Thursday, April 19, 1979
High In Praise Os Boys’ Home
By Rev. Preston Cayton
I am writing this article
about Boys Home, because I
am concerned about the
youth of America, and the
world. We must realize that
we are living in a complex
and dangerous age. There
are many sworn enemies
walking the highways and
byways of life.
We are handing to the
youth of the world the most
dangerous world in the
history of man. What they
will do with this world
depends on what kind of
training they will get in the
home, in the school and
colleges of today.
We know that in the Boys
Home at Lake Waccamaw,
that these boys are getting
the right kind of training,
both in school and in church.
I have been a supporter of
this school for some time,
because I know it is in good
hands.
Boys Home offers a home
of Christian environment to
neglected, under-privileged,
and in many cases homeless
boys, who may be sent to a
training school if they do not
receive help and guidance.
Boys Home of North
Carolina is a non
secretarian, non-stock
corporation operated on
a year round basis. There
dre two campuses. The first
comprises 150 acres beside
Lake Waccamaw in
Columbus County. The
second campus, 125 acres, is
near Huntersville in
Mecklenburg County. Boys
Home was chartered in 1954
and the first boy was ac
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Boys Home is licensed by
N. C. Department of Social
Services as a child-caring
institution and to solicit for
necessary funds These
licenses are renewed
yearly; all matters of
policy, program and fund
raising must meet the ap
proval of the State
Department of Social
Services.
Each boy receives in
dividual counseling and
guidance, for every boy has
his particular problems and
needs. Each cottage has a
counselor and housemother
who are available at all
times to talk with a boy'
about his problems. The
counselors are
professionally trained men
who make every effort
through love and guidance
to see that each boy
achieves his potential.
From the desk of Les
Craft, Executive Director:
On December 13, 1978,
Boys Home of North
Carolina, Inc., completed its
24th year of service to boys
needing help. Through the
lives of the boys and the
death of one sacrifice and
dedication of our staff and
family of donors through the
past 24 year. I see confused
little boys with big problems
coming to our campuses
wondering why they cannot
be in their own homes and
wanting very much to
become successful young
men; I see underpaid and
overworked staff members
spending hour upon hour
with these young men
helping them to cope with
and solve their problems; I
see you giving unselfishly,
many times when you did
npt have it to give, to assist
us in providing the type of
care the boys need.
The 25th year of service
finds us in a more com
plicated and diversified
-society, and, as a result, the
problems of children and
families, and the solutions to
these problems, become
more complex. During our
25th year the staff and I will
be reviewing and evaluating
the role of Boys Home of
North Carolina, Inc. in
assisting families and young
people in solving the
problems brought on by the
changing world in which we
live. I pledge out best effort
and pray we will select the
proper approach. Thanking
you for helping us, and I
know we can count on you to
meet the challenge of the
next 25 years.
Carl Cox, a former
political campaign coor
dinator at the state and
national levels, has joined
the staff of Boys Home in
Huntersville, with primary
duties in the area of staff
development.
Cox, who is a native of
Shelby, has been an in
structor of psychology and
director of counseling
services at Potomac State
College of West Virginia.
Cox holds a bachelor of arts
degree from the University
of West Florida and a
Master of Arts Degree from
the University of South
Carolina. He is the son of
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Mr. and Mrs. G. Carl Cox of
Shelby. So, you see the boys
are in good hands. iy
One starry night. A cold
and lonely world. Man
struggling to touch a far-off
God, and then, one starry
midnight in Bethlehem God
bent down and gathered up
the world in a warm, loving
embrace Christmas. The
loving embrace is felt by
everyone on both campuses
during the Christmas season
at Boys Homes. It can be felt
in the goodness of generous
friends who underwrite boys
gifts, or bring loads of home
baked goodies to the cot
tages, or take time to shop
with boys for their dreamed
of treasures.
It can be felt in the soft
squeeze of a little boy’s
hand, a mute thank you for
the shining wonderment of
thecottagefamily Christmas
tree. It is felt in the depths of
ths hearts of all those who
gaze at young faces, lit with
the innocent flow of the
season’s eternal en
chantment.
The most recent appeal to
you asked that you ring a
bell in love for our boys. The
joyous pealing of those bells
in the beautiful music of
your caring.
A boy’s prayer:
Lord, I thank you for the
love of those who care and
are close to me and care for
me. I thank you for the love
of those who have given so
much to me without even
knowing my name. Keep
them from distress and give
them joy, even as you have
done for me. Help me to use
the gifts and the op
portunities which are mine
that 1 may be the kind of
boy, and become the kind of
pian who will make you,
happy. Lord, lead hie. Lord,
to be aware of the beauty in
people which is greater than
that which I see in the
flowers and trees and birds
and fish which you have
made. As I grow up, 0 Lord,
teach me to care as I have
been cared for; as I have
found love in persons, make
me a lover of all mankind.
I am only a boy, Lord, and
small for thoughts like
these. Help me to grow to fit
them. But keep my faith in
you young enough that
loving and serving you will
never grow old.
Let us help God to answer
the prayer of this boy at
Bovs Homes.
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LEARNING A TRADE Each boy at Boys Home has a
job to do and is taught a trade. There are two such homes in
North Carolina.
Unique Spring Holiday
Traveling thousands of
miles, going back several
hundred years in time and
crossing the International
Date Line, two students and
a Chowan High School
French instructor are
spending a unique Spring
holiday April 14-22 as
participants in the
American Institute for
Foreigh Study’s (AIES)
“Tale of Two Cities”
tour of London, England and
Paris, France.
On April 14, Mrs. Carol
Diggs, Chowan High School
French teacher, Freda
Blanchard, a Chowan High
junior, and Bonnie Un
derwood, a Perquimans
County senior, met in
Raleigh with approximately
300 other Junior High and
High School students and
their sponsors from North
Carolina and other southern
states. From there they jet
ted to Gatwick, England on
an AIFS Charter flight and
were met by AIFS couriers,
their guides for the next
seven days.
The Travel-Study Tour
itinerary includes many
places of educational and
historical interest. An all
day sightseeing tour of
London will be highlighted
with visits to Westminster
Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral
and the Tower of London.
Students will see the
English countryside as they
are driven to Windsor Castel
'via ftunnymede, where the
Magna Charta was signed
and from London to
Newhaven, where they will
board the cross channel
ferry to Dieppe, France.
A drive through the
French countryside will
include an overnight stop in
Rouen, where Joan of Arc is
buried, before going on to
Chartes to visit the Gothic
Cathedral and viewing the
famous Rose Window. In
Versailles, the group will tour
the Palace of King Louis
XIV, with its Hall of Mirrors
and beautiful sculptured
gardens.
Arriving in Paris on April
19, the next two days will be
spent sightseeing at the
Louvre, Arc de Triomphe
and Les Invalides, place of
Napoleon’s tomb. Side trips
to the Eiffel Tower, the
student center on the Left
Bank and the commercial
and government establish
ments of the Right Bank are
also planned for the tourists.
The three nights and two
days in Paris have built in
time for individual sight
seeing, shopping and seeing
the glamorous Paris night
life.
Not a novice in England
and France, Mrs. Diggs has
toured these areas twice,
the last time being in 1974 at :
which time she chaperoned
several other Chowan
County students on a similar
tour.
In preparation for their
trip, the students were
thoroughly briefed on the
places which they would
visit through extensive
readings, slides from Mrs.
Diggs’ previous trips and
film strips. The monetary
system of exchange was
touched upon, as well as a
crash course in con
versational French.
The students and their
chaperone will depart from
Orly Airport in Paris and
arrive in Raleigh on April 22
with a “Tale of Two Cities”
that Charles Dickens never
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Letter 1 o Herald Editor
The General Assembly is
now considering House Bill
631 which has the greatest
potential danger of any
liquor measure that has
come down the pike yet in
this session.
This act will allow any
city, town, or township
where ABC stores have been
established to have an
election on liquor-by-the
drink.
Currently, elections can
only be held in counties,
cities, or towns that have
ABC units. What will be
next? School districts? Fire
districts? Sanitation
districts? Precincts? City
blocks?
The intent is clear. Any
facsimile of control over our
No. 1 drug, liquor, is being
thrown out the window by
certain legislators who have
sold out to the liquor in
dustry, the motel and
restaurant people who want
to get rich at the expense of
the taxpayer.
By allowing townships to
have elections on such an
issue is ridiculous that this
might involve on down the
of the implications this
might involve on down the
road.
What can be done? Write
or call your State Senator
now because this bill is on
its way from the House to
the Senate. “All that is
necessary for evil to flourish
is for good people to do
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J.W. Phillips, Chairman
Good Government
Committee,,
Christian Action
League of N.Ci
and Asst. Dist. Supt s
The Wesleyan Church 1
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Ceremony Set
Hie ceremony honoring
James Iredell
revolutionary patriot, it
scheduled to take place at
the cemetery on Hayei
Plantation at 2 P.M
Saturday. It is open to th<
public.
Hi is ceremony is spon
sored by the Edenton Tet
Party Chapter, Daughter*
of the American Revolution
Former N.C. Chief Justice
William Bobbitt will be th<
keynote speaker.
CARD OF THANKS
I would like to take thi:
opportunity to thank eacl
one who sent cards, flowers
and any other expressions o
kindness to me while I was;
patient in Chowan Hospital-
A special thanks for all you?
prayers.
Cora Whit)
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