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The NEW BERN " PUBLISHED WIIKLY WART OP // 0 VOLUME 15 NEW BERN, N. C. 28560, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1972 NUMBER 35 At our house, whenever a Mlrror photo or story links well iloc ago date, a grim warning known focal names with a k long- ng Is issued to the editor. **Your’re going to make so and so mad,” is the admonition we can look for. Because many Mks really are toucl^ about their age, bringing up the past probaUy does arouse resentment in some quarters. Why anyone should be ashamed for having lived a considmtibie number of years is beyond us, but they certainly are entitled to the privilege. Whether you care to express it or not, each of our readers past 50 is apt to have his or her definition of dd age. Ours is it’s the milestone where a person would be perfectly willing to look a little worse, if they could only feel a little better. Being able to kid others about your pretended youthfulness isn’t much consolation, if your joints creak when you get out of bed in the morning and you feel like you’ve been stompra on by a hard of elephants, lluit’s why elderly individuals who refuse to yield to grumpiness deserve a special medal. To tell the truth, there’s only one way to hide your age, even temporarily. You’ll have to leave your home town. As long as you remain where you were bom and grew up, your friends (and enemies) can figure it out for themselves. “She is bound to be at least 62,’’ someone will say, when idle blit not necessarily malicious small-talk is being indulged in at a social gathering. “My sister Evdyn (or Margaret or Elizabeth) is 60, and she was two years ahead of her in school.” If there is one thing that’s remembered for all time to come, it’s who was in whose grade, and when. Most of what was learned in the classroom has faded like the dreams you had in your teens, but not your recollections of the pigtaUed girl who sat in front d you, or the freckle faced boy who gave you a bloody nose at recess. At this late stage, we can recall evory licking we ever got, not Just from the teacher but from fdlows who were harder to ^al vrith than we had an ticipated. Considering the number of wild-swinging battles in which we haniened to be one of the gladiators, that’s a lot of remembering. Perhaps we should be ashamed of it, but so far as this editor knows he holds the distinction of being the only first grwler ever expelled for a year from New Bern’s public schools. We’ve admitted it each time we’ve made a speech in anybody’s school auditorium since then. Siqperintendent H. B. Smith, sent us on our way, after we overdid thrashing the blass bully during tiptoe recess in the boys’ basement. Dunking him apparently was the last straw, from Mr. Smith’ viewpoint, but we would no doubt repeat the performance under similar circumstances if the hands of (Continued on page 8) Jlwu iSfrii-GranEH GouiUij public Mi DEFEATED CANDIDATE—Valerie Austin Davis, reminder that running for office can end in agony, actually a happy little lady, cooperated fully when According to Valerie, who will soon be five months we wanted her to show how a politician feels when old, disappointment calls for a stiff upper lip, like he loses an election. Tack this Mirror portrait, the one she displays here. Her parents are Carol snapped at Wray Studio, on your wall, as a and Donald Davis of New Bern.
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