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KMHM intern experience
‘mutually beneficial’
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100th birthday -
a day for memories
Louise Hambright Rob-
erts smiled and chatted with
several hundred friends Sun-
day afternoon at a birthday
reception planned ‘by her
family.
Mrs. Roberts, 100 on De-
cember 9, belies her years
with her quick wit, youthful
appearance and positive atti-
tude.
She and her husband, the
late Ross Roberts, owned
and operated Roberts Gro-
cery in Kings Meuntain for
a number of years prior to
his death. In recent years she
has lived with a daughter, in
Spartanburg, SC.
Longevity runs in the
Hambright family of Kings
Mountain. Mrs. Roberts!
younger sisters, Aileen
Cantrell, 97; Bess Phifer of
Kings Mountain, 96; Sue
Hambright Drye and her
brother, Tom Hambright,
who live in the Hambright
home place near Grover,
were as happy as Louise to
see the neighbors, church
members at Kings Mountain
Baptist, garden club mem-
bers and former grocery
store customers.
"It was a wonderful day
for Mom," said her daugh-
ters Linda Tallon and Diane
Houston, who planned the
event and included pho-
Louise Roberts
tographs of Mrs. Roberts
from her growing-up days to
adulthood in Kings Moun-
tain, These photographs
were displayed on tables and
in a video in the fellowship
hall of Kings Mountain Bap-
tist Church.
Although she now resides
in Spartanburg with the Tal-
lon family, Louise remans
active in the Open Gate Gar-
den Club and Colonel Fred-
erick Hambright Chapter
DAR. Enroute to her party,
Louise stopped at her old
home place on N. Piedmont
Street and the spot where
Roberts Grocery once stood.
It was a day of memories.
Carol Dixon leads a choir of senior center members in a presentation of Christmas songs at
the center’s annual winter party.
Photos by DAVE BLANTON
Barbara Croshy lois the ott ofa Tools auliot in the pay “The Night the Chimes Rang”
Friday at the Patrick Senior Center.
Photos by DAVE BLANTON
Mew
playground
going up
Workers are busy construct-
ing the new playground for
handicapped children be-
side the Rick Murphrey Chil-
dren's Park on Cleveland
Avenue. Mayor Rick Mur-
phrey, far right, inspects
the construction expected
to be finished in early Janu-
ary. From left, Tommy Proc-
tor, James Dial and Billy
Greene, all of Playground
Safety Services of Shelby.
Photo by ELLIS NOELL
Kings Mountain Histori-
cal Museum was pleased to
host two Museum Interns in
2014! Gardner-Webb Uni-
versity sophomore Sarah
Lynch during the spring se-
mester, and Elizabeth Wise,
a senior at Belmont Abbey
College, during the fall se-
mester. For both students,
this was their first experience *
working in a museum.
There are many benefits
to interning in a small local
museum like Kings Moun-
tain Historical Museum; in-
terns have the opportunity to
personally get to know most
. of the staff and volunteers,
* and have the chance to be in-
volved in the many different
facets of the museum world,
such as historic preservation,
collections management, ex-
hibit development, historical
research, event planning,
and visitor services. This re-
al-world practical experience
and professional network
building can be invaluable
to students in their future
careers. Perhaps most impor-
tantly, museum internships
allow students to explore
this career path outside of the
classroom and see firsthand
if this really is the right field
for them.
“I still treasure my own
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Elizabeth Wise worked for the museum during the 2014 fall
semester.
internship experiences, they
were absolutely critical in
helping me develop my pro-
fessional skill set and pas-
sion for museum work,” said
Director and Curator Adria
Focht, who oversees the in-
ternship program at Kings
Mountain Historical Mu-
seum. “We take the mentor-
ship aspect of the internship
process very seriously — we
want our interns to know that
they have an advocate in us
to help them achieve their
academic and career goals in
the long term. As someone
who benefited greatly from
my own internship work, I
find it extremely rewarding
to pay it forward and help
nurture the next generation
of budding professionals.”
Internships are a mutu-
ally beneficial relationship;
while the students gain aca-
demic credit and vital expe-
rience, the museum is able
to accomplish institutional
objectives. Together, Kings
Mountain Historical Muse-
um’s interns completed over
240 hours of work this year;
they updated thousands .of
collections database records,
and provided needed assis-
tance for exhibits and events.
Woodbridge: Parade Sunday
From Page 1
from Woodbridge in a
hot air balloon. Santa will
hear some last-minute re-
quests from children be-
fore boarding the balloon.
Woodbridge resident Dou
Sharpe says that a hitch-
hiker will be traveling with
Santa in the balloon and
will probably be “dropped
off somewhere out West at
a mall.”
If you would like to
wave goodbye to Santa,
you're invited to join the
21st Lawnmower Christ-
mas parade which includes
decorated lawnmowers,
bikes, cars, etc. The bal-
loon will also be available
for tethered rides before the
parade starts at 2 p.m. /
The parade starts on
Dunes Drive ‘in North
Woodbridge and cookies
are served afterward. =
Sponsors for this year's
event are the Woodbridge
Homeowners Association,
Woodbridge Market and
Woodbridge Golf Links. +
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