Pryor Scrapbook Clippings, 1955-1980

NIGERIA BOUND - Dr. and Mrs. Robert Mahaffey arid children, from left, Daniel, Timothy, Arden and Mari-Etta, mis~ionaries of the · Church Of Christ, arrived in Nigeria this week to begin a tour of ser- vice· at the Nigerian Christ-ian Hospital. or: Mahaffey, a Harding · graduate, recently completed ~ residency in·Family Practice at John Peter Smith hospital in Fort Worth. l .Robert Mahaffey, M.D., a Foundation, which supplies~ - Harding . University operating funds for the graduate, made a brief stop hospital. in Searcy in Sept. - Mahaffey was graduated ember enroute to magna c~m laude in 1973 a tour of service at Nigerian from Harding. He received Christian Hospital, the only medical training at modem medical facility University of Texas serving a population of Southwestern Medical 100,000. School in Dallas, graduating The physicians will join R. in 1977. He completed the Maurice Hood, M.D., an residency . in Family Austin, Texas, surgeon who Practice at John Peter Smith in December will complete a Hospital in Fort Worµt in six-month tour of duty at the June. The couple spent the I 75-bed hospital, established summer of 1973 as short– , in 1965 by Dr. and Mrs. term workers at the Henry Farrar of Searcy. Nigerian Christian Hospital. Accompanying Mahaffey While serving in Nigeria, is . his wife, the former the Mahaffeys will be Debbie Russell, also a supported financially by the Harding graduate, and their Rosemont Churth of Christ four children, Arden Myrth, in Fort Worth and by the · 6; Timothy Charles, 4; Mari- West End Church of Christ in Etta Elizabeth, 2; and Nashville, Tennessee. Daniel Andrew, 2 months. Also at the hospital is Miss \ The family was scheduled to Janice Bingham, R.N., a arrive in Nigeria this week. former member of the Over the years, Mrs. The family visited Mr. and Harding nursing faculty, and . Leola Pearce bu tot.ached \ Mrs. Rees Bryant here. 122 Nigerian employ~s, . ·· ·the lives of , ovel' , 1,000 I Bryant ls president of the ·some of whom have worked - · .children and today she's 1 ~~- ,-cbristian Hospi_ta_l at ~CH_ ~inc~ th~ h~spital atlll doinl that 1n a small "1'111.~- way. Dr. Hood, a member of i Harding ' s President's k. teacher at Sidney Deener Elementary for 15 Development Council, an~ . ' years until bet-' retirement his wile Johnnie went to the · lut spring, Mn. Pearce . hospital, located on the ' 1 11'9 spent 32 yean of her ( ·,u•·•~ · Onfcha Ngw~ 1 • life ln front ot a:claaroom Bible Training College in and the cbanle la bard to J~e. adjust to. . .. Although she . enjoys retirement, she also miues thedlildren, and that is one reason Mrs. Pearce is su~tuting this year. "U Y<'ll start first- grade, it's hard to get ' out of teacbiDI it," ahe explained, havinl taught tbat grade for 22 years. "1bat year is the big break ~ home. It's too long a day for them and tbere'a a lot of c~., It's a real cballenge. Even though it's the most fun, it's also the hardest work." "You have to get them off to a good start," she continued. "That always weiped heavy with me. U you can get tbelll off to • ood start in school, your ENGAG:1:,MENT .·TOLD· - Mr. and Mrs; James D. Bales of Searcy announce the . engagement =of their daughter, . Robi~ " Elizabeth, to-Mark Alan Kirk, son of Mr. r. and Mrs. Irvin Kirk of Huntington, . West - Virginia. Both Mi ss Bales and Mr. Kirk are · 1980 graduates of Harding University and are at · pr~sent employed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The wedding will tat<e place a 7 . p.m., November 22 at the College Church ~f Christ. · Mn. Pearce got a Masten dep-ee in education from Hardbl& Co11e1e and ~gan teacblnl ill· a two-room COUDtry acbool house where lhewas in Gbar1e of grades flvethrueilht, From there, sbamo•ed to Higden where qe taupt math and ~ before the school was closed. And after a brief teaching assignment ill Panpunl, Mrs. Pearce · came to McRae Elemen– ry where she stayed. aeven years before Sidney .Deener opened. "rve taupt every grade except the third grade," · sbe.ied emphaalzinl that fll'lt araders were her favO'rltes to teach. ·"Flnt graders are so en– joyable to teach. You can see the improvement in each one of them and they respond so beautifully to ·you," she commented. "'lbeJ're always happy to eee,.a." "It was real hard · to quit,'' abe said regarding ber decision to retire. "But there were a lot of things I anted to do that I didn't bave time to do and I didn't want to wait and retire when I WM too old to do ' anytbinl- I do miss -~though.'' ·• • •