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Ferguson, Clatewood Get 40-Year Pins JOHNNIE A. FERGUSON WILLIAM D. GATEWOOD RCC Will Offer Adult High School Program Rockingham Community College of fers a program of study for adults through which they may earn an Adult High School diploma. Classes are of fered at levels ranging from beginning reading and writing through the equiva lent of 12th grade course work. Adults enrolled in the Adult Basic Education (grades 1-8) or Adult High School Ed ucation (grades 9-12) may take the Mildred Hairston Is Beauty College Grad w-A-mhsM Mrs. Mildred E. Hairston of Walnut Cove was graduated from La-Mae Beauty College in Winston-Salem re cently. She was an inspector at the Boremost Screen Print plant at Stokes- hale for three years before entering the beauty college and is the daughter of Mrs. Clara Tatum of the Print De partment at Foremost. Monday, august 28, i967 necessary course work through several methods. The college operates a number of Adult Education classes which meet throughout the county in churches, schools, and other similar facilities. Rockingham Community College also offers a number of Adult Education classes on the community college camp us. Students may work toward an Adult High School diploma by enrolling in any of these classes. The basic principle underlying the Adult Basic and Adult High School programs is educational achievement. Both in the classroom setting and in the Programmed Learning Laboratory, students begin study at their present functional level and progress through a level of 12th grade or higher. In order to receive an Adult High School diploma, an adult must demon strate proficiency on a standardized achievement test in English, math, sci ence, and social studies. In addition to these demonstrated proficiencies, he must also satisfactorily complete four approved elective courses. These elective courses may be chosen from courses offered in the areas of family life, cultural enrichment, voca tional subjects, or many other subjects. Students interested in enrolling in the Adult High School Program should plan to go to the College for initial place ment testing on the mornings of Thurs day, September 7, and Friday, Septem ber 8, at 8:30 a.m. or on the evenings of Tuesday, September 5, and Wednesday, September 6, at 6:45 p.m. The testing will be done in the Labo ratory Building in Room 106. The pur pose of this testing is to determine ap proximate educational levels of entering students. For additional information, contact Dan Moore in the Adult Educa tion Division at Rockingham Communi ty College. Forty-year service pins have been presented to Johnnie A. Ferguson of the Sheeting Mill and William D. Gatewood, of the Karastan Mill, who completed 40-year records of continuous service earlier this month. Each of the veteran employees was also presented a letter of commenda tion from Harold W. Whitcomb, chair man of the board, Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. Mr. Ferguson was born at Mayfield and was first employed August 11, 1927, in the Carding Department at the old Rhode Island Mill at Spray. When the Rhode Island Mill was closed he work ed at the Nantucket Mill. He moved to the Draper Sheeting Mill when sheet ing operations were consolidated at Dra per in 1937. He has worked in various job classifications in the Sheeting Mill Carding Department since that time. Mr. Gatewood, a native of Mayodan, has continuous service since August 16, 1927, when he began working as a weaver at the Karastan Mill. He had worked at the Bedspread Mill as a dof- fer as early as 1917 but was away from the company for some time before be ing reemployed at the Karastan Mill in 1927. Mr. Gatewood has worked as a rug weaver during his entire 40 years of service. Named Asst. Foreman Robert L. Glasgow, formerly a man agement trainee, has been promoted to assistant foreman of the Beck Dye De partment at the Finishing Mill. ■ Mr. Glasgow is a native of Pennsyl vania and received his B. A. degree from Duquesne University at Pittsburgh in 1966. He entered the Army soon after his graduation and served for three years, advancing from the rank of pri vate to that of first lieutenant. Immediately after his return from service in August, 1966, he joined Field- crest as a management trainee and worked through the Finishing Mill on various training assignments prior to his promotion to assistant foreman.
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