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6 Fun Fund Festival Ticket Sales Winners the Kenansville tlementary School tun tund tcsii\;il made over $3,000 through a Halloween carnival and barbeque dinner. More than 780 tickets were sold for the dinner and most of the sales were made by the students. Winners in the ticket sales contest among the muii'-ih . . . -I , r .ne, ieti 10 rigni, mil I nomas, led Kou' . Melissa Grady. Kathy Bowden, Nicole Summerlin . id Uson Kennedy . The proceeds from the annual seh< I fun fund festival are used to purchase instructional supplies. Duplin Arts Council 'Operating In Its Tenth Year Grants ? just another way to waste taxes? The Duplin County Arts Council built a permanent founda tion after operating three years on grant dollars. The DCAC is in its tenth year and today operates on a budget of more than $30,000, excluding the direc 0 tor's salary. The largest single source of income for the Arts Council budget is private donations. "There were critical times when funds could have not been renewed," said W.G. Warren of Pink hall, recalling the Arts Coun cil's early dependence on grant funds. Warren served on the de veloping organisation's interim board and later as a board member of the chartered DCAC. ^ "There were no promises if you W did real well you'd be around the next year," he said. During the early years, the Arts Council organized an annual Arts-in-the-Schools program which gained state and national recognition. An achievement award from the National Association of Counties was awarded the Duplin Arts Council for the program in 1977. According to minutes of the Council, the program was performed in all I ' public schools in the courts and reached 10,000 individual5- 1 hi Arts-in-the-School program provided workshops by a potter, {inter, pianist, vocalist and photogtaphei The DuDlin Arts Council was the first group |n the state to be organized in cooperation with a technical institute. A grant between James Sprunt and the North Carolina Arts Council provided funds to b- gin the organization and an office was established at the technical institute in 1975. Regina Whaley, a Duplin native, who had just cotnp ? ted a term as visiting artist a! JSI ? came the first director of the Duplin County Arts Council, Warr rt s plained. "Considering where it ha evolved ? the quality of programs the volunteers and the use of the availabel resources ? has mad the Duplin County Arts Council ne of the most respected in lit state today," Warren said. "Everyone brought a little different perspective, t the first meeting of the interim board. Schools .were the binding tie We saw the Arts Council as a way to make Duplin County a better and more enjoyable place to live. But, the single, most unifying thing was what we could do to improve the quality of life for our children in the schools. And. Regina inspired members to work," Warren said. "You know, she was an organizational whizz!" Warren explained. Today the Duplin County Arts Council is directed by Merle Creech of Warsaw from an office located in the courthouse building of Kenansville. The salary of the Arts Council director was assumed by the county in July of 1978 and office space provided when the courthouse annex was re-opened after renova tions in 1979. ' The Arts Council has a two-focus Approach today," Merle Creech said "Our programming is focused on the school and the community. ?We focus first on our schools because the children are a large base of the population. "The Arts Council wants to be related as a supporter to established organizations, not as a sponsoring presenter," Merle said. And, each year the Council sup ports Duplin's public schools through programming art activities. According to Merle, most of the Arts Council budget is spent on school programming, i "I am real proud of the Art's Council's programming, especially in the schools," former member of the Arts Council Board Ervin Graham of Wallace said. Graham was elected to the board in 1977. "The big thrill in working with the Arts Council is knowing that its programs are reaching children," Graham said. "Each child has different abilities and through the Arts Council programming, some of those talents may be brought out!" Through the Arts Council, Graham and personnel from his business worked two summers with Duplin school students at The Liberty Cart outdoor drama in Kenansville. Graham and his staff organized student ushers and ran the con cession stand at the amphitheatre two seasons. Graham Drug Company of Wallace was recognized as one of five businesses in the state to receive the first Governor's Business Awards in the Arts and Humanities for outstanding county leadership in 1978. Graham was presented the Business Award for their efforts through the DCAC to help launch the new outdoor drama of Duplin. "Regina asked me to attend a meeting of the Arts Council board," Graham said. "And, 1 went. 1 got a full-time job that night ? just the quickest you've ever seen ? 1 ? t ? became a member at uie ooara and chairman. "We had some good people go on the board that night, along with me," Graham said. "And, that year we originated the idea of member ships and raised more than $12,000 in the first fund drive. Looking back, 1 know ii was just an example of getting the right group of people together and working for a common goal. "And, I know we had an active and enthusiastic board, but Regina was the real sparkplug that kept us charged," Graham said. Letter To The Editor Dear Sir: I recently had occasion to be in Duplin County to select two juries in first degree murder cases arising in Bladen County. 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