The Daily Tar HeelFriday; October 13, 1989
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By LISA ANTONUCCI
Staff Writer
The Carnivor Preservation Trust
(CPT) in Pittsboro is a modem-day
Noah's Ark. i
Caracals, binterongs and grisoms
not to mention servals, ocelots
and civets are just some of the 20
species of carnivores found at the
trust, which breeds endangered ani
mals that later will be released in the
wild. ";
Twenty-one tigers now make their
home at the trust along with leop
ards, jaguars and more than 1 00 other
exotic carnivores. ' .
The trust, which began with 70
acres and one tiger in 1968, was
created by Michael Bleyman, a for
mer associate professor of biology at
UNC. It has been organized in its
present form since 1981.
"We are a non-profit charity or
ganization," said Kay Reames,
Bleyman's co-worker. "CPT is de
voted to sustaining breeding popula
tions of either rare or endangered
Third World animals.
Various expeditions are made to
obtain at least seven pairs of animals
of a given species, Reames said. The
trust then breeds these animals to
produce the most diverse gene pool
possible. The offspring are geneti
cally sound animals that will survive
in the wild.
Eventually, by working with the
governments, of developing coun
tries, an agreement can be made
whereby the animals and their off
spring will be held in trust until their
habitats are stabilized and a realistic
reintroduct jon to a safe environment
is possible.
"We do not own these animals and
they are not pets. They do not be
come domesticated," Reames said.
More than 120 animals are kept in
large cages filled with vegetation
and shade houses. Only small name
plates indicate the types of creatures
within the enclosure.
The trust has set the world's rec
ord in breeding two endangered
African cats the serval and the
caracal and has set the American
record for breeding tigers, according
to a statement by representatives of
the trust.
There are stories behind the en
dangered status of several species.
Displays honor N.C.
By BEVIN WEEKS
StaffWriter ''
A small child carefully runs his fin
gers over a sheet of paper, smearing red
and blue with streaks of green in lines,
dots and swirls.
Finger painting is simply an after
noon activity to him, but to one North
Carolina woman, it was the discovery
of a lifetime.
Kenansville native Ruth Faison Shaw
is credited with the development of
finger painting as a modern art form.
Shaw would have been 100 years old
on Oct. IS, and the Ruth Faison Shaw
Memorial Committee is displaying her
finger paintings on the UNC campus
and throughout Orange County as part
of the celebration.
Reproductions of . Shaw's finger
paintings will be exhibited at 50 loca
tions through mid-November. The
Campus Y, Wilson Library, the Stu
dent Union and North Carolina Memo
rial Hospital are included in the campus
displays.
According to Martha Whittinghill,
chairman of the committee, Shaw's
incentive to develop finger painting
came from an experience she had while
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This Moroccan barbary leopard will soon face extinction
Animals like the Asian binterongs were animals on the group's target list.
thought to be aphrodisiacs while "tiger
wine" was supposedly good for the
skin and general health.
Perhaps the saddest story at the trust
concerns three Moroccan barbary leop
ards. They are the last three on earth
and are sisters.
But Bleyman remains optimistic. "If
I don't succeed at any of my other
goals, I can look at the saving of the
serval and the caracal."
The trust is open to community in
volvement through its volunteer and
HEART (Help Endangered Animals
Re-establish Themselves) programs.
HEART allows people a chance to
sponsor or adopt a carnivore already
held by the trust or to assist in obtaining
teaching in an English-speaking pri
mary school in Rome.
One of her students cut himself, and
Shaw sent him to the bathroom to put
iodine on the cut. When the boy didn't
return, Shaw went to investigate. The
other children followed, and when they
reached the bathroom, they found the
student making iodine pictures all over
the walls. '
All the children were instantly at
tracted to the new "art form" and wanted
to try it. Whittinghill said that Shaw
recognized that children had an innate
desire to "smear," and she set about
finding a way they could do so safely.
Shaw realized how constrained a
child was when he had to hold a brush
a certain way or had to sharpen his pen
cil, and she sought to create a way for
them to visually express themselves
without restraints, Whittinghill said.
"She wanted the children to paint
what pleased them ... what they were
feeling and what they thought."
To be certain of a high level of safety
in finger painting, Shaw carefully re
searched colors and paints to avoid any
toxicity. She used earth pigments that
were free from toxins, Whittinghill said.
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These adoptive parents can visit their
animals and are informed of the ani
mals progress.
Just as the HEART program is
essential to the care of the animals
themselves, the volunteer program is
the "heart" of the trust. People volun
teer their labor, as well as medical
and legal services, equipment and
supplies.
What it all comes to is a race against
the clock to help endangered animals
from around the world, Reames said.
This mission is reflected in a saying
printed on all of the trust's literature:
"When the clock stops at midnight
for any species, then the heart of that
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After Shaw developed colors that
would be safe for her students to use,
she and her students produced the first
modern finger painting, "The Open
Door," in 1930. UNC has owned the
original work since 1972, when it was
donated to the University. It is part of
the permanent Finger Painting Collec
tion of Ruth Faison Shaw.
Shaw demonstrated and lectured on
finger painting throughout Europe,
receiving wide acclaim and recogni
tion. She returned to America to protect
her patent because, according to Whit
tinghill, people were manufacturing
"unsafe" media and marketing them as
fingerpaints.
Shaw was also a pioneer in the field
of art therapy. "She found she could
take a patient and tell what was bother
ing him by what he painted," Whitting
hill said. She worked in this discipline
at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka,
Kan. and later returned to NCMH.
Reproductions on display this fall at
the hospital will be located on the same
corridor where Shaw used to hang her
patients work.
"That is a very symbolic location
because of the history of finger paint
ings hanging there," Whittinghill said.
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Big
Buddy program offers
friendship, role models
By CHERYL ALLEN
Staff Writer
Giggling and out of breath, 7-year-old
Jamie St. John dashed to the Old
Well a few paces in front of her Big
Buddy, UNC sophomore Christina
Nifong.
The two have been "buddies" for a
year now as part of Campus Y's Big
Buddy Program, and both say they're
having a ball.
"I like having a Big Buddy because
you don't have to go places with your
sisters and brothers," said St. John, a
second-grader at Carrboro Elementary
School. Going places with someone
other than her mother is another advan
tage, she said.
"We go get ice cream, we play in the
park, we go swimming, we play Chi
nese checkers, we play with puppets,
we go roller skating, we read books and
we make up rhymes," Nifong said. "I
love to see her and to watch her grow
and change."
The Big Buddy Program provides
local elementary school children of
various economic and social back
grounds the opportunity to spend time
with UNC students. The Big Buddy
serves as both friend and role model to
the youngster.
University students are chosen
through an application and interview
process and are then paired with chil
dren from six local elementary schools.
Guidance counselors have determined
that these children are needy in some
way, said Cathy Bryson, a senior tri
chairperson for the program.
"The .children are not necessarily
underprivileged," said Katy Crum,
another senior tri-chairperson. "We ask
the schools to pick the 25 children with
the greatest need for special attention."
According to Betty Harris, a guid
ance counselor at Glenwood Elemen
tary School, the school refers children
through recommendations by teachers
and parents for those in need of com
panionship and a role model.
Often the children in the program are
from single-parent families or families
with many children, where parents don't
have much time to spend with them,
. said Lauren Burgess, another senior tri
chairperson. The program, which cpnsists of some
1 50 pairs of buddies, requires students, .
to make a year-long commitment to see
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Jamie St. John, left, and Christina Nifong share time on campus
their Little Buddy for a minimum of
two hours each week, Bryson said. The
two hours are spent both one-on-one
and in activities sponsored by group
leaders.
"There are 12 group leaders under
three tri-chairs," said Nifong, a group
leader. The groups separate the chil
dren by ages.
Leaders have programs about once a
month, giving the Big Buddies and the
Little Buddies a chance to interact, she
said. "We sponsor programs that
couldn't be done in pairs." Group lead
ers also are available if there are any
problems between the Big Buddy and
the Little Buddy.
According to Burgess, problems are
rare, but occasionally the Big Buddy
and Little Buddy will have a hard time
relating.
"Most things work out if they give it
enough time," Crum said.
Harris said there were many more
children who wanted a Big Buddy than
there were Big Buddy volunteers. 'The
Big Buddy Program enjoys a wide
popularity, and we would like to see it
larger than it is."
"We get parents calling and begging
for their child to have a Big. Buddy," .,
Bryson said.
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Despite some initially shy Little
Buddies, the Big Buddy Program has
had profound effects on the children
and University students involved.
Burgess has two Little Buddies, Joey , ,
and Omar Shaw, 6- and 7-year-old J.
brothers. "They are a lot less shy now; '
the ice is definitely broken." .
"My Little Buddy, Andrea, is get-'
ting a lot more self-confidence," Bryson a
said. Andrea seems more outgoing af' !
ter being involved in the Big Buddy
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One of the changes Crum noticed is( ,
that her Little Buddy now has things iri( '
mind that she wants to do when they get '
together. "She likes to rub it in that she,
can cook better than I can."
In addition to the relationship that'
develops, students get the chance to see '
things from a child's perspective, Bur-' '
gess said. Coloring, playing on the'
swings and jumping in leaf piles can be '
a release for some of the stress created'
during school. -
"It gives you time to relate to some- -t
one younger," she said.
Crum said she appreciates the inno-, ,
cence of youth. "Kids are really honest, (
and that's neat to' see."
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