THURSDAY. MAY *5. 1967
Kindergarten Graduation Monday Night
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Shown above are members of
the graduating class and Mar
shals of the Kindergarten grad
uation held in the First Baptst
Church here Monday n'ght. They
WANTED
Seed Beans
Old Original
Greasv Cornfield A Pink Tbs
I PEYTON FARM SUPPLY I
I Graduation Time 1
I Good Wishes, Good lock, And Confidence That
I You’ll Continue Graduating.
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B. B. PENLAND AND SON CO.
I Burnsville, N.C.
are left to right: Debbie Styles,
Elose Coupey, Sherry Thomp
son, Ronnie Riddle, John Ang
lin, Olivia Leatherwood, Tina
Banks; Olivia and T na are Mar
shals; second row, Jimmy Rol
and, Mike Webb, Charlie Brown,
Bryan Hensley, Mare King,
Hal McDonald, and John Mark
Bennett.
WINNERS AT SHEPHERDS LAKE
Ernest Laws 18 lb. 12 Oi. $5.00
Harold Byrd IS Lb. 9 Oi. $3.00
Raymond Howell
1£ M». a Ox. (2.00
Rennie Fox 12 Lb. 12 Ox. $25.00
jack pot smoo
Mars Hill College To Award
Degrees Sunday
MARS HILL The 111th year
of Mars Hill College will be cli
maxed Sunday (May 28) with
the awarding of degrees to ap
prox mately 205 students.
Commencement exerc'ses will
be held in Moore Auditorium cn
the campus at 3 p. m. Dr. Fred
Bentley, who is complet ng his
first year as president of the
college, will award the degrees
and speak brefly to the gradu
ates. There will be no commen
cement address. This is a depar
ture from a long established cus
tom. It will give additional time
for the awarding of degrees in
dividually and for the recogni
tion of various students who have
wen honors.
Baccalaureate services f:r the
graduates will be held at ll a.
m. in the auditorium wth Dr.
Elmer West, pastor of the Mars
Hill Baptist Church, as the
speaker.
A total of 194 of the degree
candidates expect to receive the
Bachelor of Science; 85 expect
the Bachelor of Rrts degree;
16 others expect specialized
degrees in music. /
The Class of 1967 will be the
fourth to receive degrees since
THE YANCEY RECORD
Mars Hill upgraded its program
from junior to senior college
status.
A heavy schedule of vared
activities concluding the school
year will begin Friday w ! th the
opening of a student art exhi
bit. Other events will nclude
business sessions of the board of
trustees and the alumni associa
tion, reunions of the classes of
1902, 1907, 1912, etc., the annual
alumni banquet, and a perform
ance of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth
Night" by the division of dra
matic arts.
Dr. H. F. Robinson, dean of
. research at N. C. State Univer
s'ty in Raleigh, will be the ban
quet speaker. Renowned fer his
work in agricultural science, he
will discuss world food prob
lems, their possible solutions
and the opportunities for service
to mankind offered by these
problems.
During the banquet two dis
t'nguished graduates of the col
lege will be honored as “Alum
na of the Year." Mrs. R. Knolan
Benfield of Morganton will be
recognized for her contr buttons
as president of the state Wom
an’s Missionary Union; and Dr.
Joseph H. Miller of Memphis,
Tenn. will be cited for his sig
nificant work in the field of
neurosurgery.
Kathleen Nelson
Named Western
H.E. Agent
MAI.EICIH _ re. Kathleen *l.l
- has been named western dis
trict home economics agent for
the North Carolina Agricultural
Extension Service. Dr. George
Hyatt, Jr., d : rector of Agricul
tural Extension, North Carolina
State Un'versity, says she will -
be in charge of the Extension
home economics program for 18
counter and the Cherokee Re
servatioa.
A nat ve of Marietta, S. C...
Mss Nelson graduated from
Furman University, Greenville,
S. C., with a degree in home ec
oncmxs. She has done graduate
work at the University of Ten
nessee and North Carolina State
Un versity.
M ; ss Nelson was home econo
m!cs Extension agent in Meck
lenburg County for seven years
before joining the State staff.
Before that she taught home eco
nomics and was an extension
home economics agent in South
Carolina.
Miss Nelson is a member of
the American and North Caro
lina Home Economics Assoc;a
tions and in 1965, she served as
presdent of the North Carolina
Associatton of Extension Home
Economics.
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
YANCEY COUNTY
Having qualified as Admin:s
trator of the Estate of M. C.
Gardner, deceased, late of Yan
cey County, this is to notify all
Persons having claims against
the Decedent to exhibit the same
to the undersigned Administra
tor at his home at Rt. 3, Box 68,
Burnsville. N. C., on or before
the 25th day of November, 1967,
or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery.
All persons owing the Estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This 25th day of May, 1987.
Hicks Robertson. Administra
tor of the Estate of 11. C. Gard
ner, Deceased.
May, 25, June 1, 8, IS