JULY, 1957
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Many Are Leaders In Welfare Enterprises
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METHODS of fund-raising for PTA projecls are studied here
by M. J. Nichols, Spooling (left), and Raymond Mack, Quality Con
trol—both of whom are on the finance committee of Rhyne School
PTA; and Mrs. Louise Ward. Main Office, leader in Abernethy
School PTA. They are representative of the more than 300 em
ployees who contribute to PTA programs in area schools. Many
have positions of leadership and a large number are past officers of
PTA organizations in their neighborhood schools.
More Than 300 Help To Build
Better Neighborhood Schools
More than 300 employees are
helping to build better schools
in their several neighborhoods
through active membership in
the Parent Teachers Association.
Some of this number hold offices
and many of them in the past
have discharged responsibilities
as officers. And of the PTA
membership, some are members
of school boards.
The following list includes em
ployee members of the PTA, as
reported in the recent survey.
Mabel Thomas, Ruby Seism,
Viola McCurry, Mable Mantooth,
Hattie Gibbons, Joseph Ander
son, Viola Webb, Ernest Del
linger, Marcus Dellinger, Ruby
McCoig, Virginia Man, Hazel
Nolen, Betty Anderson, Eunice
Payseur, Ralph Costner.
Lola Rogers, Mary Woodell,
Mack Dawkins, Agnes Lowery,
Royal Chandler, Edith Bryson,
Jennie Bradley, Thelma Hiatt,
William Dixon, Eugene Morris,
Louise Ward, Margaret Rhyne,
Sara Keever, Mary Jones, Della
Lipford, Helen Heffner, Clee
McCaslin, Essie Honeycutt,
David Hager, Robert Hager, Vel
ma Brooks, Loyd Metcalf, Vivian
Metcalf.
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Next in importance to freedom
and justice is popular education,
without which neither freedom
nor justice can be perpetually
maintained.—James A. Garfield
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Myriel Horton, Margaret Ham
rick, Gertrude Sanders, Fred
Chastine, Elsie Chastine, Luell
Thomas, Bernice Thomas, Gwinn
Briggs, Payton Lewis, Rudolph
Calhoun, W. F. Hogan, J. B.
Mitchell, Marion Burris, William
McGinnis, Carrie Helms, James
Ballew, Rufus Hughes, Cicero
Mitchem, James Gibson, Ray
England, Clarence Case, R. H.
Harmon, Ed Taylor, B. A.
Gamble.
H. C. Robinson, B. L. Robin
son, M. J. Gilbert, Ernest Givens,
Clyde Foy, Alva McCarter,
Charles Hamrick, Bernard Aim,
Norville Johnson, W. C. Long,
James Price, Jessie Glover,
George Floyd, Jack Morris,
Oscar Jacobs, Mary Robinson,
Rosie Francum, Emma Moore,
Thomas Turner, Mary Dawkins,
Samuel Smith, Ollie Propst, Mc-
Brie Sanders, Vera Stiles, Fred
Garden, Aline Whitesides, Sam
Love, Bertha Dodgen, Israel
Good, Grace Stowe, Buford
Lawrence. '
Willie Hannie, Lee Seism, L S.
Bull, Osborne Sherrill, Frank
Sparrow, Everett Watson, Nel
son Jackson, Elene Dodgin, Joe
Finger, Pearl Tate, Humbert
Hardin, J. F. Lancaster, G. W.
Carpenter, Ray Lovingood,
Grady Taylor, Blonzeen Mau-
ney, Percy Collins, Mamie Ste
vens.
Ralph Franklin, Jennie Hall,
J. B. Easier, Jurlene Strickland,
Guy Crawley, Geneva Ballinger,
John P. Smith, William Smith,
Genever Johnson, Bonnie Led
ford, Maxie Carey, Opal Luns
ford, Melvin Bradley, Esther
Green, Cloys Stiles, Lillie
Brown, Bessie Foster.
Annie Parks, Jessie Lewis,
Eula Faulkner, Clyde Phillips,
Grace Ballew, Wilma Hodge,
Lenore York, Lillie Rollins,
Lucille Baker, Marlene Stewart,
George Lyles, Betty Phillips,
Edna Fortenberry, Faye Huff-
stetler, Gertrude Price, J. C.
Brackett, Juanita McDonald,
Julius Hice, Geneva Bell, Sam
Hice, Betty Crisp.
Christine Davis, Eugene Isen-
hour. Pansy Ledford, Henry Al
len, Helen Green, Annie Cosey,
Opal Bradley, Corrie Johnson,
Vera Carswell, J. C. Barnes,
Marion Hughes, Mae Barker, Ed
ward Knox, Fred Crawford, Har-
lon Graham, Albert Laughlin,
Loyd G. Crain, Haney Stewart,
Tom Hunter, Otis Thompson,
James Moses, Reed Wilson, Lela
Shehane, Gretle Allen, Annie
Donaldson, Margaret Robinson,
Ellease Austin.
Hazel Stewart, Effie Boyd,
Floy Green, Cola Stacy, Nervie
Barbee, Stella Connor, Nell
Haun, Azaleen Loudermilk, Ida
Deaton, Reda Hoffman, Edna
Champion, Juanita Beddingfield,
Marie Bolding, Kathleen Hodge,
R. B. Burleson, Ruby Riley, Al
vin Riley, Leonard Bumgardner,
Johnny Hodge, Mary Wilks,
Miles Michaels, Earl Clark,
James Hawkins, Ernest Mauney,
W. E. Waters, Henry McDaniel,
Carol Holden.
M. S. Derryberry, Clarence
Green, Burlie Neely, William
McLeymore, William Massey, Jr.,
David Ratchford, Dautha Lane,
In the field of community wel
fare, Firestone people are well
represented. Many employees are
actively engaged each year in
such efforts as the United Fund
in various communities and in
the United Fund drive held each
year at the plant.
Under leadership of General
Superintendent Nelson Kessell,
more than 100 employees are
volunteer fund solicitors each
year, and scores of others offer
their services to promote the
various community agencies in
their home neighborhoods.
TYPICAL of these are J. V.
Darwin, member of the budget
committee of the United Fund,
Harold Mercer, past president
and leader of the Greater Gas
tonia United Fund, and William
Rhyne, who has served as chair
man of the Red Cross drive in
his home community of Hardin.
F. B. Galligan is treasurer of
the Gaston County Tuberculosis
Association and member of the
Nellie Dorn, Henry Barfield,
Annie Ledford, Sylvaines Wilks,
Mildred Sims, Walser Polston,
Edna Queen, Marlin Thompson,
Ruby Daniels, James Walker,
Virginia Burgin, J. L. B. Grant,
Davis Wall, Sarah Crisp, Fran
ces Deaton, Donnie Crawford,
Ethel Cole, Joyce Waddell, John
Ratchford, Barbara Sneed.
Luther Brown, Lorene Lewis,
Naomi Todd, T. B. Ipock, Jr.,
Hattie Cabe, Clyde Moss, F, B.
Galligan, Tracy Whitener, How
ard Love, Margie Hill, Pansy
Falls, Dolores Turner, R. L.
Tompkins, Mildred Mack, Gene
Arnold, Christine Clark, J. V.
Darwin, Homer Hall, Cicero
Falls, Wade Stiles, Otis Thomp
son, Beatrice Player, Hazel
Owens, Ophelia Wallace, Helen
Reel, Sara Smith.
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The foundation of every state
is the education of its youth.—
Diogenes
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Delsie Merritt, Donnie Medlin,
Rosalie Burger, Mary Newton,
Ruth Cloninger, Faye Ross, Faye
Kennerly, Katherine Davis,
Lillie Seism, Ruth Hill, Hazel
Patterson, Lillie Crain, Betty
Cloninger, Eula Davis, Edna
Emmett, Mary Galloway, Melvin
Morrison, Roy Hardy, Irene
O’Dell, Robert Shannon.
Ethelda Robinson, W. B. Ward,
Marcella Miller, R. F. Piercy,
Vera Sambole, Johnnie Wood,
Hazel Splawn, Grady Robinson,
Hazel Grover, Lewis Connor,
Wade Ledwell, Mary Calhoun,
Claude Turner, Hazel Ward,
Clyde Hayes, Alice Snyder, Has-
ker Love, Lela Panther, Mattie
Passmore, Lillian Morrison.
Wayne O’DeU, Margaret Wil
lis, Willie Geeter, Lewis Clark,
Annie Kiser, Theadore Morgan,
Margaret Whitener, Mildred
Hays, James Reel, Mary Pruitt,
Pauline Stroupe, Earl Queen,
Roy Davis, Minnie Valentine,
Roland Conrad, Thomas Grant,
James Gaultney, Clara Wilson,
Alloise Murray, Alda Guffey,
Arlecy Hogan, Lura Lee Daniel,
Brannon Cox, Roxie Newton,
Frances Wilson, Lennell Kee-
num, Carl Guffey, W. R. Turner,
O’Neil Gamble.
E. D. Bagwell, Horace Tate,
L. B. McAbee^- Virginia Bradley,
William Moody, Grace Christo
pher, Mildred Smith, Minnie
Valentine.
board of directors of the North
Carolina Tuberculosis Associa
tion.
MEMBERS of professional
and social groups do their part
toward community welfare also.
Of these, Eula Wilson and
Myrtle Bradley are representa
tive. They help through the Pilot
Club in the providing of scholar
ships for worthy young people
to study in the field of business.
Also through Pilot, they arrange
for entertainment of children of
the Gaston County Center for
Handicapped Children, spending
many hours operating and plac
ing cars over the county for the
school’s transportation.
Of the social groups, Marion
Burris represents Club Eldorado
and Club Undaga which con
tribute to and promote various
charities throughout the year.
Some employees volunteer
their services through such
groups as Pink Lady and Volun
teer Nurses Aid. Faye Ross is ac
tive in the Pink Lady organiza
tion and Roxie Newton is a class
teacher under the Volunteer
Nurses Aid Program.
OTHERS work through organ
izations like the Salvation Army.
Clyde Moss is a member of the
steering committee, Jack Fraile
is actively engaged in the
Army’s welfare endeavors, while
Arnold Woodrow McKnight
has been offered a $4,000
scholarship to attend Agricul
tural and Technical College of
Greensboro, beginning next Sep
tember. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Woodrow McKnight of 116
West Bradley street. His father
works in Ply Twisting. As of
late June, the student had not
T. B. Ipock, Jr., is a member of
the advisory board of the Sal
vation Army.
There is a growing number of
peopl3 here who make their con
tribution to welfare, not through
definite organizations, but
through personal welfare service
to their neighbors and others
who need help.
Representative of these em
ployees are Evelyn Parham, Earl
England and Bobby Jones who
collect clothing and other neces
sities and solicit help for needy
families.
Clubs Help
—From page 3
Outstanding work in music
club circles is rendered by Len
nell Keenum, Cramer Little,
A. G. Wilson, Helen Spencer,
Marvin Hudson, Betty Moss and
Martha Kendrick.
Some of those active in gar
den club projects for community
improvement are Ann Chastain,
secretary Plant Variety Garden
Club; Elene Dodgin, Corrie
Johnson, Pearl Edison, Lelia
Rape, Ruthie McCreight, Ruth
Veitch, Sara Smith, Bob Purkey
and Ralph Johnson.
Employees active in home
demonstration work include
Annie Carson, Lois Bolding and
Ruby McCoig.
decided on his choice of colleges.
When he enters school this fall
he will study in the pre-engi
neering curriculum.
Young McKnight was an out
standing student while attending
Highland High School, Gastonia,
during the past four years. Be
fore graduating this spring he
was awarded the Yates Smith
Memorial Trophy which honors
the school’s most outstanding
athlete each year.
At Highland, Arnold played
baseball and football, serving as
captain of the gridiron team last
year. He was selected the most
outstanding lineman of his team,
for his outstanding performance
in the Shrine Bowl Game at
Durham in December, 1956.
During his senior year Arnold
was on the honor roll, and made
an outstanding contribution to
the Glee Club. As a member of
the Dramatic Club, he was cast
in a play which took top prize
in a district dramatic festival.
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