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Hurricane Victim Loses
AH But Is Going To ‘W’
By SUSIE JAMES COLUMBUS—Her parents insisted she hold on to her dream.
“When we lost everything to hurricane Camille this summer,” said Nancy Marnat of
“From them, and from the ex perience in the storm, I have learned so much. I’ll always be a better person than I was before Camille.'’ she said.
Nancy, a freshman in Fant
Pass Christian, a freshman at j dormitory, had only the clothes Mississippi State College for;on her back when she took re-Women, “the first thing I j fuge, with' 15 others, in her un-
wanted to do was get a job and help my parents out. I knew they couldn't afford to send me to college.”
Nancy is one of the many hurricane victims MSCW is helping financially this term. Nancy is one who loved the area and never thought devastation could come to it.
I’d had this dream of becoming a commercial artist since the seventh grade,” Nancy continued. “And two years ago, Susan Hunt, a ‘W’ counselor, came to my Pass Christian school and told me about the art department here. From then on I decided I wanted to graduate from the ‘W’.”
cle’s home, which had suffered no damage in the last big coast storm.
That’s all she had left when it was over.
“In the end, we had to tie some of the shingles down while we were in the attic,” she recalled. “If the wind had gotten the roof off, we would have been that much closer to etern-ity.
“But 1 know joys now that once I took for granted.
“When I decided, at my father’s urging, to try and go on; to ‘ school, I contacted Susan j Hunt again. And at the ‘W’ she i introduced me to a wonderful
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to help her continue her education and because of, as Nancy
puts it. “the kindness of the | pa“s people around me.”	i-	5	Christian.
Like many who lost their homes, she came to college without even a dresser set. “My roommate, everyone, has been so kind to me,” she said.
Nancy is the daughter of Mr. j and Mrs. Charles. Marant of;
| Biloxi Girl Given Check To Buy 'Coon
Hrfly Graham, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.M. Graham, 123 Old Bay Rd., Biloxi, may have lost her home in Hurri-
i	cane Camille, but now she has enough money to buy a pet raccoon.
Sterling North, well-known . children’s author, and his wife, sent a check to Holly after she wrote North a letter explaining she was glad she hadn’t yet gotten a pet raccoon before the storm, because it might have been killed.
She wrote North after reading one of his books, Raccoons are the Brightest People, which was given to her for solace after Hurricane Camille had destroyed the family residence in Ocean Springs.
“I very much hope that you can rebuild your house,” wrote North. “And about next June when baby raccoons can be raised on a bottle, we hope you find exactly the one you want —one that is friendly, one that purrs and chirrs, and scampers and not one that is too mischievous.
“My wife Gladys and I are sending this check—not big enough to build a new house, but perhaps big enough to get you the raccoon you have always wanted,’’ the author wrote to the eighth grade Femwood Junior High School student. ■