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PAGE 6—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, April 22, 1971 JUNIOR QUEEN—Miss Wanda Werts, was selected “Little Miss Newberry” dur ing the Miss Newberry pageant at New berry High School last Saturday night. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Werts of Newberry. Other winners were, from left, Miss Lisa Baker, daughter of ■ Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Baker of Whitmire, 1st runner-up; Wanda; Anna Ruth Dil lard, 1970 Little Miss Newberry; and Stanton Marie Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Harris, 2nd runner-up. (Sunphoto by David Reames) Nosegay club meets at Jalapa Mrs. V. E. Shealy, Mrs. Don Bedenbaugh, and Mrs. John Carl Smith were hostesses for the April meeting of the Nose- bay Garden Club at the home of Mrs. Shealy at Jalapa. Mrs. B. E. Eader, president, presided. Plans were formulated for the years study for the club. Mrs. James Martin, chair man, briefly reviewed the to pic “Gardens around the World” and where plants originated. She discussed gardens typical of France, England, Holland, Spain, Persia, Egypt and China. The president, Mrs. Eader an nounced the State Garden Club convention to be held in Colum bia, April 21st and 22nd. Mrs. Eader, Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. James planned to attend the awards luncheon on Thursday 22nd. Everyone was urged to observe clean-up week on April 12th - 17th. Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Murray, Jr., Therapy chairman, reported taking Eas ter eggs, candy, cakes to 12 children in special education. Mrs. Jones, Sr., therapy chair man also reported having re membered a number of shut- ins at Easter time. The hos tesses served attractive Easter refreshments to the 15 mem bers present. Mrs. Jones re ceived the door prize, a box of Glad bulbs. May festival at Newberry on Sunday Ann Flanagin, a Newberry College senior from Augusta, Ga., will continue a campus tradition started in 1935 when she is crowned the College’s May Queen on Sunday, May 2, in the campus quadrangle. Her Maid of Honor, Jeanne Armfield, a Whitmire senior, was the runner-up in the stu dent balloting to choose the queen of the spring festival. Miss Flanagin, an economics major, is a member of the Al pha Xi Delta social sorority, and the Women’s Council; she also served as an attendant in the May Court during her freshman year. An elementary education ma jor, Miss Armfield is active in the Student Christian Associa tion and is a dormitory hall counselor. She also was a May Queen attendant during sopho more and junior year. The colorful pageant had its beginnings 36 years ago when Elma Jordan (now Mrs. Cla rence Compton of Lexington) was crowned the first May Queen. Kinard plays Fla. concert Karl Kinard, assistant profes sor of music at Newberry Col lege and the Chapel organist- choirmaster, presented an or gan concert Sunday, April 18, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Clearwater, Florida. His program included works by J. S. Bach, J. P. Sweelinck, John Cook, Gordon Jacobs, Je- han Alain, Piet Poost, and Ce sar Franck. Kinard has also given con certs this year in Columbia, Gastonia, N.C., Savannah, Ga., as well as on the Newberry campus. Library holds open house On Wednesday, April 21, the Newberry Saluda Regional Li brary Board sponsored an open house to celebrate National Li brary Week. In conjunction with the event, the Garden Study Club, which has the library as presented a flower show; the arrangements reflecting popu lar book titles. Crowds of in terested bibliophiles and flow er-lovers attended. Because the Woman’s Club of Newberry founded the library back in 1904, this club undertook the “social” side of the after noon event, along with the Li terary Study Club and the Fine Arts Club, all book and library- oriented organizations. Begun by the Woman’s Club on February 10, 1904, the New berry Saluda Regional Library was initiated as the Newberry County Library under the super vision of a library committee organized by this club. Books totaled 125! From one room above Mowers Store and by permission of the county, the library then moved to the first floor of the Old Court House. In 1934, the Workers Projects Administration took the library over, appointing Mrs. Mayes as librarian. Prior to this, all work in the library had been volun tary. In 1938, the Council of Farm Women, interested primarily in the rural circulation of books, make the library their project, and secured the first bookmo bile through the Board of Edu cation. When funds from the Board of Education were reduced, the County Delegation came to the rescue with generous support. With combinations of funds from the State Library Board and Newberry and Saluda coun ties, the Regional Library was created in 1948. Mrs. Wiseman hosts UDC The Drayton Rutherford Chap ter of the U.D.C. met in the home of Mrs. J. E. Wiseman with Mrs. S. C. Griffith as as sociate hostess. Mrs. R. B. Baker opened the meeting. Mrs. W. E. Shealy led the opening ritual and pledge and salutes to the Flags. A memorial service was con ducted in the memory of Mrs. Claudia S u b e r. The lighting of a candle was followed by a prayer, poem and a hymn. Those participating in this ser vice were Mrs. Baker, Mrs. Shealy, Mrs. Wiseman and Mrs. Griffith. Mrs. J. J. Chappell read a beautiful tribute in me mory of Mrs. Suber. Copies of this impressive paper will be sent to her family. Mrs. Carl Setzler and Mrs. Glayds Da niels two of Mrs. Subers daugh ters were guests of the Chap ter. The President introduced Mrs. Walter Summer who first pre sented her Mother with a cor sage of fresh violets, from the garden of Mrs. E. E. Westwood, as she pinned these on she re marked that she was blessed with a Mother who read to her when she was a child. She then gave a talk in memory of the compassion of the women of the Confederacy, the heroic efforts of the Confederacy and the love the Southerners had for their slaves. She stated that the wo men even loaded wagons of food, which was hard to come by, and drove them to the Anderson Ville prison to try to feed the starving prisoners. All this while Sherman was burning Ga. to the ground. She reminded the Chap ter that Doctors and Nurses were working with little or no medicine, using herbs and roots and only the instruments they were able to save from their personal practices. She showed the love of the Southerner for their slaves with the story of Enas Africanus a slave who wandered for eight years, with a valuable silver cup of his masters, which he was entrust ed with. He finally returned in time for the cup to be used in his Masters daughters wedding ceremony which was a family tradition. The Slave showed his love for the family by saying he and his wife and children still belonged to his master. Mrs. S. C. Griffith reminded the Chapter of the joint meet ing in May. The President urg ed all the members to attend. Mrs. R. P. Baker showed co lor pictures of the Children of the Confederacy meeting and urged members to help take children to the convention in Rock Hill April 30. Mrs. E. E. Westwood chair man of the nominating com mittee gave the following re port: Mrs. L. D. Nichols, Presi dent; Mrs. E. E. Westwood, first Vice-President; Mrs. J. J. Chappell, Second Vice-Presi dent; Mrs. R. P. Baker, third Vice-President; Mrs. Alfred Schriver, Historian; Mrs. W. E. Shealy, Recording Secretary; Mrs. V. E. Shealy, Correspond ing Secretary; Mrs. L. B. Gil liam, Treasurer; Mrs. Jack Jen kins, Chaplain; Mrs. D. O. Car penter, Registrar; The Chap ter voted to accept this slate of officers. The Chaplain closed the meeting with prayer. Comic fantasy production set Nancy Raymond, a Lake Wales, Fla. sophomore, has been chosen to act the title role in The Curious Savage, the comic fantasy which will be the final presentation of the year for the Newberry College Theatre. The production is scheduled for three performances at 8 p.m. May 6, 7, and 8 in the Wiles Chapel Theatre on the campus. In the original Broadway pro duction of the comedy, this part of the pixilated and curious Mrs. Savage was acted by Lil lian Gish. The Curious Savage is an early play from the pen of John Patrick, the author of the world-wide success Teahouse of the August Moon. The “cu rious” heroine of its title is a wealthy widow who decides to put her late husband’s fortune in a “Happiness Fund,” devoted to helping people do the fool ish things they have always dreamed of. She has arranged, for example, to import a box of soil from Italy to satisfy a gardener’s sentimental desire for some earth from his native land. Her step-children, horrified at such nonsensical uses of the money they expect to inherit, have the generous Mrs. Savage clapped in a high-class sanita rium. This is no “snake-pit” sort of place. On the contrary, it is such a pleasant retreat from the world that none of the happy people there would think of leav ing. Filling the roles of these amiable fugitives from the harshness of daily life are Dee- Dee Bunn, Vienna, Va. fr.; Rusty McKibben, Chester, S.C. sr.; Dan Sandberg, Aiken, S.C. fr.; Bobbie Vogel, Atlanta, Ga. sr.; and Reji Gruetzmacher, Sa vannah, Ga. soph. Each of them is shown in the play to have more kindness and sweetness of character than is often found “outside,” which is the topsy turvy parable of the play that makes it a fantasy. Their unselfishness is in con trast to the greed of Mrs. Sa vage’s step-children, frantic at discovering that their step-mo ther has managed to hide the $10,000,000 fortune they expected to inherit. The parts of these step-children, whose hysterical search for the missing bonds provides much of the comedy’s hilarity, are to be played by Al len Witt, Lake City, Fla. soph.; Jimmy Hare, Saluda, S. C. fr.; and Pat Thorne, Greer, S. C. sr. John K i n s e r, Gatlinburg, Tenn. senior, and Judy Thurs ton, N. Clearwater, Fla. jr., will be seen as the staff that manages the elegant refuge for illusions. Dennis Sanderson, assistant professor of speech is the di rector of the production and Dale Willis, assistant professor of speech, is the technical di rector. GORHAM “Spectrum” Stainless In four exciting colors to match today’s color china and crystal. VILLA NOCHE—black VILLA VERDE—green VILLA TIERRA—brown VILLA COSTA—blue W. E. TURNER Jeweler