STAFF PHOTO BY SUSAN USHE*
COAST TOASTERS Vice President Don Egbert presents Competent Toastmaster (CTM) certificates to
Roy Hunter and Frances Warner, marking successful completion of the club's basic educational pro
gram. Not pictured is Jimmy Register.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Dempsey Named Outstanding PE
Major
The son of an Occan Isle couple
has been named Outstanding Phys
ical Education Major of the Year
from UNC-Wilmington by the Nat
ional Association for Sport and
Physical Education.
Line Dempsey, who lives in Wilm
ington, is the son of Bill and Bonnie
Dempsey of Marker Place, Occan
Isle. He is a senior at UNC-W.
The award recognizes outstanding
physical education majors from col
leges which have professional pre
paration programs. This year 206
students from throughout the coun
try were honored at a reception in
Washington D.C. in late March.
Attends Seminar
Carla B. Jacobs of Leland, a first
grade teacher at Lincoln Primary
School, recently attended a seminar
at the N.C. Center for the Ad
vancement of Teaching.
Jacobs was one of 19 North Caro
lina teachers participating in "Birds
of the Blue Ridge," March 29-April
2, conducted by NCCAT Center
Fellow Judith Clauss.
Jacobs has a bachelor's degree
from the University of North Car
olina at Wilmington, and a master's
degree from Pembroke State Uni
versity.
Mize Wins Medal
Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty
Officer Joseph E. Mize, a 1970
graduate of Bolivia High School,
was recently awarded the Coast
Guard Humanitarian Service Medal
while serving at Coast Guard
Communications Area Master
Station San Francisco, Point Reyes
Station, Calif.
Mize received the award for "ex
traordinary service during the period
from OcL 1, 1992, through Nov
ember 1992," according to a Coast
Guard news release. "During this
period, the men and women of the
Coast Guard undertook several mas
sive operations that involved the en
tire service in selfless acts of hu
manitarian assistance far beyond the
call of duty."
Mize participated in duties rang
ing from maritime search and rcscuc
and marine environmental protec
tion, to national defense and law en
forcement.
He joined the Coast Guard in
November 1970.
Merrick Deployed
Navy Chief Petty Officcr David
L. Merrick, a 1965 graduate of
Lincoln High School in Leland, was
recently deployed aboard the am
phibious transport dock USS
Nashville, homcported in Norfolk,
Va., to the Persian Gulf.
Merrick, who joined the Navy in
April 1966, will be in the Gulf for
six months as part of the USS Wasp
Amphibious Ready Group, com
prisal of four ships and a 2,100-man
Marine Expeditionary Unit
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Three Named Competent Toastmasters
i oasimastcrs International re
cently recognized three members of
its Shallottc affiliate for their
achievements in communication,
said Jimmy Marshall, vice presi
dent-public relations of the Coast
Toasters Club.
Roy Hunter, Frances Warner and
Jimmy Register were honored as
Competent Toastmasters (CTMs) for
having completed the organization's
basic course in Communication and
Leadership.
The 10-project coursc covers the
basics of public speaking and the re
lated skills of listening, evaluation
and conducting effective meetings,
said Don Eggcrt, vice president-edu
cation. Members progress at their
own pace in the friendly, seminar
like setting of a weekly club meet
ing, learning by doing and learning
from each other.
Hunter, who lives in Calabash, is
contract sales manager for Lowe's
of Whiteville. He also serves as
sergeant-of-arms of the Coast
Toasters Club.
Warner, who is patient advocate
for The Brunswick Hospital, is a
resident of Holden Beach. She is
club secretary and contributes fre
quently to Wavelengths, the club
newsletter of which she is a former
editor.
Register, who owns Security
Fencing & Home Improvements Co.
of Shallottc, recently conducted a
workshop on evaluation at the North
Carolina (District 37) Toastmasters
Winter Conference.
The new CTMs said they joined
Toastmasters to improve communi
cauon skills they use daily in their humor, storytelling, leading discus
professions. Warner, Hunter and sions, and making technical, man
Register are continuing their self- agement or public relations prcscn
improvement efforts through tations.
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