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VOLUME 1 NO. 1
SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE
WHITEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
New Challenges Appear
With Nursing Program
DR. WARREN A. LAND
President of Southeastern
Expectation
Doubled
In an interview with Dr. War
ren A. Land, President of the
College, some of the various
functions of the student body and
the college activities were dls-
CUSSGd*
The duration of the first seven
months, in Dr. Land’s point of
view, has doubled his expecta
tions. He says, “that without
the help and cooperation of the
students and faculty working
hand in hand, we would not have
been as successful.”
Dr. Land, with a humorous
expression, illustrated his point
of view by adding, “that our en
deavors have been like some sort
of ferment which has produced
the foundation for the building of
the future.”
According to Dr. Land, South
eastern can become the best
community college in the state
solely because a firm foundation
has been built in the first year.
He feels that in the future as the
college develops, students will
assume more and more of a
personal identity with the col
lege.
“In the future our college will
provide the best instructional
program by combining the best
of the old methods and techni
ques with the new.” Ha also
stated “that a great deal of the
new techniques of learning will
be found in the future Learning
Resources Center.”
Programs offered will be Radio
Technology and Television
Broadcasting with the college’s
own closed circuit television and
radio broadcasting facilities.
"Students in the future,” added
Dr. Land, “will have no excuse
for missing lectures because the
Learning Resources Center will
supply video tapes of class lec
tures for the students.”
First Graduation
Will Be In June
Graduation ceremonies for
Southeastern’s first graduating
class - the vocational students -
will be held in June of this year.
The date and place will be an
nounced by the administration.
Graduation ceremonies for two
year students in 1967 are now
being planned according to Dr,
Land. He stated that the admini
stration hopes to have exercises
on the new campus, but if this
is not possible, the ceremony will
be held in the present college
auditorium.
Wlien the college opens in the
fall, it will have added an As
sociate Degree Nursing Pro
gram, This program will con
sist of two academic years with
classes held at the college and
the clinical laboratory work done
in Lumberton.
The students will use South
eastern General Hospital, Robe
son County Public Health Clinics,
the Presbyterian Day School, and
doctors’ offices for the clinical
laboratory practice. Upon com
pletion of the course, the nursing
students will be eligible to write
the State Board Exam. Upon
successful passing, they will
become registered nurses.
The new nursing program will
incorporate the newer trends in
nursing education. In the past
the emphasis in nursing has been
placed on “doing” rather than
“knowing”, but currently the
emphasis is being plac^ upon
knowing and s^plying inter
personal relation^ps and tech
nical skills. The student nurse
in this type prc^am will not be
assigned to a hospital division
as was previously done, but the
type of learning experience that
the student needs will be se
lected by the instructor. Stu
dents will be accompanied by
the instructor to the clinic^
laboratory and will leave fol
lowing planned experiences.
SCC’s nursing faculty will be made up of (left to right) Miss
Dorothy Powell, Director of Nursing, Mrs. Laura Casey and Mrs.
Eleanor Hoose, nursing instructors.
Nursing services given by the
student will only be Incidental.
Miss Dorothy Powell, Di
rector of Nursing at SCC, says,
“Student nurses are not expected
to be busy at all times, but they
are expected to utilize their time
in the clinical labs to gain
knowledge. This mi^t be done
by studying patients clinical
records, talking with the patient,
the patient’s family, or members
of the health team. Students
might want to investigate labora
tory findings, response of patient
to different types of tresiment,
and possible solutions to nursing
Selective Service
Gives 2nd Chance
The Selective Service has an
nounced that it will give another
chance to thousands of college
students who missed the April
23 deadline for signing up for
qualification tests that will help
determine whether they keep
their draft deferments.
About one million students had
applied by the deadline, which
fell on a Saturday. Additional
thousands had failed to sign ^
until the last moment and found
that local draft boards were
closed on that day.
Additional tests have been
scheduled for May 14, May 21,
and June 3 at 1200 locations in
the fifty states, Washington, D.C.,
the Canal Zone and Puerto Rico.
According to Armand Opitz,
Student Personnel Services Di
rector at SCC, location for
taking the test have not yet been
released. As soon as they are,
they will be posted on the college
bulletin boai^.
Students must contact their
local draft boards for appli
cations for the qualification test.
Any student who takes the test
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problems. Nursing currently
is undergoing radical changes
and many demands are made upon
the nurse, both as a nurse and as
a citizen in the community,”
She added that "last year in
North Carolina a higher per
centile of graduates of Associate
Degree Nursing Programs
passed the State Board Exami
nations than of the other type
programs.’’
In addition to Miss Powell,
two new nursing Instructors have
been added to the college’s
nursing faculty, Mrs. Eleanor
Hoose and Mrs. Laura Casey.
Summer Session
Begins June 7
Dr. Charles King, Dean of
Academics at Southeastern Com
munity College has announced
that registration for the first
session of the summer quarter
will begin Monday, June 6.
Classes will begin on Tuesday,
June 7. The deadline for late
registration, changes in sched
ules, and adding or dropping
classes will be Friday, June 10.
The only holiday will be July
4. Friday, July 15, will end the
first session of summer school.
Among the courses offered for
the first session are business,
English, humanities, mathe
matics, history, physical edu
cation, biology, and chemistry.
Fine Arts Group
Will Present
Concert Series
The Fine Arts Committee is
in the process of setting up a
number of series for next year.
Including in this will be lectures,
concerts, and various types of
movie entertainment. The SCC
committee will be working with
the Whiteville Fine Arts Com
mittee in order to bring a bigger
and better program to the stu
dents.
Since this area has always been
highly agricultural, it has not
had the opportunity advantages
of the industrialized urban areas
in the cultivation of the Arts.
Now the college is being given
the chance to bring an aspect
of each area included in the
Fine Arts directly to the stu
dents and to the entire sur
rounding communities.
Beginning in the fall, con
cert series tickets will be on
sale to the public. Students of
SCC will pay an activity fee each
quarter which will cover all ad
missions.
King Wins Grant
In Desert Biology
Robert King, of the Biology
Departmont at Southeastern
Community College, has been
awarded a summer grant by the
National Science Foundation for
college teachers of Biology.
He will be enrolled in "Seminar
in Desert Biology”, which in
cludes a study of the factors
affecting plant and animal life
in the desert regions. Emphasis
will be placed on morphological,
physiological, and behavorial
adaptions to desert environ
ments.
Mr. King, along with thirty-
nine other college instructors
who have had three or more
years of teaching experience, has
been selected to work on this
study. He will be studying under
the direction of Dr. Gordon L.
Bender of Arizona State Univer
sity In Tempe. Upon completion
of this course, Mr. King will
be awarded six hours of graduate
credit.
rtmwine of the first five buildings on Southeastem’s
shows the vocaUonal and technical building at the left, the
new campus s right, classroom building in the rear, and
building. The auditorium will be located directly behind the ad
ministration building. Future expansion will be in the area to the
left in the picture.