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PAGE 4 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C. r Thursday, May 15, 1969 to the service and to the in dividual. There are more than a few cases in which the sold ier entered services as a high school graduate and, by con tinued off-duty study, left with a master’s degree. Members of the Women’s Army Corps are no exceptions to this program. WAC’s be come deeply interested in their Corps and curious about meth ods of extending their military schooling in a more formal way. The U. S. Army stands ready to aid them with a mas sive academic, business, and technical education program carried out by 300 education centers located throughout the world. Cooperating universities and colleges provide instructors and the Army often provides on-post classrooms. In locations where these fac ilities are not found, the Army offers more than 200 corres pondence courses. During the first weeks of training, individuals are inter- Mrs. M. F. Bowler, left, president of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 24, has announced names of Girls Stat ers for 1969. Shown with her from left is Karen Atki- son, alternate; Caroline Smith, principal and Mrs. W. Roy Anderson, girls state chairman. Absent are Mary Baker, principal, and Nancy Floyd, alternate. Jan Rader, left, and Judy Pinner will represent Mid- Carolina at Girls State to be held at the University of South Carolina in June. (Sunphoto.) Registration forms have brought recognition to the college and community. Cards must be turned in by noon, Saturday, May 17. Girls Staters are selected The American Legion Auxi liary Unit 24 always partici pates in the Legion Auxi liary Girls’ State program, which is sponsored each year by the Department of South Carolina American Legion Aux iliary. The Girl Staters meet a tUtheniversity of South Car olina the first week in June The program gives the out standing young women of the state an insight into the prin ciples, organization and con duct of local, state and nation al governments. The three high schools of the county have two delegates each. They must be 11th graders, ris ing seniors. Those chosen must have good scholastic records, and be a leader in their church, community and school activi ties. Newberry High School wil’ be represented by Mary Baker daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. P Baker and Caroline Smith, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. M Smith, with alternates Nancy Floyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve C. Floyd and Karen Atkison, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Atkison. They all live in Newberry Whitmire High School will be represented by Elizabeth Lynn Lawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie C. Lawson, Sr., and Barbara Ann Greene, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Au brey Greene, with Floree Tay lor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Taylor serving as alter nate. These three young lad ies are from Whitmire. Mid-Carolina High School will be represented by Janice Louise Rader, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Rader of Prosper ity and Judith Pinner, daugh ter of Drs. C. A. and H. E Pinner of Peak. During their week at Girls’ State, these young ladies will have the pleasure of attending a tea at the Governor’s Man sion. Are graduates of Winthrop Several count Tudents re ceived degrees graduation exercises of Winthrop College Sunday. They were: Harriette Hagood Clary, who received her B. A. degree. She was a member of the Dolphin Club at Winthrop and served as Her degree was in business, a Sophomore Advisor. Marcia Abrams, who receiv ed her B. A. degree in mathe matics. Her college activities included membership in Phi Kappa Phi, national honor so ciety for scholastic achieve ment, and Book and Key, es tablished at Winthrop to recog nize achievement and to en courage scholarship in the li beral arts. A Deans’ List stu dent, she was a Marshal, a House Councilor and a mem ber of Kappa Delta Pi, educa tion honorary, and Archimed- ians, mathematics honorary. Peggy Dale Coward, who re ceived a B. S. degree in bus iness. While at Winthrop, she served as hall representative for Winthrop Fine Arts Asso ciation. WACS continue their education The U. S. Army holds that an educated soldier is a more efficient soldier. And the Army carries this rule even further. As a soldier becomes more highly-trained, more schooling is offered him. And the divi dends continue to accrue both viewed to determine their pre ference and to review their qualifications in a long list of WAC career field. These in clude finance, communications, public relations, medical tech nical specialties, photography, machine accounting, adminis tration and many others. Following basic training, the new WAC goes on to a spec ialized training school or is sent directly to a new station for on-the-job instructions. Whether it is through formal classes, correspondence cour ses or on-the-job instruction, the young women who serve in to day’s Women’s Army Corps have abundant opportunity to further their education. Clinics set for pre-schoolers Pre-school clinics of the New berry Elementary schools will be held at 2 p.m. on May 21st at Speers Street school and on May 22 at Boundary School. It is planned to give a readiness test to all children entering the first grade at the pre-school clinic. Mothers may fill in the re gistration forms while the chil dren are taking the tests. Birth certificates are required for re gistration, may be secured from either of the schools before the day of registration. All parents are urged to bring their children to the pre-school registration. Indian Club banquet set The Newberry College Indian Club will sponsor the annual awards night banquet on Mon day night May 19 at Kaufmann Hall cafeteria at 7:30 p.m. The occasion will honor all football, basketball, baseball, and golf players as well as the fine cheerleaders. This group will number about 90 athletes who have well entertained the Newberry sports fans during the year. Most valuable play ers will receive trophies from their respective coaches as well as outstanding offensive and de fensive players. Secretary Harry Hedgepath announces that club members have the privilege of bringing their wives to the banquet as guests if they so desire. He urges that members will in dicate their pleasure as they return cards or give him a call. It is hoped that a record num ber will turn out for the affair and help honor the athletes who IS MEMBER OF CITADEL CREW Cadet Stevan Preston Bodie, son of Mrs. Dorothy V. Bodie of 403 Rodelsperger Street, is a member of The Citadel Crew, which has completed its first year in competitive rowing. He is a coxswain on the Freshman Team. To assist in the training and racing of the crew, the mili tary college acquired four two- man shells four four-man shells one eight-man shell and one 16-man training barge. The crew is a member of the South ern Rowing Association and during the year competed in numerous regattas including the Cypress Gardens Regatta and the Southern Intercolleg iate Rowing Association Regat ta. The crew rowed against such teams as East Carolina, Tampa, Florida Southern, Jack sonville, and the University of Virginia. Capt. John G. Stewart of the Physical Education De partment is in charge of train ing crew members. A freshman at the military college, Bodie is majoring in civil engineering and is enroll ed in the Air Force ROTC Pro gram. v's i ■mt' i '■ V : fn ■ ' : v fl Jg * ^ h ji / 55 45r* JS W X " Xk r f • *** , j fit s ' h jr The National Campers and Hikers Association thinks so highly of South Carolina's natural advantages for camping they scheduled their national convention for the Palmetto State this year . . . and some 25,000 campers are expected to participate. Naturally, it will be held in Santee-Cooper Country ... Talk about South Carolina... and Santee-Cooper comes to SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY