The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1960-06-10
ocRAcoKE PERSONALS
oCRACoKE, June 7.-Beginni

lCCreeC MerhOUlSC Cnurcn, beaufort,
Twill be guest preacher for three
evening services at the sOcracoke
Methodist Church, June 18th
through June 18th. On Monday,
June 18th, Vacation Church School
will begin and will continue through
Friday, $50 to IL am. Rev. and
Mrs. w. w. Clarke, Jr., Mrs. Alice
Belle Williams, and Mrs. Cora
Louise Burrus will constitute the
teaching staff.
Also on June 18th there will be
another type of school at Ocracoke
+. ). Vacation Art Colony, June
18th to 10Th, with headquarters at
Wahab Village Hotel. j. Lindsey
Ocheltree, Director of the Ocheltree
Schoo of Art at Norfolk, Virginia,
is in charge. Already over twenty
Norfolk artists have signed UP for
the courses.
On Monday night, June 18th, the
Ocracoke Civic Club will hold its
June meeting in the School Library.
At special June meeting, mem
bers of Circle of the Woman's
Society for Christian Service of
the Methodist Church voted to
sponsor their annual July 4th din
ner at the schoolhouse, as part of
the general July 4th Celebration at
Ocracoke. Prior to the dinner there
will be the traditional Flag Raising
Service in front of the schoolhouse.
Mrs. R. S. Wahab presided at the
June meeting, a pleasant feature
of which was a covered-dish supper
for members. The Circle does not
hold monthly meetings in July and
August. The Woman's Society met
on Wednesday afternoon, June LIST,
with its new president, Mrs. Theo-
dore Rondthaler, presiding. Mrs.
Fonnie Willis and others presented
an interesting program. Summer
meetings for this organization will
be continued the first Wednesday
afternoon of each month.
On Thursday of this week Wahab
Village Hotel was expecting twen-
ty-seven guests, group coming
from Charlotte on Moore,s Tour.
They will spend Wednesday night
in Manteo, Thursday night here,
and continue on the "Sea Level" on
Friday afternoon to New Bern.
On June 18th the hotel is ex-
pecting a group of Girl Scouts from
Falls Church, Virginia; they will
spend a week at Ocracoke.
Rev. and Mrs. Jack Theis, mis-
sioners, gave interesting talks at
the Methodist Church Sunday
morning about their work in Korea
and Cuba. Both are now planning
for service in Korea.
Members of the senior class of
Newport, N. C. high school en-
joyed several days last week at
the Wahab- Williams Cottage. In
Guiding their senior teacher, Mrs.
Margaret Mann, and two chaper-
ones, Mrs. Edith Garner and Mrs.
Marie Warren, they numbered 10.
Five Haverford College boys are
visiting Ocracoke this week with
David Rondthaler, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Rondthaler of Croton-
on-Hudson, N. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Willis have
as guests this week Mrs. Pomona
Rhodes Brown and two sons of New
port, N. C. Mrs. Brown lives at
Ocracoke and attended school here
when her father was principal of
the school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Fisher and
family of Houston, Texas, are Wis
iting Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Tolson.
The Fisher family try to make the
long automobile trip each year.
John Tolson of New York is also
visiting his brother, Charlie.
Rev. Charles Clarey and Mrs.
Clarey have returned from Florida
and with them, Mrs. Zion Foster,
Mrs. Ruth Gaskins, and Floyd
Stryon, Jr. All had fine time Wis
iting their various relatives in
Florida.
Ocracoke friends of Ranger and
Mrs. Hazen Brooks will be inter
ested to learn that they have a new
granddaughter in Green Bay, Wis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Goedjen have
adopted a little girl, Susan Ruth
Goedjen. We hope little Susan Ruth
will be visiting Ocracoke before
too long. Ranger and Mrs. Brooks
have as guests this week Mr.. and
Mrs. Calvin James of Elizabeth
City and Mrs. Robert Yost and
daughter, Lucy Carroll, also of
Elizabeth City.
Cecil Bragg Of Philadelphia, ma
tive of 0cracoke, has become a
very familiar figure about town
these jast two weeks. H has been
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Toll
son and Mr.. and Mrs. John N. Mid
gett, and has been busy renewing
acquaintance with relatives and
friends here and in picking up ma
terial for story writing. When Mr..
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