THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY
Volume 59, No.50
USPS 428-080
Hertford. Perquimans Countv. N.C.. Thursday, December 13,1990
30 Cents
Local:
Nelson
installed:
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Feature:
Russells reunited
after nearly 50 years:
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Briefs
Memory Lane Club to moot
The Memory Lane Senior Citizen
Club will have a covered dish lun
cheon on Monday, Dec. 17 at 1 p.m.
at the Perquimans County Senior
Center. Everyone attending should
bring a gift. Gifts should be limited
to around $4.
Cancer Society sella books
The Perquimans County Chapter
of the American Cancer Society is
selling cookbooks. The recipes in
the book come from all 100 of North
Carolina’s counties. About 75 per
cent of the $7 cost of the book will be
returned to the county. The cook
books are available at Hertford
Savings & Loan Association and
Woodard’s Pharmacy, or by calling
426-7850.
Uve nativity scene set
Bethel Baptist Church will pre
sent a live nativity scene on Dec.
-17, 18, 20, and 21 on their church
lawn from 7-8 p.m.
Hertford PTA tonight
. The Hertford Grammar School
PTA will meet on Thursday, Dec.
1$ at 7:30 pm. The second grade
[classes will present “Around the
•World at Christmastime.”
Chorus concert plsnned
The PCHS Chorus Concert is
planned for Sunday, Dec. 16 at 3:30
pm. A variety of seasonal music
will be performed under the direc
tion of Lynwood Winslow.
Site menus announced
; The Nutrition Site menu for the
Week of Dec. 17-21 is as follows:
Monday-Smoked Sausage, maca
roni and cheese, buttered green
peas, dinner roll, maragarine,
pineapple pieces, and milk.
Tuesday-Brunswick stew with
chicken, cold pickled beets, green
beans, crackers, margarine, choco
late cake with white icing, and
milk.
Wednesday-Lasagna, tossed
salad, com, French bread, marga
rine, hot spiced apples, and milk.
Thursday-BBQ chicken, broccoli,
blackeye peas, whole wheat bread,
margarine, oatmeal cookie, and
milk.
Friday-Battered fish portion, co
leslaw, stewed potatoes, corn
bread, margarine, fresh orange,
and milk.
Clinics scheduled
-' The Perquimans County Health
Department clinic schedule for De
cember is as follows: Dec. 17 Pre
natal a.m., family planning p.m.,
Dec. 18 WIC all day, Dec. 19 Child
health a.m., Dr. Slade p.m. Dec. 20
Adult health all day, Dec. 21 Gen
eral p.m., WIC all day.
Please remember, all clinics are
held on an appointment basis and
there is a charge for services based
; on income.
- Boosters sail tickets
The Perquimans County Special
Olymics Booster Club is selling
-raffle tickets for $1 each. First
prize is a VCR donated by Atlantic
! Satellite Systems; second prize is a
.150 savings bond donated by Cen
tura Bank; third prize is an AM/
. FM clock radio donated by Lowe’s.
■ .The drawing is set for Thursday,
Dec. 20.
-., ’For more information, contact
• Kathy Ansink at Hertford Gram
; mar School or Vaness McPherson
at264-3539.
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Local educators work to raise SAT scores
The Perquimans County School
System has taken steps to improve
SAT scores, according to county
testing director Paul Ward.
For about 18 months, a commit
tee comprised of mathematics tea
cher Kathleen Brickhouse, English
teacher Kay Whitley, and guidance
counselor Elaine Pritchard has
worked to raise scores locally. The
educators have attended numerous
workshops and meetings, gathered
SAT materials used in school sys
tems in other states, and worked
with students both in and out of the
classroom. Media center coordina
tor Victor Eure has worked with
the group to secure computer
software to aid students preparing
to take the SAT.
“Many hours beyond the regular
work day have been spent in these
endeavors,” Ward said. “Few peo
ple have been aware of the efforts
on their (the committee members)
part, but the students who have
been helped know and appreciate
these teachers.”
Ward told the board of education
last Monday night that the em
phasis on higher SAT scores has
been successful.
“Elaine Pritchard shared the Oc
tober SAT results with me, and I
Channel 1:
good show
The controversial Channel 1 pro
gramming has received positive re
views at Perquimans High School,
according to media center coordi
nator Victor Eure.
“I think the responses (to the pro
gramming) have been overwhelm
ingly positive,” Eure told board of
education members last Monday
night.
Channel 1 offers news and rele
vant information to students at
Perquimans High School in daily
12-minute segments. The features
are timely, Eure said, referring to
recent segments on Iraq and Ku
wait. Eure said the Middle East
programming dealt with cultures
and the issues surrounding the
United States’ involvement in the
Persian Gulf.
Each day there is a theme to the
programming. “That theme is
usually relevant to our curric
ulum,” Eure said. One theme cen
tered around advertising. Eure
said that teachers could incorpo
rate advertising into classroom
studies in most subject areas, in
cluding English, economics and
art.
He added that advertisements,
the major cause of the Channel 1
controversy in North Carolina, had
been tasteful and often made posi
tive statements to students. “They
have donated much of their com
merical time...to drop out preven
tion ads and drug abuse prevention
ads,” Eure said.
Another big plus for the school
system is the availability of the two
VCRs and one 19-inch color TV for
every 23 students installed by
Channel 1. Also, most of the pro
grams give the school system un
limited rights to programming, so
the media center is able to increase
its video library. If a teacher needs
resources on a particular subject,
the tapes are available for use.
“I think the teachers see it as a
long-term benefit,” Eure com
mented.
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must say that they were impres
sive,” Ward told the board. “Of 16
identified seniors who took the Oc
tober SAT administration for at
least the second time, 12 improved
in verbal and nine improved in
math. Score increases ranged from
20 to 120 points.”
Perquimans students’ October
SAT scores ranked No. 1 in the re
gion. The average scores were 100
points above the state average and
41 points over the national average.
The most outstanding success
came on the math section of the
test. “A rarity for the SAT adminis
tration was a perfect score of 800 on
the mathematical section by Sarah
Winslow,” Ward said.
Winslow has taken algebra I, geo
metry, algebra II, and is presently
enrolled in advanced math. She has
participated in several math con
tests on a regional and state level.
Pritchard told the board that one
of the major obstacles to improving
SAT scores is having no control
over who takes the test. She said,
that sometimes those students who
do not perform well have not pre
pared for the test by taking the
higher math courses. Also, she re
lated, students in Perquimans until
recently began taking algebra in
Sarah Winslow
the ninth, rather than eighth,
grade. Many other systems have
offered algebra I at the junior high
level for several years, which
meant students there had more
math before initially taking the
SAT.
Finally, Pritchard said, SAT
Photo by Susan Harris
Coming down
The walls of the Broughton building on the corner of Market and
Church streets have finally begun to come down. The condition
of the building caused the town of Hertford to begin foreclosure
proceedings against former owners Claude and Alma Brinn. The
building was purchased last month by Mary Lucille Broughton
Johnson, and demolition work began soon after the papers were
filed with the register of deeds.
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scores in North Carolina are com
pared to the national average, but
without sufficient explanation. She
said that students west of the Mis
sissippi River generally take the
ACT, rather than SAT. The stu
dents from the western states who
take the SAT are generally those
students applying to Ivy League
colleges, ana therefore are top stu
dents.
Pritchard told the board that
over 50 students have participated
in after-school SAT preparation
workshops at the high scnool over
the past one and one-half years
learning both math and verbal
strategies involved in the SAT.
Now much of the workshop infor
mation is being integrated into reg
ular curriculum, Pritchard said.
Help is also available through SAT
resources in the media center.
Perquimans teachers also en
courage students to attend the free
preparation workshops held at
Elizabeth City State University
about one week prior to each SAT
administration. In addition, Cam
den High School has invited Perqui
mans students to attend their work
sessions.
Whitley and Brickhouse gave
board members an overview of the
work being done in their depart
ments to better prepare students
for the SAT.
Whitley said that verbal scores
are more difficult to improve than
math scores. She said that teachers
in the English department have de
signed course work which will help
students be more prepared for the
SAT, such as stressing vocabulary,
implementing required reading
lists, asking more SAT-type ques
tions on regular tests, practicing
sentence completions, and review
ing grammar and composition. The
instructors also work on higher
level thinking skills.
Making students aware of the
types of math problems they will
see on the SAT is a part of the math
program, said Bnckhouse. Prac
tice tests, workshops, and other
study materials are utilized. She
said the average math score for the
26 students who took the SAT in Oc
tober was 505.4. The average score
for the 13 advanced math students
was 589.2.
Ward said he is pleased with the
efforts of the faculty and the pro
gress of the students in raising SAT
scores.
“There are still the winter and
spring administrations yet to oc
cur,” he said, “but we are excited
about what is happening at Perqui
mans High School. ”
Council debates plans
for police station
Where and when to rebuild the
police station sparked spirited de
bate among Hertford town coun
cilmen Monday night.
Mayor W.D. “Bill” Cox pre
sented four bids to the council for
tearing down the structure, leaving
the floor and foundation in tact. The
bids wer.ej..T.ildon..Whitehurst
$9,500; Jack Hurdle $5,350; Fred
Sawyer $1,820, and Owens Land
scaping $1,500. The council
awarded the project to Owens
Landscaping.
Cox also reviewed a plan dis
cussed Monday by representatives
of the town, the town of Winfall, and
the county to study the feasibility of
jointly constructing a building
which would house the law enforce
ment departments of all three bod
ies. Each government entity was to
discuss appointing two representa
tives to a study committee at their
next meetings.
Councilman John Beers said he
felt that the council should enter ex
ecutive session to discuss the issue
before appointing members to the
committee.
“There’s no need to appoint any
one if we’re not interested,” he
said. He added that there may be
matters that councilmen should
discuss in executive session relat
ing to the committee which should
not be discussed at an open meet
ing.
Councilman
Erie Haste said
that he felt that
the mayor should
go forward with
plans to replace
the building “with
all possible and
reasonable
speed.” He said
that at this time,
he feels the building should be reb
uilt in die same location with plans
to house the police department,
Chamber of Commerce, and li
cense bureau. “Ultimately, I think
the police department will come out
of there,” Haste added.
Haste suggested that Cox gather
information on the cost of recons
tructing the building.
Councilman Jesse Harris said
that he doesn’t feel the town should
rebuild on the present site, but that
he wanted to know how Hertford
residents feel about moving versus
rebuilding on the site.
“We don’t have the money to put
it anywhere else, ’ ’ Haste said.
“You’re jumping too fast,” Har
ris countered. He added that he
doesn’t think the town should spend
any money on plans until a decision
has been reached on where to lo
cate the building.
“We’re only getting figures,”
councilman Billy Winslow stated.
“I think there’s a certain amount
of preliminary work that I can do
that won’t cost anything, ” Cox said.
He stated that he would gather
some preliminary figures to pre
sent to the board.
“I’m strong that it shouldn’t go
back here,” Harris said, pointing to
the former police station.
After the discussion, the council
appointed Cox to the law enforce
ment building study committee,
and authorized him to appoint the
second member.
In other business, the council:
•unanimously approved a $2,000
donation to the Perquimans County
High School band to be used for
their trip to Florida.
•authorized town attorney Walter
Edwards Jr. to study a Raleigh sa
tellite dish ordinance and make a
recommendation to the board con
cerning an ordinance dealing with
the location of satellite dishes.
•set up a meeting with Billy
White to discuss Beech Grove De
velopment.
Beamon is chief judge
Chief Justice James G. Exum
Jr., of the State Supreme'Court
has appointed District Court
Judge Grafton G. Beaman of
Elizabeth City as Chief District
Court Judge in the First Judicial
District.
Judge Beaman, who has been
on the District Court bench since
1974, succeeds Judge John T.
Chaffin of Elizabeth City, who re
tires this year.
“Judge Beaman is well qual
ified by experience and tempera
ment to carry out his new
responsiblities in an equitable
and efficient manner,” Chief Jus
tice Exum commented in an
nouncing the appointment.
Chief District Court Judges by
law are appointed by and serve
at the pleasure of the Chief Jus
tice of the State Supreme Court.
As Chief District Court judge,
Judge Beaman will assume ex
tensive administrative duties, in
cluding arranging court sessions,
assigning judges, supervising the
calendaring of non-criminal mat
ters and supervising his Dis
trict’s Magistrates.
The First District includes
Camden, Chowan, Currituck,
Dare, Gates, Pasquotank and
Perquimans Counties.
Judge Beaman earned a B.S.
degree in business administra
tion from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel HU1 in 1963
and his law degree from the UNC
Law School in 1966. He was in ttie
private practice of law in Eliza
beth City before he went on the
bench.
Hie Judge has been active in
civic affairs in the Elizabeth City
area as well as in matters involv
ing the legal profession.
Judge Beaman is an active
member of Christ Episcopal
Church in Elizabeth City and has
served the Diocese of East Caro
lina since 1974 as a licensed Lay
Reader
Partners With Youth to close tomorrow
The Perquimans-Chowan Part
ners With Youth, the Governor’s
One-On-One Volunteer program,
will officially close tomorrow.
With the establishment of the or
ganization, said board member Di
ane Hoofnagle.a hope, a dream was
born. This program was designed
to offer an alternative to those
youth involved with the juvenile
court system by matching them
with an adult volunteer. The volun
teer would serve as a role model, a
dependable friend who would help
the youth to become an acceptable
and responsible community citizen.
What began as a sincere and will
ing desire to help the youth of Per
quimans and Chowan counties has
become an extrememly difficult
challenge. This program is a volun
tary, non-profit organization, par
tially funded through Social
Services Block Grants. The bal
ance of the funding was to be raised
within the community from local
businesses, churches and church
groups, fund-raising projects, and
individual contributions. Volun
teers and Board members were to
be recruited from the community.
- Some of life’s hopes and dreams
fight for life and manage to sur
vive. Others; regardless of the
struggle for life, die a slow and ag
onizing death. Partners with Youth
has struggled for life since the very
beginning. Every possible means
available has been used to publicize
and promote this program and its
benefits to the youth within our
community. Attempts to recruit
sufficient adult volunteers to work
with the youth have been unsuc
cessful, as well as attempts to
maintain an active Board of Direc
tors.
On Oct. 29, the Executive Direc
tor, Karen Dashiell-Ames, sub
mitted her resignation to the
President of the Board of Direc
tors, effective Nov. 13. During her
tenure as Executive Director, Da
shiell-Ames worked diligenlty to
bring this program up to the re
quired state standards, and helped
in numerous ways to promote this
program within the community.
With the resignation of the Exec
\ „ • , f '
• y .
utive Director, the Board of Direc
tors, at a called meeting on Nov. 6,
voted to dissolve the Partners With
Youth Program. There were a
number of reasons cited by the
Board for this decision: The pro
gram has been unable to meet the
state requirements in terms of
youth-adult matches; the lack of
sufficient adult volunteers; the lack,
of sufficient community support
from Perquimans and Chowan
counties, and the Board of Direc-:
tors has less than 10 active mem
bers.
Board members said they re-;
greted having to dissolve this pm-'
gram, but said they were thankful
that Partners With Youth has been
able to help some of the youth in
Perquimans and Chowan counties.
Hie Board also said they appre
ciate to the volunteers who have
given freely of their time and ef
fort, as well as their talent and sup
port of Partners With Youth. In
addition, they said many area busi
nesses, local churches, and the
other individual contributors who
contributed to the support of this
program, <