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- mm PAGE FOUR JMusic club studies Brahms and Chopin Jfrs. Aubrey Harley and Miss Vivian Ellis were program lead en for the February meeting of the Newberry Music Club which was held at the home of Mrs. Pfockney Abrams. Their subject was Chopin and Brahms, one in a series being done by the club thin year on Composers and Their Styles. Mrs. Harley opened her remarks «■ Chopin by indicating that of all the Bomantic composers his music m most frequently performed. “He invented the keyboard style that fits ideally into 19th century Ro- aumtieism,” she continued. She apake of his subjective melancholy suggesting the never-ending for the unattainable; “yet Hie mood is clothed in im- technical apparatus.” The feature of Chopin’s music THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, l%5 which Mrs. Harley stressed is its melodic structure, “His melodies are basically vocal rather than in strumental,” she said; “the source of his melodies can be traced to dance and song.” To illustrate the dance-inspired works, she introduc ed Miss Mary Hart Jordan, who played the well-known “Minute Waltz”. Mrs. Harley called attention to the wide variety in the music of Chopin. She mentioned the pre ludes, etudes, impromptus, polo naises, mazurkas, sonatas, ball ades, scherzes, and others. After speaking of the nocturnes, she pre sented Bill Wheeler, a student at Newberry College, who played the Nocturne in E Major. Miss Ellis showed that Brahms also composed almost every va riety of music except the opera. He, too, like Chopin was a boy prodigy, but unlike Chopin “his in tensely emotional and Teutonic style has never been to everyone’s taste.” She added, “His name and music can still arouse argument in musical circles, but there is no doubt that he is generally ranked so petite, so pretty, so perfect ...the new among the first dozen composers” —one the three B’s, Bach and Beethoven being the other two. Miss Ellis pointed out the great purity of form, originality, and technical skill displayed in the works of Brahms. He has been called “the greatest contrapunist after Bach, the greatest architect after Bethoven.” In speaking of his songs, Miss Ellis said, ‘They are recognized as expressing the soul of poetry.” To illustrate the works of Brahms, Mrs. Carolyn Savko and Prof. Darr Wise played “Walzer”, Op. 39, a group of fourteen waltzes for four hands. Mrs. H. B. Wilson, president, presided over the business session. The club voted to send contribu tions to the Historical Foundation and the Transylvania Music Camp. It was also decided that the club would start a movement to secure a new piano for the Community Hall. J. D. French was appointed as chairman of the committee with Mrs. Savko, Prof. Wise, and Miss Margaret Pay singer to serve as members. Miss Julia Kibler, Hymn Chair man, introduced the Hymn of the Month, “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.” All the members joined in singing the hymn. During the social hour the host esses served sandwiches, cakes, and mints from a beautifully ap pointed tables. Mrs. Marvin Ruck er poured punch. Mrs. R. L. Ba ker and Mrs. Sydney Carter also assisted Mrs. Abrams as associate hostesses. Styled to please the most particular young fashion arbiter, of the most delicious now and colorful materials young hearts could possibly wish fori Just-suited-to-her detailing, trimmings and ornamentation of the kind you seldom find. • Black Patent • White Calf 121/2-4, A to C $8.99 Anderson’s Senn cattle top producers William E. Senn has recently received special recognition from the American Jersey Cattle Club for production records in his reg istered Jersey herd. The product ion levels attained by Mr. Senn’s cattle far exceed tthe average of all U. S. dairy cows. Thirteen cows in Mr Senn’s heard averaged over 11,500 pounds of milk over a 305-day period, and an average of about 6000 pounds of butterfat for the same period, on a mature equivalent basis. The sparkling stars of Mr. Senn’s herd at Beacon Sparkle Patricia, Victor Lad Lady, Milk man Sparkle Molly, Sparkle De sign Bell, Brave Lady Beth, Spar kle Standard Rose, Sparkle Design Grace, Milestone Lady Brampton, Milestone Sparkle Rosy, Sparkle Brampton Star, Sparkle Design Trixie, Sparkle Standard Blonde, Highfield Commanuo Bell. ■ You’ll hear hammers and smell paint as we re still working — but order is re stored on the second floor. The scene is changed, and you’re invited to come in anytime. Getting tins new look hasn’t in any way dis rupted busmess, and for that we want to thank you. We’ll try not to inconven ience you too much, now that we’re changing the first floor. Come soon. * k r >■ Cdroenters 9 * rpe 12* _ f 4*.. ^ ~ Know your Teachers : ; v; A teacher walked into a hospital room with a beautiful bouquet of flowers. They were for the mother of one of her former students. The sick mother knew the teacher ALSO had a sick mother, along with other problems, but that’s the kind of person Miss Ruth Fea- gle is—considerate and kind not only to her pupils, but to her friends. With all she had to do, she found time to make life more cheerful for one who was bedrid den. Miss Feagle says that one of her hobbies is doing shall things for others—but sometimes they are quite large to the person on the receiving end. Miss Feagle is a life-long res ident of this county, having been born in Pomaria, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Feagle. She now lives at 2301 Harrington St. with her mother. After attending the county schools, she earned the Bachelor or Arts degree from Newberry College and was certified to teach elementary education. She attend ed a reading workshop at the Uni versity of South Carolina in 1962, and arithmetic workshops in this county last year. This third grade teacher at Boundary street school introduces many youngsters to the first les son in history—and has many par ents taking trips over the state so her pupils can see first-hand what they are reading about in thoir South Carolina history. This is only one of the subjects third grade teachers must be capable of presenting. Her teaching of this history probably leads to one of her hobbies—collecting State handkerchiefs. Miss Feagle is a member of the Lutheran Church of The Redeem er, County, State and National Education Associations, Boundary Street PTA. She also enjoys read ing as a hobby. In the departmentalized sixth grade at Boundary Street school, the teacher who struggles with the students through adverbs, ad jectives and the beginning of the really tricky grammar is Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler. A graduate of Newberry High School and a holder of the A. B. degree from Newberry College, Mrs. Chandler has taken several special courses in her field in cluding Speech (English) under Dr. F. Scott Elliott; Audio-Visual course under Dr. James Cum mings, reading courses through the University of South Carolina at Newberry College under Dr. Mar garet Buckley. She is certified in the field of elementary educa tion, her special field being Eng lish. After completing seven years of teaching, all teachers must take additional hours of graduate work to go into another classification. Mrs. Chandler expects to take this work before the next school year. In addition to teaching five sections of English, and spelling to her home-room class, Mrs. Chandler is in charge of the safe ty program and school patrols at Boundary. A native of Lexington county, daughter of Mr. anfi Mrs. Claude E. Shealy who live on Route 1, Mrs. Chandler was born in Lex ington county,, but moved to New berry at the age of 11. She is married to L. Edward Chandler, farmer and substitute mail car rier. Their children are Linda, age 19; Lambert, 16; and Betty 12. In addition to memberships in professional associations, she is a member of Beth-Eden Lutheran church and the United Lutheran Church Women; serves as presi dent of the Beth-Eden Home Dem onstration club. Her hobbies are sewing, cooking and reading good books. County retail sales decrease Retail sales in Newberry county decreased by one per cent from ^ 1958 to 1963, while at the same time, retailed sales thruout the state increased 30 per cent during the five year period. This information was released this week by the U. S. Department of Commerce. The press release containing this information “was prepared by a census bureau electronic compu ter and typed at 10 lines per second.” The computer advises that New berry’s 309 retail establishments had $24.8 million in sales in 1963, a decrease of one per cent from 1958. Retail trade in the county meant jobs for 831 men and wo-1 men and a yearly payroll of $2.2' million. In volume of business the coun ty’s food stores had sales of $6.7 million, an increase of 10 per cent from 1958. In other retail busi ness, the county’s eating and drinking places had sales of $514,- 000 gasoline service stations had sales of $2.3 million; auto deal ers and related trade establish ments had sales of $5 7 million; general merchandise group stores had sales of $1.9 million; and lumber, building materials, hard ware and farm equipment dealers had sales of $15 million. Wizard of Oz tickets being sold this week Tickets for the Greenwood Little Theatre production of “The Wiz ard of Oz” went on sale in the city elementary schools the first of this week. They will be on sale in the county schools the latter part of the week and the first of next week, then any remaining tickets will be placed on sale to the public at Speers Street school office in Newberry and The Whitmire News in Whitmire. Results of a survey throughout city and county schools indicate that the night performance may already be a sell-out, according to Mrs. James A. Underwood Jr. and Mrs. R. F. Sanders, co-chairmam for the project being sponsored by the Boundary Street and Speers Street Parent-Teacher Associa tions. “If all who indicate they will purchase tickets for the night per formance do so,” they said, “we -will run short of tickets. We hope,, however, there will be about 200 tickets available for the afternoon performance after school children and patrons have purchased tick- ets.” The play will be given on March 13 at Newberry High school audi torium at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.- m. The all-children cast of 17 i» directed by Donald McKellar, well- known for past excellent produc tions by the Greenwood Little Theatre. Further information concerning availability of tickets and sale*, to the public will be announced \ % This teacher’s picture may be the “least”, but she is by no means among the “least” of the teachers at Boundary Street school. This lady has been a second “Mother” to thousands of youngsters during her tenure as a teacher—because she is one of the teachers who introduced school life to first graders. Mrs. Sarah McWhirter is looked upon with fond remembrance by many thankful parents as the teacher who helped their child ov er the first big hump in his school career. Many parents who visit the school over the years gravi tate back to the first grade room to say “hello,” through their children may long since have left the first grade. Now residing at 75 Player St., but building a new home on Dom inick Avenue. Mrs. McWhirter is married to Richard I. McWhir ter, a Newberry merchant. She is a native of Abbeville county, daughter of Addison Bell and Maggie Jackson Hill. She attended , Abbeville High school, Anderson College from which she received the Associate Arts degree; New berry College from which she received the B. S. degree; and she has done work at Furman University, Newberry College and graduate study at the University of South Carolina. Her “extra” job at Boundary is serving as audio-visual aids chairman. Mrs. McWhirter belongs to lo cal, state and national education associations, Boundary Street PTA, A v e l e i g h Presbyterian church and the Women Of The Church. She serves as church school primary teacher at Ave- leigh; she is also a member of Hartford Grange. She enjoys reading, cooking and sewing and much of her time at home is de voted to preparations for her school work. PANCAKE SUPPER AT ST. LUKE’S The annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper will be held at the Parish House of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Tuesday, March 2nd from 5:30 until 8 p.m. Pancakes, sausage, bacon, butter, syrup and coffee will be prepared and served by the Women’s Guild. The public is cordially invited. Society seeks family plots The Newberry County Historical Society is attempting to find and mark all cemeteries, family plots, and Church yards in Newberry County. This is a mammoth task which cannot possibly be done by the small committee appointed to do it, but it can be done with the assistance of all the people in the county. Mrs Aubrey Harley and Pres ton McAlhany, co-chairmen of the cemetery project, request the peo ple in Newberry County, to locate their family plots giving good di rections as to where they can be found and using county road num bers if necessary or helpful. They also request that everyone watch the newspapers next week for a list of people and telephone num bers to contact in their community with the information. Another aim of this project is to copy all of the information from the tombstones and preserve it for posterity. Members of the committee will be glad to do this upon location of the family plots, but individuals may prefer to do it themselves. In attempting to copy information from the tomb stones, it is helpful to use a knife or a wire bristle brush to clean away lichen or moss then dust corn starch over the lettering and brush it off lightly. Copy correct ly the inscriptions from all stones in the plot even up to the present date. Listing of tombstones with out inscriptions is also desired. The cemetery committee hopes to get various groups from county churches to list their information, and they expect to work with pulp-1 wood and forestry personnel to lo cate family plots which are lost in the woods. They are also inter ested in locating Indian mounds in the county. District garden dub to meet The East Piedmont District meeting of the Garden Club of South Carolina will be held on Wednesday, March 3, at the Cleve land Hotel in Spartanburg. The Spartanburg Garden Club Council invites all board members of the Garden Club of South Carolina, district chairmen, council and club presidents, and garden club mem bers to attend. A registration and social hour will start at 9:00 a.m. and the meeting will begin promptly at 10 a.m. Mrs. E. H. Hughes, district director, will preside during the business session which will fea ture reports of the club and coun cil presidents. District awards for the best president’s report will be president. Mrs Dewey Johnson,) President of the Garden Club of South Carolina, will be present. Following a dutch luncheon which will be served at 1 p.m. in the hotel dining room, J. C. Dowl-j ing, an outstanding flower arran ger, will present an interesting and instructive program. Training for bus drivers Prospective school bus drivers for next year will undergo inten sive training this month and next month, according to James D. Brown Superintendent of Educa tion. The training program began on Monday morning at Gallman high school, where 32 students are taking part. To be eligible, a dri ver must already have a driver’s license, be 16 years of age and pass three days of tests adminis tered by the S. C. Highway patrol. Mr. Brown said the trainees are selected on the basis of depend ability, cooperation, personality, personal habits, courtesy, passing grades, and lack of conflict with extra-curricular activities or part time jobs. DRUMMER WITH LITTLE THEATRE Ralph Gilliam, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Gilliam of this city, is a member of the orchestra furnishing music for the Greenville Little Theatre’s production of “Stop the World—I Want to Get Off’ being shown February 23 through March 13. Director of the orchestra is Jack Pruitt, formerly of Newberry. Mr. Gilliam is a graduate of Newberry College and is band di rector at Travelers Rest. He has participated in the orchestra for Little Theatre productions for about five years. RITZ Theatre THURSDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY Last Complete Showing on Sat. at 7:45 P.M. Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda, Sue Ane Langdon, Hope Holiday THE ROUNDERS SATURDAY NIGHT 9:30 MONDAY, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY Kiss Me Stupid (This Picture Is For Adults Only) CLOVER LEAF Drive-In Theatre FRIDAY & SATURDAY FBI CODE Jack Kelly, Ray Danton, Andrew Duggan SUNDAY What’s Up Front Tommy Holden, Marilyn Manning, r Carole Walker ALWAYS A COLOR CARTOON ■■ •:i. v Wk T-fe t ,