■ _ ijr^B : ~ JPjKt. - -' '%%w .- l\ }# ip Ijfjf **j INTERESTING FIGURES Shadow, shadow on the wall, which is the most clever puppet of all? What type of puppets? Shadow Puppets, which are cut paper characters held up between a light mid a white sheet causing a silhouette, on a screen. K-4 art students at White Oak recently designed puppets, scenery and stage to go with a chosen story, and presented shows about them. Shown above are Marsha Wilson, Robert Winborne and David Felton, Ist grades, holding some of their characters from “The Three Little Pigs.” ECAS Award Ceremony “If you don’t have a head start, you just have to run more dilligently,’* Dudley Flood, N. £. assistant superintendent of schools, Division of Student Ser vices, told Edenton-Chowan Alternative School students last Thursday. Flood spoke at an awards ceremony for two ECAS graduates, Gloria Boyce and Johnny Copeland, who will receive their diplomas from Chowan High School in June. “I see young people in North Carolina every day who don’t believe they can do something because of where they were bom or because of their race, or because of who their daddy is, but that’s just not ac A shocking lesson in home : | economics. In the last ten years, the cos is of building materials add construction have more than doubled. Which could mean big trouble lor you if your house burns As building costs go up or down, your coverage goes up or down. Automatically. Cell a, Nationwide agent , for complete information. | BROAD STREET EDENTON. N. C. 27*32 /\ PHONE 482-2121 mm NATIONWIDE II INSURANCE Natonwid# It on your t*dt Nationwide L4t Insurance Company Home office Columbus Ohio PARADISE GARDENS Corner a little bit of heaven on earth . . . Conte see our pansies, geraniums, petunias, marigolds, hanging baskets, cacti, and many other varieties. Open Monday - Saturday 9-6 3 MILES NORTH OF EDENTON ON paradise ROAD OWNED AND OPERATED BY (Note: Our Vegetable Plants Are Now Ready When- You Are) ceptable,” Flood told the group of approximately 65 students, faculty and guests. The theme of Flood’s address was what you do with what you have. He told the students the two foremost elements of suc cess in life were having a goal and believing in yourself. “The reason most people don’t achieve is because they don’t believe they - can,” he said. Foil owing his address, the floor was opened for student questions. Asked how he felt about alternative schools and ECAS in particular, Flood responded that of the 69 alternative schools in the state, ECAS was the best. He said the school’s flexibility, continuity and support from the total school system were responsible for his favorable impression of the Edenton- Chowan Alternative School and that he envisions a day when all schools will be set up on an alternative situation. Flood, a former teacher and principal, served as director of the Division of Hutrthh Relations of the State Department of Public Instruction immediately prior to assuming his present position. In addition to rendering consultant services to all 145 North Carolina school districts, Flood has con ducted educational seminars and workshops for more than 250 groups in 41 of the 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, in Canada and in the District of Columbia. Flood was in Edenton to be guest speaker and assist in the installation of Chowan High School’s PTA officers for the new year. THE CHOWAN HERALD SECTION B Students Hold An Easter Rockathon Through the pouring rain, high winds and (finally) sunbathing temperatures the 10th annual Easter Seals Rockathon continued in front of the Franklin County Courthouse. The per severance of the Louisburg College Christian Life Council eventually raised $2,701 as 40 students helped collect the money from 9 A.M.-5 P.M. on April 4-7 in bright yellow buckets from passing motorists. This year’s total was S2OO over their goal of $2,500 and overshadowed last year’s total of $2,375. “Somehow we’ve always reached our goal and ex ceeded it. This is our biggest yet, so I’m worried about whether we’ll make it or not,” conceded Sidney Stafford, faculty adviser of the CLC w last week before the Rockathon. But he had little to worry about even though it rained and the winds blew hard. Phylis . Herndon, the sophomore CLC Chairman from Durham ricked for four days inside a metal shed constructed to keep her dry. 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This year there was more student help (40 as opposed to 31 in 1978) and 21 honorary rockers who donated a few minutes of their time. These rockers came from all walks of life college faculty and staff, town officials, merchants and citizens. LEADS SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN Rusty Barath, a sophomore at Louisburg College from Edenton, is shown collecting money during a recent Rockathon for the Easter Seal Society. This event, headed by Barath, was hailed as the most successful ir 10 years. LOSE UGLY FAT Start losing weight today or money back. MONADEX it a tiny tablet and easy to taka. MONADEX will help curb your desire for exeats food. Eat lass weigh last. Contains no dangerous drugs and will not make you nervous. No strenuous exercise. Change your lifa... start today. MONAbEX coat $3.25 for • 20 day supply. Large economy size is $5.50 Also try AQUATABS: they work gently to help you loaa water-bloat. AQUATABS -a “water pill" that works 53.00. Both guaranteed and sold by: MITCHENER'S PHARMACY Edenton-Man Orders Filled 35' Tei & Poetage The Christian Life Council has sponsored the Rockathon for the last 10 years and has raised $16,550 during that time. The funds collected go to the Pine Valley Chapter of the Easter Seals Society. This chapter serves Franklin County and eight other counties in North Carolina. Stafford expressed thanks FOR CONTRACT & REPAIR WORK ★ Custom Cabinets ★ Swimming Pools CALL: CARROLL EVANS 221-4939 SECTION B to all those who donated money, to student workers and the rockers. He also thanked MacDonalds for lunches to the Overall Chairman and Rocker, the coverage of local news media, Mrs. O’Neal for her telephone and the county commissioners for allowing the CLC to set up on the courthouse square. FBLA Meeting Rouson Awarded Third Leon Rouson, a senior at John A. Holmes High School, received third {dace in extemporaneous speak ing in competition at the Future Business Leaaers of America state meeting in Winston-Salem. There were ap proximately 25 other students from throughout the state in this particular competition. Rouson (dans to attend the FBLA national conference to be held in New Orleans, La., in July. He will not be a contestant, but a delegate to represent the state, district and local levels of the organization. Leon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rouson, Route 1, Edenton. The first derby hat was sold by a New York store in the year 1850! Don’t make that drive home for lunch...lt’s always a mess in that lunchtime traffic.... WALK to the new PICKWICK THAT’S RIGHT. THE NEW PICKWICK IS NOW OPEN AND SERVING LUNCH. YOU OUGHT TO GO BY AND SEE THE CHANGES THEY HAVE MADE!! Have lunch at r the NEW WjMSi PICKWICK M Today! • (Located Between ■ Jewelers and the v " r J Edenton Floral Co.) Mrs. T. Kerber and Mrs. M. White are advisors to the local chapter. Leon Rouson