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PENLAND SCHOOL • PENLAND, NORTH CAROLINA 28765-0037*
Welcome to the
Penland Lioe...
a relatively informal
way of keeping in
touch with Friends
of Penland School.
Published quarterly
ivith an update on
School activities
(that go beyond
course descriptions)
a)id people whose
lives touch the
Penland
community.
WINTER
CHRONICLE
On January 14 the first completed 89 Summer
Journals started rolling off the presses at Daniers
Graphics in Asheville. They represent almost a
year's planning and hard work, so Unit moment is
pretty thrilling. And proof of the staff's stamina is
that they didn't even blink when Geri Camarda
the following day announced deadlines for the
next one. It has just occurred to me that a lot of
you may wonder what the staff does around here
during the winter months when there is no
program, therefore no,students or instructors,
relatively few bodies for any reason at all.
Well, I can tell you that we are pretty much
breathless all through the winter too.. I'll give you
a simplified rundown of everyone's obvious
chores but it is by no means a complete list.
Hunter "Boss Man" Karihcr started his crew on
the kitchen expansion the day after the kitchen
closed in the fall. First to go were the old walk-in
coolers with the stone work which most of us
loved but wait until you see the brand new
modular walk-in cooler and freezer, doubling the
space we've had in the past. Fund-raising auction
cooks will be especially glad to hear that. During
that week, the walk-in was always renamed the
"squeeze in". Incidentally, Marsha Owen and
Kathryn Gremley will be baking the delights for
next summer's auction, August 12, so it is safe to
start dreaming about Chocolate Mousse, Carrot
Cream Nut Cake.
The kitchen expansion is pretty exciting. Bill
Brown will tell anyone that the old kitchen was
designed to feed 140 people, max and for several
summers there have been sessions when Connie
gave the cooks a 200 plus count for meals which
The Pines Construction
inchided students, staff, instructors and_tht;ir
families. The new kitchen Will be thre$ times as
large and have wonderful, large windows that
open. There will be foi!« work stations each with
its own sink so that there can be four full time
cooks during the day, instead of three with the
fourth one moonlighting because there was no
room during the day. Flunter's able crew is
headed by Harold "Dad"Jones. We're excited to
hil-u that he has a chance to show his stuff with
some new construction and breakout of the
endless string of patch and repair jobs, important
as they are too. Harold's crew members are
Judson "Aw Shucks" Guerard, Chuck "Fork Lift"
Smith and Dennis "Stud" Jones.
Hunter is also busy directing his very special J N' J
team (Jane "Sheet Rock" LeFevre, Nita "It's in
the Garage" Forde and Jane "Money Honey"
Shellenbarger) and they're doing some fiije, much
needed finishing and refurbishing work in the
wood, metal and fiber studios while using the
winter months for some of their own studio work.
Kat "Flow Many by When?" Conley is only in
partial hibernation when she's not managing the
Penland Supply Store. Kat processes all our bulk
mailings with break-neck speed. Last month, she
labeled, sorted and bagged up 18,600 Summer
Journals within four days, sleeping only four hours
a night. Immediately after that, 14,000 fund raising
announcements and before both of them 6000
invitations to the Iron Symposium in April. And
WOW listen to this! Our 1989 summer journal
would have cost $29,000 to mail first class. It cost
$3,000 to send out bulk rate. Thank you, Kat &
Company.
'89 Penland Journal
Alana "Just Sign Here, Please" Barkley is assisting the
auditors who have been around for almost two weeks
closely inspecting the work she and Helen did last
year. We could just tell the|Ti,that they did a fantastic
job, but as a non-profit organization we are required to
have an audit once a year. Alana also just finished
making entries fojH>he '89 budget, figures we'll use all
year after appro a 1 oy the Board of Trustees and very
soon she'll start making purchases to accommodate
instructor requests for classes starting in March, a job
that won't end until November. Helen "Smiley"
Duncan works with Alana on all matters of accounting
and is responsible for the regular basis on which you
receive your Penland statement! No matter how big or
small my bill is, I've noticed she always smiles about it.
Sally "We Need Your Help" Morgan is catching up on
Thank You letters for end-of-the-year contributions
(and is not complaining—thanks for all the help) and
working with David Winslow from Winston on the
Fund Raising Campaign which is scheduled to end July
1. Sally continually reaches out to make new contacts
for Penland and nurture old ones be they individuals,
businesses or foundations who can help Penland with
its goals, financial and otherwise. The demands of her
job are persistent as are the expansion and restoration
needs of the school and her conscientiousness and hard
work are probably the reasons we are as close as we are
to our final goal. Julie "Where Does It Hurt?"
Connaghan as Staff Assistant helps all of us, whoever
yells the loudest, and right now she is helping Sally
and Pat. Julie was also responsible for doing aU the
data entering for our mailing list clean-up. Geri
Camarda is on that side of the hall too. Maybe she took
a deep breath after Journal copy was dropped off at the
printers (just a figure of speech) but we didn't see her
do it. She just designed the invitation to the Iron
Symposium this spring, is working on ads that seem
far in the future and.is propr' .s all up for work on
still another program, ' . journal.
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