Page 6-C WELDING ART—Chowan High School students enrolled in a welding cl«« provided the items shown above which are on display at the Shepard-Pruden Memorial Library this month. The items are made from various metals and show different types of welds. The welding class began in 1971 and the instructor is Emmett P. Jones. Welding Class Provides Unique Library Display A display of various welds and items that can be made from scrap material is on display at the Shepard- Pruden Memorial Library for the month of June. The display consists of various types of welds, small metal articles such as bugs, airplanes and bees made from spark plugs, balanceing acrobats, an all metal aquarium, insulator holders, candle holders and flowers made from tin cans as well as many other metal items. All the items from the Chowan High School welding class were supplied by Emmett P. Jones who has been at Chowan High School for six years as in structor of welding and metal work. Jones has been in the trades all his life beginning as a small boy in his father’s woodworking and blacksmith shop. He has been in the welding field 45 years, welding pipe lines, steel fabrication, steel and plate work. He served 17 years as a certified aircraft welder and aviation metalsmith both at the Norfolk Naval Air Station and at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Base in Elizabeth City. During the years at the Coast Guard Base he taught night classes in farm welding for six years at Chowan High School. After his retirement on disability from the Coast Guard Base he was asked to begin a welding class for senior students at Chowan High School. This class was started in 1971 and some of the students from the first class are still working at the Newport News Shipyard. The classes have been quite successful and there have been no serious acci dents . Some I7Bstudents have been enrolled in the classes from the first class until now. The shop has grown to YOUR BEST ANCHOR for future security is an account in a federally insured Association that insures every saver up to $40,000 and pays the highest interest rates • the law allows. Stop in. Com* By And Soo Tho Friondly Folks At Edenton Savings & Loan Association A Soft Plato To Savo Slneo 1905 312 S.lrood St. - Idonton. N. C. eleven arc welders with individual booths, one heli arc welder, eight torches and eight individual steel work benches with a vise on each bench. Jones is leaving the school this year due to reasons of health, but he wishes the best in Trade & Industry Training Classes for those who are interested in this type of class and who are willing to work to learn to do the best job possible with materials on hand. His only regret is that he could not have done more for the T & I Program. Two Complete UNC Geriatric Patient Course GREENSBORO Mrs. Mary A. Belch and Mrs. DeAnna Darnell attended the course, “Bowel Management of the Geriatric Patient”, on June 8 here. The day long meeting was sponsored by the School of Pharmacy of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Guilford County Phar maceutical Society, the Greensboro Area Health Education Center, and Hoechst-Roussel Phar maceuticals, Inc. Program speakers were Dr. C. Thomas Nuzum, associate professor of medicine, UNC School of Medicine at Chapel Hill; Sherry McCoy, rehabilitation unit, N. C. Memorial Hospital at Chapel Hill; and Philip Gerbino, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science at Philadelphia, Pa. They are affiliated with Cape Colony Haven. 37th Season 'Lost Colony' Staging Begins MANTEO - The “granddaddy” of the out door dramas, Paul Green’s, "The Lost CokJny” opened for its 37th season here June 17 and will play nightly except Sundays until August 27. The cast and crew of the production have been on location at the Waterside Theater on the shores of Roanoke Sound for two weeks, preparing sets, rigging light towers, rehearsing, and performing the seemingly endless tasks involved in staging an outdoor drama. N.C. / Department of Cultural Resources Secretary Sara W. Hodgkins attended the opening night performance and briefly addressed the audience prior to the 8:30 P.M. per formance, according to Thomas J. Pearsall, chairman of the board of the Roanoke Island Historical Association (RIHA), the MADE ; OVER , ATHER iCOAT ! FORDED HEARD-OF N SAVE TOO -Weather Sale!! 5.88 or Street Length rnt all tied up with aist. Street length. n front and street perfect all around V- ■'. • * ' - . j \ Double breasted xillar. Handy flap i blend in a street sit. In junior sizes pockets and pleated >re polyester cotton .. FFECT WEAR! i. 9:80 A. M. - 9 P. 1L (2-8221 THE CHOWAN HERALD organization responsible for producing the drama since 1937. On opening night, “The Lost Colony” marked its 1,933 performance. By closing night, August 27, nearly 2-million persons will have seen foe stray of Sir Walter Raleigh’s ill-fated English colonists, who disappeared without a trace shortly after 1587 from a settlement thought to have been located near present day Manteo. Scenery for the first act is being rebuilt and repainted this year with a 85,000 grant from the Theatre Arts Section of the Department of Cultural Resources, .Pearsall said. Last year, the music for the first act and some selections from the second act were re-written and re arranged by composer Rosalind MacEnulty. A new sound system and a new organ were also installed at the Waterside Theater. The role of Eleanor Dare is played this year by • newcomer to “The Lost Colony”, Barbara Bridgers of Greensboro, and John Borden’s role is played by newcomer Chuck Wagner of Hartsville, Tenn. Sir Walter Raleigh is portrayed by Jim Thorp, who played the role of Simon Fernando in last year’s production, and the role of Queen Elizabeth is played by Nancy Kaye, a veteran of nine seasons with the production, with four of those years in the role of the Queen. This year’s production features a cast and crew of 170 persons, directed and choreographed by Tony and Emmy Award winner Joe Layton. Costumes are ‘ designed by Fred Voelpel, and lighting was designed by Nananne Porcher. ! ' ip- SEASON BEGINS "The Lost Colony” actors are pictured at the Waterside Theater, in Manteo, where the production’s 37th season runs until to August 27, nightly except Sundays. Seated are Indian maiden, Eleanor Dare, and Wano, Manteo’s son. Kneeling is Wanchese, seated is Queen Elizabeth 1. Standing are Old Tom, Sir Walter Raleigh, Simon Fernando, Agona, Gov. White and John Borden. (Foster Scott Photo) Black-eyed peas are actually' beans. Thursday, June 28,1W7

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