RADD kickball thanks sponsors
Members of the RADD, Inc. 2013 kickball teams are appreciative of their team sponsors, American Legion Post 43 and Woodmen of the World.
RADD is the name for the organization Raising Awareness for the Developmentally Disabled. Post 43 and Woodmen sponsored the two 2013 teams, which played each other on eight Saturdays from January to March in Mock Gym.
The team competition helped the players learn social and physical skills.
Kinston woman earns award
Karen Trivette Cannell of New York, originally of Kinston, has received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship for this academic year.
The award was presented May 14 at the State University of New York, where she is assistant professor and head of Special Collections and Archives at SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology.
Cannell earned a Bachelor of Arts from UNC and a Master’s of Library Science from SUNY University at Albany. The North Lenoir High School graduate is the daughter of Mary Ann Trivette of Institute and the late Jimmy Trivette.
Lenoir DYW program to meet
An informational meeting concerning the 2014 Distinguished Young Women of Lenoir County Program (formerly Lenoir County Junior Miss) will be held at 2 p.m. June 2 at the La Grange Rotary Building.
Girls who are high school juniors, live in Lenoir County, but outside of the city limits, and are on schedule to graduate in 2014, are eligible to participate in this program.
Interested girls and their parents are encouraged to attend.
Honors extolled at Finer Womanhood event
The Delta Rho Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. held its annual Finer Womanhood program recently at King’s Restaurant. The sorority was founded Jan. 16, 1920, on the principles of scholarship, service, sisterly love and finer womanhood by five women at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
This year’s theme has been “Building on the Principles of Zeta while Blazing New Paths.” President Cynthia Corbitt presided. Madie Bell, member of Zeta Chi Zeta Chapter in Goldsboro, was the guest speaker.
Receiving honors were Louise Maye, Community Services, for volunteer services in her La Grange community; Barbara Hammonds, Leadership, for her years of service with the Lenoir County Board of Elections; Margaret Dixon, Religious Education, for service to her church and auxiliaries; Kneashja Jackson, Youth of the Year, for her work and ranking in the Blue Revue program; Carrie Kornegay and Jennifer Kilpatrick, as co-chairpersons; and Corbitt as chapter president.
The chapter is planning a senior health program in July and the biannual Blue Revue in November.