Central High Class of 1975 Graduates Despite Rain
The Central High Class of 1975 graduated 270 students after a rainy evening at the gymnasium. Speakers encouraged dreams and perseverance as graduates, some fainting from heat, received diplomas amid mixed moods and music.
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Central
Kathy Lewis
Central High Stadium
Topreka Kornegay
Mike Bozeman
Bozeman
Judson Butler
Butler
Thomas Enidson
Marty Champion
Thomas County
E.R. Cone
Wallace Childs
Childs
Thomas County Board of Education
Central High
Central High Band
Grady County Farm Tour Aims To Bridge Farmer Biz Talk
Grady County Chamber of Commerce schedules a June 26 farm tour for agri businessmen and wives to hear from farmers about rising costs for fertilizer equipment and land. Leaders invite U S Sen Herman Talmadge and other officials to attend. The 9 30 a m start at the Grady County Courthouse also features a noon barbecue hosted by farmers and visits to Calvary Reno Whigham area farms. Barrett says additional tours may follow to broaden the exchange.
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Grady County
Cairo-Grady County
Leslie Barrett
Chamber
Calvary- Reno-Whigham
Barrett
Rules for Good Writing Essay Gone Wrong
A student submits a comic essay on grammar rules, lampooning common errors. The piece parodies pronoun agreement subject-verb concord double negatives dangling participles and comma placement with tongue in cheek guidance that also highlights misuse apostrophes and ending sentences with prepositions.
Singer Vikki Carr Receives Honorary Doctorate
In San Diego the singer Vikki Carr was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of San Diego for creating the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation. Since 1970 the foundation has aided fifty-one Mexican-American students funded by Carr earnings and fan club donations. Carr noted her diploma lists her birth name Florencia Bisenta de Casilla Martinez Cardona and said she started the foundation to do more than bring happiness through song.
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San Diego, Calif
Vikki Carr
The
University of San Diego
Miss Carr
Florencia Bisenta de Casilla Martinez Cardona
Mead Receives Special U N Agency Medal For Work On Women
The Food and Agriculture Organization awarded anthropologist Margaret Mead a Ceres Medal for her pioneering Samoa Bali and New Guinea work on women and childrearing. FAO deputy T N Saraf presented the medal in New York, noting Mead's influence on the U N s International Women's Year.
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United Nations, N.Y
Margaret Mead
Ceres
The
Food and Agriculture Organization
U.N
Rome
Dr. Mead
FAO
T.N. Saraf
India
Saraf
Samoa
Bali
New Guinea
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Cone
CHS Gym
Moody Connell
Cairo
Singer
Thomasville
U.S. 84
Russell Road
Thomasvitty Union
Mead
U.N. Agency
City School
Altman
Beene
Paca
South Broad
Adel
Richard R. Ramsey, Jr
Richard R. Ramsey
Special Agent
the Prudential Insurance Company of America
Mr. Ramsey
Thomasville High School
Georgia Institute of Technology
Prudential
Atlanta
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