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OCTOBER IS, 1972
THE TWIG
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PONDER THE MEANING OF LIFE
By JANICE SAMS
"Ponder the meaning of life
and in your reverie fashion a
new world." This quotation
met my eyes as I looked into
a poster of a spider and its
web on the door of a camper-
bus parked outside the library.
I wondered what an interview
with a real "spider - lady"
would be like, whether there
would be spiders crawling
freely throughout the bus or
whether I would end up sitting
next to a friendly tarantula.
My fears, however, were
soon assuaged as I was warm
ly welcomed into the "home"
of the spider lady, Mrs. Ann
Moreton. I had worried over
what we would talk about,
since my intellectual prepara
tion for arachnid talk was
somewhat nil. Mrs. Moreton
must have anticipated an un
enlightened listener, though,
for she launched right into a
brief account of her spider
history.
After her husband’s death
and her children’s "growing
up” left her virtually alone,
Mrs. Moreton knew she could
no longer be content to sit a-
round the house. She decided
to take the risk of involve
ment, a risk which would later
bring her infinite self-satis
faction. Since writing and pho
tography were her hobbies,
Mrs. Moreton knew she could
DO something, the question
was “What?”. After photo
graphing a spider - web one
day, Mrs. Moreton began an
interest which developed sub
sequently into a hobby and a
career. Her job, however,re-
quired a lot of travel, so that
Mrs. Moreton became faced
with the decision, “Could I
live by myself?”
Never knowing whether or
not she could do the work a-
lone, Mrs. Moreton decided to
take the chance, at least for
a couple of weeks. At first
she went to a hotel in the
Everglades for 2 weeks, do
ing nothing but taking pictures
of and studying spiders. From
then on she knew she could do
it and has now visited every
state and 8 foreign countries.
“I don’t miss anybody,” she
smilingly notes, "and I never
feel like a stranger.”
With such a hobby as this
spider - collecting, Mrs.
Moreton decided it was time to
go professional. The big break
came at a meeting of the In
ternational Platform Speakers
Association in Georgia, al
though it almost turned out to
be a fiasco! She was constant
ly being ignored by promi
nent scientists until one men
tioned the need for more edu
cational science programs.
Hearing this statement, Mrs.
Moreton jumped on stage, de
livered a spider lecture, and
got her first professional
booking!
I asked Mrs. Moreton if
she had ever been afraid of
spiders. “Why, of course,”
she replied, ' ‘but I didn’t know
and understand them then!”
Since that time Mrs. More
ton has become “friends” with
her spiders, photographing
their beautiful colors and web
designs.
Any occupational hazards?
As for getting bitten, Mrs.
Moreton doesn’t worry too
much, she takes the correct
precautions. The main haz
ard is from people who don’t
realize what she’s doing,espe-
cially when she has to take a-
long camera, ice pick or knife,
and screw driver to get at
the spiders. In fact, a cus
toms officer saw her with
these instruments and thought
she was planning to hijack a
plane!
Mrs. Moreton has her fu
ture well-planned now, at least
for the next 2 years. She wants
to duplicate photographically
what John Abbott, an English
naturalist, did artistically 200
years ago. Abbott made paint
ings of 567 species of spiders
in Georgia and Mrs. Moreton
wants to supplement those with
photographs of the species to
day to see what changes have
occurred. She hopes to be fin
ished for the 200th anniver
sary of Abbott’s painting in
1973,
"If every person in the
world would take one thing and
study it, just think what a fan
tastic world we’d have!”
beamed Mrs. Moreton. That
study involves the risk of de
ciding to do it, and Mrs. More
ton has taken that risk. She
has, truly, “pondered the
meaning of life and in her
reverie fashioned a new
world.”
Mrs. Anne Moreton "gets to know” her "pet” Tarantula.
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mendment will be voted on. A
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a quorum present that is 2/3
of the student body. We have a
unique opportunity to have an
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members of the Association.
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The Hoofprlnt Club held its
October meeting last Wednes
day night with Dr. John Fal
ter as our guest speaker. Dr.
Falter, who is president of
the North Carolina Horse
Council, spoke on the purpose
and accomplishments of the
organization. Its primary
function is the education of
the general public concerning
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Lecturer
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editor of THE JOURNAL OF
RELIGION and a Kent Fellow
of the Society for Religion in
Higher Education. He serves
as a Trustee of the Chicago
Historical Society, Seabury-
Western Theological Semi
nary, the Society for the Arts,
Reli^on, and Contemporary
Culture, and the Episcopal
Radio - TV Foundation. A
member of several learned
societies. Dr. Scott has pub
lished many, many, works,
both complete books and es
says in magazines and as parts
of other books. The subjects of
his writings range from
Camus, Hemingway, andblack
literature to grace and the
nature of God. He presently
resides in Chicago with his
wife, an Assistant Vice-Pres
ident of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago, and their 2
children.
The second lecturer will
be Dr. Roger L. Shinn, ap
pearing January 22. He is
currently Rinhold Niebuhr
Professor of Social Ethics
at Union Theological Seminary
in New York, as well as Ad
junct Professor of Religion
at Columbia University. An
ordained minister of the Unit
ed Church of Christ, Dr. Shinn
received his A.B. from Hei
delberg College in Ohio(1938),
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