~ l.. .:\_ MOMENTO FO_R M_ASON - Dr. Perry M~son, ret_iring superintendent of Har– ~ ding Academy, IS bemg presented a large b1centenmal flag as a momento by Jeft ;:..:. Jernigan and Michael Allen, assisted by Lee Mackey, Tommy Winters, Scott :):. Corbin, Alana lsom and Toni Beavers. The presentation was made during a .. bicentennial musical program given by Harding Elementary School sttJdents b5 Thursday, April 1. Mrs. Jack D. Alston, ~lementary school principal, dedicated th~ program to Dr. Mason. THE BRITISH ARE COMING- Portraying characters in the Revolutionary War era a musical progr,ilm by students of Harding Element~ary School, are left to right, Dane Flippin, Allen Tate, Karen Norwood, Harold Norwo~d and Cyrittua Smith. The program, under the direction of Mrs. ~iley Henry, "_lUSIC teacher, w_as presented Thursday, Aprill, in the American Hentage Aud1tonum ---- ·- • .· - Students at Harding Elementary School on the campus of Hard;ng College, desirous . of implementing something special for the Bicentennial celebration, are completing a project that has generated present interest and involved large numbers of persons. But their efforts will grow, hterally, with the passing of time and the full extent of their labors will likely not be realized for a while.. Spurred by .a suggestion in l\ly Weekly Reader for the Freedom Trees Awards Program,, the students and teachers, after thinking and planning, planted 14 new' trees of all varieties on the grounds of their school Although rather small m Its beginning, the project developed to involve several persons and areas around the college. , First, the teachers in· corporated the project into a teaching unit in science .and all grades studied trees. Dr. Jack Wood Sears, chair· lman of the department ·of 'biological s'cience at Harding, added his knowledge and In· structions for planting. Another professor, Dr. Bryce RoberSon, · donated three trees and assisted, the children in planting. · Maintenance crews of the college affixed protectlng r scr~ns for the small trees and a~o dug the holes for the young students. The children gathered to plant the''trees and to begin the tending of them . Each class has been given specific responsibilities for i the frees and will give them 1 proper care. ~ Mrs. Betty Alston, Academy principal, said the project had generated much enthusiasm among the students. "We were 1 pleased at the response of the children over all this, and we , believe they will really be protective in helping to see that. the trees have opportunity to grow," she said. Mrs.- Alston has investigated planting a Mt. Vernon seedling, one derived from a tree planted1 by George Washington, but the pa~iect has not been completed
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