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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
Wednesday, April 11,1979
Sandhills
Scene
Telephone 692-7271
Deadline for Wedding Picture, Tuesday noon
Neil Morgan Comes Home
For National Magazine Story
Home And Garden Tour
Drawing Many Visitors
The Pilot’s Log
Mrs. Ernest L. Ives of
Southern Pines will be the
principal speaker at the Seventh
Congressional District meeting
of Democratic Women in
Fayetteville on April 21.
Samuel S. Gilbert, who retired
to the Village in the Woods in
August, recently completed an
overseas asignment for the
International Executive Service
Corps, a non-profit corporation
which arranges for retired
executives and their wives to
travel to a developing nation
where they offer their expertise
in various areas.
Samuel and Mary Gilbert were
assigned to Guatemala City for a
two-month period. The staff of
a locally-owned bank in
Guatemala City wanted advice
whether they should expand and
renovate. IVfr. Gilbert’s job was
to study the situation and make
recommendations.
The Gilberts have traveled
widely both before and now after
retirement. Mr. Gilbert was with
the Citibank before World War II
and retired as a vice-president
with the First National Bank of
Boston. They have lived in
Argentina, Japan and were in
Cuba just as Castro took over the
American banks in 1960.
They hope to travel to Cuba
again and have returned to
Peking. Many of their friends are
also retiring to Southern Pines,
where they enjoy the climate and
the golf.
Doris Patrice Blue of Southern
Pines was selected by Speaker
Carl J. Stewart, Jr. to serve as a
Page in the North Caroliila
House of Representatives from
April 2 to April 6. She was
appointed by Representative
Clyde Auman of the 25th district.
She is a student at Pinecrest
High, and her parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence H. Blue of 180
Fort Bragg Road, Southern
Pines.
Mrs. Ruper Vance of Chapel
Hill was a visitor in Southern
Pines on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Williams
attended the annual dinner of the
Friends of Carrie Rich Memorial
Library at Campbell College,
Buies Creek, Fridjay night. U.S.
Sen. Robert Morgan was the
speaker. After the dinner
meeting, everyone went to the
Turner Auditorium, where the
Campbell Playefls performed
“The Misanthrope” by Moliere.
6:30 a.m.
Music will be provided by the
Piney Pipers.
Beginning at 7 a.m. breakfast
will be served by the members
of the squad.
Following the morning worship
service Sunday at Southside
Baptist Church, Aberdeen, the
members enjoyed a “dinner on
the grounds” and an hour of
fellowship in the afternoon.
The Walter Hines Page Book
Club of Aberdeen will meet at 3
p.m. Thursday, April 12, in the
home of the hostess, Miss Edna
Maurer. Mrs. Dan Mangum is co
hostess. Miss Maurer is in
charge of the program which will
be a musical one.
A luncheon and bridge was
held at the Country Club of North
Carolina on April 6, with the
following as winners:
First, Margaret Lavery;
second, Ginny Seery; third,
Millisrobertson; fourth, Virginia
Reeves; fifth, Ginny Galatin;
and consolation, Helen Ormond.
Four students from Moore
County were among the 563
juniors honored at a special
reception recently at the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro.
The junior scholars were in
vited to the reception on the basis
of their academic achievements
at UNC-G.
They were Annie M. Freeman,
a French major, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elias K. Freeman Jr. of
Route 1, Eagle Springs; Stephan
F. Lapping, a psychology major,
son of Mr. and ]V&s. Sherwood F.
Lapping of McReynolds Road,
Carthage; Audrey J. Kennedy,
an Englii^ major, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Kennedy
of Route 1, Robbins; and Valerie
R. Summers, an education
major, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack D. Summers of Box 1433,
Southern Pines.
Also among the students with
parents living in Moore County
was Kay L. Branigan, an ac
counting major, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Adrian C. Lowder of
Route 1, Aberdeen.
Mrs. K.C. Allen and Mrs. R.E.
Hardaway of Southern Pines will
be hostesses for the April 19
meeting of the Longleaf Garden
Club. T^e meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs. K.C. Allen at 10
a.m. Mrs. Fred Beck, of
Carthage will speak on the
arrangement of fresh flowers.
More than 90 “little girls”
became college coeds at Peace
College for the weekend of April
7-8. TTie campus visitors, ranging
in age from 4 to 18, were specif
guests of the college during
annual “Little Sister Weekend.”
Among the visitors was Carter
Elizatwth Hall of 250 Fairway
Drive, Southern Pines.
Chaplain Heniy C. Duncan,
minister at the VUlage Chapel in
Pinehurst, was the speaker at the
luncheon meeting today
(Wednesday) of the Kiwanis
Club of the Sandhills at the
Holiday Inn. He spoke on the
subject, “Dealing With Grief.”
It will be Pancake Day at the
Southern Pines Middle School
Cafeteria next Wednesday, April
18, in a benefit sponsored by the
Kiwanis Qub. Breakfast will be
served from 7 to 9 a.m., luncheon
from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m., and
dinner from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The
donation will be $2.
Participating in a recent
two-day Parent Advocacy
Training session in Fayetteville
was Ms. Jennifer McGill, 345 S.
May Street, Southern Pines, of
the Moore County Children’s
Center. This training in which
they have participate has been
conducted by the Chapel Hill
Training-Outreach Project
which trains parents and
professionals who are concerned
for appropriate and
individualized educational
programs and services for young
handicapped childrai.
Mr. and Mrs. T.J. Hayes of
Syracuse, N.Y. and Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Fry. of Warwick,
N.Y. have been visiting Mr. and
Mrs. W.K. Caton during the past
two weeks. Mrs. Hayes is a
sister of Mrs. Caton, and Mr.
Frye is her cousin.
Easter Services will be held at
the Whispering Pines Rescue
Squad Community Building at
Auxiliary
Nominates
Officers
Officers for the 1979-80 year
were nominated at the Monday,
April 2, meeting of the Ladies
Auxiliary to John Boyd Post 7318
of the VFW.
The nominees are: Margaret
Lawson, president; Julia West,
senior vice president;
Crowel, junior vice-president
Frances Belvins, chaplain
Laney Belvins, treasurer
Christine Head, conductress
Sara Davis, patriotic instructor
Doris Monroe, guard; Francisco
Daniels, third year tnistee.
The meeting at the post home
on Gatewood Avenue in Southern
Pines was opened according to
ritual by President Lawson. The
chaplain led in prayer.
It was announced that the
auxiliary would sponsor a “Lite-
a-Bike” program Saturday,
AprU 21, at the post home.
Other activities coming up
include:
Easter Egg hunt on Sunday,
Ajx'il 15, from 2 until 4 p.m., all
children of VFW post and Ladies
Auxiliary members invited.
Breakfast on Saturday, ^>ril
14, beginning at 7 a.m. at the ^st
home.
The Finger Prints will perform
Saturday, ^vil 14.
Bingo is played every Friday
night at 8 o’clock and on Sundays
at 5 p.m.
Members were urged to attend
the next meeting on April 16 at 8
p.m.
DOES TO MEET
B.P.O. DOES will meet
Tuesday, April 17 at the Southern
Pines Elks Club at 8 p.m. There
will be initiation wiOi refresh
ments after the meeting.
It’s a return of the native for
Neii Morgan, and he’s enjoying
every minute of it.
The San Diego columnist and
author who has become one of
the most widely read travel
writers in America was in the
Sandhills this past weekend for a
three-day stay in his month-long
tour of North Carolina in
preparation for a special feature
on the state in National
Geographic.
It was homecoming for
Morgan, who grew up in Wake
Forest and graduated from Wake
Forest College (now University)
where he created a sensation as
editor of the student newspaper.
The Old Gold and Black.
He worked on The News and
Observer for a couple of years,
part of the time when he was still
a student at Wake Forest, and
then entered the Navy. Shipped
out to the West Coast, he decided
to stay there after World War II,
joining the staff of the San Diego
Tribune and he’s still thefe.
In the years since the war,
however, Morgan, who is now
associate editor of the Tribune as
well as the newspaper’s travel
editor, has become an authority
on California. He is the author of
the California section in the
Encyclopedia Britannica as well
as several books, including the
award-winning “Westward Tilt,”
the story of the Western
movement. He travels in all
parts of the world and his regular
column, syndicated by the
Copley News Service, is in many
newspapers.
His wife, Judith, is also a
columnist-“it’s travel, opinion,
or whatever comes to mind.” She
was a reporter on the Tribune
and they met while working
there together.
The two of them travel
together, such as on the National
Geographic assignment, which is
taking them to all parts of the
state.
They interviewed Governor
Jim Hunt within a couple of
hours after arriving in North
Carolina, and then, after a visit
with old friends and former
professors in Wake Forest, the
Morgans headed for the Outer
Bante. From there they traveled
down the coast, visiting
Ocracoke, Bath, Edenton, New
Bern, Jacksonville, Wilmington,
Southport, and then up to Bladen
County where Morgan used to
spend summers on his grand
parents farm. (His mother was a
native of Bladen County and his
father was the late ^v. S.L.
Morgan, a noted Baptist minister
who preached in all parts of
Eastern Carolina and who died
only a few years ago on at the age
of 94).
Before arriving in Southern
Pines on Saturday, the Morgans
also visited Lumberton,
Laurinburg, Hamlet and
Pembroke, where they had “a
fascinating talk” with Dr.
English Jones, the chancellor of
Pembroke State University who
is retiring in June.
While here they toured
Southern Pines, Pinehurst and
the surrounding countryside,
including visits to the World Golf
Hall of Fame and the Weymouth
Center in Southern Pines.
Morgan was impressed with
plans for the center for the arts
and humanities at the former
residence of novelist James
Neil and Judith Morgan in Southern Pines
Boyd, commenting that it would
be something distinctive for
North Carolina.
“It’s so beautiful here,” said
Mrs. Morgan, “it makes us want
to stay.”
While here the Morgans had
dinner at the Pine Crest Inn and
Mid Pines Hotel, as well as meals
at the Pinehurst Hotel. Morgan
picked up a suntan around the
pool at the Pinehurst Hotel.
They talked with several
people, including Betsy Lindau of
the Sandhills Area Chamber of
Commerce, and fellow travel
writer, Voit Gilmore.
From Southern Pines they
moved on to Chapel Hill for
several days visiting and in
terviews in the Research
Triangle area. Other places they
plan to visit during April include
Greensboro, High Point, Win
ston-Salem, Boone, Grandfather
Mountain, Asheville, Cherokee
and Charlotte.
Morgan is not sure when the
National Geographic special,
with pictures, will appear, but
expects it to be in the coming
months.
“There is so much to write
about North Carolina,” he said.
“I may have to do a book.”
Ms. McCullough Winner
Of Merit Scholarship
O’Neal Headmaster Robert
Haarlow announced today that
Mary (Katie) McCullough,
dau^ter of Mr. and Mrs. James
McCullough of 101 Strathmore
St., Southern Pines, has been
selected the winner of a Celanese
Corporation sponsored four-year
Merit Scholarship.
Miss McChllough, who had
advanced to finalist in the
National Merit Scholarship
program on the basis of her
outstanding scores on the
Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude
Test (P.S.A.T.), was among
approximately 15,000 top per
formers in this year’s Merit
Program.
Miss McCullough came to
O’Neal in her senior year from
Fairview High School, Fairview
Park, Ohio, where she was a
member of the National Honor
Society, a member of the Student
Council and receiver of the
Distinguished Scholar Award.
While at O’Neal Miss Mc
Cullough has served as vice-
president of the senior class, has
received highest honors and
writes for the school newspaper.
In addition Miss McCullough is a
gifted writer of both poetry and
short stories. She has been ac
cepted at and plans to attend
Brown University in September.
Since its beginning in 1955, the
National Merit Scholarship
Program has focused upon one
Sandhills Alumni Fete
S Is Scheduled On Friday
Friday the 13th will be a lucky
day for graduates and former
students of Sandhills Community
CoUege.
They will be treated-for
firee-to a cookout on the campus,
and fun and fellowship.
According to Jim Halstead,
assistant to the president, the
gala affair is designed to bring
alUmni back to campus.
!t will be an informal
geWo-gether, no speeches but
impromtu singing and
socializing, catching up on news
of former schoolmates and
reminiscing of campus capers,
examination' times and
classroom debates.
It is expected many members
of the faculty and staff will be on
band for the occasion to welcome
the “old timers” and their
families back to the campus.
Starting time is 6:30 in the
Fountain Courtyard-in the
Student Hall if weather is
inclement. Bill Maness, manager
of the college cafeteria, will have
hot dogs, hamburgers, salad, soft
drinks and coffee for all.
Men and women planning to
attend the party are asked to call
Halstead at 692-6185 or Mrs.
Apple, secretary to the dean of
students, so that plenty of food
will be available to feed the
crowd.
Mary (Katie)
McCullough
clearly defined sector of the
nation’s secondary school
students, those at the uppermost
end of the academic abiUty scale.
The Merit Program is a privately
funded endeavor, the oidy major
scholarship competition that is
both independently supported
and national in dimension. Over
the 23 competitions between 1956
and 1978, 54,000 able finalists
were chosen as Merit Scholars
and received awards worth a
total of $148 million. However,
over 70 percait of the finalists in
each annual {H'Ogram do not win
Merit Scholarships, although
large numbers of them have
received other awards-mainly
from colleges and universities
that are in search of students of
the caliber who are honored for
high Merit Program per
formance.
Although the total of Merit
Scholarships being offered in
1979 is about eight times larger
than the number awarded in
1956, only about 4i000 finalists
will win Merit Scholarships. The
number offered in any given year
is limited to funds granted by
corporations, foundations,
business organizations, and
colleges to support awards that
■year. The total value of the Merit
Scholarships offered annually is
currently about $13 million-a
i^all sum when compared to the
total of financial aids available
for undergraduate study in the
United States.
Stoneybrook Ball To Launch
Festivities For Race Weekend
It is almost Stoneybrook
weekend and sports fans and
party lovers can rejoice.
Festivities will begin before the
races Saturday at the
Stoneybrook Ball, another
tradition in the Sandhills.
The Ball will be held at the
Country Club of North Carolina
Friday night from 7:30 until 1
a.m., under the direction of Mrs.
Werner Thiele. Guests will dine
and dance to the music of Bo and
the Generation II, a band widely
admired in this and other regions
of the country.
Meanwhile, the fun will not end
at the track Saturday afternoon.
A cocktail party has been
planned for the Mid Pines Qub
immediately following the races,
which will last until 7:30. Wayne
Livengood and the Blue Grass
Tar Heels will play for this more
informal party.
Reservations for the Ball or the
cocktail party can still be made
by calling the Stoneybrook office
at 692-8000 or droj^ing by the
Campbell House. The price per
couple for the Ball is $^; $30 for
the posLrace party.
Many private parties also are
scheduled by Stoneybrook race
fans in the area.
The Southern Pines Garden
Club’s popular House and Gard
en Tour is in full swing,today
with people from all over the
state, both individually and by
the busloads viewing the vdiole
area.
The tour will take visitors from
the Campbell House on
Connecticut' Ave. to the Eugene
Milligan residence, the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J.
Reynolds HI to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lamont Brown on
Horseshoe Rd. in Southern Pines.
The tour will continue to the
Country Qub of North Carolina
and the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Strickland and to
Pinehurst to visit the homes of
the James Hanrahans on
Cherokee Rd.
The weather, always an
Engagement
Announced
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Joseph
Otterbach, 154 Fenwick Road,
Mobile, Alabama, announce the
engagement of their daughter,
Karen Ailen, and Lieutenant Phil
Beaumont Creveling, son of
Colonel, Retired, and Mrs. Louis
Gregory Creveling of Pinehurst.
Miss Otterbach graduated
from Julius T. Wri^t School,
Mobile, Ala., and attended
Furman University in
Greenville, S.C. She will receive
a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
in interior design from the
University of Georgia, Athens,
Ga., in June.
The prospective bridegroom
graduated from Tehran
American School in Tehran,
Iran. He received a Bachelor of
Arts degree in accounting from
Furman University. Lieutenant
Creveling is stationed at Fort
Hood, Texas.
The July 14 wedding will take
place in Westminster
Presbyterian Church, Mobile,
Alaba^.
important factor, for the tour
has cooperated perfectly
allowing just enough cool days,
just enou^ warm days and some
rain in between, giving the area’s
azaleas and dogwood a chance to
burst forth at just the right
moment.
Proceeds from the tour are
used for the further
beautification of Southern Pines.
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