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I ev OCMC WAWWN
IRA PATE LOWRY, who
chaired the Pen broke State
Mnolc Department from 1935
57, was guest conductor (or a
special number hat Thursday
when the PSU Musk Depart
mem pud a special tribute to
him for his service to PSU.
IRA PAE LOWRY TRIBUTE:
A GREAT NIGHT AT PSU
In truly what was one of
the highlights of this year- or
any year-at PSU, Ira Pate
Lowry was honored in a
musical tribute last Thursday.
Anyone who attended the
event at the PSU Performing
Arts Center had to be tre
mendously impressed. Dr.
Robert Routine and his PSU
Music Department deserve a
salute for an evening which
was first class all the way. It
cpuld have been put on just as
well in the Kennedy Center. It
was an event of finesse and
taste.
Those who have not heard
the PSU Concert Band, Con
cert Choir, Percussion En
semble, and "Singers and
Swingers" don't know what
they are. missing in their own
midst. They were superb.
This writer was thrilled
^when Ira Pate, who organized
the PSU Music Department
and served as its chairman
from the 1935-57 period, was
invited to the podium to
conduct the band for the
stirring rendition of "Jesu,
Joy of Men's Desiring" by
J.S. Bach and Lrik Lefcben.
Ira Pate proved he had lost
none of his conducting skills.
Dr. Colin Osborne of Lum
berton, himself a fine musici
an, commented about this as
we watched together. "And
look how trim he is," said Dr.
Osborne of the 76-year- old
Lowry, _w ho iops at 7 a.m.
each day.
At the start of the tribute to
Lowry, Chancellor Paul Glv
ens praised Lowry for the
warm friendship he has
shown Dr. and Mrs. Givens
from their first arrival at PSU
in 1979. "Each time I hear the
chimes of the Bell Tower ring,
I think of Ira Pate and his dear
wife, Reba," said Dr. Givens.
A very moving moment
came when Mrs. Janet WeD
ona Smith of Lumberton,
daughter of the first president
of PSU . went to the stage and
explained to the audience
what a good friend Ira Pate
and his late wife Keba, had
been to her and her parents.
"He and Reba provided the
music for our wedding," she
reflected.
Mrs. Mary Pinchbeck Teets
of Pembroke, principal of
Janie Hargrave School in
Lumberton and a former
student of Ira Pate's, then
read letters of gratitude and
love from six of Lowry's
former students, all with
families in ths area. They
were: Dorothy Swett Blakely.
St. Peters, Mo. Anson Lock
lear, Columbus, Ga.; 3111
Loddear, Falls ton, Md.; Etta
Mae Lowry, Richmond, Va.;
Betty Oxendine, Man gum.
? Raleigh; and Julian Martin,
Dearborn, Mich.
Lowry gave warm hugs of
appreciation to both Mrs.
Smith and Mrs. Teets for their
parts in celebrating his "Day'
and then the winner of the
first Ira Pate Lowry Music
Scholarship was announced.
The recipient is Polly Allen, a
sophomore music education
major from Dillon, SC. A
scholarship of SI.035 was
established, and she will
receive the first $175 from it.
It was indeed a memorable
night for Lowry. the greatest
benefactor of PSU. and was
most enjoyable for all who
attiended--and hundreds were
on hand.
These are the kind of events
which made PSU proud.
ALUMNI DIRECTORS
MEET DEC. 30
The PSU Alumni Associa
tion's Board of Directors will
meet Thursday. Dec. 30, at
7:30 p.m. in the upstairs
conference room of Old Main
to begin planning for PSU's
homecoming Feb. 12. All
directors as well as the
general public and any other
interested alumni of ^U are
encouraged to attend the
meeting.
NOMINATIONS FOR
ALUMNI AWARDS
REQUESTED
Nominations for the PSU
Alumni Association's "Dis
tinguished Service Award"
and "Outstanding Alumnus
Award" are now being accep
ted. Nominations must be
received before Jan. 15.
Nominations, listing the
accomplishments of the indi
viduals, should be forwarded
to: Walter Oxendine, director
of alumni affairs. PSU. Pern
brake. NC 28372.
To be nominated for
"Distinguished Service ^
Award." an individual does
not have to be a graduate of
PSU. But be or she must haVp
rendered outstanding service
to the institution.
To be nominated for the
"Outstanding Alumnus
Award" an individual must be
a PSU graduate and have had
outstanding achievements.
ADOLPH DIAL ATTENDS
INDIAN CONFERENCE
ArMpb Dial, chairman of
the PSU American Indian
Studies Department, attended
on Dec. 2-3 the Indian Rights
Association's 100th Annual'
Meeting in Philadelphia. Dial
chaired a panel on "Indian
Reform Movements." which
had presentations by four
authors.
Titles of the talks were:
"The Indian Rights Associa
tion: The Early Years,"
"Indian Reform Movements
and the Allotment Act." "The
Indian New Dealers." and
"The Emergence of Pan
Indian Organizations."
Another Lumbee. Helen
Scheirbeck, now director of
"Save the Children's Indian
Nations Program, spoke on
"Problems in Indian Educa
tinn.M
Also at the conference was
famed Indian poet and writer
Vine Delorla. professor of
political science at the Uni
versity of Arizona.
President of the Indian
Right Association's Board of
Directors is Dr. Joe Oxendiae,
professor at Temple Univer
sity and also a Lumbee Indian
from Pembroke.
ANOTHER PSU TEACHER
OF THE YEAR
Added to the list of 14
"Teachers of the Year" who
graduated or attended PSU is
Nancy Thompson McBride,
who teaches at Red Springs
High School. PSU's Education
Department has a right to be
proud.
LEGISLATORS BRIEFED ON
UNIVERSITY CENTER
Chancellor Paul Glvens
recently had as luncheon
guests at PSU the state
legislators of this area: Sen.
David ParneR, Rep. Sidney
Locks, Rep. John (Pete)
Hasty and Rep. Daniel
DeVane. They were given
updates on.PSU, including its
plans for a multi-purpose
University Center for which it
is requested $3,942,000 for
the next biennium. PSU
already owns the land to put
the University Center on...
and is asking the legislators''
help in this effort.
CHRISTMAS MUSIC ON
CHANCELLOR'S PROGRAM
This Sunday's radio pro
gram on WAGR in Lumber
ton. called "From The Chan
cellor's Office," will feature
PSU Christmas music by the
University's Music Depart
ment. The program airs at
10:45 a.m.
DR. HILL IS EXPERT ON
PHILIPPINES
Dr. Monte Hill. in his
first year in PSU's Political
Science Department, spent
four years in the Philippines,
teaching for three of them at
the University of the Philip
pines where he was also on
Fulbright Scholarship. He has
been selected as a panelist at
the Southeastern U.S. Re
gional Conference of the
Assn. of Asian Scholars to be
held Jan. 29 at Ashe bo ro.
He presented a lecture last
month on the Philippines'
contributions to the U.S. at
the Philippine- American
Assn. of Fayetteville. Prior to
that he and Dr. Gibson Gray. I
acting chairman of the Politi
cal Science Department,
attend a conference on Inter
national Foreign Student Ad
visors in Raleigh.
He will also present a paper
on "Problems of Applied
Social Science in the Philip
pines" at the annual confe
rence of the Assn. of Asian
Scholars in San Francisco in
April. Dr. Hill has already
made numerous talks on the
Philippines in this area and
welcomes other opportunities
to do so.
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I EXTENSION SCENE
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AGRICULTURAL
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Around Christmas time
there are numerous social
gatherings, appreciation din
ners, and other functions of
this type. Naturally, there is
lota of personal interaction
and discussion of a vast
1 number of subjects at these
functions. While one can
' readily predict some of the
types of conversations that
will develop regarding local
' issues, those of us in agricul
ture invariably get caught up
in subjects ranging from
single farm problems to re
gional and national situations
and even to worldwide market
ing opportunities and econo
mic difficulties.
Recently, at one of those
functions Morris Bennett, an
old friend who is in the
trucking business, but has a
keen interest in the agricul
tural sector, brought up a
question regarding interna
tional bartering arrange
ments. He suggested that it
looked to him like this country
should swap some of our
surplus agricultural products
for oil or some other products
that we would purchase any
way. His comment is a
common expression that is
heard both from farmers and
others who may only have a
token interest in agriculture.
1 shared with Morris that
perhaps 1 should do one of my
weekly columns on bartering
farm commodities, and he
suggested in return that if I
did choose to do one on that
subject, to make sure that 1
kept it simple enough for
everyone to understand. After
trying to figure out whether
that was a compliment or a
backhand slap. I decided to
provide a few insights that
may be interesting regarding
bartering arrangements.
Countries have been barter
ing products for a long time.
The United States was involv
ed in a barter program
through USDA until 1973.
HoWever, even though this
program has been suspended,
the U.S. recently agreed to
exchange some dairy pro
ducts. metals and cash with
Jamaica in return for bauxite
(wmch is used to produce
^uminum) for the U.S. stock
pile of strategic minerals.
Some countries such as Chin
a, Romania, and some other
east European countries are
actively involved in barter
arrangements. However, the
United States makes limited
use of barter because com
mercial trade channels have
proved more efficient and
because U.S. policy has em
phasized free trade for years
with a minimum of govern
ment influence. Therefore,
since most barter agreements
are on a government-to- gov
ernment basis, private traders
sometimes object to greater
government involvement in
trade. But, private free trade
channels generally require
hard currencies or cash, and
the present world- wide re
cession simply prevents many
countries who lack hard cur
rencies from being able to
purchase products, which
they might need desperately,
but simply cannot find the
money. Barter is really an
appealing alternative to this
situation since it avoids or
reduces hard currency re
quirements and at the same
time it ties imports of a
needed commodity with ex
ports of another commodity
that a country is producing in
excess of its domestic needs.
Some of the greatest po
tential barter partners appear
to be Brazil, Thailand, Peru,
the Philippines, Venezuela,
Nigeria, Indonesia, Mexico,
China and the USSR. These
countries can prodvide strate
gic materials such as titani
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um, platinum, cnromium,
rubber, oil, zinc, tin, manga
nese, and other staler pro
ducts. In return, these same
countries need wheat, nonfat
dry talk, earn, cotton, barley,
and grain sorghum.
White it appears that an
excellent opportunity exists
for barter arrangements, and
a history of bartering was
especially successful during
the global depression of the
1930's, a problem arises
whereby government- to
government dealings and in
tra-governmental departmen
tal conflicts can wreak havoc
on a seemingly simple proce
dure. For example, one de
partment such as the agricul
tural department
in one of those countries may
need the supplies badly, while
another department such as
an energy department has
the product, such as oil, to sell
to another country. Thus, in
many coutnries the bureau
cratic in-fighttng over which
bureaucratic department was
going to receive most credit
for initaiting the project has
placed numerous constraints
on tne final barter arrange
ment, rather than the arran
gement being very simple and
clean as one would normally
expect.
These comments have only j
touched on some of the
benefits and shortcomings of t
barter arrangements. Yet it <
does appear that much more ?
interest is being placed on i
this trade alternative by U.S. 1
officials than at any time in i
recent years. I
Merry
Christmas!
May each of you have, not
just a merry, but a truly
blessed Christmas- as you
contemplate the Christ Child
and His meaning for your life.
We are still grateful for the
love you've shown us during
the past two and a half years.
Alta and Wanda Oxendine
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The Warrior varsity pre
sented the Hornets with an !
early Christmas press* last
Friday as they gave the* ?
their first win of the season. ,
Tu>b?ct? proved to oa Pem
broke's undoing much as it
had been earlier in the week !
against Sooth Bobeson.
The Warriors controlled the '
game until the third quarter ;
when the offense seemed to
stall. With 18 seconds left in
the quarter. Littlefleid's Wal
ter Jones scored to put the
Hornets 'up by two 40-38.
Although the Warriors man
aged to tie at the end of the
quarter, the momentum was
on Littlefleid's side.
The fourth period saw the
lead switch back and forth
until the last minute when the
Hornets took a three point
advantage. The Warriors
could not manage to overcome
this deficit and went on to lose
58-53.
The Lady Warriors Fared
much better as they upped
their record to 3-1 by downing
the Hornets 47-26. Sheila
Regan and Lisa Locklear led
the girls 18 and 10 points
respectively. The hard work
and experience paid off for
Coach Carmkhael as the Lady
Warriors outplayed thtfir op
ponents in all areas.
Coach Wayne Leggett's JV
earn also moved to 3-1,
defeating the Hornet jv's
*7-39. Leading the Warriors
were Victor Deese (12 points),
Kelvin Oxendine (11 points)
uid Clayton May nor (10
Mints).
IN ARMED FORCES
KENNETH 8. CHAV12>
Pvt. Kenneth R. Chavis,
son of Katie L. and Luther E.
Chavis of Pembroke has com
pleted one station unit train
ing (OSUT) at the U.S. Army
bifantry School, Fort Ben
tyng, Ga.
f OSUT is a 12-week period
which combines basic combat j
training and advanced indi- i
vidua) training.
The training included 1
weapons qualifications, squad <
?HaMHMnranm
tactics, patrolling, land mine
warfare, field communicati
ons and combat operations.
Completion of this course
qualifies the soldier as a light
weapons infantryman and as
an indirect fire crewman.
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Soldiers were taught to
perform any of the duties in a
rifle or mortar squad.
He is a 1982 graduate of
Pembroke Senior High Scho
ol.
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