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Monday, March 22, 2010
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March Red Pencil -- Next Meeting March 25th
The Red Pencil
The Newsletter of Watauga County Retired School Personnel
Vol.XII, No.4, March 2010
Nanci Tolbert Nance, editor,ntn1066@hotmail.com__963-8892
March Meeting
Noon, Thursday, March 25, 2010 [Please note that this date is not the one we planned at the beginning of the year. We have adjusted the date to make room for the NCRSP state convention.]
Deerfield Methodist Church
Cost per meal is $10, check payable to Watauga Unit, NCRSP
Please be on time!
Program: Opportunities for Volunteers. Come to listen to your fellow members Dot Barker, Eula Mae Fox, Mary Moretz, Nanci Tolbert Nance, and Jan Watson about the causes that concern them. Future programs will feature other members and other causes. If you have an organization or a cause near to your heart and would be interested in sharing your passion with the group at a later meeting, please phone La Verne Franklin at 964-3337.
Also, we will be voting for NEA-R/NEA delegates to the NEA National Convention at the March meeting.
Please bring as much non-perishable food as you can manage for the Hunger Coalition. Powdered milk, cans of soup, oatmeal and pasta products, canned fruit and vegetables, ANYTHING non-perishable, will be acceptable. Remember those empty medicine bottles, too; each one of them saves the Hunger Coalition at least a nickel. And plastic bags. And Box Tops for Education. And yourself, of course.
Very important note: If your caller has not phoned you by the 21st of March, call your caller if you plan to attend. If you change your mind at the last minute about attending, call Margaret Sigmon at 264-2036 immediately and come ahead! As usual, Margaret thanks her team of callers who generously volunteer their time doing important work for our organization.
President’s Message
Our Lou Martin recently sent me a delightful article titled ”How Did we Ever Survive?” Probably, we have all been asking ourselves the same question after enduring a winter that began with the December 18th snowstorm that dumped over two feet of snow and doesn’t show signs of stopping. On the 18th, however, I was delighted because I could dust off my cross-country skis and make tracks in the new snow. Christmas Day, 2009, dawned with the crackling sound of tree branches and trunks snapping like toothpicks and taking down the power lines, leaving many of us without electricity for days. Our granddaughter, like all excited youngsters, woke to see what Santa Claus had left her. Even without light, she managed all the unwrapping, but the family Christmas dinner had to be postponed for weeks.
The snow and the wind kept pounding us until we wanted to yell, “Enough is enough!” We tried to escape once by going to Washington, DC to celebrate our daughter’s 40th birthday - only to be caught in the District’s record-breaking snowstorm. Traveling on snow-packed I-95, we were the third car in a seven-car pile-up. Fortunately, we were not injured, but car was damaged in the front and back to the tune of about $4,000. Life does come at us fast, doesn’t it? We have no doubt that this winter will be talked about in the same breath as the 1960, 1977, and 1993 snowstorms, providing many interesting stories for years to come.
Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” The line, of course, is one of hope, and I know that each of us is hoping that the beauty of the crocuses, hyacinths, and daffodils will soon replace our images of the scars winter has left on our landscape.
March is a time of renewal for us as we come together after this difficult winter. It will be a time of joy as we greet each other and join our hands and hearts to accomplish our goals. I look forward to seeing you on the 25th.
Beth Carrin
In Memoriam
The Watauga Unit of NCRSP extends its sympathy to Ann Winkler on the death of her son Joseph, to the family of former member Ruth Brooks, and to the family of Andy Reese.
NCRSP Scholarship Fund in Need
Each May, our chapter of NCRSP awards a $1,000 scholarship to a graduating high school senior who plans to become a teacher. Our generosity to the scholarship winner depends entirely on each NCRSP’s generosity to the Scholarship Fund. As always at this time of year, we ask for your help.
First, PLEASE bring all your spare change for the little watering cans on your table and plan to make an enormous noise when you pour those nickels and dimes and quarters into the pots.
Second, if you haven’t made your annual gift to the Scholarship Fund, please do so at the March meeting or mail a check to Watauga County NCRSP Scholarship Fund to Dot Barker, 451 Poplar Hill Dr., Boone NC 28607.
Third, if you have already contributed to the fund, please consider doing it again, this time in memory or in honor of a deceased member of our chapter, a colleague, or a favorite teacher. Write the name of the honoree on your check and we’ll make a point of including it in the next Red Pencil.
BRAIN WORKS; DOING SOMETHING WONDERFUL FOR YOURSELF EVERY DAY
The website is www.sporkle.com, and it’s a hoot. Skybest recommends it as a great way to give your brain a jumpstart every morning. It won’t take long to become involved and entertained. Try out one of the games (One-syllable Things, U.S. Capitals, Book Covers, and dozens more) by filling in as many of the blanks as you can in the time allotted. Once you get the hang of it, Skybest says, you may even want to create your own game. The site again? http://www.sporkle.com.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ways by which we communicate are changing. Don’t be left behind!
We hope you aren’t tiring of hearing this message, because we can’t tire of saying it: every member of our unit who receives The Red Pencil by email saves the unit nearly $1 per issue. If you do not currently receive the newsletter by email and would like to do so, please send an email to Nanci at ntn@skybest.com with your name and email address in the body of your message.
AND, Pam Deardorff is considering email delivery of Panorama, the newsletter of NCAE, and would like for us to be part of her pilot project. If you DO NOT wish to receive the Panorama by email, please send a message to Nanci at ntn@skybest.com; otherwise, your email address will be included in the list for Pam.
AND, AND, AND, the web address for our Watauga County NCRSP blog has CHANGED. The new address is http://wcrsp.blogspot.com. Put that address in your Favorites column and keep up with the activities of our unit, including a copy of The Red Pencil and photos from meetings, courtesy of our webmaster, Lee Stroupe.
Election of Officers Coming Up in March for Watauga Unit
One of our items of business in March is the election of officers for the 2010-2012 term. Your nominating committee presents this slate:
President: La Verne Franklin
Vice President/President-Elect: Billy Ralph Winkler
Secretary/Treasurer:Dot Barker
Reported Volunteer Hours Totals Exceed Previous Year, but …
News of Community Participation is both good and bad. Good news first: our donations of food and bottles for the Hunger Coalition in December were more than I could fit into my car! Mary Moretz helped to transport it all. Second, our totals of volunteer hours reported in ’09 exceeded the totals from the previous year. We reached 9,246 hours this year – a most impressive total considering that only 23 of our members turn in their volunteer hours forms. Imagine what we could have told the state if all of us had turned in our forms! We congratulate Margaret Sigmon, our unit member with the highest total.
The bad news you’re waiting for? The very idea that only 23 of us actually took the time to complete the form. This year, please make that piece of paper a priority.
Since I’ve discovered that a string around my finger is no good for reminding me of things I need to do or things I’ve done, I write on my calendar the things that I must do and circle them when I’ve completed them. Let me suggest that you create a method that works for you. Taking care of family members, although important, doesn’t count in the total of volunteer hours, you’ll remember, but participating in these activities does: educational and neighborhood projects; civic organizations; international charitable organizations such as Project Linus; volunteering at the hospital, a library, or church; working with NCRSP, social services, the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, or politics; and serving as a companion or providing transportation for a shut-in.
We volunteer in so many ways that forgetting to make notes or thinking that they don’t really matter is easy. Please stop for a moment each day to record the good that you do for others. Later in this newsletter you’ll find another copy of our record-keeping form.
Eula Mae Fox, chr., Community Service Comm.
What’s New that You Need to Know:
v The State NCRSP Convention is happening in Winston-Salem at the Marriott, March 17-18. Representing our unit will be Beth Carrin, Margaret Sigmon, Ben and Lois Strickland, La Verne Franklin, and Nanci Tolbert Nance.
v Our unit currently has 128 members. Every single member is important, yet we obviously need to grow. If you are aware of current members of the education community who are nearing retirement, please begin now to explain the value of their membership in NC Retired School Personnel.
v If you are newly retired, this is the first Red Pencil you have received because we have just learned of your retirement and we welcome you. We hope that you will come to our luncheon meeting on March 25 at 12:00 at Deerfield Methodist Church. If you can attend, please call Margaret Sigmon at 264-2036 by Monday, March 22.
NC State Health Plan makes significant change
You may already have received a packet from the North Carolina State Health Plan. First, you need to know that the state is sending TWO packets, one for Medicare recipients and one for employees and retirees who do not yet qualify for Medicare. If you are 65 or older and have Medicare, you do not need to do anything to retain your current level of benefits. If you are not eligible for Medicare yet, you MUST act to keep your current level of benefits. You must complete the green/white/pink enrollment form and attestation form included in your packet and return them to Raleigh.
Completing the forms may be done online. Go to www.shpnc.org and click on 2010 Annual Enrollment. Scroll down to the Attestation Form/Annual Enrollment Form and complete it.
Angie Miller, Office of Human Resources, ASU, will be conducting help sessions for anyone with a question. Those sessions will be from 1 to 5P on March 17, March 24, and March 31 and on April 7 in the Northwestern Room at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center.
Again, you will receive the appropriate packet from the Health Plan. If you have Medicare, you do not need to do a single thing. If you are not yet eligible for Medicare, you must complete the forms and get them to Raleigh before the 9th of April.
PEOPLE NEWS
Eula Mae Fox has been off again – to Italy this time with fellow NCRSP members Lottie Downie, Nancy and Clayton Cooke, Leota and Keith Cloyd, and June Mann. We know they were thinking of us here in the snow as they travelled the Italian countryside!
Ann Winkler is recovering from back surgery.
Mary Mast has made the news again, this time by jumping out of an airplane. Skydiving, para-sailing, ziplining – the perfect way to relax and enjoy the golden years, right, Mary?
Margaret Sigmon has just returned from “the beach tour” – from Myrtle to Key West and back.
Kate Peterson celebrated her 100th birthday on March 12. If you’d like to send her a card, the past-due date won’t matter at all. Miss Kate Peterson, 2018 Sherwood Dr. #213, Johnson City TN 37601.
As always, please send news about our members to Nanci at ntn1066@hotmail.com or ntn@skybest.com.
The Steel Magnolias entertained at our December meeting, bringing us the merriest sounds of the season.]
Did You Know? Many people have wondered about the trailer parked on the K-Mart parking next to the Boone Post Office. According to our Margaret Sigmon, it’s a money-making project of The Watauga Chapter of Fire Fighters Burned Children's Fund and soon the Deep Gap Fire Department will have a second one all their own.
The trailer is for donating aluminum cans. The firemen sell the cans to raise funds that help with non-medical expenses of burn victims and their families. Because burned victims heal more quickly when surrounded by family members, this non-medical aid has included gas cards so family members can travel to visit the victim and phone cards for the victims to phone home. Another non-medical gift has been to provide different sizes of shoes to victims whose burned feet swell and contract as they heal.
The local chapter gave a Wii set with games to the Burn Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem to be used as therapy for recovering burn patients. Engaging in Wii physical activities stretches tight scar tissue and, in fact, helps patients to endure the pain of their therapy.
Locally, funds are raised by selling the collected aluminum cans and by sponsoring the Emergency Fest on ASU campus where the sponsors sell t-shirts and sweat shirts to support their project. This year the Fest will be held on Saturday, June 12.
The Fire Fighters’ Burned Children's Fund has fifteen chapters across North Carolina. At the 2009 annual retreat sponsored at Tweetsie by the Charlotte chapter, each participant received twenty Tweetsie dollars and dinner at the new Blowing Rock Fire Department.
Patient privacy laws make locating burn survivors difficult. If you know burn survivors who could benefit from participation in this program, please give their names and contact numbers to Margaret Sigmon and she will get this information to the NC Burn Center in Chapel Hill.
North Carolina Retired School Personnel
Individual Volunteer Hours Record for 2010
* Volunteer hours for the “Other” category would include the following activities. Please circle the ones in which you participated.
· Political
· Governmental
· Neighborhood
· Civic organization
· Hospital
· Companion to shut-in
· Healthcare/Red Cross
· Church/religious work
· Schools
· Athletics
· Transportation
· Mentoring/tutoring
· NCRSP
· Libraries
· Social Services
· Habitat for Humanity
· NB: Activities for which you are paid (i.e., honoria or stipends) do not count for volunteer hours.
· While the NCRSP Executive Board considers time caring for grandchildren, elderly parents, or other family members as very important, it considers these activities to be family obligations and does NOT accept these hours as volunteer hours.
The Newsletter of Watauga County Retired School Personnel
Vol.XII, No.4, March 2010
Nanci Tolbert Nance, editor,ntn1066@hotmail.com__963-8892
March Meeting
Noon, Thursday, March 25, 2010 [Please note that this date is not the one we planned at the beginning of the year. We have adjusted the date to make room for the NCRSP state convention.]
Deerfield Methodist Church
Cost per meal is $10, check payable to Watauga Unit, NCRSP
Please be on time!
Program: Opportunities for Volunteers. Come to listen to your fellow members Dot Barker, Eula Mae Fox, Mary Moretz, Nanci Tolbert Nance, and Jan Watson about the causes that concern them. Future programs will feature other members and other causes. If you have an organization or a cause near to your heart and would be interested in sharing your passion with the group at a later meeting, please phone La Verne Franklin at 964-3337.
Also, we will be voting for NEA-R/NEA delegates to the NEA National Convention at the March meeting.
Please bring as much non-perishable food as you can manage for the Hunger Coalition. Powdered milk, cans of soup, oatmeal and pasta products, canned fruit and vegetables, ANYTHING non-perishable, will be acceptable. Remember those empty medicine bottles, too; each one of them saves the Hunger Coalition at least a nickel. And plastic bags. And Box Tops for Education. And yourself, of course.
Very important note: If your caller has not phoned you by the 21st of March, call your caller if you plan to attend. If you change your mind at the last minute about attending, call Margaret Sigmon at 264-2036 immediately and come ahead! As usual, Margaret thanks her team of callers who generously volunteer their time doing important work for our organization.
President’s Message
Our Lou Martin recently sent me a delightful article titled ”How Did we Ever Survive?” Probably, we have all been asking ourselves the same question after enduring a winter that began with the December 18th snowstorm that dumped over two feet of snow and doesn’t show signs of stopping. On the 18th, however, I was delighted because I could dust off my cross-country skis and make tracks in the new snow. Christmas Day, 2009, dawned with the crackling sound of tree branches and trunks snapping like toothpicks and taking down the power lines, leaving many of us without electricity for days. Our granddaughter, like all excited youngsters, woke to see what Santa Claus had left her. Even without light, she managed all the unwrapping, but the family Christmas dinner had to be postponed for weeks.
The snow and the wind kept pounding us until we wanted to yell, “Enough is enough!” We tried to escape once by going to Washington, DC to celebrate our daughter’s 40th birthday - only to be caught in the District’s record-breaking snowstorm. Traveling on snow-packed I-95, we were the third car in a seven-car pile-up. Fortunately, we were not injured, but car was damaged in the front and back to the tune of about $4,000. Life does come at us fast, doesn’t it? We have no doubt that this winter will be talked about in the same breath as the 1960, 1977, and 1993 snowstorms, providing many interesting stories for years to come.
Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” The line, of course, is one of hope, and I know that each of us is hoping that the beauty of the crocuses, hyacinths, and daffodils will soon replace our images of the scars winter has left on our landscape.
March is a time of renewal for us as we come together after this difficult winter. It will be a time of joy as we greet each other and join our hands and hearts to accomplish our goals. I look forward to seeing you on the 25th.
Beth Carrin
In Memoriam
The Watauga Unit of NCRSP extends its sympathy to Ann Winkler on the death of her son Joseph, to the family of former member Ruth Brooks, and to the family of Andy Reese.
NCRSP Scholarship Fund in Need
Each May, our chapter of NCRSP awards a $1,000 scholarship to a graduating high school senior who plans to become a teacher. Our generosity to the scholarship winner depends entirely on each NCRSP’s generosity to the Scholarship Fund. As always at this time of year, we ask for your help.
First, PLEASE bring all your spare change for the little watering cans on your table and plan to make an enormous noise when you pour those nickels and dimes and quarters into the pots.
Second, if you haven’t made your annual gift to the Scholarship Fund, please do so at the March meeting or mail a check to Watauga County NCRSP Scholarship Fund to Dot Barker, 451 Poplar Hill Dr., Boone NC 28607.
Third, if you have already contributed to the fund, please consider doing it again, this time in memory or in honor of a deceased member of our chapter, a colleague, or a favorite teacher. Write the name of the honoree on your check and we’ll make a point of including it in the next Red Pencil.
BRAIN WORKS; DOING SOMETHING WONDERFUL FOR YOURSELF EVERY DAY
The website is www.sporkle.com, and it’s a hoot. Skybest recommends it as a great way to give your brain a jumpstart every morning. It won’t take long to become involved and entertained. Try out one of the games (One-syllable Things, U.S. Capitals, Book Covers, and dozens more) by filling in as many of the blanks as you can in the time allotted. Once you get the hang of it, Skybest says, you may even want to create your own game. The site again? http://www.sporkle.com.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ways by which we communicate are changing. Don’t be left behind!
We hope you aren’t tiring of hearing this message, because we can’t tire of saying it: every member of our unit who receives The Red Pencil by email saves the unit nearly $1 per issue. If you do not currently receive the newsletter by email and would like to do so, please send an email to Nanci at ntn@skybest.com with your name and email address in the body of your message.
AND, Pam Deardorff is considering email delivery of Panorama, the newsletter of NCAE, and would like for us to be part of her pilot project. If you DO NOT wish to receive the Panorama by email, please send a message to Nanci at ntn@skybest.com; otherwise, your email address will be included in the list for Pam.
AND, AND, AND, the web address for our Watauga County NCRSP blog has CHANGED. The new address is http://wcrsp.blogspot.com. Put that address in your Favorites column and keep up with the activities of our unit, including a copy of The Red Pencil and photos from meetings, courtesy of our webmaster, Lee Stroupe.
Election of Officers Coming Up in March for Watauga Unit
One of our items of business in March is the election of officers for the 2010-2012 term. Your nominating committee presents this slate:
President: La Verne Franklin
Vice President/President-Elect: Billy Ralph Winkler
Secretary/Treasurer:Dot Barker
Reported Volunteer Hours Totals Exceed Previous Year, but …
News of Community Participation is both good and bad. Good news first: our donations of food and bottles for the Hunger Coalition in December were more than I could fit into my car! Mary Moretz helped to transport it all. Second, our totals of volunteer hours reported in ’09 exceeded the totals from the previous year. We reached 9,246 hours this year – a most impressive total considering that only 23 of our members turn in their volunteer hours forms. Imagine what we could have told the state if all of us had turned in our forms! We congratulate Margaret Sigmon, our unit member with the highest total.
The bad news you’re waiting for? The very idea that only 23 of us actually took the time to complete the form. This year, please make that piece of paper a priority.
Since I’ve discovered that a string around my finger is no good for reminding me of things I need to do or things I’ve done, I write on my calendar the things that I must do and circle them when I’ve completed them. Let me suggest that you create a method that works for you. Taking care of family members, although important, doesn’t count in the total of volunteer hours, you’ll remember, but participating in these activities does: educational and neighborhood projects; civic organizations; international charitable organizations such as Project Linus; volunteering at the hospital, a library, or church; working with NCRSP, social services, the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, or politics; and serving as a companion or providing transportation for a shut-in.
We volunteer in so many ways that forgetting to make notes or thinking that they don’t really matter is easy. Please stop for a moment each day to record the good that you do for others. Later in this newsletter you’ll find another copy of our record-keeping form.
Eula Mae Fox, chr., Community Service Comm.
What’s New that You Need to Know:
v The State NCRSP Convention is happening in Winston-Salem at the Marriott, March 17-18. Representing our unit will be Beth Carrin, Margaret Sigmon, Ben and Lois Strickland, La Verne Franklin, and Nanci Tolbert Nance.
v Our unit currently has 128 members. Every single member is important, yet we obviously need to grow. If you are aware of current members of the education community who are nearing retirement, please begin now to explain the value of their membership in NC Retired School Personnel.
v If you are newly retired, this is the first Red Pencil you have received because we have just learned of your retirement and we welcome you. We hope that you will come to our luncheon meeting on March 25 at 12:00 at Deerfield Methodist Church. If you can attend, please call Margaret Sigmon at 264-2036 by Monday, March 22.
NC State Health Plan makes significant change
You may already have received a packet from the North Carolina State Health Plan. First, you need to know that the state is sending TWO packets, one for Medicare recipients and one for employees and retirees who do not yet qualify for Medicare. If you are 65 or older and have Medicare, you do not need to do anything to retain your current level of benefits. If you are not eligible for Medicare yet, you MUST act to keep your current level of benefits. You must complete the green/white/pink enrollment form and attestation form included in your packet and return them to Raleigh.
Completing the forms may be done online. Go to www.shpnc.org and click on 2010 Annual Enrollment. Scroll down to the Attestation Form/Annual Enrollment Form and complete it.
Angie Miller, Office of Human Resources, ASU, will be conducting help sessions for anyone with a question. Those sessions will be from 1 to 5P on March 17, March 24, and March 31 and on April 7 in the Northwestern Room at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center.
Again, you will receive the appropriate packet from the Health Plan. If you have Medicare, you do not need to do a single thing. If you are not yet eligible for Medicare, you must complete the forms and get them to Raleigh before the 9th of April.
PEOPLE NEWS
Eula Mae Fox has been off again – to Italy this time with fellow NCRSP members Lottie Downie, Nancy and Clayton Cooke, Leota and Keith Cloyd, and June Mann. We know they were thinking of us here in the snow as they travelled the Italian countryside!
Ann Winkler is recovering from back surgery.
Mary Mast has made the news again, this time by jumping out of an airplane. Skydiving, para-sailing, ziplining – the perfect way to relax and enjoy the golden years, right, Mary?
Margaret Sigmon has just returned from “the beach tour” – from Myrtle to Key West and back.
Kate Peterson celebrated her 100th birthday on March 12. If you’d like to send her a card, the past-due date won’t matter at all. Miss Kate Peterson, 2018 Sherwood Dr. #213, Johnson City TN 37601.
As always, please send news about our members to Nanci at ntn1066@hotmail.com or ntn@skybest.com.
The Steel Magnolias entertained at our December meeting, bringing us the merriest sounds of the season.]
Did You Know? Many people have wondered about the trailer parked on the K-Mart parking next to the Boone Post Office. According to our Margaret Sigmon, it’s a money-making project of The Watauga Chapter of Fire Fighters Burned Children's Fund and soon the Deep Gap Fire Department will have a second one all their own.
The trailer is for donating aluminum cans. The firemen sell the cans to raise funds that help with non-medical expenses of burn victims and their families. Because burned victims heal more quickly when surrounded by family members, this non-medical aid has included gas cards so family members can travel to visit the victim and phone cards for the victims to phone home. Another non-medical gift has been to provide different sizes of shoes to victims whose burned feet swell and contract as they heal.
The local chapter gave a Wii set with games to the Burn Center at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem to be used as therapy for recovering burn patients. Engaging in Wii physical activities stretches tight scar tissue and, in fact, helps patients to endure the pain of their therapy.
Locally, funds are raised by selling the collected aluminum cans and by sponsoring the Emergency Fest on ASU campus where the sponsors sell t-shirts and sweat shirts to support their project. This year the Fest will be held on Saturday, June 12.
The Fire Fighters’ Burned Children's Fund has fifteen chapters across North Carolina. At the 2009 annual retreat sponsored at Tweetsie by the Charlotte chapter, each participant received twenty Tweetsie dollars and dinner at the new Blowing Rock Fire Department.
Patient privacy laws make locating burn survivors difficult. If you know burn survivors who could benefit from participation in this program, please give their names and contact numbers to Margaret Sigmon and she will get this information to the NC Burn Center in Chapel Hill.
North Carolina Retired School Personnel
Individual Volunteer Hours Record for 2010
* Volunteer hours for the “Other” category would include the following activities. Please circle the ones in which you participated.
· Political
· Governmental
· Neighborhood
· Civic organization
· Hospital
· Companion to shut-in
· Healthcare/Red Cross
· Church/religious work
· Schools
· Athletics
· Transportation
· Mentoring/tutoring
· NCRSP
· Libraries
· Social Services
· Habitat for Humanity
· NB: Activities for which you are paid (i.e., honoria or stipends) do not count for volunteer hours.
· While the NCRSP Executive Board considers time caring for grandchildren, elderly parents, or other family members as very important, it considers these activities to be family obligations and does NOT accept these hours as volunteer hours.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Harlan Ledford - Educator & Retired Business Teacher from WHS, age 86 died March 10th.
Mr. Harlan Edward Ledford, age 86, of Chestnut Drive, Blowing Rock and a former resident of Boone, died Wednesday morning, March 10, 2010 at Blowing Rock Hospital. Born August 2, 1923 in Bakersville, NC, he was a son of the late Ransom and Esther Sparks Ledford. Mr. Ledford was a US Army Veteran having served during WWII. Harlan was a graduate of East Tennessee State University where he obtained a Masters of Education Degree. He taught business classes at Elizabethton High School and retired from Watauga High School where he taught business and typing for 35 years. Mr. Ledford was a member of Foscoe Christian Church where he taught Sunday School and was an Elder. Surviving are: one daughter, Lori Hill and husband Bob of Boone, one son; Gary Ledford and wife Jackie of Lincolnton; six grandchildren; Brian Ledford, Erin Whitworth, Luke and Matt Fowler, and Sierra and Dylan Hill, four great grandchildren; and one sister Margaret Hamm of Chattanooga, Tennessee. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife Bernice Edwards Ledford, one sister; Helen Richardson and one brother Ransom Ledford, Jr. Funeral services for Mr. Harlan Edward Ledford will be conducted Friday evening at 7:30 at the Foscoe Christian Church. Officiating will be Minister Ken Caswell and Minister Dan Burke. The family will receive friends Friday evening prior to the service at the church from 6 o'clock until 7:30. Flowers are accepted or memorials may be made to the Foscoe Christian Church, 8834 NC Hwy 105 South, Boone, NC 28607. Graveside services and burial for Mr. Harlan Edward Ledford will be conducted Saturday morning at 10:30 at Happy Valley Memorial Park and Gardens in Elizabethton, Tennessee
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