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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.
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