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Inflation Spurs Increased Volunteerism
For years, the traditional
attitudes about who
i and v.'liy they
give their time to help
others have been very
narrow. But in North
Carolina the rising cost of
services, the emphasis on
education, energy cost, and
spirialing inflation have
given rise to an increased
need for Citizen Volunteers
in every aspect of society.
In an article entitled “The
New Volunteer,” published
in Ladies Home Journal,
April 1979, Mary Scott
Welch cited four myths:
—Most volunteers are
housewives, otherwise
unemployed.
—Volunteers work in
hospitals, mainly holding a
patients’ hands.
—Volunteering is a luxury
of the upper-class, a case of
the overpriviledged helping
the underpriviledged out of
a sense of obligation.
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—Volunteer work doesn’t
lead anywhere.
In North Carolina, the
trend has been toward a
greater variety of activities
under the umbrella of
volunteerism. Rev. Richard
Styles takes time out of his
pastoral responsibilities at
church to spend time with a
fatherless child. The
business community of High
Point supplies volunteers to
all 11 elementary schools in
the High Point city school
system. The Naegele
Outdoor Advertising
Company regularly con
tributes ten percent of its
gross volume to worthwhile
causes.
Such a volunteer effort
includes the time of
executives, artists and
painters.
The volunteer is the
citizen who voluntarily
participates in identifying
and solving community
problems and today is more
likely to fit a much broader
definition. Board members*
scout leaders, persons who
take the time to attend a
public hearing, fund
raisers, the parent on the
block who carpools the
neighborhood kids or
coaches the neighborhood
baseball team are all
volunteers.
In the same article, Welch
responds to the myths:
—Homemakers, still a
vital component of the
volunteer force, are now
out-numbered by volunteers
who hold full-time jobs.
—Today’s volunteer is
involved in every con
ceivable aspect of American
life - environment, politics,
media, social services,
health-care, religion.
—Today’s volunteer force
represents a variety of
socio-economic back
grounds - not just the
upper middle class.
—Volunteering is not
directionless. It promotes a
sense of community,
proving that the individual
counts and that human
beings care for each other.
The early pioneers, who
could raise a barn or build a
house for a neighbor in a
matter of days, knew about
community. The readiness
of the settlers to join
together to better them
selves was dramatically
illustrated in North Carolina
during the War of the
Regulation (1770-1771),
centered in Hillsborough.
Leaders in this “western”
'area violently protested
against the taxes imposed
upon them “by the East.”
Beginning about 1810,
almost every rural and
urban church in North
Carolina had its official
board composed entirely
of volunteers. One-hundred
seventy years later,
religious work in North
Carolina still thrives
through the efforts of
thousands of volunteers.
In early days, it was left to
women to organize
charitable societies to care
for the sick and the poor.
The first was the New Bern
Female Charitable Society
in 1812, Mowed by the
Fayetteville Female Or
phan Asylum Society.
Movements for court
reform, relaxation of the
punitive criminal code,
custodial care of the
mentally ill, as well as the
temperance movement and
the Bible Society were
supported by volunteers.
Several major develop
ments in the field of
volunteer leadership
marked the changing face of
volunteerism in North
Carolina during the
seventies.
Forty people from across
the state met together in
1974 to form the North
Carolina Association of
Volunteer Administrators
(NCAVA), to promote
professional development
and enhance the status of
the volunteer. Today more
than 125 professional
volunteer administrators
are working through
NCAVA to develop
educational opportunities,
rural volunteer programs,
statewide training con
ferences, and legislation to
benefit volunteers.
Another process, Com
munity Education, brings
people together to increase
citizen involvement. It
gained attention in 1977
through the Community
Schools Act passed by the
North Carolina Assembly.
Through this legislation.
more than 100 local school
systems have been able to
hire coordinators who en
courage maximion use of
community vohmteers in
the public schools. The
North Carolina Association
for Community Education
(NC-ACE) was formed in
1978 to promote citizen in
volvement and participation
in community and self
improvement. NC-ACE has
sponsored three state
conferences to help develop
partnerships between the
community and the
education process.
Community partnerships
are also a focus of the
United Way efforts in North
Carolina. Even in an era of
inflation, United Way
volunteers were able to
generate increasing pledges
in support of essential
community services. Ac
cording to Dwyer Sump,
Executive Director, North
Carolina United Way, the 76
United Way campaigns
conducted in North Carolina
in 1979 pledged $23,360,000,
an 8.5 per cent increase over
1978. This represents the
higest increase ever
recorded by that agency.
Volunteer initiative today
still provides a means of
meeting society’s needs. It
reflects the tradition of
community 'service which
has shaped our nation.
Perhaps most importantly,
a long history of volun
teering in North Carolina
has preserved what is
sometimes lost in the
changing, complex,
technological society of our
time - the sense of com
munity.
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The sermon topic selected
by Rev. R. R. Blankenhom
for the Sunday morning
worship hour, April 27, at
the Edenton United
Methodist Church is: “The
Emancipating Power of
Obedience.” The text for
this message: John 8:31-32.
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FITNESS VOLUNTEER Penelope Walker teaches an exercise class at the Gates
County Community Center. She volunteers her talents as an ex-model to conduct the
twice a week for ladies between the ages of 26 and 60. Penelope Walker is one of forty
volunteers featured in “Visions”, a photography exhibit at die State Capitol during National
Volunteer Week, April 20 - 26, 1980.
Death Claims
Mrs. Sullivan
Funeral services were
held Tuesday at Williford-
Barham Funeral Chapel for
Mrs. Catherine Holmes
Sullivan, 59, of Whitehurst
Trailer Park, Tar boro. Rev.
E. C. Alexander officiated
and burial followed in
Beaver Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Sullivan, a native of
Tyrrell County, died Sunday
in Edgecombe General
Hospital in Tar boro.
She was the daughter of
the late Martha Twiddy
Holmes and the late James
F. Holmes, and she was the
wife of James Sullivan of
Tar boro, who survives.
She is also survived by a
sister, Mrs. Addie Bunch of
Edenton, and three step
grandchildren.
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