The News Record
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79th Year No. 22
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL, N.C.
THURSDAY, May 29, 1980
15* Per Copy
MHC Grad Says Thanks With Cash
A Florida couple whose
daughter was a member of the
graduating class at Mars Hill
College last Sunday added a
pleasant and surprising note
to the commencment celebra
tion in the form of a (100,000
gift to the Baptist school.
Mr. and Mrs. B.O.
McMichael of Fort Lauder
dale, Fta., presented the gift
to Mars Hill president Or.
Fred Bentiey "in recognition
of and in appreciation for"
Scholarship Winners Alien Stines
what the college had done for
their two children.
The daughter, Cheryl,
received a bachelor of arts
degree with a major-, in history
and will be employed in the
special collections section of
the college library.
The McMichael family first
became associated with the
college several years ago
when Claude Gibson, athletic
director and bead football
coach, recruited Robert Dale
McMichael to play football. A
member of the Class of 1977,
Dale is now affiliated with his
father in the family 's building
supply business.
In announcing the gift, Dr.
Bentley said half the money
will be used in an improve
ment project planned for the
college's Meares Stadium; the
other $50,000 will go into a fund
for the enrichment of the
library.
."This is a very significant
gift," he explained, "which
will benefit two major areas of
the college. It will enable us to
upgrade our facilities in the
stadium, and it will provide
funds by which the college
librarians and the faculty can
strengthen our library
through the purchase of
special collections and other
appropriate items."
In presenting their gift to
the college Mr. McMichael
tokl Dr. Bentley he and his
wife were impressed ijy "the
excellent education and the
quality of life" offered by the
college. "We are also impress
ed by the way in which the col
lege is run," he added.
"Somehow, each year college
officials manage to balance
the school's budget."
Mr. McMichael, who has
been active on Mars Hill's
Board of Advisors since 1975,
is involved in several other
businesses in addition to the
building supply firm. He and
Mrs. McMichael are members
of the First Baptist Church of
Pompano Beach, Fla.
Youth Wins 4-H Grant
Allen Stines, Route 7, Mar
shall, has been named winner
of a 9500 scholarship from the
North, Carolina 4-H Develop
ment Fund. .
Stines, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond N. Stines, is one of
12 4-H members from across
North Carolina selected to
share in 96,000 of scholarship
money being distributed this
year by the Fund.
Marshall Grant, Route 1,
Garysburg, president of the
Fund, says the scholarships
are awarded to outstanding
4-H members for college study
during the 1 90041 academic
year.
The 4-H Development Fund,
with headquarters at North
Carolina State University at
Raleigh, was organized in 1958
by friends and alumni of 4-H to
help support certain phases of
club work.
Grant explained that this is
the 19th year that scholarships
have been awarded. Reci
pients, he reported, are
selected on the basis of then
high school record, evidence
of college aptitude and 441
work.
Stines has compiled an im
pressive record of ac
complishments during six <
years in 4-H work. He has
served as president and vice
president of the county 4-H
council, president ahd
reporter for his local club and
vice president of the Western
District 4-H organization.
He has completed projects
in meteorology and junior
leadership and won district
honors in the artistic ar
rangements demonstration
contest.
A senior at Madison High
School, SUnes plans to attend
Mars Hill College.
! Marshall Woman Served As Senior Intern
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terms of age, they're
r schooikids anymore,
the two Senior CiUzen
Lamar Gudger
to their Washington ex
much in the fashion
the countless elementary,
school and college
who visit the Con
nan in the Nation's
I yearly.
Mra. Lucille Burnet te
I to its l
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complicated than the "folks
back home" often give it
credit for being.
The pair joined nearly 3*0
fellow senior citizens from
across the country in the two
intern program. Daily
them famihear
with the workings ef
Washington and gave them
valuable information to pass
on to senior citizens' groups in
their fields."
"I have more understanding
of the system," said
Rath bum, who Nttnd in 1975
after 40 yean with the Alcoa
Corp., including a final pre
retirement stint in West
Africa "I'm not yet to the
point when I think that
everything that they do here in
Washington l( right, but I have
it takes months to get legist*
internships when Qudger
issued invitations for par
ticipants and when their
regional advisory councils
urged them to fo. Neither had
visited the Capital City
previously.
The programs they par
ticipated in kept both interna
busy, but alao left time for
sightseeing I've fs?td it to
he a friendly city, Mrs.
of," Mrs Rathburn Mid of the
city'i scenic beauty
Gudger also expressed
delight over the succeea of the
intern program "Our interns
tt the pest generally have
hew students at ooe of our
collegea,"fc?toi<l But senior
The Future
Madison High Class Of '80
Came Down To Final Day
By LEWIS W.GREEN
It is Sunday and they come
down now to their time, that
Class of 1900. Madison High
School. It is that day, the one
they always saw in the far
future. Madison High School,
where they learned some of
the facts of life.
But it is also a fact of life
that all of the rivers run down
to the sea, and that fact is
beginning to glimmer
somewhere in the deep levels
of their young hearts.
The gym began filling
slowly, after the noon hour
Sunday, then more parents
and friends, and more and
more. The people came to pay
honor to those youth who had
made the great hard struggle
our state and society requires
to inform the mind, broaden
the life, deepen the spirit.
And while the parents
gathered in the gym, outside
in the hall the Class of '80
began to cluster, proud of the
cape and gowns. They are the
graduating seniors, with all
that brief glory. Self
consciously they smoke, talk,
hoot and push each other
about.
One last time.
The time of a new emotion to
them. There is the movement
of something away from them,
each of them and all of them.
They evade each other's eyes.
The universe is beginning to
shift.
Yet there is still a bit of it
left. They are still in the hall.
The gym is filling, time is
filling, running now like a
quick creek toward a big lake.
The Class of '80, which seed
was planted in the first grade
in the early 1960s before the
fire storms broke over the
nation. The flow quickened,
the streams were...
Each of them and all of
them stand about. They came
to this school from the coves
and ridges and creeks, and it
was stamped upon them; they
came from the small Madison
County towns and com
munities, and it was stamped
upon them; and some of them
had their family roots in other
places and that was also very
clearly upon them, but it is
now Sunday in late May of I960
and they are of one essence
and of a singular experience
and no one can remove that
from them, or them from
(hose days which led to...
Envious juniors bite their
lips and stare as something
quickens just beyond ken.
There were^ those who
Marshall Town Board
Sets Meet Wednesday
The regular monthly meeting of the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen for the Town of Marshall
will be held at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 4, in
the Marshall Town Hall.
started with them so long ago
in the first grades who didn't
make it through to the vic
torious Sunday in May, for all
the varied reasons.
Who? Where?
There is not time to think of
it now because the final
moments are crowding
together. It is running faster,
faster.
Time fills. The eyes of some
girls are beginning to fill. The
psychic barometers are
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Woman
Shot
At Festival
A Buncombe County man
has been charged with assault
with a deadly weapon in
flicting serious injuries on an
Ashevfl)* wooup following *
shooting at s5o p.m. Sunday
at a rock festival on the Zeao
Ponder farm.
Sheriff E.Y. Ponder iden
tified the wounded woman as
Rachel Vance of Jarrett Street
in Asheville. Charged is
Raymond David Ballard, 38,
of the Ox Creek section in
Buncombe County, he said.
The Vance woman un
derwent surgery at Memorial
Mission Hospital Sunday
night. Sheriff Ponder said her
femoral artery, in the groin
section was severed. The
wound is usually fatal.
A two-day rock *n roll
festival was held on the Zeno
Ponder farm this weekend.
GUDGER with
tern*: (left to right)