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TIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 8, 1973
number fifteen
DR. LORNA THIGPEN
Keep Your Draft Cards-
Machinery Still Works
Thigpen Retires As Chairman
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By JEFF WATKINS
From Technician
No matter how cold it is out
side, Uncle Sam says it’s still
illegal to burn your draft card to
l<eep warm.
"We will still maintain
registration of students here on
their 18th birthday,” said
Professor C. P. Greyer,
veterans’ advisor. "They still
must register for the draft. And
they still must take a pre
induction physical, in order for
the draft board to weed out those
who would definitely be
physically unqualified.
SI.\CE VOL’NG MEN will no
longer be called into service, the
2-S classification for student
deferments will be abandoned.
"I imagine that what the
boards will now do will be to
probably put everybody in a 1-A
classification until such time
that they can get around to
giving them an examination to
determine their fitness for
military service,” Greyer ad
ded. “And as I understand it,
they (selective service) will
maintain a list by year of those
who are qualified for military
duty.”
The lottery will still be held
every year, and those who have
low numbers will be called for
physicals.
"That will set up a reserve
RALPH'S SWEEPSTAKES
When: February 14, 1973
Where: Several boxes of Va
lentine Candy given away
register February 13, 14
Must have I.D. with proper
fneal ticket
Boarding students only
manpower pool,” Greyer con
tinued, ‘‘that could be called in
case of a national emergency —
they could be called very
quickly.”
The state headquarters of the
Selective Service System has not
received any information as of
yet from the national office.
‘‘The only thing we know is
what has been announced on the
news media,” a spokesman said.
‘‘We expect word momentarily
that would sort of outline what
we are supposed to do.”
The Afro-American
Awareness Society will
celebrate the National Negro
History Week February 11-17 by
having a Coffeehouse in the Old
Gym from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. The
performer of the night will be
none other than Archie Stewart.
For those who were not here last
year, Archie performed for us
last year and was liked a lot.
For preparing for this year
there was a desire for a whole
week of activity. It was
questioned to what will it have
proven. Would it have proven
that black students can do
something on their own? Or that
the pride in black heritage can
be shown in a lot of superflurity?
Sure these things would be
shown but is it what the Black
History Week really means.
One can cry “Black Power
‘‘Black is Beautiful”; ‘‘Soul
Power” and “Black and Proud”.
The slogans were necessary
back then, but now a
maturational period has taken
place and the slogans are in
ternalized. The internalization of
such cliches make a Black
person proud within, therefore
enabling him to cope in society
without being “hung up” on
color. When a black person
Dr. Lorna W. Thigpen,
professor and chairman of the
Atlantic Christian College
Department of Nursing, will
retire from active service at the
college at the end of the 1972-73
I academic year.
She was named as the first
chairman of the ACC Depart
ment of Nursing which was
inaugurated in 1970. A successor
to fill the nursing department
chairmanship post has not been
announced.
Commenting on the an
nouncement, Dr. Arthur D.
Wenger, president of the college,
said, “Dr. Thigpen began her
service at Atlantic Christian
during the formative stages of
our nursing program and has
nurtured it with uncommon
dedication and devotion. We are
greateful to her for all she has
meant to us. both professionally
and as a colleague.”
Prior to her appointment at
Atlantic Christian she served as
assistant director of nursing
education at the Wilson
Memorial Hospital School of
Nursing beginning in 1967.
Before coming to Wilson she
served as professor and director
of research in nursing at Emory
University.
Earlier Dr. Thigpen served as
assistant director of the Nursing
Education Diploma Program at
Baptist Memorial Hospital
School of Nursing, Memphis,
Tenn., working in the area of
psychiatric nursing and served
in the U. S. Army Nursing Corps.
A native of Edgecombe
County, she received the B. A.
degree from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro,
realizes that “I am somebody”
he can handle any situation
dominated by the controllers.
Blackness is no longer an ap-
paral to be worn or emphasized
one week in the year but a
constant spring of pride in being
a body that happens to be black.
This year there will not be a lot
See BLACK WEEK Page 4
Hermit Life?
A discussion of life in a
medieval monastery will be
conducted by William Paulsell,
Chairman of the Atlantic
Christian College Department of
Religion and Philosophy, on
Monday night. February 12, in
the Choral Room of Hackney
Music Buildig on the campus.
The discussion will include an
explanation of why men became
monks in the Middle Ages, what
the daily routine of a monastery
was like, and what benefits
might be found in the monastic
life.
The discussion, which will
begin at 8:00 p.m. is a part of the
series of events on the Arts in
Medieval & Renaissance Life. It
is open to the public and no
admission will be charged.
the Master of Nursing degree
from Emory University, and
was awarded the Ph 1) degree
by the University of Pittsburgh
•Atlantic Christian is ex[H‘cted
to graduate its first class of
nurses in the spring of 1974 They
will be graduated from a four-
baccalaureate degree program
in nursing involving major
medical and higher educational
facilities in the Edgecombe,
Nash, Wayne and Wilson County
area.
The .\CC baccalaureate
degree program in nursing is
supported by the Wilson
Memorial Hospital and Nash
General Hospital in Hocky
Concurrent with the
inauguration of President Nixon
and the initation of the current
social season in Washington, D.
C., was the opening of a one-man
show of a Wilson artist at the
Washington Gallery of Art.
Norbert Irvine, assistant
professor of art at Atlantic
Christian College, has 21
silkscreen prints featured for
one month at the gallery.
Commenting on the show, one
critic wrote, “When standing in
the midst of Norbert Irvine’s
silkscreen prints, we can see the
work of an artist who is deeply
involved in the learning process;
one whose ideas are in a state of
flux; growing not so much
toward the definite or stable as
they are toward the dynamic.”
The interrelationship of art
and learning was noted by some
observers. In gauging the ap
proval and appreciation of Ir
vine’s reception by Washington
Viewers one noted that the show
gave one “a vision of a man who
is living and learning and loving
it.”
Prof. Irvine has taught,art at
Atlantic Christian Collegq lor six
years. Educated at Washington
Mount The first nursing
students to enroll in the program
iH'gan their studies at the college
at the beginning of the 1970-71
academic year They are
presently engaged in their
clinical work at the two major
hospital facilities in Wilson and
Hocky Mount.
The baccalaureate degree
program at .Xtlanlic Christian is
accredited by the North ('arolina
Board of Nursing Reasonable
assurance of accreditation has
been granted by the .National
U'ague for Nursing and ap
plication for accreditation will
be made as the program
develops.
and Lee University, Claremont
(Iraduate School, and at the Lou
Stovall Workshop in
Washington, he lias continued to
gain national stature as a
silkscreen printmaker. 'I’he
Washington exhibition is the
sixteenth show in which he has
piirticipiited, and his twelfth
one-man show.
Several galleries and in
stitutions have commissioned
works from Prof. Irvine in
cluding the Corcoran (iailery of
Art. Washington. I). C.; the
(Jarden (Jallery, Raleigh; and
tlie Park Hill Mall, Tarboro.
It’s Haf)pening
Thursday, February 8, ACC. vs.
Campbell
February 10-11, Parents'
Visitation
Saturday, February 10, ACC vs.
UNC-W. 8 p.m. Wilson Gym
February 11-17. National Negro
History Week
February 13-14, Registering for
Ralph's Sweepstakes
Thursday, February 14.
Drawing for Ralph's Sweep
stakes at dinner.
Black Week Slated
Irvine's Work
On Display
Do It Again, Bulldogs, Do It Again