G uilfor dian
Volume LXV, No. 12
President Rogers
Special Invitation from William Rogers
The Inauguration Ceremonies on Saturday, January 31st, should
be a special time of celebration for the whole college. There will be
many distinguished guests here. But I am particularly hopeful that
a great many students will be interested in coming to these events.
After all, you are what the college is all about!
The focus of much of our discussion on the 31st will be on the
emerging human and socail issues that we will need to prepare for
by the turn of the century. Sound futuristic? Hardly! These issues in
technology, population, resource allocation, etc., will put the bite
on us just at the prime productive years of our careers. Come and
share your ideas, especially with the panel discussion at 2 p.m. in
Sternberger. And share in celebration of the whole day.
Bill Rogers
Poole will complete special job
Reorganization ends
by Isa Cheren
In May 1982, Herb Poole will
return to full time directorship
of the libaray.
The shift is a result of a
review of Poole's dual director
ship made by President Rogers.
Poole initially came to Guil
ford in 1966 to be the director of
the library. After a self-study
conducted by Guilford in 1974, a
need for reorganization in Ad
missions was deemed neces
sary. This reflected the
change in the availability of
18-22 year olds entering col
lege, a new system that was
better able to adapt to the
changing times was needed in
order to maintain Guilford's
enrollment.
Poole's assignment to the
dual directorship was intended
to be temporary from the start.
His special assignment to Ad
missions was to end once he had
accomplished the
tional task which was put forth.
With assistance
from John Bell and Charlie
Her.drix, Poole focused in on
many aspects in Admissions.
They introduced computer as
sistance, focused in on many
different aspects of improving
recruiting and initiated expand
ed advertising, to mention a
few. Bruce Stewart said that
Poole has "served well on the
special assignment."
At this point in time, two full
time directors for both Admis
sions and the library are need
ed.
The role to be filled by the
admissions director will be
modified somewhat. Roughly
speaking the new position will
require more contact with pro
spective students and less or
ganizational expertise. The ex
act duties remain to be defined
by the search committee as
well as by the person who fills
the role.
Poole is looking forward to
regaining his full time position
in the library in the next IV2
years.
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C. 27410
Guilford welcomes
president Saturday
The inauguration of Dr. Wil
liam R. Rogers as the sixth
president of Guilford College
will take place at 10:3CT a m
Saturday, Jan. 31, in Dana
Auditorium.
The general theme will focus
around issues in the develop
ment of creative leadership
moving toward the turn of the
century with implications of
both national policy and Guil
ford's own long-range planning
The invited address will be by
Dr. Patricia Albjerg Graham,
Warren Professor of History
and American Education at
Harvard University, where Dr.
Rogers taught before coming to
Guilford.
Dr. Rogers also will deliver a
brief presidential address at the
inauguration.
In addition to the morning
inaugural event, a 2 p.m. panel
will be held to discuss "Higher
Education and the Turn of the
Century."
With Bennett College Presi
dent Issac Miller as convenor,
the panel will include Dr. O.
Oakley Winters, director if the
North Carolina Humanities
Committee of the National En
dowment for the Humanities;
Dr. Elizabeth B. Keiser of
Guilford's English faculty and
Long-Range Planning Commit
tee; and Drs. Graham and
Rogers.
Dr. Graham has served as
dean of the Radcliffe Institute
and vice president of Radcliffe
Win a free luxury cruise to Hawaii
We at The Guilfordian have
been disappointed at the poor
response to our previous con
tests. Just to liven things up a
bit, we have designed a contest
that is simple to play and easy
to win, and solidly within the
academic tradition.
As we have all been taught,
college is the place of careful
scholarship and enlightenment.
Frequently, however, we know
too little about the things that
surround our ivory tower.
One of last years most contro
versial additions to the groves
ofacademia(Guilford style) was
the signs and chains that ob
structed the well-beaten paths.
So far, all we have reaped from
this supplement is a host of
repetitious letters to the editor.
But there is so much that we
can glean from the quotes on
the signs.
Perhaps the context in which
(thecomments wereuttered will
L M"
College
In the spring of 1977, Presi
dent Carter appointed her direc
tor of the National Institute of
Education, the federal govern
ment's educational research
agency then located in the
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare. She resigned
in June of 1979 to accept the
Warren Professorship at Har
vard.
Dr. Rogers, who began his
duties as president of Guilford
College on June 30, 1980, left
the tenured Parkman Professor
ship of Religion and Psychology
at Harvard University to accept
the position at Guilford, where
he also will be professor of
religion and psychology.
He graduated magna cum
laude with an A.B. from Kala
mazoo College in 1954 and
magna cum maude with a B.D.
jointly from Chicago Theologi
cal Seminary and the University
of Chicago in 1958. His Ph.D. is
from the University of Chicago,
received in 1965.
Dr. Rogers studied at Tavis
tock Institute of Human Rela
tions in London in 1966 and
received honorary degrees from
both Harvard and the Chicago
Theological Seminary, the latter
a doctorate of divinity in 1980.
He has taught at Earlham
College, where he also was
associate dean of the college,
and has been visiting professor
at the University of Louvain,
Leuven, Belgium.
shed light on our own condition.
We could become acquainted
with a whole new aspect of art
that will make a permanent
mark on us Maybe the speaker
of the lines will remind us of our
parents
We must look to see what we
will find. That is where you
come in
All you have to do is identify,
January 27, 1981
Dr Rogers is author of a
book, "The Alienated Stu
dent," and coauthor of "Project
Listening." His most recent
writing included "Nourishing
the Humanistic in Medicine"
and "Toward Moral and Reli
gious Maturity." He is author
of numerous articles and invited
research papers.
A Quaker, his recreational
interests are wood sculpture,
skiing, sailing, architecture,
farming, classic automobiles,
furniture building and choral
singing.
A native of Oswego, N.Y.,
Dr. Rogers is married to the
former Beverly Claire Parting
ton of Muskegon, Mi. They
have three children John,
Susan and Nancy.
Dr. Rogers succeeds Dr.
Crimsley T. Hobbs, who served
Guilford from 1965 until 1980
Other presidents and their
years of service were Dr. Lewis
Lyndon Hobbs (Crimsley
Hobbs' grandfather) 1888-1915;
Dr. Thomas Newlin 1915-1917;
Dr Raymond Binford 1918-
1934; and Dr. Clyde A. Milner
1934-1965.
New Garden Boarding
School, founded in 1834 and
opened in 1837 to educate
Quaker girls and boys, was the
first coeducational institution in
the South, the second in the
nation. It became Guilford
College in 1888
with the help of concordances or
whatever other aids you can
muster in the library, the works
in which the quotes originated.
For that paltry amount of work,
you will win a free trip to
Hawaii
Is there a catch? Well, Read
er's Digest we're not. But we
would not lie to you. As 1
someone once said, "we are not
crooks."