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FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1983
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BOILING SPRINGS NC
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It’s A Girl....It’s A Friend
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“Do Your Duty”
Flinthill DAR Told
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The Flint Hills Chapter,
NSDAR, held a chapter
workshop Tuesday evening at
the fellowship hall, Double Spr
ings Baptist Church. Mrs.
Robert F.Sweezy, Regent,
presided over the meeting.
Chapter Chairmen for the
coming year were announced
and their duties were outlined by
the Regent. She also conducted a
careful and complete study of
the Chapter’s by laws. Mrs.
Sweezy stated that the Theme
for the 1983-84 year is: “Do your
duty in £ill things; you cannot do
more; you should never wish to
do less.”
Mrs. John L. McSwain and
Mrs. Larry Gragg assisted Mrs.
Sweezy with hostess duties.
Refreshments were served tea
style from a table beautifully ap
pointed with an arrangement of
miniature roses flanked by mat
ching candles.
The gift that arrived just one day before Wesley Tail’s second birth
day did not come by mail. The pink ribbon on Bobby and Hilda Tail’s
mailbox, on J.W. Hamrick Road in Boiling Springs, was just to let peo
ple know that Wesley has a little sister. Born August 9 in Cleveland
Memorial Hospital, Lori Jean weighed 10 pounds, 3 ounces. She’s a
gift also to her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Barber Jr. and Mr. and
Mrs. Roy Tail, and her great-grandmother, Mrs. Cohen Hudson of
Casar. Wesley has some trouble, at this moment, picturing the
playmate that Lori’s going to be. But three summers from now, it’ll be
a different story.
Registration Opens
For G-W Night Classes
Registration for fall semester
evening classes at Gardner-
Webb College will be held on
Monday, August 22 at 6 p.m.
Registration will take place in
the Dover Chapel on the G-W
campus. Classes will begin after
registration.
Applications for Gardner-
Webb’s evening or GOAL pro
gram are still being accepted. For
more information write
Gardner-Webb CoUege, Office
of Special Studies, Boiling Spr
ings, N.C. 28017 or call toll free
fin N.C. only) 1-800-222-2321 or
(704) 434-2361.
Local Traveler Takes Peking And Moscow In Stride
The streets of Moscow are
deserted at night, and the at
mosphere, night and day, is
austere and forboding. The
marketplaces of Samarkand are
as warm with colorfully-dressed,
friendly and responsive people,
as out-going as the Mosovites are
reserved. One glues one’s own
postal stamps in Russia.
Peking, bustling in the
daytime, is glittering at night.
* The traffic-all buses, rickshas,
bicycles and feet-never stops.
The Chinese are pleasant and
openly curious, crowding in on
tourists to learn all they can.
These are the observations of
Dorothy Edwards, who, with a
tour group that included five
Cleveland Countians, has recent
ly returned from a 23-day whirl
around the world, with most of
the time spent in China and the
Soviet Union.
Along with Mrs. Edwards,
who is assistant to the dean of
admissions at Gardner-Webb
College, were her brother and
sister-in-law. Dr. W. Wyan
Washburn and his wife Emily, of
Boiling Springs; the Washburns’
son. Dr. Philip Washburn, of
New York, and Mrs.
Washburn’s brother. Gene
Davis. “The five of us didn’t
know who else was going until
we got to New York,” Mrs. Ed
wards says. But the group of 23,
organized by a teacher of Rus
sian and German at a New
Jersey preparatory school, turn
ed out to be very cosmopolitan,
with people of all ages from
across the U.S.
They left New York for
Amsterdam on June 23, and
stopped over at Copenhagen and
Helsinki, where they changed to
a Russian airliner for the flight
to Moscow. Later they rode the
Trans-Siberian Railway across
Mongolia and the Gobi Desert
to see as much as tourists are in
vited to see of the high spots of
Communist China, before
heading for Hong Kong, Deoul,
Tokyo and Honolulu on the
Pacific route home.
In Russia, Mrs. Edwards says,
the accommodations were spare
but niee; “We were served nice
ly, the food was not as abundant
in Russia as in China but it was
DOROTHY EDWARDS
"The happiest thing to me
was the response of the
Chinese people, and the Rus-
sians....Td go back in a
minute....
plain and good. Three times a
day we had fresh sliced
cueumbers. They’d serve plates
with slices of cheese and meat,
most of the time it was beef, and
a coarse bread-it was really
good.”
The rough spot was the water.
“We were told not to drink the
tap water, that there was a pro
tozoan in the water that could
make us sick for six months. So
they put lots of beef on the
tables, and liquors, and a bottle
of mineral water that tasted ex
actly like epsom salts. My mouth
was just throbbing from dryness,
when we left Russia.” _
On the trtdn across Mongolia,
the Chinese had anticipated
thirst with a Thermos jug of hot
water and ample tea cups. But
the blessing came too late for
most of the group, who had
already succumbed to the tradi
tional tourists’ curse, which was
greatly complicated by sparse
sanitary facilities, and a language
barrier to finding them, when
needed.
Food was good and plentiful
in China, Mrs. Edwards says.
although “we ate a lot of things
we didn’t recognize.” The spirits
of the people also seemed much
brighter. “One of the things that
impressed me most, both in
Russia and China,” she says, “is
that we could put down our
purses or suitcases anywhere,
and not have to worry. We could
walk out on the street and not
worry about being mugged.”
The Russians, on the other
hand, were not so trusting.
Passports stayed in the hands of
the Russian guide who was
always with them. A sad note
was that the group’s young
woman guide lost her job
because at one pioint she left
their passports behind in a hotel
safe and had to admit her error
to unforgiving superiors.
Another unhappy moment
was when a Chinese woman, one
of many being expelled from the
Soviet Union, tried to get the
Cleveland Countians to hide her
pedal sewing machine in their
railroad compartment so that the
guards would not take it. They
couldn’t understand what she
wanted them to do, as the plea
was all in sign Itinguage. But the
guards knew, for hefty
Mongolian police ousted the
Clevelanders four times, that
night, from their compartment
so they could search.
Tourists could take pictures of
anything the officials wanted
them to, Mrs. Edwards notes
wryly. Airports and rail stations
were off-limits to photographers,
though and the visitors can only
carry in their memories the
Soviet army trucks near the
Afghanistan border, and the
electric fence that takes the lives
of many between Communist
mainland China and the freedom
of the islands
‘Tor me,” says Mrs. Edwards,
the happiest thing was the
beautiful response of the
Chinese people-and the Rus
sians, too, outside of Russia.
“We take what we have in this
country so for grated.”
Mrs. Edwards and the
Washburns will give a program
on their trip at Boiling Springs
Baptist Church Sunday evening,
Aug. 28th at 7 p.m. The public is
invited.
A New Year And A New Beginning Headed For The Game
For College And Blind Students
Two new programs will
highlight Gardner-Webb’s
1983-84 academic year which
begins on Tuesday, August 30.
The college’s Degree Program
for the Blind will enroll its first
blind student this fall, while over
30 students wiU begin work
toward a bachelor’s of science
degree in nursing under the col
lege’s recently established BSN
program.
Gardner-Webb’s program for
the blind, which was initiated by
a $126,209 grant from the Kate
B. Reynolds Health Care Trust,
offers educational opportunities
to visually-impaired students and
fully integrates these students in
to all classroom and extra
curricular activities.
According to Nell Kilpatrick,
director of the Degree Program
for the Blind, the college is
already undergoing physical
modifications in preparation for
the program’s first student. By
mid-September she says, doors
on campus will be labled with
braille and texterized mats will
be installed in front of all curb
carvings.
“A large part of the success of
the student is his being able to
travel around campus,” said Ms.
Kilpatrick. Because mobility i^
such an important factor TiT a
blind student adapting to college
life, an orientation and mobility
specialist from the N.C. Services
for the Blind will assist in orien
ting blind students to the places
on campus where he will need to
travel independently.
“1 would like to see the cam
pus become a place where a
blind student can feel comfor
table and as normal as anyone
else on campus,” said Ms.
Kilpatrick. ‘The student should
be able to feel this way as a result
of the accessibility to facilities
and the training that faculty and
staff will acquire in working with
blind students.”
In addition to the physical
modifications being made on
campus, the college is in the pro
cess of establishing a resource
room in its library. The room
will be equipped with a Perkins
braille writer, and a braille
typewriter among other
specialized equipment. The col
lege bookstore is also being
stocked with supplies that may
be needed by the blind.
Like the Degree Program for
the Blind, Gardner-Webb’s
Davis School of Nursing is also
making final preparations for its
recently established BSN pro
gram.
Aecording to Dr. Janie
Carlton, director of the Davis
School of Nursing, Gardner-
Webb’s SN program is unique
because it is designed for
registered nurses who have earn
ed an associate’s degree in nurs
ing and are interested in continu
ing their education toward a
bachelor’s degree.
The program will enable
students to complete the re
quirements for a BSN at either
the Gardner-Webb College cam
pus or in Statesville, N.C.
Unlike the BSN programs ot-
fered at other colleges, said Ms.
Carlton, Gardner-Webb’s “two-
plus-two” program, as it is called,
allows for students to receive a
greater concentration of nursing
courses during their first two
vears.
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While enrolled in an
associate’s degree program,
students can quickly determine
whether nursing is right for
them, said Ms. Carlton. At other
colleges with BSN programs, she
adds, students do not begin tak
ing nursing related courses until
their final two years. She also
notes that because students
entering Gardner-Webb’s BSN
program have already earned an
associate’s degree in nursing the
transfer of college credits is
simplified.
The goodyear blimp, seen on television at almost every sporting event in the United States, came
through Kings Mountain last Friday. The blimp hovered around the trees and downtown for
several minutes, then headed south for the big Atlanta Braves-Los Angeles Dodgers three-game
weekend series at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
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