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The
Volume LXIII
Number 9
February 27,1981
serving the salem college community since 1920
A President With
Vision and Understanding
Everyone knows that
■ Morrill is a very
man with a lot of
rPonsibilities. But
® are the people who
il'PPy his time, and
are the skills he
L ^ daily to manage
' College and
j»aemy?
I Morrill serves as
t administrator
, institution. Five
I ]or offices report to
President: Dean of
)^'*®nts. Academic
^ Admissions,
j.'iutional Services,
Ij. finance. All other
( on campus
1 to one of the five
rtjor
and com-
feestions
, go through the
channels before
Morrill hears them.
(®^Plained that while
always happy to
tvith an individual,
I not need to hear
jjfoblems that can be
I Pled on a level closer
i,,:Pc heart of the
’Iter.
president is
,’Ponsible for the
i|P®rvision, manag-
jjPPt, evaluation,
and problem
iJ'Pg of the College,
L.^cademy. The final
f''sions must come
1,P) the president,
If P 0 u g h much
: L^Ptmendation is
; kfP from the faculty
tel® president also
^'Pined that the office
an extended
of the Board of
ijtees, to whom Dr.
fiipPill must answer.
Hijn president’s legal
, ^PPPity is delegated to
hv, V the Board.
fV?.’’Pill said each of
iLJlve major areas of
►T.J'inistration have
Jl,.‘®rent kinds of
LPlems. He said he
[:|j.'''orked closely with
Macon, Salem’s
(tk^Ptroller, this past
to make ad-
iflJjPtents in the budget.
■;|(|.Plion is hitting the
te^Pl very hard, and
■
Ptment heads are
being asked to review
their requests carefully,
he said.
Morrill added that the
College is looking at
other sources of in
come; the College
receives about $600,000
a year from the
Endowment Fund,
although the resources
received from this fund
are decreasing as in
flation rises. Morrill
explained that the
Endowment Fund helps
keep the tuition lower
and supplies money for
the upkeep of the
college. He said Salem
must work especially
hard in the capital
campaign, because it is
much harder for a
small, private women s
college to get the same
financial support a
larger institution
receives.
But the news is not all
bad. Morrill said last
year, there was a fiscal
deticitof $250,000. At the
end of this fiscal year in
July, there will
probably be a deficit of
$80,000. There is no
fiscal deficit planned for
the next year.
Morrill said in
working with the Dean
of Students, policy
questions are reviewed
only after they have
been “worked out’’ at
the level of the Dean’s
office or SGA. The
president says he works
closely with the
president of SGA “just
to stay in touch.’’
• -phe president said the
Office of Admissions
plays a major role in
Salem’s financial
status. Policies and
plans for increased
enrollment occupy
much of Morrill s time.
He said enrollment had
a big boost last year,
and expects next year to
be just as favorable.
The faculty are
represented through the
office of the Academic
Dean. Recommenda
tions for promotion,
tenure, and ap
pointments are brought
to Morrill, by the
Committee on Faculty
Affairs.
Morrill estimated that
about a third of his time
is spent working on the
Salem Challenge. Since
September of this year,
Morrill has attended 13
programs off campus in
support of the Salem
Challenge. Morrill said
he is off campus about
one day out of every two
weeks, when he deals
with the public as an
image-maker for
Salem.
He ; d in this area,
the pi -Ident “...must
serve as a leader,
communicator and
salesman...It is
sometimes a very
delicate task to separate
people from their
resources,” he said.
He added that the
president must “have a
vision and an . un
derstanding of what, is
special about Salem,
and what it can ac
complish in the lives of
young women. You have
to be sensitive to other
people’s feelings. You
must have a deep
personal involvement in
education, and the
articulation of those
feelings is important.”
Morrill said, “Salem
is a compelling place,”
but the job of the
presidency has its
drawbacks. He ex
plained that there is no
tangible product to look
at on paper. “You must
believe in a special
significance of the
school, the strength of
uniqueness, and the
high purpose that you
just don’t find
everywhere.”
Carolyn McCollum
Pierettes
Present:
“The
Prime
of
Miss
Jean
Brodie ’
Ruth Moore, Lewis Lum, and Laura Respess
Papers To Be Published
A paper written by
two Salem College
mathematics majors
has been accepted for
publication by the
Guilford Journal of
Undergraduate Mat
hematics.
Authors Laura
Respess of Lexington
and Ruth Moore of
Churchville, Md., have
been invited to present
the ideas they outlined
in their paper at the
Sixth Annual Con-
ference on
Undergraduate Mat
hematics at Hendrix
College (Conway, Ark.)
April 10 and 11.
Mrs. Respess lives at
225 Vance St. in
Lexington and will
receive her diploma in
June. Miss Moore, a
senior, is the daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. J.R.
Moore, 201 Middletown
Court, Churchville.
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Starring Liz
Lawless as
Miss Brodie
and
Anne
Tomlinson
as Jenny.
March 6, 7,
and 8.
Salem’s Only Competitive Team
Needs Your Support
The Salem College
Tennis team will begin
the Intercollegiate
season March 3 at 3:30
p.m. The eight-member
team will play
Greensboro College at
Salem.
Members of the team
are; Spencer Brugh,
Gile Carpenter, Kelly
Carpenter, Julie
Medlin, Jan Norvell,
Amy Shafer, Jennie
Smith, and Kitty
Walker.
Coach Libby Gib-
boney said the girls
practice hard for their
games, and they know
who’s watching on the
sidelines. She added
that the biggest crowd
so far at a tennis match
was about 15 people. A
tennis match usually
lasts between an hour
and 45 minutes to two
and one half hours, but
coach Gibboney says
even if girls just come
down to get the score, it
boosts the morale of the
players. She said “It’s
important for the
players to know that
somebody up there on
the hill cares.”
Ms. Gibboney said the
only requirement to
play on the team is the
interest and time. The
girls practice two hours
a day, five days a week.
Monday is “Challenge
Day,” when the girls
compete among
themselves for ladder
ranking.
The coach said,“For
the team to be at its
best, we have to be
competitive. When we
play another college, we
forget competition
among ourselves.”
Ms. Gibboney said she
has a hard working
team this year-“a good
group that displays
signs of a lot of poise
and consistency.”
She said she hopes
that as the girls learn to
be responsible for
themselves on the court.
this will carry over into
their academic lives,
which she stressed
should take priority
over sports.
Home games
scheduled are;
March 3 - Greensboro
College, 3 p.m.
March 5- Queens, 2;30
p.m.
March 16 - UNC-G, 3
p.m.
March 17 - Methodist,
3 p.m.
April 1 - St. Mary’s, 3
p.m.
April 9 - St. Andrews,
2;30 p.m.
April 15 - Meredith, 3
p.m.
April 21 - Wingate, 3
Carolyn McCollum