6 - Morrisvilto and Praston Progress, Thursday, Nov. 28,1996
Retired commercial artist
prefers his work Ted Bilt’
By Aston B. Pryor
The vanity plate on Ted
DeBrocky’s 1929 Mercedes con
vertible car built from a kit says
much about the Morrisville artist
and hobbyist
It simply reads: "Ted Bilt"
DeBrocky, a transplant from New
York who’s lived in Preston the last
five years, is a man with many in
terests. He’s built a car, model
sized remote-controlled airplanes,
and he is an accomplished wood
sculptor.
On the day a reporter came call
ing, he was whittling away at a big
wooden swan which will be a
daughter’s wedding present.
”I was self-taught but now I’m
taking lessons in wood sculpting,"
said DeBrocky, who works from a
studio in his home at fteston Pines.
"I just want to try to get some real
down-to-earth infonnatic«i.”
He’s a little pressed to get the
swan finished; bis daughter is get
ting married in December. But with
a long career as a commercial artist
behind him, DeBrocky is ac
customed to meeting deadlines.
After a stint in the Navy Air
Corps during World War II,
DeBrocky attended college on the
G.I. Bill. He went to work for a
company, but soon found he
preferred being an entrepreneur. He
started a commercial art firm and
ran it for 45 years until a heart at
tack forced him to give it up.
But he hasn’t been idle since his
retirement His hcane is filled with
hundreds of his creations, mostly
ducks and fish fashioned from
toupala and basswood. He works in
more common woods, too, like
pine, but prefers the softer one.
His detailed creations, like the
fish and fowl portrayed in their nat
ural habitats, are almost lifelike.
"I’ve always been interested in
wh^ people do, and I went from
one hobby to another. Now that I’m
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his creatbns, a sculpture of a fish made from wood, Debrocky also
works with sculptures of ducks and wood burning,
rwired, I have a lot more time on
my hands. I’m just so curious abait
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this or that," he said.
Groovy language gone, but sexist referrals remain
By Roxanne Powsrs
There is something comforting in
the knowledge that history repeats
itself. Periiaps because it j ust makes
life feel more predictable, or per-
h^s it helps those of us who were
part of the "history" in question feel
like we have an inside line.
For instance, if chit teens are in
dulging in the hair and clothing
styles from the sixties, we, their
"know-nothing" parents, can,
through pictures, offer irrefutable
proof that we not only know some
thing, but that we actually knew it
before they did. At least that’s one
way K) take back the parental
power we so deserve.
Sometimes though, in our eager
ness to revive history through fads,
we gel things backwards. For in
stance, one of the more recent af
fectations to be revived in our area,
began to revisit itself upon us a
year or two ago, while the origin of
its evolution...diners, has only
recently returned.
The ^fectation I'm referring to is
the practice of lumping family,
friends, acquaintances, and in some
cases, the neighbor’s dog, under the
one generic heading of "Dear.” Suf
fer it to say, Dahling, that this con
descending practice is about as at-
; tractive as a pierced tongue...and in
fact, probably requires the use of
one.
While I’m grateful that the word
: "groovy" has had the decency to
stay buried in some psychedelic
fad-tomb, right next to the one
marked "bra burning womens-
libbers," some recent occurrences
have had me wanting to dig up the
women’s libbers cause, (it is a
"cause” versus a fad when the bra-
buming is done away with) dust it
off, and re-name it
For instance, this month my hus
band and I will celebrate our an
niversary; yet recently, a club we
bought membership in as a married
couple, sent a "Happy Anniver
sary" card addressed to him. What
am I? Some property he acquired?
If so, I’ve almost reached the status
of an antique, and should, there
fore, at least in that guise, be ^
valuable to overlook.
Right on the tails of that bit of
correspondence, I found a piece of
mail in our box from my daughter’s
Church to present
musical Dec. 15
H(^ Community Church of Cary
will present a Christmas musical on
Sunday, Dec. 15 at 10 a.m.
"The Wonder of the Seasai" will
feature the church choir, narrators,
soloists and young people. The
church is located on 9043 Chapel
Hill Road.
high school addressed to my hus
band, her stepfather. I don’t know
if this is an in indulgence of all
Wake County schools or just Cary
High School, but now that I think
about it, fOT as long as I can re
member, all conespondence from
them has been addressed to him.
I guess it’s because, of the two
sexes, they must consider the men
of the area to be the more actively
involved parents. If that were the
criteria for that decision, then the
pediatric group we use must be
deaf, dumb and blind as to the sex
of the majority of the parents who
bring in their little patients because
they also automatically send all
bills and correspondence to the
"man of the house."
A fiiend had this to say: "Maybe
in their little minds [the pediatric
group] they think that they are
legally protected when it comes to
collections...you know, because in
two-parent families the majority of
wage earners are still men." Anoth
er friend said, "Really? Just let the
man of the house who receives all
his correspondence and is the as
sumed wage eamer/bill payer not
pay his bill...and see how long he
tries to hide behind that little ‘legal
shield' then! Under those circum
stances the woman of the house
quickly becomes more visible."
Hmmm, good point there.
Another recent occurrence was
when a friend’s husband received a
"Thank you for your business" card
from an ^pliance store, when, as
she says indignantly, "He never
even stepped foot in that store. I
made the decisions about what was
bought there, and I, unfortunately,
made the decision to shop there."
On top of all that hearty good
news, I hear that fashion designers
are now trying to revive girdles. I’U
give up eating befcre I back-slide
into that little trap. On second
through, maybe women should just
consider giving up their
uteruses...that would at least help to
postpone the need to conceal a
bulging tummy.
Hey, maybe I’m onto something.
For all those people who seem to
think women are even less entitled
to common courtesy than some
child-molesting, scum-sucking,
low-life criminal, the act of remov
ing uteruses would also remove the
possibility of any more people
receiving half their genetics from
such an inferior product...let alone
chance the risk of people actually
having to reside there for almost
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