Volume 6, Number 3 - Spring 1977
The Editor Speaks
A member of our group who lives in another state has written saying, "Tell us more about what is done at the meetings. We can’t be there, but we want to hear about them."
At the March meeting a program on "Shape Notes" was presented by Jay Armstrong of Springfield. Mr. Armstrong is a native of Polk County, Mo. His father was a singing school teacher there, and Jay learned to read shape notes before he learned his three R’s.
The speech, which Mr. Armstrong made even more interesting by using a number of charts and visual aids, took us back to the "good old days" when each family, and certainly each little community center, provided its own entertainment and recreation.
After the speech a trio from the Mincy area composed of T. H. Gideon, Barbara Gimlin, and Ardella Dees with Jon Glenn at the piano entertained us with some old favorite songs. This too was very enjoyable.
We are all looking forward to the June meeting when Elmo Ingenthron, first president of W.R.V.H.S., will be our speaker. We hope to see you there because a good portion of the enjoyment of being a part of our society comes from the getting acquainted with new friends and meeting old ones. And, if you are at the meetings, you are evidently interested in preserving the history of our area. This is our society’s primary goal, and as such, it is each member’s responsibility.
Now let’s think about this, your responsibility. When I take this quarterly to press the folder of unpublished material will be as bare as Mother Hubbard’s cupboard!
Several persons have promised articles, but we can’t publish promises. We need your material. We need it now! I’m looking foreward to hearing from you.
Give me work to do;
Give me health;
Give me joy in simple things.
Give me an eye for beauty,
A tongue for truth,
A heart that loves,
A mind that reasons,
A sympathy that understands;
Give me neither malice nor envy,
But a true kindness
And a noble common sense.
At the close of each day
Give me a book,
And a friend with whom
I can be silent.
-Author Unknown
Your Editor
Cinita Davis Brown
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