The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 26, 1970, Image 15
WINS AIR MEDAL—The Air Medal
(1st through 17th awards) for com
bat missions flown in Vietnam with
the Nth Aviation Battalion has
been given Chief Warrant Officer
James W. Suber at the Army Pri-
m a r y Helicopter School. Captain
Thomas Cooke (right), deputy direc
tor of the school’s Educational Tele
vision Division (ETV), made the pres
entation. Each award of the medal
represents a minimum of 25 missions
flown. Suber is supply administra
tor for ETV. He came to Wolters
last August from Vietnam. He has
also served in Korea. His other dec
orations include the Bronze Star
Medal and the Army Commendation
Medal. A 1957 graduate of Gallman
High School in Newberry, he attend
ed South ('arolina State University
at Orangeburg prior to entering the
Army in 1959. He is the son of James
Suber of Joanna and Mrs. Willie M.
Collins, 741 Fernwood Ave., Toledo,
O. He and his wife, Yvenia, and their
daughter, Trecie, reside at Johnson’s
Trailer Village, Mineral Wells, Texas.
Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam Payne, 108 Mason St., Clinton.
— (US Army Photo)
Dr. Weersing Reports
PC Gains In Support
President Marc C. Weersing
said in his annual report re
leased last week that “in 1060
Presbyterian College gained
greater support than ever before,
planned curriculum renovations
and drew trustees, faculty, stu
dents and alumni into a closer
relationship."
The most dramatic news came
on the financial front. Total cash
gifts to the College set a new re
cord of $1,276,121 contributed to
all sources by donors numbering
more than 3,000. The report
said:
“This was the year the EXCEL
capital campaign in the Synod
of South Carolina topped its $2
million goal in pledged subscrip
tions. Payments on these pled
ges came to $527,706 during the
period. Simultaneous to this ef
fort, the Annual Giving program
continued its record-settingpace
with $151,800 collected in 1969,
mostly for current operations
(bringing the cumulative Annual
Giving total since its 1959 incep
tion to over $1 million)."
President Weersingpointedout
that during 1969 PC adoptedplans
for its most extensive curricu
lum changes in 50 years. A new
13-13-7 academic calendar goes
into effect next fall to provide
more flexibility, readjust course
loans and promote independ
ent study. He said the faculty has
been working more closely with
the administration and the board
of trustees in planning for the fu
ture. Students also have been
brought into a more responsible
relationship with those groups
directing the affairs of the col
lege--serving actively on faculty
committees and in an advisory
capacity on certain trustee com
mittees.
The report also highlighted
other areas of campus activity,
gave a detailed review of gift
sources and the current operat
ing fund, and closed with these
words:
“Although needs are great and
spiralling costs raise the ante
of current operations, Presby
terian College strives to fulfill
its mission with fiscal respon
sibility. The 1968-69 audit show
ed no fat in the operating bud
get of $2.16 million, which was
balanced under strenuous ef
forts."
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JUNQUE
BY LENNART PEARSON
Head Librarian
Presbyterian College
How to Make Something from Nothing. By
Ruth Stearns E g g e. 224 Pages. Coward-Mc-
Cann. 1968.
To be able to make something from nothing is
certainly a remarkable claim—it could even bring
the theologians running. The author's craft, which
she assures us is both absorbing and profitable,
“came into being because of a housewifely desire to
do something with an attic full of junk.”
Her techniques are simple. (1) Find things
like old electrical wall brackets, table legs, wrought
iron curliques, parts from discarded cuckoo clocks,
bits and pieces from aluminum silex coffee pots,
cast-iron tops from parlor heating-stoves, light
sockets, sewing-machine wheels, mattress springs,
etc. (2) Take them all apart. (3) Put them all
together again in new and interesting “decorator”
combinations.
If the attic gives out, it may be necessary to
find a friend and go “junking”. The author sup
plies excellent tips on where to look for junk (chari
table thrift and salvage shops, auctions, house
wrecking companies), what kind of junk to look for
(ornate bits and pieces, soldered rather than weld
ed joints), and where to find inspiration (picture
books and women’s magazines).
Diagrams, drawings, directions, hints, and
many illustrations of the author’s own creations
provide ample guidance for newcomers to the field,
while tales of past triumphs lend a sense of high
adventure to the junk safari.
It occurred to me while reading this book that
if some wider application of her technique could be
discovered, Mrs. Egge might really have something
to offer to the world. Since junk is so readily
available—in books, music, political speeches, the
mass media, to name only a few other places—it
seems a shame not to do more with it. Could not
some craftsman of the spirit find a way to dis
mantling this stuff so we could put it all together
again in some new arrangement which would dec
orate intead of blight the city of man?
The hope is probably vain. If the talented
Mrs. Egge, with all her talk about “endless possi
bilities for making truly beautiful pieces”, failed
to get beyond candlesticks, candelabra, and com
potes, how can the rest of us ever hope to close the
gap between our aspirations and our achievements ?
Then too, if it is thought that merely by rearrang
ing the ingredients of the formula novel, the hack
song, the sick poem, the situation comedy, or the
political cliche, the element of quality will suddenly
appear—presto! — why should our new combina
tion be any more successful than Mrs. Egge’s fussy
dustcatchers?
The book, its claims discounted, is recommend
ed for ambitious do-it-yoursulfers who have no il
lusions and large basements.
Snyder Promoted
With NCNB
Donald H. Snyder, manager of
marketing analysis at North
Carolina National Bank here
since last July, will transfer on
April 1 to the bank’s Economics
and Financial Research Depart
ment.
He is a native of East Orange,
N. J., a graduate of West Orange
High School and the College of
William and Mary and has a mas
ter’s degree in business adminis
tration from Rutgers University.
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs.
Elwood S. Snyder of 251 Gregory
Ave., West Orange, N. J. He is
married to the former Carolyn
Thackston of Clinton and they
have two children. Mrs. Snyder
is the daughter of Col. and Mrs.
A. J. Thackston Jr. of Clinton.
* * *
Airman Ivester
Completes Course
Airman Daniel R. Ivester, son
of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Ivester
of 801 Sloan St., Clinton has grad
uated at Sheppard AFB, Tex.,
from the U. S. Air Force air
craft loadmaster course.
The airman, who was trained
to compute aircraft loads and to
deliver material and supplies by
parachute, is being assigned to
Charleston AFB, for duty with the
Military Airlift Command which
provides global airlift for U.S.
military forces.
Airman Ivester is a 1968 grad
uate of Clinton High School and
attended Clemson University.
* * *
Jan King
Is Initiated
Jan King, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William G. King Jr., was
recently initiated into Zeta Tau
Alpha sorority at Brenau College
in Gainesville, Georgia.
At the initiation banquet, Jan
received the highest award given
to a newly initiated pledge. This
is the Omicron award which is
given for outstanding achieve
ment during one’spledgeship. Jan
has done much for the sorority
and has also achieved on campus.
* * *
Some 35,000 manufacturing
plants comprise the American
textile-apparel complex.
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