Harriers Win DiJte
^OV 30 1976
Oiampionship For First Time
The 1976 DIAC championship cross country team( (seated, left
to right) Curtis Wall, Cyril Spann, Dean Ruff, Jake Jacobs,
Bob Pelon. Standing Jacob Houge, Steve Lowery (Photo by
Lisa Wollman.
By Steve Lowery
Staff Writer
Coach Floyd Blackwell’s
cockiness finally paid off as
the St. Andrews cross country
team swept theDixie In
tercollegiate Athletic Con
ference championships last
week. Predicting the team
would win the DIAC title,
Blackwell said at the begin
ning of the season, “We’ve got
the horses to do it this time.”
Time and events proved him
to be correct.
The meet was held
Methodist College in Fayet
teville (Ml what members of
the team described as the
toughest course they have en
countered. The conference
meet being the higlight of the
season, the harriers adopted a
unique strategy to help ensure
a victory. Very early on in the
race, Jake Jacobs led the
race at an extremely quick
pace to weaken the opposing
teams’ top runners. As a
result of the play SA’s top
four runners-Jacob Houge,
Bob Pelomn, Curtis Wall, and
Steve Lowery-were able to
“dust” their opponents. Also
playing vital roles in the
team’s victory were Cyril
Spann and Dea Ruff, clin
ching the win for St. Andrews
by besting Methodist’s and
Virginia Wesleyan’s lower
runners.
A second fiiase of the St.
Andrews strategy was the ad
dition of two extra runners for
the meet. Jay Mitchell and
Mark Anderson performed
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THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St. Andrews Presbyterian College
1961 - Fifteenth Anniversary Year-1976
VOLUME 16
LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1976
NUMBER 9
Search Committee Names Crossley To Succeed Arnold
JOHN PATTON (left) and Graham Disque (right) plan a film
sequnce at Black Mountain College. (Photo by Lisa Wollman)
Students Research
Black Mountain
College
By John Patton
Editor, THE LANCE
Nov. 4 fourteen St. Andrews
students travelled to the
mountains of North CaroUna
for two days of intensive in
vestigation and research on
Black Mountain College. One
of the earliest progressive
colleges in the United States,
operated from 1933 to 1956 in
the pcturesque countryside
around Black Mountain, N.C.
Its creative environment saw
such artistic minds as ar
chitect, philosopher and poet
R. Buckminster Fuller, com
poser John Cage, poet,
novelist and critic Robert
Creeley, and poet Joel Op-
penheimer, who will be the
(Continued on Page 4)
Had Served As Acting Dean Since May
Dr. Ronald C. Crossley, Acting Dean of the faculty since
May, was selected yesterday to assume the post on a
permanent basis.
College President A. P. Perkinson announced Crossley’s
selection by a search committee at a meeting of the faculty.
Crossley had been named to the post on a contingent basis
last spring on the resignation of Dr. Victor Arnold, who is now
serving as a consultant to llie College.
As Dean Crossley also becomes Vice President of the College
for Academic Affairs and this its second ranking officer. ^
Perkinson told the faculty that the choice of Crossley by the
search committee had been unnaimous. “I strongly concur
with the committee’s choice, “Perkinson said. “I believe that
he is a thorough administrator, and one who deals with people
fairly. His experience in developing the academic program at
St. Andrews over the past few years gives him unusual
strengths to draw upon the days ahead. I believe that he enjoys
the full support of the faculty, Perkinson continued.
Crossley came to St. Andrews in 1968 as a professor of
religion. He holds degrees from Samford University, the
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Duke University.
He has received a number of grants and fellowships over the
years for further study in a variety of fields, the most recent
being a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to
study Chinese Art History at the University of Kansas in the
summer of 1975.
Niblock, Thompson, Greene Resign
Farrago Director David
Niblock, LANCE editor Lin
Thompsrai, and Managing
Editor Michael Greene an
nounced their resignations
today.
Each expressed the feeling
that public response to their
work has for some time been
minimal and to a large extent
negative and trifling. “The
satisfaction of knowing your
work is appreciated is about
all jobs like these offer,” they
told THE LANCE. “Whai
that’s gone,” and each in
dicated he felt that it had-
“there’s very little incentive
to stay on and continue the
level d effort you have in the
past, or for a successor to put
out much when he or she
knows it’s basically a
thankless job.” Coisequently,
the three, tl?ou^ reaching the
decision to leave their posts
independently, decided to
resign simultaneously in or
der to attanpt to focus at
tention Ml the need for sane
kind of compensaticKi for all
Key student association posts,
to help ensure a continuing
supply of able and willing
people in such jobs.
NiWock, ’77, assumed the
directorship of the cof
feehouse in Septembe-, 1975,
and presided over its ex
tensive renovation and ex
pansion last year. Under his
leadership Farrago became a
breeding ground for on-
campus talent, and a popular
spot for the many outside ai-
tertainers NiMock secured for
performances at St. Andrews,
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DEAN CROSSLEY
This
Week
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15: Attic Cheap Film - Americans on
Everest, a documentary account of the American Mount
Everest expedition from preparation and training to the as
cent of the mountain itself.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16: Another Attic Cheap Film - An
tonio: A Portrait of a Woman, Directed by Judy Collins and Jm
Godmiloa. A deeply warm and affectionate portrait of Antonio
Brico, who in liie 1880’s established an international reputation
as an accomplished orchestra conductor. 11:30 a.m. in Avinger
Auditorium.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17: Litramural Soccer Game -
Winston Salem vs Granville, 4 pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17: CCC Worsh^ Servfce, Chapel
Island, 6:15 pm (in case of rain meet in Kings Mountain
Lounge)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17: Student Reading, 7:30 pm,
place to be announced.