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6 Guilford's new "Don" BEN THORNE features editor Nestled in the library, there lies a room unknown to most Guilford stu dents. Its space is decorated simply, the walls adorned by paintings, and in the back sits a leather chair and a huge desk covered—almost con sumed—by a sprawling mass of pa pers. Welcome to the office of Don McNemar, Guilford's sixth presi dent. Born in the small town of Wilmington, Ohio, a place not un like Greensboro with it's large Quaker community, McNemar longed to know a bigger world. "I grew up in a small town and going to a big city like New York and studying in Germany as a student made me develop a strong interest in international affairs" he said. That passion has fueled his aca demic and professional career ever since. After studying at Earlham College and graduating with a B.A. in political science, he went on to a Ph.D. in international law at Princeton and decided to pur sue the life of a college profes sor. After teach ing govern ment, interna tional law and pezfce and jus tice at Dartmouth, he was asked by the col lege to become the Dean of Faculty of International Studies. Later he went on to become president of Philips Academy, a highly selective preparatory school, until he was named our new president last year. "I guess my real love is teaching— that's what got me into Guilford" McNemar said. Teaching has re mained an occupation for McNemar, and this spring he will offer a course The Guilfordian in interna tional law. "The president teaches all day long" he ex plained. "This way I'll get to know the members of the po 11 ic a 1 science depart ment and students. It's diffi cult to juggle all those commitments but I think it's an im portant part of being in the commu nity" he stated. Lest you think our president is purely an academic, McNemar wants the Guilford community to know about his fam- We're going to change and take what we do well and become a leader in lib eral arts education." • President Don McNemar age mothers learning English. Together the McNemars have two daughters: Heather, who just graduated from Dartmouth and is using her degree in Russian studies to help immigrants in Boston; and Galin, who after spending a year vol unteering for Ameri-Corps is starting her first year at Earlham. Though he has only just be gun his presidency, McNemar already has plans for Guilford in features A SIMILAR BEST Every year, new students pass under tf not resemble one another, one thing renm This year is special, however, because s pus with them. For only the sixth time in hi i Don McNemar ily. His wife, Britta, is cur rently writing her doctoral thesis on lit eracy for Bos ton Univer sity. She is studying teen- "Guilford has to be better at of fering a great education than other places" he explained. "I think that we should launch an anti-bushel cam- I The Class of Guilford College Septemberl3J^96 the coming years. One problem that has boggled Guilford through the years is recogni tion - Guilford is often called the "best kept secret" in higher education, remaining an un known op tion to many. paign, raise the bushel covering Guilford ... we need to celebrate the what's good bout Guilford, and it applies to everybody, what faculty say at conventions, what students say when they go home. We should turn to ourselves and be proud of what we are" he proposed. Unfortunately, fewer students graduate from high school than there are colleges to receive them, and Guilford's financial resources are rather finite this year. Therefore, sev eral issues must be addressed, such as how many faculty are needed to run the school, what's the right ap proach to adult education, and how should Guilford present itself to the world. "We're going to change and take advantage of what we do well and become a leader of liberal arts edu cation" McNemar affirmed. The coming months shall bear an inter esting witness to those changes and our president. IRENE KELLY Staff Writer Everyone remembers their first day at Guilford: some of us couldn't wait to tear out of our par ents arms while others begged our parents to do just one more walk around campus. Either way, it's an important experience for all of us however it turned out.
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