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Students earn savings bonds in essay contest
County buahewi slowed
the middle school prevocattanal
nrogiam to distribute $650 in
U.S. Savings Bonds Friday dur
ing an awards ceremonv.
Ten student, cauued savings
bonds far performance in an es
say contest held in conjunction
with National Vocational Educa
tion Week. Students on all three
grade levels wrote essays tided
Lemming a LMng: What it Means
to Me. Language arts teachers
screened the essays and sub
mitted the best three from their
respective classes far Judflng.
Brandy HoDoweQ was overall
winner for the sixth grade and
received a $100 savings bond.
Sectional winners in the sixth
grade were Shartita Balky. Trey
Lewis. Zacharlah Brown ana
Natalie Long. Each student re
ceived a $50 saving bond.
Matthew Leicester earned the
top prize In the seventh grade.
Kregan Winslow was the sec
tional winner .
In the eighth made. Christy
Davenport earned top honor.
Mattie Hurdle. Brad Owens and
Kenneth Nordstrom earned sec
tional designations.
All students who participated
received certificates of recogni
tion and vocational education
memorabilia packets.
Essay judges were Perqui
mans High School teachers Mar
Middle
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t Highlights
Compiled by
aCuQtf MR _
tan Byrd. Kay Whitley, Linda
Lassiter and Rita Roberts, and
Perquimans Weekly editor Susan
Harris. The essays bore no
names, but were judged by num
ber.
Businesses who contributed
to the savings bonds were Lay
den's Supermarket. Albemarle
EMC. attorney John V. Mat
thews. attorney J.C. Cole. Cen
tura Bank. Hertford Hardware.
NationsBank. Woodard’s Phar
macy. Reed Oil Company. Dr.
Jack Boone. CQA associate pro
fessor Marvenia G. White, attor
ney Gary M. Underhill and
Community Gas Service.
The program was conducted
hyTbny Overton. EUchia Daniels.
.Aisha White. Murray Taylor, Alan
Mitchell. Mason Noordsy, Neil
Eure and Dali Nixon, sixth grade
keyboarding/typwriting stu
dents.
Vhgle Whitehurst, keyboar
ding/typewriting teacher, and
Henry Felton, co-principal, con
gratulated the students who par
tk^pated tn the essay contest.
and said they appreciated the
support <rf the community.
The Perquimans County
Middle School seventh grade
teachers are beginning to bridge
the gap between the school and
the community by making home
visits to parents. The teachers
use their planning periods to go
out. in teams of two, to reach
the parents they feel may not be
reached during PTSA. Teacher
Workdays, or any other time de
signed for parents to visit the
school.
The mission of Perquimans
County Schools is to teach all
the children. Keeping this mis
sion in focus, the seventh grade
teachers feel in order to educate
the children one must make the
parents aware of what's going
on in the school academically
and socially.
This foat that the PCMS sev
enth grade teachers undertook
has been met with great suc
cess. We are now reaching ap
proximately 90 percent of our
parents through PTSA,
workshops, and team efforts.
The seventh grade team will
continue to try methods to
reach our parents so that they
will be aware of what's happen
ing with their child(ren) at
PCMS.
Mrs. Virgie Whitehurst congratulated students
earning savings bonds in the vocational edu
cation essay contest at Perquimans Middle
School. Included (front to back, left to right)
Brandy Hollowed, Natalie Long, Trey Lewis,
Shanita Bailey, Kenneth Nordstrom, Christy Da
venport, Kregan Winslow, Matthew Leicester,
Mrs. Whitehurst, Mattie Hurdle, Brad Owens
and Zachariah Brown. (Photo by Susan Harris)
ECSU to observe 102nd Founders’ Day
Elizabeth City State Univer
sity will observe Its annual
Founders’ Day on Wednesday,
March 3 at MkOO sudql. In Moore
Hall Auditorium. The guest
speaker will be The Honorable
Eva M. Clayton, North Carolina
1st District Congresswoman.
Mrs. Clayton brings to her
new Congressional seat more
than 25 years of work in both
government and the private sec
tor and 10 years of experience as
an elected official.
In 1981. she founded her
own management and consulting
firm. Technical Resources Inter
national. Ltd. {TRQ. specialising
In economic development. She
served as either corporate or pro
ject manager for all prefects un
dertaken by the firm, including
comprehensive planning, com
munity development plans, com
munity needs assessments,
affirmative action plans, housing
development planning, and mar
ket development The firm pri
marily served local and state
governments, small businesses,
non-profit organizations and re
gional banks.
Before forming TRI. Eva Clay
ton was Assistant Secretary for
Community Development with
the NC Department of Natural
Resources and Community De
velopment overseeing urogram
management, policy development
and administration of Special
Programs for the Office of Com
munity Development She also
supervised the Division of Com
munity Assistance and Employ
ment training. .
Prior to her work with the
state, she served as Executive
Director of the North Carolina
Health Manpower Development
Programs of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
For 10 years, she served as a
member of the Warren County
Board of Commissioners, leading
the board as Chairperson from
1982-1990. In 1990. she was
named Outstanding North Caro
lina County Commissioner by fel
low North Carolina County
Commissioners.
Among the board's accom
plishments under herleadershlp
were the creation of an innova
tive rural health care facility to
replace a financially falling hos
pital. economic development that
attracted more than 900 Jobs
and $55 million tn investments,
and securing bond funding for
school renovation and construc
tion.
She has been an active advo
cate for rural health care, hous
ing assistance, and Job training,
and has served on numerous lo
cal. state and national boards to
foster programs addressing these
Issues. She was recognized by
the North Carolina Forum. NC
Association of County Commis
sioners. and die NC League of
Municipalities for promoting in
tergovernmental relations, and
served as Chairperson of the
Housing Steering Committee of
the National Association of
County Officials and President of
die Housing Assistance Council.
Washington. D.C. She has also
served a member of the NC Fair
Housing Finance Agency, Fair
Housing Commission, and Judi
cial Compensation Commission.
An active member of the
Presbyterian Church, Eva Clay
ton traveled in 1991 to Beme,
Switzerland to participate in an
ecumenical consultation on the
environment On the local level,
she fought to prevent rural
areas, already suffering from eco
nomic deprivation, from becom
ing dumping grounds for our
nation’s hazardous waste.
Her life is rounded out by her
family~her husband who is an
attorney in Warren ton, four adult
children who are pursuing their
careers, and a grandson.
Eva Clayton holds a B.S. de
gree from Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity in Charlotte, NC and a
M.S. degree from the North
Carolina Central University in
Raleigh. She attended the uni
versity of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Law and
Government Executive Insti
tute, School of Business Ad
ministration at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
In conjunction with this
year's Founders’ Day obser
vance, the Founders’ Day Com
mittee has deemed it
appropriate at this time to ded
icate two of the University’s
buddings. The Jimmy R. Jen
kins Science Center and the
E.V. Wilkins Academic Com
puting Center. The Dedication
Ceremonies will take place im
mediately following the Found
Bridges program accepts applications
The Bridges Program of Col
lege of The Albemarle wfD accept
applications Feb. 23-Aprtl 2 for
the next class, scheduled for
April 6-June 18. The 11-week
classroom study course prepares
participants to take the five GEO
tests and teaches job seeking
skills. Registration is held in
room 218 of the C building in
Elisabeth City from 9 aan.-3 p.m.
The Bridges Program is
funded under the Job Training
Partnership Act through the
Albemarle Commission and is
free for qualifying participants.
For more Information, contact
College of The Albemarle at
335-0821, ext 242.
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ceremonies.
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scheduled for 1:00 p.m., will
be held in the University’s
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Continuing Education Center
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grimage and dedication cere
monies. A donation of $7 per
person is being requested to
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