High Point College to Graduate 150 in Commencement
Some 150 High Point College seniors will graduate today with a 3:30 p.m. commencement in Memorial Auditorium after an 11 a.m. bac calaureate. Dr. Donald Russell will speak, and Rev. Dr. W. Mark Depp will deliver the sermon. Bells, organ interlude, hymns, and a benediction mark the ceremonies with Dr. Wendell M. Patton presiding.
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High Point College
Wendell M. Patton
Bill
Memorial Auditorium
Donald Russell
Spartanburg
S. C
Mark Depp
Centenary Methodist Church
Winston-Salem
Ernestine Fields
Miss Fields
J. Clay Madison
Greensboro
Western North Carolina
Depp
Graduates List of Offhand Degrees by Name and City
A compiled list of graduates receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees includes Anthony Angelo Adams from James Town Nancy Lucinda Alexander from Lenoir Henry Gale Ayers from Stuart Virginia Billy E Baker from Concord Gilbert Ward Beeson Jr from Pembroke Kathryn Ann Blanchard from Warsaw William M Alexander Jr from Wilkesboro Katherine Wilson Brinkley from Lexington Marcia Maryette Brown from Pittsboro Martha Ann Bulla from Asheboro James Winston Burger from High Point Jack Richard Cole from Denton Elizabeth Little Covington from Wadesboro Mary Lou Craver from Lexington William Edward Damon from East Hartford Conn Eleanor Roberta Davis from Wilmington John Earl Davis Jr from Charlotte Peggy Jean Davis from Gastonia Sylvia Jane Deaton from Mooresville Betty Gray Dorman from Pembroke Robert Lee Downey from Thomasville Edna Rose Duncan from Hope Mills John Frank Edwards from Randieman Norman Dixon
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Anthony Angelo Adams
Jamestown
Nancy Lucinda Alexander
Lenoir
Henry Gale Ayers
Stuart
Billy E. Baker
Concord
Gilbert Ward Beeson, Jr
Pembroke
Kathryn Ann Blanchard
Warsaw
William M. Alexander Jr
Wilkesboro
Katherine Wilson Brinkley
Lexington
Marcia Maryette Brown
Pittsboro
Martha Ann Bulla
Asheboro
James Winston Burger
High Point
Jack Richard Cole
Denton
Elizabeth Little Covington
Wadesboro
Mary Lou Craver
William Edward Damon
East Hartford
Conn
Eleanor Roberta Davis
Wilmington
John Earl Davis Jr
Charlotte
Peggy Jean Davis
Gastonia
Sylvia Jane Deaton
Mooresville
Betty Gray Dorman
Robert Lee Downey
Thomasville
Edna Rose Duncan
Hope Mills
John Frank Edwards
Randieman
Norman Dixon
Recreation variety offered for summer programs
Six major groups provide free and paid youth activities after school ends. Parks and Recreation runs playgrounds with free activities and age 4 to 18 camps, plus baseball leagues. The YMCA promotes Learn To Swim, senior life saving, and member only programs, with a free campaign in partnership with The High Point Enterprise. The YWCA plans a Camp Cheerio 6 to 10 year olds program with two week sessions starting June 13.
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Parks and Recreation Department
YMCA
YWCA
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Salvation Army
Parks and Recreation
City Lake
Washington Terrace
High Point Enterprise
Camp Cheerio
Sunny Skies for Weekend Forecast Clues
Sunny skies and warm temperatures are forecast for today and tomorrow with widely scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Lows around 53 tonight and 55 Monday. highs near 83 today and the mid 80s tomorrow.
Summer Furniture Market Dates Revealed
The Southern Furniture and Rug Market will run Monday June 27 to Friday July 1 with Leo J Heer stating advance registrations show several thousand buyers from Southeastern states and beyond. The High Point Market centers in the 14 acre Southern Furniture Exposition Building and nearby areas produce large shares of the nation’s wood bedroom and dining room furniture and upholstered items.
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Southern
Leo J. Heer
Southern Furniture Exposition
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
Washington D. C
High Point
Feeling Good About Taxes and Town Gossip
A humorous column notes how the federal budget totals trillions and breaks down per week minute and second for Uncle Sam while poking at tax contributors. It then threads through items about Dan Matthews questionable highway patrol style, J W P Mooney and his sick cat, a local mouse in the cat’s dish, and a past note on gum ball machine poker.
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Uncle Sam
Mooneys
Mouse
Turner to give Memorial Day address in Floral Garden Park
Thomas Turner Greensboro attorney and veteran will speak at the Veterans Memorial Day Service at Floral Garden Park Cemetery. Turner served 36 months overseas with the 82nd Airborne and 5th Infantry in World War II, earned five battle stars and the Croix de Guerre, and later led the Hanau district in Germany. He practiced law in High Point and Greensboro and served eight terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
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Floral Garden Park
Ceme
High Point
VFW
Thomas Turner
Greensboro
Turner
82Nd Airborne
5Th Infantry Division
Luxembourg
Hannau
Germany
Hig Point
Henry Catlett Turner
Elizabeth Dowd Turner
Charles D. Dowd
Co. E
77Th
North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Harvard University
House of Representatives
General Assembly of North
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Joe Alvis Law
Draper
Donald Kerr Levina
Frances Ann Lewis
Robert Wayne Little
William Thomas Lohr
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Hurt
Perry Luke McKinney
Havelock
Ruth Ann Macon
Seagrove
James Holt Madison
Trinity
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Edwin Bruce Miller II
Washington, D. C
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Thomas Raymond Miller
Donald Dixon Murry
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Roxboro
Patricia Olmsted
Arlington
Mary Jean Peedin
Rockingham
Elizabeth Ray Peterson
Morganton
Glenda Mae Radcliffe
William P. Richardson, Jr
Stokesdale
Charles Cobb Riddle
Raleigh
Benjamin Charles Rouse
Donald Manley Sellers
Leland
Barbara Lee Shef
Carolyn Mae Tullock
Titusville
Marilyn Kay Tullock
Harriett Kaye Truelove
Walkertown
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K. M. Vestal Jr
William Ronald Wachs
Ivey James Wall, Jr
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Dan Matthews
Bullet
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