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VOLUME 16 NUMBER? ? 'to r; 25 CENTS ' THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 26. 1967 J
WECT TV's March 5 'CfflfofeHn The
Moming'devoted to PSU's Centennial
Pembroke State [bttversity students were video taped
Wednesday giving a "Good Morning America" greeting. It
wilt be telecast nationally on ABC-TV on PSITs Centennial
Pounder's Day March 5 at either 7 or 8a.m. The cameraman is
Bob Singleton of WW AY-TV in Wilmington, an ABC affiliate.
Making the arrangements was Gene Warren, PSU public
information director.
WECT-TV, Channel 6 in Wilmington, will devote its
hour-long "Carolina in the Morning" program on Thursday,
March 5, to Pembroke State University's clipiatic centennial
events. They are the Founder's Day Convocation March 5 and
the Founder's Day Banquet March 6.
The "Carolina in the Morning" program, hosted by Wayne
Jackson, airs from 6 7 a.m. on weekdays.
Jackson will do a "live" interview March 5 with PSU
Chancellor Paul Givens from the Performing Arts Center,
which was named in his honor. Special music during that hour
will be provided by the PSU clarinet quartet, made up of Angie
Batten, "Miss PSU" from Clarkton; Mike Bozel, Fayetteville;
Sharon Davis, Pembroke; and Charles Dum^s, Fayetteville.
Hie TV program will also include taped interviews with Dr.
Clifton Oxendine, professor emeritus of PSU who served as
dean of the institution from 1939-57, and Dr. James B. Chavis,
PSU vice chancellor for student affairs. Films of the PSU
campus will also be shown.
i/r. nooert r-. w inaom, assistant secretary for health ol
the Department of Health and Human Services, will deliver
the keynote address for Robeson County Health Department's
75th Anniversary celebration.
The celebration is scheduled for Sunday, March 1, at 2 p.m.
on Lumberton's downtown plaza. The celebration will be held
at the Bill Sapp Recreation Center in the event of inclement
weather.
Windom has served as assistant secretary for health for
nearly a year, following his appointment by President Ronald
Reagan on May 8, 1986.
Aa assistant secretary for health, Windom directs the
activities of the Public Health Service, which includes the
Health Resources and Services Administration; the Centers
for Disease Control; the Food and Drug Administration; the
National Institute of Health; and the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry.
Windom provides policy guidance for other Health and
Human Services programs including the Health Care
Financing Administration, which administers Medicare and
Medicaid. He also works with various government and private
agencies concerned with health.
Prior to his appointment as assistant health secretary,
Windom practiced internal medicine in Sarasota, Ha.
In addition, he taught internal medicine at the University of
South Florida School of Medicine and the University of Miami
School of Medicine.
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Windom received his B.S. and
M.D. degrees from Duke University in 1952 and 1956,
respectively. -
Several state health leaders will also be on hand for the
health department's 75th Anniversary celebration, including
Dr. Ronald H. Levine, director of the North Carolina Division
of Health Services, and Phillip J. Kirk, Jr., secretary for the
state Department of Human Resources.
Following Windom's speech, Flobeson County Commis
sioners Carl Britt and H.T. Taylor will unveil a historical
highway marker that recognizes the RCHD as the first rural
health department in the United States. Britt is the county
Board of Health chairman and Taylor is the former chairman.
The public is invited to the anniversary celebration and to a
reception immediately following at the E.R. Hardin, M.D.
Health Center on N.C. 711.
'Strike at the Wind!' presents print to Governor
Governor Jamet 0. Martin and Harvey Godwin, manager of
tko Pembroke HiU'i Food Store, an tkown above holding a
limited edition print by Gene LocHear entitled "Henry Berry
Lowrie and the bomber River." The print uat pretented to the
Governor by Godwin and the Board of Dbuetonef the outdoor
Sim "Strike at the Windt" Goduin, who portraye Homy
Berry bueerio in So drama, coordinated a fandraieer laet year
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tuhich raited over $15,000 far the drama by tailing the original
jwJnhVip by Loddaar along tuitk 100 prints. Gana EugenS
LoMear, a local businessman, purchased the original
The print is on permanent display in the Governor's office in
Raleigh.
Dr. Thaddeus Bryant Wester
appointed N.C.'s
State Health Director
j Raleigh-Human Resources Secretary Phillip J. Kirk. Jr.
today announced the appointment of Dr. Thaddeus Bryan
Wester of Lumberton as NC's State Health Director.
"I am pleased that Dr. Wester will be using his well known
attributes of energy, intelligence and compassion on behalf of
all the citizens of North Carolina," Kirk said. "He has a
proven track record of excellence and commitment to public
health."
Wester, a native of Henderson, N.C., is currently the
Robeson County Health Director, a position he has held since
1983. He is also president of the N.C. Association of Local
Health Directors. Wester was a practicing pediatrician in
Lumberton.
He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from
Duke University, where he also did his internship and
residency.
Wester is a member of numerous organizations and
associations including the N.C. Pediatric Society, the N.C.
Chanter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American
Medical Association and the NC State Medical Society. He has
also received numerous awards and honors. Wester was
recently named "Outstanding Health Director for 1986" by
the N.C. Association of County Commissioners. Wester will
assume his new duties on April 1, 1987.
Former PSU Alumni Association
President joins PSU's
Chancellor's Club
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Martha Beach of Fayetteville has joined Pembroke State
University's Chancellor's Club and presents her first SI, 000
check to PSU Chancellor Paul Givens.
Martha H. Beach, former
president of the PSU Alumni
Association and in 1981 the
winner of the association's
"Outstanding Alumnus
Award," has become the 36th
member of the PSU Chancell
or's Club.
As a club member, she
pledges to donate $1,000
year to the PSU Foundation.
Inc., for the next 10 years.
Formerly of Proetorville
and Fairmont, Mrs. Beach is
the coordinator of outpatient
social work treatment at Wo
mack Army Hospital at Ft.
Bragg. She is a resident of
Fayette ville.
"Die former Martha Hum
phrey, she is the widow of
Van Gordon Beach, a tobac
conist for 37 years in Fair
mont. He died in 1971.
Mrs. Beach earned her B.S.
in elementary education with
a minor in sociology
at Pembroke State in 1962.
She received her Master's
Degree in sdcial work from
UNC- Chapel Hill in 1972.
She was the initiator of the
PSU Alumni Association's
Life Membership Program
and has served as its chair
person.
Mrs. Beach has been in
vited by the Yale University
Child Study Center to be a
part of its "People-to-People
Ambassadorship to China"
and may visit China May 20
June 5.
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She has served for several
years in many capacities with
the PSU Alumni Association,
including being a board
member, secretary, and in
1978 being elected president.
She has served as a mem
ber of the N.C. and Cumber
land County Board of Direc
tors of the Mental Health
Association, been a vestry
member of St. Mark's Epis
copol Church of Fayetteville,
and in 1982 was chosen
"Career Woman of the Year"
by the Cumberland County
Business and Professional
Women's Club.
She says joining the Chan
cellor's Club "is something
T ve wanted to do for a long
time. I have wanted to
support the scholarship pro
gram of the school and want
my gifts to be part of the
undesignated funds."
Mrs. Beach added: "I am
most grateful to PSU because
it gave me such a solid
foundation for my profession
al life. I want to give back
some of what was given
to me."
She has two children, a
daughter. Margor Van Nye,
residing in Wilmington, and a
son, LL Col. Martin H. Beach,
stationed in Washington^
D.C. " All three of us attended
Pembroke State in 1961,"
said Mrs. Beach, meaning for
the Beach family PSU hat|
been a family affair.
THE CAROLINA INDIAN VOICE
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Pembroke, N.C. 28372
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AA GROUP NOW MEETING IN PEMBROKE
Newly formed, the Pembroke group 0f Alcoholics
Anonymous announces an open meeting each Thursday night
at 8 p.m. The meetings are held in the BA Building, Room
108, on the Pembroke State University campus.
SPRING QUARTER REGISTRATIONSCHEIXTLED
FOR FEB 26-MARCH*
Spring quarter registration at Robeson Technical College
begins Feb. 26 and runs through Match 4. New students
should report to Student Services, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Evening and day classes begin Monday, March 3 and run
through May 20.
The following programs are open to new students:
Vocational [one j/ear}-cosmetology, auto body repair,
carpentry, auto mechanics.
Associate degree [two years]-general education, law
enforcement technology, business computer programming,
secretarial executive, general office, accounting, business
administration and hanking and finance.
For more information, call 738 7101 or visit the campus at
the intersection of Interstate 95 and U.S. 301 in Lumberton.
RTCAUCTIONSCHEUUIEDFOR THURSDAY, FEB. 96
Robeson Technical College will hold an auction, Thursday,
Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. in the student lounge with proceeds going to
the American Heart Association and the N.C. Community
College Alumni Scholarship Fund.
The auction is one of several events which has been planned
this month by RTC"s Student Government Association. TTie
SGA hopes to raise $1,000 by the end pf.February.
The public is invited to attend. RTC is located at the
intersection of Interstate 95 and U.S. 301 in Lumberton. For
more information, call 738-7101.
TALENT SHOW PLANNED AT MAGNOLIA
There wiJl be a Talent Show at Magnolia High School.on
February 26th. Price of admission is two dollars. The time is 7
p.m. The public is invited to attend.
NA DON'S FIRST Rl RAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO
CELEBRA D: 75 TH ANNIVERSARY
The nation's oldest rural health department will celebrate
its 75th birthday on Sunday, March 1, 1987. Dr. Robert E.
Windom, Assistant Secretary (or Health, will deliver the taey
adOreWa* W prelude to the unveil dig of a historical highway
marker that officially recognizes Robeson County Health
Department as the first health department to identify the
health hazards plaguing rural America.
Dr. Ronald H. levine. director of the North Carolina
Division of Health Services, and Phillip J. Kirk, Jr., secretary
for the N.C. Department of Human Resources, will also be on
hand with comments from the state perspective.
The Robeson County Health Department was founded in
1912 in response to the Rockefeller Sanitary Commission's
campaign to eradicate hookworm disease in the south.
The 75th anniversary celebration will begin on Lumberton's
downtown plaza, just three blocks south of the county health
office's original location. Festivities are scheduled to begin at
2 p.m. A reception for former and present employees,
distinguished guests and the public will follow the ceremony.
CP&L SCHOLARSHIPS FOR n
COMM UNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
Carolina Power & Light Co. has established a $17,000
scholarship fund to be used at 34 community and technical
colleges in North Carolina. The purpose of the CP&I.
Community College Scholarship Fund is to make educational .
funds available to students living in the utility's service area
who are seeking two-year technical or college transfer degrees
which support the further economic development of the
service area.
Robeson Technical College is one of those 34 institutions
selected to receive a $500 scholarship for the 1987-88 academic
year.
Students will be selected by Scholarship Committees set up
at the individual institutions. Aside from residing in CP&L's
service area and being a N.C. resident, students should be
seeking a two-year degree at one of the designated
institutions, maintain a passing grade average at or above the
level required for graduation and continue enrollment at the
institution where the scholarship was awarded for the duration
of the scholarship.
Disbursements of the $500 scholarships will be made in
increments of $200 for the fall quarter and $150 for the winter
and spring quarters.
The N.C. Department of Community Colleges, in
conjunction with each institution's Student Services Opera
tion, will administer the program which will begin with the fall
quarter of the 1987 88 academic year. Students interested in
applying, for the scholarship should contact the Student
Services Office at one of the 34 institutions beginning in
March.
CP&L's service area in North Carolina coven roughly half of
the eastern part of the stale and several counties in western
North Carolina.
DEWEY HILL SPEAKS AT NATIONALGROCEKY
ASSOCIATION CONVENTfONACAND EXHIBITION
Dewey Hill was chosen by the National Grocery Association
to be a business speaker at the 1967 National
Grocery Association Convention and Exhibition held
February 18 through 21 in Dallas, Texas. On Friday. February
20, Hill adresaed some 20.000 retailers from not oely the
United States but also several foreign countries on the subject
"Turning Ftoints: How Times of Transition Have Tried
Independents." The National Grocery Association is one of
the largest food retailer and distribution associations in the
United Stales.
Dewey Hffl Is Chairman of the Board ofHBIce Feeds, fee., a
WhiteviUe based retail food corporation that operates M HIT s
Food Stores in ten North Carp Ins sad two Sooth Carolina