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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, October 19, 1967
Missionary to
speak Sunday
Rev. Jack Manly will show
color slides of Rhodesia Sun
day at 7:30 p.m. at Mt. Bethel
Southern Methodist church, lo
cated on the Mt. Bethel- Gar-
many Road at 1-26.
Rev. Manly is a Christian
Missionary who has seen service
in New Guinea and Rhodesia,
and is now working here in
America. He is married to the
former Anette Cassidy of this
city.
After the showing of the
slides, there will he a question
and answer period in which
everyone is invited to come and
ask questions about missions.
Lanier topic
Woman’s club
On Thursday afternoon, Oct
ober 12, the Woman’s Club met
in the home of Mrs. Gordon D.
Blackwell. The speaker, F.
Scott Elliott, Associate profess
or of English in Newberry Coll
ege was introduced in her usual
gracious way by Mrs. Fred H.
Dominick. Professor Elliott de
livered a very informative add
ress on “Sidney Lanier, the
Author. ”
The speaker summarized
briefly the early life of this
celebrated poet. He was born in
Macon, Georgia, February 21,
1842. His father, Robert Samp
son Lanier, was a struggling
young lawyer, and his mother,
Mary J. Anderson Lanier, was
a woman of much thrift and
piety.
After completing his early
education at the Academy in
Macon Lanier attended Ogle-
thrope University at Midway,
Georgia, 1857-1860 and he grad
uated with first honor.
He enlisted in the Confeder
ate Army in 1861 and he was a
prisoner of war at Point Look
out, Maryland, 1864-1865. After
his release he reached home
March 15, 1865 desperately ill
and exhausted. A few years
later he developed, tuberculosis
and this took his life at the age
of 39.
Lanier died at Lynn, N. C.
September 7, 1881 and he was
buried in Baltimore, Maryland
where he had won recognition
for his music, his poetry and his
scholarship. In the Turnbull
plot at historic Greenmont
Cemetery in Baltimore Lanier’s
body lies on the slope a gentle
hill where a boulder from his
native red hills of Georgia is
his tombstone bearing a quot
ation from his last poem, “Sun
rise", “I am lit with the sun.”
Turning to Lanier’s literary
works, Professor Elliott ana
lyzed the author’s only novel,
“Tiger Lilies” (1867). This
novel is divided into three
books. The first book is a rom
antic story of aristocratic liv
ing in the Tennessee mountains
just before the outbreak of the
War "Between the States. In the
second book w'hieh contains a
realistic description of the w r ar
Lanier draws heavily on his own
experiences as a prisoner of
war. The third book is based on
the burning of Richmond, Vir
ginia.
Professor Elliott then dis
cussed the themes of economics
nature, love and religion as
they appear in the poetry of
Lanier. In “The Symphony”,
one of Lanier’s best known ec
onomic poems, the speaker said
that he denounced industrial
enslavement. As another ex
ample of Lanier’s economic
theory, Professor Elliott read
the dialect poem, “Thar’s More
in the Man than Thar Is in the
Land.”
To represent Lanier’s nature
poetry Professor Elliott read
“The Mocking Bird” and “The
Song of the Chattachoochee.”
Then he read “My Springs”
and “Evening Song” to ill
ustrate the poef’s love lyrics
which were written to his wife,
Mary Lanier. To represent Lan
ier’s religious poems the speak
er used “A Ballad of Trees and
the Master” and “The Marshes
of Glynn.”
The speaker said that al
though Lanier published several
prose works it is as a poet that
he will be remembered, In his
verse he attempted to blend
music and poetry into harmon
ious word symphonies. He quot
ed Walt Whitman as saying,
“Lanier was a beautiful spirit;
he had his work to do and he
did it.” This is a tribute that
Lanier would have appreciated
if he had still been living when
the remark was made.
Professor Scott’s scholarly
and skilful interpretation of
Lanier made a most favorable
impression upon his highly
appreciative audience.
To lecture
at College
Dr. Alex N. Dragnich, chair
man of the department of pol
itical science of Vanderbilt Uni
versity, will speak on “The
Modern Garments Which Clothe
United States Foreign Policy”
at the A. G. D. Wiles Chapel,
Newberry College Thursday
(tonight) at 8 o’clock.
This is the first of a series
of four lectures at Newberry
College sponsored by the S&H
Folundation under the general
theme “The Role of TheUnited
States In World Affairs In The
Last Half of The 20th Cen
tury.” No admission will be
charged and the public is in
Mayer, Miss Aurelia City
Moates, Mrs. Mattie V City
Baby Boy Oxner City
Paris, Miss Lorraine City
Pearson, Mrs. Gertie City
Prince, Mrs. Janie City
Puckett, Mrs. Florence Pomar'a
Rinehart, Mrs. Mamie Pomaria
Rogers, Mrs. Virginia Saluda
Rose, Grady Jr. Prosperity
Sligh, Nathaniel City
Smith, Mrs. Janie M. City
Spencer, Mrs. Helen City
Tessenaire, Adam L. City
Vandeluyster, Mrs. Helen City
Baby Girl Wedsworth City
Waites, Baby Boy City
Walker, Little Vickey City
Weeks, Mrs. Minnie Pomaria
Wheeler, Willie Prosperity
Wicker, Mrs. Bessie C. City
Williams, Roland Clinton
State Baptist
meet slated
With some of the most signi
ficant issues of this century
facing South Carolina Baptist
in their 147th annual session at
Township Auditorium here Nov
ember 14-16, the denomination
will not by-pass its responsib
ility to world missions. Each
session of the three-day con
vention will present various as
pects of world-wide mission
needs and accomplishments.
Scheduled to address the
messengers on various areas of
missionary service are Dr.
Charles E. Boddie, president of
the American Baptist Theolog
ical Seminary; Dr. Arthur B.
Rutledge, executive secretary
of the Southern Baptist Home
Mission Board; and Mrs. Fred
Propst, nationally known week
day ministry worker from
Atlanta, Georgia.
Boddie, a renowned preacher,
educator and world traveler,
was the first Negro elected to
administrative responsibility by
a national board of a major
protestant denomination.
As executive secretary of the
Southern Baptist Home Miss
ion Board, Rutledge directs
the work of over 2100 mission
aries now serving in the United
States.
Mrs. Fred Propst has gained
national recognition for out
standing service in the area of
week-day church ministries.
Dicker! gets
Captain rank
SPARTANBURG. — Cadet
Neal Dickert, son of Dr. and
Mrs. E. J. Dickert of New
berry, has been promoted from
the rank of SFC to Captain.
Cadet Dickert, a member of
the ROTC program at Wofford
College in Spartanburg, is a
senior majoring in Pre-Medi
cine.
In addition to his promotion,
Cadet Dickert has won the fol
lowing ROTC honors: Scabbard
and Blade and Distinguished
Military student, ROTC Bat
talion Staff.
Dickert has also been Pres
ident of Student Government
Association, Blue Key, Senior
Order of Gnomes, Who’s Who,
President of the Freshman
class, President Protempore of
the Senate, Delta Phi Alpha,
State Student Legislature, the
Glee Club, Dean’s List, Sopho
more Class Senator, Old Gold
and Black staff, President of
Pi Kappa Alpha social fratern
ity, Student Affairs Committee,
President’s Advisory Council,
Interfraternity Council, Resid
ent Senator-at-Large.
Vets pensions
are increased
Nearly two million living
veterans and widows and child
ren of deceased veterans will
receive automatic pension in
creases under th e new Public
Law 90-77. However, J. H.
Witherspoon Adjudication Of
ficer of the Columbia Veterans
Administration Regional Office
estimates that there are more
than 14,000 veterans and wid
ows thruout the nation who
cannot receive increased pay
ments until they apply for
them.
Until the VA is contacted by
or on behalf of these veterans
and widows scattered thruout
the nation, it has no way of
knowing who or where they
are. There are probably 200
such cases in South Carolina,
Witherspoon said.
Included in this group are
certain veterans who have been
receiving pensions because they
have disabilities which cause
them to be housebound but are
not severe enough to qualify
them for the higher aid-and-
attendance pension payments.
The VA estimates that some
10,000 veterans in this cate
gory may be eligible for the
new pension rate of $100 a
month instead of the $78.75 or
$66.15 they currently receive.
The VA is also seeking to
locate more than 4000 pension
ed widows of war veterans, in
cluding veterans of the Korean
and Vietnam conflicts. The VA
reports that these widows are
entitled to an additional $50
a month if they are in need of
regular aid and attendance or
if they are patients in a nurs
ing home.
Joe Roberts’
father dies
T. Clyde Roberts, 83, died late
Saturday in Atlanta, Georgia,
where he resided. He was the
father of Joe M. Roberts, of
this city, and had been in the
banking business his entire
life. He was a former supervis
ing examiner for the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp.
Other survivors include his
widow, the former Miss Lucille
Smith; another son, C. H.
Roberts of Atlanta and one
sister, Mrs. E. E. Ester, of
Oklahoma.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning from Patter
son Spring Hill Funeral Home
in Atlanta.
A. B. Swygert
service Sunday
Adam Belton Swygert, 57, of
West Columbia, native of White
Rock, died Friday at the Vet
erans hospital, Charleston, Fun
eral services were held Sunday
at West Side Baptist church,
West Columbia.
Among his survivors are two
brothers, James W. Swygert of
Newberry and O’Neal Swygert
of Prosperity.
vited.
HOSPITAL
PATIENTS
Attaway, George H. City
Babb, Carson City
Baker, Ernest City
Beacham, Mrs. Mary City
Bodie, Jesse E. City
Bowers, Mrs. Bessie City
Broaddus, Miss Lenora City
Caldwell, Buddy Pomaria
Caldwell, Robert Pomaria
Cannon, Mrs. Myra City
Chaplin, Mrs. Euneatha
Pomaria
Cook, Mrs. Daisy Prosperity
Cook, Mrs. Florence City
Cothran, Mrs. Olive City
Crooks, Miss Hattie B. City
Cudd, Mis. Violet Whitmire
Eargle, Mrs. Beatrice City
Epting, Ernest W. Pomaria
Evans, Mas. James D. City
Frick, Floyd City
Gallman, Colie City
Graddick, Mrs. Azilee City
Gray, Mrs. Minnie City
Griffin, Mrs. Gertrude City
Harmon, Jacob B. City
Hentz, Mrs. Betty A. City
Hunnicutt, Mrs. Myrtle
Whitmire
City
Eugenia City
Maxine and
City
Lake, Mrs. Margaret and
Baby Girl Saluda
Lark, Mrs. Hattie Chappells
Lester, Mrs. Rosa P’perity
Longshore, Mrs. Lillie M. City
Longshore, Willie City
Lybrand, James B. Clinton
Lyles, Mrs. Janie City
McCarley, Miss Rachel
Whitmire
McCarty, Mrs. Ethel City
McDowell, Ted City
Martin, Mrs. Marie and
Baby Girl
Mabin, Mrs. Sarah
Hyler, James
Kelley, Mrs.
Kinard, Mrs.
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