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By KATHY M. NEWBERN
Susan Cox is a coach
coach of a winning team.
Mi. Cox, formerly of Hert
ford and now residing in
Williamston, is teacher and
coach at Williamston High
School. In her seven years
there, she has made quite a
tecord for herself and for
her teams.
Her teaching Job includes
health and physical educa
tion instruction for. ninth
jprade. Her coaching job in
volves several aspects of
womens' athletics basket-.'
.nail, softball and tennis.
: Ms. Cox is perhaps best
known in her capacity as
basketball coach. Since tak
ing that position, the girls'
team at Williamston High
has won five district cham
pionships in five years; was
State Runner-Up in 1974;
has been to the State Play-
Offs each of those five
J years; has won six con-
ference championships and
six conference tournament
I championships; and has a
I seven-year record of 155
; wins and 21 losses. That's
f noteworthy in anybody's
1 scorebook. But Coach Cox is
I quick to add that ac-
complishments are not
achieved alone. She said,
"I've just been lucky in be
! ing there when there was a
: lot of talent. A coach can't
; be successful if you can't get
! the students involved in the
' sport. And I can't be sue
; cessful without a coopera
- tive administration." Ms.
. Cox adds that her current
situation is good. She said,
"Williamston is sort of a
Local Fanners Are Recognized
A Perquim ans County
farming team has been
recognized and has received
membership in the North
Carolina 5000 Pound Peanut
Club. Farmers Carroll
Williams of Hertford and his
son, Billy Williams of Tyner
,'Taised 5,637 pounds of
I peanuts and received a $75
i cash award for the achieve
Baseball Organized
By TONY JORDAN
', The Babe Ruth League
will hold tryouts next Sun-
day afternoon at 2 p.m. on
'the Perquimans Co. High
1 School field. The purpose of
-the practice is for the
coaches (Senior division
coaches are Carl Sawyer
and Marvin Hunter; Junior
division coaches are Brian
Woodell and Ralph Jordan)
4o see the talent of the boys.
Jt is very important that all
that are going to play be at
ihis tryout. If you have a
registration form and
haven't turned it in, please
Ibring it with you Sunday. If
you haven't received a
.form, there will be some
"available for you there. It is
important that these forms
be turned in because the
teams can't be drafted
without them.
v We would like to thank the
sponors of the teams
because such an operation
'couldn't work without them.
The sponsors are Woodard's
Pharmacy (full team),
Hollowell Oil Co., Winfall
Ready Mix, Winslow Oil Co.,
.Hertford Hardware, Brinn
Insurance, and Jackson's
Wholesale. Head umpire,
Roy Perkins, should be com
plemented for his work in
getting these sponsors, set
King up the tryout and for a
.number of other activities.
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Cox Views Coaching As Rewarding
unique situation. The com-,
munity is very sports
minded and the administra
tion at the school is behind
athletics. If you need
something, you can find
someone who will help you
out" She continued, "We
also have a new school with
fantastic athletic facilities,
probably one of the finest in
the northeastern part of the
state."
While girls' basketball
may be big news at
Williamston High School,
softball is also an area that
has received attention.
Under the direction of Coach
Cox, the girls' team has won
two conference champion
ships and currently holds a
record of nine wins and one
loss. The team also initiated
a three-day Invitational
Softball Tournament which
is probably the only one of
its kind in the state.
Although it takes talent to
make a winning team, the
talent of Ms. Cox as a coach
has also been recognized.
Last July, she was selected
to serve as Assistant Coach
for the annual East-West
All-Star Basketball Game.
Her team, East, won the
game by a score of 54-50
following a sound defeat the
previous year. She said,
"They came back to win and
did so because of a lot of
determination. I enjoyed do
ing that (coaching the team)
because it gave me a chance
to coach some of the best
talent available. And some
of those players are now at
major colleges and doing
well."
ment. That makes them
eligible for club member
ship which requires growers
to produce 5,000 or more
pounds on at least one
measured acre.. The 5000
Pound Peanut Club differs
from the Peanut Production
Contest where the entire
acreage grown by the
grower is used in
calculating yields.
In other news, the order
for the uniforms has been
sent in and it shouldn't be
very long before they are
here. The league has
decided on Mondays and
Thursdays as the nights for
the senior division games.
The junior division will play
Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
The senior division will con
sist of four teams; two from
Perquimans Co. and two
from Chowan Co. The junior
division will have a six-team
league; two from Per
quimans and four from
Chowan. Each team will
play two games a week; one
in Hertford and one in Eden
ton. The games will start in
early June and end in
August. Activities during
the year will include All
Star games between Per
quimans and Chowan,
hopefully on July 4th, All
Star teams to play in
regional play against
Washington, N.C. AU-Stars.
(there will be four teams:
13-year-old, 14-15 year-old,
16-year-old, and 17-18 year
old.) The Babe Ruth League
is a national organization
and the Babe Ruth World
Series is held in Arizona in
August.
We urge any boy who is
undecided as to whether he
is going to play Babe Ruth to
come out Sunday and see for
himself what this league
means.
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HERTFORD
Ms. Cox has had no formal
training specifically in the
area of coaching although
she holds an A.A. degree
from College of the
Albemarle, a B.S. degree in
health and physical educa
tion from the University of
North Carolina at
Greensboro, and recently
added a Master's degree
from East Carolina Univer
sity. She said what she has
learned about coaching
came from playing the
game, watching, reading
and a "lot of hard work."
While at Perquimans High
School, her alma mater, she
was a member of the girls'
basketball team she de
scribed as "not very suc
cessful." However, that ex
perience gave her an
understanding of qualities
more important than win
ning. Those qualities are
evident in her work. She
said, "I demand a lot as a
coach and I try to teach
something besides basket
ball. I try to give kids a little
self-discipline, loyalty to
team mates, and an
understanding of team play.
I just hope if I've ac
complished anything it will
be that my players will
know more about basket
ball, softball or whatever
sport than I did. I also want
them to know the enjoyment
of playing the game as well
as how to lose. And I want
them to learn something
about honesty, loyalty and
team work. I want to teach
them to be a student first
and an athlete second."
Concerning her role as a
Sponsored by the N.C.
Agriculture Extension Ser
vice and the N.C. Peanut
Growers Association,
membership in the club now
totals 43. The club was
organized in 1968 and has
annually offered cash
awards and certificates to
contest participants.
Tobacco Comment
WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman Walter B. Jones
has announced the defeat in the House of Agriculture Com
mittee by a record vote of 28 to 10, an amendment in
troduced by Congressman James P. Johnson of Colorado,
which would have deleted tobacco from the provisions of PL
480, The Food for Peace Program.
The effort on the part of Congressman Johnson to delete
tobacco from the provisions of this Act is another move on
the part who would destroy the entire program said Jones. ;
Under The Food for Peace Program, the federal govern
ment transfers American agricultural commodities to
underdeveloped countries thoughout the world. Sometimes
the recipient countries are allowed to finance the pur
chases; sometimes the transfers are outright contributions.
However, tobacco is classified under Section I of The Food
for Peach Program which involves only cash transactions.
These cash transactions are monitored carefully by both
the USDA and the Department of State. The Food for Peach
Program is important for our farmers, Jones added,
because the government purchased the commodities at the
going market rates this provides both income and ex
panded markets for the farmer.
Jones stated, "The tobacco interests continue under at
tack by many segments of our society without sufficient
justification or documentation. Without the dedicated ef
forts on the part of those few Members of Congress
representing tobacco producing areas, I am fearful of
the ultimate consequences should these vicious attacks
continue."
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female coach, Ms. Cox said,
"The men I work with are
behind women's athletics.
We know we have to help
each other. But it's not like
that in a lot of places where
the female is on the outside
looking in." She admits that
she is fortunate in having
cooperative department
members who unite efforts
for the sake of students in
terested in sports. :
Even though Coach Cox
views the athletic program
at Williamston as outstand
ing, she admits there's room
for improvement. She sees
the need for a volleyball pro
gram, an upgrading of the
track program, and the need
for another female physical
education instructor "at
least on a part-time basis."
She added that she has en
countered some problems
while coaching. One of
these, she said, was the
change from the, 2A to 3A
conference. The resulting
problem was that many of
the 3A schools lacked pro
grams in athletics for
females. She said, "It took '
four years, but now they
have softball, track, and
basketball for girls on the
conference level. But Title
IX had a lot to do with it."
When asked to elaborate
on the effects of Title IX,
which basically calls for
equal opportunities in
athletics, Coach Cox said,
"Title IX has its advantages
and disadvantages. It
. depends upon the situation
you're in. It can definitely
give some impetus for im
provement. But in physical
The yield of 5,637 pounds
per acre by Carroll and Billy
Williams represented the
third highest yield ever by
an individual member since
the club began. The highest
yield to date is 6,317 pounds
per acre grown by a Como,
N.C. farmer, E.W. Evans
Jr. in 1970.
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education to put boys and
girls in the same classes is
fine in some areas, but I
think it's unrealistic in other
areas. Title IX can be car
ried to the extreme : and
some people have done that
It's something we're all go
ing to have to work into
gradually." Ms. Cox holds to
the basic philosophy that
anything worth obtaining is
worth working for and she
takes that same attitude in
regard to Title IX.
In addition to her teaching
and coaching respon
sibilities, Ms. Cox is in
volved in community ac
tivities. She is a member of
the Williamston Recreation
Advisory Council and con
ducts basketball and soft
ball clinics for the recrea
tion department. She will
also be working in the
recreational summer pro
gram. One of her future
goals is "to get into a college
coaching situation."
, Coach Cox summed up her
career attitude like this, "I
enjoy doing what I'm doing.
I think you have to enjoy
what you're doing to really
be successful. Teaching by
itself is a full-time job and
coaching just makes it a
much longer day if all
you're concerned about is
the financial part. But there
are more rewards to
coaching than money. You
have the opportunity to not
only watch a student grow
physically, but also to
mature. And you can take
pride in the fact that you've
taught them something and
that they're using it."
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patient in the Chowan
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