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THE STATE, COLUMBIA, S.C. DEATHS FUNERALS Marion Stevenson WINNSBORO Services for Marion Ebenezer Stevenson, 89, will be held at 11 a.m. 5, 1999 at New Hope A.R.P. CRuctober conducted by Dr. Archie C.

Reed and Rev. Joseph D. Beale. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends 6-8 tonight at Pope Funeral Home, which is in charge.

Memorials made New Hope A.R.P. Church charity of one's choice. Mr. Stevenson died Sunday, October 3, 1999. Born in Fairfield County on July 30, 1910, he was a son of the late James Ebenezer and Mamie Weir Stevenson.

He was a graduate of Mt. Zion School and Erskine College, where he played football on the varsity team. After college, he worked for Swift and Company in Atlanta and then became manager of A.E. Davis Supply Store. He later became a basketball coach at Blackstock and Monticello schools and was appointed superintendent of Monticello School.

After consolidation of the Fairfield County schools, he was transferred to Fairfield High School. He was a member of New Hope A.R.P. Church, where he had been an elder for 65 years. He was a member of the Winnsboro Lions Club and the American Legion, both of which he served as treasurer for over 20 years. He was a former member of the Fairfield County Council and served as chairman for four years.

At the time of his death, he was chairman of the Fairfield County Council on Aging. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, retiring as a lieutenant. He was also a member of the Fairfield County Volunteer Fire Department. Surviving are his wife of 59 years, Ruth Mason Stevenson; sister, Rebecca S. Turner of Clinton; number of nieces and nephews.

Virginia Strock ELLOREE Services for Virginia Huntley RUSSELL FROM PAGE B1 dents and moving down the college's organizational chart. He also has talked with companies who hire Midlands Tech graduates and has introduced himself to public officials. He hasn't had much time with students he wants to take a "crash course in Midlands" before he tries to answer their questions. He's been so pressed he hasn't called on the array of his relatives who live in the state. He doesn't have the lay of the land on the Airport, Beltline, and Harbison campuses yet, though he tries to meet people where they work.

Sometimes, he becomes disoriented in the Beltline administration building, where his office is. One day last week, Russell spent the sort of day that justifies his having a computerized pocket planner: He met with a vice president, group of heating and air-conditioning professionals, Midlands Tech retirees, an industrial group, the college's director of teaching and learning, and the Richland County Council. "He was very well versed," says Cheryl Cox, who met with Russell to describe her tasks as head of teaching and learning at Midlands Tech. "I was very, very pleased with the opportunity." At the County Council meeting, Russell sat waiting for two hours and 40 minutes for a piece of business that took six minutes flat to complete. The day which had started about 8 a.m.

ended at 9 p.m. At the county council meeting, Russell was introduced as the "new president of Midlands Technical College." His patience earned joking admiration from council member Gregory Pearce. "After you sit through this meeting," Pearce said, Barry Russell "you'll be the old president of Midlands Technical College." Russell grinned. The first "opportunity." The six minutes Russell spent with the council put the icing on an already sweet opportunity for Midlands Tech an opportunity to teach cuttingedge manufacturing technology. German conglomerate Siemens and U.S.

truck builder Navistar plan a $100 million operation in northeast Columbia, off Interstate 77, that will make diesel fuel injectors, eventually employing as many as 500. Siemens broke ground a couple of weeks ago and expects to open in 10 months. Richland council members agreed last week to reissue $2 million in general-obligation bonds so Midlands Tech could get to work on its northeast campus, which will focus on training workers for hightechnology and information-service industries. The Legislature also appropriated more than $5 million for the campus last session. Russell is pulling together a task force to decide by January on a plan for the northeast.

Before it gets there, the college may have to find temporary buildings to run high-tech training programs for Siemens, at least. "This is why we really appreciate Midlands Tech here," says Ferol Vernon, who's coordinating Siemens' efforts in Columbia. With FROM PAGE B1 and Mrs. Mitchel Connelly, 2079 Counts Sausage Prosperity. Whitaker Funeral Home is in charge.

Memorials may be made to St. Luke Lutheran Church, 3990 St. Luke Church Prosperity, SC 29127. Mrs. Taylor, widow of Sam Pat Taylor, died Sunday, October 3, 1999 at White Oak Manor, Newberry.

Born in Newberry County, she was a daughter of the late J. Tom and Ella Sligh Summer. She was a retired employee of Prosperity Manufacturing Co. She was a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, the Adult Sunday School Class, and a former member of the Margaret Hawkins Circle.

Surviving are her daughters and so Pat and Lindy Richardson, Harriett and Mitchel Connelly, all of Prosperity; sister, Kathryn S. Hamm; Claude, Everette, and Larry Summer, all of Newberry; grandchildren, Dean, Jimmy, Richardson, Wanda C. and Mark Crotwell, all of Prosperity, Michael Connelly of Chambersburg, greatTaylor Nicole Richardson, Duncan Matthew Crotwell, both of Prosperity. Hugh Walden CAMDEN Services for Hugh Davis Walden, 76, will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, October 5, 1999 at Wateree Baptist Church, Camden with burial in the church cemetery.

The will receive friends from 7-8 tonight at Kornegay Funeral Home Camden Chapel. Memorials may be made to American Heart Associates of S.C., P.O. Box 6604, Camden 29020 or a charity of one's choice. Mr. Walden died Saturday, October 2, 1999.

Born in Kershaw County, he was the son of the late B. Birdette Walden and Inez Hornsby Walden Sowell. He was a graduate of Palmer College, a U.S. Navy World War II and Korean veteran. Mr.

Walden was a retired supervisor with the Kendall Company in Camden. He was a member Wateree Baptist Church, a mem- Russell Already, boilerplate: he has "We a little must Barry real focus on the programs the right programs meeting real needs. We've got to make sure these programs are accessible." But he can be extemporaneous, too. "Let's be creative. Let's be bold," he tells the group of air-conditioning professionals, who respond enthusiastically, challenging him to make in Midlands Tech a statewide model of efficiency.

"I'm not ready to take on statewide just yet," he says. (Another grin.) "It just kind of baffles me that we can have so many good jobs going to waste out there" and no one training to fill them. It's time, he says, to work with public school counselors and superintendents so they'll channel more students to technical coliege. Parents, too, need to get that message, he says. "It's OK in fact, it's more than OK if your bright son or daughter will go into one of these fields out at Midlands." DIVIDES FROM PAGE B1 "Only by sitting down and talking openly about these issues with each other can we hope to have better race relations in our state," Washington said.

Viewers will be encouraged to call, fax or e-mail their reactions and thoughts during and after tonight's telecast. Members of the audience at the ETV studios also will have an opportunity to voice their opinions. Part one of the four-part series, which aired in June, addressed "History and Heritage" and sparked some lively discussion, although it was somewhat limited because of the show's structure. ROOF Jewelers Tennis Bracelet Diamond $9995 Perfect Proportions 1 cttw 7 Available inch in WHILE THEY LAST! 24691-64 6829 Two Notch Road, 788-2644 1228 Augusta Road, West Columbia, 791-0996 Mouthwatering. TM THE AMERICAN RESTAURANT BAR Opening in late October On Gervais at the Heart of the Vista (Former location of South by Southwest) 26179-63 MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1999 B5 Strock, 86, will be held at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at First Baptist Church of Elloree with burial in the church cemetery. The casket will be placed in the at 10 a.m. Visitation is 6-8 tonight at FogleHungerpiller Funeral Strock died Sunday. Born in Ellerbe, N.C., she was a daughter of the late Robert and Edna McDowell Huntley. She was married to the late Lawrence Strock.

Surviving are a son, Lawrence "Bill" Strock Jr. of Cordova; daughter, Betty Witt of Elloree; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Sarah Tatum MCCOLL Memorial services for Sarah Gibson Tatum, 87, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Penick Village, South Auditorium, Southern Pines, N.C. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m.

today in Roselawn Cemetery in McColl. Rogers Funeral Home is charge. Memorials may be made to The Penick Village, Box 2004, Southern Pines, NC or to Brownson Presbyterian Church, May Southern Pines, NC 28388. Mrs. Tatum died Saturday at Penick Village.

Born on April 12, 1912 in Marlboro County, she was a daughter of the late James Lytch and Maie McMillian Gibson, formerly of Gibson, N.C. She attended the Women's College in N.C. and at one time Sereensborce president of Tatum Properties of Virginia. She was a member of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Surviving are her husband, Major Frank P. Tatum of Southern Pines, N.C.; sister, Mrs.

Charles (Dot) Love McColl. Frances Taylor PROSPERITY Services for Frances Summer Taylor, 87, formerly of Counts Sausage Prosperity, will be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, with interment in the church cemetery. Visitation will be tonight at Whitaker Funeral Home.

The family will be at the residence of Mr. a start-up crew of 12, "we don't have the infrastructure to deliver the training" in the precise industrial grinding and other tasks involved in crafting fuel injectors for Ford V-6 engines. "It will be a good marriage" between Siemens and Midlands Tech, Russell says. "We're wondering if Siemens truly is part of a trend," he says the start of a parade of high-tech industries into the area off I-77 in northeast Columbia. Such an influx would create demand for all Midlands Tech graduates, Russell says the 30 percent who receive associate degrees in arts, aiming to go on to a four-year college, and those who receive technical training.

"This is my life." When he meets someone Russell's tone is brisk but friendly, and unburdened by frills. To introduce himself, he sticks out his right hand, accompanied by a "Hi. Barry Russell." It's not that everyone should know who Barry Russell is, he says. It's just "too pretentious" to constantly label himself the new president. Before a group, Russell speaks simply, sometimes grabbing a chair to lean on, a sort of impromptu lectern.

He gives his hometown-boy spiel. born at Baptist Hospital; grandfather a local minister; educated in local public schools; three degrees from Clemson then a brief discussion of what he's found at Midlands Tech. "If there's anything that's significantly wrong here or broken, they're doing a good job keeping it from me," he says. (Grin.) He pledges to do his best to bring community and college closer together. is a word he uses often.) He asks for help in making Midlands Tech its best.

"This is my life," he says of technical education, the only career he has ever pursued. ber of the Busy Bees Senior Club at Wateree Baptist Church, a former member of the Camdens Lions Club and a former member of the Camden Optimist Club. Surviving are his wife, Grace Threatt Walden of Camden; son, Harry D. Walden of Cassatt; daughter, Cynthia Simmons of Byron, grandchildren, Heather Walden, Brandon Walden, Amanda Smith, Hannah Simmons; half-brother, Ray Sowell of California; half-sisters, Frances Robinson of Lancaster and Mary Lois Fletcher of Sumter; step-brother, Johnny Sowell of Lancaster; several nieces and nephews. Mr.

Walden was pre-deceased by a brother, Jasper D. "Jack" Walden Sr. Heyward White ORANGEBURG Graveside services for Heyward Franklin Teacumseh White will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday ir Orangeburg Cemetery Visitation is 2-7 p.m. today at Bythewood Funeral Home.

Mr. White died Saturday. Born in Columbin, he was a son of late Laura B. white Frederick, the Rev. Albert White and stepson of late Hiram Frederick Jr.

Following his years in the U.S. Army, he worked as a general manager at the Orangeburg Bus Station. Surviving are two sons; a daughter; sister, Dr. Marianna Davis; brother-inlaw, Willie Butler; aunts, uncles. John Whittle BATESBURG-LEESVILLE Services for John Maxie Whittle, will be held at 11 a.m.

Tuesday at St. James Lutheran Church in Summit, with burial in the church cemetery. The Rev. Ed Miller will officiate. Pallbearers will be Eddie Smith, Shealy, Taylor, Danny Corder Michael and Weaver, Dean Revil.

The family will receive friends tonight from 6-8 at Charles R. Shealy and Son Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the American Heart Association. Mr. Whittle died Saturday, October 2, ARTS FROM PAGE B1 said Jim Rogers, who has been active in the center for 18 years.

Dixie Hicks, the president of the Kershaw Chamber of Commerce, called the Fine Arts Center "a real jewel in our crown." "It gives us the gift of culture," she said. "Without it, I'm not sure we could maintain the quality of (business and residential) relocations we are receiving. It does nothing but complement all our efforts at historic preservation here." For the people behind the Fine Arts Center, the past 25 years has been a progression of mission. When the Douglas-Reed House in Camden was renovated for the center's first home, there was still no auditorium for performances, Rogers said. "We merely had a place to sit," he said.

"We needed another building." After a $600,000 fund-raising Washington says steps have been taken to allow for more spontaneous comments during tonight's show. "We knew there would be some rough edges on that first show," Washington said. "We tried to pack too much into it. We think we learned from that. "Opening remarks will be held to about two minutes.

We want to 1999. Born in Prosperity, he was the son of Geneva Craps Whittle and late Lorenzo "Shorty" Whittle. He was a member of St. James Lutheran Church and was a truck driver for Oswald Lumber. Surviving are his mother of Leesville; paternal grandmother, Carrie Long of Leesville; Richard (Brenda) Kelly of Aiken, Ms.

Loretta W. Mize of Leesville; three nieces; four nephews. Edward Willis AIKEN Services for Edward L. "Eddie" Willis, 52, will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Harvest Baptist Church, with burial in Aiken Memorial Gardens.

Visitation will be 7-9 tonight at Rivers Funeral Home, which is in Mr. Willis died Saturday. He was a son Ruby New Willis and the late Win trop S. Willis. was a member of Harvest Baptist Church.

are his faithful companion, Bobby Ann Widener; daughter, Samantha Willis; brother, Andy Willis, all of Aiken; sisters, Priester of Lake Murray, Judi Stewart, Deborah Kirby, both of Aiken; two grandchildren. Lucy Woods COLUMBIA Memorial service for Lucy Taylor Woods, 61, ton, NC, will be held 9649. The family will formerly of Wilmingat 11 a.m today at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, with burial at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Oleander Memorial Gardens, Wilmington, N.C. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Palmetto Health Hospice, P.O.

Box 7275, Columbia, SC 29202- be at the residence 1-3 p.m. today. Mrs. Woods died Sunday, October 3, 1999. Born in she was a daughter of Atlanta King Taylor and campaign, they built the square-foot Bassett Building in 1983.

It provided space for an art gallery and 271-seat auditorium. In the 1990s, the center decided to add a wide range of educational programs, including dance, choral and music lessons. Like many non-profit arts groups, the Fine Arts Center needed to change its funding stream to get more income from fees, as opposed to contributions and ticket prices. After a $1.4 million fund-raising campaign, the center opened its Daniels Arts Education Building in 1995. Half of the money was used to endow scholarships for children.

Income from the endowment provides $26,000 per year to underwrite participation in education programs and a summer camp. "Our success is built on the concept that the arts are for everyone," Harper said. That also means keeping ticket prices low and providing a welcoming atmosphere, she said. get the public involved a lot quicker this time." The panel for this second show includes: Randy Covington, news director, WIS-TV; Eileen Waddell, editor, community life reporting staff, The State; Herb Frazier, reporter, Charleston Courier; and Wilfredo Leon, publisher of the late Wilbur Jennings Taylor Sr. She was employed with Forest Lake Fabrics.

She was a member of First Baptist Church in Manning and Bay Blossom Garden Club. Surviving are her husband, William Hagood Woods Ill of Columbia; son, David Ashley Woods Hill; daughter, Virginia "Ginger" Hart of Columbia; mother of Wilmington, N.C.; brothers, Luther Hill Taylor, Wilbur Jennings Taylor both of Wilmington, N.C., Winston Cordell Taylor of Spartanburg; sisters, Nell T. Teachey of Wilmington, N.C., Joyce Elaine Easter, Lindsey, both of Wrightsville Beach, N.C., Grace T. Swain of Wilmington, N.C.; grandchildren, Reece Olivia Woods, Jennings Phillips Woods. A.L.

Young CASSATT Graveside services for A.L. Young, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, October 5, 1999 in High Hill True Light Church Cemetery, Lucknow. The family will receive friends from 5-7 tonight, October 4, at Kornegay Funeral Home, Camden Chapel and other times at the residence. Memorials may be made to the Camden Tree Foundation, P.O.

Box 702, Camden, 29020 or to a charity of one's choice. Mr. Young died Sunday, October 3, 1999. Born in Kershaw County, he was a son of the late Willis Lemuel Young and Addie Mae Ogburn Young. He was a retired farmer and retired Public Works Superintendent for the City of Camden.

Mr. Young was a member of the 4-H Club Horseclub and a former trustee at Midway School. He was married to the late Tressa Mae Hall Young. Surviving are daughters, Judith Horton of Cassatt, Jo Montgomery of Camden; sons, Charles Young and Lynnwood Young both of Cassatt and Willis Young of Camden; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; brothers, Everette Young and Ralph Young both of Camden. Mr.

Young was predeceased by sisters, Bessie Watkins, Celeste Waters and Pauline Hall and a brother, Dan W. Young. "At every event, someone will be i in a suit and someone will be in jeans," Harper said. "It's important to me that everyone be comfortable." Down the road, Harper envisions a project to commission sculptures for public buildings and spaces in Camden. She dreams of artists' cottages on the center's five-acre lot, providing a place to stay in Camden for participants in the artists-in-education program in schools.

But in the meantime, the people behind the Fine Arts Center will celebrate all they've accomplished in the past quarter-century. "We have done what we set out to do: expose people to the arts, to see it, find out what it's about and to participate in it if they choose," Rogers said. Eric Velasco covers issues affecting Kershaw, Newberry and Fairfield counties. He can be reached at (803) 771-8684, by fax at (803) 771-8430 or by e-mail at The Latino Newspaper, Greenville. Washington, who will serve as moderator, says he already has his first question ready.

"I'm going to ask the panel what do they think the media's role is in regard to race relations." Future shows will deal with politics and race and law enforcement and race. Quality. Upgradability. Performance. Service.

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