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PAGE TWELVE THE ECHO AUGUST, 1943 Ecusta Employees Have Opportunity Of Learning Music How often have we all wished for opportunities that we didn’t have and bemoaned the fact that cruel fate had denied us certain portions of our birthright? Did we ever sit down and analyze the opportunities we did have to see if fate made any amendments or substitutions for us? Ambition and resourcefulness recognize no lack of opportunity, if the opportunity they want is not available they accept a substitute and go ahead. The majority of us are deceiving ourselves when we say or allow ourselves to believe that we would do great things if we only had the opportunity. The fact that we aren’t taking advantage of the op portunities we do have is evidence that we wouldn’t use others if they were tossed right into our lap. The ability to recognize and grasp opportunities which prove really valuable to individuals is acquired by cultivating the habit of grasping any and every oppor tunity that leads to development of self-expression and personality. Music is the universal medium of self-expression and the only form of self-expression that can be understood and appreciated by every other individual. We would not be able to understand the language of the natives of Africa, but we would listen spell-bound to the strange magic of their music. We might not understand a word of the faraway island song, but its dreamy melody would haunt us for weeks. We don’t speak the language of the birds, but every body thrills to the clear sweet notes of the nightingale. There is no culture without an appreciation of music. Music has a refining influence upon the in dividual mentally and morally. A musical education adds to the richness and fullness of living. Ecusta affords wonderful oppor tunities for a musical education. Instruments and private lessons under an excellent teacher are offered free of charge to any em ployee. The band provides ample opportunity for group playing and experience in public performance. Th6 chorus, under able direction, offers a marvelous opportunity for constructive singing. Everybody sings, after a fashion; why not develop that natural form of ex^ pression and while so doing learn something really worthwhile about music? You may never be able to sing a solo and that is nothing to give you an inferiority complex because you are in the vast ma jority, but you can derive a great deal of pleasure from singing with a group. You can learn something about the different classifications of songs and something of the people who wrote them and some thing of the basic principles of music. This is musical education. WHO’S WHO —BY STAFF WRITERS MARY SUE THORNE Back in 1939 when Endless Belt was moved here from New York, a new weaver, Mary Sue Thome, was added to the staff. Mary Sue learned rapidly and was advanced to the position of Floorlady in October, 1939. Be fore coming to Ecusta, Mary Sue was a school teacher in South Carolina. She now resides with her parents in Brevard. She was captain of Endless Belt Girls Bowling team last year, sings in the chorus and is a member of the chorus executive committee. RUTH McCALL Now Is The Time To: 12 Can. Slay potato bugs. Fix the cellar i drain. Cultivate fish! worm. Repair the chimney. Plant rhubarb roots. Fertilize strawberries. Teach pullets to roost. Keep fire insurance paid. Visit that sick friend. Write a letter to a service man, Ruth McCall is one of those persons who makes a place seem better for just having her around. She is good for the morale. End less would nominate her for the neatest person at Ecusta. Ruth is an examiner and she expects high qualities in the work of others just as she exemplifies them in her own character and personality. She lives just on the outskirts of Brevard with her mother and sisters. Ruth couldn’t possibly limit all her interests to a couple of hobbies, she feels that this “land of ours is so full of a number of things that we should all be as happy as kings.” LOST AND FOUND LOST—A Ronson cigarette lighter with the initials P R M. Please return to the office of the Echo. Nice Gain— / A newly inducted private wrote his family after he had arrived at camp: I’ve gained sixty pounds since I came here—two pounds of flesh and fifty-eight pounds of equip ment.” DOROTHY DYER More than any other operators, our warpers seem to come and go—they go mostly because they get married but one of our stand bys is pretty Dorothy Pittillo Dyer. “Pat,” to her friends, is a petite brunette who came to ’us from Brevard College just after her graduation in 1940. She is a fast warper and anytime that there is a shortage of warps she can be depended upon to do more than her share to relieve the situation. Dot is married and besides loving her husband she says, (quote) that she loves her work, (unquote) and she loves to read and knit. Wusser Yet— Lawyer—“You mean to imply that Mandy then cut his acquain tance?” Witness—“Wusser dan dat, suh! She cut his throat.” LOUISE HARRISON Louise Harrison has an ex cellent record for Finishers in Endless and now, occasionally, she raises her own record a few belts . higher just to break the monotony of the day. She sets a shining example in workman ship, sportsmanship, generosity and kindness. These things have endeared her to all who know her. Louise is a Brevard girl and a widow. Her greatest out side interest is her attractive young son and next to that, she states, is buying War Bonds. ESTELLE BROTHERTON A. couple of weeks before the instructors for Endless who came down from New York left, they got all excited over the production of a new weaver, this new operator was Estelle Gallo way. She set a high pace for weavers and has held it constant ly ever since. Not only has Es telle been the champion weaver, she has characterized herself just as highly in her attitude toward her work and her fellow em ployees. She was married short ly after she came to work here to Thomas Brotherton, an Ecusta man, and they center their in terest outside working hours in their attractive new home. BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS ALMA BURNETTE Never was the old adage, “Valuable things come in small packages,” truer than in the case of Alma Burnette. This little 85-lb. blonde is conclusive proof of the statement. Alma came to Endless from her near by home in August of 1939. I» everything she is reliable and responsible. And for the young men’s information, Alma is one of the few single girls left i» this department and her hobbies are dancing and movies. No Gift— “Allow me to present my wife-” “No thanks, I have one.” „„ .,-1::;* NOTICE TO ALL dept. REPORTERS Deadline For Sept. Issue Is Tues., Sept. 14th Please get copy in early, if possible.
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