September 13,1977
BY ROBERT M. BAILEY
"Labour, vigorously continued,
has not often failed of its
reward."
Dr. Johnson, 1750
In the library this year,
student diffidence is out;
earning is in. The librarians
Feel that far too often in the
past students and teachers
have been hesitant to fully use
the library's facilities. This
they are setting about
decreasing student and
faculty timidity in the library
[and bolstering student morale.
The goal? To make the library
one of the best places to study
and read; to make the library
in effective learning center.
The new library staff will
undoubtedly make the every
day tasks of searching for
facts and retrieving materials
easier. But they are employed
to fill another, fascinating role.
They are available to answer
questions and push the
student into new facets of the
library. It's hard to imagine
Marlene Hansen's excitement
about the library not rubbing
off on a student. "The library
is a place for piecing puzzles .. .
to find, 'wow, (I) really got an
answer'."
This year searching can be
done in relative quiet, unlike
past years. The former loca
tions of the circulation desk
and reference desk made
chatter unbearable. There
was no one place where talk
ing could go unnoticed.
The formula to correct this
problem was really quite
simple. The reference
materials and personnel
were moved to the main read
ing room which is
accoustically more qujet. The
1977 Alumni Award
Daryl Kent '36, Professor of
Philosophy, has been awarded
the 1977 Alumni Award.
In his years at Guilford
College, uninterrupted since
1939 except for three years as
a Navy chaplain during World
War 11, Daryl Kent has been
a teacher of philosophy, religion
and non-Western studies,
dean of men, dean of students,
dean of the college, academic
dean, enthusiastic stage
performer and (on the side)
hypnotist.
Many an excellent teacher
has been praised for charming
and "hypnotising" students
into learning, and by his
Learning Begins Again
idea was followed by the
circulation desk staff and
it too was moved to the front
room. Any noise or hubbub
has now been well centralized
in the front section of the
Carnegie Reading Room.
The arrangement of the card
catalogues and reference book
shelves gives easy access to
incoming library users and
helps contain noise. The phil
osophy of the move, said one
library official, was to promote
"easy access and active
operations."
In addition, the staff will
be campaigning for some
other ideas. Among these:
guided instruction tours, a
library course, the student
tutorial service, the inter
library loan service, and (for
the professorial staff) "The
Current Awareness Service"
not a clandestine religious
organization a monthly
listing of course related
published materials to keep
the academic staff up to date
in their respective fields.
But these efforts are no
where near the aspirations
which the staff has developed.
The additions to the reference
and circulation staff and
the moving of furniture are
cosmetic changes. Concerning
the renovations Damon Hickey
said, "Our efforts will make
the job easier but they won't
make us innovative leaders in
the library world (smiles
knowingly) . . . only help us
to be what we're trying to be."
There will be a student and
faculty evaluation of the
library sometime during the
semester. In the meantime,
study and shelf space continue
to run out and student
demands increase for updated
book collections.
students' own word, Craven
Professor Kent has been one
of those teachers.
But he has been more an
actual hypnotist, who gave
demonstrations of his craft
to members of Emetine
Milners Abnormal Psychology
class. There at least one
skeptical student became
convinced when, protesting
that hypnotism hadn't worked
on him, he was unable to
let go a pencil clutched in
his hand.
Charmer of students. Dr.
Kent has also charmed
audiences through his life-long
interest in the stage. For
The Guilfordian
Marlene Hansen refuted
"imagination" as the key to
success in the library "it
sounds like fantasy." Pre
ferring to imagine the library
as a kaleidoscope she
explained, "Everything is
there. The job is a matter
of turning the mechanism to
create a shape."
The staffs goals are aimed
at making the library a
comfortable and efficient
place to learn. The future goals
may include leather chairs
and corner sofas in the read
ing room, as well as increased
popular book purchasing
funds (which now average
around the $2,500 range per
year). A ten year advance
planning committee may
discuss the possibility of an
addition to the library to be
either a multi-purpose section
or an area for more shelves
and carrels.
It is a rare comfort for
a student to see a library
staff that is committed to a
vision of the library as a learning
center. The search for effect
iveness in the library has only
begun. That the staff is eager
to approach its high aspir
ations is something to appre
ciate. But appreciation is a
two-sided affair. Damon
Hickey and the library staff
spent most of this past
summer relocating books and
shelves and furniture. After
working so hard, he anxiously
awaited first reactions to the
restructured library and he
was pleased by what he
heard. "Ah," one student
said to a friend with a
mixture of favor and dis
comfort "now this is really
a library." Smiling, Hickey
sat down to read, in silence.
several years his annual Christ
mas reading of Dickens'
Christmas Carol was an
eagerly anticipated event. He
has directed and performed
in a variety of college plays,
from Thornton Wilder's Our
Town to a delightful 'sos
parody of life of Guilford
College (which by all accounts
deserves a comeback), where
with Emeritus Philosophy
Professor Frederick Crownfield
he romped through a ditty
entitled, "Things Are Seldom
What They Seem." Apt motto
for a gentle Quaker of many
talents, a most distinguished
alumnus.
Guilford's New Faculty
Guilford College has five
new, full-time faculty members
for Guilfords 141 st year.
They are Dr. Bob M. Keeny,
assistant professor of account
ing; Dr. Lynn J. Moseley,
assistant professor of biology;
Dr. Tendai Mutunhu, assistant
professor of non-Western
studies and history; Dr. E.
Eugene Oliver, associate
professor of accounting;
and Ph.D. degree candidate
Richardson K. Prouty, Jr.,
director of theater facilities
and instructor in drama.
Dr. Keeny earned his B.S.
degree in accounting at the
University of Missouri at
Columbia, his M.B.A. degree
at the University of Missouri
at Kansas City, and his Ph.D.
degree in economics at the
University of Kansas. He
also is a certified public
accountant.
Dr. Keeny comes to Guilford
from the University of Missouri
at Kansas City, where he
taught accounting, finance
and economics for the past
13 years.
During that time he also
served for two years as
chairman of business adminis
tration at the College of the
Virgin Islands in the U.S.
Virgin Islands.
Dr. Moseley earned her
B.S. degree in biology at the
College of William and Mary
and her Ph.D. degree in
zoology from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
She comes to Guilford
from Elon College where she
taught for two years. Dr.
Moseley is a full member of
Sigma Xi and is a field
ornithologist "bird-woman."
Dr. Mutanhu received his
B.S. degree in political
science and African history
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from Columbia Univrsity and
his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
in pre-colonial African history
from St. John's University.
Dr. Mutunhu taught for five
years at Cornell, University,
and previous to that for two
years at N.C. A&T State Uni
versity. From 1973 to 1975
he was secretary of the
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) Com
mittee of the Encyclopedia
Africa na.
The encyclopedia is being
compiled at the University of
Ghana, West Africa, to cover
all social, cultural, political,
historical, traditional,
religious, economic and military
aspects of every African
country.
Dr. Oliver earned his A.B.
degree in accounting and
M.B.A. in management from
George Washington University,
and his Ed.D. in educational
administration from the
University of North Carolina
at Greensboro.
For the past three years.
Dr. Oliver was lecturer m
accounting at UNC-G. He
brings to the classroom 13
years of practical experience
in accounting from the business
world.
Dr. Prouty received his A.B.
degree in theater, speech and
education with departmental
honors from Drury College,
and his M.A. degree in theater
arts from the University of
Arkansas. His graduate study
toward the Ph.D. is at the
University of Missouri at
Columbia.
Most recently, Prouty was
self-employed as a consultant
for creative teaching, but
his teaching, scenic designing
and technical directing experi
ences are from Washburn
University, University of
Missouri, Drury College and
the University of Arkansas.