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  • THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN THURSDAY, JULY 14,1977 Ward rides tall WCU food director branded young Cecil Ward, WCU's cafeterias manager, looks a lot like those rugged cowboys in the Marlboro ads. There's the same tanned face and a touch of the windblown hair with the piercing blue eyes. But the similarities are stronger than just appearance. Ward, who directs WCU's food service operation with an annual budget of more than three-quarters of a million dollars, really used to be a cowboy. Calf-roping, branding, bulldogging-the whole bit. Even a little cow-doctoring on the side a long time ago taon't tell the vets, though.) And of course with these ; skills came the rodeos. But rodeos were the farthest thing from Ward's mind when he was growing up on a farm in the little Barker's Creek community in Jackson County. Then all he wanted. . to do was help his daddy milk the cows in the dairy here] and hoe the corn—he started milking when he was five years old and hoeing at six when the hoe was. almost twice as tall as he was. But the love for farm life led to a job working on a cattle ranch in Florida. He spent several years herding cows on the 1,200 acre ranch and became proficient in a TikVkuHotrse DANNON YOGURT LOCATED AT RIVERWOOD SHOPS IN LOWER LEVEL OF THE CHEDDAR BOX OPEN 11 a.m. - 8 p.m. cowhand's skills. One skill he acquired was bull riding, but it's not one he remembers without pain. "Mr. Clark, the owner of the ranch, didn't like for us. to go to the rodeo. He said if you got hurt there youhad . to work anyway,'' Ward remembered. . "One day 1 was riding a bull—one of those big . Bfah'mans—and got out of rhythm. I was coming down on his back when he was bucking up," he explained. "Of course he threw me: I landed.wrong and must have fractured my hip—it hurt for months but I went to work anyway.and didn't tell anyone." The work ethic has become part of Ward's philosophy. : . ; Ward,' who says he's never had an eight-hour-arday job, beleives strongly in thewords Of his father, which he took to heart—"You owe a man a full day's work whether you work for a dime a day or a dollar a day.". • But rodeos and horses are not all of Ward's life—he is a jack of many trades and a master of more than.just a few. Until a few years ago, Ward ran a swine operation on his farm near Cullowhee where he produced up to 600 head yearly. In addition to farming, he is a licensed realtor and dabbles in real estate in Jackson County, managing several sets of apartments and rhaintaining them too. He is always on call and midnight sometimes ' finds him repairing a waterline or electrical system in one of his apartments or houses. But his job as manager of WCU's cafeterias comes first, first. "Whether it's eight or eighteen hours," he said, "this job comes first—then iflhavetime, I do the others." And his first job is a mighty big responsibility. It includes supervising more than 100 full-time employees, about 50 student helpers, and preparing 10,000 meals each day when school is in session. That's a lot of food. "For example that won chops for the first meat, each meal too," he explained. Ward supervises Brown and Dodson cafeterias and until a new manager is hired he is responsible for the UC Snack Bar, and the Top of the Stairs restaurant. That means being at work at 5 or 5:30 a.m. to get breakfast started at the cafeterias and then going to the Top of the Stairs about 10 a.m. to get the noon meal prepared. He began at WCU as a stock clerk and then moved into food services where he has done everything from shucking corn and repairing the big cooking "and cleaning machines to purchasing all of the food used in the food Even now he occasionally drives to Asheville to buy a load of produce in the evening. "We like to do something special in the summer for the students," he said. That something special includes purchasing 12 bushels of farm-fresh green beans, enough for two meals, and 14 bushels of tomatoes recently. In addition to the restaurant and two cafeterias. Ward has the responsibility of catering the special dinners and buffets occasionally required for the university. With the responsibility of the cafeteria and the restaurant operations on his shoulders, Ward hasn't had time for much farming recently. Last year he sold all of his pigs. His farmhand for many years has retired but stays on as a handyman at one of Ward's trailers. But Ward still likes to have a couple of horses around—he has an Appaloosa and a Texas quarter horse. And he still likes to get out and ride, or just tinker with some of the farm machinery occasionally. The cowboy in Cecil Ward still rides tall in the saddle. -6- SUNSHINE MOUNTAIN llA-MHISt. 586-2211 PRE-OWNED MERCHANDISE FURNITURE, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS CLEAN PRE-OWNED CLOTHES. We sell anything on consignment Full locksmith service available
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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