MR. AND MRS. GARY SPRINKLE were
married on April 18 in Memorial Church of
God in Marshall. The bride, the former San
dra Hensley, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
, Sidney Hensley of Walnut . The bridegroom is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Sprinkle
v Jr. of Marshall.
I
:3 County Residents
Named To Health Post
Three county residents have
been named Mental Health
Bellringer chairpersons for
the May I960 campaign of the
Mental Health Association in
North Carolina.
They are Mrs. Minnie
Bullman of Walnut, Ms. Mar
tha Carter of Marshall and
Hank Holmes of Hot Springs.
"The Mental Health
Association is the largest
citizens voluntary advocacy
organization in the United
States fighting mental illness
and promoting mental
health," said President Her
nando Palmer. "We are pleas
ed that First Lady Rosalyn
Carter, honorary chairperson
of the President's Commission
on Mental Health, is an active
member of the Mental Health
Association."
Since the organization is
non-profit and non
governmental, its entire sup
port must come trom con
tributions such as those to be
collected in May, which is
Mental Health Month in North
Carolina.
The original and continuing
purposes of the Association
are to:
?improve attitudes toward
mental illness and the mental
ly ill through public educa
tion;
?improve services for the
mentally ill, and
?work for the prevention of
mental and emotional illness
and the promotion of mental
health.
The social action and public
education programs of the
Association help to assure that
appropriate funds are
available to support public
mental health services in
North Carolina, and that laws
are passed to protect the
rights of the mentally ill.
Ann Deagan To Read
Her Poetry At MHC
Mare Hill College will host
the second poet's reading in
The Arts Journal Poetry
Forum when Ann Deagon,
professor of classics at
Guilford College in
Greensboro, will present a
reading of her work May U at
1 p.m. in Belk Auditorium.
Dr. Deagon is a native of
Alabama and received her
bachelor's degree from Birm
ingham Southern College. She
also earned M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The year-long series of
readings and workshops is
sponsored by The Arts Jour
nal, a multi-disciplinary arts
magazine published in
Asheville. The series is funded
in part by a grant from the Na
tional Endowment for the
Arts, and in part by in
dividuals, area colleges ? in
cluding Mara Hill ? and other
regional institutions. The
magazine will print profiles of
each poet during the year as
well as previously unpublish
ed material by each in a
special edition early in 1981.
Dr. Deagon is one of the bet
ter published poets in the
South. Her first volume,
Poetics South, was published
by John P. Blair in 1974. Since
then she has had four addi
tional books of poetry printed:
Carboi^^^Universitjr^f
Massachusetts Press, 1974),
Indian Summer (Unicorn
Press, 1975), Women and
Children First (Iron Mountain
Press, 1976), and There is No
Balm in Birmingham (David
R. Godine, 1978). A sixth
volume, tentatively entitled
The Polo Poems, is near com
pletion. In addition to her
poetry, Dr. Deagon has
published a number of short
stories which have appeared
in various magazines and an
thologies.
Her poems have been
described as pervaded by a
wry humor, an ironic sense of
self, and infused with the
discovery of myth in the com
monplace. Critics have noted
that her poems and short
stories convey the feeling that
she is a woman who brings
passion and intensity to every
endeavor. Her commanding
presence in personal ap
pearances across the nation
has never failed to move the
audience.
The reading at Mars Hill is
Open to the public at no admis
sion charge. A reception in the
main lounge of Wren College
Union will be held following
the reading. A three-woman
music group, "Circa," will
perform traditional and con
temporary folk songs before
and after the reading.
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UNC-A Sets For Wildflower Walks
The flower* that bloom in
tbe * prlnf are there for
everyone to enjoy, except
perhaps by tbe people allergic
to pollen.
On tbe second theory that
everyone who can will en)oy
them more if they know more
about them, the Spring
WIMflower Pilgrimage has
been held for tbe past seven
years in Asheville and nearby
scenic areas.
Tbe eighth Wildflower
Pilgrimage, beginning at 7
p.m. May 3 at the University
of North Carolina at Asheville,
will offer IS different pro
grams and tours before it ends
May 4.
The Pilgrimage is spon
sored by the Department of
Biology at UNC-Asheville and
the independent University
Botanical Gardens in coopera
tion with The National Park
Service (Blue Ridge
Parkway), the U.S. Forest
Service and the Southeastern
Forest Experiment Station.
Dr. James D. Perry, associate
professor of biology at UNC-A,
Registration begins at 7
p.m May J in the lobby of the
Carmichae) Humanities
Building at UNC-A.
The fee of t> for adults and
$1 for students covers all
events. The activities will take
place regardless of weather
conditions. Transportation
will not be furnished.
The first event of Whe
pilgrimage is at I p.m. in the
Humanities Lecture Hall. Dr.
Wilbur H. Duncan, professor
of botany at the University of
Georgia, will give an il
lustrated talk on "Wildflowers
of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts
of the United States and
Canada."
Saturday events include a
birdwalk and wildflower
motorcade and a nature tour
for hikers, both starting from
UNC-A at 8 a.m. a Parkway
tour starting at Oteen at 9
a.m., a tour to Mt. Pisgah
starting from UNC-A at 9
a.m., another tour starting at
9:30 a.m. at the university and
going north on the Parkway,
and a ?:? i.m 'inaect tour"
if there is enough intereet.
From 2-4: SO p.m. Saturday
there will be a bog garden and
wildflower walk at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas S. Shinn in Leicester.
At ? p.m. in UNC-A's
Rhoades Science Building
nature photographer and
naturalist Bill Duyck will give
an illustrated talk on birds and
wlldflowers of the mountains.
On Sunday there will be a
dawn to noon birding trip star
ting at 6 a.m. at the university
and making frequent stops on
a tour to Old Port and up the
Parkway.
There will be another visit to
the Shinn residence from
2-4:30 p.m. Sunday to end this
year's pilgrimage.
More information may be
obtaiiwd from Dr. Perry at the
UNC-A Botany Department.
The crossed eyes of silent
film comedian Ben Turpin were
insured for 1900,000 ? in case
they uncrossed.
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