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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, May 14, 1970—PAGE 3 posite the Wiles Chapel. In other action the Board re elected the following officers: A Hart Kohn, Jr., Columbia busi nessman, chairman; Dr. Thom as H. Pope, Newberry lawyer, vice-chairman; the Rev. Garth Lee Hill, pastor of Zion Luther an Church, Lexington, secre tary; and B. 0. Long, business manager of Newberry College, treasurer. The Board also elected Walter F. Oetgen, Jr., Savannah, Ga., and re-elected Dr. Henry C. Heerman, Atlanta, Ga., for 3- year terms as members-at-large of the Board of Trustees. Oet gen replaces Dr. Francis Hipp of Greenville. UDC Chapter has meeting at monument Members of Calvin Crozier Chapter, UDC, met at the Calvin Crozier Monument in Rosemont Cemetery, Tuesday afternoon, May 5, to decorate the grave of this brave Confederate War hero. Officers of Calvin Crozier Chapter appearing in picture are: Mrs. A. C. Garlington, treasurer; Muss Juanita Hitt, historian; Mrs. A. T. Neely, president; and Mrs. James Werts, secretary. Following the observance at Rosemont, the chapter held its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Charles Owens on Clarkson Ave. Associate hos tesses were Mrs. J. L. Feagle, Mrs. Clem Youmans, Mrs. 0.0. Copeland, Mrs. W. Roy Ander son, and Mrs. B. F.Hawkins. Delightful refreshments consist ing of strawberry shortcake, cheese pastries, toasted pecans and pink lemonade were served as the guests arrived. Mrs. Neely presided at the business session and Miss Dor- thy Buzhardt, chaplain, led in the pledge and salutes to the Flags, and conducted the ritual. Two beautiful memorials were given for the chapter’s recently deceased members. Mrs. James Werts wrote the tribute to Mrs. H. 0. Long, which she read, and Mrs. Maggie T. Hartley wrote the tribute to Mrs. Tilla West Kaufmann, which was read by Mrs. Charles Owens. The subject of the historical program was “Confederate Me morial Day” and “Monuments to our Confederate Dead”. Miss Hitt announced that Scoutmaster George Summer and his troop of Boy Scouts would place the flags on the Confederate graves in Rosemont Cemetery, the flags being fur nished by both Drayton Ruther ford and Calvin Crozier Chap ters. She also announced that Drayton Rutherford Chapter was to place flags at the beautiful rose covered monument on the square. Mrs. A. T. Neely read some interesting facts about the Cal vin Crozier monument. “The Ob server” headed the movement for the erection of a monu ment to Calvin Crozier through an editorial in their paper, and gave $200 to the monument fund. Mrs. Neely described the monument and gave the inscrip tion appearing on all four sides. Miss Juanita Hitt gave an in teresting account of the Stone wall Jackson monument on the capitol grounds in Richmond, Va., and the monument to “Our Heroic Dead”, in Petersburg, Va.; 30,000 Confederate soldiers rest in this cemetery. She men tioned three outstanding mon uments erected on our capitol grounds in Columbia. They are “The Confederate Monument”, to South Carolina’s Dead of the Confederate Army, the monu ment to “The Women of the Confederacy” and “The Wade Hampton Monument”. Miss Hitt described the massive monu ments on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. Monument Avenue is a force ful reminder that for four diff icult years Richmond served as the capital of the Southern Con federacy. It has often been call ed the South’s most beautiful boulevard. This broad thor oughfare extends a full five miles through the city. The gi gantic monuments are within an eleven block area. The statues depict Gen. Robert E. Lee, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart, Gen. Stone wall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and Matthew Fontaine Maury. Facing north are the statues of those men who were mortally wounded, and the statues facing South are the men who returned to the South and home. The statues are very large and very high. For this reason they have escaped the abuse of vandals and protestors. Mrs. Neely thanked the chap ter members for the coopera tion they gave toward making the State Convention of the Children of the Confederacy a success. ALVERSON GIVEN SERVICE AWARD George F. Alverson, Fire Con trol Technician, U. S. Forestry Service, Route 2, Whitmire, has been given a Special Services Award by the U. S. Weather Bureau. In presenting the award, John Purvis, Meteorologist in charge of the Weather Bureau Forecast Office at Columbia, pointed out that Mr. Alverson had for many years reported the occurrence of severe weather to the Colum bia Weather Bureau. These timely reports have been of much assistance in the Weather Bureau’s severe weather warn ing program, Mr. Purvis said. Music building go-ahead given The Newberry College Board of Trustees at its annual meet ing Thursday authorized its Ex ecutive Committee to direct the architectural firm of Wessinger and Drafts in Columbia to pro ceed with the detailed drawings of the proposed Alumni Music Building and to advertise for bids on the $550,000 structure. The new building will be con structed on college property op- BEFORE THE ANNUAL MEETING last week of the Newberry College Board of Trustees, the Board members met informally with staff members during a reception. Enjoying their refreshments while talking were, from left, William Shore, instructor in English; Dr. Francis Fesperman, associate professor of religion; Dr. Carl A. Honeycutt, pastor of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Tampa, Fla.; Thomas Epting (partially hidden) secre tary of the College faculty; and Dr. Royall A. Yount, pres ident of the Florida Synod of the Lutheran Church in America; he has his offices in Tampa. GUARANTEED 100%... 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