Page 6-B Resources Center Fifth Anniversary Celebration Set For Sept. 27 MANTEO You won’t find them on your typical seafood combination platter. Even so, shark meat and eel will be the main menu fare come Sepmember 27, as officials of the N. C. Marine Resources Center on Roanoke Island plan a celebration in honor of the center’s fifth anniversary. The program, scheduled for 2 P. M., is open to the public. Refreshments will be served. In addition to the sampler of unusual seafoods, Aims and educational programs are planned along with an overview of the first five years of the center’s operations, a period during whichmore than one million persons visited the facility. Even the center’s five research labs will be open to the public, according to Rhett B. White, center director. While plans proceed for the open house, White of fered several observations recently about what he perceived to be the chief contributions of the center during his 18-month tenure as director. “Our major thrust is in the area of education,” he pointed out. “I would say that roughly 60 per cent of our time and efforts is devoted to marine education and we’re speaking of pre school age all the way through adults.” The center has 17 pre planned programs ranging in content from the Wild foods Weekend held in October to regularly scheduled bird Walks in the f— —I I Located Over Pate’s Florist 5 = Open Mon. 1 And Thurs. 1 (2-spm) g Enter between i Cato’s and Pate’s = The Service H Is Sponsored By \ Eirhe Local Churches [ \ All Items 50’ Each FOR SALE - 1976 HONDA XR 75 good condition - 1977 Schwin 10 Speed excellent condition for information contact Hayes Farms 482-2554 fall on Bodie and Pea islands to marsh and beach field trips conducted throughout the year. Additionally, the center staff often coordinates special programs such as the graduate-level oceanography course of fered in cooperation with the University of Virginia tis this past June. Center staff members actually taught a number of the classes prompting White to observe, “I have no reservations in saying that we have a sound group of people working here.” The center has also cooperated with the Sea Grant Advisory Service and the State Museum of Natural History in offering a week-long workshop for gifted and talented teachers from throughout North Carolina. A goodly share of the 230,000 annual visitors to the center gravitates im mediately to the 14 aquariums which house marine life native to the North Carolina coast. These, ranging in size from 300 to 3,000 gallons along with the largest “touch table’’ on the East Coast, fall under the watchful eye of Frank Hudgins, a marine biology graduate from UNC- Wilimington. It is Hudgins’ job *to collect and maintain the various specimens used for the live exhibits. The center employs two more professional staff members whose respon sibility are well-defined although, according to White, “everyone here does something of everything.” Dale Martin is the cen- Death Claims Mr. Long, 74 Claude Martin Long, Sr., 74, Route 2, Edenton, died Sunday evening in Chowan Hospital. A native of Perquimans County, he was the son of the late Sidney and Sallie Williams Long and the husband of Mrs. Emily Lane Long. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Bethel Baptist Church where he was a former deacon and secretary of the the Sunday School. Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. James Ward of Knob Noster, Mo.; a son, Claude M. Long, Jr., of Greenville; two sisters; Mrs. Eunice Twiddy, Route 2 Edenton; and Mrs. Madge Brabble, Route 1, Hertford; five brothers: Seth Long, Route 3, Hertford; Freeman Long, Route 1, Hertford; Ambrose Long, Route 2, Edenton; E. W. (Dick) Long and Howard Long, both of Hertford, and four grandchildren. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 4 P. M. in the Chapel of Swindell Funeral Home in Hertford, by Rev. Stanley Nixon. Burial followed in Cedar wood Cemetery. Pallbearers were; Dewey Perry, Jr., Josiah Proctor, Maynard Fleetwood, Willis Proctor. Winston Lane, Jr., and Wilbur Ray Bass. ter’s audio-visual and multi media expert and handles the design and construction of the exhibits on show at the center. 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