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Pe o MC Robeson County
"Building communicative bridges in a tri-racial setting"
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LRDA Board votes against
concept of moving SATW
Most of the LRDA meeting on Monday night was
devoted to a presentation from David Carter and Helen
Loddear. Mr. Carter, Chairman of the Robeson Historical
Drama Association, the sponsoring agency lor the outdoor
drama "Strike at the Wind," addressed the board first.
Mr. Carter said that he was speaking to the board about
"the concept of the relocation of Strike at the Wind or the
survival of Strike at the Wind." He explained that David
Weinstien, mayor of Lumberton, has spoken to the
Historical Association's board relative to a proposed site
in Lumberton for the re-location of the drama. His
mayor's proposal for "talking with the Lumberton City
Council about the move" was contingent upon letters of
endorsement from several Indian entities, litDA was one
of them.
Carter spoke to the status of Strike at the Wind. He said
the drama now located in the Red Banks community in the
western part of the county, had helped the community
through theatrical support. "Two years ago the board
(and through the past five vears) realized that the drama
always ends up in the red," Carter explained. "Until last
'year. That was the first year that the drama finished the
season in the black...the board was able to cover the cost
of ,the
4 drama." There is a budget of $128,000 needed for the
production. Grants have been applied for but no monies
have been issued. The drama is runned, according to
Carter, on a fund raising basis. He spoke of the annual art
dinner to be held Tuesday, July 2 at 7:30 p.m. at the PSU
Chavis Canter. A painting by Lumbee artist EUis
.Sampson will be auctioned at the dinner. Proceeds will go
to the drama. Tickets for the art dinner are $25.
In an attempt to make ends meet. Carter said, the board
has lowered the cast members of the drama from 65 to 40.
Local auditions were held, he said, but were not well
attended by locals. Auditions were also held in Winston
Salem and the Raleigh area. "We will have professional
people this year," Carter said. The director is from Ohio
and has been hired as a professor at PSU. "He has
brought a new concept to the drama, new stage, live
stock, etc. All of these things will help the drama."
Carter >?poke of the attendance over the past 15 years.
There ?.is some increase in attendance last year, he said,
with about 4,000 people attending. Cater said the reasons
for the lack of attendance, he believed, was
marketing...letting people know about the drama. "The
problem is that there is no money to market the drama as
it should be marketed.
Helen Locklear of the Real Estate Exchange in
Lumberton spoke to the concept of the relocation of the
drama. "How to keep Strike at the Wind alive," she said
was the goal. The Robeson Historical Drama Association
Board has voted to look at the concept of relocating the
drama. A proposal was made to the North Carotins Indian
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Whatever Happened to ...
tohnie Preston Bollard
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by Barbara Brave boy-Lockiear
SPECIAL TO THE CAMOUNA BfDIAN VOICE
Out Prospect way fWs Juniper Swamp and on the
swamp's edWlives Mr. Johnie Preston Bullard, and the
octogenam^Bys, "Let pie tell you the secrets of my 84
year-old life...1st me tell you of olden days when life was
simpler than it is today..."
Mr. Bullard was one of six sons and daughters born to
Lilly Lockiear Bullard and John Bullard. Two of Mr.
Bullard's brothers died in infancy. He grew up on the
lean his parents owned.
1 "Life on the farm was hard, but it wasn't hard. We
Bullards were dirt-loving people. We loved the earth," he
savs.
' ; He attended Prospect School in grades one through
seven where he attended four-month sessions during
November through February. He fondly remembers the
school's principal, Tbm Oxendine; also his favorite
teachers, Mary Ellen Moore Dial and Emma Lockleaf
Collins.
; He entered the Normal Indian High School and daily
walked the five mile trek to attend classes in a wooden
dormitory on the Pembroke campus. It was a time when
Russell Livermore, a prominent merchant had just
established a general goods business in Pembroke snd
area farmers were patronizing the new i merchant ;
jiaving left general patronage of J.W. Carter in Maxton.
?Z So it was after getting out of class each day, Mr.
Bullard would wait out front of the local school building
and see a patron riding a mule-drawm wagon, flag him
down and hitch a ride home to the Prospect community.
-: He completed the 11 years required study at the school
and enrolled in the Normal School program where he
studied for a year before earning a "temporary" A
teacher's certificate. His first teaching assignment was at
Prospect School where he taught third grade during
toiir-rrwinth sessions.
- ia hi* first class of students was Adolph L Dial. Mr.
Bullard says after a few days into the seaaion he went to
the office of Principal Lonnie Jacobs and told him that ha
had to get Dial out of his room. His principal inquired as
to why he was making the request to have the young
Lumbee Indian student removed.
"There's not a thing in that room for that boyt Ha
needs to be somewhere be can work," came the answer.
Consequently, Dial was moved up a grade level.
It was in the middle of his four-year leaching assignment
St his alma mater that he met a fellow teacher.
Cauie Bell Jacobs. The couple courted under the watchful
aye of her father and after a two-year courtship eloped
one night to Dillon. SC and were married. He was 24- she,
22 years old.
"Our two selves went alone to get mvried. I paid five
dollars for the marriage license. Afterwards we had lofl
between us a nickel apiece. We bought us a drink apieca
and headed home to my mother's home where we lived
for about four months.'' Mr. Bullard ehuddoa.
. The couple then moved to a farm he'd bought nearby
and to a wooden boese Joined by wooden pega.
The groem resigned his teaching position at Proapacl
aftar four yearn of teaching and re-antared tit# Indian
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wrtiflaata. The bride maanwhda taught at Pmbrohs
i Orsded School.
In ItM. with coriiflcala in hand, Mr. Bullaid returned
> for another year's teaching at Fhtptd Ithooi. Mm.
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ha says ha waadfad a potbelly stnva and afimi played
Mama to some five-year-old students in the one-room
building. He taught in the school under the supervision of
school superintendent K.A. McDonald. There was no
school principal.
And when the Macedonia and Diaha Dial Indian
Schools merged to form Hswkeye School, Mr. BuDard
says because of his exemplary performance, he was
assured a position at the newly formed school.
"A principal wt<> can't wurfc with you, Johnie, "
McDonald said, 'i work with me."
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It was at Hswheye School, white teaching third grade,
Mr. Bulkrd says he taught Julian Rem.
"Lord! Hist ldd was smart in the worid." Mr. Bollard
remembers of Pierce.
After teaching at the all-In than school for four yean.
Mr. Buiiard retired from the teadag profeaakm and
returned to farming the earth he eo much loved.
His beloved wife. Cattie, died. She had given him 17
years of marriage, three eons and a daughter. The
daughter died as a newborn child.
His second wife, Mabie Stewart Buiiard. was to give
Mm two more sons.
In the early lMCs Mr. Buiiard became a practicing
; Christian. Ifce young Methodist eaye he was called to the
, ministry, but was unable to become an ordained minister
I because the denomination of his affiliate church required
s eeminary degree holder for ordination. Mr. Buiiard held
no such degree and personal stop?atones during that
time prohibited him bum attending the eeminary, he
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Instead, Mr. Bulkrd says he studied Rules and Lawe of
the Methodist Chursh undor the ooqmund of D.F. Lnwry
tor a designated bafth of Usee and mat awarded a Lasal
Urease to preach aa aa aaaeeiata pastor. His flrst
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sddltiaa to Biipad Mathadiat Chuieh wham ha has
iiatlaususiy eervad as aasssisto pastor to Bamwadi
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Little Miss Lumbee to relinquish crown
July 3
Terica Brooke Lowery, the reigning Little Mies Lambs e,
will relinquish her crown on Wednesday, My 3, at the
PSU Performing Arte Center. Ike pageant begins at 7:30
p.m. and admission is SS per person. Tkrica is the
daughter of Wanda A. bowery of Pembroke.
Those vying for the title of Little Miss J/tmbee are
flttty & Wabtr James
TEW ANA N/COIEBELL
Matt* Ball
ERICA NICOLE DELIJNGER
Rhonda 6 Tbny DeUmgar
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BRANDY NICOLE LAMBERT
SkeUa Lambert A Gtena Carter
RAND1 MICHELLE HUNT
Karm A Randy Hunt
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ALISON DANIELLE W0RR1AX
Sharon 6 Harold Wornax
LAKJSHA LYNN HAMMONDS
(Ma * Anthony Hammond*
ELJZABEATB DAWN Lbcm?AR
mda 6 Michael LocUaar
CANDACEIXF QXENDNE
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Tk*nta LockUar
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