NORTH CAROLINA FEDERATION OF HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUBS ”m

Volume 4 N. C. State College, Raleigh, N. C., September, l957 Number 3

The Spirit of a ClubWhen the cats are away the mice

will play but it was in more of a moodof earnest endeavor that the membersof the Elkton Home DemonstrationClub (Bladen County) met for theirFebruary program without theirhome agent. It was the first time oneyoung member played the piano ac-companiment for the song. Indeedmost of the women took part in themeeting. The demonstration showinghow to use more milk in main disheswas given by the dairy leader as sheprepared and cooked barbecued ham-burgers (with dry milk as one ingre-dient) in an electric skillet on the liv—ing room table. Perhaps, however, thewomen will carry with them evenlonger than the milk recipes the spiritof helpfulness and co-operation ex—hibited in the meeting.

Mrs. W. J. Elkins,Publicity Chairman

Plans In Rockingham

Where are we now? And where arewe going next? These were the twoquestions home demonstration womenof Rockingham County asked them-selves at the third quarterly CountyCouncil meeting.

Project leaders reported the prog—ress made during the last siX monthsand discussed with the group phasesof improved homemaking which wereneeded in the near future.The District Home Agent Miss Ana—

merle Arant, who was present forthis Council meeting, complimentedthe women on their outstandingwork on improved practices in home-making.

Mrs. Fred Jones, District Chair—man, and her committees are busystudying program plans for the dis-trict meeting next year which will beheld in Rockingham County.

Mrs. J. R. Taylor, ReporterDistrict'12

From A Dream to

Reality

The Bladen Union Home Demon-stration Club had a dream—“A Com-munity House”! We had talked aboutit for quite a while, but there didn’tseem to be anything that we coulddo. We didn’t have any money in thetreasury and we could not see a wayto make any. We did not give ourdream up even though it looked asif the dream were fading.One night a little over two years

ago the men in our community form-ed a Ruritan Club. Almost everyhome demonstration club member’shusband joined. Of course there wereothers. The women went to work. Themen had to be fed and the home dem—onstration women fed them at theirmonthly meetings. Each member ofour club was asked to contribute tothe supper so that our checks wouldbe clear profit. From this our treasurybegan to grow.

It wasn’t long before the men beganto talk about a community house andthe women helped them talk! Severalof the members offered land for abuilding site for a community houseand a committee was formed fromboth clubs to choose the most suit-able site. Each of the members of theRuritan Club who offered a site forthe building had a wife in the homedemonstration club, so never under-estimate the power of a woman!A site was selected and the men

went to work and so did the women.The women asked for and receiveddonations for the community housein equipment and money. Manyfriends and business organizations do-nated money and appliances. Thekitchen was completely equipped bythe women. A stove and hot waterheater were donated by businessfirms. A sink was given by a clubmember. Fifty dollars worth of kit-chen utensils were donated. The club

Thirty Years

Attendance at

Farm—Home WeekAmong the club women from Nort-

hampton County attending FarmHome Week at State College in Ra-leigh, August 5-8 was Mrs. EldridgeMartin of the Lasker-Dusty HillHome Demonstration Club. 1957 ses—sions was the thirtieth year that shehas attended. Since Mrs. Martin is afarmerette from the peanut, cotton.and corn section of the state, she has;always managed to attend classes inagronomy. Mrs. Martin is recognizedby people in her county as a veryefficient farmer.

Mrs. Samuel Johnson of the Sea-board Club in Northampton Countyeach year supplements her family in—come by selling vegetables from hergarden. During this year she hascleared well over $100.00 through hersales. Mrs. Johnson recommends thisto any one who has space for a largegarden and enjoys gardening.

women bought the dishes, silver, re-frigerator and material for cabinetsand paneling. The chairs were boughtby us also, and a cash donation wasgiven to the men to help finish therest rooms. We sold flavoring to buya forty-eight cup coffee maker. Weare planning. to buy draperies. Thisfall we are going to set out shrubbery.We don’t call it a “club house” but

“The Community House”. It is usedfor both of the clubs meeting once amonth, church socials and a harvestday have also been held there. Thecommunity uses it when any com-munity activity is to be held. It hasbeen used for showers and even a cakecutting. Anyone in the community iswelcome to use it!We are looking forward to seeing

our young peOple use it more. Wethink that planned and organized rec--reation by the parents is good for

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OfficersPresident .......... MRS. RALPH PROFFITTFirst Vice-President ....MRS. L. B. PATESecond Vice—President MRS. V. I. HOCKADAYRecording Secretary MRS. ROBERT A. GENTRYCorresponding Secretary MRS. W. A. GAINSTreasurer .......... MRS. CHARLES GOUGHCoordinating Treasurer MRS. W. T. TATUMVERNA STANTON, Editor ....State College

Mrs. F. E. Bris-tow of the Las-ker — Dusty HillH o m e Demon-stration Clubin NorthamptonCounty has madean unusual rec-ord in attendanceof Home Demon-stration Clubmeetings. At the1 9 5 6 Achieve-

ment Day She was presented a cer-tificate for 42 years of perfect atten-dance.

Mrs. F. E. Bristow

In an article on “What Home Deni—onstration Club has Meant to Me,”Mrs. Bristow stated, “I haven’t miss-ed a meeting Since club work began in1916. It isn’t so much the record I’mproud of but the knowledge that Ihave gained through my attendance.”No organization can function with—out a leader, neither can one functionwithout faithful members.Even before Extension work began

.‘in Northampton County Mrs. Bristow'waS a member of the “Tomato Club”:a predecessor of the Home Demon—stration Club. Mrs. Bristow is notonly a charter member of the organi-zation but she is also the first presi-dent of the Dusty Hill Club.

Several years ago She and herdaughter-in-law compiled a history ofthe activities of the Dusty-Hill Club.

Mrs. Verne Alden of Kansas waselected President of the NationalHome Demonstration Council at theannual meeting in Columbus, Ohio.The 1958 meeting of the Council willbe held in Kansas.

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Greetings:Y o u w i] l b e

hearing a b o u tmany of the in—teresting placeswe saw on ourtrip to Ceylon butnone will have am o r e importantp 1 a c e in 0 u rhearts than theN o r t h Carolina

Training Center.The highlight of the conference

was the afternoon the North Carolinadelegates and two friends visited theTraining Center named for NorthCarolina, due to the $1300 sent lastyear to Ceylon through UNESCO.Lady Coomaraswamy, Chairman ofUNESCO, arranged for the youngwoman, who was in charge of arrang-ing for the North Carolina center, totake uS out to visit.

Mr. and Mrs. Saminika, a lovelyyoung couple, came for us in their carand two hired cars to take us.We left the city streets of Colombo

and came to paved roads but narrow;then we turned into a one-way dirtroad very narrow and eight milesfrom Colombo, our Village TrainingCenter, Madievela, located amid a na—tive community with native peopleand homes amid tropical trees andplants.When we arrived, everyone was

there to meet uS—all in native cos-tume and ready. The aged, the young,and even babies were there. Whenwe arrived the grass was wet ‘withfresh rain, and a bit muddy.The land was given by a man who

lived by the building; the buildingwas constructed by the people; theequipment given by North Carolinathrough UNESCO. There were wideopenings for doors; the walls werejust one-half way up the Side; and

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the building had a good cement floor.Mrs. Berryhill cut the string of

flowers across the entrance.The Friendship Lamp was lighted

by all of the group.In the middle of the floor was a

wide board and a fire was built on thisboard. A round clay pot one-half fullof milk was placed over the flame andwatched by the group until it boiledover. When the milk boiled, they alllaughed and yelled for joy becausethe milk had boiled over on the properside of the pot to bring good luck tothe new building and the people.The young girls danced and sang

for us outside on the grass.We were invited in to have tea. The

invitation was given by offering aglass of water to Mrs. Berryhill. Shewas supposed to drink it, but we werenot sure that the water had beenboiled, so she didn’t drink it.

There was one room at the far endof the building—a very narrow room.In this room there was a type of cabi-net, a long table and a number ofstraight chairs.The table was covered to keep the

flies off the food.The table was filled with a variety

of native foods and as many of thepeople who could crowd in came andstood over uS.

It was very hot in this small room,but finally an old, old man kept push-ing in until he reached the table.When he reached the table, he stoodright over us putting food on ourplates. Someone called him “Grand—pa”, and he just put more food high-er and higher on my plate. Theyexpected us to eat what they put onour plates. We were thankful for thedelicious bananas.

After the tea, Mrs. Berryhill, be-cause She was president when this$1300 was sent to Ceylon, made ashort speech. Our guide translated itfor the people.

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Their leader made a speech and itwas translated for us.We gave them a copy of our North

Carolina Cook Book and also our YearBook.We returned to Colombo and there

we had another tea at the lovely homeof the charming young couple.The women of Ceylon are to be

praised for their way of self-improve—ments during the last twenty-fiveyears.

Because we are so blessed thereis an obligation for us to do more andmore. This was a day we will neverforget because we left knowing theTraining Center meant much to thepeople of the community and thank-ful we had had the privilege to con-tribute to the equipment for thewomen; and all of us hope and praywe can ever do more to help thesewomen learn some of the simple,basic rules for caring for and feedingtheir families.

I wish each of you could have beenwith us.

Sincerely,Juanita Proffitt

Blueberries on TVMrs. Billie Blanchard, a very at—

tractive and talented member of theRose Hill H. C. Club in Duplin County,appeared on “Cooking Can Be Fun”to demonstrate making cool summerdesserts. This TV program is design—ed to help homemakers enjoy plan-ning and preparing their familymeals. Since Mrs. Blanchard and herhusband grow blueberries on theirfarm, she gave the recipe and pre-pared for the viewers a lemon blue-berry pie, according to the recipegiven below. During the program,Mrs. Blanchard mentioned the factthat she has made a collection of blue-berry recipes. There has been so muchinterest shown that some of her otherrecipes have been given on followingprograms.

Lemon Blueberry Pie1 Cup Condensed milk

1/2 Cup lemon juice2 Egg yolks1 Cup blueberries

Stir lemon juice well into milk.Beat egg yolks and add to milk

mixture. Add blueberries. Pour mix-ture into baked pie crust. Top withbeaten egg whites and brown in oven(or top with whipped cream).

Mrs. J. B. StroudPublicity Chairman

(Con’t from page 1, col. 3)them and we plan to work towardthis.

In building and planning the com-munity house we have been broughtcloser together. We have learned towork with one another. Better under—standing has come out of this project.Our community has been drawn closertogether. We also have learned to playwith our neighbors and children.

There are still a few things thatneed to be done to our communityhouse, but can anyone blame us forbeing proud?

Mrs. Joe ButlerMrs. Leslie WillisBladen County

Report On

International

RelationsHome Demonstration Club Women

of Stokes County are indeed fortunatein having Mrs. John Bray of WalnutCove as County International Rela—tions Leader, because she can bringthem first hand information aboutforeign neighbors. She not only at—tended the United Nations this pastyear and brought back a report of hertrip, but she even made a trip abroadlast year. Therefore, her talks, pic-tures, and exhibits have been evenmore interesting because we knowshe has traveled abroad and knowswhereof she speaks. Mrs. Bray madethis trip abroad with an old schoolfriend she had not seen since hergraduation from Lewis Gale School ofNursing in Roanoke. At a class re-union they renewed their old friend-ship and decided that it was time theysaw some of the rest of the world.They visited in nine countries on theirtrip which included Germany, France,England, Austria, Italy, Switzerland,Luxenburg, Holland and Belgium.

Mrs. Bray says her most interest-ing, as well as most disturbing, ex-perience occured at the time theywere trying to get on a train. Whenthey crossed the Rhine they were try-ing to get tickets to get a boat-train.Nobody could speak English. Every-one spoke either French or German.There was no one to help carry heavyluggage. “We were really gettingfrantic,” Mrs. Bray reported, “be-cause it was almost time for the boat-train and nobody could understandwhat we wanted. Finally somebody

wrote out in French what we wantedand we succeeded in getting our tick-ets just in time to catch the train,”sighed Mrs. Bray. When they weretrying to get heavy bags on the train,Mrs. Bray says that when she heardsomeone say “Can I help you, lady?”and turned around and saw an Ameri—can G.I. she was never so happy to seeanyone. '

Mrs. Bray has many activities. Shedoes private nursing now. She hasdone private nursing in the Baptistand City Hospitals in Winston-Salem,the Hugh Chatham Hospital in Elkinand the Hoots Memorial Hospital inYadkinville. She is the president ofthe Walnut Cove Home Demonstra-tion Club. She organized and was thefirst president of the Walnut CoveBook Club. She is also advisor of theWaynut Cove Business Womens Cir-cle of the Baptist Church.

Mrs. Bray has two children, JohnBray, who is now in the Air Forcestationed in Alabama. Her daughter,Carol Bray Bailey, is a Home Eco-nomics graduate with a Master’s De-gree in Foods and Nutrition. She hasjust recently had her third child, aboy, which is Mrs. Bray’s first grand—son.

Mrs. Bray is very generous withher time in giving talks about hertrips. She is an interesting speakerand has given eleven talks to approxi—mately 565 people on the United Na-tions tour and on her trip abroad. Insome of her meetings these two talksare combined.The women of Stokes County feel

very fortunate in having such a ver-satile, wide awake woman for theirInternational Relations Leader.

Mrs. H. E. CarterStokes Publicity Chairman

National Home

Demonstration

CouncilTwenty-nine home demonstration

club members attended the NationalHome Demonstration Council meetingon the campus of Ohio State Univer-sity at Columbus, Ohio, September 8-11. The group went by chartered busto Natural Bridge, Virginia and toLuray where they spent the night atthe Minslyn Motor Inn. From therethe'trip took them to Winchester;Cumberland, Maryland; to Columbus,Ohio.

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Membership

CampaignOrange County is experiencing a

“work—away-from Home” boom asmany counties are. Many of the HomeDemonstration women have felt theneed to supplement their farm incomeand have taken jobs in industry andother places. This move to industrymeant that our Home DemonstrationClub membership was being affected.

In order to give our members whoare working away from home an op-portunity to be active Home Demon-stration Club members and to increaseour membership, the county councilmembers voted in January to adoptsuggestions for a year-long member-ship drive. This drive was unique inthat it concentrated on one groupeach month.

In February we tried to visit theinactive members. We took them bul-letins and gave them a special invita-tion to come to Home DemonstrationClub meetings. We reminded them ofthe time for the meetings and tookthem to the meetings.New-comers t0 the community were

given a very special invitation to at—tend Home Demonstration meetings.We felt that the Home DemonstrationClub was a good place to learn toknow our neighbors better.

In April the young mothers wereinvited to the Home Demonstrationmeetings. Baby sitters were provided.This plan has worked fine in somecommunities.Our seniors in High School were

invited to be our guests in May. Weknow that these girls are our futuremembers.We thought especially of the women

working away from home in June.Many of our clubs have been havingtheir leaders’ meetings at night. Thesenight meetings get those women whocan not attend meetings during theday to go to the Home DemonstrationClub every other month. This planhas worked so well that most of theHome Demonstration clubs in thecounty are using it.As yet we have not experienced any

great results, but we are gaining newmembers and we have aroused in-terest among the inactive ones.We are still pushing our campaign

and believe that it will show good re-sults at the end of the year.

Mrs. Harold WalkerVice PresidentOrange County Council

Home Demonstration News

Hickory Nut Gorge

Home Demonstration

Club Activities“A community can do anything it

wants to” is the motto used by manycommunity development organiza-tions. The women of the Hickory NutGorge home demonstration club be—lieve this too. They are working hardto raise $6,000 to buy the spacious“Copper Kettle” restaurant and rec-reation center to be used for a com-munity center. If the women can raise$1,000 this year the owners of thecenter will match this amount leavingonly $4,000 to be paid over a periodof years—interest free. The buildingis well equipped with dishes, largefood freezer, and all the necessaryequipment for quantity cookery. Fur—niture includes a piano, bedroomsuites, chairs, tables, etc. One largerustic room is attached to the buildingwhere the annual Hickory Nut Gorgehome demonstration flower show isheld.The club women have been busy

this summer preparing and servingdinner for $1.25 per plate each Fridaynight. Last Friday evening 120 peoplewere served. Each dinner had broughtapproximately $100 into the clubtreasury.The community center will fill a

definite need in this community whichis approximately 25 miles from ashopping center. A home demonstra-tion curb market has great possibili-ties as a part of the community un-dertaking. Club women are alreadyselling their jellies, preserves andcrafts in a small section of the build—ing and have plans to work towarda better market next year. The“Hickory Nut Gorge Center” is locat-ed on Hwy. 74 approximately half—way between Asheville and Hender-sonville. This highway is heavilytraveled during the summer months;therefore, we believe that a homedemonstration curb market could bevery successful in this area.We are enthused about such a tre-

mendous undertaking but believealong with the people whose idea itwas to try to buy the center that ahome demonstration club can do any—thing it wants! If hard work and co-operation make for success this build-ing will be paid for and owned by thewomen of Hickory Nut Gorge homedemonstration club.

September, 1957

News From

NorthamptonTwo of Northampton County’s

home demonstration clubs united fora four-day training school on emer-gency care of the sick and injured. Itall started when the county homeagent Miss Lela Melvin and two clubmembers attended the Ninth AnnualRural Health Conference in Raleigh,October 11, 1956. One of the confer-ence speakers mentioned the impor-tance of Red Cross Home Nursingcourses being taught in each com-munity. A few days later Miss Melvincontacted Mrs. Paul Calvert, CountyRed Cross Supervisor, and asked herto attend the County Council meetingof home demonstration clubs in Jack-son.A report of the Rural Health Con—

ference was given by the CountyHealth and Safety Chairman, Mrs.Jay Britton of Conway.

Mrs. Calvert stressed the impor-tance of Northampton County becom-ing organized for Civilian Defense,and a must for Red Cross HomeNursing throughout the county.The Council members voted to spon—

sor such classes and a training schoolwas held in the Milwaukee Commu-nity Building May 27, 28, 29, and 30with 17 persons from MilwaukeeCommunity and 5 persons from Con-way attending. Mrs. L. C. Marshallfrom Enfield was secured as teacher.The group helped in securing sup-

plies for the class such as: singlebeds, sheets, pillows, pillow cases,blankets, spreads, wash basins, towels,bath cloths and numerous otherthings to work with were suppliedfrom the County Red Cross Chapterin Jackson.During the week, four members of

the class acted the part of a patient,and all other members of the groupparticipated in carrying out the in-structions given by Mrs. Marshall incaring for the patient.As a result of these four days of

training in emergency care of thesick and injured, Northampton Coun-ty has 17 qualified Red Cross “‘Nurs-ing Assistants”, who are prepared tohelp in any emergency or disasterthat. should take place in this county.

Mrs. Marshall told the group thatit is the first class to be taught underthe new Emergency Care of the Sickand Injured.