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VOL. 9, NO. 5
North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, N.C.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12,1993
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NCWC’s top
award goes
to Mauldins
HONOR STUDENTS BSDUCTED — Omicron Delta Kappa inductees during the recent Founders
Day convocation v?ere (from left) Roger B. Budd, Jr. Ken Leonard, Lionel Moad, Tim Elmore,
Delinda Lee, Jessica Johnson, and Julie Salkeld. Not pictured: Patrick Brannan, Shannon Johnson,
and Marie Lenane.
New business course offered
This fall, a new course has
been offered during the day
schedule in Rocky Mount —
Business 475: Small Business
Consulting, which provides stu
dents the opportunity to consult
with small businesses in the re
gion.
The course is offered in coop
eration with the Small Business
and Technology Development
Center.
The class, divided into three
teams, has been assigned to work
with three small businesses. The
problems they are working to
solve are: developing a market
ing strategy for a sheet metal fab
rication business; developing a
quality control program for a fur
niture manufacturer, and formu
lating a business plan for the
Fenner Market Warehouse in
downtown Rocky Mount.
All three teams have been busy
doing research and meeting with
business owners, leaders, and
competitors. Team sessions have
been held at night to filter through
gathered information.
Robert and Pat Mauldin won
the Algernon Sydney Sullivan
Award, the highest award given
by Ncffth Carolina Wesleyan Col
lege, during this year’s Founders
Day convocation.
The Sullivan Award honors
those who are compassionate, ex
hibit love for fellow men, adhere
to Christian ideals, behave cour
teously and gently, and are ac
tively participating in college or
community affairs.
Robert Mauldin is chairman
of Centura Bank in Rocky Mount.
His wife, Pat, has been a leading
force behind the Rocky Mount
Habitat for Humanity program.
Dr. David A. Jones, professor
of history, delivered the Founders
Day address, highlighting the past
and taking an optimistic look into
the future.
“George Washington is most
significant as an American presi
dent precisely because he was not
our only one,” Jones said, “and
Thomas A. Collins is most sig
nificant as a Wesleyan president
for the same reason. He led us at
the beginning and along our way.
No more than the founders of the
nation did Wesleyan’s foimders
know what lay ahead in the three
decades which have become our
past”
Jones also recalled the rough
times in the ‘70’s when Wesleyan
was faced with the possibility of
closing.
“What Oliver Wendell Holmes
called the ‘felt necessities of the
time’ compelled us at Wesleyan,
all of us, to make a virtue of ne
cessity,” he said. “Wesleyan did
not survive by hewing to the vi
sion of the founders or insisting
on the purity of the liberal arts.
“We survived by making a vir
tue of necessity. We must never
lose the vision or let the dream
die,” he said, “but when we tell
the stOTy of Wesleyan let us tell it
truthfiilly, conceding the neces
sity and confessing that we made
it a virtue.”
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NCWC joins schools in science project
The North Carolina Wesleyan
College Education Department
recentlv received a $35,000
Eisenhower Science and Math
Staff Development Grant from the
UNC Mathematics and Science
Education Network for a science
instruction project in collabora
tion with Nash-Rocky Mount
Schools.
The project is designed to es
tablish a cadre of elementary and
middle grade teachers who will
serve as instructional leaders in
science. Teachers involved will
include representatives from
Na^-Rocky Mount Schools and
from interested private schools.
Members of the science in
struction team are Dr. Marshall
Brooks, NCWC professor of edu
cation; Dr. Lynn Bradshaw, Nash-
Rocky Mount director of human
resource development; Dr. Bar
bara Perry-Sheldon, NCWC di
rector of education division; Tim
Tucker, clinical resource teacher;
and Bonnie Lovelace, science re
source teacher.
A 1991 report of the Carnegie
Commission on Science, Tech
nology, and Government stated
that only about 35,(X)0 of the
nation’s one million primary
teachers are trained in science,
and two thirds of the elementary
teachers feel unprepared to teach
science.
Of the 26 schools in the Nash-
Rocky Mount school system, 18
indicated in their School Improve
ment Plan the need for increased
student achievement in science.
The new project is intended to
give teacher-leaders in-service
work in content and hands-on ac
tivities in earth science, chemis
try, and physics, as well as tech
niques for peer coaching.
Teacher-leaders will increase
their knowledge of science, de
velop lessons designed to give
students a positive attitude toward
science, increase students’ science
achievement, and develop and
present to colleagues modules
demonstrating the best approach
to teaching science.
The school system has estab
lished a Teacher Resource Cen
ter for curriculum and staff de
velopment, which will be staffed
by a locally-paid sciaice resource
teachCT and a clinical resource
teacha jointly supplied by the
Nash-Rocky Mount Schools and
North Carolina State University.
“In partnership with North
Carolina Wesleyan College,” said
Nash-Rocky Mount School Su
perintendent Travis Twiford,
“these individuals will be able to
provide peer coaching and fol
low-up support that will ensure
that the knowledge and skills
shared by the teacher leaders with
their colleagues will be success
fully transferred to the class-,
room.”