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Tl’ESDAY, .APRIL 24, 1979
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Through Local Schools
Symphony Chapter Planned In KM
By GARY STEWART
Staff Writer
The groundwork for forming a
chapter of the North Carolina
Symphony here was iaid Thursday
when a group of area educators and
other citizens met at Barnes
Auditorium with representatives of
the Symphony.
Tom Stanback, Director of
Community Services, and Richard
Walker, Director of Education for
the Symphony Society, explained the
procedures which would be taken
and the financial committment that
must be met and informed the crowd
that a tentative date of May 6-7 had
already been scheduled for an
evening concert for the community
and a morning concert (on the 7th)
for students in the Kings Mountain
School District.
Stanback and Walker suggested a
steering committee be named to
study the possibility of forming a
local chapter and seek response
from the community at large.
Stanback will return in about two
weeks to meet with the committee.
The minimum cost of scheduling a
concert here by the Little Symphony
(one half of the 73-member N.C.
Symphony orchestra) is $3,850.00. It
is recommended that $7-8.0()0 be
raised. If less than $3,850.00 is
raised, the orchestra will still
perform but, according to Stanback,
“will think twice about coming back
the following year.”
“Most chapters raise money
through membership sale and tax-
deductible contributions,” Stanback
said. “In some cases, school boards
and city governments help out with
KC Talent Show
Continues Thursday
Trophies will go to the winners in
TTiursday night’s Junior High-Senior
High Schools Talent Show sponsored
by the Kings Mountain Kiwanis
C3ub.
Entertainment gets underway at
7;30 p.m. in B.N. Barnes
Auditonum. Ma$t6f^ of Ceremonies
will be Jonas Bridges.
A variety of talent will be
displayed in the show, said Frank
Van Story, president of the spon
soring civic club.
Christy Putnam, Tonya Hawkins,
Nicole Gnandt, Lew Dellinger,
Tammy Van Dyke and Sandi Wells
won the K-7 Kiwanis Schools Talent
Show Thursday night in B.N. Barnes
Auditorium.
Judges said they had a tough
decision to make in selecting the top
winners from among 19 contestants
vdio displayed a variey of talent,
including song and dance routines,
vocal and instrumental numbers.
The contestants had previously
won talent shows from the various
elementary schools in the KM
District Schools system.
Jonas Bridges was master of
ceremonies and Kiwanis Club
President Frank Van Story
presented trophy awards to the
winners.
Christy Putnam, who danced to
“Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue,” won
in Division One for Kindergarten
and First Graders; Tonya Hawkins
presented a gymnastics ballet
routine to “You Light Up My Life”
to win in Division Two for second
and third graders; Nicole Gnandt
and Lew Dellinger danced to “You
Are The One I Want” to win in
Division Three for fourth and fifth
graders; Tammy Van Dyke and
Sandi Wells sang a duet, “Scars In
Hie Hands of Jesus” to win among
six and seventh graders competin
in Division Four.
contributions.”
Tickets sell for $5 for adults and $3
for children and senior citizens. With
the purchase of a ticket, one
becomes a member of the local
chapter as well as the Society and is
admitted to other concerts for half
price.
With 999 seats in Barnes
Auditorium, a sellout would assure
the $3,850.00 minimum but Stanback
warns about anticipating sellouts.
“It’s hard to fill that many seats,
especially the first year,” he said.
“You really have to build an
audience for classical music. Most
people won’t go on their own
initiative. You have to develop a
strong network of volunteers and go
out and tell people what it’s really
like.”
One of the greatest assets of
forming a chapter is the educational
benefits for elementary children in
the school district. The Symphony
each year plays before over 200,(X)0
children in North Carolina schools.
“It’s a lot more than coming in to
town, playing and packing up and
moving out,” says Walker. “We also
put on workshops for teachers,
provide a series of educational
materials for teachers and children
and even have small groups come
into the community for a week and
play before groups in a small, in
formal manner, usually in the school
media center or library. The
chiWren get to meet the musicians
and learn about the instruments.”
Supt. William Davis urged the
citizens to pursue the symphony
possibilities and pledged his sup
port.
“We have the perfect facility here
for cultural events,” he said. “I feel
goose bumps pop out when I think
about the symphony performing on
the state of Barnes Auditorium.
“I think we can support this in a
breeze,” he went on. “The kids in
our high school raised over $12,000 in
one week for muscular dystrophy. If
they can do that in one week, surely
the citizens can raise enough for the
symphony.”
Pl,.\\ .SY.MPIIONY—Richard Walker, left, and Tom
Stanhark of the N.C. .Symphony .Society, talked to area
citizens Thursday at Barnes Auditorium about forming
Photo by Gary Stewart
a chapter here. The Symphony is tentatively set to
perform here for the first time May 6-7, 1980.
Pre-School Screening Set
Pre-school screening for children
who will enter KM District Schools
for the first time in the Fall is slated
May 1-17 with three sessions per day
at the various plants from 9 until
10:30 a.m., 10:30 until noon and 1
until 2:30 p.m.
The sch^ule: Tues., Wed., May 1-
2 at Bethware; Thurs., May 3, at
Blast; Tues., May 8, morning, at
East; Tuesday, May 8, afternoon, at
West; Wed., May 9, at West; Thurs.,
May lOth at Grover; Tues., May
15th, at Grover; Wed., May 16 and
Thurs. , May 17th at North.
Children whose last names begin
with the letters A-H are asked to
attend the9a.m.-10:30a.m. session;
those whose last names begin with
the letters I-P the 10:30-12 noon
session; and others from 1 until 2:30
p.m. If this particular time and date
schedule is unsatisfactory for
someone, changes in times and
schools will be permitted.
All children who enter school for
the first time are expected to attend
with their parents one of the sessions is
Usted. in aodition to the forms for
registering the child, the school
must have a copy of the child’s birth
certificate, not the hospital record.
his “shot” record, and a copy of the
physical examination by the family
doctor or the health department.
During the screening session
parents will participate in an
orientation program and con
ferences with the social worker and
principal. Some 350 children are
expected to participate in the
screening.
Children who will be five years old
on or before Oct. 15, 1979, will be
eligible to enter kindergarten; those
who will be six years old on or before
Oct. 15, 1979 will be eligible for
kindergarten or first grade.
Rev. Plyler To Head Committee
Association To Build Baptist Center
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I*ROPO.SEI) BAPTIST CENTEIt—Rev. Cliue Borders, Director of
Missions for (he Kings Mountain Baptist .Association, shows the ar-
chilects drawing of the proposed new home of the association. The
Baptist renter, to he eonslriicted in Sliclliv at cost of approximately
$2.VI.(Kin. Rev. Richard l*l\ Im ef Knxis M.nmlain is general building fund
cliairman.
Photo by Tom McIntyre
Rev. Richard Plyler, pastor of
Patterson Grove Baptist Church,
will head the Kings Mountain
Baptist Association’s general
building committee which seeks up
to $237,480.(XI to build The Baptist
Center on Wyke Road in Shelby.
The building finance committee
and associational finance committee
at an executive meeting here
Monday at Macedonia Baptist
Church recommended that 72
churches, of which 25 are in the
Kings Mountain area, begin to give
to the building fund at a goal of $5
per church member per year, less
than 10 cents per member each
week, and that the general com
mittee be authorized to submit the
proposed building plans for bids
when the building fund reaches
$75,000 or pledges of $150,000 are
secured. If bids are in excess of
$250,000, the General building
committee and the Executive
committee will consult the
Executive Board of the association
for further action.
Rev. Cline Borders, associational
director of missions, said that target
date for beginning of construction is
late summer or early Fall.
Other local members of the
building committee are Tom Tate,
co-chairperson of the committee on
architect and construction; Mrs.
CTiarles Alexander, chairman of the
committee on interior design and
furnishings; Paul Lancaster,
chairman of the landscaping
committee; and Willard Boyles,
chairman of publicity.
The Associational offices have
been iocated for the past 15 years in
a 2,000 square foot building beside of
the Shelby Chamber of Commerce.
The new building, with 3,988 feet of
floor space on the main floor and
3,898 feet of floor space on the
ground level, would include a
spacious 21x30 conference room, a
21x12 media center, a director of
mission’s office, CSM director’s
office, other offices and reception
areas, a 21x16 feet workroom, audio
visual storage rooms, a clerk-
treasurer’s office and small con
ference room, a pastor’s office for
counseling, bathrooms, a lobby and
ample storage facilities on the main
floor. Food and clothing closets,
expansion space and roughed-in
plumbing for future bathrooms
would comprise the ground floor.
According to Rev. Mr. Plyler, the
need for he facility is “urgent” and
would enlarge, improve and provide
a new facet of Christian Social
Ministries by receiving food,
clothing and furniture to the needy,
appropriate space for pastors to
engage in counseling ministries,
space for a Christian Social
Ministries Director to assist people
privately, a place that will enhance
the ministry of five existing Growth
Groups now meeting in the Baptist
Center, a more visible ministry of
the KM Baptist Association with
adequate parking and more con
veniently located, space for literacy
training and for trained workei-s to
teach individuals, utilization of the
library and other equipment, space
for associational committees to l';ive
mwtmi^jjjiil f^ir^raintq^'JkOet': for
pastors,'duplication service for
churches using the cassette tape
ministry, “and a strengthened
association with the potential of
strengthening every church.”
Kings Mountain Baptist
Association was formed in 1891 and
now numbers 27,397 members in 72
churches in Cleveland County.
Tithes and offerings from these
church congregations totaled
$4,766,953.00 last year and
Associational receipts were
$56,095.00, up 27 percent over last
year.
Rev. Mr. Borders said the Mission
Advance Fund, which now totals
$27,160.44, received an anonymous
donation of $5,350.00 recently.
The Baptist Center is proposed to
be built east of Eastside Baptist
Church on Wyke Road in Shelby,
across from Jefferson School.
Youth Project
Young people of Central United
Methodist Church will sponsor a
spaghetti supper tomorrow night
from 5:30 until 8 p.m. at the church
fellowship hall.
The plates will include homemade
spaghetti with salad. French bread
and tea or coffee. Tickets are $3 for
adults and $1.25 for children 10 and
under and may be obtained at the
church office or at the door on
Wednesday evening.
All proceeds are to be applied
tiiw.nrd purchase of the Fulton
pi'()tK*rty adjacent to the church.