Graduation Week for Nine Area High Schools
Nine area high schools hold commencements next week with six ceremonies on Thursday May 31 and three on Wednesday May 30. Ridge Spring Monetta Speaker L L Willis. North Augusta no speaker. Raymond Mizell to address Freedman Vocational. Susannah Annette Shahan to address Aiken High. St Angela Academy closes county schedule June 1 with no speaker.
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Ridge Spring- Monetta
North Augusta High
L.L. Willis
Ridge Spring-Monetta
North Augusta
South Aiken High
Freedman Vocational School
Raymond Mizell
S.C. Department of Vocational Rehabilitation
Silver Bluff High
Midland Valley High
Aiken High
Wagener-Valley High
Midland Valley
Wagener-Salley
Aiken
Australia May Stage Spoleto Festival Abroad
Australia plans to stage a Spoleto Festival style event in Melbourne with Gian Carlo Menotti chairing a new Australian foundation. The project would run for one year pending mutual agreement and involve cross participation with Spoleto U.S.A. and Italian partners.
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Charleston
Australia
Italy
Paul Clarkson
Ministry For the Arts
Melbourne
Clarkson
Spoleto
Gian Carlo Menotti
U.S.A
Philip Lemark
Menotti
Lemark
Victoria
Perth
Adelaide
Umbria
Wagener-Salley Honors Students At Awards Day
Wagener Salley High School recognized a large list of students for many awards on awards day. Major recognitions included Furman Scholars Paula Gantt Mimi Rawls Dawan Gunter and Davie Shull and multiple college and leadership honors for Mimi Rawls Davie Shull Jamie Kirkland Michele Kirkland and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagener-Salley High School
Furman
Paula Gantt
Mimi Rawls
Dawan Gunter
Davie Shull
Augusta College
Deidre Huckabee
Jamie Kirkland
Presbyterian College
Erskine
Hugh O’brian
Terrell Staley
Christopher Williams
Richard Wise
Jocelyn Ables
Darryl Bynem
Wendy Jackson
Rickie Swedenburg
Lynn Williams
Robert Crumpton
Donnie Williams
Twanda Nesbitt
Robin Busbee
Andrew Cauthen
Darryl Jordan
Vennette Mincy
Rosalyn Pontoo
Aleshia Whetstone
Lavenia Kitchings
Mike McLaurin
Artis Seawright
Mimi
Richard Boone
Willie Tyler
Ferdinanda Williams
Mandy Bolton
Dee Branch
Helen Day
Becky Barr
Richard Kuehner
Steve Brinkley
Kim Fulmer
von Harris
Don Rawls
James Felder
Horace Hoff
Lakecia
Susan Heyward
Melissa Williams
Helen Scott
Kevin Warner
Stanley Corley
Gregory Hughey
Stephen Brinkley
Kim Bell
Carlton Gallop
Tracy Jackson
Joanie Corbett
Virgil Bynem
James Jenkins
Patti Dillon
Melissa Entzminger
Kimberly Fulmer
Wagener-Salley High
Ginny Southworth
Quality Circles Aims At Solving Problems In Aiken
George Brelsford of Owens Corning Fiberglas spoke to the Aiken Kiwanis Club about the AWARE quality circles program. The program notes increased employee awards and morale since its three year start and features small groups solving shop problems.
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George Brelsford
Owens-Corning
Aiken Kiwanis Club
Brelsford
Aiken
Japan
Dru McPherson
Mead Hall Head Master Retires
Joseph H. Harris announced his retirement as Mead Hall School head master effective June 30. His wife Rosa also retires as French teacher. The Harrises moved to Aiken in 1957 from Birmingham, Alabama. Their children Stewart and Lynne graduated from Aiken High. Lynne lives in Colorado, Stewart is a Nashville songwriter. The couple plans to visit their children and travel after retirement.
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Joseph H. Harris
Mead Hall School
Rosa
Harrises
Aiken
Birmingham
Ala
Mead Hall
Stewart
Lynne
Aiken High School
Colorado
Nashville
Tenn
Harris
Aiken Inmate Escapes Hospital Taxi After Treatment
Nathaniel Jackson, 47, an inmate at Goodman Correctional Institution, fled Baptist Medical Center after a routine cancer treatment. He left the examination room, hailed a taxi, and disappeared, triggering an all points bulletin. Jackson was serving a robbery sentence at Goodman, South Carolina.
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Columbia
Goodman Correctional Institution
Nathaniel Jackson
Aiken
Baptist Medical Center
Jackson
Baptist
Linda Lawther
State Department of Corrections
Aiken County
Goodman
Merchants Offer Varied Graduation Gifts In Aiken
Local shops suggest practical choices for graduates. Key Catalog Showroom highlights pen and pencil sets and jewelry. Aiken Office Supply sells Cross sets around 50 dollars. Bradberry Jewelers reports popular watches and travel clocks with Seiko and Pulsar brands, 50 to 200 dollars. Sullivan's Chairs & Things offers oak computer desks and maple desk bookcases at sale prices around 139 and 279 dollars. T and M Crafts promotes a graduation memento collage framed from diplomas tassels and invitations at about 40 dollars.
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Aiken
Lynn Miller
Key Catalog Showroom
Patti Holley
Elizabeth Bradberry
Bradberry Jewelers
Seiko
Pulsar
Bradberry
Tammy Sullivan
Sullivan's
Paul
Tom Abbott
Abbott
T & M Crafts
Rise in U S Under Five Population Tests Schools
Washington AP The Census Bureau reports 17.8 million Americans under age five as of July, up from 16.3 million in 1980, the largest in 15 years and reversing prior declines. Author Louisa Miller notes the increase stems from more women in prime childbearing years and a stable fertility rate.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Louisa Miller
Ms. Miller
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