Maroh 5, 1966
New College Bookstore Is! Quite
A Change From the Old Days
by Dave Parsons
Guilfordian Stuff Writer
With the passage of time, words
often change or even lose their
original meanings as their sur
roundings are modified. "Book
store is one of the better examples
of this process which can be found
on the Guilford College campus.
The current freshman has no con
ception of those dark days when
students literally had to claw their
way into the cramped room under
Memorial Hall in order to acquire
the necessary textbooks and writ
ing supplies.
New students are now greeted
by bright, multicolored walls, at
tractive painting, and shelves of
tastefully displayed paperback
books and records, not to mention
the expanse of light and lebens
raum. One can even shop for toil
etries, chess sets, Guilford night
shirts, or greeting cards of all varie
ties.
According to Debbie Miller,
manager of the store, it takes stu
dents a while to get into the habit
of buying paperbacks. But the new
student mail boxes in the bookstore
building and the buying habits that
accompany the daily mail checks
have attracted many new, potential
customers. An additional drawing
point would be the restoration of
fountain service in the bookstore
building, but the headaches in
volved in that operation make the
idea dubious.
What is the reason for the new
look? The answer is fairly simple.
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Wills of Greensboro has taken over
a former college operation, and
they are quite naturally interested
in making the venture a profitable
one. Their current success must be
attributed in large measure to the
young, energetic Mrs. Miller, who
took the job partly to remain close
to college life.
The arrangement of the store is
orderly and pleasing to the eye and
the sales of records and books are
moving surprisingly well. The job
is not without headaches, however.
Absent-minded professors forget to
order books, and when they finally
do arrive, union rules prevent truck
drivers from carrying them more
than a certain distance, often not
as far as to the door. Minor thefts
are annoying at times and the first
few weeks of bill-collecting during
the beginning of each semester are
exhausting.
A portion of the store's success
unfortunately comes from the bad
money habits of many students.
These students visit the bookstore
several times a week with little re
gard for the bill that they ring up.
But this writer, himself an invet
erate book enthusiast, can sympa
thize with persons who become
compulsive book buyers. The pur
chase of books, after all, implies
that they will be read, and a large
part of education comes from being
exposed to the written and spoken
ideas of other people. So who
knows? Reading may suddenly re
place Batman as the "campiest"
campus craze in the Carolinas.
THE GUILFORDIAN
Alma Martin—She's Lived Many Lives
by Bob Wilson
Guilfordian Staff Writer
A biography of Mrs. Alma Mar
tin would be an account of a
woman with many acute insights
and a great deal of first-hand
knowledge of Eastern European
history during the 20th century.
Mrs. Martin, assistant professor of
Russian history at Guilford, has not
only studied Russian history, but
has witnessed it in the making
since the turn of the century.
Alma Martin was born in Estonia
when that country was ruled by
the Russian Tsar. For her, educa
tion began early. Through the in
struction of her parents she could
read, write, and do the multiplica
tion tables before she entered ele
mentary school. After graduating
from a Russian "gymnasium" (sim
ilar to our junior college) she at
tended the Agricultural College in
St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) for
four years. After the First World
War, she continued her education
at the University of Tartu (Dorpat)
in Estonia and received an "Agro
nom" degree in 1924. In 1926 she
was awarded a Fellowship of the
International Education Roard and
studied as a foreign student at
lowa State University. There she
received her M.S. in 1927 and spent
that summer doing advanced stud
ies in education and sociology at
Cornell University. Alma Ivanovna
(as she is known by her students)
has never stopped studying. Even
now she is teaching herself French.
This she adds to the languages of
Estonian, English, German, and
Russian, which she reads, writes,
and speaks fluently.
Mrs. Martin says that she has
lived many lives in her one life
time. These lives include mother,
teacher, author, refugee, and the
Educational Counselor of the Es
tonian Ministry of Education (she
has been applauded for her work
in promoting women's education
in Estonia while serving at this
post and also for work done in
other countries).
In 1944, when the communists
occupied Estonia for the second
time, Mrs. Martin fled to Germany
with her two daughters. There, as
a refugee before the end of the
war, she made her living as a house
maid. At the end of the war she
joined the staff of UNRRA (United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration) helping to resettle
Displaced Persons from Eastern
Europe. Refore she came to the
United States in 1949, she had fled
the communist rule three times.
Unfortunately, not all members of
her family escaped the "Reds." Her
husband died of a heart attack dur
ing a mass deportation of Estonian
citizens by the communists and,
although not certain, she believes
her son lost his life to the commu
nists. Also her brother died in a
concentration camp in Siberia. Liv
ing through four wars and three
revolutions, Alma Martin has expe
rienced many hardships (including
having her home bombed twice),
but she is unhesitant about relating
her experiences even though she
must find it difficult to do so.
The many lives of which Mrs.
Martin speaks have taken her to
twenty countries, and have caused
her to live under ten different gov
ernments, and have made her an
extremely interesting person with
whom to talk.
On February 28th Lisa Sergia,
the visiting Danforth lecturer, em
phasized the need for Americans
to know the "Russian mind" in or
der to advance world peace. Here
at Guilford students have an ex
cellent opportunity to learn from
a woman interested in promoting
Russian studies and willing to
share her many interesting experi
ences of Eastern Europe. Why not
take advantage of this opportunity?
o—
Don t think because a man pros
pers in the wrong business that he
is living a successful life. Such pros
perity will eventually be his defeat.
—Walter E. Isenhour.
ALMA MARTIN: educator and author
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