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01|p §ktrl A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF FLORA MACDONALD COLLEGE Volume No. 7 Flora Macdonald College, May 1, 1959 No. 8 ApriHS-DayOfLong Remsmbrance For Consolidated Gollei ;e by'Dr. Marshall Scott Woodson I Wednesday, April 15, was a j “red letter” day, with ground breaking exercises taking place on the new campus in Laurinburg. Before a large gathering, a very impressive ceremony was held. Acting President Woodson presid ed, with the invocation led by Vice President Louis C. LaMotte. Stir ring addresses were made by Mr. Hector MacLean, the Chairman | ©f the Board, and Mr. Halbert M. Jones, Chairman of the Build ing Committee. A prayer of de dication was offered by Dr. Al bert N. Wells, pastor of the Laur inburg Presbyterian Church. Greet ings were conveyed to the As sembly by President William Pres- sly of Peace College. The service | was closed with Bishop W. W. Peele pronouncing the benedic tion. The buildings on tiie new cam pus are to be built around a seventy-acre lake, and it is be lieved that the new campus will be one of the prettiest in America. The Consolidated College will have a unique curriculum, which was drawn up by a group of out standing educators summer be fore last at Chapel HUl. Recent ly, the Danforth Foundation has given the college a sizeable grant of money with which to finance the preliminary work in prepar ation of the key course on Christ ianity and Culture. Last summer. President Wood son took part in a workshop on General Education at Teachers CoUege, Columbia University. Up on his return home, Dr. Karl W. Bigelow of Teachers College, who conducted the workshop, wrote, saying, “Yours is one of the most exciting opportunities in higher education that I know of, and the way in which planning is being carried out is really remarkable.” The architects are busy drawing up plans for the buildings, and it is hoped that bids can be sought for some of these units within the very near future. The Board of Trustees is still hoping to be able to open the college to students in the fall of 1960. At the beginning, two pro grams will be provided. One of these will be for freshmen enter ing college for the first time, who will follow through on the cur riculum for the new college which has been called a new concept in Christian higher education. The second program will be for stu dents transferring from one of the three institutions to the new cam pus. It will be possible for a stu dent from one of the three col leges to move into the Consolid ated College and continue to com pletion the same curriculum under which they entered any one of the three institutions. OolleffG. with Day Is Upon Us On Saturday afternoon, May 2, around 3:30, the front campus of Flora Macdonald will really be gin to look like the Old South, for indeed the Old South is the theme of this year’s May Day program. As the program begins we will see that people from the nearby countryside will gather at the Old Plantation to celebrate the tra ditional May Day. They will aU be eager to greet thie Queen of May and to take part in the fes tivities. A group of pioneering folk on their way west will be sure to stop by to pay homage to the May Queen and to join in the dances. All the darkies on the plantation will gather at the Big House to watch the dancing and to see what is going on. As, you can easily surmise, they will be Mildred Lynda HiU, and Adeline Geneva Brady; Junior class rep resentatives: Jo Rita Cox, Eu nice Jeneal Deaver, and Virginia Carroll Shoemaker; Sophomore class representatives: Sybil Flor ence Moore and Lucille Chase ColUns; and Freshmen class rep resentatives. Dorcas Ann Cox and Frances Amelia Gibson. During the weeks to come ev eryone on the campus will be working frantically preparing for the big day. All the girls w’Jl be working together trying to per fect their dances and to get their costumes in order. Mr. Lang and his crew of men will be found here, there and everywhere doing innumerable tasks. The evercalm Miss Bateman will be supervising the last minute activities with asked to danc6 for the guests. To 1 the greatest of ease while every- end the day’s activities the tra- ^ dither because ditional May pole will be brought the great moment is approaching jjj and everything is not ready. Even The dances honoring the May the Seniors, who get to watch this Queen will be the traditional High-1 their last year, wiU be preparing land Fling by the Juniors and the [for the day by getting out their Virginia Keei, Quadrilles, Square, white dresses and getting them Dance, American Minuet, marshattmg. ern Polka, and the Schottische by I As we look at the gardens and the Sophomore and Freshman the many beautiful flowers on classes. | the campus coming to the peak o£ This year’s May Queen is Nan cy Jo Thompson and her Maid of Honor is Jean Carol McRae. On the May Court are Senior class representatives: Chung Soon Kim, | their blooming, we know that in deed spring is here and that our May Day wiU be a great occas ion with all the traditional trim mings. Jean MacRae is Maid of Honor to Flora Macdonald’s Queen of the May, Nancy Jo Thompson. Dorm Life At Consolidated Presbyterian College by Sally Day i Wouldn’t it be nice if the girls on VardeU III had a living room? McCain III would be so much nic er with bathroom facilities so they wouldn’t have to share the ones on Morgan III and VardeU III. How I would love to have a storage room for my suitcases and trunk so I wouldn’t fall over them every time I run out of my room in a hurry! And a sunbath ing area for the entire dormitory where we wouldn’t have to wear raincoats to and from sunbath ing. I guess it would be too much to ask for a bathroom large enough to hang out a night’s wash — and showers of course would be out of the question! Don’t jump to conclusions — this could and will happen as soon as September, 1960 appears on the calendar and the Consolidated Presbyterian Col lege opens its doors. These are its exciting and fresh curriculum, has already attracted the atten tion of educators across America. Mr. Slas M. Vaughn, a young man of wide training and exper ience, has been secured as the Business Manager for the Con solidated College and has opened up a new office for the college on the second floor of the State Bank of Laurinburg. just a few dreams of Flossie’s lassies that will come true, but let us take an even closer look and see if the new college answers all that we want it to. Someone would immediately ask, “How can a student body that em braces 600-1000 students maintain a spirit of unity? Will there be the feeling of closeness on the new campus as we find here at FMC? How can a big college still have the atmosphere found on a small campus? These are the kinds of questions that the planners of the Consolidated Presbyterian vCol- lege had in mind when they con sidered student life and student government for the new college. The main medium to be used to create a positive student body atmosphere will be the fact that the dormitories will be small im- its. One half of the buildings will have only 64 students plus a dorm itory resident. The other half will have only 80. These groups wiU have their own dorm council and contribute members to a larger campus student government. While the dorm resident will have cer tain duties generally attributed to the traditional house mother, the bulk of the supervision will rest upon the students involved. To help mold each dorm into a working unit the students will, in addition to their student gov ernment activities, also piffsue various recreational and intra mural sports and other activities based around the dormitory group. They will get to know the other residents in a more intimate way in lieu of the fact that their evening meal wiU be served in the dormitory around small tables very similar to the present Flora Macdonald College eating facili ties. News Briefs Even these small units are to be broken down further with the use of apartment-style houses. The apartments will embrace groups of 8, 10, &nd 12 and will consist of a living room, bedrooms, and bath. The dorm will be construc ted^ so that the living quarters will be built around an open court. This will be our sunbathing area and unless someone uses a heli copter, this area will be private! Each dorm will, also, have a stor age room, a 'laundry room for washing and drying clothes, a re ception room, etc. So if you are worried about being lost in a crowd at the Con solidated P r e sbyterian College, you have very little to fear. In •addition to all the many clubs and large group activities, each resident student will be a resident of an apartment, a citizen in a dormitory community, and then participate in a campus-wide stu dent government program. In this way, social groups will be creat- (Continued on Page 2) MAY DAY DANCE There will be a dance on May 2 May Day, sponsored by the Stu dent Council, Athletic Association, and the Senior, Junior, Sophomore, and Freshmen classes. The com mittee for the dance is Janis Pi- gott, general chairman, and her committee of Faye Phillips, Jean nette Cole and Elaine Batts. The dance will be held on front cam pus. SENIOR BEACH TRIP On May 15 the Seniors will rush off to Myrtile Beaoh, S. C. They will stay at the “Tally Ho.” This trip taken annual ly by the Seniors is an event long looked forward to by all. A. A. PICNIC Food, fun, and fellowship are in store for everyone at the A. A. Picnic on back campus April 25. The boy day students challenge the varsity vollyball players to an outside vollyball game. It really sounds like something exciting. Many games are planned for all faculty, staff, and students. And don’t forget . . . food. DAY STUDENTS’ BEACH TRIP The week end of May 16 will find many of the Day Students and their dates on the way to Cherry Grove Beach, South Carolina.
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