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Marvita Spann is going back
to school at age 72.
"I've made good progress in
my reading and writing.” she
said. "Math is a hard subject but
I'm making progress."
The Kings Mountain woman
moved back to Kings Mountain
six months ago from New York
where she had worked for 40
years for Sunshine Biscuit
Company.
Through the years she had
kept contact with Cleveland
County by returning to visit
with family members here and
in Grover. She completed sixth
grade in Grover but stopped to
go to work and raise a family.
"I was always determined to
get my high school diploma and
Cleveland Community College
is helping me reach my goal."
she said.
Spann attends an on-campus
class with instructor Nancy
Hopper. She hopes to finish in
about a year's time.
Spann wants to encourage
younger people to stay in school
and obtain a diploma and older
people not to stop learning.
"I was lucky that I was able
to make it without my high
school education but now it's
necessary for a good job," she
said.
"lI was blessed to be able to
work without one."
Though she knows it won't be
easy, Spann will keep working
to get her credits passed off.
Once she has her diploma, she'll
be better able to help others, she
says. Spann gives high credit to
her instructor for the encourage-
ment she takes to class.
"She's wonderful," said
Spann. "She bends herself over
backward to. help everyone in
class.
"I guess | am an example that
it's never too late to go back to
school."
/2 and back in school .
Thursday, December 22, 1994 -THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD-Page 5A
MARVITA SPANN
Visiting artist
sings at KMHS
"The sandpiper stands be-
side me now
"The ocean spray, it creeps
into my soul
"This song's for the one who
taught me how
"To believe in horizons vet
untold."
So sang Cleveland County
Visiting Artist Bruce Piephoff
to Kings Mountain High School
students Thursday morning.
The songwriter, troubadour
and poet's songs told of ordi-
nary folk: farmers, factory
workers, single mothers and ho-
bos. They have a Southern feel-
ing but the themes are univer-
sal: love, betrayal, loss,
loneliness and joy.
Piephoff ( pronounced pea-
off) told the students he hoped
they would all stay in school
and graduate, singing for them
an original song that told of the
rocky road a person on the
street faces.
Piephoff’s career began as a
student at UNC-Chapel Hill. He
played and sang in little bars,
cafes and restaurants where
folk, blues and poetry were per-
formed. Since then he has per-
formed at the Kennedy Center
of the Performing Arts in the
nation's capitol, the Bitter End
in New York City and the Blue
Bird Cafe in Nashville, among
RE
own stories so he started writing
his own material in college and
left school after two years to
travel around and learn the
folksinger's trade. He later re-
turned to get his degree in
English and a master's in cre-
ative writing from UNC-
Greensboro where he studied
with the renowned poet, Fred
Cappell.
A Visiting Artist for six years
working through the communi-
ty colleges, he has recorded six
albums of original songs and
poems on the Flyin' Cloud la-
bel.
This fall, the
Department has sponsored
many other events for students,
including an evening with the
Boston Chamber repertoire the-
atre, a trip to the opera in
Charlotte, a trip to Lenoir
Rhyne College to see "The
Glass Menagerie' and four
evening poetry seminars. The
poetry seminars were funded
with a mini grant from the
Kings Mountain Educational
Foundation.
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