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ketball team and praised
Burton’s compassion and
sense of humor. Jamie Joss re
membered that Burton would
“bend over backwards to help
anyone,” and how he and Bur
ton had become close friends
even off the tennis court.
Gareth Went described
Burton as faithful and reliable
and someone who gave his best
in everything. Ryan Degnan
spoke of his unconditional
love, “He blessed my life,”
Degnan said.
As Burton’s fellow stu
dents stood up to speak, he was
remembered again and again
for his caring. “Troy was the
one who really got me to feel
at home here,” Derek Youmans
remembered.
Troy’s sense of humor
was also evident in the fuimy
stories people told about him
and the memories they shared
of his ability to cheer up those
around him.
“Every time I saw him, he
had this beautiful smile on his
face and I knew, pretty soon, I
would be smiling too,” Am
ber Barbour said.
Many students stood up
to speak, several of them not
ing Burton’s ability to befriend
many different kinds of people.
“We’re two very different
people, but we had so much in
common,” senior Jason Cohen
said.
After the ceremony,
many of the guests gathered in
Bushoven lounge to share
memories of Troy in a more
informal session.
Career and Personal
Counseling Center director
Dr. Elbert Patton said that the
counseling center has already
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photo by Rooney Coffman
held sessions with some of is available to help students with grief. Dr. Patton can be
Troy’s friends and classmate? who need assistance coping reached at extension 5210.
and that the counseling centei
tliere K a poem m
There is a song that sings of times when things were real.
When there was life in the air and frees had rhythm. (Sway)
Nothing was gone from me as I carried my baby on my back,
The burden of a mother, the love of her womb, pain of the breast.
My backbone had a song that cried all day long^ all night long,
As it bent to receive the punishment of Eve. (Lord have mercy!)
Nothing has been gained from being a queen of a nation of slaves,
For I was a slave to my king, my people, this world and a God.
In my grave lives the memories of misery, suffering from hunger
Where now ants are being fed. But, that has not stopped me.
I am still a woman, not because my baby cried from heavy whips .
Not ‘cause this womb created life, not because I am a Queen.
Woman, not due to man nor any^mals that walks or swim.
Or my once full skm where my breast swing.
There is a song tiiat moves mountain, that shakes heaven and mock
Salvation, dances with nature and sootiies our Father.
I am a woman because unlike man, my bones sing.
-Louisianm Ingram
New displays at library
Detamble Library has a new display on it’s
bookshelf honoring March as “The month of the
Woman. Included on the shelf are books by and
about women. The collection was put together
by the library staff.
Detamble library student assitant Ronald
Robinson currently is working on two displays
at Belk in connection with the library’s display
on women in literature. The displays will feature
book jackets from books by women authors.
In February, Robinson designed and pul
together displays for Black history month in both
Belk and the Iftjrary.
Currently on display in the lobby of the
liberary is a group of items from Ecuador designed
by Professor Catharine Neylans. The display co-
iQcides with the Febrriaiy 11 departure of fresh
man Rebecca Beverly and Sophomores Ann
Hardcastle and Martin Krug for spring term in
Ecuador. The three will be studying at
Universidad de Cuenca.
Alfredo \^ntimilla visting professor of
Spanish during fall term, will act as host and ad
viser for the three students.
The poem on the submitted
Nby Ella BoisseDe In reajgnition of Black
Ifistofy Month.