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SANTA SHOWS UP
IN PEMBROKE
At Joycees’ Christmas Parade
Rains hampered the. regularly sche
duled Pembroke Jaycees Christmas
Parade and the annual event was
changed from last Thursday morning to
the following Friday, December 17,
1976.
Nevertheless, a good crowd braved the
wintry day to welcome Santa Claus and
the Christmas season.
It was a day of spritely, high stepping
bands, floats, pretty girls, and, most of
all, the appearance of Santa Claus.
Ah, the awe, the wonder, tfie ]oy of
Christmas! Lacy, the lovely daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Maynor has Jast
seen Santa Clans pass by daring last
Friday’s Pembroke Jaycees Christmas
Lacy’s look of awe and wonder
embodies the real spirit of Christmas.
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he promised he woald. He was cheered
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BRUCE BARTON PHOTOS
'Odyssey
Of Mon'
unveiled
History buff. Dr. Martin L. Brooks,
has bfeen contemplating a mural that
would express his version of the
odyssey of man for a number of years.
The dream was realized last Saturday
night as he and Mrs. Brooks hosted the
unveiling of Gene Locklear’s “Odyssey
of Man,’’ a huge mural that now graces
the swimming pool area of their home.
Gene Locklear, home for the off
season, worked approximately three
weeks on the mural “eleven hours a
day’’ and the results were shown to
approximately two hundred guests
Saturday night at the Brooks residence.
The mural is a curious mixture of
world, national and local history. There
are juxtapositions with Henry Berry
Lowrie, local Indian hero, near Churci
hill. Stalin and Roosevelt at Yalta.
There are local scenes: for instance.
Old Main, University Sportswear, Lum-
bee Bank. Dr. Martin L. Brooks and
Gene Locklear at their respective crafts,
ball player and physcian.
There are biblical scenes, Adam and
Eve, the Tree of Knowledge, the
parting of the Red Sea, Christ in agony,
Moses and Elijah.
The focal point is Michelangelo’s
famous creation of man.
To view the 20 feet long and four and
one half feet high mural is to muse on
the “Odyssey of Man’’ the curious trek
across the pages of history. Seemingly,
every act and personage is an intricate
and integral part of history and a
portent of the future.
There are scenes of Martin Luther
King, Henry Aaron, Louis Armstrong,
tear stained Indians, pastoral scenes,
moon shots, Telstar, the unknown
future.
The mural suggests the unknown
with a naked man and woman entering
an archway beyond which infinity lies, '
there is no definition beyond, just a
continuing process of going full cycle.
Gene Locklear, artistic and sensitive,
who lives with his mother during off
season in the Mt. Airy Community, has
painted the mural with earth colors,
dark browns, brown hues, garish,
traumatic reds. He muses “many think
they see hostility in my work. I don’t
know about that. I just like earth colors,
dark blotches of paint. That’s the way I
see things.”
Dr. Brooks said, “I think, basically,
we got everything in it we wanted.”
Assisting Dr. and Mrs. Brooks were
their children. Greeting guests at the
door were Mr. and Mrs. Noah Woods. A
special guest was Johnny Grubb, a
former San Diego Padre teammate of
Gene’s, who was traded to the
Cleveland Indians during the off
Dr. Brooks, drawfed by the mnral,
explains his view of history, ‘*the
odyssey of man.”
Discernible behind him is Einstein, a
Yalta scene, Abraham Lincoln, John F.
Kennedy, and other scenes, past and
present, suggesting the Ironic harmony
of history and the sense of it all.
Walter Oxendine
honored by Joycees
PSU’S MIKE OLSON SERVING AS
NAIA AREA 7 REPRESENTATIVE
PEMBROKE--Mike Olson, in his
sixth year as wrestling coach of
Pembroke State University, is serving
his second year as NAIA Area 7
wrestling representative to the national
NAIA headquarters.
Olson’s wrestling team, which current
ly ranks 14th in the national NAIA poll,
is continuing a winning tradition which
he has had since coming to PSU.
In his five past seasons at Pem
broke. Olson has piloted the Braves to
four NAIA District 29 titles, two NAIA
Area 7 crowns and one runner-up spot
in the Area. The Area includes the
Carolinas, Virginia and West Virginia.
Olson, 39, has coached three All-
Americans at PSU: Bob Hudkins in the
1972-73 season, Steve LaPrad in
1974-75 and Dave Miller in 1975-76.
LaPrad has also been an honorable
mention All-American as has Hudkins
and Larry Bridgewater.
Last year was the greatest year of
Olson’s career in wrestling. Not only did
he win both the NAIA Area 7 and
District 29 titles, he was chosen for the
third time in five years as District
“Wrestling Coach of the Year.’’
He was also selected as team leader for
a United States NAIA All-Star wrestling
team which last summer toured Japan
and Korea. Among the gifts Olson took
to the Orient from America was a North
Carolina bicentennial flag, presented to
hint in Raleigh by Gov. Jim Hols-
houser.
A native of Minneapolis, Olson re
ceived his B.A. form Coe College in
Cedar Rapis, Iowa, and his M.A. from
Wayne, Nev., State College.
PSU’S GANE NAMED TO NCAA
DIVISION 2 ADVISORY COMMITTEE
PEMBROKE-'Lacey Gane, athletic
director of Pembroke State University
under whose guidance PSU has pro
duced one of the finest small college
athletic programs in the nation, has
been named to the four-man South
Atlantic Advisory Committee for NCAA
(National Collegiate Athletic Associ
ation) Division 2 Basketball Cham
pionships.
Walter Oxendine receives the Jaycee
of the Month Award for September and
Jaycee of the Quarter for the second
quarter of the Jaycees’ fiscal year.
Oxendine has been a member of the
Pembroke Jaycees since their inception,
and during this time he has served in a
number of chairman capacities; one and
one-half years as Internal Vice-Presi
dent; and local president for the year
1970-71.
On the state level, Walter has held the
offtces of State Vice-President, National
Director, and Administrative National
Director of the North Carolina Jaycees.
He was also appointed to the position of
State Chaplain for one year.
He was employed by the Robeson Serving with him are Thomas J.
County School System for several years Martin, Roanoke College, committee
before accepting his current position {
Pembroke State University as Develop
ment Officer.
Having attended the local schools In
Pembroke, he went on to receive his
B.S. Degree from Pembroke State
University in 1964 and his M.A. Degree
from Appalachian State University In
1976.
The Oxendines, Walter, his wife
Connie, and their two sons, Kendall
Blake and Kelvin Drake, reside in
Pembroke.
chairman; Bob Moorman, Central Inter
collegiate Athletic Association: and
Frank Szymanski, University of Bal
timore.
They will help to determine partici
pants in the NCAA Division 2 Cham
pionships, whose finals will be held
March 18-19 at Springfield, Mass.
The South Atlantic Region includes
Maryland, District of Columbia, Vir
ginia, West Virginia and North Caro
lina.
This
Gane’s 12th year at Pem-
[Brnce Barton photo)
broke State University, 10 of which he
served also as head basketball coach.
He was the man responsible for PSU’s
being accepted in September into the
Carolinas Conference, which Gane calls
his No. 1 achievement as university
athletic director.
Under Gane’s leadership, the uni
versity’s athletic program has produced
14 All-Americans and an almost count
less number of honorable mention
Ail-Americans. In competition in NAIA
District 29, which includes many small
colleges and universities in N.C. and
Virginia, PSU has captured 34 district
team championships. In balloting for
district coaches of the year in the
various sports, PSU has won 24 and tied
for one more.
In his 10 years as basketball coach at
PSU, Gane compiled a 169-108 record,
four times piloting the team to 20
victories and in ’ 73 taking it to the NAIA
national championships at Kansas City,
Mo.
He will be attending the NCAA
Convention in January in Miami Beach,
Fla.
Gane, 49, a native of Ardmore, Pa.,
earned his B.S. at Elon College and his
Master’s from the University of North
Carolina. His birthday is New Year’s
Eve.
“PEMBROKE MAGAZINE”
RECEIVES $3,000 IN GRANTS
FOR NEW ISSUE
PEMBROKE--Tbe • Pembroke Mag
azine ’ edited Norman Macieod,
associate professor of Communicative
Arts at Pembroke State University, has
received a total of $3,000 in grants for
its next issue, which will be No. 8.
The N.C. Arts Council has awarded
$2,000 to the literary magazine. The
publication has also received $1,(X)0
from the Coordinating Council of
Literary Magazines in New York City.
The Coordinating Council is funded by
the National Endowment for the Arts
and awards grants to various literary
magazines throughout the nation.
“Pembroke Magazine” was the only
publication in North Carolina to receive
a grant at the Coordinating Council’s
last meeting in November. The grant of
$1,000 was the largest the Council
awarded to any magazine in the South.
Each year the “Pembroke Magazine”
grows larger. Its seventh issue, which
was a bicentenial issue and empha
sized the works of Archibald Mac-
Leish, contained 372 pages. It has a
world-wide circulation and was praised
during the past year on NBC’s “Today”
Show bicentennial tribute to North
Carolina.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY REPORT
Traffic accidents claimed the lives of
23 persons during the four day
Christmas Holiday period in North
Carolina last year. There were 1677
reported collisions in all with 605 of
these resulting in 1031 personal in
juries; 21 fatal collisions resulting in 23
deaths. The remainder of these were
property damage accidents (1051).
As usual with holiday festivities and
people traveling, ^cohol and speed took
their toll, along with driving on the
wrong side of the road and numerous
other violations.
This year will bring another long
Christmas Holiday period to our state,
and the State Highway Patrol requests
that motorists do their part in helping
make the highways safer. Separate your
.drinking and driving - allow someone to
do the driving who has not been
drinking; obey the speed limit; and
adjust your driving to the changing
weather and road conditions.
Please, won’t you do your part to make
this a joyous holiday season? Drive
defensively - drive to arrive alive!
-Sergeant Robert M. Walsh
Traffic Safety Information Officer
RICKY LOCKLEAR NAMED ALL
AMERICAN IN FOOTBALL
Ricky Locklear, the hard hitting
tackle for Elon College has been named
All American by the Associated Press
in the College Division.
Locklear. 6-1. 235. is a senior and
graduated from Fairmont High School.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Welton
Locklear from the Fairmont area.