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catch one.
Usually Seen: Combing his hoir. Ambition: To poss History V. Greotest Concern: J. Herringbone
Tweed.
Fovorite Sport: Loofing.
John is another good Tar Heel in
Virginia as d missionary. He is a foot- ball letterman, a member of the V- Ciub, first string forword on the bas- ketboll teom. He will probobly have ot least one more year at the school.
Macon Leroy Hardy
Born: Morch 9, 1929.
Home: Virginia Beach, Virginia. Pet Hate: The simpler damse!s of
Lynchburg.
Pet Love: Mr. Follett's awakening
stoccoto.
Usuolly Seen: Shooting some bull
about his harem.
Customary Expression: "Now wait
a minute, Mr. Follett!"
"Biondie" came to V. E. S. lost
year from the dunes of "the Beach" to become the "cute" boy of First West. This year he led the Boby Sishops over their rouqh road, and was outstanding enough to moke the All-City team and win his minor let- ter.
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No radios or telephones or movie houses to help pass the long Arctic night. Water and fuel must be car- ried by hand. Sometimes there is no mail for three months ot o time.
numberless that compri this Arctic footer no overcome i once and s
110-X-RAy Davis Lincoln Rianhard
Born: Dec. 26, 1927.
Home: Thot is hord to soy, but he is most seen at Rehoboth, Del.
Favorite Sport: Putting "Fish" in the drawer.
Customary Expression: "F r o sty, come here!"
Pet Love: Mabel.
Ambition in Life: Ask him about the "Acres" p1ot.
Greatest Concern: If you don't know-
Usually Heard: Telling about beach parties.
Pet Hate: Pledges.
Favorite Pastime: Dreaming up woys to be mean.
Davis is a four-year boy who hos done well on the track teom. He has been o letterman three times ond is coptoin this year. He is president of the V-Ciub, and is on the G. A. A.
ALUMNI
(Continued from poge 2) Arctic Missionary4
By Capt. Robert A. Uhl Cac
Point Hope, Alaska- At this most northwesterly point of the Alaska moinland, bordering on the Arctic Ocean, lies the Eskimo villoge of Ti- qara. Here, too, situated on ground that several Arctic experts c'oim was the site of the oldest civilization on the North American Continent, is Soint Thomas Mission.
Residing ot the Mission since July, 1943, to act os the spiritual leader for some 600 Eskimos who inhabit the region in ond around Tigara, is the Rev. William J. Gordon, Jr., V. E. S.,
'36, formerly of Spray, N. C. With him are his wife, the former Shirley Lewis of Seattle, Wash., and Paneen, their small year-old daughter, bom in Auqust, 1944, whose name means ''little daughter" in Eskimo.
The duties of a missionary are ex- tremely difficult and hozardous in comparison with those hardships and privations that the few other white men suffer merely in maintaining life in this desolate and uncivilized region of the far North.
On the boat thot visits Point Hope eoch August are the medical supplies, the precious perishable foods and canned goods, and the merchandise for the native store in the village- all of which must lost until the boat returns again the next year. Since there is no dod ot Point Hope, these supplies must be looded into smaller boats, native craft and barges, and token to the shore where they ore car- ried by s1ed or by hand over the soft tundra. Even the women and children help in taking what they can carry. The perishoble food is cached away to keep wolves and polar bears from getting it and to keep it from spoil- ing when the temperoture in June
and July sometimes climbs os high os 50 degrees above zero.
The battle of the average white man in the Arctic is against the utter monotony of that bleak region. For nine months of the year storms and blizzords can isql.ate you, <.ut you off from the people in your own villoge, let a 1one the rest of the world. There are no conveniences on hand here.
•From ''The North Corolino Churchman," November, I945.
John Hyre
Horne: Raleigh, N. C. Bo;n: September 18, 1928.
ishes, or setting and printing on hi5 small multigraph a quarterly news- letter that is sent to mony people the world over. If the conditions are fav- orable, he goes out to hunt seal on the ice so that his nine Husky pups will have enough to eot this winter. Accumuloted since 1912 when the Mission was built are hundreds of books thot help to pass many o cold and dismal evening in the Arctic. But the greatest pleasure of all is watching " Penny," his lovable little daughter, p1aying on the floor, and being with his very charming and ot- tractive wife.
One of Mr. Gordon's most impor- tant functions ot Point Hope, one which requires much of his time, is that of being the doctor for those in Tigara who are sick. The resistance of the averoge Arctic Eskimo is very low and he is subject to many mild forms- and the more serious os well - o f infection that the average, healthy white man would be able to resist. When there is a cose of sick- ness in the village, you will find this man of God corinq for and comfort- ing the potient with such simple but potent instruments as a thermometer, a watch, sulfa tablets, and a prayer book.
Last winter his most severe case of sickness was a young Eskimo boy stricken with pneumonia. Point Hope was isolated. Neither the district physician at Point Barrow nor the dis- trict nurse at Kotzebue could get there in time. After his initial doses of sulfa, the only medicine available, the boy appeared to be recovering. Then he suddenly had a relopse and death seemed imminent. Mr. Gordon stayed ot his side day and night un- til the youth was out of da~ger, we.ll on his way to recovery. Thts expen- ence taught him that the notive people did not know the necessity of continuing the doses of sulfa ofter the boy began to feel better, and it was this that caused his relapse and almost his death.
Above and below Point Hope along the Arctic coast of A'oska from Kotzebue to Woinwright lie
plones beir visits os m can before closes in or ceoses. For he depend sled to car months of
zord.
In Febn moking o + helper to I ment 200 1 the tempe• strong wir blowing in of the six '
Loy ond the wind l unchanged wind stop1 skidded d, how," he wormer."
In two r to travel
tobleland I the case, 1 smaller vii thot the p
more adv1 and for tl which the of on ac hearten m viction bu· fulfilling hi tionity to
He prot ioners t I proyer me ond fune villages t1 ment sch< services o settlemen•
built of h o tent, 01 self serve!
During is moking mo villag
porish, tv moin ot 1
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Custom~;y
Expression:
" Let's
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But this missionary in the few mo·
ments he is free from his pressing
duties ot Point Hope finds diversion
in puttering around his hothouse, ot- it is dayl tempting to raise lettuce ond rod- weather p
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