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© Bank America Service Corporation. 1958 1969. « Servicemarks owned and licensed by Bank America Service Corporation PAGE 4 — The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Nov. 27, 1969 Trip to Greece is recounted The Woman’s Club of New berry had the pleasure of a trip to Greece through slides and a talk by Mrs. William M. Gar- lington. The Club met at the home of Mrs. Finis 0. Johnson at four o’clock November 13. The Pres ident, Mrs. Fred Dominick open ed the meeting with the club using the Collect in unison, af ter which a brief business meet ing was held. Mrs. Ralph H. Whitaker, serv ing as program chairman, an nounced the theme, “The World is My Country”, and introduced Mrs. Garlington, who shared with the club in a charming and interesting way her recent trip to the Isles of Greece. Mrs Garlington said she flew from New York City to Athens, Greece, over Stromboli, and saw it smoking. Before show ing her slides she told the fol lowing: “Greece is a small country with an area of 57,147 square miles, by comparison to South Carolina’s 31,055 square miles. It has a population of 8,000,000 most of which live in Athens. There are 80,000,000 olive trees. The olive is considered sacred. The three means of livelihood in Greece are the olive, sea merchants, and tourism. “Amid the timeless settings of Greece and Rome arose con cepts of law and government that rule our lives. Here began our literature, sports, the street plans of our cities, the archi tecture of our public buildings, logic, geometry, engineering that transformed our world. “Athens was the seat of demo cracy, and gave to the world drama, music, dancing and the theater. “At the entrance of the main section of Athens,” Mrs. Gar lington said, “we pass Hadrians Arch. It was built by the Rom an Emperor Hadrian. An in scription on one side reads: ‘This is Athens, the Old City of Theseus’. On the other side, ‘This is the City of Hadrian and not of Theseus’. The Arch also formed the entrance to a quart er, where there was a great temple dedicated to Zeus, the father of Gods and king of men. There are sixteen columns of the temple standing of Corin- tian architecture.” Mrs. Garlington continued by telling of several trips: “Our first bus trip took us to Acropolis. This one in Athens is the most famous and is ded icated to Athena and is 260 feet above Athens. The Prophylea, the gateway to the Acropolis, is entirely of Pentelic Marble. It was begun in 437 B. C. and completed in five years. From the Acropolis one looks down upon Mars Hill where Paul de livered his sermons to the Athenian. “Our next trip took us to the Temple of Poseidon. As we drove down University Avenue, we saw the University of Ath ens, the Statue of Harry Tru man and many other interest ing places. We passed through the town of Megan, the oldest city in Greece and at one time larger than Athens. Next we visited Epidaurus. Here we saw the shrine of Asclepiades, the Greek physician, called the God of healing. Here too is the won derful 2,000 year old amphi theater, which seats 4,000 peo ple. One can stand in the center of the stage and whisper and can be heard at the top most seat. We also visited Mycene and Agamemnon’s Tomb with the bee hive dome. Then cross ed the Corinth Canal into Pelo- ponneus. In Corinth we stood on the Bema where Paul preach ed. We saw here the Temple of Apollo built in the sixth cen tury B. C. We then visited Del phi. Here one can see all that symbolizes all Greece—A stark wall of ro^k soaring upward from the valley of olive groves curving down through the low land to the shining Gulf of Cor inth.” On display were books, pic tures, jewelry and many arti cles from Greece. After a delightful trip through beautiful slides, the meeting ad journed. HAPPY BIRTHDAY Nov. 30: Mrs. Marion Wig gins, S. C. Campbell, L. B.Dav is, Virginia Dufford, Kenny Dav is, David Park, Noble K. Ter rell, C. Eugene Harmon, Mrs. Harry Hedgepath. Dec. 1: H. J. Looney, Jr., Mrs. Joe Koon, Mrs. Gerald C. O’Quinn, Trudy Todd, Mrs. Bill Boozer, Billy Caldwell, Dawn Dickert, Mrs. Ralph Whitaker. Dec. 2: Fred Rodelsperger, Clarence S. Hazel, Dave Hayes, Frank Wilson, James M. Long shore, Walter Pitts. Dec. 3: Lewis Shealy, Mrs. J. W. Lominick, Broadus Lips comb, E. Dusty Westwood, Bud dy Kinard. Dec. 4: Tom M. Fellers, Mrs. Guy Bowers, Patricia Kelly, Andy Price, J. Ed McConnell, Mrs. B. W. Bedenbaugh. Dec. 5: Will R. Reid, Jr., L. D. Nichols, Mrs. W. D. Shealy, Terry Shaver, Kibler Bowers, Mrs. Kibler Bowers, O. S. Goree, Stuart Whitener. Dec. 6: Rickie O. Chapman, Prof. Scott Elliott, Mrs. Charles Cromer, Bill Scurry, Mrs. R. T. Feagle, Manning Dukes, Robert Shealy, Jr., Debra Sue William son. COUNTY NATIVE DIES SUNDAY Mrs. Carolyn Caldwell Sligh, wife of Claude O. Sligh of Greenwood, died Sunday. She was born in Newberry, daughter of the late Robert T. and Virginia Halfacre Caldwell. She had lived in Greenwood since 1927 and was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church. Surviving also are a daugh ter, Mrs. Robert Adden, Charles ton; a son, Robert C. Sligh of Asheville, N. C.; and 5 grand children. Funeral services were Tues day at 2 p.m. at her church in Greenwood with burial in the Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry. Your Hamilton jeweler is a gift specialist. Discuss your requirements with him—he’ll welcome the opportunity to guide your selection of the right Hamilton for every important gift need. Ask him about Hamilton's Three- Year Guarantee, too. H /-/✓-A /U//Z_7 _ 0/V Ask to »myew fVWviwa m EXCITING GIFTS OF TIMELESS DISTINCTION Turner & Taylor 1305 Main Street Jewelers Next to State Bank and Trust South Carolina BANKAMERICAFtr AUTHOR n SlGNATU^t- S. CLAUS good tm«U ► 00/00*8 AC 355 123 HSh 183 copy the guy who shops for a living!