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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Sept. 30, 1971
Miss Sarah Lindemann Blank
enship of Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
became the bride of Edmund
Massey Pickett of McComb in
a ceremony at 8 p.m., Sept. 18
in the First Presbyterian Church
of Cape Girardeau!
The bride is the daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. Dale Minton Blank
enship of Cape Girardeau and
granddaughter of Mrs. Sarah
Wallace. The bridegroom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
Edward Pickett of McComb.
Dr. Edwin Brasington officiat
ed at the candlelight ceremony
and Mrs. David Strand, orga
nist, presented a program of
nuptial music and accompanied
Mrs. John Hoffman, soloist, as
she sang “0, Perfect Love.”
The bride, given in marriage
by her father, wore a formal
gown of silk candlelight organ
za with bishop sleeves caped
with reembroidered Alencon
lace encrusted with pearls and
crystals. A panel of imported
lace extended down the front
of the dress and into the bord
er of the chapel length train.
A multiple organza Dior bow
encrusted with jewels held her
cathedral veil of French illu
sion and she carried a colonial
bouquet of white roses, stepha-
notis and baby’s breath and
her great-grandmother’s wed
ding handkerchief.
Miss Beth Blankenship, serv
ed her sister as maid of honor
and bridesmaids were Sharon
Ridings, Cape Girardeau, Mar
cia Esker, New Orleans, La.,
and Kathy Company, Clarks-
dale.
Their formal length gowns
were of cerise georgette with
wide satin corselettes interlac
ed in front. The bodices had
deep scooped necklines and mo
dified bishop sleeves. They wore
cerise satin bows in their hair
and carried multi-colored nose
gays accented with pink.
Wilbur E. Pickett served his
son as best man and grooms
men were Jimmy Hayman and
Paul Dykes, both of McComb,
Rick Blankenship and Scott
Blakenship, both of Dexter, Mo.
Mrs. Blankenship chose for
her daughter’s wedding a mint
green crepe dress with jewel
ed collar and cuffs and Mrs.
Pickett wore pink crepe.
A reception followed at Cape
Girardeau Country Club. Mrs.
Ronald Edwards, Vienna, Va.,
sister of the bridegroom, pre
sided at the guest register and
Mrs. Gary Scheidt, Louisville,
Ky., Miss Ann Erlbacher and
Miss Libby Campbell, Cape Gi
rardeau and Miss Susan Au
stin. Cleveland, assisted in serv
ing the guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Pickett
were hosts at a rehearsal din
ner at the Ramada Inn the
evening prior to the wedding 1
with members of the wedding
party and out-of-town guests at
tending.
The couple will make their
home in Memphis, Tenn., where
the bride will attend Univer
sity of Tennesse School of Phy
sical Therapy and the bride
groom will attend Southern Col
lege of Optometry.
Among those attending from
McComb were Mr. and Mrs.
Bennie C. Hayman, Miss Lea
Hayman and Mr. and Mrs. J.
J. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam J. Pickett of Yazoo City
also attended.
Dr. and Mrs. H. D. Riding
and Miss Sharon Ridings of 6
Sylvan Lane entertained the
out-of-town guests and the wed
ding party at a brunch Satur
day morning.
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Bottorf-
McCaughrin
rites be Oct. 16
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Boftorf
of New Bern, North Carolina,
announce the engagement and
forthcoming marriage of their
daughter, Sally Swain, to Mr.
James Cathcart McCaughrin,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert G.
McCaughrin of this city.
The wedding will be solemniz
ed on October 16 at four o’clock
at A v e 1 e i g h Presbyterian
Church. A reception will be held
in Kaufmann Hall at Newberry
College immediately following
the ceremony.
Friends and relatives of both
families are cordially invited to
attend. No invitations are being
sent in Newberry.
College women
meeting set
The Newberry College Wo
men’s League will conduct its
annual meeting at 11 a.m. Sa
turday, Oct. 9, in the Wiles
Chapel on the campus, accord
ing to Mrs. Gerald Paysinger
of Newberry, the Club’s presi
dent; the date coincides with
the College’s annual Parent’s
Day.
The meeting will be high
lighted by an address by Dr.
Fredric B. Irvin, the College’s
new president. An election of
officers is also planned for the
group's business meeting.
The League has done many
things which were greatly need
ed and which were not (and
could not) be provided for in the
annual budget of the College.
Projects recently completed by
the League include the rede
coration of Smeltzer Hall, the
office and the living area of the
Dean of Women in the faculty
lounge in the Classroom Build
ing, the sacristy, the Chap
lain’s study and the lounge in
Wiles Chapel; the equipping of
the radio room in Wiles Cha
pel, which students use to broad
cast The Newberry College
Hour; and the risers for the
Little Theatre.
The remodeling and redeco
rating of the Kaufmann Hall
Dining Room was adopted as
a two-year project for 1970-1972.
The work was completed in
1970; the League has paid $3,-
000 toward the remodeling and
redecorating and plans to raise
an additional $3,800 in 1971 to
pay for the remainder of the
project.
A luncheon is planned for 1
p.m. in the Kaufmann Hall
Lounge following the business
meeting; reservations should be
sent to Mrs. Sadie Crooks, New
berry’s acting dean of women,
or any club officer by Oct. 2.
3rd “Clean Air”
poster contest
for Junior age
The Area Six Branch Office
of the S.C. Tuberculosis and
Respiratory Disease Associa
tion is sponsoring the third An
nual ‘‘Clean Air” poster con
test for Junior High School age
students. The following coun
ties will be participating in
Area Six competition: Abbeville,
Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens,
McCormick, Newberry, and Sa
luda
The poster contest will depict
what clean air means, what air
pollution can do, or the causes
of air pollution. Prizes of a $25
Savings Bond (1st place) and
a $10 Gift Certificate (2nd place)
will be awarded to the poster
winners. The local winners wil
be entered in the state contest
with the prizes of a $50 Savings
Bond (1st place) and a $25 Sav
ings Bond (2nd place).
W. Harold Koon, Program
Director for the SC TB-RD As
sociation Area Six Branch Of
fice, states “Americans are
awakening to environmental
concerns; evidence is every
where: increased bicycle sales
among our adult population,
cans and bottles are being sav
ed for recycling, and citizen
groups are pressing for tough
er industrial pollution regula
tions. By involving our area
school students in the ‘Clean
Air Poster Contest’ we hope to
make them more aware of the
conservation of the air we
breathe and the problems of
Respiratory Disease which are
often times a result of air pol
lution.”
Literacy group
plans workshop
Newberrians will receive an
opportunity to do something
about the adult illiteracy pro
blem next week. -
The Newberry College Lite
racy Association under the di
rection of Chaplain Harry We
ber will conduct a series of
three workshops at 7 p.m. Oct.
4, 5, and 6, in the Classroom
Building on the campus to train
persons interested in teaching
adults how to read.
“The three 3-hour tutor train
ing workshops are designed,”
Chaplain Weber said, “to pre
pare persons to teach adult il
literates how tn read using the
‘Each One Teach One’ System
created by Frank Laubach.
Campus training teams led by
Chaplain Weber and four New
berry College students Pat Dug-
gins, Greenville, Tenn. senior;
Nancy Shealy, Prosperity, S. C.
junior; Francis Koon, Pomaria
sophomore; and Pat Shealy,
Jacksonville, Fla. sophomore
will conduct the tutor training
sessions.
The Newberry College train
ing program is under the au
spices of the South Carolina
Literacy Association (SCLA).
Chaplain Weber noted that en
rollment in volunteer tutoring
under the direction of SCLA
has increased to 1,300 from 650
last year. He added that during
1970-1971, 3,500 adult illiterates
were aided by the SCLA and
the State’s Adult Basic Educa
tion Program.
Figures released by Weber
indicated that the number of
persons aided by volunteer Lau
bach “Each One Teach One”
tutors had increased from 65
in 1967-68, to 250 in 1968-69,
to 650 in 1969-70 and to 1,300
in 1970-71. He estimated that
there are 230,000 adult illite
rates in South Carolina.
Graveside rites
for Stepp infant
Brian Hawkins Stepp, infant
son of Joseph and June Hawk
ins Stepp of Prosperity, died
Wednesday night at Newberry
County Memorial Hospital.
Besides his parents, he is sur
vived by his paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Stepp, Sr. of Pageland.
Graveside services were held
at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at St.
Luke’s Lutheran Church Ceme
tery, Prosperity, conducted by
Rev. Ralph Rhyne.
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