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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Sept. 24, 1970
FIRST BIRTHDAY: Audra Jane Ringer, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Wayne Ringer of Newberry, celebrated her first
birthday September 8. Maternal grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. Olin Lominick Sr. and paternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Ringer, all of Pomaria. Pa
ternal great-grandmother is Mrs. Erlene B. Ringer of
Pomaria. Mrs. Ringer is the former Jane Lominick of Po
maria.
Civic League
entertains
Newcomers Club
The Newberry Civic League
members held a tea honoring
the Newcomers Club on Sep
tember 22 at 10:30 a.m. in the
Community Hall.
Prof. F. Scott Elliott, Sr.,
president, extended a warm wel
come to the guests and others
present. He then called upon
Mrs. L. G. Cooper, chaplain, to
open the meeting with the club
collect as an opening prayer.
Mayor Clarence A. Shealy, Jr.,
brought to the group a word of
welcome and greeting from the
City of Newberry.
The president then called on
Mrs. F. Scott Elliott, Sr. to give
some of the highlights of the
history of the Civic League.
Mrs. Elliott said that the
League was organized in 1905
by the Newberry Woman’s Club,
a literary club, to fill a broader
purpose than a literary club
could offer. From the begin
ning one of the foremost objec
tives has been the beautifica
tion of public grounds. She said
that Mrs. L. W. Floyd was the
first president and Mrs. R. D.
Wright was a charter member
of both clubs and an organizer
of the League.
Mrs. Floyd led in the beauti
fication of the old courthouse
grounds. Then during Mrs. Mar
garet Hunter’s presidency the
Margaret Hunter Park was es
tablished. This has been widely
recognized as a place of beauty.
Other Civic League improve
ments that followed were at the
fair grounds, the college cam
pus, the new courthouse
grounds, the hospital grounds,
and the War Memorial plot.
There is also the beautiful
plaza which was initiated during
Hal Kohn’s presidency (1961-
63) and completed in 1965 dur
ing the presidency of Prof. F.
Scott Elliott, Sr. Mrs. Richard
L. Baker served as chairman
of this project which was fi
nanced equally by the city and
the Civic League.
During the presidencies of
Mrs. James E. Wiseman, Sr.,
the Easter sunrise services were
replaced by the Good Friday
services and beautiful potted
urns were placed along Main
Street.
When citizens of Newberry
think of the Civic League, there
is one name that stands out
above all others, Mrs. Elliott
said, and that is the late Dr.
Mamie S. Summer who served
as the League’s president for
thirty-one years. It was she who
carried through the project of
converting the old courthouse
into the beautiful community
hall.
Many noteworthy occasions
have been held within its walls.
In 1955 the League celebrated
its golden anniversary with a
banquet. Since 1951 Newberry
Christmas Decorations Teas
have become famous through
out the state.
At Christmas each year, the
League decorates the inside and
the outside of the Community
Hall to lend a harmonious at
mosphere for the Christmas pa
rades. The manger scene at
Margaret Hunter Park is also
a part of the League’s Christ
mas participation.
The Valentine Queen Contests,
which were held almost every
year from 1951 to the present,
enabled the Civic League to
have funds with which to carry
out its projects.
Mrs. Elliott closed her re
marks by saying that the Civic
League’s purpose is “to create
a better environment through
enlightening, improving, and
sharing.”
Dr. L. Grady Cooper gave a
beautiful closing prayer. Mrs.
Joe M. Roberts served as chair
man of the hostesses, and Mrs.
0. M. Cobb was chairman of
floral decorations. The mem
bers of the executive board of
the Civic League also assisted
in serving and entertaining the
guests. Mrs. Elliott poured the
coffee punch.
Art course to
be offered
at college
An art course at Newberry
College taught by one of South
Carolina’s leading artists will
bp ooen to area resiHpnts dur
ing the spring semester.
The course, Drawing and De
sign, can be taken with or
without college credit, accord
ing to Dr. Conrad Park, aca
demic dean at Newberry Col
lege.
It is a studio course in draw
ing with an emphasis on the
study of line, tone, form, tex
ture, and space division as
used in developing pictures.
The course will be taught by
Corrie McCallam, instructor in
art at Newberry College, whose
work is widely known through
out the state. It hangs in the
collections of the Gibbes Art
Gallery, Charleston, Columbia
Art Museum and Columbia Col
lege; Mint Museum, Charlotte,
N. C., Louisiana State Univer
sity, Baton Rouge, and in many
banks in the area.
Last fall she had a one-man
art show in Zurich, Switzer
land, at the Kunstsalon Wolfs-
berg Gallery and the Schneider
Gallery in Rome.
For several years she visited
youngsters in the “fourth-
through-eigth grade” range in
the Charleston County schools
bringing the students “art ex
perience through looking.” In
a single year she talked to as
many as 20,000 students under
the visitation program sponso
red by the Gibbes Art Gallery
Extension Service and funded
by a county appropriation.
4-H Poultry
show Saturday
The 4-H poultry show and sale
will be held on Saturday, Sep
tember 26, at the Newberry
County Fairgrounds. Fifteen 4-H
club boys and girls will exhibit
150 birds at the show at 9:30
A.M. Each of these 4-H club
members received 100 straight
run or 50 pullets in March and
are returning some of their best
pullets to the sale.
The birds will be auctioned
off in lots of 8, 10 and 14 to the
highest bidder. Sale time is
10:00 A.M. The proceeds of the
sale will go to buy chickens for
other 4-H’ers next year.
A representative of the Clem-
son University Extension Poul
try Department will judge the
pullets. Prizes and ribbons are
furnished by Sears foundation.
The following 4-H club mem
bers were the recipients of the
4-H pullets this year: Thomas
Bates; James W. Chick; Homer
James Raymond Jones, Jr.;
Elaine Cureton; Chris Homes-
ley; Ella Mundy; Debbie Por
ter; Robert Ringer; Harold
Ruff, Jr.; Melvin Smith; Donald
Wessinger; and Larry Wicker.
Prospective buyers should
bring crates to carry the birds
back home.
MARRIAGES
Jimmy C. Turner and Donna
Jean Shealy of Prosperity were
married at Prosperity Septem
ber 12.
Aaron Cockrell of Chappells
and Thelma A. Hester of Ninety
Six were married September 10
in Newberry by Probate Judge
Frank H. Ward.
Larry Kinard, Prosperity and
Linda Bundrick, Little Moun
tain, were married at Pomaria
September 12.
Professors are
“Outstanding”
Two Newberry College pro
fessors have been selected to
appear in the 1970 edition of
“Outstanding Educators of Ame
rica.”
The two—Dr. James Cum
mings, head of the department
of education, and Dr. Karlheinz
Brandes, associate professor of
chemistry—were chosen on the
basis of their teaching and ad
ministrative abilities, contribu
tions to research, and civic and
professional recognition.
Dr. Cummings joined the
Newberry College faculty i n
1960 and was named the head
of the department the following
year. Prior to coming to New
berry, he was on the staff of
the University of Alabama
where he earned his graduate
and undergraduate degrees. He
received the College’s Alumni
Association “Professor of the
Year Award” during the 1970
Commencement ceremonies for
“his imaginative and outstand
ing” accomplishments as a
classroom teacher.
Dr. Brandes came to New
berry College in 1965 after two
years of study on a post-doc
toral fellowship at Tulane Uni
versity in New Orleans, La. He
received his academic training
in his native Germany.
He has written several ar
ticles in professional and tech
nical journals; his latest one,
which he co-authored with Dr.
James Rinehard, head of the
College’s department of Econo
mics and Business Administra
tion, has been accepted for pu
blication in “Science Educa
tion,” a professional maga
zine.
CALDWELL-HIGGINS HOUSE
Located at 1 5 2 0 Boundary
Street, the Caldwell-H i g g i n s
hcuse is one of the oldest houses
in Newberry. It was built by
Francis Higgins between 1816
and 1820, and over the years has
been remodelled, added to, and
damaged by fire. Mr. and Mrs.
William Tedford acquired the
house 10 years ago and have
endeavored to return it some
what to its original plan. They
removed a porch and a room
which were definitely not on
the original house and reduced
the sizes of upstairs rooms to
make for present-day living con
venience. Standing some dis
tance back from the street, this
frame structure presents a
stately, neat and clean look with
a narrow front porch sup
ported by square columns
reaching to the second story,
balanced by two massive chim
neys on each side of the struc
ture. The entrance opens onto
a generous hall. Of special note
are two hand-carved mantels,
and in the dining room, a con
siderably lowered ceiling, an un
usual feature of the original
construction.
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