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Vocal Music Offered Dr. Clifford Bair, pro fessor emeritus at College of the Albemarle, will teach a course in "Vocal Music" beginning on Thursday, Dec. 1. The adult interest ^ course is sponsored by the Continuing Education Department at the College. Classes will meet each Thursday evening from 7:30 until 10:00 in Room 135-A in the main building on Riverside Ave. Dr. Bair said that everyone who is interested in choral music should en joy participating in the classes. The primary pro ject for his class will be the preparation for a per formance of J.S. Bach's. "The Passion According to St. John." Accompaniment for the spring presentation will be provided by instrumen talists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The registration fee for "Vocal Music" is $5.00. Senior citizens may enroll free. Registrants are asked to have their Social Security numbers available during the first two class meetings. In The News Carlton Boyce of Route 2, spent Thanksgiving in N.Y. City and attended the Macey's Parade, The play, "Annie," "King & I," and the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show. Dr. and Mrs. H.B. Mat thews, Jr. and family of Durham* were Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Matthews Sr. T.J. Nixon, III, cf Nags Head spent a few days last Foundations Give $42 Million Foundations give over $42 million annually to charitable recipients in North Carolina. Half of these funds are given to educational institutions, mainly private colleges and universities. Almost a third goes to medical schools, hospitals, and other programs in the health field. The re maining $8-9 million goes to a variety of other programs, including child welfare, recreation, arts, community funds, youth agencies, religious organizations, research in stitutes, community development and the aging. ' Over $34 million of the grants received by North Carolina organizations comes from foundations located in North Carolina, while over $8 million comes from foundations outside the state. .? These figures are based on a study released today by the Southeastern Council of. Foundations entitled "Foundation Philanthropy in the Southeast." This 81-page report presents the findings of a research project on the grant making of southeastern foundations and the grants to southeastern recipients by foundations located outside the region in 1974. The author of the study, Charles S. Rooks, believes the patterns exhibited in 1974 would generally apply to other years as well. In the Southeast as a whole charitable recipients obtain over $158 million in foundation grants. Regionally, 42 per cent of the grants goes to education, 29 percent to health, 16 percent to a variety of activities labelled welfare, and 4 percent each to arts and humanities, to religion, and to science and technology. The study revealed that over $20 million, or 13 percent of the total grants, went to minority group recipients in the Southeast. The eleven states included in the study were: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. In North Carolina in 1974 the ldading recipients of foun dation funds (ranging from $11,717,083 to $200,000) were: Duke University, Wake Forest University, Davidson Col lege, University of North Carolina, Cepter for Creative Leadership, Johnson C. Smith University, Pitt County Hospital, North Carolina A&T State University, Guilford College, Tanglewood Park, Memorial Hospital of Wade County, Alliance for Progress, N.C. School of the Arts Foundation, Meredith College, N.C. Baptist Hospital, Blue . Ridge Hospital System, Mercy Hospital, Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital, Board of Education ? Washington County, St. Joseph Hospital, Warren Wilson College, Wesley Long Community Hospital, Montreat-Anderson College, N.C. Hospital Education and Research Foundation, YMCA, Margaret Pardee Hospital, 1 ? and the Charlotte Information Center. Forth North Carolina foundations were included in the study. The largest grantor was the Duke Endowment which contributed over $20 million. Seven other founda tions ? Z. Smith Reynolds, Smith Richardson, Burlington Industries, Winston-Salem, Mary Reynolds Babcock, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, and Cannon ? granted and Mary Duke Biddle ? each made grants ranging from $500,000 to $1 million. Eleven others made grants of more than $100,000, and the grants of the remaining 18 founda tion* ranged below the $100,000 level. The study also revelaed that at least 23 foundations located outside the Southeast made contributions totalling over $7 million to North Carolina recipients. The leading grantors (ranging from $1,115,000 to $200,000) were: Kresge Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Founda tion, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Trust, Lilly Endowment, Alfred P. SR>an Foundation, Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Founda tion, Russell Sage Foundation, and Charles A. Dana Foundation. ? : The Southeastern Council of Foundations, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a professional association of more than M philanthropic foundations operating in eleven southeastern states. T. Erie Haste Jr. REALTOR | OFFICE AMD STAFF TO SERVE YOUR NEEDS HERTFORD HARDWARE & | SUPPLY COMPANY Mil week with Mrs. T.J. Nixon Sr. and Miss Helene Nixcta. D.F. Reed is a patient in the Albemarle Hospital. Miss Sue White of Virginia Beach, Va. spent the Holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian White. Mrs. Edgar White and Miss Eva White were Holiday guests of Cmdr. and Mrs. Gordon Walker at Virginia Beach, Va. Mr. and Mrs. W.C. Dozier and Miss Dawn Dozier were overnite guests of Mr. and Mrs. S.P. Toney III, at Newport News, Va. on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. and Mrs. Edison Crowe and family of Belvidere spent the weekend in Raleigh with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Randy Hedrick and son of Raleigh were Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Estes Copeland in Belvidere. Mrr~ and Mrs.- Bobby Elliott of Ahoskie were guests of Mrs. W.A. Elliott during the Holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Long and Mrs. Fred Matthews spent the Holidays with Dr. and Mrs. Robert Matthews at Lancaster, Pa. Charlie Harrell of Chapel Hill was a Holiday guest of Mrs. Charles Harrell. Billy and Don Holm an of Virginia Beach, Va. spent the Holidays with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Hofler. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Matthews Jr. and family of New Bern were Holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Matthews Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Smith and Phillip Smith of Raleigh were guests of Mr. and Mrs. P.B. Thach on Sunday. F oundation Grant Will Protect Outer Banks WASHINGTON. D.C. - Using ? landmark $4 million grant from the Richard King Mellon Foun dation of Pittsburgh, The Nature Conservancy will purchase for conservation two of the finest un disturbed areas remaining on North Carolina's Outer Banks. The grant, made to the Conservancy's unique Land Preservation Fund, is the largest single cash foun dation grant ever made to a private conservation organization in the United States. The 26 year-old non profit Nature Conservancy will use the $4 million to protect the Swan and Monkey Island properties in Currituck County, North Carolina. j-*?ca ieu aoout eu miles south of the North Carolina-Virginia border most of the Swan and Monkey Island tracts are w?iJ??ger ?tual islands, with the natural closing of the last Atlantic inlet in 1929, what had once been a string of major barrier islands became a long nar row finger of sand and wetlands that stretches south along the Atlantic from Virginia Beach toward Cape Hatteras. In cluded in the Monkey and Swan transactions are two major segments of the Outer Banks peninsula, thousands of acres of brackish marshes to the leeward Currituck Sound side, a number of small islands, and acres of vulnerable shoal waters .uR4es!archers indicate tnat the marshes of Cur rituck Sound are the most important unprotected wetlands area on the Atlan tic coast. They provide habitat for 15 percent of the waterfowl on the Atlantic i?Hy' Approximately 170,000 waterfowl use the marshes each winter. Marsh waterfowl include - mallard, black duck widgeon, gadwell, can vasback, ringnecked ducks greater snow and Canada geese. Over 100 bird species have been recorded in the area including peregrine falcon, southern bald eagle and osprey. The migrating route of endangered peregrine falcon follows the Outer Bamky. - ? ? The marshes are also home to fifteen species of mammals, as are the dunes. ? The Monkey and Swan island highground tracts separated by about three miles, run from the mean high water mark on the ocean side to the mean high water mark on the sound side. Together, counting the areas that will be pur chased directly and where conservation easements will be acquired, 6,508 acres will be protected at Swan and Monkey. Combined, the purchases account for three and a half miles of ocean front The sellers of Swan Island will retain limited compatible use rights. Swan Island is being pur chased from the Swan Island Hunting Club which was formed under unusual circumstances. Proceeding southward from Long ELMORE UPHOLSTERY Quality Fabrics WIOC SELECTION OF FABRICS. VINYLS ft SUPPLIES ?S) worn buaranteea 1 MILE NORTH OF HERTFORD ON HIGH-. WAY 37, 4 LARRY'S DRIVE IN FRIDAY NIGHT PICKLED HERRINGS 5:00 - 8:00 P.M. ?2.00 Furniture & Antiques Repaired Chairs Glued I missing i timings & farh IF i pin id BRIDGESIDE CABINET SHOP ? ? Island in November 1870, a sir all group of hunters aboard the yacht "Anon yana" sought safety in up per Currituck Sound from a fierce winter storm. They anchored next to what is now known as Swan Island. When the tides subsided, the yacht was stranded. Taking advantage of their misfortune and surrounded by thousands of waterfowl, the travelers formed a hunting club. The group, returning each year, took its present name in 1876 and abandoned what remained of the yacht in 1877. Monkey Island is being purchased from the heirs of the estate of C.A. Penn of Reidsville, North Carolina. In announcing today's grant, Patrick F. Noonan, President of the nonprofit Conservance, said, "Thanks to the foresight of the Richard King Mellon Foundation, two of the finest segments of the ecologically valuable Cur rituck Outer Banks will be preserved in their natural state for future generations to know and enjoy. Today, when coastal areas everywhere face the threat of extensive and often unplanned development. Swan and Monkey will con tinue to provide habitat to a variety of wildlife. Even more important, the mar shes they protect will con tribute to the delicate ecological balance of the sound. Unquestionably, protection of the natural character of the Currituck banks is a matter of statewide pride and na tional importance." Officials of the Richard King Mellon Foundation said that the $4 million grant to the Conservancy is one of the largest ever made to a single organiza tion in the Pittsburgh foun dation'* years of operation. L. Gregory Low, a North Carolina native, Executive Vice President of the Con servancy, and a key figure in the negotiations for the two areas, said, "The generous and very timely grant from the Richard King Mellon Foundation gives the Conservancy the funding needed to exercise our existing options on Swan and Monkey Islands. We expect to do so during the first two weeks of December. Ours is a positive commitment to protect these valuable natural resources. The broad questions of the future of the Currituck Outer Banks must be solved by innovative, environmen tally sound approaches by both the public and private sectors. The Mellon grant gives us time to work out the proper solutions. As a Tar Heel, I am particularly pleased to have been able to help in the preservation of these priceless elements of our state's natural heritage." Monkey, Swan and the Currituck Sound have been called a top priority in eastern America by the American Land Trust, a na tional two-year effort aimed at protecting key natural areas. Nathaniel P. Reed, Chairman of the American Land Trust, and former Assitant Secretary of the Interior, said that, "The Richard King Mellon Foundation speaks forcefully, by its example, to other philathropies. By making its grant, the foun dation underscores the responsibility we as Americans ahve toward protecting our diverse natural land. The Monkey and Swan tracts contain MR. FARMER SEE US FOR YOUR TRACTOR PARTS WE CARRY AIR, OIL & FUEL FILTERS, BATTERIES, PAINT, MOTOR & HYDRAULIC DRIVE OILS. MURRAY MOTOR PARTS A YOUR NAPA DEALER (Bus station now located at NAPA Service Station 426-5438.) HERTFORD SUNBURY 426-5218 465-8619 beach and wetlands of a type that are faat vanishing from our shores. Without major private action such as the foundation's, we stand to lose our remaining coastal islands and many other ecosystems upon which our lives depend." The Conservancy has helped assure protection of approximately 80,000 acres of outstanding land in North Carolina to date, including areas in Green Swamp, in the Great Dismal Swamp, and Roan Mountain in the Appalachians. Conser vancy North Carolina pro jects represent successful efforts to protect pristine ecosystems, endangered plant and animal species habitats, and areas of scenic and scientific value to North Carolinians and the nation. The North Carolina branch of The Nature Con servancy, which is based in Chapel Hill, concentrates on means of protecting the state's most select natural areas. These areas are identified by the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, a natural areas inventory which began as a cooperative venture of the Conservancy and state government, and is now ad ministered by the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development. GEORGE TRUEBLOOD & SON SELLING PLYWOOD CALL 426-7242 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. Weekdays TRY OUR NEW OYSTER BAR - OPEN 7 NIGHTS A WEEK 5 P.M. TO 10 P.M. ALSO STEAM SHRIMP. Something Different - Breakfast Daily Monday thru Saturday At 6 AM. 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