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Staff Photos By Julie Griffis
HERMAN BANKEY CREATES ACROSTICS IN HIS SPARE TIME
Chattooga County Native Turns 90 Years Old This Month :
Retired Chattoogan Fills Day With Acrostics
‘‘Having been blessed with 90 years of life. I wish to praise
the Lord with these thoughts.’; .
Near to the heart of God
In worship we should be
Never doubting God's love
Enfioyinf his security
Telling from heaven above
Your sins are forgiven*therg ¢
Herman Bankey, Back Penn Road, Summerville, wrote those
words to celebrate his 90th birthday. The Summerville native
has been creating acrostics for about 15 years.
Looking bright and chipper, and much younger than his 10
years shy of a century, Bankey gives his acrostic creations to
friends, family members and sometimes they turn up in the
church bulletin at Trion I:irst *Baptist Churcl?n,.
Creations include ‘‘Worship,” ‘‘Praise,” ‘“Joyous,” and
“Crisis.”
Crisis Comes to everyone
Repentance may bring peace
In Jesus there is hel
Seek him for your re?ease
In his daily presence
Salvation makes crisis*decrgase 4
“I wrote that after studying the Psalm of crisis in Sunday
Slchool class,” Bankey explained. “‘I gave it to my Sunday School
class.”
On the wall of the home he shares with his wife, Zilpha, hangs
a cross-stitch work titled:Hor:xe.” 2
Home is a place where people reside
On top of a mountain or in a valley beside
More than one person in a home may be
Each wishing the othe:. yox: bef?'re me.
Bankey said he generally gives copies of ‘“‘Home" to couples
planning to marry.
Center Offers
An Alternative
The Chattooga County
Parent Child Center is not a
bab'ly:sitter or a day-care center.
hat according to Ella
McGraw, social services coor
dinator, who spoke to the
Summerville-Trion Optimist
Club thiidpast Friday.
Mrs. McGraw said the pro
?am has been in Summerville
or about 22 dyears, and ‘“some
people still don’t know about
lt.”
“It’s a good program,”’ she
said. “It’s%ederally funded for
mothers and children, but it's
not d’ust another federally fund
ed day-care program.”
Unlike other programs,
mothers of students must also
attend classes, accordinil to
Mrs. McGraw. Even workin
mothers are required to attencf
“Some drop out because of
that requirement,”” she explain
ed. “But thereis a waitinf list
of people wanting to be placed
in thfixrrogram.’
Children up to four years
old attend classes four days per
week, while the mothers are re
guired to attend classes two
ays J)er week. If they work
outside the home, they're ex
pected to attend classes one
day Nfer week.
rs. McGraw exé)lained a
gypical Parent-Child Center
ay to O,ftimists.
“At 7:30 am., the buses
pull out of the center and begin
picking up the children,” she
said. ‘‘At 8:30 we serve
breakfast at the center.”
Children are served two meals
per day at the facility, both of
which meet U. S. Defi:rt.ment
of Agriculture guidelines.
“Children from six weeks
old to 18 months go to the
nursery after breakfast,” Mrs.
McGraw said. “The others at
tend four classrooms, staffed
by eight teachers. Mothers
heg: feed, some bathe babies,
and interact until 10 a.m.”
Once separated and the
children are in the nursery or
classroom, the mothers attend
sglecial parenting classes,
where they listen to speakers,
watch parenting video tl?Bes, or
get advice on rearing children.
They also learn other skills
not (fenerally associated with
child rearing, but associated
with increasing the family’s
quality of life.
‘“‘Several of our mothers are
learning to sew,”” Mrs.
McGraw explained. ‘“‘Our goal
is for each mother to make
their child an Easter outfit.”
For Christmas many mothers
made Christmas stockings, she
said.
Mothers also can learn
ceramics, cooking, and take
nutrition classes.
“Right now, I'm on the
discépline bandwagon,” Mrs.
McGraw told Optimists. “I'm
not totally against spanking
under certain circumstances,
but you have to make some
rarents realize that they’re a
ot larger and their skin is a lot
tougher than the childs.”
he said she tries to en
courage to be a little more im
aginative than to spank a child.
“We sl?xffe“ talkin%; mak
ing the child stand in the cor
ner, taking away television
privileges,” she said. ‘‘But, if a
child must be s%anked we tell
parents to use their hand, not
a belt.” Mrs. McGraw said if an
object is used for the task of
spanking, one cannot measure
tfie amount of sressure being
put on the child’s skin.
The prosram offered by the
parent-child center is primari-
Thursday, January 16, 1992 . .
In celebration of his wedding anniversary, he presented his
wife with a framed acrost}c titled “*Marriage."
Marriage joins together
And seals the bond for life
Respecting each other
Reverently without strife
In sickness or in health
As only marriafe can give
Growing ever closer with
Enjoyment as long as :,hey *live. .
‘“‘She told me not to give her another card, that she had a
whole drawer full,” Bankey said with a laugh.
Relaxing in his easy chair, wearin% a gray and plaid flannel
shirt, navy Eants and brown corduroy bedroom slippers, Bankey
explained that he moved from Chattooga County around 1951
when the then Riegel Glove Mill moved to Alabama. He retired
from the glove mi%l at age 65 and returned here in 1967. o
He uses his acrostics to show how he feels, what's on his mind,
or in celebration.
* * *
Telling our heavenly father
How much we appreciate .
All thy many blessings
Never ending from heaven's gate
Kindness, merci and love
Sent to all mankind
Given from Heaven above
Is the Bible where we find
Victory in Jesus
In faith may be won
New life and salvation
Given from God throu;gh hi: son
Bankey said he thinks of a subject, reads his Sunday school
lesson and gets an idea of what it’s about, then creates his
acrostics.
“I give 'em to friends, put them in the church,”” he said. *‘l
change them once in a while.”
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OPTIMIST CLUB PRESIDENT GARY FLOYD CHATS WITH ELLA McGRAW
Social Services Coordinator At Chattooga Parent-Child Center
Iy for low income families. Ten
percent of those accepted are
over income, with 10 percent
handicapped.
“The over income percen
tage fills quickly,’”” Mrs.
McGraw said, ‘“‘because our in
come scale isn't very high.”
She added that some of the
children served through the
gogram are multiply han
'cagaped. Students must live
in Chattooga County and must
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participate in the program’s
early intervention program,
which includes dental checkups
and Tflhysicals.
e center is run by a staff
of 15, eight teachers staffing
four classrooms, two cooks,
and two office personnel.
“It’s small compared to
some, but we do a world of
m,” Mrs. McGraw said.
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school building on South Con-
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AN ACROSTIC IS A LINE OF VERSE, POEM, ETC. IN WHICH CERTAIN LETTERS
In Each Line, The First Or Last, Spell Out A Word, Motto, Etc.
For Father's Day he wrote:
Father is his children’s true friend
And works to supply their food
Teaching them to obey God’s law
Helping when there is need
Encouragin% them to try again.
Rejoicing when they sgccee;i. .
A month later, ‘“Father”” was followed up with ‘“Mother":
Morning, noon and night
Offering her children advice
Teaching them what is right
Helping them when they fail
Encouraging them to try again
Rejoicing when they p:evai’l.‘ .
“It's just something to think about,” Bankey said.
The father of one and grandfather of three also incorporates
‘the scripture directly int(; his 2cros£ics. :
“St. Mark — 6:2 — And very early in the morning the first
day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of
the sun.
Early on Sunday morning
St. Mark — 28:2 — For the angel of the Lord descended from
Heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door; and
sat upon it.
A stone was rolled away
St. Matthew 28:5 and 6 — And the angel answered and said
unto the women, fear not ye; for I know ye seek Jesus, which
was crucified. He is not here; for he is risen as he said.
Setting free our Saviour
St. Jofin 16:4 and 5 — And these things said not unto you
at the befiinning. because I was with you. But now I go my way
to him that sent me.
To prove that he lives today
St. John 14:2 — I go to prepare a place for you.
Eternally up in heaven
St. John 14:3 — And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will
come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there
gress Street, the center is fund
ed for 90 children, since adding
the new mobile unit, which ar
rived this past Friday.
The center also teaches
parenting skills to pregnant
women and has a new roqram
through the high sc%oo. in
which teen-age mothers finish
high school and are allowed to
leave their children at the
center,
Historical
Group
To Meet
The Chattooga County
Historical Society will meet at
3 p.m. Sunday at the Chat
tooga County Courthouse,
Summerville.
The meeting will focus on
cemeteries and is a project of
the organization’s cemetery
committee, made up of Jean
Stubbs, Steven Strickland,
Martha Eleam, Anita Venn,
Mary Barker, Lin Barker,
Jackie Strickland and Emma
Pollard.
The committee will
highlight Southern burial
customs, Chattooga’s older
cemeteries, methods of recor
ding and preserving
cemeteries, and cemetery anec
dotes. The session will end with
a discussion on the possible
gublicat;ion of a Historical
ociety book on cemeteries.
In other business, the
Historical Society’s board of
directors met Wednesday.
At the meeting they ap
proved the club officers for the
1992-93 nominating committee
and accepted a bilggor electrical
wiring of the interior of the
Historical Society depot.
The depot sign was put up
around the end of Octoger. It
was done by Cave Spring artist
Berry Bryant.
ye may be also.
Returning for his own*someday.
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Most of Banke’y's acrostics are written in marker on typing
Eager. A few are framed. He said making acrostics is his only
obby.
‘““He mows the yard,” his wife said.
“I'm too old to have many hobbies,” Bankey chimed.
He's also fond of woodworlZin . As he moves throughout his
brick home showing off various ta%les, stands and picture frames
he made, he smiles approvingly.
“I did a wishing well for my wife,” he said. ‘lt ain't real. I
told her everytime s\B wished she had a new dress to drop a dollar
in the well and when she gets SSO in there, I'll have enough to
buy her a dress.”
Once a year, Bankey attends his church’s Royal Ambassador
(RA) boy’'s camp for 9 to 12 year olds, in which he does the
program.
*“1 take a word like ‘humble,’ and call on the boys to read the
scripture that goes with it,” he explained. ‘I put it on the board.
It helps the boys read the scripture and get a better understan
ding. It's easier to remember that way."
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NEW SIGN HANGS AT HISTORICAL SOCIETY DEPOT
Created By Cave Spring Artist Berry Bryant