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Friday, October 7, 1983
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Hamricks
Home To
History
Rolling In.. .Bitterweed?
The North Carolina Museum
of History Associates kicked off
their 1983 Membership Cam
paign with a luncheon and orien
tation session at the home of
author Grace Hamrick in
Shelby.
The Museum Associates, a
7,000 member statewide support
group for the North Carolina
Museum of History and 23 state
historic sites, will use the theme
“This Museum Brings you
North Carolina” for this year’s
membership campaign. The
theme refers to the educational
programs and artifact displays
that the Museum Associates pro
vided in every county of the
state.
Campaign volunteers were the
first to preview a new Museum
program “America’s 400th An
niversary” which was produced
and funded by the Museum
Associates. The 400th Anniver
sary program tells the history of
the first English settlement in the
New World and the voyages
sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh
to Roanoke Island beginning in
1584.
A highlight of the 400th An
niversary celebration will be a
major exhibition at the Museum
of History, including the original
John White drawings, Raleigh’s
patent from Queen Elizabeth
and many 16th century artifacts,
a number of which were pur
chased by the Museum
Associates with membership
funds. Several of the artifacts
were displayed at the Shelby
meeting including a halberd,
breasplate and an extremely rare
Elizabethan sundial/compass
dated 1574. A similar compass
would have been used by ship
captains sailing to Roanoke.
Grace Hamrick wrote the
book ‘The First Ladies of North
Carolina” with Mrs. Dan K.
Moore. Following the meeting
campaign volunteers were in
vited to tour the Cleveland
County Historical Museum in
Shelby.
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Clover is in short supply in Cleveland
pastures right now. But this white colt takes a
joyful roll in the yellow blooms of bitterweed.
in a pasture on 150 south of town, as his com
panions disdainfully graze on.
Heaps At Mountain Day
Mountaineer Days got under
way in Kings Mountain yester
day and will continue through
Saturday night.
A number of activities will be
held in the downtown area, in
cluding a big Saturday morning
parade, bingo, barbecue sales,
and other activities. All monies
raised by the sponsoring Kings
Mountain Fire Department will
go to the Toys for Tots project,
which supplies toys for needy
children at Christmas.
Entries are still needed for
several contests, including the
beard contest and best dressed
(ole timey clothes) contests slated
for Friday at 6:30 p.m. on
Railroad Avenue; the pet show
which begins at 12:30 p.m.
Saturday outside the community
center; and the bakeoff which
will be held upstairs at the com
munity center Saturday at 1:30
p.m. Pies and cakes may be
entered in that contest.
The Kings Mountain Jaycees
are sponsoring a free fingerprin
ting for pre-school and grammar
school age children Saturday
from 12-3 p.m. The fingerprints
will be given to the parents to
keep in case the child should
become lost in the future.
The complete list of activities
includes:
FRIDAY
Morning - Industry exhibit
(closes at noon).
4 p.m. - Rock-a-thon on
Railroad Avenue.
6:30 p.m. - Raising of the flag
and firing of the cannon at city
hall.
6:30 p.m. - Judging of best
beard and best dressed contests
on Railroad Avenue.
6:30-8:30 p.m. - Bingo (tent on
Railroad Avenue).
7-8 p.m. - Play by Little
Theatre and Elizabeth Baptist
Church at lobby of city hall.
9 p.m. - Street dance on
Railroad Avenue featuring ‘The
Stony Point Band.”
Continuing events - Barbecue
sold by the fire department at
concesson stand on Railroad
Avenue; dunking machine on
Railroad Avenue.
SATURDAY
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. - Craft fair at
the community center.
9 a.m.-3 p.m. - Car show.
9 am. - Senior citizens exercise
class on Railroad Avenue.
Bible Classes Open
To Public At G-W
You've Got A Date
This Week With College
-The B.E. Morris Academy for
Christian Studies of Gardner-
Webb College is sponsoring
another series of classes for per
sons in the community in
terested in studying the Bible or
music.
The Bible study. The Life and
Teachings of Moses, will begin
on Tuesday, October 11 and will
conclude on November 8.
Classes will be held each Tues
day night from 7 p.m. until 9
p.m. in the seminar room of
Gardner-Webb’s Dover Library.
The cost of the five-week
course will be $15. Registration
will be held on the first night of
classes from 6:30 until 7 p.m.
Dr. Logan Carson, associate
professor of religion at Gardner-
Webb will serve as course in
structor.
On Thursday, October 13 a
course in handbells will begin.
The five week course will con
clude on November 10.
The course will be taught at
the Boiling Springs Baptist
Church each Thursday from 7
until 9 p.m.
Bob Dills, minister of music
from the First Baptist Church in
Shelby, will serve as course in
structor. Beginning handbell
techniques for ringers and direc
tors will be taught.
The cost of the handbell
course is $15 per person or $10
per person if five or more
students from the same church
register.
College credit will not be
given for the completion of the
courses but a certificate of par
ticipation will be awarded to
students who complete four full
evenings of study.
For more information about
the study sessions call 434-2361
Ext. 202 or write the B.E. Morris
Academy, Gardner-Webb Col
lege, Boiling Springs, N.C.
28017.
Gardner-Webb is a liberal arts
college affiliated with the Baptist
State Convention of N.C., offer
ing associate, bachelor and
master’s degrees. The college is
noted for its independence of
federal funding.
Recognizing the need for
“healthy and viable colleges and
universities” Gov. James B.
Hunt has proclaimed this week
(October 1-8) as Higher Educa
tion Week in North Carolina.
According to Hunt, North
Carolina’s institutions of higher
education are “essential to the
economic and social progress’ of
not just North Carolina but to
the nation as a whole.
“North Carolinians have long
been blessed with institutions of
higher learning which have
made remarkable contributions
to our state and nation through
research, instruction and public
service,” he said.
These contributions, though,
have not come soley from North
Carolina’s public schools.
‘The private colleges in North
Carolina have consistently sup
plemented and challenged our
very fine public colleges and
universities,” said Dr. Craven
Williams, president of Gardner-
Webb College. “North Carolina
has demonstrated the values of a
strong dual system of higher
education.”
According to figures released
by the North Carolina Center of
Independent Higher Education,
close to 300,000 students were
enrolled in North Carolina’s 112
. institutions of higher education
in 1982.
Enrollment figures for 1983
are not complete but according
to Ralph Byers, executive direc
tor of the center, preliminary
figures indicate that this year’s
enrollment will equal last year’s.
Byers also noted that while
many North Carolinians take ad
vantage of the state’s colleges
and universities, a large number
of out-of-state students have also
recognized the quality of North
Carolina’s colleges, particularly
the state’s private schools.
Some 55,000 students were
enrolled in North Carolina’s
private colleges in 1982 with
over 23,000 or 42.57o of those
students coming from out-of-
state.
“In general the tuition at col
leges here is relatively low com
pared to other states which at
tract many out-of-state
students,” said Byers.
“But the main reason for the
large number of out-of-state
students is that North Carolina
has a good reputation for higher
education.”
‘Endow A Dream ’
National Honor
For Sister Of
Shelby Resident
A “positive mental attitude”
in the face of crushing misfor
tune paid off for Debbie Crouch
McKeithen of Charlotte this
week.
Mrs. McKeithen, 29, is the
sister of Bill Crouch of Gardner-
Webb’s Development office, and
daughter of Rev. William Henry
Crouch of Providence Baptist
Church in Charlotte. Suffering
from multiple handicaps since
she was 18, she learned Wednes
day that she is the winner of
$75,000 “Endow A Dream”
award from philanthropist W.
Clement Stone, who gives the
award each year to encourage
what he calls “PMA,” positive
mental attitude.
Debbie McKeithen was 18
when she became desperately ill.
Doctors could not immediately
diagnose the problem, and she
was taken to Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem, where surgeons
found multiple bloodclots on her
brain. In a series of operations,
portions of her skull were remov
ed to relieve pressure as brain
tissue swelled.
After 16 months in the
hospital, she was found also to
be suffering - unrelatedly, physi
cians believed-from multiple
sclerosis. Largely unable to walk,
and with diminishing vision, she
held onto mental vitality and
concern for others. She met Jim
McKeithen at a friend’s house,
and they fell in love and seven
years ago they were married, and
still live happily together.
Then, about four years ago,
feeling strong empathy with the
loneliness and isolation of many
handicapped women, she arrang
ed for a brief spot on television.
Filmed sitting in her wheelchair,
she invited the lonely to call her,
if they needed a friendly voice.
They did. Bill Crouch
remembers - “so many that she
had to have extra telephone
equipment.”
Out of that experience came
“HOW” — Handicapped
Organiation for Women-which
meets now at a Charlotte
church. Debbie was named the
handicapped volunteer of the
year in 1982, and received a
commendation at the office of
Gov. Jim Hunt.
Then, “Accent on Living”
magazine did an interview with
her, and from that, handicapped
women from 35 states wrote ask
ing for help in setting up similar
organizations. Thus, “HOW”
went national.
Thousands apply each time
for multi-millionaire Clement
Stone’s National “Endow A
Dream” award. Debbie applied,
and was astonished a couple of
weeks ago to hear that she was
one of ten finalists. Then
Wednesday she learned she had
won. The only “strings” upon
the award is that she use the
money toward her goal-
encouragement for handicapped
women everywhere.
Debbie has also written a book
about her experiences, which is
now in the hands of a publisher.
“If there was ever a pierson who
deserved all this attention, she
does,” says her admiring brother
Bill.
American Indian Festival
Slated At Schiele Museum
Schiele Museum of Natural
History in Gastonia will sponsor
an American Indian Festival Oc
tober 23-23 from 10 a.m.
through 6 p.m.
The event is free to the public.
It is hosted by the American In
dian Cultural Association of
Schiele Museum.
Museum activities include a
planetarium program “American
Indian Star Legends” each day at
3 and 4 p.m.; the traveling ex
hibit “Eskimo Art” featuring car
vings and graphics of the
Eskimo; the traveling exhibit
“Roger’s Collection”, selections
from a private collection of con
temporary Indian art represen
ting tribal affiliations across the
country; films dealing with a
variety of subject relating to
native Americans; and “Red
Dawn Collection”, a private col
lection on permanent loan of In
dian pottery, baskets, tapestry
and carvings.
Oh, Heavenly Rest
Thanks to a shower which
stopped work, briefly, on coun
try roads in the southwestern
county, this State Highway
Department crew takes a short
break on the steps of Mt. Plea
sant Baptist Church. They had
finished repairs on McKinney
Road and were working on Mt.
Pleasant Church Road when the
showers of blessings intervened.
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