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Published monthly during the Sehool Yoarc Tnis is Vol^9» No,.7j Anril 25, I958
Editor-in-Chief: Carolyn Garnish
Bus ine s s Iylc.;na t^e rs s
Alda Vann O'Uo-J. a:id David Esham
Art Editor: Marcia Hanilton
(who visited school during her Easter holidays)
April is Election Month for two of Ocracoke-s Civic Organizations, At its meeting
on April 14th, the Ocracoke Civic Club elected for its 1958-59 President Elisha
Esham, familiarly knovrn as for vice-president, Calvin O'Neal,Jr,; for
Secretary, Wilbur Robinson; and for treasurer Danny VA- Garnish^ *'EDh" is from the
East Shore of M;:ryland originally, but v/he:i he courted and won Virginia Vifilliams,
and discovered what a fine place Ocracokc Is. he wasn-t at all adverse to settling
down here, Sajne thing happened to Wilbur Robinson. He came dovm during his
summer vacations from Baltimore to visit relatives here a_nd found not only tho
relatives but best of all Wanda Simpson^ That settled his fato, Now the other
two namad,i,G, Calvin and Danny are boi-n and bi^ed natives of Ocracokc, Serving in
the Army for about two years, didn't make Calvin want to stay away from Ocracoko
any longer than ^e^had to, and as for Danny^ 0. .well the Community Store wouldn't
fool at homo with nim around a.s his dad's right hand man. At its April meeting
the Civic Club onjoyed a Boston B akod Bean & Ham supper. Everyone said Theodore
Rondthaler could bake aw good baked beans as his wife, oven though he never was
a Yankee from B oston, and as for Albert Styron-s baked ham.o.it was out of this
world,..at lo§ist there wasn't any of it left in the school kitchen for hungry
teachers tho day after the suppcrl Eph made the slaw. Preacher Clarke was tho
chief dishwasher,but they used paper plates and cups, so who knows whether or not
he is a good dishwasher?
As for the Ocracoke School P«ToAo At its meeting on April gist, MrsoBenjamin E#
Spencer was elected president; Mrs, Via VIo Clarke,vice-president; Mrs.ltildred
O'Neal, secretary; and Elisha Esham, treasurer. That givds us only one real native
of Ocracoke, Mildred O'Nealo Eph is the same Eph that is president of the Civic
Club, Now Janice Clarke is undoubtedly a boeter dishivasher than her good husband.
Preacher Clarke,though he wouldn't admit it® Janice is a native of Morehead City,
She's an ex-schocl teacher,having taughb in Durham while Bill was at Duke. Of
course she came to Ocracoko with Bill last Juno as the Methodist minister's wife,
and she has already made a place for herself hero® As for Selma. Spencer, she
came over from Pamlico County quite a few years ago to teach school at Ocracoko,
and except for a fow years,she has taught here ever since® How her husband,Ben,
ever got up the nerve to ask a school teacher to be uis wife,is a mystery, but
it's been a good match and Selma is almost as "native" as Ben is^ even though she
is still teaching English and Mathematics in Oci'acoke Schoolo Those now officers
do not take over their duties until next Suptembor,
COINING EVENTS in MY include: Junior-Senior BanquetvMay 2, in School Library,
Annual Ocracoke High School Alumni Meeting and Banquet, May 24^ in Library,
Commencement Exercises, Sunday, June 1, at the Ocracoke Methodist Church,
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Mon,May 5:Iuportant 0,E,M,C,meeting Mon.May 12 Civic Club Mon.May 19: P,T,A,
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