County Spelling
Chomp Balked
At 'Bulletinize'
Heather Hcavencr spelled corrcct
ly every word hut
one given in the
first round of the
National Spelling
Bee in Washing
ton, D.C. .May 24.
However, this ac
complishment by
Brunswick Cou
nty's champion
speller went unno
ticed, since it took heavener
place in the "comfort room" offstage
at the Hilton, after she failed to spell
"bulletinize" correctly and was ruled
out of the competition.
Heather's mother said the Shal
lotte Middle School seventh grader
had feared she would lose out in the
first round.
"She was a little nervous and
afraid she'd go out the first time."
Mrs. Hcavencr said. "When she
came out into the comfort room,
where wc could hear the bcc going
on, she spelled the rest of the words
correctly."
The young woman experienced
her first spelling bee anil her first
visit to the nation's capitol. "She re
ally enjoyed everything, and the
sponsors, Scripps- Howard newspa
pers, planned so many parties and
activities so spellers could get ac
quainted." Mrs. Heavener said. "Wc
toured Fort McHenry and the aquar
ium in Baltimore."
Although disappointed. Heather
proved she's a winner by her deter
mination to try again next year, ac
cording to her mother. She has pre
pared for the bee along with a busy
schedule as a school leader and
scholar. Recently inducted into the
National Honor Society, she is also
a member of the Young Authors
group and is sccond vice president
of the state Career Club.
Pig-Picking Set
For Dispatchers
Current and former dispatchers of
Calabash EMS will be treated to a
pig-picking and chicken barbecue
June 26 at 6 p.m. at the squad build
ing.
During April, Chief Mark Christy
reported to the unit's board of direc
tors at its May 21 meeting, squad
members answered 48 calls. They
worked 184 hours and traveled
2,059 miles. Twenty-one of the calls
were in Calabash, nine in Sunset
Beach and 18 were elsewhere.
The annual business meeting was
to be held June 2 at the squad build
ing, with election of officers, said
President Kathy Morfit.
Senators Inspired
To Flowery Language
Legislators have the reputation
for some of the driest language on
record as they spew out the multi
tude of bills that make or break their
reputations.
Legalistic terms that challenge the
general public to get the gist of their
intentions do sound impressive in
the halls of government.
North Carolina's lawmakers,
however, just departed from this
mode in drafting a bill to make the
Vcnus's flytrap the state plant. This
exotic beauty, an endangered
species that particularly enjoys
growing in Brunswick County,
caused the honorables and their staff
to wax poetic.
"Whereas," they begin in the usu
al tedious vein, "the vcnus's flytrap
is a perennial, inseciivoiOus plant
native to the boggy areas of south
eastern North Carolina; and where
as, this unusual plant bears while
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flowers in laic May; its hinged
leaves, surrounded by bristles, arc
red inside; and whereas when trig
gered by an inscct, the leaves of the
venus's flytrap closc suddenly, en
trapping the inscct inside; and...
whereas the venus's flytrap has been
described as one of the most won
derful planus in the world...thc
venus's flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)
is adopted as ihc official state plant
of North Carolina."
Remove the "whereases" and the
flower's scientific moniker and you
have something Lord Byron might
have composed.
Now, if only the General Assem
bly sees fit to "be resolved" to vote
in the affirmative, the world may
beat a track to Brunswick County's
Green Swamp to sec the wonders
herein described.
Ah, nature! Even lawyers arc
bested by your wonders.
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STAFF PHOTO BY MARJORIE MECIVUN
KATHRYN SMITH gets a hug and a bouquet of roses from an ad
mirer after receiving her diploma Monday in graduation exercises
at South Brunswick High School.
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South ROCAME Honors Members
Ten South Brunswick High
School (SBHS) seniors were recog
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CAME at a May 14 banquet at the
Western Sizzlin' Restaurant in
South port.
Patrice Law was named SBHS
student-of-thc year, reported Will
iam Flythc, coordinator. Others hon
ored were Jackie Cromartie, Tamara
Johnson, Kristic Joyner, Tammy
Freeman, Terri Smith, Andrea Coat
ney, Andrew Cowan, Romona Bry
ant and Aaron Davis.
Outstanding student awards were
presented at each of the middle
school grade levels to Larry Johnson
and Jerris Fullwood, sixth grade,
Thamia Hargrove and Leslie Myrie
Jr., seventh grade, and Amic Sid
berry and Travenus Grainger, eighth
grade. Sidbcrry and Myrie were co
students-of-the-year for the middle
school.
Others recognized for accom
plishments in the February jamboree
at the University of North Carolina
at Wilmington included: Daimon
Davis who received a trophy for his
quiz bowl performance; Thamia
Hargrove, Joy Scott, LaToia Robin
son, Alexis Vaught and Shavonne
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Happiness Is Graduation
At South Brunswick High
BY MARJORIK MEGIVERN
It all began sedately, with a
stream of blue-gowned young men
and women marching onto the South
Brunswick High School football
Held to the strains of "Pomp and
Circumstance."
They sal self-consciously through
an invocation by their class president,
Alison Cumbce, but gradually, as
other schoolmates spoke and sang,
sentimentally, of the great occasion
they were sharing, the ice broke and
the exuberance began to mount.
That sea of mortar boards re
mained relatively still as Brunswick
County Superintendent of Schools
P.R. Hankins spoke briefly and
Board of Education Chairman Don
na Baxter added her congratulations.
However, Monday's graduation
exercises for 195 South Brunswick
seniors at last became a frenzy of
pure joy, pride and excitement, with
cheers for Melissa Hollins' tribute to
seniors, a standing ovation for
Vickie Randolph and Jennifer Har
dee's song, and wild applause for
Valedictorian Sherman Blankcnship
and his words of farewell.
The youthful emotions went
through the top as the presentation
of diplomas began and proceeded.
While some graduates accepted this
symbol of accomplishment quietly
and walked back to their seats with
only faint smiles of satisfaction re
flecting their feelings, most were un
inhibited and exuberant. One young
man kissed his diploma repeatedly;
many hoisted theirs in the air, their
eyes searching the faraway bleach
ers for familiar faces to see the trea
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waving both arms wildly, shrieking
for joy. They made the trek to their
scats with wide grins and reverent
grasps of that valuable certificate.
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They hugged each olhcr and wept.
There was a lot of hugging, loo,
along the fence that separated the
field from the track and blcachers.
As soon as Hankins and Ms. Baxter
began calling the names of gradu
ates and row after row stood to
mount the stage, the decorum of the
audience also dissolved into an ex
cited mob. Parents and friends came
streaming to the fence with camcras,
arms of roses, bunches of balloons,
or just beaming smiles and looks of
pride.
At some later time, those young
people and delighted parents may
look over their graduation programs
and remember Hankins' words of
wisdom, that four keys to a success
ful future were to have a strong set
of values, be a good teacher to oth
ers, be responsible and make a con
tribution.
They may also recall the emotion
al tributes from their class leaders
and they arc sure to carry a memory
of the hug given them by Principal
Sue Sellers. There's no doubt, how
ever, that the most memorable mo
ment came with that walk across the
stage and the receipt of a piece of
paper they had worked toward for
1 2 long years.
Class officers, besides Cumbcc,
were Tasha Johnson, vice-president,
Tamara Smith, secretary, and Roc
hclle Brown, treasurer. The senior
counselor was Marsha Cochran, and
senior advisors were Betty Keane,
Simon Shew, Jerry Smith, Kathleen
Thompson, Karl Tutt, Joyce Wil
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Olhcr board of education mem
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Yvonne Bright and Robert Slockett.
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