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Kings Mountain High School Class Of 1981
KMHS Commencement Service Is Sunday Night
Commencement exercises for
Kings Mountain Senior High
School’s Class of 1981 will begin
on Sunday night with the bac
calaureate sermon at 8 p.m. in B.
N. Barnes Auditorium and
culminate on May 29th with
commencement exercises at 8
p.m. in John Gamble Memorial
Football Stadium.
Rev. Tom Patterson, pastor of
Macedonia Baptist Church, will
deliver the sermon.
Other Kings Mountain
ministers who will assist in the
services will be Rev. Dale Thorn
burg who will give the invoca
tion, Rev. Buddy Joe Jones, Jr.
who will read the scripture. Rev.
H. T,. Smith who will introduce
the speaker and Rev. Bobby
Haney who will pronounce the
benediction.
Special music will be
presented by the Kings Moun
tain Senior High Chorale and
Ensemble.
Officers of the senior class will
lead the program at commence
ment exercises on Friday, May
sors are Mrs. Adelaide Allison,
Mrs. Peggy Baird, Mrs. Betty
Gamble, Steve Foster, Mrs.
Juanita Goforth, Mrs. Brenda
Neal, Miss Annette Parker, Mrs.
Jaquitha Reid, Mrs. Sheila Sisk,
Mrs. Mary Taylor, Mrs. Angel
Teer and Dean Westmoreland.
Junior marshals are Pamela
Hatch, chief; Sandra Dale Appl
ing, Janet Blair, Mark Brooks,
Laura Leigh Bumgardner, Lloyd
Henry Clark, Terry L. Feaster,
Laura Laine Herndon, Gregory
Paul Ingram, Lisa Ann Roark,
Robert Lee Smith 111, Jeffrey
Webb Wtu-d, and Christa Rena
Williams.
The class colors are black and
gold, the class flower is yellow
rose, and the class song is ‘Times
Of Your Life.”
Eugene Bumgardner, director
of the Senior High School Choir,
and Christopher C. Cole, direc
tor of the KMJH Ninth Grade
Band, will lead the music pro
gram for the two exercises.
REV. TOM PATTERSON
29th, when diplomas will be
presented to graduating seniors.
Senior class officers are Jane
Hambright, president; Stephen
Joseph Gnandt, Jr., vice-
president; Janice Marie Scog
gins, secretary; and Edie Darlene
Schronce, treasurer. Senior spon-
Kings Mountain Women
Win Red Cross Awards
Mrs. Charles Mauney and
Mrs. Betty Gamble were cited as
outstanding board members by
the Cleveland County Chapter
of the American Red Cross at
the annual banquet Tuesday
night at 'ifferson School in
Shelby.
Also cited for outstanding ser
vice on the board were Jim
Toole and Carolyn Freeman,
both of Shelby.
The Dr. Hubert Plaster award
for the outstanding male
volunteer went to Horace Led
ford and the Margaret Noell
award to the outstanding female
volunteer went to Martha
Scruggs of Grover, program
director, and Louise McKinney,
executive director, for outstan
ding service beyond their normal
work days as paid employees.
New officers were elected and
include Hollis Ledford, chapter
chairman; Melvin Lutz, vice
chairman of finance; Ruth
Wilson, vice chairman of ser
vices; Flo Blanton, secretary,
and Lyn Cheshire of Kings
Mountain, treasurer. The new
directors include J. R. Dunkley,
Charles Harry, Jr., Jim Apple,
Rev. Jim Holderness, Dr. Bill
Milam, Jim Potter of Kings
Mountain, Scott Neisler of
Kings Mountain and Harry Mat
thews.
Elected to three year terms on
the board were Walter Wade of
Kings Mountain, Rob Deaton,
Kathryn Lucas, Theresa Lutz
and Thelma McVea.
Grover Rescue Squad
To Hold Open House
Grove Rescue Squad will hold
open house Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.
A number of activities are
scheduled, including a carnival,
flea market and free blood
pressure checks.
Friday’s activities will begin in
the afternoon, Saturday’s will
begin at 10 a.m. and continue all
day, and Sunday’s will be from 1
until S p.m.
A children’s carnival featuring
rides, games and concessions is
scheduled Friday. Saturday’s
schedule includes the carnival,
flea market, karate demonstra
tion, emergency skills and equip
ment displays, blood pressure
clinic and a vehicles display.
Dealers interested in entering
items in the flea market may call
937-9133. Sunday’s schedule in
cludes the carnival, blood
pressure clinic and vehicle
display.
Drawing of KM Hospital Expansion.
Construction On Schedule
Kings Mountain Hospital’s
$5.5 million construction pro
gram is “on schedule”, according
to Administrator Grady Howard
who said that the timetable calls
for completion in 28 months or
by July-August 1983.
Construction began April 1 on
the mammoth expansion which
includes a 39,000 square feet
two-story patient wing adjacent
to the present building. The first
floor will house the business of
fices, radiology depanment and
expanded emergency depart
ment, and the second floor will
include 35 private rooms, and a
six-bed coronary and surgical in
tensive care unit.
Hospital and community
leaders predict the improved
facility will be one of the most
modern hospitals in the South.
Groundbreaking was held on
March 20th.
General contractor for the
project is L. P. Cox of Concord.
After the expansion, 97 of the
hospital’s 102 beds will be in
private rooms.
Kings Mountain Hospital ad
mitted its first patient on April 1,
1951, grew by 12 beds in 1953, to
25 in 1955 and added another 25
beds in 1960 and 30 more beds
in 1970.
KM Hospital Receives Gift
Kings Mountain Hospital is to
receive a $200,000 memorial gift
from the estate of Mrs. Inez
Swindell Dodd, representing the
single largest individual con
tribution ever received by the
hospital, according to Grady K.
Howard, Administrator.
Mrs. Dodd, who died in
March, left the estate in memory
of her late husband, Herbert
Johnston Plonk who spent most
of his early years in Kings
Mountain. Mr. Plonk establish
ed the trust fund some years ago.
In her will, Mrs. Dodd be
queathed one-half of Mr. Plonk’s
$400,000 estate to the hospital.
The estate is expected to be settl
ed in late summer.
The will, in part, states; “one-
half of the assets of said trust
shall be ptaid over and delivered
to the Kings Mountain
Hospital...in memory of my late
husband...to be used by it in
such manner as its governing
body shall determine.”
Hospital spokesman said that
the funds will probably be used
in the building program.
Wachovia Bank and Trust
Comptany has qualified as the ex
ecutor of the estate.
The hospital’s Board of
Trustees has established a
Memorial Committee to solicit
and receive gifts and memorials.
The committee is comprised of
Mrs. Marilyn Neisler and John
L. McGill, both members of the
board, and the administrator.
Howard pointed out that as a
voluntary, non-profit health care
facility, the hospital allows for
direct, tax-free financial
assistance from individuals and
corporations. Such gifts will be
used for the improvement and
development of hospatal facilities
and for the acquisition of
specialized diagnostic and
therapeutic equipment.
The trustees are now inviting
contributions in the form of
memorials for psatient rooms and
certain facilities for the new
building.