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The Perquimans Weekly, Hertford, N.C., Thursday, October 31, 1974-Fafe 9
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i By Robert G.Mulder :.
Remember the lilting
"Dominique" which soared
to national disc popularity in x
1964 bringing its creator, the '
J Singing Nun, to the en-1.
htertainment limelight? The
fsnappy tune quickly caught
fpn to become the 11th best
selling record of that year.
That -was ten years ago.
Thia year another singing
nun has what promises to be
a big hit: She is 36-years old
Sister - Janet Mead of
'Australia singing her rock
rrendition f "The Lord's
Prayer." In the last month 1
the record has sold nearly a .
million copies in the United
States, and its popularity is
just beginning to grow.
. Sister Janet was born in
Adelaide, Australia; At
seventeen she entered a
convent and later taught
music and drama at St.
Aloysius College. In 1969 she
became associated with a
musical family, the Van Per
Smans, who felt about
religious music as she did.
and since then she has been
traveling with their
Christian rock, group. Her
rock masses have drawn
J crowds of over 2,000 each
aunuay.
For a record company
biographer, she recently
said: "I see Christ as a
person with a vision of
drawing all people together
in happiness and I see my
work as part of His vision, to
bring people to God through
music. I am grateful to God J
for the happiness and deep
understanding I have found
in my life."
In her native country her
rendition of "The Lord's
l-Prayer' had sold 50-75,000
copies before it was in-
troaucea to me unuea
States.
assured that novel will
make the best seller list.
- This is a good year for
Women's Liberation. Two
hundred , years ago on
October 25, fifty-one women
from half a dozen countries
gathered in Edenton, North
Carolina, to "declare their
indifference to whatever
affected the peace and
happiness of the country."
The ladies were anxious to
give proof of their
patriotism and signed an
agreement to do everything
they could do to demon
strate their support of the
American cause.
Thus, the Edenton Tea
Party is important to the
American woman today
because the happening is the
earliest known organized
effort on the part of women
in the American colonies.
This important historical
event is covered well in a
new book by UNC
Professors Hugh T. Lefler
and William S. Powell,
(Colonial North Carolina.
New York; Scribners, 1974,
318 pp., $10.00) The book is a
part of Scribners. "History
of the American Colonies"
series.'
Two coastal women have
brought . to the reading
public a unique volume,
North . Carolina Bible
Records. Compiled and
edited by Mrs. Wilma
Cartwright Spence and Mrs.
Edna Morrisette Shan
nonhouse, the unexicting
title is by no ways indicative :
of the contents.
The span of time itself,
from the 11th to the 20th
centuries, is impressive,
and within the volume's
covers are to be found in
sights mingled with sorrow
and humor. About two
hundred family Bibles were
used in the material
carefully gathered over the
past few months,
carefully gathered over the
past few months. ' 1
Not only the recorded
dates for births, marriages,
deaths were used. The
compilers found many
letters and diaries which
had been kept in the old
family Bibles themselves..
The book, therefore, has
historical significance.
- Notes as to the price of land
, (50 cents per acre) and one
minister's salary ($60 per
year) attest to the im
portant record the volume
will surely become.
ARTS COUNCIL DIRECTOR Ms. Unda F. Penuel of
Williamston haa been appointed Executive Director of the
Northeastern Arts Council. Ms. Penuel will be serving the
six-county areaof Bertie, Martin, Chowan, Perquimans,
Gates, and Hertford. Prior to accepting this position, she
was state coordinator for the National Alliance For Arts
Education sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education and
the JFK Center. Ms. Penuel will be working in the county
as well as working within the school system.
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Please Vote
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Former Vice President
Spiro T. Agnew has turned
novelist among other things.
An outline, one chapter, and
some : sketches were
recently given to a senior
editor of Random House for
consideration, but the firm
quickly 4. rejected . the
proposal. ;: ,
: Robert L. Bernstein,
president of the publishing
company, states em
phatically that "his com
pany has no contract with"
Mrv Agnew and no intentions
of signing one with him."
Agnew's novel concerns a
future vice president of the
United States who turns out
to have programmed for
disaster by Chinese Com
munists. The new author's
main ' character is call
Porter Newton Canfield, a
wealthy - Ivy Leaguer
bearing no autobiographical
resemblance to his creator
who , rose from modest
origins. '
Thpught the novel was
rejected by Random House,
the author may receive as
much as $250,000 advance
money, according to
Washington Post columnist
Maxine Cheshire. Like its
author, the novel may not
make it by the critics'
standards but one may be
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