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Page 6 The Pendulum Features Thursday, November 3, 1983 Top singers in Talent Show Zoids glide to first place By Vicky Jiggetts Staff Writer The Zoids—Three young men with extraordinary original choreography glided their way to first place and $100 in the annual talent show last Friday night in Whitley Auditorium. The trio, consisting of Tim Daly, Ricky Ross, and Kevin Daly, was dressed in gray jump suits, white gloves and dark glasses. They performed a crowd-pleasing dance routine to the popular hit "Freaka- zoid." Jeff Pierce and Pam Reynolds sang a duet and won the second place prize of $75. They performed Bonnie Tyl er’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”accompanied by David Vaughn on the piano. Hope Newman placed third and received $50.-She played the piano and sang her own ori ginal song, "It’sHidden in Your Heart. ” Linda Kennedy sang and played the guitar to a Leo Sayers hit, "When I Need You. ” Danny Perdieu performed "Lovethe WorldAway"hyKen ny Rogers. Cathy Wright twirled the baton and per formed a dance routine. Carol Nix also played the guitar and sang two songs, "Jazz Man" by Carole King and "Landslide" by Stevie Nicks. For a change of pace, Anthony Turner sang a spir itual tune by the late Donny Hathaway entitled, "We Need You Right Now." He was accompanied by Cedric Rich mond on the piano. Darius Fearington, Mark Davis and Felicia Wright harmonized in a melody of songs including spirituals and Barry Manilow’s "I Write the Songs. " Donna Euliss sang "Wind Beneath My Wings" by Lou Rawls; and Mark Dennis played the guitar and sang two of his original songs. Master of Ceremonies was Ron Dalton. The judges were Dr. Gerald L. Francis, assoicate dean of academics; Dr. Martin L. Shotzberger, pro fessor of business administra tion. Ralph W. Kerns, instruc tor of communications and Fine Arts, Gloria Goode, Eloii^s 1983 Homecoming Queen; and Jo Craven, editor of the Pen dulum. Photo by Stuan While TALENT ABOUNDS; Student Danny Perdieu performs “Love The World Away” by Kenny Rogers at the Talent Show last Friday night. Town celebrates birthday of century-old man By Patricia Aycock Rich, who was 100 years old Staff Writer yesterday, sat next to his wife “I was born before there were Allene, 67, and described how it any automobiles and not too felt to be a century old. many buggies,” said A. L. Rich “I feel as good as anybody,” of 306 N. O’Kelly St., Elon Col- said Rich. “She’s taken good lege. care of me. And I think good eat- A. L. Rich Photo by Paul Hams ing, exercise and good habits in life are the main things.” Rich, born in 1883, was a mid dle child in a family of 11 chil dren. “I’m the only only living,” said Rich, “we have no chil dren.” Rich said he had a great grandmother on his father’s side that lived to be 115 and a great-grandfather who died at 90. He also had an aunt who lived to be 102. “I’ve been wonderfully bles sed,” Rich said. “I’ve had good health and have never had to suffer pain. I’ve only had preumonia twice in my life and it left me in pretty good shape.” “I hadn’t picked up any bad habits like drinking intoxicat ing drinks or even bottled drinks,” Rich said. “I don’t smoke and I try to eat a good well-balanced diet.” “We eat a lot of vegetables,” said his wife. She added, “I think he looks mighty well for his age.” Though Rich doesn’t get out as much as he’d like, he does attend church occasionally. He and his wife also will often go out to dinner. “I had been going regularly to church” till 12 years ago,” Rich said. “I used to have a good singing voice, but I’ve lost that good tenor voice-can’t sing any more.” “Wherever he goes- where you see him, you’ll see me,” Allene said. Rich, who grew up in Wayne County, moved to Elon in 1918. “Wasn’t as big as it is now,” he said. “The old college was here when I moved here and then it got burned. It’s entirely diffe rent from how it is now,” he said. “Back then, there wasn’t such a thing known as a gasoline en gine,” said Rich. “There wasn’t any automobiles. We had to do our work the hard way. We didn’t have any machinery to make it easy for us, so we had to do it the hard way. There’s been a lot of changes.” Rich likes Elon “real well” and said that though some peo ple say big cities are better, he likes small town life. “We have some good friends here that we like very much, ” said Rich. “And they visit us. We enjoy them.” The Elon Community Church gave a dinner yesterday. Nov. 2 was also named “A.L. Rich Day” by the town Board of Aldermen. “They’re giving me a birthday party at the church,” said Rich. “And we’re going,” he laughed, “since we’re old enough.” ‘BACXHH5 Voa oAz co/uiicitiy iyvjiZnd to attend "HAPPy HOUR" at tko. Campiu GnAJUi on ThuAiday, UovmbeA 3, 19S3 at 4--30 - 6:00 p.m.
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