THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE
VOLUME 16, NO. 3
WILKESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
FEBRUARY 13, 1986
“Community College”
Month
Dr. David E. Daniel
President’s
Message
February, 1986 has been desig
nated as National Community Col
lege Month. All across the United
States special programs are being
conducted to heighten public aware
ness of the contributions com
munity colleges make to our society.
Over 1200 community colleges now
exist in the United States, 58 of
them in North Carolina. Our com
munity college system is one of the
5 largest in the nation, now enrol
ling over 600,000 North Carolinians
annually. Approximately 3000full-
time equivalent students attend Wilkes
Community College. The head
count of all students, full and part-
time is about 10,000. In other words
1 out of every 10 citizens in our
service area is now taking a course
at Wilkes Community College. In
Ashe, Alleghany, and Wilkes Counties
we reach into every facet of society
to touch thousands of lives, most
of whom would not have such
opportunities otherwise. During the
month of February, we certainly
reflect upon our early beginnings
and our recent successes, but we
also look to the future. To rest on
our laurels would be folly. We
must forge ahead accepting the
unparalled challenges of technolog
ical change. I believe that Wilkes
Community College is ready for
these challenges. And we shall stress
excellence in the process!
NURSE RESIGNS
POSITION
Carole Bundy, a part-time
and then full-time nursing in
structor for the past eighteen
months, has resigned her position
as of March I, 1986. Due to the
transfer of her husband to Forest
City, NC with First Union Bank
she will be leaving this area.
Nursing faculty and students
will miss Mrs. Bundy’s con
tribution in both classroom and
clinical experience. A grad
uate of the University of South
Carolina, she has had extensive
experience in obstetrical nursing.
Before joining the full-time faculty
at WCC she was employed
as a prenatal nurse educator at
Bowman-Gray School of Medi-
Valentine^s Day
February 14
Give your love one very red rose, or simple, unexpected
kiss.
Share with that love a thought, a dream, a silent walk
somewhere.
How good, how full is life, to need your love, and to be
needed.
Give, then, your love, your thoughts, your time, yourself.
Be A Community
College L$0ver!
/veryone knows that St. Valentine’s Day is that
day of the year when friends and lovers express affection for
one another, through cards, candy and flowers, whatever
means the imagination can find. But no one is quite certain
who this St. Valentine was - or, more appropriately, who
these Valentines were. The early lists of Church martyrs
reveal at least three Valentines, and one source boosted this
number to an unwieldy eight, each of whom had his feast
day on February 14.
Of the three most important Valentines, one is known
only through the martyrdom which he shared with a group
of believers. The other two, a priest of Rome and a Bishop of
Interamna, are both said to have been beaten and beheaded
by the Emperor Claudius II in A.D. 269 and then buried in
the Flaminian Way. The remains of one Valentine (which
one is uncertain) are said to be in the church of St. Praxedes
in Rome. The Porta del Popolo, the People’s Gate, also in
Rome, was once known as Porta Valentini, Valentine’s
Gate.
Various legends have come down to us concerning
Valentine. He was said to have been imprisoned and, while
there, he cured the jailer’s daughter of blindness. Another
story, in an attempt to associate him more closely with St.
Valentine’s Day, has him falling in love with the jailer’s
daughter and sending her a letter which he signed, “From
your Valentine.”
The various Valentines eventually evolved into one.
Lovers’ quarrels come under his jurisdiction and, naturally,
he is the patron saint of engaged couples and of anyone
wishing to marry.
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At opening of Community College Month on February 4, 1986 are Dr.
David E. Daniel, Mr. Tom Ogburn, Mrs. June Adams and son, Mrs.
Judith Duncan, Judge Robert M. Gambill, Mr. Kyle Hayes, Mrs. B.
Klinkosum and Mr. Bud Mayes.
Community
College Month
On Tuesday, Wilkes Community
College’s faculty staff, administra
tors, Board of Trustees, Endow
ment Corporation, Advisor Board,
and along with friends of the college
met for the first meeting to recognize
that February is the Community
College Month. Faculty and stall
that were graduates of a community
college were recognized, the different
boards, and master teachers. Bud
Mayes and Mrs. Betsy Klinkosum
were honored.
Honorary Associate Degrees were
given to Mr. Tom Ogburn, Mr.
James Spicer, Mr. Austin Adams,
Mrs. Judith Duncan, Judge Robert
Gambill, and Mr. Kyle Hayes.
Master Teacher
Elizabeth H. Klinkosum has been
designated as Wilkes Community
College’s Master Teacher of the
year. Her excellence in teaching
and learning will be showcased at
the 1986 National Conference on
Teaching Excellence, May 18-21 in
Austin, Texas.
Born in Asheville, Klinkosum
graduated from Broughton High
School in Raleigh. She received
her B.S. degree in Biology and
Medical Technology from Wake
Forest University, Winston-Salem,
Mrs. Nithi Klinkosum
and her M.A. degree in Biology
from Appalachian State University
in Boone. She also has studied at
Duke University in Durham.
Klinkosum has taught a variety
of Biology courses at WCC since
1967. Prior to her employment
with the college, she was the Chief
Technologist and Instructor in Blood
Banking at N.C. Baptist Hospital
and Bowman Gray School of Med
icine in Winston-Salem.
A very active person, Klinkosum
has been cited as one of the Out
standing Young Women in America.
She is also listed in the Registry of
Medical Technologists (American
Society of Clinical Pathologists).
Although her busy schedule doesn’t
allowany time for hobbies, Klinkosum
does enjoy good movies and playing
with the family cat.
She is married to Nithi Klinkosum
the Director of Telecommunications
at WCC. They have one son, Maitri,
a sophomore at Wilkes Central
High School.