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Employee’s Daughter Is Top Teacher
When Odis Lowman, a jig leader
operator at North Carolina Finish
ing Company, suggested that his
family spend a weekend at the beach
in February, he knew it would prove
to be a very special trip for his
daughter, Susan.
Little did Susan know the real
motive behind the family’s outing,
held in conjunction with the annual
N. C. Jaycee convention, was the
surprise announcement to be made
that she had been chosen N. C. ’s
Young Educator of the Year by the
Jaycees.
“I guess it was the most exciting
thing that’s ever happened to me,”
she said. Susan, a sixth-grade
teacher at Granite Quarry Elemen
tary School, had been named Gar-
nite Quarry’s Outstanding Young
Educator by the local Jaycee
organization. Then she was
nominated for the state award and
the rest is history.
But Susan wasn’t always sure she
wanted to be a teacher. She dropped
out of college after five quarters of
study partially paid for by a state
Prospective Teacher Scholarship,
because it wasn’t much fun. Several
jobs later she knew she wanted to
work with children so she got her
scholarship back and finished
school.
After four years of teaching she
says she still has a lot to learn about
being a good teacher. “It gets hard
er every year. I see so many things I
want to do to improve myself. I don’t
think I’m ever going to be the teach
er I’d like to be,” she said.
But her attitude has changed since
her college days. Now, she says, “I
think school can be fun.”
YOUNG EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR Susan Lowman believes, it’s possible to
spend some time with each student individually during the schoolday. She knows
how to relate what she teaches to her students.
Employee Combines Job & Hob^
Barney Irby knows how to combine work and pleasure. f
As a Fieldcrest employee, he runs the carton sealing machine in
aging Department during the second shift at the Blanket Wareho'^||
molds plaques and other objects from art plaster as a hobby during h'S i
time at home. J
Recently he decided to make a new design for his collection, a
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a Fieldcrest truck. After letting the art plaster mixture set in the trucK'='^^
mold until dry, he handpainted the plaque with the Fieldcrest embie^'^
the company’s four brand names: Fieldcrest, Karastan, St. Mah
Laurelcrest.
From start to finish, the project took approximately 10 hours.
One of Irby’s fellow employees liked the truck plaque so much si’®
tioned to a relative who is a truck driver for Fieldcrest and he bought
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Fieldcrest employee Barney Irby mixes business, with pleasure.
FOR SALE: Ford 'Tractor Model 641
4 Speed Transmission. Call 349-
6372 after 5:30 p. m.
FOR SALE: 19’ self-contained 1973
travel trailer with Reese kitchen.
Call 627-1760 after 5 p. m.
FOR SALE: Two screen doors—36”
X 78” and 32” x 78”, $10 each;
also black and white TV, $15. Call
■ 627-4311.
FOR SALE: Hammond SoUh®J
organ, practically new, 7 U
patterns, 7 voices. Call ”
after 5 p. m. ,
WANTED TO BUY: Used
tiller in good
condition. Call 623-2955
p. m. ^
FOR SALE: Large haulih^J
$70; 20” bicycle with IE;,
wheels, $15; large 3’’
picture frame, $10
Call 62^’
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