Gaston College
Courses
Seven employees last month
received refunds on tuition for
NOTES
AND FOOTNOTES
People-Places
courses completed in the adult-
program at Gaston College.
Front, from left: Myrtle Col
lette, English; Barbara Gallo
way, English; Cornelia Car-
ringer, accounting; Geneva
Ballenger, typing; Don Sills,
Lt. Guy Keenum (fronl) was
presented Ihe "Joint Services
Commendation Medal" at re
cent ceremonies aboard the U.
S. Naval Security Group Ac
tivity at Skaggs Island near
San Francisco.
The award is for meritorious
service in Europe. Lt. Keenum,
whose brother Lennell is in the
industrial relations department
at Firestone, is administrative
officer at Skaggs Island. Lt. and
Mrs. Keenum, both from the
Clay-Cherokee counties area of
North Carolina, have four
children. He worked at Fire
stone, Gastonia, before begin
ning his service career—now
in its 21st year.
Mrs. Walter O’Neil, the for
mer Miss Mary Kerrigan, in
February became executive di
rector of Western Reserve
Council of Girl Scouts of Ameri
ca, headquartered in Akron,
Ohio. For the past several years
Mrs. O’Neil had been director of
Firestone employee publica
tions in the United States.
She is well known at the
Citizenship Award
From page 1
At the annual meeting, Mr.
Stewart on behalf of the local
UF organization, received a
trophy recognizing the 19B6
campaign as "the best in its
classification" in North Caro
lina.
F. B. Galligan, Firestone Tex
tiles operations manager who
retired as president of the Unit
ed Fund, announced that K. A.
Bowen will be campaign chair
man for the upcoming fund
drive late this year.
AMONG the 22 new directors
elected to two-year terms was
J. V. Darwin, Firestone division
general manager.
UF officials praised volunteer
workers in the last campaign
which gathered financial sup
port for 30 community agencies.
That campaign was the first
which incorporated areas out
side Gastonia, Lowell joining for
the first time.
Mr. Bowen reported that a
move is underway to include
the entire county of Gaston in
one United Fund.
ALSO HONORED at the
meeting were individual volun
teers in the last campaign.
Ralph Johnson, manager of em
ployee relations at Firestone,
was among sub-division chair
men awarded a citation for
“100 per cent” performance on
UF collections last year.
“Citizenship Awards” go to
participating firms with 15 or
more employees, which have a
payroll system of paying UF
contributions with at least 80
per cent of employees giving to
the Fund, and contributions
averaging at least $10 among
the employment.
Gastonia plant through her
work with special public re-
lations-publicity projects here.
Under her leadership, the
Firestone family of employee
publications in the U. S. won
several awards for fostering
and promoting the American
Way of Life, the honors pre
sented by The Freedoms Foun
dation.
Michael Boyd, studying his
first year at Duke University on
a Firestone Scholarship, was
among students who made the
Dean’s List for the first semest
er, recently ended.
Michael is pursuing studies in
pre-law. His long-range plan is
to be a teacher of law on the
college level.
The scholar is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Lucius H. Boyd Jr.
She works here in twisting
(synthetics).
The trees of the Lord are full of sap; . . . O Lord, how
manifold are thy works! In w^isdom hast thou made them
all: The earth is full of thy riches.—from Psalm 104
WEATHER
PICTURE Blossom on the plum, wild wind and merry; Leaves
upon the cherry and one swallow come. —Nora Hooper
Lo! The Winter Is Past
business law. Second row, from
left: Fred J. Davis, business
math; F. B. Harrison, English,
C. W. Donaldson, business math.
The industrial relations office
has information on the college-
tuition-refund program.
March is a season of begin
nings. There are the early peep
ers and many another mark of
spring. In the plant world,
there is a stirring of new life
after winter sleep.
Now, this is the month we
plant the first seeds outdoors,
and venture to transfer plants
to yard or garden for their per
manent summer place.
Like a magnet, the weather
draws us outside. Spring comes
officially this month, and East
er is early this year (March 26).
Now is a good time to make
,garden in earnest, plan the
summer’s recreation. Share
some seeds with a friend. May
be write a letter (one you may
have put off), send along some
seeds, identified, with instruc
tions for planting.
March claims some memor
able dates in American history.
In 1789 (March 4) the U. S.
Constitution was declared in
effect, and George Washington
became the country’s first Pres
ident, although not inaugurat
ed until April 30 of that year.
On March 3, 1931, The Star-
Spangled Banner was officially
designated our National An
them.
March is birthmonth of many
great Americans, among them
Alexander Graham Bell, Luther
Burbank, Andrew Jackson,
James Madison, John C. Cal
houn, Grover Cleveland, John
Tyler, Robert Frost.
Founding date of Girl Scouts
of America was March 12, 1912-
March is Red Cross Month.
Not to be overlooked is S^-
Patrick’s Day. Less known is
St. David’s Day, March 1, when
people of Welsh ancestry wear
a leek in honor of their patron
saint.
You've Heard It Said • ^
farmer noted his team of mules
could outpull anything else
the county. And they could
take the prize when it comes to
kicking. Added the mule own
er: “But they never pull and
kick at the same time.”
Uncle Fillmore told Aunt
Melissa: “It’s a heap sight bet
ter to go on the conviction
‘this one thing I do’ than on
the notion ‘these 40 things I
dabble at’.”
I
Lake T. Quinn
Weaving (syn)
Eva Plyler
Twisting (syn)
Lulher Blaylock
Twisting (syn)
Mae Massey
Twisting (syn)
158th Added to 30-Year List
PUT YOUR FAITH
TO WORK EVERY DAY
Luther Blaylock in Febru
ary became the 158th person
to reach the 30-year service
milestone at Gastonia. Dur
ing the same month, three
others attained records of 25
years each—and all four are
presented in pictures here.
They received service lapel
pins, as did the 10 others in
February who marked work
anniversaries of 10, 15 and
20 years.
J. V. Darwin, division general
manager, presented lapel pins
and the engraved watches to
those of the 20-year group;
lapel pins and the company “ap
preciation gift check” to mem
bers of the 25 and 30-ye^^
groups.
Twenty
Years Marguerite Styer®’
main office; Boyd Gibby, twis^'
ing (synthetics); Essie M. Hoi^'
eycutt and Rose M. Dodgen>
weaving (cotton); Paul Gilh®^
and Robert P. Wallace, shop’
Mason King, main office.
jr.
Fifteen
Years George Jackson
warehouse.
Ten
Years Rachel L. Baldwi^-
weaving (cotton); Marion
Davis cloth room.
NC LORE
Bird lovers could have no
finer, lasting gift than “Birds
of North Carolina,” the hand
some and beautifully-illus-
trated book published by the
State Museum of Natural
History.
green-on-gold cloth binding.
It describes 411 birds found in the state, and has 47 full-page
plates—24 in color and 23 in black-white.
Printed and sold at cost, you may get copies by mail
postpaid. Each copy is $5.15 including tax. Order “Birds of
North Carolina,” including payment and your return ad
dress. Send check or money orders only to Museum Exten
sion Fund, Box 2281, Raleigh, N. C.
A Gift
of the Birds
The 463-page book has a
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