Englishman Seeks Information On Father Of School Founder
Stafford Allen Warner, a Didcot Quaker, is in Randolph County researching his father Yardley Warner founder of the Davie School at Bush Hill. He notes his father organized about 41 Negro schools during Civil War era travels and plans to return to England June 9 aboard the Queen Mary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leon Burnett
Stafford Allen Warner
Didcot
England
Davie School
Bush Hill
Randolph County
United States
Yardley Warner
Barefoot Child Warner
Springfield
Friends Meeting
Warner
Horace S. Haworth
Tennessee
Greensboro
Warnerville
Abraham Lincoln
Miss Sophia Steffan to headline Davidson Commencement Concert
Miss Sophia Steffan, outstanding mezzo soprano from High Point, will be featured guest artist at the Davidson College Commencement Concert on May 29. She has performed with the Transylvania Summer Symphony Orchestra, Mannes String Quartet, and Charlotte Symphony, and has studied under noted teachers and appeared in Etude Magazine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Etude
National Federation of Music Clubs
Grass Roots Opera Company
Carmen
A. J. Fletcher
National Opera
Federation of Music Clubs
Miss Steffan
Funeral services for Mrs Julia Swaringen 63
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia Swaringen 63 widow of Henry S. Swaringen were conducted Saturday morning at 10 30 o clock from her daughter Mary Neeses home James town Route 1 to Rev George Tunstall Green Street Baptist Church with pallbearers Melvin Goad Thomas Joyce Harold Young Rev Floyd Bottoms Robie Kennedy and Paul Kersey. Interment followed in Oakwood Cemetery Concord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Swaringen
Henry S. Swaringen
Mary S. Neese
Route 1
Jamestown
George Tunstall
Green Street Baptist Church
Melvin Goad
Thomas Joyce
Harold Young
Floyd Bottoms
Robie Kennedy
Paul Kersey
Oakwood
Concord
Funeral services for Mrs Lulu Whitaker Frazier held at Yow
Funeral services for Mrs Lulu Whitaker Frazier widow of Dr A E Frazier were held this afternoon at 2 30 oclock in Yow Funeral Home Chapel Interment was in the family plot at Oakwood Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lulu Whitaker Frazier
A. E. Frazier
Yow Funeral Home Chapel
Oakwood Cemetery
Unseasonable May Weather Slows Summer Goods Sales
Retailers report mid May cold snaps curbing demand for summer wear and ice cream while boosting coal and fuel oil sales and delaying fan purchases. Merchants insist the lull is temporary and weather driven, not a sign of longer term economic trouble.
HPC to Stage Show Costume Review at High Point College
On Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Roberts Hall the freshmen clothing class and dress design students present a short Costume Review. The program features campus activity costumes inspired by noted designers and designed with student collaboration. The event is open to the public.
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Roberts Hall
High Point College
Recreation Course at John C Campbell Folk School
Dates June 8 to 19 mark the 25th annual short course in recreation at the John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown North Carolina. Programs cover American English and Danish dances folk singing wood carving puppetry and recorder. The 10 member staff includes May Gadd Philip Merrill Georg Bidstrup and others from the Corn Dance Society of America. The summer craft course runs June 21 to July 3 and information is available by writing to the Folk School which is open year round.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown
N.C
May Gadd
Philip Merrill
The
Corn Dance Society of America
Georg Bidstrup
Folk School
Wisconsin Senator Probes UN Charter Revisions in Tar Heel Testimony
Senator Wiley opened Senate Foreign Relations hearings on UN charter revision in Greensboro. More than 50 witnesses offered five minute versions of local sentiment with varied views on security, disarmament, veto power, and global democracy. Notable speakers include Henry Brandis Jr., David Judson, James McMillan and C Harry McCall. Wiley urged grass roots leadership beyond Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Na
Wiley
Henry Brandis Jr
University of North Carolina Law School
David Judson
Charlotte
Earth
James B. McMillan
China
C. Harry McCall
Marion
United States
Siberia
Washington
DeMolays Lecture Urges Stronger Family Ties
Dr. Glenn Perry, surgeon, addressed the High Point DeMolay banquet at the YMCA urging stronger family unity. He spoke on that crucial life period between birth and death and cited medical progress, noting happy families overcome obstacles. Awards were postponed due to late meritorious materials. Australasia note adds New Zealand and Australia details.
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Glenn Perry
High Point
Perry
YMCA
Jerry Meeks
Jack Lewis
Lee Schaner
Western Horse Show Set for High Point Debut
The Piedmont Saddle Club and High Point Jaycees stage the first Western Style Horse Show at Albion Millis stadium on May 29. Queen of North Carolina will be chosen, with 26 classes offering cash prizes, trophies and ribbons. contestants must wear western attire and ride in the day parade.
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High Point
Piedmont Saddle Club
High Point Jaycees
Albion Millis Stadium
North Carolina
Alan Burton
Saddle Club
Burton
Jaycees
John Davis
Bill Spaugh
Sam L. Smith
Winston-Salem
B. R. Pope
Kernersville
Jaycee Committee
Jim Horney
Roy Culler Jr
Purcell Kimsey
Bob Thacker
Harold McGhee
Joe Garner
Bill Hulin
Recital by Mary MacKenzie at University of North Carolina
Contralto Mary MacKenzie of Croton-on-Hudson New York will give a recital in Hill Hall at the University of North Carolina on Tuesday May 18 at 8 oclock. She is accompanied by Prof Wilton Mason from the University Music Department and is a Juilliard scholarship student with multiple awards and prior operatic activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
Mary MacKenzie
Croton-on-the-Hudson
N. Y
Hill Hall
University of North Carolina
Wilton Mason
University Music Department
Miss MacKenzie
Juilliard School of Music
Metropolitan Opera Company
MacKenzie
New York
Hebrew Association
New York Singing Teachers
Juilliard Opera Theatre
West
Grass Roots Opera
Boone
First permanent American theater built in Philadelphia 1766
The Philadelphia theater opened in 1766 as the first permanent theater in America. A separate note states that over 70 languages and 200 dialects are spoken in Euthippa.
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America
Philadelphia
Euthippa
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Father
Springfiel
Montreal
Horace Haworth
Haworth
S. A. Warner
Davidson
Lulu W. Frazier
R. E. Wood
Fifth Coast Guard
Elizabeth City
Peggy Harrell
Hertford
N. C
HPC
H. W. Rollman
Waynesville
Senate
Rollman
Robert Frazier
Carl Marcey
William Snyder
Dr. Perry
Australasia
New Zealand
Tasmania
Islands
Australia
Addie Merrimee
Business and Professional Women's Club of
Pulaski
Virginia Federation of Bpw Clubs Inc
Virginia
Sartin Cleaners
Household Appliance CO
S. Wrenn ST
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