High Pointer of the Week Robert Rankin of High Point
Robert Blair Rankin, High Point native and Sunday Enterprise editor, is celebrated for lifelong service to the city. The 1917 birth and 1962 profile cover his work with Rotary, Red Cross, City Council, library board, and First Methodist Church while detailing family ties to A. M. Rankin, pioneer High Point developer. He served in World War II and remains active in Flythe Insurance and local civic life.
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Enterprise Sunday
Robert Blair Rankin
High Point
Rankin
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Red Cross
The
United Appeal
First Methodist Church
Boy Scouts
YMCA
Public Library
High Point Rotary Club
A. M. Rankin
Rockingham County
Reidsville
Southern Railway
Asheboro
Lena Blair
Joseph Addison Blair
Randolph County
Rankin Coffin Casket Highland Cotton Mills
Sherat
Rankin Memorial Methodist Church
Barker St
William Blair
Margaret Louise
Lewis Teague
Orlando
Fla
A. M. Rankin Jr
Dorothy Lee Rankin
High Point College
Nanabeth Null
Westminister
First First Methodist Church
Pilot Life Insurance Co
Sedgefield
Pilot
John R. Peacock
Peacock and Jones, General Insurance Agency
High Point Junior Chamber of Commerce
Library Board
Guilford County
Locust sighting and rural notes from Piedmont area
Braxton Younts recalls the first 17 year locusts seen locally as life on the farm continues. Thomasville water tank cleaned and back in service hindered by rain. Boating traffic spiked on the Fourth while cooler weather pulled crowds home early. A farmer notes mule and horse power still valued for tobacco cultivation and pruning, contrasting with tractors and trucks.
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Thomasville
Evan Norton
Piedmont
UNC Gains Ground as Top Choice for Prep School Grads
UNC campus attracts graduates from Exeter Andover Deerfield Taft Choate with Morehead Scholars program expanding to include New England prep schools. Admissions officials credit scholarships and direct exposure to UNC’s faculty and programs for rising interest among top high school graduates.
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University of North Carolina
Phillips Exeter Academy
New Hampshire
Phillips Academy
Andover
Mass
Fred M
Harvard
Yale
University of North Carowork
UNC
Charles C. Bernard
George Edward French
Phillips Exeter
Deerfield
Choate School
Wallingford
Conn
Taft School
Watertown
Morehead
North Carolina
New England
Morehead Foundation
Roy Armstrong
East
Armstrong
Chapel Hill
Choate
Scene Columnist Bonn ie Jordan Returns Next Week
Thomasville Scene staff writer Bonn ie Jordan was on vacation last week. Her column The Thomasville Scene will resume in The Enterprise next Sunday.
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Nie Jordan
Lost Colony drama marks 375 years with grand Roanoke tribute
A large birthday celebration for Virginia Dare highlights the Roanoke story as the outdoors theater The Lost Colony debuts a new $100,000 venue on Roanoke Sound. Paul Green's 1937 work sparked a tradition of historic dramas with officials from Raleigh Washington and London attending the July dedication.
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Manteo
N.C
Virginia Dare
America
Roanoke Island
Roanoke
Roanoke Colony
Roanoke Sound
Raleigh
Wash
Ington
London
Paul Green
Lost Colony Drama Highlights Raleigh Era and Virginia Dare
The article reflects on Raleigh's Roanoke settlement, the birth of Virginia Dare, and Gov White's return for aid. It chronicles the Croatoan inscription, speculative fates of the colonists, and the 1941 designation of Fort Raleigh as a historic site. It notes The Lost Colony's enduring fame and stars like Andy Griffith who portrayed Raleigh.
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Roanoke
Plymouth
John White
Eleanor Dare
Ananias Dare
Richard Grenville
Gov. White
Chesapeake Bay
Manteo
England
Virginia
Spain
White
Manteos
North Carolina Barrier Islands
Fort
Raleigh
Ralph Lane
Green
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High Point Enterprise
Robert B. Rankin
Emerywood Studio
Braxton
Abbotts Creek
Davidson County
Long
By Tom McHaney
New York Times
E. J. Love
Amos St
Waterside Theatre
Enterprise
John Borden
Lost Colony
By Bryan Haislip
Walter Raleigh
Christendom
Atlantic
Florida
London Company
Jamestown
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Andy Griffith
Eleanor
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