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Wall hangings by David B. Van Dommelen, assistant professor of home art at Pennsylvania State University, currently are on display in the art gallery of Appalachian State Teachers Col lege. Van Dommelen employs yarns and other fabrics in his hangings. Noted Wall Hangings Being Shown At ASTC Wall hangings, employing yarns and other fabrics, by Da vid B. Van Dommelen, assistant professor of home art at Penn sylvania State University, cur rently are on display in the art gallery of Appalachian State Teachers College. They will be on display through Jan. 31. Van Dommelen’s work is con cerned chiefly with the manip ulating of fabrics, yarns, threads aifdtmtque materials in a form of art which" is quite different from the usual forms. The form, according to an ex pression from Van Dommelen, “transcends painting as an art form, for the textures and langu ages of textiles gives one an immediacy and human quality which relates directly to all peo ple’s environment.” Van Dommelen further ex plains his work: “My participation in textiles originates from an earlier inter est in painting. It has developed through over a decade of per sonal investigation of materials and techniques with little or no direction toward the achieve ment of an individual style. If something is abstract—it is ab stract. If it is representational— it is representational. I couldn’t care less what the critics of current fads are concerned with. “I work with yarns and threads as I wish, caring little if X please people, but caring greatly that I live a new ex perience with each hanging I create.” Van Dommelen has served as a junior executive with the firm of Carson, Pirie Scott and Co. in Chicago; art consultant to Warren Consolidated schools, Warren, Mich.; instructor of home art, Pennsylvania State University; Brookfield Craft Center summer workshop, Brookfield, Conn.; assistant pro fessor of design, University of Maine, and summer textile workshop, Haystack School of Crafts. He is a member of the Ameri can Craftsman’s Council, Ameri can- Scandmawian Foundation, American Home Economics As sociation and Pennsylvania As sociation. He received an honorable mention award for better rooms competition from the Chicago Tribune in 1961; an award for wall hangings at the Midwest Designer Craftsmen show in 1956, and an award for ceramics by National Delta Phi Delta in 1956. He has studied under three grants and has published four books and numerous other ar ticles. Currently, he is prepar: ing manuscripts entitled New Uses For Old Cannon Balls, Adventures in Crafts, and Furni ture. Blowing Rock Man Gets Wingate Honors Dr. Budd E. Smith, Wingate College President, in examin ing the just released Dean’s List, commented: “Wingate to day has some of the finest stu dents in her history.” Dr. Smith’s remark is substantiat ed by the fact that a total of 166 of Wingate’s 1486 students have won places on the fall semester Honor Roll, or Dean’s List. To appear on the list, a stu dent must attain a 3.3 grade average and have no grade be low a “C”; he must also be carrying a full academic work load of at least 15-hours. PET. SKIM MILK SO SATISFYING! Try the full flavor i * that makes weight control fun! PET New High School Dedication (continued from page one) . ly one year later, official notice was given by the Board of Coun ty Commissioners that the citi zens of this county would be given the opportunity to vote on a bond issue for school con struction and that the election would be held on or before Sept. 30, 1963. Soon after the action of the Board of County Commission ers,-the Board of Education ob tained an option to purchase the present school site at a cost of $1,000 per acre. On Sept. 17, 1963, the voters of this county overwhelmingly approved the referendum in the amount of $1,630,000, and steps were taken to purchase the school site. Architects were em ployed to prepare plans and specifications for the grading of the site and to begin work on the design of the buildings. Contracts for the construction of the school were awarded July 24, 1964, and the construc tion of the major facilities was completed in time for the open ing of school Aug. 30, 1965. Work on the completion of the total facility was continued af ter the opening of school and by the first week in December, all work was completed and all furniture and equipment in stalled. In addition to serving the secondary school needs of the county, the school will also serve as a laboratory school for Appalachian State Teachers Col lege in its program of teacher education. A local act was pass ed by the 1965 General Assem bly which created a legal work ing relationship between the Board of Trustees of the college and the Board of Education. The college is now providing sup plemental funds for the pur chase of instructional supplies, salary supplements, and the em ployment of additional instruc tional personnel. Size, Capacity And Cost The modern building, con structed in four major units joined together by a lobby, ad ministrative offices, and a li brary, contains a total of 133, 000 square feet. Seventy-two separate teaching stations are available for a maximum ca pacity of 1,600 students. Enrollment during the cur rent school term will likely reach 1,200 students, and the school has an instructional staff of 65. The cost of the building, less fees, furniture, and equip ment, is 91,581,829.50, or a total of 511-90 per square foot. The site contains 39 and one half acres and was purchased from the G. C. Winkler estate at a cost of $39,500. The access road from N. C. 105 was com pleted by the State Highway De partment on April 22, 1964. During open house on Sun day, citizens are urged to ob serve some of the following significant features of this mod ern school facility: —Comprehensive vocational education facilities containing 20,000 square feet. Watauga County student win ning this honor is James Ed ward Hayes, Cone Memorial Park, Blowing Rock, N. C., son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hayes.. CAROLINA Grand Ole Opry US 321—4 Miles South of Lenoir SAT. NIGHT-JAN. 15 Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys from Nashville, Tcnn. Adults—$1.50 — Children—75c Doors Open 7:00 — Show at 8:M EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT Country Music Show EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT Rock n Roll Dance EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT Round Dance ALL LIVE ENTERTAINMENT! —Five spacious lab-classrooms for the physical sciences. —Modern, spacious and unique library which will ac commodate 120 students. —Office and seminar areas for all instructional personnel. —Physical education facility which will accommodate five separate classes and 2,600 for athletic events. —Modern cafeteria—420 ca pacity. —Large lobby and student activity area. —Terrazo floors in all major traffic areas—vinyl asbestos tile in classrooms. —Five spacious areas for business education. —Two audio lingual foreign language areas. —Lecture and team teaching rooms—90 capacity. —Auditorium designed for public use and student activi ties—400 capacity. —Large special music area. —Acoustical ceilings with in tegral lighting and heating. —Controlled heating and ven tilating system. —Closed circuit television to be provided for observation of classes by college. —Attractive courtyard located in center of classroom wing. —Spacious covered walkways to facilitate student traffic. A special invitation cannot be mailed to all citizens of the county, but the Board of Educa tion wishes to extend a special invitation to everyone to attend this historical event There are 14 colleges and schools at the University of Car olina in Chapel Hill. F reeman Announces N aming Of Carolina ASC Committee Secretary of Agriculture Or ville L. Freeman has reappoint ed the members of the North Carolina State Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation Committee, according to infor mation received by the Watauga ASC County Committee. Marcus B. Braswell, chairman, of Mars Hill, Claude W. Thore of Mt. Airy, and J. Lee White of Concord will continue to serveon the committee in 1966. This committee is responsible for administration of farm ac tion programs in North Caro lina. Dr. George Hyatt, Jr., of Raleigh, Extension Director for North Carolina, is an ex-officio member of the committee. The North Carolina ASC Committee works with county committeemen who are elected in each county by their fellow fanners to operate the crop land adjustment, agricultural conservation, price support and production adjust ment pro grams. The price support and production adjustment programs include tobacco, cotton, peanuts and rice marketing quotas, wheat, feed grain and cotton diversion programs, and price support programs on all of these and other grains. The Watauga County ASC Committee is: Clint Eggers, chairman, A. C. Moretz, vice-chairman and Vaughn Tug man, member. We Meet” A freshman at ASTC, Sue Church works part-time as a sales woman at Cupboard Casuals. Interestingly, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Church, operate a business called the Village Casuals in Lenoir, and this sometimes causes a little con fusion when Sue answers the telephone. The co-ed graduated from Lenoir High School and came to Appalachian, where , she is majoring in elementary education, on a part-scholar- ! ship. Between picking up a little spending money, and keeping up her studies in English, math, geography, history and physical science. Sue is a junior varsity cheerleader and takes in many recreational and athletic activities on campus. (Staff photo) Population Increase (Continued from page one) North Carolina. His study shows • loss hy migration of only slightly more than 11,800 per sons daring the Use years, com pared to 300,000 in the decade ef the 1950s. The veteran population sta tistician predicts that the State will reach the 5,000,000 mark on Sept. 22, 1966. He estimates the total number of Tar Heels at 4,912,000 as of July 1, 1965, a gain of 356,000 Over the 1960 U. S. Census figures of 4,556, 155. There were 17 counties which led the population march. Their total gain accounted for nearly two-thirds of the increase for the State as a whole. They were: Cumberland, 50, 348; Mecklenburg, 41,570; Wake, 31,661; Guilford, 25,422; For syth, 15,498; Gaston, 11,392; Davidson, 10,417; Wayne, 9,703; Buncombe, 9,679; Catawba, 9, 629; Randolph, 9,489; Durham, 9,175; Iredell, 8,115; Alamance, 6,300; Union, 5,859; Craven, 5, 528; and Burke, 5,462. Dr. Hamilteu potato atrt that most of the gain occurred fa, large urban centers. adjoining the urban centers al so gained due to the spread in residential patterns over the cities. Two counties, Ashe and Avery, have a two-hundredths per cent'change, a gain of five persons for Ashe and three for Avery, according to the an alysis. Counties losing population at the rate of more than 100 per sons per year were Anson, Ber tie, Bladen, Carteret, Franklin, Johnston, Madison, Mitchell, Northampton, Warren, and Yan cey. Thirteen other counties lost population, though less than 500 persons each. The University of North Car olina Glee Club is going on a European concert tour in the summer of 1966. The State committee mem bers, who ere all farmers, are the link between the national leadership of the USDA and operations on the county level. They insure that individual far mers are given equitable treat ment and that the programs are administered fairly. In doing this, the committee is called upon to make policy decisions as provided by law and regula tions throughout the year. In commenting on their re appoint ment, Administrator Horace D. Godfrey compliment ed these men on their past ser vice and expressed confidence in their handling of the pro grams in the future. AT OUR FINGERTIPS " Every Insurance Service that human ingenuity can de vise the moment you step through our front door. 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