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Brunswick County Teachers Chosen
For Conference
Brunswick County teachers Ron
and Melanic Champion will be
among the presenters at the March
8-10 annual conference in Greens
boro of the North Carolina League
of Middle Level Schools.
Their presentation "Middle
School Gap?" concerns physical ed
ucation. They and other members of
the North Carolina Alliance for
Health, Physical Education. Recre
ation and Dance will discuss the im
portance of health and fitness in
youth today and how that focus is
often most in the middle school
"shuffle," said Champion.
She (caches physcial education at
Waccamaw Elementary School. She
is an Alliance national convention
delegation and North Carolina con
vention resource manager and is a
past secretary of the North Carolina
Physical Education Association.
He teaches physical education at
Shallottc Middle School and serves
as the Alliance's president elect.
In addition to presenting work
shops statewide, the two arc serving
on a statewide committee that is pro
ducing an activity handbook that
correlates with the new state cur
riculum. They will also represent
North Carolina at the Southern Dis
trict convention of the Alliance in
Dallas, Texas, this month.
Selected For Conference
Elijah Gingras of Cedartown, Ga..
has been selected to attend The
National Young Leaders Conference
Feb. 2-7 in Washington. D.C.
Gingras is a former West Bruns
wick High School student and is the
son of Angela Gingras, teacher at
Union Elementary School.
He was among 350 outstanding
nign school students nationwide se
lected by the Congressional Youth
Leadership Council to participate in
the confcrencc on the basis of acade
mic achievement, leadership and cit
izenship. Students will meet with
leaders and newsmakers from the
three branches of government, the
media and the diplomatic corps and
participate in a mock congress on
gun control.
Joyner Completes Basic
U.S. Navy Seaman Recruit Vin
ccnt A. Joyner has completed basic
training at Recruit Training Com
mand, Orlando, Ha.
A 1992 graduate of South Bpjns
wick High School, he is the son of
Charles A. and Estelle Joyner of
Route 2, Bolivia.
Skelley Selected
Jeffrey Hugh Skelley of Calabash
has been selected for inclusion of his
biography in the 1992 edition of
Outstanding Young Men of America.
The program recognizes the civic
and professional achievements of
men ages 21 to 40.
Aboard Kitty Hawk
U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class
Robert A. Mctcalf is in the Persian
Gulf aboard the aircraft carrier USS
Kitty Hawk, homeportcd in San
Diego and now part of the operation
enforcing a "no-fly zone" over
southern Iraq.
The son of Robert A. and Phyllis
M. Metcalf of Southport, Melcalf
joined the Navy in May 1976.
Comnlptps Rrtcjr
U.S. Navy Seaman Rccruit Kevin
A. Dickcrson, son of Leroy W.
Dickerson of Southport, recently
completed basic training at Recruit
Training Command, Great Lakes,
III.
He is a 1992 graduate of Arcadia
High School in Oak Hall, Va., and
joined the Navy in September 1992.
CFCC Dean's List
Cape Fear Community College
has released its president's and
dean's lists for the fall quarter 1992.
The following Brunswick County
students were named to the presi
dent's list for earning a grade point
average of 4.0, or straight A's: Kim
beriy D. Brown, Leland; Tamara I.
Gabrcc, Leland; Kenneth R. Mah
aney, Southport; Monica U. Standar,
Leland; Taphne M. Taylor, Long
Beach; Erich B.W. Vereen, Long
Beach; Larry E. Whitt, Yaupon
Beach; Robert R. Wiggs, Leland.
The following were named to the
dean's list for earning a grade point
average of 3 " with no grade lower
than a C: Christopher R. Atkinson,
Bolivia; Jerome J. Baggctt, Leland;
Kelly S. Baker, Leland; Rita K.
Blake, Leland; Charles A. Brown,
Bolivia; Delane Chappcll, Ash; Glo
ria G. Cliff, Winnafxiw; Sandra G.
Cox, Supply; Sharon B. Crccch,
Leland; Dawn E. Fowler, Leland;
Phillip M. Langford, Leland; Paul
R. Radovish Jr., Winnabow; and
Diane M. Williams, Leland.
Cumbie Recognized
Patricia "Penny" Cumbie, who
operates the Student Information
Management System (SIMS) at
Supply Elementary School, was rec
ognized by her peers in the January
school spotlight.
She was nominated for "her eager
way of responding to icachcrs'
needs" and "the kind and helpful
way she docs her work."
She has been employed by the
Brunswick County Schools for sev
en years, previously serving as assis
tant secretary at West Brunswick
High School. She was previously
employed as a computer operator
with the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration (NASA).
Cumbie and her husband, Jeff,
have a son, Steven.
Studies In Europe
Wofford College sophomore
Becky Wood spent two weeks in
eastern Europe during January
studying the forces against the
movement to de-collectivizc the
crunomics of Hungary and Cze
choslovakia," according to a news
release from the college.
She is the daughter of Judith
Wood of Philadelphia, Pa., and the
granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Wood of Shallottc.
Wofford's "January Interim" pro
vides students with an opportunity
to work for a month on a topic of
special interest.
Honored At Campbell
Two Brunswick County students
were among those winning academ
ic honors at Campbell University
during the fall 1992 semester.
Named to the president's list for
having a cumulative grade-point av
erage of 3.5 or better was Daryl
Wayne Trexler of Southport.
On the dean's list for having an
average of 3.25 or more was Karen
Theresa Lominac of Shallottc.
Campbell is a B; ptist-affiliaied
university in Buics Creek.
Shallotte Woman Leads Cape Fear United Wav
RUSS
Polly Russ of Shallotie will head the Cape
Fear Area United Way this year.
Russ, who owns and operates a local child
care center and serves on the
Brunswick County Board of
Education, was elected at the
three-county agency's annual
meeting last Thursday. She
served as prcsident-eleci dur
ing 1992.
"It will be a busy year,"
Russ said Tuesday. "It's al
ready started."
Her election comes at a
time when Cape Fear Area
United Way is taking a fresh look at how it oper
ates and both its expectations of donors and mem
ber agencies and their expectations of it.
Among her long-range organizational goals
arc to find ways to identify new and more diverse
sources of volunteers and involve them in every
thing United Way does, and to determine the best
way to reach a large potential group of donors, re
tirees, that "arc not in the system."
"If they are not in a business or corporation
no one is asking them to give," she said. "We
need to determine the best way to reach them,
whether it is through neighborhood campaigns,
civic groups, whatever is needed." Many of this
target group gave regularly to United Way during
their careers and will still feel good about giving
to a united campaign.
At a statewide United Way meeting in late
January, Russ said she was interested to see how
local United Way agencies are perceived in rela
tion to the national United Way and the manage
ment scandal that rocked its operations last year.
"Wc all suffered because of that scandal," she
said. "But it is over.
"Studies show it was a major reason why peo
ple chose to give less last year," she continued.
"Of course the economy was also a factor, not
just here, but nationwide."
Like many of its fellow agencies nationwide.
Cape Fear United Way fell short of its goal dur
ing the 1992 campaign, raising SI.6 million to
distribute among 23 member agencies plus two
programs its operates. The agency also con
tributes to 14 non-member state and local agen
cies. Organizers said they were pleased with the
campaign outcome, given the circumstances.
As an organization, she said, the local United
Way needs to face several facts: that donors are
smarter and know more, and they want account
ability from the charities they support.
"Cape Fear Area United Way has never had a
problem with accountability, but maybe we need
to tell our story better. Wc need to convince peo
ple that this is the best way to give, the charity of
choice: that is a way to give to smaller, less visi
ble agencies that cannot afford fundraising cam
paigns and that it helps reduce agencies* reliance
on other fundraising efforts."
United Way requires annual Financial audits
of its member agencies and also uses teams of
volunteers to conduct annual reviews of programs
that receive United Way support
"We fund programs, not necessarily an entire
agency, and we look at the programs we arc fund
ing. It's not a process intended to tear an agency
apart, but we look to see if they are providing the
services they say they are."
In a move that begins the year, the United
Way will make a stronger effort to prioritize its
g
allocations to better meet the needs identified as
most important by residents of Brunswick, Pender
and New Hanover countics in a survey conducted
this past year. If a need has been identified, such
as infant mortality or teenage pregnancy, that a
member agency is not addressing, the United
Way may choose to make a one-time grant to a
non-member agency that is addressing it.
In Brunswick County responden's ranked un
employment as the greatest human service need,
followed by related economic, health care and ed
ucation and training issues. These included the
need for entry-level positions with benefits such
as health insurance, health care for the poor, af
fordable health care, medical services and dental
care, job training and literacy training.
Respondents cited lack of transportation and
lack of information about available services as the
chief barriers to using existing human services in
the county.
Serving with Russ this year on the United
Way Executive Committee are Gayle Van Velsor,
president elect; Dan-ell Johnson, treasurer; Steve
Banks, vice president for campaign; Jonathan
Mason, vice president for planning; Paula Lent/,
vice president for allocations; K. Dale Loughlin,
vice president for marketing and development;
Debbie AUsbrook, vice president for volunteer
development; Carolyn Sodcrs, chairman of the
Senior AIDES Advisory Council; and Astrid
Brown, chairman of the Information and Referral
Program.
Elected to three-year terms on the board that
end December 1995 were John Igel, Mike
Howard, Ron Burger, Dan Hickman, Richard
Conrath, Jim Moscly, the Rev. John Calhoun,
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