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i ' tH,oDICALSlf I OCT 20 / Published EachThursday Since January 18,1973 K B|JB t ""Wart '?"-rrri J Cardura Iriiar Vrice Pembroke, NC Robeson County "Building communicative bridges in a tri-racial setting" JJOLUME20^?^?j- ? j ?-?-^^^^2bhh?LHSL 55 56 & tn m m jH H C -J H I i> m ro ? I h ? I m3 I I I Hz. w I r ? F Ho 5 Ronnie Hunt, General Manager, Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation, is shown in his Red Springs office. LREMC prepares for 52nd Annual Meeting of Members General Manager Ronnie Hunt calls it "Democracy in Action" by Brace Barton Pembroke-Tbe 52nd Annual Meet ing of the Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation (LREMC) will be held at Pembroke State University'sGivens Performing Arts Center on Tuesday October20,1992. Registration begins at 6 P.M.. The meeting will include reports of offic ers, directors and committees; elec tion of four directors of the coopera tive; and any other business which may properly be conducted. Enter tainment will be provided by the Lumber River Quartet and the Hunts. Ronnie Hunt, who serves as LREMC's general manager, calls the annual meeting "Democracy in ac tion." Hunt, the only Indian to head an electric cooperative in America, boasts that the annual meeting of the cooperative is "the last bastion of democracy left in America where members meet and make reasonable decisions about their utility." LREMC, one of 28 electric coop eratives in N.C., is the 4th largest in size with some 30,000 members in Robeson, Hoke, Scotland, and Cumberland Counties. The coop erative employs 105, and annually generates S35 million in revenues. Hunt became general manager in 1983, and has also served as Presi dent of the N.C. Electric Member ship Corporation, the power supplier of all cooperatives in North Caro lina. Hunt champions the mostly rural electric cooperatives, reminding the public that electric cooperatives like LREMC were begun by the members because private companies like CP&L would not serve them, in the early days, because of exorbitant costs of bringing service, and elec tric lines to the country side. Hunt says, too, that member-owned cooperatives keep private companies like CP&L honest, and provide com petition to what would, otherwise, become amonopoly The rural cooperatives like LREMC still enjoy strong support from Congress, ? n with Congressman Charlie Row and Senator Terry Sanfbrd in the fore front of those who champion their course. Mostly though, Hunt believes de mocracy is the best reason to keep LREMC operable. Hunt says, "Mem bers own it (LREMC) and rightly have a say so in how its ran." He invites LREMCs members to come out "Next Tuesday Night at PSU and practice some democracy in Action". Bruce Bart en was the founder ?f the Indian Voice, and served w editor in its infancy. He is now a history teacher in the local schools and occasional writes an article when the urge and daw permits. In the Armed Forces October 7 (FHTNC)-Navy Seaman Cedric Pittman, son of Shirley Pittman of 58 Marion fUL, Lumber ?oo,NC. .has been mtbefemtsaGuK where he participated a Operation Southern Watch monitoring compli ance with a United Nations ordered "no-fly zone" over southern Iraq. Pi ttman is serving aboard the aircraft earner USS Independence, forward deployed to Yokosulca, Japan. United Nations Security Council Resolution 688 forbids repression of the Iraqi people by the Government of Iraq. The no-fly zone protects die Shia population of Southern Iraq. U. S. and coalition aircraft are conduct ing the monitoring. The U.S. Navy task force in the Persian Gulf in cludes the USS Independence and 18 other ships. Additionally, other Navy ships are in the Red Sea as part of the Maritime Intercept Force, enforcing UN trade sanctions against Iraq. Pittman is seen here signaling the USS San Jow during vertical replen ishment. He is a graduate of Omim High School. Whatever Happened to.... Fannie Maynor Lowry I by Barbara Br a veboy-Locldear Special to Carolina Indian Voice The sunshine of last Saturday's Indian summer shinedon Mrs. Fannie Maynor Lowr/s birthday party. She seemed to glow as more than two hundred relatives, friends and former ? neighbors came together to celebrate her 85th birthday at her former resi dence in Pembroke. It was her day-joy-filled. Greet ings turned to remembrances. Sto ries followed embraces Mrs. Lowry, bom in Robeson County, was one of five daughter born to Luther and Luvella Wilkins Maynor. There was an equal number of sons bom to the couple who raised their ten children an farms Three of die children, daughters, live today. At an early age Mrs. Lowry was moved with her family toClio, South Carolina where she completed two years at school. Under the influence ofher mother, the family lata moved to the Deep Branch community where Mrs. Lowry completed sixth grade at Deep Branch school. An other move took the Lowry family to the Pembroke Community "We were alright when we got to Pembroke. We were happy to be near family," Mrs. Lowry recalls. The one and one half-mile duly walk to the Indian Normal School proved no task for the young Lumbee Indian girl because she loved school and being near familiar faces She graduated from the school and was qualified to teach school. Her first teaching assignment was at Fairmont Indian School. A twelve I dollar-a-month boarding foe kept her t in the community during school I months. The next school year took | her to neighboring Green Grove School. It was to drastically change a her life. For it was there she met her i future husband, Mr. Zeb Lowry, a | fellow teacher/principal. She coro ? pieced a second year at the school Sbefore taking a job in Richmond, jBVirginia where she worked in a mfWCA She loved living there, but [ ?ad left the man she loved in her ['?ative State of North Carolina. rfThein became a courtship by cor ? impendence Seven months afler jj moving to Richmond, Mrs.. Lowry loaays she was wooed back home where |BMr Lowry waited at the Pembroke JHDepot on the day ofher return. She ?> ? % remembers vividly the day the young distinguished Lumbee suitor stood beside "a big Plymouth" he'd bor rowed from i professor. A few days later the couple was married in the home of the groom's parents. The Rev. Loonie Jacobs officiated at the 1927 ceremony. Mrs. Lowry returned to die classroom at Green Grove School a year later where she arid her husband lived in a faculty house on campus. After the third of five sons was bom, Mrs. Lowry quit daytime teach ing and accepted a nighttime gov ernment-funded teaching position whereas she taught basic education to soidiersat Pembroke High School. Her last full-time teaching position was at Oxendine School in the Wakulla Community She gave six years to the profession before be coming a full-time homemaker. And though she never again re turned to teaching full-time, she was regularly called to substitute. It became the delight of every student to have Mrs. Lowry as a substitute teacher because she was a noted sto ryteller. She'd learned the art from her mother who had years earlier gathered her children around the fire side and told oral histories; among them that of the legendary Henry Berry Lowrie whom she'd known when she was a child, and on whose family farm Lowrie had sought ref uge in he farm corn shuck pen. Mrs. Lowry admits to being ad venturous during childhood years when she and her siblings would "do anything we wanted to do and get whipped by our parents afterwards". She speaks warmly of the immense encouragement, love and influence served up by her attentive mother. Out of the influence and teaching came a strong religious faith and upbringing. Sunday trip6 on a two seated horse buggy to worship at Deep Branch Church are well re membered The miles walked to and from, too, remembered And from the same maternal in fluence came an appreciation lot fashion and the art for "dolling" up. "I always like to primp and learned to wear rouge...a little something here..and a little something there," she says gesturing towards her art fully made up face. A love for hats and gloves was perpretua ted through decades at mal(ing them a part of her standard wardrobe fare Getting dressed in fashionable attire contin ues to be a part of Mrs. Lowry's daily routine. Two years ago Mrs. Lowry, a widow, and suffering from failing health, moved to Charlotte to be near her family She has five sons. No daughters. She lives in a convales cence home where she gets daily visits from four sons who live in the area. She stays in touch with friends and family in Robeson County by telephone and letters. She is an avid reader and makes daily visits to the library in the home where she re sides. . And when she does return to her family owned house in Pembroke, she attends worship services at her beloved First Baptist Church where she formerly served as a Sunday School teacher and song leader. It was in the church she experienced great joy in singing. "Singing was my gift," she smiles. Thinking happy thoughts is a tes tament to Mrs. Lowry's long life. "There's something in life that's happy if one can find it, and it's left up to us to find happiness. "I've tired to show kindness to others. And that kindness has been returned me by others." And last Saturday's birthday tribute delivered heapings of kindness to the "Lady of Grace". Eight and a half decades worth. It was. F?br^.NC *m (919)521-2*26 Mrs. Fannie Maynor Lowry Green Grove student graduates modeling school Georgianaa Jam p. 8-year-old daughter ofTammie Cha vis Jump of Rowland, recently graduated from the John Casabtancas Mod eling and Career Center in Char lotte. The program included three months of professional modeling instruction with a concentration in poise and etiquette. Georgianna is a third grade stu dent at Green Grove Elementary School in Mrs. Beva McDowell's class. She will compete in the Jun ior Mim Robeson County Pageant November 28,1992. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Agnes Chavis and the late George Cha vis. She has two sisters, Mia Lynn, 13 and Jenny, 7.
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