The Collegiate
VOL. xxvm
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MARCH 27, 1958
NUMBER ELEVEN
Second Big Election Set Monday
Atlantic Christian College stu'
dents and faculty members will
go to the voting polls again Mon
day to select the remainder of the
candidates for the various offices
on the ACC campus.
Already the campus family has
chosen George B. Griswold, Jr., of
Kinston, to serve as president of
the ACC Cooperative Association
next year.
Griswold defeated Jim Bishop in
a run-off election last Monday, 293
to 237.
At a meeting shortly after the
run-off Monday afternoon the Exe
cutive Board nominated a long list
of candidates for other offices.
Two of those nominated have al
ready withdrawn. They are Bishop
and Don Lee, the unsuccessful
candidates in the president’s race
who have declined to seek office as
vice-president. ■
Candidates nominated by the Ex
ecutive Board are Sallie Joe Griffin
and Frances Howard for vice-
president; Anna Lovelace, Bever
ly Edwards and Bob Collins, sec
retary; Bobby Dunn, Bobby Riley
and Kenneth Brinson, treasurer;
and Sharon Hazelrigg and Sally
Scudder, head cheerleader.
Other candidates are Joanne Riv-
enbark, Patsy Ferrell, Dave Har
vey and Jim Bishop, Co-editors of
The Collegiate; Billy Horne and
Bobby Swinson, for Business Man
ager of The Collegiate; Patt Mur
ray and Bette Pomfrey, for Editor
of The Pine Knot; Sarah Brown
and Flora Griffin, for Assistant Ed
itor of The Pine Knot, and Elinor
Herring and Ernest Pappas, for
Business Manager of The Pine
Knot.
The candidates were announced
to the student body and faculty in
Howard Chapel Tuesday morning,
tion to be held Monday.
Student interest indicates that
another heavy vote will be record-
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GOVERNMENTAL LEADER, CANDIDATES—Pictured above are the three persons who com
mand the top spots in elections held this week and next week on the ACC campus. George B.
Griswold, Jr., left, was elected Monday as president of the ACC Cooperative Association. Miss
Sallie Joe Griffin, center, and Miss Frances Howard, right, will vie this coming Monday for the post
of vice-president of the Cooperative Association.
ed Monday as students and faculty
members have the opportunity to
select the leaders of the campus
goverament for next year.
The run-off election held between
Griswold and Bishop Monday poll
ed a total of 530 votes. It was only
30 votes under the first election
which polled 560 ballots. Both elec
tions were the largest of their
kinds in Atlantic Christian College
history.
Miss Griffin and Miss Howard
now become the top candidates in
Monday’s election. Both are lead
ers on the ACC campus. Miss How
ard is secretary of the Cooperative
Association and Miss Griffin is
president of Phi Sigma Tau Sorori
ty.
Miss Griffin is a native of Wen
dell, and Miss Howard’s home is
in Pink Hill.
All students and faculty members
are urged to vote in Monday’s elec
tion. The polls will be open from
8 a.m. to 2 p.m., it was announced
today by David Blackwood, Presi
dent of the Cooperative Association.
It is expected that several run
off races will result from the elec-
Petitions could be submitted for
other candiates until today.
Enrollment Study Slated
On ACC Campus Next Week
By JIM BISHOP
Atlantic Christian College stu
dents will “check in” for next year
Monday and Tuesday so that the
college can determine how many
upperclassmen will be' back next
Fall.
A campus-wide student survey
was announced today by John E.
Weems, Director of Admissions at
the college.
Mr. Weems said the survey will
be held Monday and Tuesday to
give students an opportunity to say
whether or not they plan to at
tend ACC next year.
Mr. Weems said it would be the
most important survey of its kind
ever held at the coUege. The rea
son for this is that recently col
lege officials determined that the
college will only be able to have a
five percent increase in enrollment
next year.
This limit on enrollment indi
cates that fewer new students can
be accepted next year than were
accepted last Fall. The college, on
the other hand, is faced with a de
luge of applications from new stu
dents. Mr. Weems said applica
tions are running three times ahead
of last year this time.
On Monday and Tuesday, the
secretary of the admissions office,
Mrs. Mary Bass, will be stationed
in the classroom building from 9
a. m. to 11 a. m. She will be in
the lobby. All students are instruct
ed to see Mrs. Bass and fill out a
form indicating their college plans
for next year.
All students now enrolled at the
college, freshmen through seniors,
except for evening college students,
are instructed to fill out a form.
Students who fail to see Mrs.
Bass wiU have a further opportun
ity to fiU out a form by seeing Mrs.
Bethany Joyner, College Registrar.
Students who fail to fill out a
survey form will not be allowed
to take final examinations in May,
Mr. Weems said.
The cut-back in acceptances of
new students means that the col
lege has to know exactly how many
old students are returning next
Fall, it was pointed out, and the
survey plan is the only way an ac
curate count can be made.
The forms will be very simple.
All students are instructed to see
Mrs. Bass Monday or Tuesday
morning and mark one of the
forms.
Masquerade Carnival Set April 1Z
The Faculty Women’s Club of
Atlantic Christian College will
present its annual Masquerade Car
nival and Dance in the Classroom
Building Saturday night, April 12,
at 8 p.m., it was announced today.
All students and faculty members
are invited to attend the event.
The admission will be 25 cents.
Everyone has been urged to
■wear a costume and mask to add
color to the party.
Plans for the dance and carnival
were announced by Miss Mickey
Raynor, chairman of the project.
Committees have been formed to
carry out the planning for the car
nival. They are refreshments and
planning. Mrs. R. B. Cutlip is
serving as chairman of the re
freshment committee. Miss Raynor
is hefading the planning committee
Wenger Is Named
Commission Head
Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, ACC
president, was recently elected
Chairman of the Commission on
Liberal Arts Colleges of the Board
of Higher Education of the Dis
ciples of Christ.
His election was announced by
Dr. Ira A. Langston, ACC Class
of 1933, Chairman of the Board
of Higher Education and president
of Eureka College, Eureka, 111.
Dr. Wenger will head one of
three commissions under the
Board for the coming year, it
Was announced.
and is 'being assisted by Mrs. John
E. Weems, Mrs. Allan R. Sharp,
and Mrs. Walter Gray.
Several prizes wiU be presented
at the carnival. A door prize will
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College Acquires
Physical Ed Land
The college announced this week
that it had purchased two adjoin
ing tracts of land near the col
lege campus that will ultimately
be used for physical education pur
poses.
Containing more than five and a
half acres, the two tracts were
purchased from the Corbett family
and from the Grace Baptist Church.
One tract is the land on which
the Grace Baptist Church is now
located. The Church plans to build
a new sanctuary in the future near
the Davis Avenue School. The oth
er tract is cleared. Both tracts of
land lie along Corbett Avenue and
the Corbett tract is situated be
hind a row of houses on Corbett
Avenue.
Milton L. Adams, College Busi
ness Manager, said the Grace
Baptist Church has been granted
permission to retain its church
building on the property for a per
iod of two years.
Plans call for the land to be used
for playing fields, tennis courts
and other physical education space
requirements. The college’s new
gymnasium ultimately wiU be con
structed near the acquired land.
Social Calendar
March 29 — Music Festival,
April 2-7 —Spring Holidays
April 10 —Caldwell-Nash Supper
April 11— Bohunk Social
April 12—^Track Meet at Roanoke
College
April 12 — Masquerade Dance
Hamlin, Moye And Turner
Will Be Cited By College
Three eastern North Carolina
leaders in the fields of education,
religion and business will be cited
by Atlantic Christian College at its
annual Commencement on May 25.
Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, ACC
president, announced today that
Dr. C. H. Hamlin of Wilson, Rev.
M. Elmore Turner of New Bern,
and Lawrence Moye of Maury will
be presented honorary degrees at
the commencement.
Dr. Hamlin, retired member of
the faculty at ACC, has served in
the Department of Social Science
at ACC for years, and was the
chairman of that department until
his retirement last year.
Mr. Turner, the minister of the
Broad Street Christian Church in
New Bern, has been an outstanding
leader in the Christian Churches of
the state. He recently completed
his term as president of the North
Carolina Ministers, of the Christian
Churches.
Mr. Moye, a banker, merchant
and farmer is an alumnus of ACC
and has served for many years
on the college’s board of trustees.
Dr. Hamlin will receive the hon
orary Doctor of Literature degree.
Mr. Turner will be honored with
the Doctor of Divinity degree and
Mr. Moye will receive the Doctor
of Laws degree.
The three candidates were re
cently approved by the board of
trustees of the college after recom
mendations for their degrees had
been submitted by the Honorary
Degree committee of the college.
Speakers at the commencment
this year will be Dr. Howard E.
Short of Lexington, Ky., recently
appointed Editor of The Christian
Evangelist, and Dr. R. Fred West,
Minister of the Hillyer Memorial
Christian Church in Raleigh.
Dr. Short will speak at the grad
uation exercises and Dr. West will
be the Baccalaureate speaker.
Essay Contest Rules Are Issued
The deadline for essays written
on Atlantic Christian College’s mot
to, Habebunt Lumen Vitae, is May
1. Translated the motto means,
“They shall have the light of life.”
Each year any student who is
taking 12 hours may write an es
say on the motto.
For several years a cup has
been presented by the Denny fam
ily. of Wilson to the student haying
written the best essay. This year
more emphasis is being placed on
Dean Cutlip Will Leave ACC
July 1; Joins Chapman Staff
Dr. R. B. Cutlip, Dean of Atlan
tic Christian College, will leave
ACC July 1, to become the Dean
of Students at Chapman College,
Orange, California.
Dr. Cutlip’s resignation was an
nounced this week by Dr. Arthur
D. Wenger, ACC President.
Dr. Wenger said Dr. Cutlip’s res
ignation was accepted with regret.
He said the ACC Dean had made
outstanding contributions to the
program of Atlantic Christian Col
lege during a period of “record
growth” of the institution.
Dr. Cutlip came to ACC in the
Fall of 1953 from the University of
Houston., He came to ACC as a
Professor of Elementary Educa
tion.
Since that time he has spent one
year on the faculty at Louisiana
Tech, and the remainder at ACC.
In addition to serving as Profes
sor of Elementary Education, Dr.
Cutlip has served here in the ca
pacities of Dean of Men, Dean of
DR. R. B. CUTLIP
Student Life, and Dean of the Col
lege.
Dr. Cutlip’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. M. N. Cutlip, reside in Char
lotte.
His wife, Mrs. Virginia Cutlip,
is serving as Assistant Principal
of Davis Avenue School here.
Chapman College has recently
moved to its new campus in Or
ange, California, from Los Ange
les. Orange Is 38 miles from Los
Angeles. It is supported by the
Christian Churches as is Atlantic
Christian College.
Dr. Cutlip, in announcing his
resignation, said that his years at
ACC have been outstanding in his
life. He said the new position
at Chapman offers great challeng
es in his chosen field of work—
psychology.
Dr. Cutlip will officially become
a member of the Chapman Col
lege administrative staff on July
15.
these essays.
Robert G. Capps, Chairman of
the Awards Committee, along with
Dr. Case, Dean Ward, Mr. Pur
cell, and Mr. Johnston has been
working with student representa
tives for some time to determine
how students and faculty feel about
the annual writing of the essays.
Mr. Capps recently announced the
requirements for students who
wish to write essays about the
motto.
The final date for turning in the
essays is May 1, but students are
encouraged to turn them in as
soon as possible. It is requested
that the essays be typed and dou-
ble-6paced. The suggested length
of the essay is between 500 and
1,000 words.
Judges of the essays will grade
them according to originality, in-
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New FT A Chapter
Named For Hamlin
Dr. C. H. Hamlin, beloved re
tired professor of Social Science
at ACC, was honored recently when
a new Future Teachers of Ameri
ca Chapter at Rock Ridge High
School in Wilson County was nam
ed for him.
Dr. Hamlin has taught three
generations of students at Atlantic
Christian College.
A native of Virginia, he is an
expert on North Carolina history.
He was educated at William And
Mary and George Peabody College
For Teachers.
Dr. Hamlin’s son. Dr. Griffith
Hamlin of Goldsboro, is president
of the Atlantic Christian College
Alumni Association this year.