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> i t Page 2—Smoke Signals, Wednesday, May 2, 1973 Professor Profile Mrs. Undine Barnhill Very Popular Teacher A Look at the Business World By STEPHEN BOWMAN One of our more colorful characters on campus today is English professor, Mrs. Undine Barnhill, and she is quite a character. She tries to be a Christian teacher—she knows that to be the most successful and rewarding way. Mrs. Undine Weeks Barnhill was born at Dawson Cross Roads in the first quarter of the twen tieth century. She was reared on a farm with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Weeks, three brothers, and two sisters, she being the oldest child. Her mother was a school teacher and her father a farmer. Mrs. Bar nhill has loved the farm ever since she can remember and presently lives in the same area in which she was born and reared. During her high school days and after graduating from Scotland Neck High School in 1934 she worked part time in a Scotland Neck clothing store in addition to working down on the farm. After graduation from high school she took one year of business courses at Scotland Neck High which later helped in working her way through college. In the fall of 1935 Mrs. Barnhill began classes at Meredith College, a girls school in Raleigh, where she majored in English and history. She says that she took those subjects because two of her best high school teachers in.spired her to take them. She graduated from Merdith in 1939 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in lOnglish and history. Mrs. Barnliill was married in 1939 to Mr, l,emuel Wesley Barnhill. They had two children, a daughter, now Mrs, Geneva Ashley of Whiteville, N.C., and a son, I^rry Barnhill, who is employed in Raleigh. Mr. Wesley Barnhill was then proprietor of "Capl’n Wesley’s Store,” where Mrs. Barnhill and her husband worked for the next thirteen years. Following Mr. Barnhill’s death, Mrs. Barnhill then went to East Carolina University, renewed her teaching certificate, and con tinued attending classes there year round until she earned her Masters degree in English and history, and graduated in 1951. S^e says that she has received much education through her travels during and after college. She has been to the Middle East Egypt, Palestine), South nerica, Mexico, Canada, ■pe, and throughout the 1 States. Just this past imer she spent six weeks at >..ie University of London in England for courses in English. Mrs. Barnhill has attended classes at Harvard University, 1-afyette College in Penn sylvania, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the North Carolina University of Raleigh, and she has engaged in additional study at East Carolina Univer sity. Starting in 1950, after renewing her certificate, she taught at Scotland Neck High School for fifteen years. After that, she came to Chowan and has been teaching here since. Mrs. Bar nhill teaches five classes of English including English 101, 102, 201, 202, and at times American Literature, 203 and 204. She serves on the Graduation Committee and the Hospitality Committee here at the college. Concerning the work she does, Mrs. Barnhill has this to say, “I don’t sponsor anything except goodwill. I like every minute of teaching at Chowan. I hope that I am doing a service to the students that I teach.” She says that she has always wanted to teach, she believes, because her mother was a teacher. She loves to paint, sew, read, and work in her garden. She says, “I like to be with and deal with young people since I was once a youngun myself. I love everything.” Mrs. Barnhill’s community work is mainly centered around her church, where she teaches a Sunday sdiool class. She is in terested in the BSU and oc casionally attends the prayer breakfast and prayer meeting. A motto above her desk reads, “Snile. If you see someone today without a smile—Try giving him one of yours.” This motto fits well with her opinion of Chowan. “I like Chowan College very much. I feel a part of it and it hurts my feelings when people say ugly remarks about it.” She believes that Chowan is a great service to people in this part of the state and elsewhere. Mrs. Barnhill says, “I would like to see a change in student attitude in that they would feel more a part of the college instead of being discriminated against." She believes that the students should take pride in their own college. Without the students it would not be here. Mrs. Barnhill says, in all truth and honesty, “I think Chowan students are the finest I have ever been associated with. All that I know, I like. I think students should be more interested in the Christian way of life and more of the students should ge involved in the Christian work on this campus.” Mrs. Barnhill told one of the many unusual experiences she has had since coming to Chowan. She says that once, she was holding class in the Marks Hall auditorium and one student came in late from the weekend. “He marched down the aisle with the most beautiful bouquet of tulips I had ever seen, using it as a sort of peace offering. He said that a lady let him pick them out of her garden.” By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - Ameri can workers now have at least $137 billion in private pension assets. Of at least 30 million workers covered, 4.7 million are receiving annual benefits that exceed $7.4 billion a year. These figures all are min- imums, because they were compiled in 1970. Grov^ since then has been swift in many re spects, and assets by 1980 are projected to exceed $250 billion. In 1940 they totaled $2,4 billion. Women’s Leader Asks Accuracy NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Steinem, the feminist and edi tor, says women do not expect sympathy or empathy in news coverage, but she says, “We want accuracy.” Speaking to the 87th annual meeting of the American News paper Publishers Association on Wednesday, Ms. Steinem criti cized stories that described women by dress or physical at tributes but did not treat men the same way. A Washington newspaper ac count of her testifying before a congressional committee on equal rights described her as ‘“blonde, miniskirted Gloria Steinem, but did not report on the head of the committee as ‘brunet, vested Birch Bayh,’” she said. Literary Musings By PROF. ROBERT G. MULDER Saintliness is rarely associated with politics—all too rarely. I intend, nevertheless, to make a kind of con nection in this column. It will certainly prove nothing, but it may interest the politically inclined, hagiologists and run-of-the-mine statisticians. Although my library is not fully stocked with reference works on hagiology, I do have the four-volume complete edition of Butler’s “Lives of the Saints” (edited by Thurston and Attwater) and the fourth edition of “The Book of Saints.” The latter is a biographical dictionary compiled by the Benedictine monks of St. Augustine’s Abbey, Ramsgate (England). So for several evenings when the Yippies were yapping, I just turned off the boob tube and pulled down from my shelves the works cited above to find out how many of the beautified and the sanctified as officially recognized by the (Catholic Church were named Richard or George or Hubert. The Church, of course, does not “make saints.” Saints make themselves and only after a long and complicated process does the Church acknowledge them. Well, for the Statisticians who may want to program my figures for a computer, the results came out like this: “Book of Saints”: Richard (17 beautified, four sanctified); Goerge (three beautified, 10 santified). The score may have changed since these references were published, because beautification is only a step on the way to sanctification. If I had enough space, I could easily get carried away and write pages about the holy men who bore these names; but I shall have to limit myself to brief discussions to only one of each Christian name. Let the computers make of it what they will. Blessed Richard Rolle of Hampole was a 14th century mystic who tried viliantly to tread the way of truth and illumination. The professional theologians have long argued as to whether the stages of his ascent correspond to the classical pattern of “dulcor,” “canor” and “fervor.” This controversy does not keep me sleepless o’nights. He had a rough time of it. Of his early difficulties he says: “Rotten rags hardly covered me, and in my naked ness I was annoyed with the bites of flies which no comfortable covering prevented from walking over me, and my skin became rough with ingrained dirt; and yet in warm weather I was tormented by the heat, among men who were enjoying all the shade that they desired; and my teeth chattered with the cold while they were indulging in rich adornments and rejoicing in superfluities—although nevertheless they loved not the Giver of these things.” And he may or may not have been using a figure of speech in describing the Devil in the guise of a woman who tried to seduce him; for when one fasts and mortifies the body, it is hard to distinguished fantasy from reality. The same reservation may be made judging the actuality of a clutch of demons who left the deathbed of Damme Dalton only to cluster in his own cell. The only possible choice for “George” is St. George, Protector of the Kingdom of England (A.D. 303?) In the later medieval period he was best known as the “Legenda Aurea” of Jacques de Voraigne. From this “Golden Legend” we learn that he was a Christian knight and that he was born in Cappodocia. He had a way with dragons. One of these nasty creatures had long terrified the country around Sylene. For a while two sheep per day kept him at a distance; then the supply of sheep ran thin and human sacrifice had to be of fered. It came the turn of the king’s daughter to fill his maw, and he went out—believe it or not—dressed as a bride for the assignation. George ob jected, ran the dragon through with his lance, took the girl’s girdle and put it around the monster’s neck. Then she was able to lead the now meek beast into the city. Then Geoge put it up to the kind. If he and his subjects would become Christian believers and consent to baptism, he would slay the dragon. It was done. The dragon was killed, his remains were carried away in four ox carts and 15,000 men were baptized (not counting women and children). It is sad to relate that George later was tortured and martyred under Diocletian and Maximian. He was beaten with clubs, burned with red-hot irons, poisoned, fixed between two spiked wheels and thrown into a caldron of molten lead. None of these arrangements worked, but decapitation did. His martydrom is observed in the Church calendar on April 23. St. Hubert’s Day falls on November 3, just short of usual election days. Hubert was a hunter. That figures, I suppose. The extra-ordinary manner of his conversion is related as follows: “Hubert was very fond of hunting and one Good Friday went out after a stag when everybody else was going to church. In a clearing of the wood the beast turned, displayed a crucifix between its horns. Hubert stopped in astonishment, and a voice came from the stag saying, “ ‘Unless you turn to the Lord, Hubert, you shall fall into Hell.’ ” He fell on his knees and then took the stag’s advice to seek out the bishop of Maestricht for guidance. The advice was good, for he was later ordained priest and in 705 became bishop of Liege. He is to this day especially venerated in Belgium. The consequences grow too, not only for workers covered but for the entire economy of the nation. Even in a trillion- doUar economy, a sum in the billions carries great power. Banks depend upon it, the ree); dl;l rz8eds it, corpo rations rely on it as a source of capital financing. Thousands of bankers, lawyerso trustees and other professionals, and many times that number of ancillary workers, earn their living from it. And there is still another great consequence, perhaps more potential than real. That is the possibility of fraud, con spiracy or other misuse of funds by those who manage them. In a comprehensive pension study just released, Bankers TVust describes how “the man on Main Street probably imag ines a perpetual series of con- spiraces for the control of cor porations.” The ingredients of the “plot” are that billions of dollars of stock are held by pension funds, which are managed by banks. Other institutions, like investment trusts and insurers, hold billions more. Now add to this recipe the fact that “the directors of these institutions know one another and work within the narrow radius of the lower end of Man hattan” and you have the mak ings of problems. Despite these majohz$v rnjw rl3considerationsit is the personal stake in pensions that concerns most workers and their fami lies. And yet many workers know very little of toeir rights and expectation . It is for reasons such as these Meat Boycott LOS ANGELES (AP) - Two national consumer groups are calling for a new meat boycott beginning this week. One group wants the boycott to continue until prices come down. The other plans a week- long protest of high prices sim ilar to the boycott earlier this month. June Foray Donavan of Los Angeles, organizer of Fight In flation Together—FIT—said she was optimistic that a boycott to last “until something gives” would be successful even though the demand for meat has returned to normal since the first Ixjycott. that various congressional com mittees are studying many pro posals to set standards for fiduciary responsibilities, ves ting, disclosure of information and funding. While the complexity of the subject matter and the many varieties of pension plans is slowing action, prospects are bright that Congress will be able to reach agreement on provisions this year and prob ably pass a bill in 1974. So far the focus of three main proposals is on vesting. Prince Charles Promoted By Royal fbvy IX)NDON (AP) — Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, will be promoted to act ing lieutenant in the Royal Navy on May 1, the Ministry of Defense announced today. With the promotion from sub lieutenant, the 24-year-old jyince’s navy pay will go up from $5,250 to $6,625. But Charles, who reportedly gets half a million dollars a year as Prince of Wales and Duke of Ckirnwall, has been giving his navy pay to navy charities. The defense ministry said the promotion was routine since he will complete 18 months on duty on May 1. He is serving as assistant navigation officer on the survey ship Fox in the West Indies. Premier Meir To Run Again TEL AVIV (AP) - Israeli Premier Golda Meir has de cided to run again in October, the newspaper Haaretz report ed today. Mrs. Meir’s office had no immediate comment. For the past two years the 74- year-old premier has been say ing she would like to retire. But other leaders of the ruling La bor party fear no generally ac ceptable successor can be found. Haaretz published a public opinion poll in which 74.1 per cent of those questioned said they wanted Mrs. Meir to re main en the job. —A bill submitted by Sens. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., and Harrison A. WiUiams, D-N.J., proposes that after eight years of service a pension be 30 per cent vested. That means a worker would have a nonforfeitable right to 30 per cent of benefits accrued under terms of the plan, even if he ceased to be an employe. Tlie benefits would be paid on retirement. Each year thereafter vesting would increase by 10 per cent until, after 15 years, the em ploye would be 100 per cent vested. —Rep. John Dent, D-Pa., pro poses that after 10 years of service an employe be 100 per cent vested. —The Nixon administration proposes the rule of 50. When age and service add up to 50, a person becomes 50 per cent vested, that is, entitled to one- half the pension rights accrued under the particular plan, to be paid on retirement. Vesting would increase 10 per cent a year after the rule of 50 applied, so that rights to a full pension would be reached in another five years. How do you determine if you are vested? A new federal regulation ex pected to become effective July 31 would require employers to make availaUe to workers the pertinent facts regarding their [dan in laymen’s terms. Casino Owner Seeks Divorce RENO, Nev. (AP) — William Harrah, owner of Reno and I.ake Tahoe casinos, has filed for divorce from his fourth wife, former model Roxene Carlson. Harrah asked Washoe Dis trict Court Wednesday for a di vorce on grounds of in compatibility. He said the couple had no community prop erty. Miss Carlson, 32, and Harrah, 61, were married last Oct. 15 at Harrah’s home at Tahoe. It was his fourth marriage and her second. Gets Parole WASHINGTON (AP) - Rob ert T, Carson, a former aide to Sen, Hiram L. Fong, R-Hawaii, has been granted parole by the U.S. Board of Parole. Carson had been sentenced to 18 months in prison on con spiracy and perjury charges. He was convicted of being the prime mover in a conspiracy to bribe then-Deputy Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst and was sentenced on Nov. 14, 1972. The board denied parole to Collie Leroy Wilkins and Eu gene Thomas, Klu Kluz Klan members from Alabama who were convicted on civil rights charges in the gunshot slaying of civil rights worker Mrs. Viola Liuzzo in March 1965. CHOw*N roiifc/ EDITOR — Richard Jackson ASSOCIATE EDITOR — Stephen Bowman SPORTS EDITOR — Linwood Lewis STAFF- Karen Humberstone Barry Bradberry Lynn Deaner Jim Moore Mary Vann **^7;' ^ — Harvey Wadman Hunter Gish Buddy Tunstall Thomas Long Edgar Pittman DavM t^ooks Bofr lien Ihinsfer students: Wfe’wgot your numben 8004249212 If you're thinking about transfering to a four-year college program, you have a lot of questions. Questions about courses, expenses, programs, campus life, all kinds of things. Well, somebody just happens to be sitting at the other end of the nearest telephone, to answer your questions. Some body at The American University, in Washington, D C. We have about 1,100 transfer students this year, so we know a thing or two about making the transition as pain less as possible. You can call toll free, March 22 to May 11,1973, week days from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. The American University Transfer Student Program Washington, D. C. 20016
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