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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1966 THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
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Comyflakes
Meeting Captain Raleigh
Beats Bingoing For Beer
By CORNY STILWELL
Now that classes have begun it’s good to get back into that old
and battered harness again. And it’s particularly nice to see so
many friends back.
I sat down in the Union over a cup of coffee grounds and listened
to all the summer gossip. It was fun to hear who had gotten married
and why... who’d broken up and when... and who’d gotten engaged and
how. (That last one is my favorite!)
But the conversation swayed to what each of us had done to pass
the hours of summer vacation. “What’s his face” spent part of his
summer down at the beach calling Bingo .at the pavaUon. The pay
was $.50 an hour and all the free beef he could drink. It seems
he lost his job because by 9:00 every night he was too potted to read
the numbers on the ping-pong balls.
Then there was the lifeguard who faked it through the summer
not knowing how to swim a stroke. When I asked him if he wasn’t
a little foolish and asking for trouble he said, “No, I worked at
an all girl’s camp and I only let the ones who said they couldn’t
swim go in. Any life-guard will tell you that only the ones who can
swim will say they can’t.”
' Another friend spent a leisurely summer attending family re
unions. He counted 35 and when I made the remark that he surely
had a big family, he said that none of the 35 were his own family’s.
I hate to ask people to explain because I usually come up with
some of the most unbelievable answers but I did wonder enough
about this guy to ask him to give me some sort of explanation. He
says, “Easy enough. Corny, I merely watched the papers for announ
cements of family reunions and then I made plans to attend them.
No one ever knows who is there and it’s for sure they’ll never admit
to someone when asked, “Now, who is that boy?” that they don’t
know him from Adam’s house cat.
So they all put their hand over their mouth (that’s so everyone
will Imow they’re talking about someone) and whisper, “Oh, that’s
Sarah’s boy, what’s his name.” The other party says, “Oh, surely,
I just couldn’t remember his name, that’s all.” My friend said
he’d never eaten so good in all his life and it was for sure that his
food bill had gone down.
Television provides nice summer work too. Somebody worked for
a locai show this summer as the prop man. The other night we were
over at his house and suddenly the commercial was interupted by
a program. When we’d settled back down to a Mux Soap Commercial
Spectacular Hour, he jumped up, spread his arms out—I thought
he’d learned to fly—and screamed “Quiet everyone!!!”
With all eyes glued on him he says, “There! There! Did you see
that? Did you?! Fabulous, wasn’t it!”
I Afraid he’d grow more vioient than he already was, I said, “Oh,
1 sure, absolutely great.” Then I sort of sneaked this by him and said
I to the others, “See what?”
I Well, that did it! He nearly died. He swung around on me and pointed
his finger and yelled, “You did that on purpose!!! 1 told you to look
and you did that on purpose. You didn’t even want to see it.”
I Three years and thirty lbs. ago I might have argued with the ape,
1 but all I said was, “Fellow, what was it I missed that you said Took’
1 and I did on purpose?”
I “Why, that commercial. I told you to look.™ and you just didn’t
on purpose. That was my hand-MY HAND- that put that bottle of
Mux on the counter,”
I You would have thought I’d stolen his Honda or something the way
I he carried on about it. (I would have, too, only I’d already had a
I run-in with the cops for ridding one at the beach without a thing-
I a-ma-bob on the exhaust pipe.)
' Well, it appeared that all my friends enjoyed their vacation and
1 there I sat. I knew they’d get to me sometime. 1 was afraid that
(when the first person said, “Well, Corny, did you have a nice ‘va-
I cation’?” that I’d slug him. So, in order to keep from committing
an assault that I might later regret, I chimmed in first with, “Oh,
|I suppose you’re all just dying to hear about my terrific summer?
1 I went to Europe, toured the U. S. S. R. and got caught as a spy,
j turned in my Jr. Police badge and surrendered to the SPG.
) When they found it almost impossible to believe that I didn’t really
do all that, I explained that I’d filled the position of student-employee
all summer. In trying to recall a single terrific event so that it
wouldn’t sound as if my entire summer was a loss, the only thing I
could think of was my chance meeting with Captain Raleigh.
Captain Raleigh is a highway patrolman. I happened to meet
him on Highway #49 one night at 10 ‘til 6:00. I had a 6;00 class and
knew that I’d have to hurry or I’d never make it. I sort of “stepped
on it”.
“Sort of” doesn’t quite do it justice. But I was being careful when
1 saw Captain Raleigh.
Actually, I didn’t see him. I saw his red bubble on top of his car
going round ’n round. Then I saw that double-gaged shotgxm propped
up against the dash of his car and I humbly put my little blue Lark
in side gear and got ctff the road!
Knowing that I didn’t have $20 for a speeding ticket, I said to
myself, “Self, what will you do?” At that moment my eyes veared
itp and spied the gray uniform behind the badge and as I moved
i4iward I caught the sight of broad shoulders and hair coming out of
the top of the uniform shirt. What a bruiser!
And if you think Captain Raleight’s wife was gib, you should have
seen him. And that was the only exciting event of my summer.
How did you spend your’s?
While trying for a
Robert Pliner made
close-up picture of tlic swans for tlic “Name The Swans” contest, photographer
tills beautiful shot. Altliough tlie swans were too far away here to use witli the
contest, this breatli-taking picture just couldn’t be left out of tlie paper.
New Counselor Peterson
Shows Sincere Interest
BY BOBBE BERRY
Mr. Gary W. Peterson began his
duties as a counselor in the Stu
dent Affairs Office here on Sept
ember 1. A graduate of State Col
lege in California, Mr. Peterson
attended graduate school at Duke
University after spending two
years as a Peace Corps volunteer
in Nigeria.
As a counselor, Mr. Peterson is
concerned with the educational and
vocational area of the student’s
life, the range of which includes
advising the student in determining
his major field of study, exploring
fields of work to enter after grad
uation, and exploring the possi
bility of graduate school for the
student.
The area of the student’s per
sonal adjustment is also of in
terest to Mr. Peterson. Family,
social, or emotional problems
Editor ^8 Mail
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summer delivery. There are sev
eral main reasons why summer de
livery is used. One is so that we
can better cover the entire year.
As we have no football, we have to
depend on Spring events. For you
to get your annual in May, the
publisher must receive it by Feb
ruary. Therefore, the Forum, Miss
UNC-C, track, golf, tennis, grad
uation, and many other events
would have to be left out.
But the main reason is a fin
ancial one. A summer delivered
book is granted a 20 per cent
discount.
Sandra Brantley
1967 Yearbook Editor
which any student may be taken
to him.
Only “a few students” have been
m to see Mr. Peterson but he is
eager to have all students on cam
pus whom he may advise in anj'
way to stop by and talk with him.
This reporter can verify the sin-
cerety of Mr. Peterson’s interest
in all UNC-C students. Whatbegan
as a short and simple interview
with him for the paper developed,
somehow, into a 45 minute coun
selling session. He has a quiet
and sure way of drawing one into
discussion.
For an hour, tliis reporter saw
Mr. Peterson in action and was
impressed. He did more tlian give
simple - and - no newspaper
interview answers or give a text
book explanation of tlie duties and
responsibilities of a college coun
selor.
VVe are fortunate to have tliis
young and forward - looiiing man
in a position of advising on this
campus.
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