3 Mrs. Martha Mitchell U talking with M*.
*J Anne Miller, Presbyterian Inpatient tur
gery supervisor, at Mrs. Mitchelf’s re
cent retirement party.
i Retiree Martha Mitchell
<Know8 Secret To Survival
•'Survival is the name of the
1 Africa during^wldWar U
: dr serving as Presbyterian
- 21 p.m. • 7 a.m. night
I nursing supervisor. Mar
: tha Mitchell, retired as
; distant director of nurs
• Ing, had both experiences,
and she has found the
•? secret to success.
I always figure you’re go
■ ing to survive; you Just
"Jiave to do the beat you can.
‘ f When things look grim, you
% mess the fact that you did
;the best you could, and then
.. you laugh at the fact that
•foou made a boo-boo,”
^‘retired recently after 17
,£>years of service.
•: “Mrs. Mitchell’s sense of
'■ ] humor and ability to laugh
made working with her a
? Trout Lilies
iLovetiest Of
-Jt
'Early Flowers
'N.C Botanical Garden"
WpeelnlTaiViPft
2 ■-One of the loveliest of our
2 early wild flowers is easy
• to miss.
2 There may still be traces
2 of snow on the ground, and
2 you aren't really tMnking
- of spring wild flowers, but
2 a close look in the moist
'woodlands may surprise
■ you.
2 The trout lilies may be
; there, spread like a yellow
CVP« through the winter’s
2 underbrush. They’re only
7about six inches tall, per
• haps explaining why they
-don’t suffer when a late
2 spring night (Bps below
'freezing.
- The leaves are blade
2 shaped with speckled
'brown spots, resembling
- the brown trout’s skin. This
2 plant, Erythronium ame
'ricanum, has other cotn
'mon names: dog-tooth
2 violet and adder’s tongue,
2*l*o descriptive of Its ap
'paarance.
2 Each plant has a single
2stem and a single nesting,
- bell-shaped flower. The
1 yellow petals curve beck to
2 show the reddish, poBen
- bearing stamens.
- einc* this Is about the
Jflrst of the spring ephe
- morale - the flowers that
*eome and go quickly - the
'pollinators of the season
anger to begin their
- Jkork. The honeybee seems
j start its busy poUin
jation schedule with trout
* Miles. A green-bodied bee,
" much smaller than the
'honeybee, crawls among
- the stamens and comes up
; covered with die reddish
--w — « »« - - - l a-a_
„ poiicn, wniw tmaii oiacs
- ants also are doing thetr
‘ part in pollinating the trout
: lily
* Gardeners interested in
j this plant should ha aware
that growing it from seeds
; is a slow process. It may
- take as long as eight years
/ for seedlings to mature to
- blooming sise.
^ s-sa— - —
* iNurmf?ry grown mjina art
' apt to bo more emeses
-> ful. Since the plants .go
' dormant right after bloom
' lng, wild flower gardeners
- often Interplent other
I species that don’t lose
j their leaves right away for
* a batter appearance.
: Trout liliea like light,
J open shade and can tole
- rate heavy soil.
* 'Tho trout HJy is pretty,
Z maybe especially to since
"If is among the first
flowers of spring.
special treat,” says Nancy
Soapp, senior vice presi
dent and director of nurs
ing.
“She would retell things
that happened during the
night, which would make a
hectic night seem fun. We
are surely going to miss
her,” Mrs. Snapp says.
_It tolrwi a uptv'inl pffnrt to
learn how to laugh, but
Mrs. Mitchell credits her
experiences in Africa in
World War II with teaching
her that valuable lesson.
“I was a volunteer nurse
in a medical unit from
Charlotte, and we set up
eur hospital in a wheat Odd
in Africa on November 8.
We had winds that blew
our tents down, and around
the first of December, it
started to rain. It must
have rained for 40 days and
40 nights.
son came, and it was so
very hot. Sleep was virtual-'
-ly impossible. We had good
times and hard times, but I
couldn’t complain because
everyone , was going
through what 1 was. That’s
where I got my survival
attitude,” says Mrs. Mit
chell.
—Reticles learning to sur
vive, Mrs. Mitchell posed
for a portrait that ap
peared on the cover of the
December 27,1943, issue of
“Life” magazine.
“The Army was between
pushes, and 1 was outside
my tent when a doctor
asked^ me if I wanted to
sketched the portrait and
then painted it back in the
states.
“I didn’t even know it
was on the cover of the
magazine until I came
home in February. 1944,
and noticed that my.,
mother bad bought up all
the copies,” Mrs. Mitchell
says. “It was something
that Just happened. It
wasn’t because I deserved
special recognition.”
Almost 40 years later,
Mrs. Mitchell’s co-workers
thought she deserved
cial recognition and re
cently honored her with a
nursing staff gave Mrs.
Mitchell a Wring of pearls,
and the grateful laugh ter of
a woman who knew how to
survive was heard around
the room.
Affs.
Le' V * . _____ _ __ __ _ . __ .
A By Lori Grier
V Post Staff Writer
..Mrs. Elisabeth Dargan,
•oror of the Alpha Lambda
Omega Chapter and prin
cipal of BilHngsvUle Ele
mentary School, was re
■ cently the Founders Day
speaker far the Eta Alpha
Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority, Rock Hill,
S.C. Hef charge -to the
chapter on their momen
tous occasion was “Facets
of Dynamic Power, a key
element in the sorority’s
national vein for continuous
productivity.
According to Dargan, we
have come a long way.
When she thinks or our
being in this place at this
time, she thinks of the man
whose house was on fire.
Frantic, he picked up the
telephone, dialed the fire
department and said,
“Hurry, come quickly, my
house is on fire.” The
dispatcher asked, “Where
do you live?” The man
quickly replied, “422 Clark
son, you know, in the
black community just be
fore you reach the shop
ping difitrict.-Notieeable
cooler, the dispatcher said,
“I’m afraid we don’t know
how to get there."' Ex
asperated and watching his
—heme go up in smoke, the
man asked, “Have you still
got that red fire truck?"
“Of course," said the dis
patcher. “Weil* come in
that.”
one tora the sorora that
they are on fire with ideas,
goals, burning issues,-de
sires and dreams, but
—there’s always a dispatcher
who throws you a curve
unless you are quick to
rebound and beat-him at
his own game. “We know
that in this game aClife
there are many four kills
and few homeruns, but that
doesn't mean that we lay
down the hat and slink Into
the dugout.:.li Just means
that those who stay on
the team have to jjractice
harder, take mor^wings
at the ball and take full
advantage of the opitortun
ity when we get a hit,” she
explained: 7 v ■———
Because of the facets of
dynamic power-from a
handful of women in 1908 to
80,000 in 1984, we are ce
lebrating fi notable accom
plishment-one of enduring
worthiness; one o< dyna
- mic leadership, one of de
dicated members, and one
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Mr*. Elizabeth Dargan
.CMS principal
of diversities resources
that have been united to
impact the quality of life
and improve the status of
the race.
Even though we can
look back with satisfaction
and with pride, she con
tinued, as we celebrate, we
must sharpen our focus on
the future through a major
effort to identify both the
problems and the opportun
ities embodied in our
National Thrust for
Power. We must gain new
i— 1 -■
insights to improve the
status of the race, and then
translate these* insights
Aecordiflig to Dargan, if
we as a people perceive era
have power, we do, and If
we do not perceive we have
-power, we do not. ’“The
importance of self-image is
one facet that cannot be
overstated. The image of
power must be projected
before it can be discerned
by others. Power is abun
dant, comes from many
sources, has many farms
and the wise organization
build* as large a stockpile
as possible. The key tn
successful use of power is
understanding its limits in
a given situation, combined
with a willingness to take
calculated risks.”
Finally, Dargan empha
sized that power cor
responds to the human
ability not Just to act but to
act in concert. “Alpha
Kappa Alpha’s thrust for
power must be the common
goal sought by every seg
ment of the membership
and each component of the
M i* order to form ■
collective group that sees
itself and is seen by
others as a symbol of
power. We need to create a
positive and forceful image
internally as Wall as ex
ternally,” challenged Mrs.
Elisabeth Oargan^
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