RAM’S HORN
**The Voice of the Student Body*
Vol. IV Number Four
SOUTHEASTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WHITEVILLE, N. C.
February, 1969
Whiting To Speak
In Great Decisions
Assembly Program
Southeastern Part Of Three
State Research Program
Dr. Kenneth R. Whiting
Dr. Kenneth R. Whiting, noted
historian with the Documentary
Research Division Aerospace
Studies Institute, will speak to
Southeastern students and
acuity in a special assembly
in the college
6 at 1 February
r.’o 3.m. His topic will be
Soviet Policies in Eastern
Europe-The Outlook For
Kast-West Co-existence.”
Dr. Whiting’s visit to the
campus is in conjunction with
the Great Decisions 1969
program being offered at
Southeastern for the first time
from February 2—March 23.
This Great Decisions program,
which is sponsored by the
Foreign Policy Association, will
explore different topics each
week and is open to the public.
It is a nonpartisan discussion
program sponsored nationally
with focus on the pros and cons
of eight important foreign policy
issues facing the U.S. in 1969
Dr. Whiting’s area of special
competence is the Soviet Union,
with minor activity in the
satellites and Chinese affairs. He
is the author of numerous
publications concerning the
Soviet Union, including a recent
book, THE SOVIET UNION
TODAY. He graduated with
honors in history from Boston
University, earned his M.A. at
UCLA, and his Ph.D. in Russian
history from Harvard University.
During the last eleven years
Dr. Whiting has traveled
extensively in the USSR, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Rumania,
Bulgaria, Hungary and
Yugoslavia. In 1967 he visited
Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia,
Indonesia, Australia, New
Zealand and Hawaii.
Southeastern Community
College is among 12 institutions
selected to participate in a junior
college consortium by the
Regional Education Laboratory
for the Carolinasand Virginia.
One of the first areas in which
member junior and community
colleges will work with the
RELCV will be the problems of
remedial education.
Comprehensive research is
proposed, from which will come
development of viable solutions
for remedial education problems
in the two-year college field.
The prospect of new
approaches and new solutions to
such problems is regarded by
Southeastern’s president, E.
Philip Comer, as of great
meaning.
He describes
membership in
as “the most significant single
event that has happened to
Southeastern Community
College since its inception.”
Cbmer expressed the belief that
participation in the junior
college consortium will prove to
be of greater significance and
greater value to Southeastern
than even accreditation.
Institutional research, he said,
involves the systematic
collection and evaluation of
date, on the kinds of remedial
courses offered, the instruction.
Southeastern’s
the consortium
and most important, the
students who fail to learn in
them. Institutional research
enables college faculty to make
decisions, based on what is true,
rather than what is thought to
be true.
Comer attended a one-day
orientation workshop recently
for presidents of the 12
institutions of the junior college
consortium. He has appointed
Professor Jack Ervin,
co-ordinator of the college’s
Business Education department,
to serve as Southeastern’s
institutional representative.
Ervin recently participated in a
three-day meeting in Durham by
RELCV to familiarize
participants with the research
tools and techniques to study
systematically the problems
confironting colleges in such
areas as administration, student
motivation and performance,
making of policy decisions.
Dr. John Roueche, who is
director of the Junior and
Community College Division of
RELCV, will visit the
Southeastern campus on
February 14. He will come here
with two members of his staff to
hold discussions with
Southeastem’s administration
and faculty.
The Regional Education
Laboratory for the Carolinas and
Virginia is a non-profit
organization established under
F^eral legislation, and is the
only one of 19 such regional
education laboratories
throughout the nation which
deals primarily with higher
education, and the only one
which includes a junior college
consortium.
The consortium will work
toward better educational
practices which can be
implemented on all campuses
around the nation, and with its
own member campuses serving
as models for constructive
change in two-year colleges.
The RELCV points out that
most two-year colleges have an
“open door” admissions policy,
but often large numbers of
students do not nukke the grade.
The high dropout rate among
remedial students represents one
of the basic concerns for
RELCV.
Comer sees the opportunity
for significant progress in this
undertaking. “We are fortunate
at Southeastern to be selected as
one of the 12 full members of
this consortium,” he said.
Unprecedented growth of
two-year colleges across the
nation focuses new attention on
student motivations. For
RELCV and the consortium
colleges, many key questions
and concerns will be studied.
College Honors Awards Donors
Donors and recipients of
scholarship grants for the
1968-69 academic year at
Southeastern Community
College was honored recently at
2 reception by college officials
and the college’s Financial Aid
Committee.
Altogether, 31 scholarships
nave been awarded by 27 donors
^rough Southeastern’s Financial
Committee, which
co-ordinates and administers
graii, ^ of this kind.
E. Philip Comer, president of
^uth^tern, said a number of
deserving students are being
Sided by these scholarships, and
e expressed appreciation to the
onors for their interest and
support.
He was accompanied by Mrs.
^nier at the tea in honor of the
onors. Others representing the
college were Hugh Moore,
ir^or of financial aid; Dr.
bert Vargas, dean of student
services, and membo-s
I the Financial Aid Committee,
nich includes Richard Robbins,
"Chairman; Mrs. Poe Barnes,
secretary; George Howard, dean
of the technical-vocational
division, and faculty members
Mrs. Alice Stallings, James Ervin,
and Joe Nance.
Scholarship donors for the
current academic year include:
The Jiggs Powers Athletic
scholarship, Duke University, C.
H. Larkins, Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
McMillian, the Joel Levitt
Foundation, honoring J. K.
Powell (2) and Blue Jeans (2);
Future Business Leaders of
America, Pembroke High
School; WhiteviUe Rotary Club.
Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Kramer
(2) honoring Mr. and Mrs.
Nathan and Celia Kramer, and
Norris Kramer; Mrs. R. C.
Sadler, American Legion,
Elizabethtown Khvanis club,
' Whiteville' Lions club, Whiteville
Woman’s club, BruKWick-
Waccamaw Missionary Eteptist
Convention, Geen Alden
Corporation.
Pierce and Company,
Clinton-Miller Memorial Fund,
Fair Bluff Rotary club, Boys
Home at Uke Waccamaw,
United Church of Christ,
Columbus County Medical
Auxiliary, Robeson County
Medical Auxiliary. ^ Brothers Employees, honoring
Lake Waccamaw Womans Mr. and Mrs. Herman Leder;
club, Tabor City Jaycees, Leder Miss Pauline Toon. ‘
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SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS shown at the reception include, left to right, Belinda Phillips Alice
Davis, President and Mrs. Philip Comer, Walter Strickland and Cynthia White.