Charlotte Kennedy Sloan. Uh, I read a whole lot. I loved reading and
working crossword puzzles and word search games and we played tennis.
And my brother taught me how to dance. I was inquisitive, but shy. I
wanted to know what made things tick. I guess that's why I went into
chemistry as a major in school. I wanted to make people tick. What they
were thinking and what made them act like they did. I've always been
interested in that. And for the chemistry part, what they were made up
inside.
[Laughter] I have always been
church oriented, 'cause from the time I can remember, when the church
door opened Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy and their three children walked in to
Sunday school, church, Baptist Young People's Union in the afternoon and
we had church service at night then, again. So a lot of my growing up
was done in church. Wednesday prayer meeting, uh, they weren't called
committees then. Groups that met during the week to, not only study the
Bible, but do good things in the community. So that — I don't even
remember when we first started going to church. I just know that all my
life I've been a church person. And it has stuck. I still feel
uncomfortable on Sunday morning if I'm not in somebody's church.
Wherever I am, I try to find the nearest church and get in. I've sung in
the choir since I was about, oh, eight years old I guess. We didn't have
different choirs then, it was just the choir. I have
[pause] I taught a Sunday class for a while,
but, when I went away to school I sort of got away from that. When I
came back I was interested in
[pause] the
noon day prayer group, the sewing circle, the, the sick and shut-in
committee, we visited a lot of sick people and do things like cleaning
up the kitchen, or sweepng up the house, or writing letters or braiding
hair or cutting fingernails or whatever is necessary
Page 16 for a shut-in person. Uh, that has now involved, evolved into—we have
a senior adult ministry, a middle adult ministry, a youth ministry and
now the tiny tots are catching on and they do what they can toward the
ministry of the church. We have an afterschool tutoring program, really
for anybody, but largely for the students who are not quite keeping up
with the school program. And all of them are moving forward now, we have
a new pastor now, he's been there for two years and he's really a great
organizer, and—You can't call it organizing, he just suggests this path
and that path and there's always some group that's interested in what
he's suggesting. He's excellent that way.