THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
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Cornhuskin'
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VOL. LII NO. 9
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH. N.C.
NOVEMBER 3, 1977
Volunteer ism at Meredith
SigU'Up is coming
by Jean Simpson
According to Mr. Eugene
Sumner, head of the social
work department, resource
booklets containing in
formation about volunteer
work available to students will
be distributed within the next
few weeks.
The booklet describes
approximately 40 different
volunteer opportunities in the
Raleigh area including Social
Service agencies, the public
school system, parks and
recreation, and government
agencies.
According to Mr. Sumner,
the booklet should have been
published a month ago, but
due to lack of time and staff,
the delay was “unavoidable.”
No definite date for
distribution can be set at this
time. After the booklet has
been typed, it must be ap
proved for publication and
then printed.
“We tried to branch out
into government kinds of
things this year,” stated Mr.
Sumner. Another change is
the addition of public
telephone numbers with each
description. This allows
students to contact the
agencies directly. Previously,
students were asked to con
tact the sociology department.
After the booklets are
distributed, the Social Work
Club will sponsor a sign-up
day. Interested students will
be asked to register with the
sociology department. The
department can then provide
more information and help to
the student. Transportation
can be coordinated.
The agreement is between
a student and the agency. Mr.
Sumner added. The students
are responsible for their
positions and “we expect
them to be responsible.”
This is the fifth year
booklets and sign-up days
have been used to provide
students with volunteer work
information. Mr. Sumner
believes this method gets
more information to students
Boys scouts camped out last weekend on the field behind Cate Center. Staff photo.
than those previously tried.
Student response to
volunteer work peaked about
four years ago, Mr. Sumner
believes. Response has been
less in recent years, but he
sees a growing interest this
year. When asked about the
fluctuations, he expressed the
opinion that interest comes
and goes.
According to Mr. Sumner,
“Volunteerism is coming into
its own.” Federal Funds are
being used to promote
volunteers and he believes
Raleigh is more volunteer
conscious now than in the
past.
“A sense of involvement
with the community, a means
to express Christian concern,
a way to check career ap
titudes, and an asset in
looking for work are some
reasons why students do
volunteer work,” Mr. Sumner
concludes. He thinks that it
“puts a little more zip into
their lives.”
Mr. Sumner sees more
motivation and a more
balanced view of life in
students who are active with
off campus activities. He
believes volunteerism “can be
an important part of a
student’s education.”
]\ovelists highlighted Meredith event
Tarheel novelists
Reynolds Price and Frances
Gray Patton, ' with Walter
Spearman of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(UNC-CH), were guests of
Friends of the Carlyle
Campbell Library, Meredith
College, at a meeting on the
campus Wednesday, Oct.
26, at 1 p.m.
The book-author luncheon
was the first of its kind
sponsored by the recently-
organized Friends of the
Library
Walter Spearman,
moderator for the event,
focused his remarks on
recent publications of interest
by North Carolina writers.
The guest novelists, both
former Raleigh residents,
spoke of their own ex
periences in writing.
Included in the luncheon
program was a printed tribute
to Dr. Carlyle Campbell,
president of. Meredith 1939-
Lerone Bennett to spenk
Lerone Bennett, Jr.,
senior editor of Ebony
Magazine, will speak at 10
a.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in Jones
Auditorium at Meredith
College. His topic will be
“Black-White Relations in the
Future.” The address is open
to the public without charge.
Presently serving as a
fellow at the Institute for
Black Studies, a division of the
Martin Luther King Memorial
Center in Atlanta, Ga.,
Bennett lectures widely on
social, political and historical
Seniors showed “classy” spirit in top hats and canes. See Cor-
nhuskin’ photo essay p. 4.
subjects. His poems, short
stories and articles have
appeared in numerous
periodicals.
He was born in
Mississippi and received his
A.B. degree in economics and
political science at Morehouse
College in Atlanta, Ga. A
former reporter and city
editor at the Atlanta Daily
World and associate editor of
Jet Magazine, he has been
senior editor of Ebony
Magazine since 1958.
Among Bennett’s books
are “Before the Mayflower,”
“A History of the Negro in
America, 1619-1966;” “The
Negro Mood,” and “What
Manner of Man: A Biography
of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
N€€R met
Over 120 delegates
representing 16 of the 23
federated clubs met at
Meredith Oct. 22-23 for the
Fall Convention of the College
Republicans in North
Carolina. They met to develop
a new College Republican
platform and revise the
College Republican con
stitution. Representing the 48
member Meredith club were:
Holly Waddell, Club chair
person, Claudia Daniel, Kim
Lawson, Nancy Clendenine,
Malida Murphy, Eleanor
Jackson, Margot Howlz and
Carol Lancaster, N.C.
Federation of College
Republicans State Co-
Chairperson.
1966, who died July 27. Dr.
Norma Rose, chairman of the
college’s English department
wrote the tribute and
presented it at a memorial
service on the campus in
August.
Friends of the Carlyle
Campbell Library and ^ests
saw a display of library
purchases made possible by
membership monies. Included
in the display were a Kodak
microfilm reader, ap
proximately 100 books pur
chased to supplement the
contemporary fiction
collection of the library, and
the “New York Times Index to
Personal Names.”
Information and mem
bership material on Friends of
the Carlyle Campbell Library
may be obtain^ from Dr.
Jonathan A. Lindsey,
librarian at Meredith, Dr.
Leishman A. Peacock of
Raleigh is president of the
group.
Mini-concert coming
Vocalists Adele Foster
and Scott Wesson will present
a mini-concert Wednesday,
Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Jones
Auditorium at Meredith
College. The performance,
open to the public without
charge, is part of the concerts
and lectures series at
Meredith. Doors will open at 7
p.m.
Scott Wesson, who will
perform from 7:30 to 8:30
p.m., is a songwriter as well
as a singer. He has written
more than 100 tunes, eight of
which are presently being
judged in the American Song
Festival. Wesson has
headlined shows in a variety
of North Carolina locations.
Singing from 8:45 to 9:45
p.m. will be Adele Foster, a
former South Carolinian who
moved to Raleigh in 1976. She
has sung in the Cafe Deja Vu
here and in Chapel Hill’s Cat’s
Cradle. Among the composers
whose songs she performs are
Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell,
and Stevie Wonder.
Management Seminar
held
by Miriam Victorian
A “Women in
Management” seminar was
held at the North Carolina
State University Faculty Club
on Oct. 22 led by Dr. Charles
Stewart, professor of political
science at Meredith, and Mrs.
Jacquline Beza, a Meredith
French professor.
Dr. Stewart delivered a
lecture on Force Field
analysis, dealing with
restraining and driving forces
in the process of breaking
down barriers to
organizational advancement
in business. Mrs. Beza then
presented a film, “51 per
cent,” concerning the
problems of three different
women at different levels
within a company.
Dr. Debra Stewart,
professor of political science
at NCSU gave a lecture on the
“Barriers to the Advance of
Women in Organizations.”
The group engaged in an
exercise revealing sex-role
stereotypes that members
had, of both sexes. It was
difficult to arrive at a con
sensus on stereotypes of
women and this showed,
according to Dr. Stewart, the
“fluidity of women’s roles” in
our society now.