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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1958
Page
25
A set of mailed baseball portraits arrives at Kenneth Miller, Jamestown School principal. He notes they came from High Point in a plain envelope, the backs indicate scrapbook pasting, and the site hints at an era before 1914 when Jamestown School burned.
Dr. R. T. Wilder joins High Point medical fraternity and opens ear nose and throat offices at Quaker Lane medical center. Aberdeen native and Wake Forest Temple graduate served in Europe 1941 44 with the Army. He held specialty work at Tulane Charity Hospital New Orleans and five and a half years in Bluefield West Virginia. He studied at Northwestern Indiana and New York University and is an ACS fellow and board certified. Married with two children Bobby and Martha. Family plans to join him at year end.
An all city sixth grade string orchestra directed by Miss Virginia Frank presents a concert at 3 PM in the Junior High School auditorium. Sponsored by the High Point City Schools music department, the program features over a dozen selections including Cavalry Coming Crummond Little Indian Chief Strickland The Clown Risher Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Back Cielito Lindo Vienna Life Strauss Alma Mater First Symphony Brahms and excerpts from New World Symphony Dvorak Oh Promise Me Dekoven Rainbow Theme from Fantasie Impromptue Chopin Dream of Love Liszt and Overture to William Tell Rossini. Sherry Sears accompanies on piano and Delores Allen handles sound effects.
The Chamber on Main Street acts as a clearinghouse for out of town buyers during the furniture market and answers schoolchildren inquiries from 74 letters and postcards across North Carolina and Texas. It provides city directories telephone books census data and industry listings while housing over 100 buyers in private homes and 20 in motels.
The High Point Executive Club will host a May 5 dinner at Sedgefield Country Club with Mrs. Helen Gordon McPherson of Canada as speaker on Canada USA what they mean to each other. Reservations are required with $1.50 per plate for members and $3 for guests. checks payable to Sedgefield Country Club and mailed to Box 44.
Forrest Cates presents a humorous reminiscence of a school tour to a newspaper office. Children’s antics with water guns, binoculars, and a photo sending machine reveal lively, innocent mischief and observer reactions from staff and visitors.
A statistics table from the Board of Education of the Methodist Church shows High Point College in Nashville ranking second nationally among Methodist affiliated colleges for ministry training. About 901 students study religion with 95 men and 85 women preparing for church service. 17 seniors plan seminary entry this year.
Wake Forest College Dean William C. Archie announced he will resign to become dean of Emory University School of Arts and Sciences. President Harold W. Tribble said the resignation is effective this summer with no successor yet named. Archie had served as dean for one year after joining as associate dean in 1956 and becoming full dean in 1957.
Gilbert Beeson of the local Kappa Chi chapter was named national president as the 13 chapter group from several states gathered at High Point College for the Franco national convention. Herbert Harrell of Duke University became vice president and Joel Lucas of Evansville Ill was secretary treasurer. The meeting aimed to unite the chapters with a new national constitution. Dr Howard Legg who founded the fraternity spoke on its mission to foster Christian service. Beeson succeeds Don Saffit of Lenoir Rhyne College as president with a 9 pm communion service closing the event.
Carrier boy Gary Dennis, a 10th grader at Senior High School, earns a monthly honor for growing Enterprise route No. 18 to 93 subscribers. He aims to be a commercial artist or art instructor, admires Norman Rockwell, and saves for art college while painting, collecting coins, and playing tennis.
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