Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i Everyone at Co By RUSTY MCKIBBEN Two hundred and eighty-one people all together, working in a cooperative venture, buying food together and reaping the savings together. . This would be one summation of the AnandA Marga Food Cooperative formed last fall and now prospering to the point of outgrowing its bounds According to Laney Bright; bookkeeper for the cooperative the venture, began last fall through the efforts of Diana Baltz, "grandmother emeritus" of the cooperative. The store was then formed to "further organic living" though now organic foods are only a part of the cooperative's foods. Now, according to Bright, the cooperative is growing a little too fast, so much so that no membership is being accepted until the second week in August. "Right now we're in a floundering period," says Bright. "We're trying to get ourselves together." To re-organize and redefine the growing mammoth of buyers, the cooperative is writing a booklet on the provisions of membership and the way the cooperative works. To get in under the new provisions, a person will pay a $2 a year mem bership fee and do work in one of the five committees: buying and trans portation, distribution, membership, health foods or bookkeeping. "This is not a cheap food store," says Bright emphasizing the point that each member should share his part of the responsibility by becoming a member of one of the committees. r f'' Lownes beco Bell Camp h Administrative turnover and a new perspective in management has resulted ii ment of one new position and the fiiling of t ones in Russell House. Phil Lownes assumed his new duties as < Camp May 15. Lownes is the first fuil-time camp and will help in the five year improve presently In the planning stages. Lownes earned his B. S. in Recreation past year from N. C. State where he was school's fencing team. He sees his lob as "a lot more than le play." "I'd like to make it (the camp) a poor club." Lownes pointed out the tremendous success of the Fourth of July celebration at Bell Camp as Ph the way he hopes the camp will be used in the future. A second addition to Russell rec House's staff is that of twenty-four year old Robert K. Todd, assistant he l director of business operations. 0 Todd earned his B. S. in Economics at South Dakota state The Colleg University and a M. B. A. in received a Husiness Administration from Professions C Northern Illinois University. the National Il During his first year at Northern supplement e! Illinois, Todd worked as the night of the college supervisor of the student activities Parm acy center. Finding his work in- inceerai tr teresting, he served as assistant ingerlti pormdirector teflong training proj year. "I got into the program there chses,adti and it was pretty much at that ade lir point that I decided that that was rnat lir what I wanted to do," stated Todd. utlzon in "We've (the staff) got a chance Thsste to be very creative from what we Thisuas gran learn and put into practice hr. by the College answered Todd when asked about thledri Russeli House's role in student life. Robrt W. He further stated that, "I was dn Dr Fin searching for N place where I could thnepa learn, experience, and grow. And I wee$18001 was fortunate enough to wind up here." 'Increased Gretchen Laach, a twenty-five qualified stud year old native of Akron Ohio, training prog assumed her duties as assistant perience with director of programs July first' personnel an Along with several graduate uneprivilg assistants, Laatsch will coor-dinate health professi and supervise University Uno requirements programs. these funds," She served as Program Advisor The dean ad for the University of G3eogiS'5 funds are a v student . affairs division for two over and ai years prior to comning to USC. provided for ed works toi [umbia fo< Each of the committees has a chairman "- either volunteers or appointed -- who, in Bright's words, "is a person with the most knowledge" of the particular com mittee. Those in buying and transportatipo make trips to the Farmers Market, pick out a pre-determined amount of produce. The distribution committee prices and sets up the food. Recently additional rules for membership were laid down by members of the steering committee made up of heads of the five com mittees. Under the "guidelines", as Bright diplomatically termed the mem bership provisions, any member that doesn't loin a committee within four buying weeks will be refunded a portion of his membership fee and his membership will be terminated. Additional "guidelines" provide that members should attend "a meeting or two when they first join" to insure participation. The health foods committee buys health foods based on advance order and sends the order to a health foods supply store in California. The bookkeeping committee takes care of the money. Money is received from the members for the week before buying. Each member is supplied with a sheet listing produce and the price per amount. After totalling the cost of the amount of i4 end youth-oriented 1 the establish NO long vacant lirector of Bell director for the iment program and Parks this captain of the arning how to man's country rmacy eives b grant i of Pharmacy has $186,566 Health apitation Grant from Stc natitutes of Health to Frit lucational progranlts ac( Dean Julian H. Ga bie funds will be used Thij nprove the quality of L rams by allowing equipment pur mal clinical faculty, ( ) y resources and facilities for better pharmacy training. Be third consecutive NB di this type received of Pl$armacy under p of former dean OF lorrison. 'The new ON~ her, will administer t. Previous awards s 1970 and $136,000 in enrollment ofI ents, shortening of rams, clinical ex- TH E other health care d involvement of Gar d students In theCu ons are a part of the for utilization of maid Fincher. led that the federal aluable supplement >ove state funds lucatlonal purposes. - ether )d co-op each item, he then pays the cost and the money is deposited in a bank to be drawn on the following week when food buying time comes. The membership fee absorbs costs due to losses, made when members take more than their alotted share under the honor system of collecting their food. However, there are times when food S; is left over. Then it is given, free of charge, to the Oliver Gospel Mission. The group is being allowed the use of the basement of the Green Street Methodist Church to assemble the food once a week on a first come first serve* basis. Each member takes a number upon entering the church, waits until called, then is checked on an IBM sheet of membership that contains his name and the amount of money he deposited the week before. The sheets are composed using University of South Carolina resources, according to Alan John Zupan, chairman of the buying and transportation committee. Bright says members of the cooperative intend branching out with a mechanics cooperative. This would provide mechanics who would do one of three things: allow the use of tools while charging a breakage fee to members who want to work on their own cars; help those who want to work on their own cars for a slight charge; or do the work on the cars for the members with payment adjusted witi the mechanics. Bright also mentioned possibilities the cooperative might explore such as courses in organic gardening, can ning, a bicycle cooperative allowing people to learn how to ride bikes and how to take care of them. 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