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WEST CRAVEN HIGHLIGHT
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^ Wilmar PineyNeck
Cayton West Craven Heights Ernul
Serving The
Vanceboro Community
Askin
Spruilltown
Epworth
Dudley’s Crossroads
Volume I, Number 5,
Thursday, February 9, 1978
20*= per copy
V anceboro
Mayor
Elected
to Boards
Jimmie L. Morris, Mayor of the Town of Vanceboro,
was recently elected to serve as a member of the Board of
Directors of the New Bern-Craven County Chamber of
Commerce for a term of three years. The Chamber of
Commerce is a very vital organization that promotes the
growth and developement of Craven County.
Mayor Morris was also recedntly selected to become a
Board Member of The Craven County Committee of 100,
which is a part of the Craven County Industrial
Development Commission. He was also elected in a secret
ballot to be one of three members on the Governing Body
of the Craven County Industrial Park. This position is an
extremely important and powerful position in that the
three members of the governing body elected by the
ommittee of 100 have absolute control over the
development of the park. The governing body will have a
total of five members with the other two members being
elected by occupants of the park.
TOWN
MEETING
TO BE HELD IN
VANCEBORO
Jimmie L. Morris,
Mayor of Vanceboro
In addition to the above. Mayor Morris is presently
serving as Superintendent of the Holly Hill Sunday
School, a Director of the Wachovia Bank and Trust
Company, a member of the Board of Directors of the
Falcon Childrens Home, a member of the Board of
Directors and Treasurer of the Vanceboro Medical Center,
a member of the Vanceboro Rural Volunteer Fire
Department, Past President and now a member of the
Eastern Lung Association, Past President and Member of
the Vanceboro Rotary Club, Scouting Co-ordinator for
Troop #58 Vanceboro Boy Scouts. He is very active in the
Democratic Party, having served as the Craven County
Democratic Chairman for 5 consecutive years.
Vanceboro will be the site of a Community wide ‘Town
Meeting. It will be held on Tuesday night, on February 14,
1978 at 7:00 pm at the Vanceboro Fire Department
Building on First Street. Everyone is welcomed to attend.
This town meeting is part of the ‘Town Meeting-North
Carolina” program being initiated by a national volunteer
organization. Sixty-six counties in North Carolina will be
visited by the volunteers in January, February and March.
The National program of Town Meetings was created by
the Institute of Cultural Affairs and carried on by the
North Carolina Committees for Town Meetings.
The purpose of this Town Meeting is to engage the
citizens in the Vanceboro area in the active planning of
their future. This is a good opportunity for us to discuss
challenges and to create proposal for our town.
-£CU->OFEEBS
EVENING
COURSES
GREENVILLE — Eastern N. C. adults who wish to
improve. their reading and writing skills are invited to
enroll in any of three non-credit evening and Saturday
courses to be offered this spring.
They are “Speed Reading” (Mondays and Thursdays,
March 16, April 17, 7:30 9:30 pm); “Written
Communications” (Wednesdays, March 15 - April 5, 6:30 -
9:30 pm or Saturdays, March 4 and 11, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm);
and “Writing for Publication’” (Wednesdays, March 1 -
April 12, 7 - 9 p:30).
The speed reading course, to be taught by Homer
Yearick of the ECU School of Allied Health and Social
Professions, can enable participants to at least double
their reading rates while improving their comprehension
O of written material.
Classroom instruction and practice will stress the
replacement of poor reading skills with efficient ones, and
will involve use of the tachistoscope, an eye training
machine.
“Written Communications” provides students with
instruction and practical skills in writing letters, job
applications, memoranda, reports and other types of
business-related communications.
Course instructor is Dr. Keats Sparrow of the ECU
English faculty, who is senior editor of the book “the
Practical Craft: Reading for Business and Technical
Writers.”
The “Writing for Publication” class is for the
inexperienced writer who wishes to know how to get his
or her work published. Instructor Thomas A. Williams,
editor of “Tar Heel” magazine and a successful free-lance
writer, will share tricks of the writer’s trade including
U how to approach an editor, how to write skillful leads and
endings, basic research techniques, and the use of dialogue
and anecdotes.
Further information about these and other non-credit
course offerings is available from the Office of Non-credit
programs. Division of Continuing Education, East Carolina
University, Greenville, N. C., telephone: 757-6143.
Coastal Resources -
February
ECU Program Topic
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Billy Gurkin
Gurkin initiated
into
Honor Society
William Gurkin, son of Mr. & Mrs. William H. Gurkin of
Route 1, Vanceboro was one of twenty East Carolina
University students who were initiated as members of the
N. C. Epsilon chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta honor society
for pre-medical and pre-dental students in a Jan. 28
ceremony here.
Guest speaker at the ceremony was Dr. Robert L.
Gairard of Greensboro, a founding member of the society.
His topic was “Alpha Epsilon Delta” 52 Years Ago.”
NEW BERN — Eastern North Carolina’s coastal resources
will be the subjects of three Thursday evening public
forums to be offered here by East Carolina University in
February.
The forums are sponsored by the ECU Title I
Environmental Education Program, with the assistance of
the Craven County Agriculture Extension Service and the
Craven County Public Library.
The programs include the following:
Feb. 9: “Rivers, Swamps and Streams, Our Surface Water
Resources,” by Edward Simpson, Craven County
Extension Service Chairman.
Feb. 16: “Coastal Plain Groundwater: Our Hidden
Resource,” by Dr. Bryson Trexler of the ECU geology
faculty; and
Feb. 23: “Mining and Mineral Resources of the Coastal
Plain,” by Dr. Stanley Riggs of the ECU geology faculty.
Each program is scheduled for 8 pm in the Craven
County Public Library Auditorium, 400 Johnson Street,
New Bern, and is free and open to the public.
Purpose of the series, according to Stephen Benton,
director of ECU’s Environmental Education Program, is to
provide a non-technical forum for the discussion of the
numerous natural and human resources of the state’s
coastal plain.
Any person interested in the origin of these resources,
as well as their interdepence and future, is invited to
attend the February presentations as well as later
programs in the series scheduled during March.
Alpha Epsilon Delta has 50,000 members in more than
120 chapters throughout the U. S. and Canada. It is an
affiliation society of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science and the American Council on
Education and is a member of the Association of College
Honor Societies.
Among its purposes are encouragement of excellence in
pre-medical and pre-dental scholarship, stimulation of
appreciation" of the importance of pre-medical education in
the study of medicine, and promotion of cooperation and
contacts between medical and pre-medical students and
educators.
Each year, the society awards several $250 scholarships
to members entering medical or dental school, a program
supported by alumni members who are practicing dentists
and physicians through payment of annual dues.
ECU’s N. C. Epsilon chapter was chartered in February,
1976. Its projects include a Physician Observation
Program and several social gatherings each year.
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