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EASTERN STAR INSTALLS OFFlCEßS—Pictured left to right, first row: Ruth Overman,
Marina Crummey, Junius Britton, Legion Britton and Louise Goodwin. Left to right, second
row: Leonard Koraska, Wanda Butler, Virginia Koraska, Olga Taylor, Caroline Swindell,
Kathleen Skiles and George Midgett. Left to right, third row: Charles Overman, James
Byrum, Yates Parrish, Mary Julia Parrish and Beth Koraska.
Eastern Star Installs Officers
On Friday night, March 25,
1983, at an Open Installation
the 1983-84 Officers of Eden
ton Chapter No. 302, Order of
the Eastern Star were install
ed. The Installing Officer of
the evening was Mr. W.P.
Goodwin. He was assisted by
Mrs. Omah Harrell, Marshal,
Mrs. Minnie Davis, Organist,
and Mr. Robert Bryan,
Chaplain.
The following Officers were
installed:
Legion Britton, Worthy
Matron; Junius Britton, Wor
thy Patron; Ruth Overman,
Associate Matron, James
Byrum, Associate Patron;
Marina Crummey,
Secretary ; Charles Overman,
Treasurer; Beth Koraska,
Conductress; Mary Julia Par
rish, Associate Conductress;
George Midgett, Chaplain;
Rosa Byrum, Marshal;
Caroline Swindell, Organist;
Kathleen Skiles, Ada , Louise
Goodwin, Ruth; Olga Taylor,
Esther; Virginia Koraska,
Martha; Wanda Butler, Elec
ta; Yates Parrish, Warder;
and Leonard Koraska,
Sentinel.
Special music was provided
by Mrs. Betty Cox, Soloist.
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Mrs. Cox sang “How Great
Thy Art” and “You’ll Never
Walk Alone”. She was accom
panied by Miss Bonita Perry
New Youth
Group Formed
There has been a new youth
group formed for all young
persons 12 to 19 years of age.
The new group is called
C.Y.F. (Christian Youth
Fellowship). The next
meeting will be on Saturday,
April 23, 1983 in the Edenton
Baptist Church Fellowship
Hall at 7:00 P.M. The
meetings will be run by the
youth themselves, but an
adult advisor will be present
at all meetings. The youth will
be playing religious type
games and will be studying
the Bible often. This will not
be like a Sunday School class.
All youth are welcome
regardless of race or any
other factor. There are many
activities planned for the
group, so please come and
give it a chance. The purpose
of the group is for the youth to
have fun while learning more
about the Bible. For more in
formation call Barry Swain at
221-8196.
at the piano.
ImrnpHjaMv following the
installation there was a recep
tion held downstairs. With
such an abundance of food on
the table everyone soon forgot
all the snow that was outside.
Parent Workshop
A workshop for parents of
exceptional children in the
Albemarle region will be held
Saturday, April 23rd.
The Parent training
workshop is to be held at the
Agricultural Extension Of
fice, 1209 McPherson Street,
Elizabeth City from 9 A.M. to
3 P.M., April 23rd.
Topics to be discussed will
include: What special ser
vices are available at school?
How to identify the special
services your child needs.
How to ask for services and
who to ask for those services.
For further information
regarding this workshop,
please contact: Ann Laughlin
at 338-3639 or Barbara Rhodes
at 335-0714.
BPW Annual
Chicken Salad Sale
The-EdenUm Business.and-
Professional 1 Womens' 5 Club
will hold their annual chicken
salad luncheon bh 'Tuesday,
April 19.
The cost of the plates will be
$3.00; and they can be picked
up at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church Parish House between
the hours of 11 A.M. and 2:30
P.M. Deliveries will be made
to business and industries by
request. Orders may be plac
ed by calling Peggy Leeper at
482-4953 or Elva Stroud at
482-8176 or any BPW Club
member.
A young oyster is called
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THE CHOWAN HERALD
Soap Operas Studied
by David Williamson
CHAPEL HlLL—Ballads,
battles, bugs and blood cells
aren’t the only subjects being
examined at Major American
universities these days. A
handful of professors who are
interested in popular culture
are also studying soap operas,
those much-watched, much
knocked mainstays of
daytime television.
“When you consider that
more than 50-million people in
the United States admit to be
ing soap opera viewers, it’s
surprising that until very
recently, the programs have
received little scholarly atten
tion,” says film historian
Robert Allen of the Universi
ty of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
“These shows generate
some (700-million a year for
the major networks, and at
least 63 per cent of all women
living in homes with televi
sions watch them.”
Allen, an assistant pro
fessor of radio, television and
motion pictures, is one of this
country’s few experts on the
daytime dramas.
Last spring, along with Dr.
Jane Brown of the School of
Journalism and researchers
at other universities, he com
pleted a study for the
American Broadcasting Com
pany showing that more than
half of all college students in
this country watch soap
operas at least once a week.
Students at UNC-CH are no
exception, and every after
noon dozens of young men and
women can be found watching
soaps in the Student Union
television area.
“We discovered that college
students tend to watch for dif
ferent reasons from the
typical home viewer,” Allen
says. “Students use viewing
as a social activity. It pro
vides them with a good oppor
tunity to strike up a conversa
tion beacause it’s a lot easier
to say ‘What happened on
“General Hospital” yester
day?’ than it is to say
“Haven’t we met somewhere
before?”
On the other hand, some
home viewers use the pro
grams to compensate for the
lack of social activity in their
lives, Allen says. Some get so
caught up with the characters
that they write letters to the
actors at the networks.
The networks monitor all
the mail closely, and woe be
to the character who gets too
little mail and does not attract
a following. He or she is like
ly to be killed off or moved out
of town by the writers.
Allen’s research can affect
advertising revenues, he
says. If the networks can
show that large numbers of
college students watch the
programs, they can attract
new products to promote.
“Although about 15 per cent
of the audience is male,
women between the ages of 18
and 35 still form the largest
single group of viewers,” he
explains. “Since these are the
people who buy most of the
diapers, cleaning agents and
personal hygiene products,
most of the commercials are
aimed at them.”
ABC makes more than
sl-million a week from
“General Hospital” alone.
Despite the popularity of
the soaps and some of their
characters, actors who per
form in them have none of the
leverage held by actors like
Larry Hagman in the most
popular evening programs. A
network executive once told
Allen that no soap opera has
ever lost so much as a single
rating point when an actor
quit.
Likewise, and actor would
never get away with im
provising dialogue on a soap
opera as Dustin Hoffman did
in the movie “Tootsie” or as
stage actors sometimes do.
“Still, in the acting industry
where at any one time 80 per
cent of ther performers are
out of work, a job on a soap
can be very attractive,” Allen
says. “At the very least, they
offer training, exposure and a
minium of 13 weeks work. Ac
tress Charita Bauer told me
she raised bar son by herself
very comfortably by playing
the same character for 31
years on ‘The Guiding
Light.’ ”
The professor attributes the
soaps’ popularity in part to
the weaving of four or five dif
ferent plot lines into the same
program, their ability to ap
peal to a broad spectrum of
tastes and the fact that, unlike
most shows, their characters
remember what happened
last week or 10 years ago.
He takes his research on
soap opera audiences very
seriously, but makes no
apology for being a fan of
several of the shows.
“My favorite American
soap is The Guiding Light,
which I’ve been watching as
often as I can for about eight
years, admits.
If “Hie Guiding Light” is
not the best story ever told, it
is certainly the longest, Allen
says. It began on radio in 1937
and has been on television
continuously since 1952.
He once calculated that so
meone who wanted to see all
the television episodes
without a break would have to
sit in a screening room 24
hours a day, seven days a
week, for about five and a half
months.
Allen says he will be wat
ching closely what happens to
the daytime dramas over the
next 10 years. With the advent
of evening serials like
“Dallas,” “Dynasty” and
“Knots Landing” and the pro
liferation of cable soaps, the
industry should change
dramatically.
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ered that people wore wool
at least 12,000 years ago.
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Marriage Is .....
Marriage is a “binding” of
two persons by legal, social or
religious means. In the Judeo-
Christian tradition (not the
only one in which marriage is
seen as heaven sent) the
words “the two become one”
from Genesis 2, and in Mat
thew 19, “What therefore God
has joined.’’Marriage is a
becoming One process that is
ordained of God. Os course,
not all those who are married
are God joined. Those who are
joined do become One-not just
sexually but socially, mental
ly, spiritually, etc.
The symbols used are in
teresting. In a Hindu wedding
the two young people were
tied by a string wrist to wrist.
In an Indian Christian wed
ding the couple were address
ed by family and community
people for over 45 minutes as
they sat silently. The couples’
responsibility to each other
and to the community was the
subject of rather strong and
vociferous speeches. In this
country there are a hundred
different ways of symbolizing
this “binding”. Rings ex
changed, vocal vows made,
lighting a candle together,
taking Holy Communion, the
exchanged of names or using
Mr. and Mrs., walking down
the aisle together. A sense of
“binding” is achieved. The
community sees them no
longer two but one. What do
the persons see themselves to
be?
During a lifetime the av
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Series Begins
Tonight marks the first
night, at Colonial Baptist, of a
series entitled “As The World
Turns, (And Looks At Chris
tianity).” This series will
begin each Thursday evening
at 7:30 P.M. and will be of im
portance and interest to all
Christians. There will be film
and lectures for a period of
about 15 weeks.
“The entire series,” states
Pastor Yancey, “is non
denominational, and makes
us aware of what the world
sees today, when it looks at
Christians, churches, and
Christianity on the whole. I in
vite every pastor and Chris
tian in the area to attend these
vital meetings.”
Pastor Yancey is a Chris
tian educator and formerly
pastored the Old Town Bap
tist Church of Hesperia
California. He is responsible
for the starting of eleven
church schools in California,
which have involved many
diverse denominations.
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Card Party |
Hie Edenton Woman’s Club
invites you to attend a spring
“In Home” card party Fri
day, April 22, 1983 at 7:30
P.M. The party-will be held id
the home of the following
members
Mrs. Fred Giles, MrsO
George A. Byrum, MriL;
Walter Abbe, Mrs. Norman
Bullard, Mrs. W.D. Harbert,
Mrs. David Wright and Mrs.
Wilbur Pierce. Hostess will
provide material for Bridge
and Canasta. Any other
that requires additional
material will have to be sup
plied by players.
Coffee, tea and dessert will
be served and prizes will be
donated by the local
merchants.
Tickets may be purchased
by any club member at (5 per
person.
Portland, Oregon was named
by the flip of a coin. The
losing name was Boston.