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em Page 2B - THE KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD - Thursday. March 7. 1996 Trip McGill, left, and Kenney Potter will accompany Gaston County students to New York City this week for an appearance on CBS's Morning Show Monday at 8:30 a.m. and a concert in Carnegie Hall Sundav. KM men to conduct choir at Carnegie Hall "You send down your love like gently falling rain" is the opening of the original prayer song that Kings Mountain's Kenney Potter will sing with the Gaston County Choral Ensemble in Carnegie Hall Sunday night in New York City. Kings Mountain musician Norman FE. "Trip" McGill III will accompany his friend and co-direc- tor and the two talented musicians will conduct the Ensemble of 28 voices in the featured choir. McGill has also arranged for the group to sing " Oh What A Beautiful Morning" live on CBS Channel 3 Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. McGill, who has either served as accompanist, assistant director or director of the Ensemble for 14 years in the Gaston County School System, has taught at Ashbrook High School for eight years. Potter, who co-directs the .Ensemble, teaches chorus at East Gaston High and Stanley Junior High. He earned his master's in music from Portland State University in Oregon in 1993 after graduating from Florida State University in 1992. Both young men had music mentors during their-growing up" years in Kings Mountain. Potter, son of Betty and Jim Potter, credits KMHS choral direc- tor Gene Bumgardner and Central Methodist Church choir leader Linda Dixon for his musical tal- ents. He graduated from Kings Mountain High school in 1988 and was active in the chorus program at both the junior high and high school levels. Potter writes music and last year wrote "O Lord You Are My God". for the national honors 9th grade choir to perform in San Antonio --rector - at and then on a European tour to Austria, Germany and Switzerland. McGill has worked with many of the students in the Ensemble since they started high school and is quite proud of their achieve- ments. McGill's grandmother, the late Mrs. N.E. McGill Sr., used to play the organ at Boyce Memorial ARP Church and as a youngster Trip sat on the bench beside her. He credits her and former KMHS band direc- tor Don Deal for inspiring his mu- sical career. "Music just came naturally," said McGill. He graduated from Kings Mountain High School in 1978 and from Erskine College in 1982 and is working on a master's from Winthrop University. He taught at Holbrook Junior High and North Gaston. Two years ago his choral ensem- ble was part of a national honor choir and sang with a festival choir in Carnegie Hall but their perfor- mance Sunday will be the first time the local group has been the featured choir and invited to sing a separate concert. a1 TRL Ghia "This is really a grand opportu. nity for our students; McGill said. at Bon Clarken in the summer months. The camp is for mentally handicapped students and McGill recruits the staff. He has also been organist at Boyce Memorial and Pisgah ARP Churches and will be playing the accompaniment for the solo number by Potter. Both men will be conducting the concert and Mark Stamper will be accompa- nist. Kenney also serves as music di- Convenant United Methodist Church in Charlotte where his ormer minister, Rev. Bob Little, is pastor. MeGilF Volunteers at Camp Joy" %' KM schools Health Council to meet The next meeting of the Kings Center, 105 East Ridge Street, Mountain District Schools Health Kings Mountain. 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Grover Elementary fifth grader Abby Kates writes "A Friend Remembers.) By ABBY KATES The day was April 27, 1590. I was a young farmer on a ship car- rying colonists to a new land. Our leader, Sir Walter Raleigh, had per- mission from Queen Elizabeth to sail across the ocean. That day we began our great adventure and I be- gan my friendship with Sir Walter Raleigh. : Our journey was long and I grew to know the man called Sir Walter Raleigh. Born in 1554, Raleigh was deeply interested in explo- ration. He and his half brother Sir Humphrey Gilbert had sent out many explorations before us, in- cluding the first English colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. He was a scientist. sailor, poet, colonizer, ABBY KATES historian scientist and politician. He spent a fortune trying to estab- lish an English colony in what was to be America. Raleigh, a favorite of Queen Elizabeth, was a powerful figure in England and was soon knighted. According to legend, he impressed the Queen very much when walk- ing in the garden with her, he laid his cloak over a mud puddle to keep her feet dry as she crossed it. He also gained the favor of the Queen when he introduced some- thing called tobacco to the royal court. In 1592, Raleigh temporarily fell from the Queen's favor when she discovered he had secretly married one of her maids of honor named Bess. Soon after the marriage, their son was born. He eventually re- gained his power in the last years of Elizabeth's reign. James I, Elizabeth's successor to the throne, disliked Raleigh and was afraid of his power. In 1603, my friend was convicted of plot- ting against the King and was sen- tenced to death. Fearing public opinion, King James later commut- ed the sentence to life imprison- ment and Raleigh was sent to the Tower of London where he spent the next 13 years. His time there was well spent and his many writ- ings and poems gained him an im- portant place among Elizabethan intellectuals. By 1612, Raleigh was so frus- trated with prison, that he began to bargain for his release. He promised King James a fortune in gold if the King would allow him to go to Guiana. James finally agreed to the expedition, but Raleigh was instructed not to in-' vade any Spanish settlements. The =xpedition took place in 1616 and turned out to be a disaster. Raleigh had sent his son and an aide to search for El Dorando "the land of gold." They attacked a Spanish set- tlement and his son was killed. After the disaster in Guiana, Raleigh returned to England where an angry King James invoked the death sentence of 1603. Sir Walter Raleigh went to his death on October 29, 1618 with great digni- ty. He joked with the executioner and even gave the signal for the ax to fall. My friend, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the most colorful fig- ures in English history. 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