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FAMILY TIES
By Tammy Stewart
The Learning Resource Center invites you to check
out its Genealogy Room. When the new Student Ser
vices building was built and the Learning Resource
Center opened, the genealogy materials that were
once scattered throughout the center were consoli
dated into one room. Genealogy is the study of fam
ily descent and the Genealogy Room at the LRC is
one of the best around, attracting patrons from all
over the United States in search of ancestry.
A special thanks goes out to Ms. Betty Baker, a
faithful volunteer and lifelong friend of the Learning
Resource Center. For almost ten years. Baker has
come in every morning and indexed marriages,
births, deaths and major events listed in the Journal
Patriot from 1935-1975. Due to Baker’s efforts. Di
rector Dr. Fay Byrd was able to obtain a grant
through North Carolina Echo, enabling many histori
cal records to be encoded and put online. The infor
mation Baker has indexed through 1961 can be
viewed online at www.wilkescc.edu/librarv. An exfra
thank you goes out to Lynn and Audrey Chapel for
keeping obituaries filed and to Christy Earp for her
hard work encoding the information to go online.
The Learning Resource Center also offers an oral
history room. This room offers home movies con
taining interviews from people of Wilkes County and
surrounding areas. So come on up and see what you
can learn about the place you grew up and the people
you descend from.
WCC’S DR. BYRD
WINS COUNTY
SEAT
By Tammy Stewart
Did you know WCC has its own member of the
Chamber of Commerce right on campus? Dr. Fay
Byrd has worked at Wilkes Community College
since 1966. Currently, Dr. Byrd is the Director of the
Learning Resources Department, located on the top
floor of the Student Services Building.
Dr. Byrd served on the Wilkes County Board of Edu
cation for sixteen years and has returned to politics
after a ten-year absence. The staff of the Cougar
Cry congratulates Dr. Fay Byrd on her win in the
election for County Commissioner.
Betty Baker faithful volunteer.