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Education THE CHOWAN HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2019 B5 COA alumni group to offer discount card Robert Pippen to serve as board’s president SUBMITTED REPORT College of The Albe marle (COA) Foundation held its second Alumni As sociation meeting recently. At the June 17 meeting, the interest group agreed to develop a formal associa tion. Robert Pippen, mem ber of the Board of Trustees and COA alumnus, was nominated to serve as president of the Alumni Associa tion Board. Pippen shared that he is excited about serving on the association’s board. “The Board has planted the added some water, now ready for PIPPEN sunshine in the form of fantastic members for the association to grow.” The interest group identified additional prospects to serve as officers and plan to elect of- seed, ficers at their next meeting, and is The Foundation did a soft some launch to announce its Alumni Association Mem bership and it is now avail able for members’ use. To become a member, in dividuals are encouraged to go online to www.albe- marle.edu/alumni to sign up. COA alumni are encour aged to join the association. An annual membership is $15 or a lifetime member ship is $100. Alumni Associ ation members receive a quarterly newsletter, discounts on ticket pur chases to Foundation events, access to resources at the newly renovated Charles H. Ward Library and Knowledge Commons and a discount card for use at businesses in the seven county service area. Busi nesses participating include Albemarle Audiology, Albe marle Lanes, Colony Tire, Dairy Queen, Elizabethan Gardens, eyecarecenter, Firehouse Subs, Itza Boutza Pizza, Jersey Mike’s Subs, Montero’s Restaurant, OBX Bowling and Van’s Pizza House. For information on COA’s Alumni Chapter, or if you are interested in being fea tured on the Alumni Dis count Card, contact the Foundation at 252-335-0821, ext. 2263, or by email, coa_a- lumniassociation@albe- marle.edu Check It Out! Learn about historical project L ynn Gilliard, the Chowan County Register of Deeds, came to the library this week to reserve our meet ing space for an event at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 6 titled “Peo ple, Not Property: Recover ing the History of Slavery in Chowan County.” Lynn is responsible for the care of many historic JENNIFER FINLAY docu ments and the Regis ter of Deeds of fice has done a great job stabilizing and get ting many of Chowan County’s docu ments digitized and avail able for genealogical and historical research. The People, Not Property project is a partnership be tween UNC Greensboro University Libraries, the North Carolina Division of Archives and Records, and North Carolina Registers of Deeds to create “a unique, centralized data base of bills of sales index ing the names of enslaved people from across North Carolina.” This project needs trained volunteers to help with the actual process of creating what librarians call “records” (and com puter people call meta data) of the existing bills of sales that are held by the Register of Deeds. This is an extraordinary opportu nity to increase the avail- ability of these records to help our community share more of its history on a global scale. If you need a flyer to take to your church, social group or friends — stop by the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library and we’ll print out some for you! The Register of Deeds office also will have the flyer available. In Summer Reading news: It’s time for the Bal loon Lady. I invite every one in the community to come to this Summer Reading Program at 10:30 a.m. July 23. This includes grown-ups. The Balloon Lady is an amazing artist and is worth every minute spent watching her. Upcoming Library Events * 11 am. July 17—Sto- ryTime & Pop-Up/STEAM program * 1 and 4:30 p.m. July 18 — Beat the Heat Movies -1 have no way to describe this movie - it’s one of Joyce’s favorite animated films of the past 10 years - please call and ask * 10:30 am. July 20 — The Jetsons continue *10:30 am. July 23 — The Balloon Lady - need we say more? * 11 am. July 24 — Sto- ryTime & Pop-Up/STEAM * 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. July 25—Beat the Heat Movies Picture Books Maisy Goes to a Show - Lucy Cousins The Pout-Pout Fish Cleans Up the Ocean - Deborah Diesen & Dan Hanna Children’s Fiction Treasure Hunters: All- American Adventure - James Patterson Madness in the Mine: An Unofficial Minecrafter’s Novel The Bad Guys: The Big Bad Wolf Geronimo Stilton Re porter. It’s My Scoop Children’s Non-Fic tion Who Was Stephen Hawking, P.T. Barnum & Che Guevera My Weird School Fast Facts: Mummies, Myths & Mysteries - Dan Gutman Young Adult The Rest of the Story - Sarah Dessen Fiction Lost and Found - Danielle Steel Mrs. Everything - Jen nifer Weiner The Oracle - Clive Cus- sler Over the Hill - Kelly Irvin Paranoid - Lisa Jackson The Summer Guests - Mary Alice Monroe Summer of ‘69 - Elin Helderbrand See FINLAY, B6 Hello, Mr. Robot SUBMITTED PHOTO (L-r) Sela and Zaria McNair, ages 10 and 8 years old, pose with a 4-foot working robot that William Turner brought July 9 for the Sheperd-Pruden Memorial Library's robotics program. The girls are the daughters of Ebony and Priest McNair of Edenton. The library's Summer Reading Program has activities throughout the summer. The Tuesday program is at 10:30 a.m. upstairs. . JR0TC Cadets Attend Camp SUBMITTED PHOTOS Eight cadets from the John A. Holmes High School Aces Battal ion JROTC program were selected to attend the “Junior Cadet Lead ership Challenge.” The leadership camp was held at Camp Pendle ton, Virginia, and consisted of over 260 cadets from 30 differ ent high schools from Virginia and North Carolina. Above photo: The cadets who attended the challenge along with the instruc tors SFC Michael Jackson (bot tom left) and Col. Don Isbell (bot tom right), were (l-r) Carrie Jenk ins, Tyion Rankins, Itary Lopez, Alajah Cross, Arthur Schwarm, Knickolas Mitchem, Sema’j Jack- son and Noah Clayton. Left photo: Cross (left) and Clayton were recognized for outstanding leadership during the camp. SUBMITTED PHOTO (L-r) Robin Griffin Zinsmeister, dean, Workforce Development, Public Services and Career Readiness Campus Administrator, Edenton-Chowan Campus; Steve Wood, John A. Holmes High School principal; Casey Bass, director of Secondary Education and Career and Technical Education, Edenton-Chowan Schools; Emily Nicholson, assistant director, Northeastern Workforce Development Board; and Dr. Michael Sasscer, Edenton-Chowan Schools assistant superintendent; show the signs that will be placed around the high school’s campus to encourage students to choose careers in Chowan County. Partnership highlights Chowan County careers COA, Edenton-Chowan Schools launch work local movement at JAHHS SUBMITTED REPORT More than half of the open jobs in North Carolina over the next five years are projected to be in trade-specific oc cupations not requiring a four-year de gree. In the effort to expose students to local job opportunities and career lad ders, NCWorks, powered by the North- eastern Workforce Development Board (NWDB), partnered with the Edenton-Chowan School System and College of The Albemarle to execute a photography campaign of “home- grown employees” who have pros pered from successful careers at vari ous businesses across Chowan County. Contrary to popular opinion, trade-specific occupations offer strong wages and the opportunity for career growth. For example, manufacturing occupations in Chowan County and surrounding areas had a yearly average y See CAREERS, B6 “The Hearts of Horses,” by Molly Gloss A book worth reading BY WILLIAM FRANCIS AHEARN Book: “The Hearts of Horses, ” by Molly Gloss Where available: Shepard-Prudent Memo rial Library R ecently, I read a book “The Hearts of Horses” — a novel by Molly Gloss — a book I borrowed from the Shep ard-Pruden Memorial Li brary. The book tells the reader a good deal about life in the Northwest during World War I. The impact of ... well, here is an excerpt that demonstrates its reading pleasures. It’s a book I think many animal lovers would enjoy. A passage from the novel: First paragraph: “In those days, even before the war had swept up all the young men from ranches, there were girls who came through the country breaking horses. They traveled from ranch to ranch with two or three horses they had picked up in trade for work they’d done. Of course most outfits had fifty or sixty horses back then so there was plenty of work, and when the war came on, no men to get it done. Those girls could break horses as well as any man but they had their own ways of doing it, not such a bucking Wild West show. They went about it so quiet and deliberate, children would get tired of watching and go off to do something else. They were usually alone, those girls, but it isn’t like in the moving pic tures or the gunslinger novels, the female al ways in peril. If they - were in peril it wasn’t from outlaws or crooked sheriffs, it was from the usual things that can happen from ranch work — breaking bones, freez ing your fingers off— the kinds of things that can happen whether you are a man or a woman.” During a creative, award-winning career spanning more than 50 years, William Francis Ahearn has worked as a photographer, art director, graphic designer, market ing guru (he created Intel’s fa mous “Intel Inside" logo), crafts man printer, antiquarian book dealer, and art festival artist. Mar ried to Kate, the couple lives in Edenton. V
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