JULY, 1957
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Some Church Leaders Classified
Hager, church treasurer, mem
ber church board; Mary Posey,
VBS teacher; Loyd Metcalf, Wil
lard Stiles, Robert Nichols, board
of stewards; John Foster, church
board; Alphonzo Nixon, church
board; Margaret Hamrick, SS
class first vice president; Rufus
Carpenter, deacon, SS superin
tendent, church treasurer, presi
dent BTU.
Mason King, church secretary-
treasurer, president usher board;
Edward Tims, board of trustees;
Pauline Moore, chairman WMU,
SS teacher. Eula Davis, church
pianist, assistant superintendent
Primary department; Alphonzo
Davis, VBS teacher; Walter Les
lie, church trustee; Frontus
Lyles, president training union,
SS teacher; James A. Mathis,
deacon, SS teacher; W. M. Cosey,
board of stewards; Jesse Jones,
president Men’s Brotherhood.
Pearlie Anderson, deacon, SS
teacher; T. J. Galloway, deacon,
church secretary - treasurer;
James Brewer, deacon, assistant
SS superintendent; Charlie
Young, church secretary, leader
church aid society; Hasker Love,
deacon, choir leader; Annie Car
son, leader women’s society;
Blanche Hovis, keeper of nurs
ery; Lela Cobb, vice president
missionary society; Emily Can
ady, leader WMS; Delia Buch
anan, Missionary group leader,
SS teacher; Bell Whitaker, BTU
leader.
Wayne O’Dell, usher; Worth
Honeycutt, deacon, usher; Willie
Geter, church trustee, president
SS class; Leroy Posey, church
steward, treasurer, director chil
dren’s choir; Nettie Corn, leader
women’s society; Pauline
Stroupe, SS teacher, leader
youth group; Clarence Houser,
board of stewards; William
Buchanan, deacon church treas
urer, SS secretary; James Gault-
ney, deacon, church treasurer,
SS teacher, VBS craft instructor;
Gary Lyles, SS teacher, usher,
leader Royal Ambassadors, as
sistant director BTU.
Grady Cook, usher, director
BTU, William Roberts, director
BTU; Beulah Cook, assistant SS
superintendent, church secre
tary, secretary BTU; Barbara
Howe, church steward; Hazel
Grover, captain BTU, SS teach
er; Rudolph Calhoun, deacon,
chairman building committee,
assistant music director; George
Poy, deacon, leader in organiz
ing new church work; Grady
Johnson, church program leader.
Cramer McDaniel, church
steward; Ray England, deacon,
VBS teacher, chairman benevo
lence committee, SS teacher,
committee on boys’ work and
Baptist Brotherhood; Thurman
Davis, brotherhood work, visi
tation; Ralph Dalton, deacon,
chairman board of ushers, sec
retary SS class; W. F. Rockett,
Usher, leader men’s fellowship;
board of stewards; James Craw
ford, Sr., chairman maintenance
committee, deacon; R. H. Har-
nion, secretary-treasurer training
Union; Cramer Little, church
trustee, assistant music director,
assistant S S superintendent,
committee chairman, member
official board.
Alvin Dill, deacon, chairman
board of ushers, SS class vice
president; A. D. McCarter, su
perintendent cradle roll, vice
president men’s Bible class;
Oscar Jacobs, deacon, assistant
ftiusic director, secretary-treas-
Urer men’s fellowship, member
• • •
—From page 2
SS board, SS teacher; Rosie
Francum, training union leader,
SS teacher; W. H. Hallman, ush
er; Ann Goodwin, secretary-
treasurer women’s circle; L. B.
McAbee, elder, SS teacher, com
mittee chairman, chairman of
congregation, treasurer building
fund, chairman of all church
business transactions; Flora
Pence, SS pianist, substitute or
ganist; Luther Brown, counselor
young people’s training union;
T. B. Ipock, Jr., deacon, SS
teacher.
Clyde Moss, music director, SS
teacher; F. B. Galligan, chair
man youth activities of Catholic
Men’s Club; Howard Love, trus
tee, church treasurer; Herbert
Broaden, deacon, church treasur
er, SS teacher; Pansy Falls, VBS
teacher, committee chairman;
Louise Ward, youth director,
WMU, committee chairman, SS
teacher; Mary Helen Spencer,
church organist; Novella James,
leader Girls’ Auxiliary, presi
dent SS class, assistant SS
teacher; Betty Moss, secretary
Gaston County Baptist Business
Women’s Club, assistant direc
tor BTU young people; Harold
Mercer, trustee, Past Chairman
of Board.
☆ ☆ ☆
Who does not in some sort
live to others, does not live much
to himself.—Montaigue
☆ ☆ ☆
Mozelle Brockman, VBS teach
er, committee chairman, presi
dent WMU, leader WMS, SS
teacher, leader young people’s
auxiliary; Eula Wilson, SS teach
er at Orthopedic hospital, sub
stitute SS teacher in home
church, associate Pioneer leader
at evening meetings; Delpres
Turner, SS superintendent, sec
retary Primary department; Bill
McSwain, deacon, secretary to
board of deacons; W. H. Davis,
president brotherhood group,
committee chairman, VBS, SS
teacher.
Myrtle Bradley, committee
chairman, VBS, SS teacher,
president Women-of-the-Church,
church organist, director work of
women’s organization, presider
at executive board meetings and
monthly general meetings of
church; R. L. Tompkins, church
board of trustees, church treas
urer; J. V. Darwin, board of
stewards, secretary official
board, member executive com
mittee official board, leader
men’s organization; Marguerite
Styers, chairman WMU circle,
SS teacher.
W. G. Henson, deacon, com
mittee chairman; Oliver Hardee,
deacon, music director, assistant
SS superintendent, SS teacher;
Henry Dellinger, church secre
tary; Frances Britton, SS teach
er, assistant director training
union; Thomas Grant, music di
rector, instructor of SS teachers,
SS teacher; W. B. Ward, member
SS board; Ray Thomas, church
secretary; Howard Burgess, as
sistant vice president SS class.
Johnnie Wood, counselor
young people’s society, SS su
perintendent; C. F. Robinson,
board of stewards; Mary Cal
houn, social leader BTU; Pauline
Hanna, secretary missionary cir
cle; Mattie Giles, member mis
sionary board, treasurer building
fund, treasurer SS class; Walter
Alexander, deacon, SS teacher;
Claude Callaway, elder, worship
leader, chairman Constitution
committee, trustee, SS teacher.
Clyde Foy, usher; Ernest Giv
ens, deacon, assistant SS teach
er, vice president men’s brother
hood, member Gaston laymen’s
club, director Junior training
union, associational junior su
perintendent SS, leader West
Gastonia district Junior training
(Baptist); James Hemphill, trus
tee, choir work; Ronnie Rumfelt,
board of stewards, finance com
mittee, chairman membership
committee.
Paul Whitesides, building
committee; Paul Nolen, usher;
Lawrence Burk, maintenance
work, leader on finances; Nor-
ville Johnson, deacon; W. C.
Long, usher, chairman attend
ance committee, brotherhood
work; James Price, brotherhood
committee; George Floyd, fi
nance leader; John Loyd, board
of stewards, finance, assistance
SS teacher; Rutherford Duke, SS
class leader, board of stewards,
treasurer.
Jessie Glover, deacon, trustee;
Sam Lowery, trustee, SS flow
ers, finance, building fund;
Mary Robinson, SS superintend
ent, teacher; Andrew Starnes,
elder; Burlie Neely, committee
chairman, church treasurer;
Brady Whitesides, deacon, SS
teacher; John Bradley, elder, SS
superintendent, music director.
Tom McClure, church treasur
er, SS teacher; James Walker,
deacon, SS teacher; Robert
Clark, SS teacher, training union
vice president; J. L. B. Grant,
church clerk; Loyd Crain, dea
con, SS teacher; Ernest Gibson,
assistant SS superintendent,
church secretary; Fay Helms, as
sistant SS superintendent, VBS
teacher; Neazel Weathers, board
of stewards, money-raising
group, preacher steward; Willie
Hannie, usher, SS treasurer,
board* trustees.
A. B. Dalton, chairman SS
committee; I. S. Bull, men’s club
council; Frank Sparrow, deacon,
secretary board of deacons; John
Bryant, usher; Charlie Parham,
elder, chairman evangelistic
Deacons
Otho Chambers, Henry Allen,
Otto Davis, R. B. Burleson,
George Williams, C. O. Starr,
Clarence Bryson, Neal Lowery,
Lacy Nall, Hoyt Blackwood,
Cicero Falls, J. F. Ledford, G. V.
Tindall, Elton Still, Johnnie
Davis, Harlan Butler, Luke Sad
ler, Fred Morrow, Sr., Harold
Robinson, J. W. Hendricks, S. L.
Owens.
SS Superintendents
George Hager, Charles Tanner,
Roy Hardy, Romulus Richburg,
Howard Allen, A. V. Riley.
Other SS Leaders
Alice Taylor, treasurer; Pau
line Buchanan, secretary; John
P. Smith, secretary adult depart
ment; Howard Dellinger, secre
tary; Roland Conrad, secretary
of class; Louella Queen, secre
tary-treasurer, SS Class; Rita
Rowland, secretary-treasurer;
Alva McCarter, treasurer; Clees
Hamrick, assistant SS secretary.
committee; Nelson Jackson,
board stewards, trustee; Joe
Finger, steward, usher, treasurer
young men’s club; Humbert
Hardin, choir marshal, trustee;
T. S. Huffstickler, deacon, rec
reation work; Manlest Wray,
music director.
Albert Meeks, deacon, church
treasurer, SS teacher; Fred Gar
ner, director training union;
Arthur Gordon, deacon, SS lead
er; Ben Byers, elder, SS teacher;
Cleveland Mills, church clerk;
Earl Floyd, church secretary, SS
superintendent; Spurgeon Web
ber, deacon, SS superintendent,
SS teacher; Israel Good, deacon,
SS teacher.
Luther Foy, deacon, assistant
church secretary; Deuel Red
ding, assistant SS secretary,
Gaston Baptist Associational
Brotherhood and Male chorus;
O. K. Forrester, member official
board; Lillian Jackson, church
pianist; Roxie Newton, deacon
ess, vice president Christian
Women’s Fellowship; Lois Wool
ley, 12 year’s work in beginners’
department; Lenhell Keenum,
deacon, church treasurer, music
director, director BTU, SS teach
er; John Morrow, elder; Carl
Guffey, deacon, song leader; C.
B. Hipps, deacon, song leader;
W. R. Turner, deacon, SS teach
er; A. A. Gaddis, deacon, SS
teacher.
SS Class Presidents
Aline Whitesides, Catherine
Fletcher, F. A. Waldrop, Bar
bara Sneed, Correne Lewis, Mae
Grindle, Thelma Hiatt, Louise
Dill, Edna Harris, Margaret
Whitener, Betty Hanna, Palmer
Waters, Lois Bolding, Samuel
Crawford, G. W. Carpenter, Wil
liam Massey, Jr., Jessie Mitchell,
George Terry, Loyd Watson,
W. E. Waters.
SS Teachers
Sybil Lowery, Janice Collins,
Minnie Welch, Cora Sneed, Bus
ter Stiles, Blonzeen Mauney,
Elene Dodgin, Pearl Tate, John
Owensby, A. G. Wilson, Marie
Bolding, Jennie Lee Hall, Sallie
Crawford, Mescal Certain, Lu
cille Baker, Ella Whitaker, Stella
Cothern, Eunice Jacobs, James
Dixon, Jr., Fannie Humphries,
Frances Brewer, Lillie Crain,
David Britton.
Opal Bradley, William Reeves,
W. L. Deese, Nina Dilling, Mar
garet Whitener, Bobby Payne,
Thomas Dalton, Irene O’Dell,
Vera Sambole, Joe Moore, Mar
vin Hudson, Philip Williams,
Carolyn Bohanan, Christine
Clark, Betty Holbrook, Virgie
Pryor, Mary Pruitt, Ethel Rob
inson, Beulah Haynes, Margie
Waldrop, Leonard Bumgardner,
Ella Whitaker, Evelyn Parham,
Elvin Galloway.
Lonnie Gwinn, Henry Gordon,
Mary Wilks, George High, Henry
Barfield, Elease Cole, Katheleen
Hodge, Ruby Riley, William Mc-
Leymore, Marie Devern, Aileene
Chastain, Helen Green, Callie
Reece, Clifford Bolding.
Community Helped
By Club Projects
The two toastmasters clubs in
Gastonia provide a service to
the community by furnishing
speakers to address civic clubs
and meetings of other groups.
Two Firestone men are mem
bers of the Spindle City Toast
masters Club. They are I. S. Bull
and F. B. Harrison.
Various projects of a com
munity service nature are car
ried on through music clubs,
Garden Clubs, and home demon
stration groups.
—Turn to page 5
Unusual Congregation Names
Firestone Textiles employees worship and serve in approxi
mately 200 churches in the Gastonia area.
Most of these congregations, representing almost two dozen
denominations and religious groups, are designated by the usual
names like First Baptist, Covenant Methodist, Gaston Avenue
Church of God, St. Mark’s Episcopal, Gospel Tabernacle, Holy
Trinity Lutheran and Linwood Presbyterian.
But among the long roster of churches are some names that fall
in the unusual category.
Have you heard of Lovely Hill Methodist, Vestibule Methodist,
Stooping Pine Methodist, Track Rock Baptist and Weeping Mary
Baptist?
Then there are others that belong in the not-so-common list.
Among them are:
Mt. Cabin Baptist, Pleasant Ridge AME Zion, Friendship Bap
tist, Ebenezer Baptist, Piney Grove Baptist, Pleasant Grove Bap
tist, Old Zion Methodist, New Zion Methodist, Gethsemane Baptist,
Pisgah AR Presbyterian, Shady Grove Baptist and New Home
Methodist.