From Tar Heel Homemaker, 1988
Aline (Mrs. Rex) Whittington, a 34-year member of Millers
Creek Extension Homemaker Club in Wilkes County, is the 1988 president of North
Carolina Extension Homemakers Association. Challenge—Choice—Change has been
chosen as her emphasis.
She heads the slate of new officers elected in October at
the State Council meeting and installed by Mozelle Parker, chairman of the
nominating committee.
As a young mother wanting to learn how to better rear her
children and care for her family and home, she joined a Home Demonstration
Club. She served in most offices and program of work areas in her club, as
president and in other positions in Wilkes County and the Northwestern District
through the years.
“Way back when I first joined, I was a youngster and there
were many things I needed to learn,” she remembers. “Like making clothes and
providing good nutrition for my family. My family has benefitted from my being
an Extension Homemaker, and I have gained in many ways personally.”
Aline has been a delegate to several National Conventions
and has been on United Nations and University of Wheels trips.
She served on the state committee to set up the Certified
Volunteer Unit program; has worked with the county Extension Advisory council
and the Northwestern Development Association; has been active in Girl Scout
leadership; PTA and other school groups, and has taken numerous leadership
positions in Pleasant Home Baptist Church.
She and her husband, who is retired from the Wilkes County
School System administration unit and is chairman of the county school board,
have four grown children, Sandra Schwartz of Ashe County and Florida, Susan
Sander of Garden Valley, Calif., Richard Whittington of Kanohe, Hawaii, and
Janice Whittington, who lives next door. They have one grandchild, Brett
Whittington of Kahone.
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