Transylvania Times
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970 * SECTION FOUR *
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Misery Loves Company
Says Colonel’s Wife
By - Cal Carpenter
Ask any Service family man: the most un
desirable thing in a military career is the “un
accompanied” tour of duty — that is, the over
sea' assignment, usually for one year at a
time, to an isolated or undersirable loca "*>n
where there are no facilities for wives and
families.
Yet there has to be this kind of duty,
for the U. S. Armed Forces have installations
in many such places as a necessary part of the
country’s defense.
Duty in these places is no picnic for the
Serviceman, as this writer knows from person
ad experience. But what about the wives
v and families the Servicemen leave behind?
What is it like for the wives who have to be
come solely responsible for the family in the
husband’s absence?
The other side of this coin was brought
home to me when Mrs. William T. Tinsley,
wife of Army Lt. Colonel William “Bill” Tins
ley of Brevard who is now serving in Korea,
dropped in to the TIMES office for a chat.
“It's a hard, lonely time for us,” she says,
“trying to be both mother and father to grow
ing children; being responsible for all family
decisions —- and just waiting.”
WAITING WIVES CLUB
So Mrs. Tinsley wants to start a “Waiting
Wives” club.
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"Christmas is coming,” she says, “and
this is the time of the year when families
should be together. For those Service wives
whose husbands are away serving unaccomp
anied tours, this is the time when association
with other wives in the same boat would help
the most. It helps anytime, but it helps the
most at Christina*.”
Sirs. Tinsley should know, for this is her
husband’s third unaccompanied tour.
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“I should like to fatgm a “waiting wives”
j get-together —- call it. what you like — in my
home or any other Waiting wife’s home.—.for
any and all waitin* wives in the Brevard
area,” says Mrs. Tinsley. “We can just sit
down and talk together. We can compare
notes and share our loneliness.
“We speak the same language; we know
what it’s like to be left head of the family, re
sponsible for all familv decisions and emer
gencies; we know what it’s like to be both
mother and father to growing children.”
Mrs. Tinsley’s husband left for Korea
last June and will be returning in July, 1971.
This is his third unaccompanied tour in. their
IB years of marriage. Colonel Tinsley serv
ed an earlier tour in Korea and one in Viet
nam before this one. He’s in the Army Corps
MRS. WILLIAM T. TINSLEY
—Wife of Lt. Col. William “Bill”
Tinsley of Brevard who is now serv
ing in Korea, Mrs. Tinsley is invit
ing other Service wives whose hus
bands are on “unaccompanied” tours
of duty to join her in a “Waiting
Wives” club. All Service wives of
the Brevard area whose husbands
are away are invited to contact.Mrs.
Tinsley. (Times Staff Photo)
of Military Police. The Tinsleys have one
son, Gregory, 10 years old.
Says Mrs. Tinsley: “Trying tp be both
mother and father, I’ve just found out I’m the
world’s worst quarterback.”
Undoubtedly other waiting wives have
similar revelations they’d enjoy sharing.
HOW LONG IS A YEAR?
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“My Husband has been in the Army for
16 years and we are now well into our third
‘‘unaccompanied” tour of duty. No wife ev
er likes being left behind, but experiencing
it for the third time, I feel that 1 have adapt
ed! more readily than one going through
those first rough months of her first separa
tion. ‘Misery loves company* — especially
company who speaks the same ‘military’ lang
uage. It occurred to me that I might not be
the only wife who came home to Brevard to
‘wait* — that if there were others here we
had at least one thing in common: we are all
'waiting*.
“In being associated with Waiting Wives
Clubs at Ft. Bragg, our last duty assignment, I
found that we really helned each other’s time
pass more quickly by getting together and shar
ing our experiences with someone who truly
understands all the lonely feelings we have —
the everyday frustrations of having to stand
on vour own two feet — of having to be mother
and father — of trying to explain to a child,
‘how much is a year?’
A PHILOSOPHY
“I thought that since being left behind
wasn't brand new to me. I might be able to
make the days of wives who are be*ng left
for the first or even second time a little easier,
and that together we might all make our
year go by a little faster,” writes Mrs. Tinsley.
She continues: “I have a philosophy I try
to live by: If I can find one blessing to count
each day then I’m ahead of lots of wives—
wives whose husbands are POW’s or wives
whose husbands aren’t coming home. Some
times you can find hundreds of blessings to
count in a day; then there are those days when
you feel you really have to search to find one
blessing. But even on whgt I consider bv bleak
est days, I’ve always managed to find that one.
“I have a poem by an unknown author,
that is on my bulletin board in mv kitchen — the
room where most women spend the greater part
of a day — and this is my one desire each day:
•II touch a dozen lives
day is done,
mare* ror gooa or
the evening sun;
- I always wish,
to
invited — re
Masons To Elect
Officers Thursday
A stated communication of
Dunn’s Rock lodge will be held
in the Masonic Temple on
Thursday, December 10th, be
ginning at 8:00 o’clock.
This announcement comes
from Earl G. Norton, the Wor
shipful Master.
Following the regular routine
of business, the annual election
of officers for 1971 will be
held.
When in need of job printing,
call The Transylvania Times.
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Sponsored By Jaycees
Plans Being Made Here For
Another Christmas House
Christmas House . . . Many
dim spirits will be brightened
this year through the third
annual Transylvania Christmas
House.
Already many church, civic
and social organizations of
Transylvania have expressed
an interest in helping needy
families have a merrier Christ
mas this year. Plans are made
to increase the scope of the
Christmas House to include ov
er 150 families with 500 to 000
children.
Items needed to make this
years Christmas House success
ful are money, childrens cloth
ing, toys, household items, and
non-perishable foods.
This years Christmas House
will be located in the building
which housed the Republican
Headquarters this year which
has been made available
through the generosity of Wal
ter Weilt.
Until the Christmas House
is opened, donations can be left
at the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church, or call 883-3703 or 883
2183 and pick-up will be ar
ranged.
Anyone wishing to contrib
ute their time for this worth
while cause is invited to con
tact Rev. Edward Sheridan at
the Sacred Heart Catholic
Church, or any member of the
Brevard Jaycees, who are spon
soring this project.
airman Samuel r.
PARKER, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles D. Parker, route
1, Pisgah Forest has complet
ed basic training at Lack
land AFB, Tex. He has been
assigned to Keesler AFB,
Miss., for training in the
communications field. Air
man Parker, a 1966 graduate
of Brevard Senior High
School, received his B. S.
degree in education in 1970
from Western Carolina Uni
versity.
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Dr. L. G. Sumner
HENDERSONVILLE, N. C.
702 Fleming Street
693-6048
Chiropractic Treatment
Recruiter For
Marines Here
On Two Days
The United States Marine
Corps Recruiting Office in Ashe,
ville, announces today that
there will be a change in the
hours that a Marine Recruiter
visits the Brevard area.
The change in hours is due
to a reorganization of the area
that the recruiting office in
Asheville is responsible for.
Starting recently a Marine
Recruiter will be at the Post
Office in Brevard from 3:00 p.
in. until 5:00 p. in. on Tuesday
and Thursday.
Persons who wish to talk with
a Marine Recruiter about the
Marine Corps and its programs
but cannot see him at the tittle
and day stated above are re
quested to telephone collect,
Asheville 253-2855.
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