Junior High Students Win Band Honors
Tri-City musicians who won high ratings in All-State Junior High School Band
Clinic are shown with Band Director Robert Fleming (extreme left.) Students, from
left, are Elwood Williams, Andrea Hopkins, Ned Gardner and Barbara Carter.
Two first chair ratings plus third chair
and fourth chair places were won by
Tri-City junior high school students in
the All-State Junior High School Band
Clinic held recently in Durham.
Ned Gardner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Gardner, won first chair for cor-
Serves In Korea
net, and Elwood Williams, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. E. Williams, won first chair
for trombone. Ned’s father is training
manager at Fieldcrest and Elwood’s fa
ther is safety director.
Andrea Hopkins, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. James A. Hopkins, rated fourth
chair, first clarinet; and Barbara Carter,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Carter, of 621 Moir Street, Leaksville,
rated third chair, flute. Andrea’s father
is an assistant foreman at the Karastan
Service Center and her mother, Delsie,
is a skein winder at the Karastan Mill.
130 Students Participate
More than 130 students from 25
schools in piedmont North Carolina at
tended the third annual clinic. They re
hearsed Saturday afternoon and Sunday
morning under Dr. Paul Bryan, of Duke
University, and Thomas Miller, of East
Carolina College.
The local musicians were accompanied
to Durham by Band Director Robert
Fleming. The students were house
guests of members of the Durham Junior
High School Band on Saturday night.
Randal Mack Litaker
Drewry Wayne Ingram, serving with
the 161st Engr. Co., APO 8, Korea, was
recently promoted to Specialist Fourth
Class. Prior to entering service he was
a dryer operator in the Bleachery De
partment at the Towel Mill, Fieldale,
Va.
SP/4 Ingram is a 1960 graduate of
Fieldale High School and is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Noah E. Ingram, of
Route 1, Fieldale. His father is a weaver
at the Towel Mill.
Shown in the ac
companying picture
is Randal Mack Li
taker who will be
three years old Feb
ruary 19. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mack Litaker. Father
is employed in the
Plant Service Depart
ment at the Finish
ing Mill and moth-
* er (Pauline) former
ly worked in the Engineering Depart
ment.
Greenville Man Plays
Guitar Professionally
Herbert Tripp, a fixer in the Carding
Department at the Karastan Spinning
Division in Greenville, is also a profes
sional guitar player. He has pursued his
guitar-playing hobby since he was 15
years old and now appears weekly with
the Manning Brothers Trio over station
WKTB in Greenville, Sunday mornings,
8:30 to 9:00.
The trio specializes in country music
and Herbert is featured with his C. F.
Martin guitar, valued at $400.00 and
specially made for him at the Martin
factory in Philadelphia.
At Fort Gordon
Pvt. Billy E. Hudson, of Greenville,
has just completed eight weeks of ad'
vanced individual infantry training
Fort Gordon, Georgia. He is the son
of Mrs. Margie Christine Hudson, an
inspector at the Karastan Spinning Di'
vision, Greenville.
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