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^ Occasionally Along The
m/ay features, items of
specific interest to just a few
folts, and this week citizens
of Kenan^ville can read and
remember their town as it
was more than 30 years ago.
An editorial was written
in the November 10. 1950
issue of THE DUPLIN
TIMES by owner and pub
lisher J.R. Grady. The edi
torial was written about trees
^but depicts small-town life in
the town of Kenan^ville. It
was titled "Old Landmarks
Move On" and reads as
follows:
The moving finger writes,
and having writ moves on. .
.and so old landmarks must
make way for progress. Fif
teen vears ago Kenanjville
was hardly more than a
crossroads. Had it not been
?for the courthouse and jail
Tine could hardly have said
there was a Kenan^ville.
Today as Duplin marches
forward toward greater days
its county seat town moves
with progress.
Today nostalgia is in the
air as we look out and see the
three old sycamore trees,
that once were the pride of
the sidewalk club in Renans
^-ille, shed their last leaves
and are pulled up by the
roots. No longer will we see
Coy Kennedy sitting on the
bench beside the old barber
shop (which burned a few
months ago) chewing his 1
tobacco, whitttin' his sticks '
and telling'tales of old'days
in Duplin and his exper
iences with his' coon and
hound dogs, feurie Johnson
will have to And another
shady spot to tell about
experiences in his long life as
one of Duplin's most repu
table house painters and tell
the boys about his brother
and the doings . in Miami
when he .visits the land of
Sunshine. Bob Dail with his
market apron will have to
look another direction to. find
shade when he wants to'cool
off in the summer and Slim
Dail can no longer park his
car under the shade of those
old sycamores. These old
trees have been as much a
part of business life of
Kenan$ville as has the drug
store, the gossiping center
for the ladies, which was
saved from destruction by
those very same trees in the
fire last spring. Not only can
the drug store be thankful
for those trees but so can
every building on that side of
the street for when the old
Dail store, the barber shop
and "Pap" Sitterson's office
burned these trees helped
confine the fire to these
buildings. 1* "'as under these
trees that hundreds of '
Duplinites who came into
conflict with the law would J
cool off as Justice Sitterson 1
\
would hear their cases.
Yes, the old sycamores are
gone. New trees could be
planted (but they never will)
in this spot, and with them
goes a very intimate part of
aid Kenansville. Lovers of
trees here look at the open
space and the tune of that
Familiar song and poem by
Joyce Kilmer comes to mind:
I think that I'll never see
A poem lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth
is pressed
Against the earth's sweet
flowing breast.
A tree that looks at God all
day
And lifts her leafy arms
to pray.
A tree that may in summer
wear
A nest of robins in her hair
Upon whose bosom snow has
lain
Who intimately lives with
rain.
Poems are made by fools
like me
But only God can make
a tree.
Gifted/Talented
Students Participate
* In ECU
Science Camp
\
Approximately 350 junior Q
and senior high school stu- L
dents from' North Carolina E
and Virginia participated in
East Carolina University's u
annual Gifted / Talented w
?Science Camp during July. g
' Duplin and Lenoir County s
participants includ Melissa ti
Price of Beulaville, Gigi f'
Ammar, Bertha Wilson and t
Perrie Fennell of Kenans- s
ville, Lisa Brady and Kim
berly Stokes of Wallace, v
Anna Lee and David Neal t
luinn of Warsaw, and from
enoir, Dennis Harper of
leep Run.
The camp included two
reek-long sessions. The first
ras for seventh and eighth
rade students and the
econd was for ninth and
enth graders. Each session .
eatured enrichment act^vi
ies in various Fields of J
cience.
Among the topics offered '
sere computer science, pho- '
ography, astronomy, analy
ical chemistry, radiation |
cience, microstructures,
ilate techtonics, anthro- 1
Kilogy and biotechnology.
Campers attended labora- .
ory sessions and lectures in .
heir chosen fields of interest
vhile residing on campus. '
[hey were selected on the '
>asis of school recommen- 1
lation and achievement in !
science and mathematics.
The annual camp is one of !
several summer science
samps sponsored by the ECU
iepartment of science edu- '
ration. Directors were Dr. 1
Floyd Mattbeis and Karen '
Foller of the ECU science
sducation department.
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Duplin County
Opening Of School
The school bells will ring
throughout Duplin County on
Monday, August 22 for the
first day of school. An orien
tation day will be held for
students and parents on
Thursday, Aug. 18. The
buses will not operate on
orientation day.
Beacuse of the lateness of
the tobacco crops in Duplin
County, the Board of Educa
tion voted to grant excused
absences during the first 10
days of school to those
students working in tobacco.
It is important that students
report to school on Aug. 22 to
enroll in school and for their
membership to count toward
the allocation of professional
personnel.
The allocation of funds and
resources from the State
Department of Public Inst
ruction (SDPI) is based on
average daily membership
(ADM;. The State Depart
ment of Public Insturction
will make an adjustment in
the allotment of personnel
after the first 10 days of
school.
Duplin County gained 244
students during the first
month. If these students had
enrolled on the first day of
school, additional teachers
would have been allotted to
Duplin County to serve these
students, A rough estimate
based on ADM indicates that
Duplin County lost five
teachers due to students'
failure to enroll in school on
the first day.
To share a few statistics,
the enrollment on the first
day of the 1982-83 school
year was 8,231. By the 5th
day it was 8,389, a gain of
158. By the 10th day, the
membership was 8,455, a
gain of 66 additional stu
dents. By the lOth day, the
membership was 8.475, a
gain of 20 students, The net
gain during the first 20 days
of school was 244 students.
Therefore, it is imperative
that students enroll in school
Day One and continue in
membership.
Aglow
Women
Meet
The Women's Aglow
Fellowship, Kenansville
chapter will meet Aug. 13 at
8:45 a.m. for fellowship and
9:30 a.m. for the regular
meeting at the General Store
in Kenansville, according to
Linda K. Lanier of Beula
ville.
Students Take
Part In Peace
Writing Institute
Even before three area
esidents start college as
feshmen on Aug. 23, they
vill have written at least
1,000 words in a program
vorth two college credit
tours. The area residents are
Eva Bodor of Route 1,
(enasqville, Holly Chest
lutt, daughter of Mr. and
idrs. Norwood Chestnutt of
loute 1, Warsaw; and Julie
Zarlton, daughter of Mr. and
virs. Davia n. i_ariton 01
Warsaw.
The effort will have taken
jlace at Peace College three
veeks before the freshmen
ifficially start college. The
itudents are among the 79
reshmen who are currently
aking part in the college's
?ummer writing institute.
The 13-day intensive
vorkshop started July 31 and
:nds Aug. 13. It is open to all
Teshmen who want to get a
leadstart on college skills ?
particularly writing ? and to
lave an early immersion in
allege life. The students live
in campus and spend their
:ime concentrating on the
writing and thinking skills
faculty members think they
need for success in all of
:heir courses.
The institute made it debut
ast summer as the second of
its kind in the nation, ac
rording to Dr. Sally Buckner,
:oordinator of English
studies at Peace. The only
Jthier similar workshop she
snows about was one begun
in 1981 at Bard College in
Sew York.
Peace's first institute in
Aug. 1982 was quickly over
snrolled and successful
enough that 100 percent of
the participants said they
would recommend it to_ in
coming freshmen; 98 percent
said they thought they were
helped to improve their writ
ing skills.
Again this year nearly 40
percent of the freshman class
took part in the institute and
again the enrollment was at
capacity, The emphasis on
individual help keeps the en
rollment at about 79.
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as much as 30%.
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