Cory Buckle is presented award by Louise Swinney after
winning top place in the section for children under 16 years of
age in the Tri-City Rose Show. Looking on are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Buckle.
At Tri-City Rose Show, Mr. and Mrs. A. Dudley
(center) and Mrs. A. G. Singleton, admire rose grown by H-
Williams, of the Engineering Department. Mr. Weaver is a 50'
year employee of Fieldcrest, now retired.
Employees Take Part In Tri-City Rose Show
A number of Fieldcresters participated
in the recent Tri-City Rose Show at
Consolidated Central YMCA. The show
was the largest in the history of the
Tri-City Rose Society.
Miss Gertrude Snead won top honors
with her “McGredy’s Ivory,” a white
hybrid tea rose. Miss Snead received
the Gold Certificate of the American
Rose Society and the Spray Finance
Company’s Queen of the Show award for
the best individual bloom in the show.
The Sweepstakes Award given by
Fieldcrest Mills went to Mr. and Mrs.
Paul L. Peterson, of Leaksville, for
winning the largest number of ribbons.
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This was the sixth year that they
won this award, with the Gold Cer“"
ficate of the American Rose Society. .
In the section for children under l
years of age, Cory Buckle, son of
and Mrs. Guy Buckle, won a silver
given by Louise Swinney, president °
the Rose Society.
Named Foreman
Lucile Cherry (left) and Doris Brown, leaders in Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority
Fieldcresters Honored By Sorority
Doris Brown and Lucile Cherry, both
of the Industrial Relations Department
at Spray, received honors at the recent
state convention of the Epsilon Sigma
Alpha sorority held in Greenville.
Mrs. Brown, a charter member of the
local Beta Alpha chapter, was elected
treasurer of the N. C. State Council
of the sorority. Mrs. Cherry was elect
ed chairman of the state scholarship
board on which she formerly had served
as a member.
As the Beta Alpha chapter award
winner for outstanding service to the
community and the chapter in 1964-6.5,
Mrs. Cherry was given special recog
nition on the convention program. She
also was presented her pin signifying 10
years of membership.
Fieldcresters attending the convention
in addition to Mrs. Brown and Mrs.
Cherry were Betty Flinchum, Finishing
Mill Office; Sue Hall, Domestics Design
ing; and Billie Thomas, Karastan Office.
W’illiam Kenneth Hammond, assists
foreman, was promoted to foreman
the Dye House at the Blanket MilJ ^
replace Robert O. Dietz, who
May 31 under the Retirement Progr^.^
Mr. Hammond is a native of GeorS
and received his B. S. in textiles
from the Georgia Institute of Tec ^
noiogy, Atlanta. He w£is employed ^
trainee at the Blanket Mill in Sept^’vj
ber, 1963. He was promoted to assis^
foreman in the Dye House in Novernb
1964, and served in that capacity uo
he was appointed foreman.
THE MILL WHISTL®'