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Study Club to again sponsor art program The Community Study Club of Grove Hill held the October meeting at Town Hall in the conference room. Mrs. French Downey, president, called the business meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Appie O'Melia shared plans for bringing the Mobile Museum of Art's elementary art program to all third-grade students in Grove Hill. Mrs. Virginia Harrigan reminded the group that the Bay Area Strings Symphony Orchestra will present a concert in the Sage Auditorium again this year. Mrs. Catherine Neal announced that Mobile's Singing Children will perform in the area in 2007. Members planned a trip to NDI (National Decorations, Inc.) located in the Courtyard in historic downtown Brewton. They will see fabric floral arrangements, fabric stem flowers, fruits and vegetables, fabric green plants and trees and more. At the end of the business session Mrs. Pat Williams invited the club to her home for the November meeting. Her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Bourgeois, an archeologist, will present the program. At 7 p.m. members of the community joined the club in the conference room. Mrs. Terry Norris, president of the Grove Hill Arts Council, told the large group that Grove Hillians of all ages had been reading "October Sky," (Rocket Boys) by Homer Hickman Jr. The Arts Council had made copies of the book available at numerous places in the Grove Hill area. Mrs. Norris explained that the Arts Council had worked with the Grove Hill Book Club and the Community Study Club in planning the book review for the evening and other book-related activities for the area. Mrs. Carolyn Daffin, program chairman, introduced Mrs. Annell Gordon, a teacher at Wilson Hall Middle School. Mrs. Gordon, a prize-winning author herself, quickly had the listeners absorbed in the story of Sonny Hickman and five other boys in Coalwood, West Virginia, who worked hard to build a rocket that would work better than the last one they had built! With loads of self-determination plus encouragement from a special teacher, Sonny's mother and many members of the coal-mining town, the boys won the coveted gold and silver award at the National Science Fair in 1960. Greater still is the fact found in the epilogue. "All of us rocket boys would go to college, something not likely in pre-Sputnik West Virginia." Several of Mrs. Gordon's students attended the meeting. The audience was delighted with their impressions of characters in the book. Mrs. Gordon used slides to tell about her recent trip to attend a reunion of the Rocket Boys in Coalwood. People moved to the foyer to enjoy the refreshments served by Mrs. Mary English and her committee and to talk with Mrs. Gordon and the students.
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