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VOL. 3, NO. 8
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., FEBRUARY 18, 1963
BI WEEKLY—$2.00 YEARLY
First WesleyanRings
Okayed By Students
Designs for Wesleyan’s first
class ring, to be made by Herf
Jones Company of Indianapolis,
Ind., have been approved by
the student body, and initial
orders have been taken. De
livery of the rings is expected
in May.
Modeled after the United
States Air Force Academy
ring, the Wesleyan ring is
available in several different
weights. According to Allen
Barbee, local Herf Jones re
presentative, the sixteen
penny-weight isize was most
frequently ordered by the class
of 1964. The ring is to be made
in a teardrop design, and the
set is to be an extremely
hard, dark blue spinel stone.
Surrounding the blue set is
to be the full college name.
In the lower part of this circle
of letters a small star is iset.
A numeral 1 will be cut into
the top of the star, denoting
the first graduating class. This
numeral will not appear on
any future Wesleyan class
ring, thus giving the 1964 rings
distinction.
The claiss side of the ring
pictures the main doorway to
Braswell administration build
ing (representing the door to
learning), and the year of
graduation appears above the
doorway. Below the doorway
is a pine branch, representa
tive of the many pines on the
Wesleyan campus.
The school side of the ring
sliows the complete college
seal witli degree letters (BA or
BS) above the iseal. Beginning
beneath the seal and extend
ing above it is an elongated
torch, representing the torch
of knowledge. Immediately be
low the base of the torch are
sprigs of pine. Other pine
branches faintly surround the
seal.
Both side of the ring are en
closed in a fine miUwork, and
the slopes of both sides end in
poparis crosses. The southern
tip of each cross continues
down the narrow part of the
ring, and they join on the palm
side.
The college men have a
choice of yeUow or white gold,
with several variations in
finish offered. A cut or smooth,
buffed stone may be ordered,
and the back of the ring may
be left open or plastic-filled.
A great variation in weight is
also available.
Instead of a miniature of the
man’s ring, Wesleyan girls
have selected a rectangular
onyx style. This styling theme
highlights the true elegance of
simplicity. Basically the ring
has no engraving or lettering
of any kind, but the girls can
order the riag engraved to
suit their own tastes. The col
lege seal may be incised into
the stone if desired, and the
degree earned and year of
graduation may be engraved
on the sides. Other than these
choices, girls may have ei
ther yellow or white gold. Ini
tials of the owner are engrav
ed inside, along with a numeral
1 denoting the first graduating
class.
Dr. Dennis Baly
To Visit Campus
ABC^s Top Commentator
Paul Harvey To Speak
At DSA Program
Paul Harvey, news analyst
for the American Broadcast
ing Company, will speak ia
Rocky Mount Feb. 26. Jack
PAUL HARVEY
Fenner of the Rocky Mount
Junior Chamber of Commerce
has announced that Harvey
will speak at the Annual Jay-
cee Distinguished Service
Award Dinner. The dinner is
to be held at the National
Guard Armory, and begins at
7;30. Tickets arc $4 each.
Last year New York’s Radio-
Television Daily PoU of 600
critics named Harvey “Top
Commentator of 1962.” In ad
dition to his radio shows, Har
vey writes three syndicated
newspaper columns a week.
He has several books to his
credit, and he has made three
record albums.
Harvey has been broadcast
ing since high school days in
Tulsa, Okla., before World
War II. He began his news
paper columns in 1955, and
that same year he was named
to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.
He hais six honorary degrees,
the last being a Doctorate of
Humanities degree from Union
University in Jackson, Tenn
on May 28, 1962. In 1962 he
also won a Freedoms Founda
tion Award for his editorial,
“Daddy, What Would We Go
to War About?”.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey and
son, Paul Jr., live in the
suburbs of Chicago, and they
also have a farm in the Mid-
West.
DR. DENNIS BALY
SGA Leaders
Planning Trip
student Govenmient leaders
have planned a trip to High
Point CoUege in High Point on
Feb. 16.
S.G.A. President Gary Gar-
low recently contacted Bob
Clark, president of the High
Point College S.G.A., and made
arrangements for the informal
conference. Clark was pleased
about the proposed conference,
and said High Point CoUege
would be looking forward to
the Wesleyan S.G.A.’s visit.
The purpose of the trips,
says Garlow, is to observe and
leam. He further stated: “High
Point has an excellent student
government. I think this will
enable us to look around and
improve our student govern
ment tlipough a wider pro
spective. I believe this is es
sential to good student govern
ment.”
Garlow and the other Asso
ciation leaders will leave Fri
day. They will visit the High
Point College campus Satur
day and return to Wesleyan
Saturday afternoon. Those
making the trip with President
Garlow are Betty Anderson,
Susan Black, Dan Jacobs, and
possibly two other student lead
ers.
Dean’s List
Announced
The following students have
been named to the Dean’s List
for the first semester, 1962-63,
which requires a 3.2 quality
point average;
Felton, Mrs. Gayle
Millar, Ann
Spivey, Etta
Sexton, Mrs. Carol
Joyner, Mrs, Gwendolyn
Hayes, Boddy
Mitchell, Mrs. Vivian
Stephens, Robert
Tarleton, Kenneth
Price, Charlie
Black, Susan
Anderson, Betty
Gorham, Patricia
Holder, Nelda
Joyner, GaU
Lamberth, Joan
Pridgen, Rev. Marshall
Sawyer, Mrs. Winifred
Winstead, Billy
Hinton, Mrs. June
McBride, Mrs. Marie
Pritchard, Janet
Upchurch, Billy
Stine, Winni
Holden, Lyndon
Hopkins, Eddie
Register, Mrs. Rosemary
Rich, ChameU
Dennis Baly, an authority on
Biblical Geography, wUl be on
campus Feb. 18-19 as one of
the Danforth Visiting Lectur
ers.
Dr. Baly was born in Liver
pool, England. His father, E.
C. C. Baly, was professor of
chemistry at the University of
Liverpool for 27 years and in
his day was one of the leading
authorities in Britain on spec
troscopy and photosynthesis.
After attending the King’s
School, Worcester, and the
University of Liverpool, where
his subject was geography,
Baly taught in France for a
year, from 1936-37. He then
joined tlie staff of the Jeru
salem and East Mission, with
whom he remained for 17
years. During tliis period he
taught in Amman, Haifa, and
Jerusalem, and finished by
becoming headmaster of St.
George’s Upper School on the
Arab side of Jerusalem.
New Undertakings
Planned By SGA
“I feel that during the first
semester of this term, lack of
experience wais our greatest
liandicap. However, I believe
that now witli experience be
hind us, our S.G.A. wUl realize
new and striking progress
throughout next semester,” re
marked Gary Garlow, S.G.A.
president.
Several important new un
dertakings Usted among those
planned for this semester are:
the planning of trips to other
coUeges throughout the state,
the inauguration of a Student
Grievance Committee, the ap
pointing of two students to
serve as S.G.A. Publicity
Directors, the completion of
changes concerning the S.L.A.,
and the commencement of ac
tive work by the Constitution
Committee. Details on other
projects wiU be forthcoming
as developments take place.
During the Arab-Jewish war,
when schools in Palestine were
closed, he was for a year
(1948-49) the First Secretary
for Laymen’s Work with the
World Council of Churches in
Geneva, Switzerland. After his
arrival in the United States in
1954, Dr. Baly was for two
years Visiting Lecturer in
World Chri sti a nity at St.
George’s Episcopal Church in
New York. Since 1956 he has
been on tlie faculty of Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio. From
1956-58 he also served as ad
viser on Church and Universi
ty to the Bishops of the Dio
ceses of Ohio and Southern
Oliio.
He is at present chairman
of the department of reUgion
at Kenyon and lecturer in the
political science department.
Here at Wesleyan, Dr. Baly
will give a public lecture on
“Prophet, Priests, and PoU-
ticis,” which explores the mod
ern poUtical significance of
Old Testament thought. At a
convocation for students he
WiU speak on “The Stage of
the BibUcal Drama,” which
is concerned with the conribu-
tion of geography to the un
derstanding of the Bible. In
two informal or class meet
ings he wiU discuss “Middle
Eastern Patterns,” which
covers the recurrent features
of the Middle Eastern political
struggle as it has developed
throughout history, and “The
Geography Behind History,”
which examines the part play
ed by geography in enabling
us not to misunderstand his
tory.
The publications of Dr. Baly
include “Chosen Peoples,”
“The Geography of the Bible,”
“Multitudes in the VaUey,”
“Besieged City,” “Palestine
and the Bible,” “Academic
Illusion,” and “A Geographical
Companion to the Bible,” which
wUl be published in 1963. Copies
of three of Dr. Baly’s books are
avaUable in the CoUege Book
shop.
Rocky Mount Native
Musk Teacher Named
President Thomas A. ColUns
has announced the appoint
ment of Miss Faye Batts as
instructor of piano at North
Carolina Wesleyan.
Misis Batts, a native of
Rocky Mount, received the
Bachelor of Music degree in
piano from Woman’s Ck)nege
in Greensboro in 1960. She was
a full-time teaching assistant
at WCUNC in piano and theory
during the year following her
graduation. In 1961 she won
Honorable Mention in the Na
tional finals of the Woodrow
WUson Fellowship Contest.
In 1961 Miss Batts entered
the University of Michigan in
Ann Arbor and has completed
her course work towards the
Master of Music , degree in pi
ano with a minor in music
literature. WhUe at Michigan
Miss Batts served as both
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MISS FAYE BATTS