at WCC. This make-up job, done by his father,
won Kevin an honorable mention in the WBTV Halloween
contest.
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YOUR OONilllON WILL HELP
MJIKEIIDREIM k REIILITY
THE HOW TO CORNER
by Vickie Reins
RUSTIC NECKLACE
One day whih; I was cleaning out
our sewing box, I got an idea to
make a neat necklace out of the
smallest size used spools.
These are the steps 1 used—
1. Wood-stained the spools and let
dry
2. Made beads with dried dough
3. Paint the beads with water color
4. Alter everything was dry, varnish
them and let dr>
5. Then varnish with two additional
coats
6. With all varnish dry, string (on
heavy thread) one spool, one
bead, etc., until it hangs in de
sired length
7. Finish the string off with larger
dry dough beads
8. The necklace hooks with a jewel
ry hook from a hobby shop.
Children also love these neck
laces and they can make one
themselves
PILLOW BRIGHTENER
i\lat;rials: To make a colorful pillow
2 squares (12” x 9”) yellow felt
2 squares orange felt
1 s(juare red felt
1 square gr(*en felt
Cr(‘en yarn
28” X 18” piece of sturdy fabric
1 inexpensive bed pillow or 1 bag
pillow stuffing
Elmers glu'
S('w (prelerably with machine) the
orange and yellow felt together
as follows;
1. Cut the red lelt in shape of an
apph'
2. Cut the green felt in shape of a
leaf
3. Cut th(‘ green yarn as long as you
want the st“ni
4. Put Elmers glue sparing around
the apple and leaf
5. Center the apple and leaf in the
felt you sewed. Glue yarn for
stem - iron.
6. Take the 28” x 18” fabric and
with wrong sides together, sew 3
sides with machine
7. Turn right side-out and stuff. Sew
fourth by hand.
MEMORIAL BUILDING
Continued From Page 1
in a three-day finale to be held in
January or February. In this finale,
the winners from the individual
schools will compete in five grade-
level categories: grades K-2, grades
3-5, grades 6-8, grades 9-12, and
college and adult winners. The first-
place winners of the final competi
tion will then appear on a Channel
12 television show. Additional pri
zes will also be awarded.
WCC students and other local
adults will have their chance to
participate in the competition and
to honor Mr. Pearson on December
5. Two shows will be given, one in
the morning for students and the
other in the evening when the acts
or entries will be judged. These
winners will later compete in the
finale. Art entries may include the
following categories: painting, pho
tography, ceramics, sculptrue, and
handicrafts. Talent competition will
include group talent, singing, play
ing of instruments, dancing, and
dramatic skits. If you are interested
in participating in any way, please
contact any member of the LRC
staff, or enter your name in the box
located in the Student Commons.
Coordinators for this joint effort
between the College and the public
schools are Mr. and Mrs. Ric Van-
dett. If you have any suggestions or
if you would like to help out in any
way, please contact one of them.
Lee Key, owner of Tobacco Road, has announced that he will occasionally
admit students at WCC for free. These nights will be announced on posters around
campus as they occur. Thanks Lee.
SCOTT THOMPSON
SCHOLARSHIP
Continued From Page 1
The Scott Thompson Scholarship
Fund was initiated by local citizens
in the latter part of 1967. The fund
was turned over to the College one
year later to sustain an annual
scholarship for one student per
year. Through generous contribu
tions by Dr. and Mrs. Thompson
over the past years the fund was
built up to the point of sustaining
itself to assist two students from the
interest accrued, without touching
any part of the principal.
Students are chosen for these
scholarships on the basis of the
image projected by young Scott
Thompson. Recipients must possess
qualities of leadership, college and
community involvement, scholastic
achievement, and potential service
to the community.
In presenting the scholarships.
Dr. Thompson made the following
comment, “Both Mrs. Thompson
and I are most happy over the se
lection of Erlene and R. G. We feel
that these two fine young people
exemplify the types of students
found at Wilkes Community College^
as well as meeting the qualities to
which our son aspired. We are posi
tive that the recipients this year will
make a substantial contribution to
their respective communities. If the
scholarships play a part of ensuring
this contribution, everyone gains.”