Sixteen members of the Kings Mountain High School Class of 1938 returned to Kings Mountain
Saturday with two former teachers for the 55th year reunion. Front row, from left, Lib Plonk Mercer and
Mitchell Williams and Josephine Weir, former teachers; middle row, Sarah Henry Summitt, Nell G.
Sherrer, Mildred English Jolly, Faye C. Penland, and Lillian Moss Wright; back row, Aileen Black
Gibson, Lois Baity Guyton, Betty Cloninger Smith, Ned Hayes, C. T. Carpenter Jr., Marriott Phifer, Paul
Stewart, Irene Gladden McAbee and George H. Mauney.
KMHS class of '38 has reunion
Sara Henry Summitt missed on-
ly one question Saturday in the
"Do You Remember?” fun test of
15 questions at the 55th reunion of
the Kings Mountain High School
Class of 1938.
The occasion was the nostalgic
reunion of 16 alumni who gathered
at Holiday Inn with spouses and
- friends to reminisce and listen to
fantastic 'oldies” on the record
player.
"We've had such fun planning
this event," said Lib Plonk Mercer,
who was assisted by Lillian
Wright, Charles Carpenter, Aileen
Black Gibson, George H. Mauney
and Summitt.
After dinner, door prizes and raf-
fle ticket winners were announced.
Paul Stewart won both the GE
clock radio and watermelon flag
presented during a prize drawing.
George and Barbara Mauney took
home the door prize, a fig tree. Bed
pillows were won by Mildred Jolly.
class in 7th grade at West School,
won a travel kit. Stewart won clec-
tric scissors and Marriott Phifer
won a touch table lamp.
Irene Gladden McAbee of Grand
Blanc, Michigan traveled the
longest distance to attend the re-
union. McAbee, daughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. John W. Gladden
Sr., married her high school sweet-
heart, Sam, also a member of the
graduating class. McAbee's daugh-
ter accompanied her to the reunion.
Charlie Earp read the class
prophesy, "Visions,"which he
wrote for the school newspaper in
11938.
Members also enjoyed a memo-
rabilia table of newspaper clip-
pings, yearbooks and class pictures
and reminisced with former teach-
ers Josephine Weir and Mitchell
Williams.
The 16 class members who at-
tended were Lois Baity, Aileen
Black Gibson, Charles Carpenter
Jr, George H. Mauney, Lillian
Moss Wright, Marriott Phifer,
Betty Cloninger Smith, Charles E.
Earp, all of Kings Mountain, Ircne
Gladden of Grand Blanc, MI, Ned
Hayes of Burlington, Mildred Jolly
of Anderson, SC, Elizabeth Plonk
‘Mercer of Alexandria, VA, Faye
Penland of Anderson, SC, Nell
Sherrer Brafford of Sanford, Paul
Stewart of Gastonia and Sarah
Henry Summitt of Lincolnton.
Other guests were Francis Hunt,
Mrs. Bess Phifer, Howard Smith,
Hal Brafford, Mutt Hayes, Jenny
and Crystal Stewart, Marian
Carpenter, Barbara Mauney, Fred
Wright, Jim Mercer, Carol
Cunningham and Clara Flowers
Ross.
Forty-eight seniors graduated
from Kings Mountain High School
in 1938, marking at that time the
largest class in the history of the
school.
at City Hall
An informal ‘after hours get-to-
gether will be hosted by Kings
Mountain Chamber of Commerce
Thursday from 5:30-7 p.m. at City
Hall and all the candidates for City
Council and school board positions
arc invited to attend to talk with
their constituents.
"We hope that the community
will turn out to talk one-on-one
with the candidates in an informal
manner,” said Chairman Ruby
Alexander.
Light refreshments will be
scrved.
Correction
Last week, in the special FYI
section of the Herald, There was an
error and an omission.
The telephone number for the
Rescue Squad was a private resi-
dence number. To contact the
Kings Mountain Rescue Squad,
please call 911.
One of our area churches was
left out by mistake. Here is the
proper information:
Long Branch Baptist Church
‘Long Branch Rd.
SAL 937-7919
Thursday, September 30, 1993 -THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 7A
Meet voters Neuman speaks to students
Moses Okoric Nueman, native
of Nigeria, West Africa and a
Kings Mountain resident, delighted
Honors English students at Kings
Mountain High School recently
with a review of the book," Things
Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe.
Nucman, President of First
Africa World Trade of Kings
Mountain, spoke on a program ar-
ranged by Susan Patterson to
English students in the Library of
the high school.
Nucman talked about the tribes
and cultures and illustrated the sub-
ject with slides and with a world
globe and African artifacts.
Nigeria is one of the largest
countrics in West Africa, bordered
in the cast by Cameroon; on the
west by Benin, on the north by
Niger and on the south by the
Atlantic Ocean. Nigeria has a pop-
ulation of about 100 million people
and is onc of the world's largest
producers and exporters of crude |
oil. :
Nueman said Africa is onc of
the seven continents of the. world
and has 53 countries divided into
five zones of regions, including |
North Africa, South Africa, Central
Africa, East Africa and West
Africa.
Nucman, who has been in the U.
S. 13 years, is married to Marlene
Claudic Grier Nucman of Kings
Mountain.
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GRIEVANCE
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McRae said he could not comment on personnel
matters to the newspaper
Payseur contends'the Kings Mountain Board of
Education and Dr. McRae, as superintendent, violat-
ed a federal law when it passed him up for promo-
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tion.
Janet Evans, UNISERV Director for the North
Carolina Association of Educators, presented the
grievance to the board, along with Payseur, during a
nearly two hour meeting in the superintendent's of-
fice.
Payseur contends the board appointments of prin-
cipals have been politically motivated.
Payseur contends that one of the ongoing reasons
he was given for not being promoted in the system
was that he had to be on active duty for training each
fiscal year in the Naval Reserves, but he was also
told other reasons were that he was unsympathetic to
children and because he had initiated a volunteer
drug testing program for bus drivers at Bethware
School for which he said he got permission from
Principal Hugh Holland and School Bus
Administrator Dr. Larry Allen. He said he has ap-
plied more than once for principal positions over the
years and passed over.
Payseur has been in the Naval reserves for 16
years. He says he is required by law to participate in
two weeks of active duty.
For seven years in a row at Central School he said
You think the city should provide morc and
better services to its citizens
= You think the city should provide you with
protection from crime and drugs
You sce the need to have a program for strect
maintenance that would be fair and consistent in
Are satisfied with the way city gov-
ernment has been run the last four
years and the way it has worked for
you then go ahead and vote for
my opponent.
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he was responsible for the out-of-school suspension
program as Assistant Principal. "Our suspensions
were below 50 days each year and compared to other
schools in this area that were 15 times higher."
Payseur said a leadership principals’ assessment in
1992 from his co- workers ranked him above the na-
tional level on 89 leadership skills and ranked him
100 percent on how he related to children. "I don't
want anything I don't deserve but I need a fair oppor-
tunity and I love working with children,” said
Payseur.
Payseur joined the exceptional children's program
at the Kings Mountain Junior High in 1974. In 1976
he began teaching 8th grade Science. In November
1981 he became assistant principal at Central
School. In 1988 he came Assistant Principal of
- Bethware and Grover Schools. He was interim prin-
cipal at Bethware School during the illness of Hugh
Holland, filling in for Holland the first time in the
summer of 1990 and later when the principal was ab-
sent due to back surgery. He was appointed interim
principal at Bethware by the school board in January
1992. J
"Since July 8, 1987 I have been denicd a promo-
tion specifically because I was told I would not be
hired as an administrator as long as I was out for two
weeks every year in the Reserves," said Payseur.
Payseur said he has applied for principalships cach
time they became open and most recently at
Bethware School. He holds a six year degree, includ-
ing two undergraduate college degrees in education
and is certified on a master's level to teach interme-
diate grades.
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