Foundation Offers Sneak Preview Of Museum
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BY DOUG RUTTKR
The Occan Isle Museum Foundation unveiled its re
ccntly-complcted building Saturday, offering a sneak
preview of what organizers say will be an important ed
ucational and cultural facility.
Foundation directors offered a glimpse of things to
come to a group of about 50 elected officials, communi
ty leaders and Ocean Isle Beach property owners with a
Saturday afternoon wine and cheese party.
The museum, which is located at the corner of Third
and Laurinburg streets at Ocean Isle, is projected to
open during the Easter vacation period of 1991, said
Bill Jennings, a member of the foundation board of di
rectors.
Originally named the Occan Isle Nature Center, the
facility will be called the Museum of Coastal Carolinas.
Jennings said it will feature collections and exhibits
that spotlight the natural history and environment of the
coastal area from Wilmington to Georgetown, S.C.
The 7,500-squarc-foot museum building will boast
four separate display rooms when it opens, and direc
tors plan to add two more wings in the future.
Jennings said the main attraction should be a "reef
room" that will feature marine life from the area dis
played in natural settings.
Fish and other specimens from the sea will be sus
pended from the aqua-colored walls of the sunken
room. King and Spanish mackerel, a sea turtle and sev
eral species of shark were among the items displayed
Saturday that will be part of the room.
"You'll be looking at a cross-section of underwater
life," Jennings said. "You'll be walking through their
natural habitat."
A collection of animals and birds will be featured in
a smaller room of the museum, which will be set up to
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STAff mOTO BY DOUG ?UTTtI
VISITORS ADMIRE some of the marine life on display at the Museum of Coastal Carolinas at
Ocean Isle Beach Saturday. The museum is expected to open next sprine.
look like a swamp. A bear, fox, deer and an alligator A shell exhibit will occupy the other downstairs
will be among the creatures that inhabit that museum's wing, and an upstairs room will be full of historically
swamp. significant items from the area. Educational displays on
tidal and wave actions will he set up in the k >by.
Foundation President Stuart Ingram, who imuatcd
the effort to build a museum at Ocean Isle Beach, said
the two wings that will be added when money becomes
available will be used for an auditorium and a bird
room.
The museum foundation was originally sponsored
by the Ocean Isle Beach Property Owners Association
at a time when Ingram was the group's president.
The foundation board of directors, which formed in
January 1988 with its suite charter and IRS non-profit
organization designation, began raising funds in order
to build the facility.
Jennings said the foundation has raised more than
S225.000 in donations and pledges so far. The remain
ing fund raising should be concluded before the muse
um opens next year.
The museum foundation took ownership of the fa
cility from the builders Sept. 1. Tlie museum is present
ly worth about $500,0<X), not including the value of the
land it sits on. The museum foundation has a long-term
lease with the landowner, Odcll Williamson.
Jennings said the museum will be staffed with vol
unteers. The facility will be open daily during the sum
mer and on weekend during the fall and spring.
It will be open by appointment to students and spe
cial groups other times of the year. Student tours will be
encouraged from area schools studying both natural and
social history. There will be a nominal admission fee,
except for local students.
Foundation directors, in addition to Ingram and
Jennings, are state Rep. David Redwine, Ocean Isle
Beach Mayor Betty Williamson, Alberta Tatum, Hay
den O'Ncil, A1 Laughinghousc, Rae Cox, Davis Milli
gan and Alton Milliken.
ATMC Members Will Elect
3 Directors At Annual Meet
Members of Atlantic Telephone
Membership Corp. will elect three
directors and share SI,000 in cash
prizes at the co-op's 33rd annual
meeting Friday, Oct. 5, at West
Brunswick High School in Shal
lotte.
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.
in the school gymnasium, said
ATMC spokesman Percy Woodard.
Current directors for Districts 1,
3 and 6 are on the ballot presented
by the nominating committee. No
candidates have been nominated by
petition of the membership, Wood
ard said, but additional nominations
may be made from the floor.
Up for election are Carol H.
Dan ford, Lyle Wray King and D.
Hayes Hawcs Jr.
Mrs. Danford, of Shallotte, is
seeking her fifth consccutive term.
She has served as District 3
(Shallotte area) representative since
1977 and as president of the board
since mid-1982.
King was appointed to the board
in 1987 to fill the unexpired term of
the late Lester Babson and is seek
ing his second elected term on the
board. As District 1 board member
he represents members in the Ash,
Exum and Frceland areas.
D. Hayes Hawes Jr. is seeking his
first full term on the board repre
senting District 6, which includes
the Bolivia, Antioch and Sunset
Harbor communities.
He was appointed to the board in
March 1990 to complete the unex
pired term of his father, the late
Douglas Hawes of Bolivia.
Directors serve three-year terms
and may succeed themselves indefi
nitely.
In addition to electing directors,
ATMC members will hear financial
and operating reports for the past
fiscal year. Entertainment will fea
ture the Brunswick Cloggers, direct
ed by Jimmy Watson.
Also, said Woodard, members
will get to sec a brief "in-house"
video on Brunswick County pho
tographed by Phil Morgan, videog
rapher for Brunswick Electric
Membership Corp., and narrated by
ATMC General Manager Russell D.
Price.
The pictorial essay depicts the di
versity of the ATMC service area
and the challenges and opportuni
ties afforded in serving its members.
Numerous door prizes will be
awarded as well as cash prizes. The
grand prize is S500. Refreshments
will be provided.
Young Artists'
Art work by West Brunswick
High School sophomores Laurel
Keesec and Krisly Poulos is being
featured in a month-long show in
the Youth Gallery at Franklin
Square Gallery in Southport.
Miss Kccscc says her favorite
medium is acrylic, but she also en
joys working with pen and ink and
pastels. Her exhibited work shows
her versatility in all mediums. In
cluded arc several published book
covers, studies in black and white,
textures, shapes, acrylics and pas
tels. She is the daughter of Randy
Kccscc and Annette Kccscc.
According to a news release, her
work "invites the visitor to stay a
liulc longer."
Miss Poulos is a fourth year ad
vanced art student. Her displayed
work is in her favorite mediums of
pastels, water color, oils and stained
glass and includes portraits, land
scapes and studies of animals in pen
and ink, oils, watercolor pastels and
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charcoal.
Her work is dcscribcd in a news
release as having an "easy to look at
style". She is the daughter of Gary
and Trish Poulos.
Both arc students of Fayc Full
wood, art instructor at West Bruns
wick High School.
The two-woman show can be
viewed Tuesdays through Saturdays
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Youth
Gallery.
The Youth Gallery is one of only
two galleries in the state to feature
the work of young artists. It is locat
ed upstairs in the Franklin Square
Gallery in Southport.
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