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PSl | ? red Professor Dr. Otis Carnes
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Dr. Of I mem
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sityfaculj. id May
29, in Tyler, Tex.
Carries, a retired professor of
philosophy and literature at PSU<
died in a Tyler hospital followinga
lengthy illness. *,
Cannes, whose residence was in
Troup,Tex., was buriedm Bradford
Cemetery in Troup. Carnes had
resided in Troup since 1978.
Bom in 1902 in Martinsville,
Tex. Carnes graduated from
Nacogdoches, Tex. High School
and received his Bachelor of Arts
in English from Stephen F. Austin
State University in Nacogdoches
in 1932.
He graduated from Yale Uni
versity Divinity School with a Bach
elor of Divinity in 1935 and earned
his doctorate in theology from
Boston University's School ofThe
ology in 19S2.
Carries was a life member of
Stephen F. Austin University's
Alumni Association and a member
of the Texas Conference of die
United Methodist Church. He was
a Paul Hanis Fellow in Rotary and
a member of First United Method
ist Church ofTroup where he taught
Sunday School.
Survivors include his wife, Sa
vannah Cross Caraes, a daughter
and son-in-law, Mary Ann and Elans
Coney; a niece, Sharon Hayden, all
of Troup; three sisters, Pauline
Foster, Troup; Ndrine Carries and
Chleo Carries, both of Houston;
ananve granacmiuren, i^esuc
Lockey, Lisa Lockey, Eddie
Lockey n, Lance Youngs and Allan
Youngs.
Memorial may be made to the
Eddie Lockey and Otis Carnes
memorial Scholarship Fund at
Stephen F. Austin University.
Columnist says it just
doesn't get any better than this*
I (Editor's note: The following is a
syndicated column by Chuck Stone,
who was commencement speaker
at Pembroke State University May
9. His column appears in over 90
newspapers with this clipping be
ing from the Philadelphia Daily
News, for whom Stone wrote be
fore becoming the Walter
Spearman Professor of Journalism
and Mass Communication at UNC
Chapel Hill) .
Pembroke, N.C. -"This is a day
that the Lord hath made. Let us
rejoice and be glad in it," the Rev.
Jerry Lowry prayed. If God is a
multicultural advocate (and she is),
then it just doesnt get any better
than this; a Native American Meth
odist minister, quoting a Psalm by
a Jewish king at a predominantly
white Southern University in the
Lumbee tribe's heartland, whose
commencement speaker is a black
Baptist.
The Lumbees are America's
second-largest tribe. But because
of opposition by North Carolina's
courtly antediluvian, Sen. Jesse
Helms, the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs has refused to recognize the
Lumbees as a legitimate tribe.
Writing that last sentence, 1 was
struck by how silly it is.
Here we are celebrating a 500th
anniversary of the historical non
sense that Columbus "discovered"
a land where people had thrived for
centuries, and we're still talking
about whether they should be "rec
ognized"!
For decades, the three races
white, Mack and Indian-in Lumbee
heartland, Robeson County, mostly
went their separate ways.
Under Dr. Joeepb B. Oxeodine,
Pembroke Stale University's chan
celk*, die campus has been forging
closer ties among the three races.
Pembroke State's student body is
64 percent white, 24 percent Indian
and 11 black. So it was an exquis
itely appropriate setting for my
commencement tribute to "the
crossover generation."
"Before you," I told the radi
antly multicultural faces of 503
graduates, "there were the free
speech activists, the Vietnam War
protesters and the'me'generations.
"But you are the crossover gen
eration. Look at your musical and
recreational worlds. Your musical
tastes range from Michael Jackson
and the rap litanies of Ice-T to the
lyrical sensuousness of Madonna
and the country music of Wynonna
Judd.
"Even while Los Angeles, like
Rome, was burning, it still didn't
stop hundreds of white and black
kids from overflowing the audito
rium each night to catch television's
philosophical king of
multiculturalism, Arsemo Hall".
"...As foe crossover genera
tion, you are a moral locomotive
for progress-an insistent voice for
multiculturalism in foe university
curriculum-laid back partners in
interracial marriages that have
tripled in foe last 25 years.
"This is a wonderful nation
blessed with extraordinary wealth.
But it is also a nation of hopeless
homeless, rural poverty, racial po
larization and sexist oppression...
"This is a time of testing Jobs ar
plentiful But the crossover generate
is well endowed with brains and brat
ery.
We expect you to suceed where wi
have foiled.
CHUCK STONE
PowWow Planned
In Maryland July
4-5
The American Indian- Inter-Tribal
Cultural Organization, Inc. (AIITCO)
announced plans today for its tenth an
nual POW WOW to be held at the
Garrett County Fairgrounds, it 219,
McHenry, Maryland, on July4-5,1992.
The Pow Wow will run from 10a m -
10p.m. on Saturday and from 10am. to
5pm. on Sunday.
The Pow Wow will mark the eighth
consecutive year this event has been
held in Garrett County Since 1985, the
Pow Wow has brought an increased
interest in Native American Culture to
the area.
Traditional American Indian sing
ing and dancing will be featured on all
days of the pow wow. Members of a
number of tribes from many states in
cluding Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, New
e York, North Carolina, Florida,Virginia,
n California, and Maryland are expected
'-to attend There will also be a number
of vendors offering a wide selection of
. Mative American foods and arts and
raft*
Admission is $4.00 for adults; children
under 12 are admitted without charge,
and there is free parking Special seat
ing and parking for handicapped per
sons are available. Spectators are wel
come and cameras are permitted. Ad
mission to fairgrounds after 8:30pm.
on July4, is free for purposes of vie wing
County fireworks display. For more
information.contact AIITCOm
Twinbrook Station, P.O. box 775
Rockville, Md. 20848-0775,301-963
7284 or 703-752-5554 (This pow wow
is made possible, in part, by a grant
from the Garrett County Arts Council
and the Maryland Arts Council).
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Wake Forest Researchers ,
Seek Indian Traces
Traces of the Indians who welcomed (
Christopher Columbus to the New <
World in 1492 are being sought by ]
Wake Forest University researchers and <
students on the shore of a small island ]
in teh Bahamas.
"We are reconstructing the life of the i
Lucayan-Taino Indians, who have bee j
?living peacefully in villages on San (
Salvador Island for centuries when they ]
encountered Columbus." says Mary t
Janes Bennan, assistant professor of t
anthropology at Wake Forest and di- j
rector of the University's Museum of ]
Anthropology. <
The Wake Forest group is studying, in ,
part, what the Indians'culture was like ]
during the centuries they lived on San -
Salvador. I
.Questions about the island's friendly \
I natives can be answered only by diggin ,
| in the island's sand, where Berman's ]
j students find beads, pendants, pottery ?
riiards, stone tools, food remains and ;
other remnants of a people long van- '
ished. ]
"There are no descendants of the ,
Ltcayaa-Taino ludtass," 4uments
Barman, who is making her eighth trip
dua summer to San Salvador, where
aaany historians believe Cohanbus first
made landfall in the New World. San
Salvador, the farthest east ofthe islands
that make up the Bahamas, is nearly
1400 miles southeast of Miami.
Ihe Indians' encounter with Columbus
i;to,ate;y proved fatal, she explains.
Two or three decades after Columbus'
initial landing, the DO longer
l?ved on Sah Salvador. Many had been ,
enslaved by Spaniards and forced to
work until their death in the mines of
Hispanioia, the West Indies island now
divided into Haiti and the Dominican
Republic.
"The work and living conditions were
otally inhuman** " says Beiman, who
is co-director of Wake Forest's field
whool on San Salvador. Her hushand,
ferry Gnivecki, co-directs the summer
ttudy program and is a research associ
ite in Wake Forest's anthropology de
partment.
Likely, other Indians fled the island or
lied of European iHnesses previously
mfamiliar to them, such as smallpox.
Berman estimates that the Lucayan
rainoIndians lived simply and peace
fully in several villages on the island
for at least 700 years before their de
struction. Traveling from Cuba, the
Indians immigrated to San Salvador
about 800 A.D. Others came from
Hispanioia about 1,000 A. D.
The Wake Forest excavation area,
known as the Three Dog Site, is the
earliest Indian site excavated in the
Bahamas Evidence uncovered by the
Wake Forest group shows the Indians
were still living there when Columbus
came ashore about two miles away.
Columbus' purported landing site is
being studied by a researcher from
another university.
Many researchers are at work on the
island, although not all take under
graduates, as Wake Forest has in recent
years. Researchers and students live at
a former U.S. Navy base, now known
as the Bahamian Field Station for the
Study of Archaeology, Biology, Geol
ogy and Marine Science. The station ie
one of two major enterprises on die
island, which is only about 12 miles
long and six miles die. The other is a
small inn.
"It's not anything like living in a dormi
tory room at college," says Wake For
est senior Laura Burton of Athens,
Ga.,wbo has spent two summers in the
spartan quarters offered by the old Navy
base. The walls are cement block and
sheet metal, mostly.
"For some students it's hard , because
the/re used to the luxuries of western
culture,"says Burton, who receivedclass
credit for both of her trips. "I enjoyed it
beause I like adventure."
Burton admits digging for evidence ofa
previous culture on a hot beach can be
tedious work, but she insists "it's im
portant to team how life was an the
island before Columbus came."
"By learning about past ways oflife, we
can better understand our own lives,"
adds Burton, who received a bachelor's
degree in anthropology this spring si I
Wake Forest and plaas to eamagradu
ate degree in anthropology.
Burton anticipates returning one day to
see how another newcomer, a Chtb
Med resort now under construction af
fects life on the lslnd. It is scheduled to
open in October, in time for a Cohan
bus commemoration.
Five PSU Students are In
terning at station in four
states
Five Pembroke State University tele
communications students are intern
ing this summer at stations in four
states
Four of the students are in the news
department, while one is in produc
tion and programming.
These student recieve a solid foun
dation with our program at PSU,"
said Dr. Oscar Ptterson, PSU director
of telecommunications who is in
charge at WPSU-TV, PembrokeState'
s public TV facility.
"At no other school in North Caro
lina do students get the on-hands
experience they do at PSU," ssid
Patterson. "WPSU-TV is a stu
dent-opreated television facility."
Curtis Pair of Fayetteville is
interning at WTVD-TVofDurham,
while another Fayetteville student.
Albert Scruggs, is with KTVI-TV
in St. Louis. Both are in the news
department.
Charles Malloy of Southern
Pines is doing his internship with
WECT-TVs bureau in Lumber
ton, also in the new department.
Tashoma Jessup of White Oak
is working in news for WPDE-TV
in Florence, S.C. Laurie Sodas of
Glen wood Land, N.Y. is working
with the cable system in Long Is
land, N.Y. She is interning in the
production and programming ar
eas.
The experience that these PSU
students are gaining will help them
find good jobs after graduation
because, as Dr. Patterson, "they
learn everything-from production
to reporting the news."
Pembroke Kiwanis
Program Chairman Larry Chavis
introduced Mrs. Hope Shepard,
Secretary for the Inititutional
AdvanceemeotofPSU and spoket
woman for the March 17th, 1993
Very Special Art* Festival to be
held on the campus of Pembroke
State University. Kiwanis Club has
donated $250 plus adopting a child
for S10, by each member The pro
gram is similarto the Special Olym
pics but is in music, drama and the
arts. There will be some artists
?killed in painting with their feet
and by mouth. Mrs. Sheppard felt
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very fortunate in having too healt
hy children not needing ? Special
Aits program but just think what
the special means to about 2,000
handicapped childre, and adults. "
Please help me to get other organi
zstioas and groups to help raisse
money for the Festival."
One Wilminton Kjwarns Club
visitor donated S10, maybe the oth
ers did also.
Lt Gov. C.D. Gruganus from
Wilminton spoke outlining the
mgor emphasis for all Kiwanis
Club being on the young child from
Our Men
In Uniform 'i;
June 3, (FHTNC)? Navy Seaman ^
Donnie Lockiear, son of Harieen and *
DoonieLocklear Jr. of Pembroke^. C.I -
recently completed banc training at-*
Recruit Training Command, Orlando, '
FL.
During the cycle, recruits are taught
general military subjects designed to
prepare them for farther academic and.
on-the-job training in one of the Navy's;.
85 occupational fields. )?;
Studies include seamanship, doae-orC ;
der drill, naval histosy and first aid. ;
The 1991 graduate of Purnell Swett;
High School joined the Navy in Febru-* -
ary 1992.
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National :?
Accreditation
The laboratory at Southeastern Gen
eral Hospital has been awarded a two
year accreditation by the Commission ?
on Laboratory Accreditation of the
College of American Pathologists
(CAP), based on results of a recent on
res
pre-natal to S yean. We also want '
to increase membership to help - *
support programs for youths in- . *
eluding sports, scouting for both
boys and girls.
The Club voted to buy two com
plete baseball uniforms for the All
Stan team at a coat of $100. -
Kiwanian Bill Oxeadtne made the ?
motion to present Mr. Lacy Jaoobs
with the donation.
The lawn mower donated by
Pembroke Furniture Co. isour fond
raiser for the 4th of July Home
Coming. Tickets areSl and may be
obtained from any Kiwanian
Presiding- Clay Maynor; Song ?
Leader- Ed Teett, Invocation
Reggie Strickland; Reporter-Ken
Johnson.
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