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ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE “OLD WILKES” TOUR
THE OLD WILKES JAIL
WCC Student Docents
Needed For Tour Guides
Virgie Church
Opportunities are available
now for college people to par
ticipate in the new Old Wilkes
Jail activities in Wilkesboro.
The Old Wilkes Jail is the first
restoration of Old Wilkes, Inc.
Student docents are needed in
costume to serve as guides for
walking tours. There also may
be an opportunity for a college
student to be resident manager
of the Old Jail as the trustees
of Old Wilkes Jail will be em
ploying a resident manager
either part time or full time.
Docent classes will be every
Monday at 10 a.m. for the win
ter quarter and in the after
noon for the spring quarter. A
special room will be set aside
for WCC to teach early weaving
and early pottery making.
The first class for the tour
guides was held December 9,
at 10 a.m., at which time Dr.
Henry Landon III gave the his
tory of the old jail. The Rev.
Frank McKenzie spoke at the
second session. The teachers
and the topics for sessions
three through ten are as fol
lows: Mr. James Gray, Old
Salem, Inc.; Mrs. Annie Wink
ler, Walking Tour Stops; Mrs.
Dorris Potter, Bi-Centennial
Plans; Mr. Jay Anderson,
Wilkes County History; Mrs.
Martha Basenberg, Early Weav
ing; Mr. Ray Kennedy, Early
Pottery; Old Salem Staff, Do
cent Techniques; Dr. Robert
Mayer, Tour Preparations.
The Old Wilkes Jail will be
a heritage center when it is
furnished and there will be a
walking tour available with
stops at specific sites in the
town of Wilkesboro. When the
Old Jail was in use, the jailor
and his family lived in two
rooms in the upper quarters of
the jail. These rooms will con
tain furniture of the period
1790-1860.
Old Wilkes, Inc. is similar to
Old Salem, Inc. One of the
goals of the trustees of Old
Wilkes, Inc. is to serve the
community by preserving the
heritage of the people of
Wilkes through the saving and
restoring of some of the his
torical old homes and buildings
in the county. Wilkes Com
munity College’s participation
and involvement in the Old
Wilkes, Inc. activities is anoth
er example of their continuing
interest in serving the com
munity.
BUD MAYES
Although he is remaining
very quiet and secretive about
what may be the next produc
tion of the Drama Dept., and
not even so much as a hint . . .
BUD MAYES KNOWS.
I have information from a
highly authoritative and very
confidential source (Bill Mof
fett) that the mysterious Mr.
Mayes is going to do the full
production of THE OLD TES
TAMENT, every book including
Proverbs and Genesis (with all
the begets).
Tryout date will be posted.
ALL RIGHT ! ! !
Music At Wilkes
Music is alive and well at
Wilkes Community College. A
wide range of activities are be
ing offered now and more are
planned.
Since its establishment a
year ago under the direction of
Dr. Robert Mayer, the Wilkes
Community College Symphony
Orchestra has grown to near
professional proportions and is
performing high calibre stand
ard orchestral repertoire.
The newest additions to the
music program at Wilkes are
the Feeder Orchestra and the
Basic Music class. The Feeder
Orchestra performs music of a
less difficult level than the
Wilkes Community College Or
chestra and provides an excel
lent opportunity for musicians
who are beginners or who have
not played for some time to
develop strong technical pro
ficiency. The Feeder Orchestra
also will provide a strong base
of support for the regular Sym
phony.
The Basic Music Class is
available for those who have
had no experience in reading
musical notation and would like
to increase their enjoyment and
understanding of all kinds of
music by learning how music
is constructed and notated.
In addition to these two pro
grams, the Wilkes Community
College Chorus now meets two
days per week and performs a
wide variety of choral music
from “pop to Bach.”
Private and group instruc
tion is being offered on all
band and orchestral instru
ments by Jerry Bangle, Direct
or of Music at Wilkes.
Also planned for this year is
a string chamber orchestra and
a jazz ensemble. A concert by
the Appalachian State Univer
sity Jazz Improvisation Ensem
ble and Faculty Woodwind
Quintet is scheduled for Janu
ary and February and a cello
recital by Jerry Bangle is
scheduled for early Spring.
If you want to participate in
some exciting musical adven
tures, whatever your musical
taste, come make your kind of
music at Wilkes Community
College.
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PHILLIP SMITH
THE LEATHERSMITH
The Leathersmith on Main
Street in Wilkesboro has
brought a new trend in clothing
to Wilkes County. The owner
and proprietor, Phillip Smith,
(a former student at WCC), is
an aspiring young business man
trying to make a go of it in
this financially unstable time.
His leather accessories include
pants, hats, belts, rings, and
key chains. His specialty is
belts. He has a wide variety of
assorted belt buckles, in which
he takes pride. These include
solid brass reproductions,
zodiac signs, and artistic pewter
buckles.
He has recently started doing
wholesale work, and he is sell
ing to numerous shops across
North Carolina.
Everyone is cordially invited
to stop in and browse.
Allen Woody
WINTER SAFETY
Vickie Reins
Here it is already . . . the
first ice storm of the winter,
and you never did get around
to filling yourself a box of
sand with which to de-skid your
paths and driveway. Naturally
you don’t want anyone break
ing his neck on the back steps,
but you know that the same
rock salt that does such a fine
job on the slippery places now
will still be lying in wait in the
ground next spring when you
want to plant morning glories
by the porch.
Well, who needs rock salt,
anyway? There are other ma
terials that won’t melt the ice
for you, but will provide ex
cellent traction underfoot and
be kind to your soil too. Wood
ashes, for instance. Or fine
coal. Or plain old garden
earth, if it isn’t already frozen
too hard to dig up. Or — if
you are reduced to using a
store-bought product, try the
substance you use in cat’s lit
ter box. It has the advantage
of not tracking into the house
as much as some of the other
non-skid substances, and you'll
find that most of it will still
be lying around on the walk
after the ice is gone (where
you can sweep it up and save
it for the next storm).
Mitchell Community Dotvns Cougars
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It was in all honesty a poor
shooting night for the Cougars
as they met Mitchell Commun
ity College in Statesville Satur
day, Dec. 7th.
With the exception of for
ward Mike Richardson’s 24
points and center Albert (Jo)
Horton’s 15, no other Cougars
managed to get in double fig-
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ures. Freshman forward Bill
Hunt who had been averaging
better than 17 points only con
nected for 6 points from the
floor and hit only 2 from the
foul line.
One of the keys to the Mit
chell Mavericks win was the
combination of Fund e r b u r k
and Samuels which allotted for
29 of the Mavericks 90 point
outpouring. Funderburk was
hitting from the top of the key
and driving in for the layup
whenever possible, and when it
wasn’t he went to Samuels un
derneath.
Tony Parsons, a Wilkes Coun
ty youth who has seen some
limited action this season never
played high school basketball,
but during the second half he
hit for four consecutive field
goals while playing very good
defense. Parsons who rotated
at the forward position had a
total of 10 points for the night.
BOX SCORE — WCC
fg fta ftm tp
Richardson 11 7 3 24
Horton 15 7 2 15
Hunt 2 7 2 6
Anderson 2 4
Byers 2 2 2 6
Bumgarner 2 4
Zachary 3 1 6
Parsons 5 10
Caldwell
Anthony
Absher
Elliott
Goodman
TOTAL 75
BOX SCORE — MCC
fg: fta ftm tp
Wilson
Funderburk 3 7 6 12
Samuels 8 4 1 17
Elledge 4 4 2 10
Grey 10 2 20
Daniels 2 4
Lindsey 1 2
Stevenson 7 3 2 16
McClte 3 3 3
Hillard ’446
Lippard
TOTAL 90
While you are sprinkling
your footpaths, you’ll want to
fill a container of whatever
materail you use and put it in
the back of your car or truck
along with the extra snow
shovel. Then, when your wheels
spin on ice, you can provide
enough purchase to get going
. . . and, since you are not us
ing salt, you won’t have cor
roded auto bodies or yellowed
roadside flowers on your con
science.
Dismayed by the size of the
Newfoundland dog given to him
for his birthday, the small boy
wanted to know, ”is he for me,
or am I for him?”