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Volunteer Will BY SUSAN USHF.R As a young woman growing up in southern Brunswick County, Elnora iNlarlowt Mitchell made a pledge to herself?one she was to keep. "1 vowed . . . that my children would not have to struggle for an education like I did?that I would give them that chance." She did. Of her children Wrathel. Opal, Sybil, Angela ana vyntnia, all wno wanted to go on to college did. Mrs. Mitchell had made another pledge?to herself, to continue her own schooling. And at age 65, she walked down the aisle in cap and gown to receive her CiED certificate from Brunswick Technical College. The class ring she wears proudly will eventually be placed with , keepsakes tor her children. As the new VISTA (Volunteer In Service To America i worker with the Brunswick County Literacy Council, the 66-year-old mother and grandmother wants to fulfill a third goal, a dream born of her own delayed accomplishments: to provide other adults the opportunity to learn to read, to open doors through education. "It feels like a new beginning," she said of the job. "No, I'm not nervous. I'm relaxed. "I'm looking forward to?whatever!" As the council's recruiter, she will help increase community awareness of the literacy problem in Brunswick County and seek community support for the council's work, as well as recruiting tutors and students. The non- i profit council trains volunteer tutors who teach adults now to read on a one-to-one basis in the privacy of their | homes. Materials are furnished at no charge to the student Students are encouraged to complete their formal education when the tutoring ends. According to the 19B0 U.S. census there are 5,602 persons over age 25 in the county who have less than a ninthgrade education; another 5.602 have less than a high school education. Many of these individuals are functionally illiterate, which means they don't have the basic skills such as reading and math needed to get along day b\ day?on their jobs or at home. It's a bit; responsibility, but Mrs. Mitchell likes new challenges < 1 don't give up easily," she said, with the look of knowing the source of her own strength 1 always told my Kids. "Have faith As long as what you're doing is right, it will work out. The Ixird will work it out." As for helping adult non-readers, she's eager to begin Kor many Hrunswick County citizens, her own story will provide inspiration. 1 feel like 1 can help If there's anything in a person to do something atxnit it i a desire to learn to read 1.1 have something to give." 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' 12 CP>orww#4 Mtl? rovetr >+f Cf^ar-r^i t'Gt* &*imtor+roi Aoodgro^ i /?t' vi >>./ p^i/ co6?n?t THE BRUNS ro Help Adults L< iome near Thomasboro?too long a walk for a small girl, specially in bad weather. However, by the time her youngest brother came ilong, her father had a pickup truck and took the boys in he neighborhood to school. "Jethro went on to pollpep/' iho syid, no trace of biterness or envy in her voice, only a certain matter-ofactness. To make sure her own children had that same opporunity, she worked and saved, even when she and her hus>and Waymond i Pat) didn't have to have the money. "It's better to work before you have to," she ihilosophized, sitting at the kitchen table of the neat irick home her husband had built in the Koyal Oak comnunity at Supply. So she worked in a mill and in other women's homes is a domestic, but in those early years, mainly in the ields. She planted potatoes, set tobacco, pulled peanuts, iroke corn -whatever work was available. Hut she work d barefooted. With memories strong of the days when shoes were lard to come by and important to take care of, "I didn't rant dirt in my shoes." She worked hard and well, earning praise?and ligher wages?from her employers. "I was always taught by my father that anything I lid, to do it well," she said. So whether working in the ield or kitchen, she used the same economies of time and naterial she used 111 working at her own home. 14 m 24-Inch * 23*lr Llnon Caiondnr ^ _ _ _..~T My P 2-Pc. Bngllah Sufi % Scrn??n piif(10d *>th woodan . .. 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Page 5-A earn To Read When her daughter Sybil returned home from college to teach in the local schools, Mrs, Mitchell recalled, "She wanted to do something for the kids in the community. I told her to go talk to Jesse (Cleminons) at the college (the dean of instruction who lives up the road from the Mitchells! "Hi. ?ni,l Uinu rtwl.,'1 t.? -..ll.i.... t? -UIIJ u..? .... uw.u tnvj \ai\4i V 11(1 T V Hill llllllf^ tut VI11 Itll I'll, UUl that they had this education program for adults. "When she told me, 1 said to her. Tin your first student.' " Even when ready to take the (5ED exam, she stayed on in the class to encourage follow students, sometimes starting the class when Sybil was going to be late from school. "1 studied for about three years," she said. In the meantime, Sybil signed up for a Utubaclt tutor training workshop at the college, enrolling her mother as well. The local literacy council evolved from that first group of tutors. Mrs. Mitchell knew she wanted to use her newlyacquired education and training to help others, but she wasn't certain how. "1 was waiting," she said. "This just came to me." She gave up a seasonal iob shuckino nvstnrs ii? inU.. the position. She and her family thought the work Unit important. "If 1 can just relate to somebody, help to lift somebody up. that is what is in it for me," she said, i win have my reward." 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