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During the 1984-85 school year, eleven area employers pro-
vided work experiences in a program of cooperative educa-
tion sponsored by Cleveland Technical College for its Fashion
Merchandising & Marketing students. Shown above at a re-
cent luncheon ceremony honoring the cooperating employers
are (left to right) Stough Wray, Jr., Vice-President of A.V.
Wray & 6 Sons; CTC student Lynn Morgan; and Dr. Noel
Lykins, CTC Executive Vice-President. Other employers
honored were Belk Stevens Co.; The Fashion Corner; Four
Star Sports; Hamrick’s of Gaffney; W.H. Hudson Co., Inc.;
Manufacturer’s Outlet; The Ormond Shop (Cleveland Mall
and Eastridge Mall); J.C. Penney Co., Inc.; and Roses
Stores, Inc. Other students participating in the work ex-
perience program were Susan Allen, Kathie Brown, Jennifer
Godfrey, Celeste Harkey, Lisa Huffman, Antoinette Lowe,
Susan McKinney, Gina Matheney, Carol Morrison, Lynn Pro-
pst, and Charito Quinn.
KM Community Center
Plans 4th Celebration
Kings Mountain’s Fourth of
July celebration will begin at
10 a.m. on Thursday, July
4th, and culminate with a
giant fireworks extravagan-
za at 10 p.m. at Commis-
sioners Memorial Park.
The full day of activities
will begin with pool events at
the city swimming pool at 10
a.m. with diving contests, a
big splash contest at 10:30, a
freestyle race at 11 am., a
high board diving contest at
11:30 a.m., a penny dive at 12
Women
Selected
To List
Kristen Jean Hagen and
Sharon Elizabeth Lineberger
of Kings Mountain were nam-
ed to the spring semester
dean’s list at the University
of North Carolina.
To make the dean’s list, a
student must earn a 3.2 grade
average on the 4.0 scale while
taking 15 or more letter grade
hours of credit, or a 3.5
average
have!
full day of activities. -
Summertime
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your dormant spirits...to lose
that unwanted weight...to
regain the healthy feeling:
that nature intends for you to
EXPERIENCE YOUR
OWN NEW BEGINNING
noon and a watermelon carr
at 12:30. Ongoing events wi
include fire truck rides, ball
games and kiddie rides.
At 10 a.m. a Little League
and Softball championship
tournament will get under-
way and at 1 p.m. a horseshoe
pitching contest will begin
with sign-up at the horseshoe
pit area. A waterslide in front
of the Community Center will
be open to the public from 2
until 4 p.m. and a pool table
contest, inside the Communi-
ty Center, will start at 2:30
p.m. Championship carpet
golf is on tap at 3 p.m.
Participants should sign up
at the PA Tent for field
events which get underway at
3:30 with a pie eating contest,
a 4 p.m. watermelon eating
contest, a 5 p.m. chicken
chase, a 5:30 p.m. bunny
chase, a 6 p.m. greased pig
chase and a 6:30 p.m. greasy
pole climb.
Special entertainment will
include a country western
band at 3 p.m. and at7 p.m. a
break dance ‘putting on the
Hits” lip syncing contest and
open street dance with the
fireworks display to close the
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AA Has Made Big Strides
It was late afternoon,
Saturday, May 11, 1935. In the
crowded, almost party-
atmosphere of the main lobby
of the Mayflower Hotel in
Akron, Ohio, a man with an
urgent need to talk to so-
meone special stepped into a
telephone booth to make a
call and stepped out to make
history.
In Akron on business, the
caller’s name was Bill
Wilson. He was fighting this
May afternoon (as he had
noon) to stay away from a
drink. His purpose in making
that call was to pursue his
belief - a totally unheard-of
concept at this time - that if
one alcoholic talked to
another alcoholic they could
both stay sober. The persons
he reached by phone that
afternoon were to lead him to
a meeting next day with an
Akron resident who also had
difficulties because of his
drinking, surgeon Robert
Holbrook Smith, affectionate-
ly known as “Dr. Bob.”
- Exactly 30 days later, Mon-
day, June 10, 1935, when Dr.
Bob had what was to be his
last drink, the two men had
fashioned between them what
is today known as Alcoholics
Anonymous.
In the beginning, growth of
the membership of Alcoholics
Anonymous was discourag-
ingly slow. Two years after
the co-founders met there
were only 40 members, and
two more years later - by 1939
- there were only 100. This
year, as the men and women
of Alcoholics Anonymous
prepare to celebrate the
Fellowship’s 50th anniver-
sary, the registered member-
ship, worldwide in 114 coun-
tries, is more than a million,
and many more have achiev-
ed sobriety with the help of
A.a. Alcoholics Anonymous
has grown from its first days
without the spur of publicity
Sampaigns or membership
drives, but has operated and
expanded steadily and solidly
on the simple and quiet con-
cept of one alcoholic appeal-
ing to another alcoholic on a
personal, one-on-one basis as
practiced by Bill and Dr. Bob
in the beginning.
Many have tried to
describe A.A. - perhaps ‘‘uni-
Pfeiffer
Aecepts
Clemmer
MISENHEIMER, NC-
Martha Ann Clemmer,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John F. Clemmer of Kings
Mountain, has been accepted
: to attend Pfeiffer College for
the 1985-86 academic year.
She is a 1982 graduate of
Kings Mountain Senior High
School and a 1985 graduate of
_ Brevard College.
Founded in 1885, Pfeiffer is
a Methodist-related senior
college of arts and sciences
and selected professional
‘studies with campuses in
Misenheimer and C
School
Janitor
Arrested
Dean Webb, 33, North
School janitor, was arrested
June 13th by Kings Mountain
Police Det. Billy Benton and
charged with misdeamenor
fareony. ;
Webb is alleged to have
taken a set of tambourines
and cymbals from the school
and later sold them at a local
auction.
Benton said the Kings
Mountain Police Department
was asked by Asst. Supt.
Larry Allen to investigate
reports of a rash of thefts at
the school over a year’s
period.
Trial date has not been set.
rlotte.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our
sincere appreciation to the
many friends and neighbors
for the many kind expres-
sions of sympathy during the
death of our loved one.
MRS. COLEEN WEST
AND FAMILY
\
- been fighting many an after-
rma SE
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que” might be a fairly ac-
curate description. For A.A.
is indeed different. For ex-
ample, Alcoholics
Anonymous allies itself with
no sect, denomination,
politics, organization or in-
stitution, does not wish to
engage in any controversy,
neither endorses nor opposes
any causes. There are no
dues or fees for A.A.
membership; A.A. is self-
supporting through member-
ship contributions.
~ It is these marked dif-
ferences, says sociologist
Milton Maxwell in his book
““The A.A. Experience’, that
in great measure account for
AA's effectiveness and sur-
vival. Writes Dr. Maxwell:
¢_..in a society characterized
by competitive striving for
status, recognition, power
and their material symbols,
A.A. has a recovery program
based upon opposite values -
upon learning a nonegocen-
tric way of life. Furthermore,
Dr. Maxwell continues, ‘A.A.
has a collective life - tradi-
tions and structure - which is
remarkably congruent with
and supportive of the basic
recovery program. There is
no confusion of ends and
means. There is a singleness
of purpose. There is an inter-
nal harmony of program,
principles and practices
which stands in striking con- |
trast to the operations of
most organizations and agen-
cies in our society. Even
though individuals and
groups
well concludes,
mune from drift and founder-
ing, it appears to me that A.a.
is provided with some
unusual assets for keeping
itself on course in the
foreseeable future.”
Today A.A. is making a
substantial impact on
in A.A. often fall
short of the mark, and while .
it is equally true,” Dr. Max- !
‘“‘that no
social organization is im- ;
experience, mutual iden-
tification, acceptance, and
unconditional belongingness.
As Monday, June 10, 1985
approached, the thoughts of
thousands upon thousands of
recovered alcoholics around
the world was in the direction
of Akron, Ohio, and that day
half a century ago when a
simple telephone call put into
practice an idea that launch-
ed a program of hope and
strength that has brought
sobriety and new meaning to
life for alcoholics and their
families and friends
everywhere. With almost
every tick of the clock it
reaches and brings this same
help and hope to another and
another and another....
Some years ago Bill Wilson
was asked how A.A. worked.
It is reported that his reply
was a simple, ‘Just fine,
thanks.” At 50 years young
Alcoholics Anonymous seems
to be working ‘just fine” in-
deed.
PIG PICKIN
SALUTING 85 GRADUATES
AT REB & JACKEY WIESENER’S NEW HOME
New home 3rd house on right on Highway 74
just prior to Dixie
Cold Beverages
Village in Gastonia.
$4.00 Donation Appreciated
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members of the professional §&
community who come in con-
tact with alcoholic clients and |
patients. Says one therapist, |
of his experience with:
alcoholic clients: “A.A. is a
powerful social environment,
not only for helping an
alcoholic give up drinking but
also for helping an alcoholic
grow emotionally. I once
thought of A.A. as an adjunct
to my professional efforts,
but I found that alcoholic
clients who got involved in
A.A. made so much progress
that I began to think of A.A.
as the primary change agent
and to think of my own role as
being, for the most part, a
supportive one.”
ontrary to what it may
seem to an outsider, A.A. is
not isolsing ang grim. To the
member who accepts what
A.A. has to offer, the pro-
gram is warm and comfor-
ting. Meetings are more than
instructive, they are friendly
and filled with healing
laughter. In A.A. rooms there
is an accumulation of shared
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