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Kenny To Study
For Doctorate
Michael F. Kenny, an
instructor in the
Department of
Economics and Business
at Belmont Abbey
College in Belmont, N.C.,
has been granted a leave-
of-absence to begin at the
end of the present
semester. He will attend
the University of South
Carolina at Columbia,
S.C., and will return to
Belmont Abbey College
as soon as he completes
his doctoral studies.
At the Abbey, Kenny is
the advisor for the staff of
Belmont Abbey College’s
yearbook. The Spire, and
for Alpha Phi Omega,
the national service
fraternity. He is also a
member of the Alumnae
Board of Sigma Phi
Epsilon social fraternity.
Communications
Leaders" Named
The Communications
Board of Belmont Abbey
College has announced
the appointment of the
following students to
head campus com
munications activities
next year: Steve
Ohnesorge, president of
Abbey Radio; Mary Beth
Costea, editor of Free
Lance; Tim Wendel,
business manager of
Free Lance; Vicky Street
and Mark Cesario, co
editors of Spire; and
Coleen Bowen, business
manager of Spire.
Environmentalist
Speaks At Abbey
Ed Easton, Planning
Engineer for the Cen-
tralina Council of
Governments, Charlotte,
and one of North
Carolina’s most
prominent en-
vironmentalists, spoke to
the Environmental
Science class at Belmont
Abbey College on
Tuesday, April 22, at 9:35
a.m. The subject of Mr.
Eaton’s talk, held in the
Pharr Auditorium of the
William Gaston Science
Building, was “The
Ethics of Urban Plan
ning.’’
Oriental Art
Exhibition Shown
A special exhibition
and sale of original
oriental art was
presented on April 18,
1975 at the Belmont
Abbey College Union.
Marson Ltd. of
Baltimore, Maryland
exhibited works by
Hiroshige, Kokusai,"
Kumisada, Kunichlka,
Kuniyoshi and many
other 18th and 19th
century masters, plus a
collection of outstanding
etchings, woodcuts,
lithographs, and
drawings by
distinguished con
temporaries.
Sig Ep Collects
For Dystrophy
The Belmont Abbey
College chapter of Sigma
Phi Epsilon fraternity
participated in the an
nual drive for muscular
dystrophy, collecting
over $1,400.
The Sixty brothers and
pledges of Sigma Phi
Epsilon and thirty-two
sisters and pledges of the
Golden Hearts, the little
sister organization,
collected the money
throughout Mecklenburg
and Gaston counties to
aid the national
‘‘Shamrocks for
Dystrophy’’ campaign.
Park Commissioner
Addresses Group
Alan Eakes of the
North Carolina State
Park Commission,
Raleigh, spoke to the
Environmental Science
Class at Belmont Abbey
College on Tuesday, April
8, at 4:00 p.m. The sub
ject of Mr. Eakes’ talk,
held in the Pharr
Auditorium of the
William Gaston Science
Building, was
“Crowder’s Mountain
State Park.”
Tekes Find New
Home In Belmont
The twenty-three
brothers of the Beta
chapter of Tau Kappa
Epsilon fraternity,
having lost their house
almost two years ago,
have succeeded in
relocating. The new
structure is on the
Belmont - Mt. Holly road,
across from Hardee’s.
The brothers and their
sister organization, the
Order of Diana, have
already started creating
parking facilities for
their four-room home,
and are planning many
improvements.
Congratulations to the
Tekes!
Group Awards
8th Management
Scholarship
Eight scholarships
have been set up for
incoming students in
Belmont Abbey College’s
new Distribution
Management program.
Dr. Gilbert J. Farley,
chairman of the
Department of
Economics and Business
at Belmont Abbey,
received a Check for the
eighth award from the
Transportation Asso
ciation of Wilmington,
N.C.
The latest scholarship
will be given to a student
from the Wilmington
area who wishes to enter
the Distribution
Management program.
Belmont Abbey has the
only undergraduate
major program in the
United States concerned
with the professional
field of distribution.
Distribution Manage
ment includes study in
business administration,
accounting, tran
sportation and material
handling. The program
has the official support
and approval of the
Material Handling
Equipment Distributors
Association, the In
ternational Material
Management Society and
the Material Handling
Institute.
Renaissance
Books Displayed
An exhibit of facsimile
title pages and actual
pages of books from the
17th and 18th centuries
were displayed in the
Abbot Vincent Taylor
Library at Belmont
Abbey College from May
4-14.
The books dealt with
such ecclesiastic subjects
as Thomistic Philosophy,
Canon Law, History of
the Church in England,
Bible Commentaries,
Sermons of the Catholic
Church in Spain, and the
2nd Tridentine Council.
All were initially
published in European
cities: Vienna, Antwerp,
Frankfurt, Edinburgh,
Rome, Venice, and Cadiz.
The pages were a gift
from the library of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Keith,
and the biblical library of
Stanley S. Slotkin
Foundation, Beverly
Hills, California.
please see p. 3
D.E. Lindquist, manager of the Sears’ Gastonia,
N.C. store presents a check from the Sears-
Roebuck Foundation to the President of Belmont
Abbey, Father John P. Bradley. Belmont Abbey is one
of nearly 1,000 privately supported coiieges and
universities across the country which are sharing
$1,300,000 in Sears Foundation funds for the 1974-75
academic year. Funds are unrestricted and may be
used for whatever purpose the schools desire.
Biologists Present Papers
Three Biology
.Department members
from Belmont Abbey
College presented papers
at the 36th annual
meeting of the
Association of
Southeastern Biologists
at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State
University at
Blacksburg, Va., April
16-19.
The occasion was a
joint meeting of the
Southeastern section of
the Botanical Society of
America, the Southern
Appalachian Botanical
Club, the Southeastern
Region of Beta Beta Beta
National Honorary
Biological Society, and
the Southeastern Society
of Parasitologists.
The three Abbey
representatives were Dr.
Jeanne Stuart, Chairman
of the Biology Depart
ment at Belmont Abbey
College; Fr. Bruno
Kowalczyk, O.S.B.; and
student Michael G.
Uhrin. Dr. Stuart
presented a paper en
titled, “Morphogenesis of
Trichostronglus affinis”;
Fr. Bruno’s presentation
was on the “Pollination
Ecology of Hedysarum
SPP. in the Yukon”; and
Uhrin, in collaboration
with Dr. Stuart,
presented “Polethylene
Glycol Preservation of
Small Vertebrates.”
Seminar Planned
Belmont Abbey College
will hold its annual
Theology Seminar from
June 16-19, for priests,
sisters and laity involved
in pastoral ministry and
regligious education.
Severai outstanding
theologians will examine
and discuss the seminar
theme, “Dimensions of
Christian Community.”
The Rev. Walter
Burghardt of Catholic
University, who writes
for the“Know Your
Faith” series, will speak
on ecumenism after
Vatican II and the role of
contemplation in
Christian life. The Rev.
Bruce Vawter of Depaul
University and Dr. Dale
Moody of The Southern
Baptist Seminary will
discuss the place of the
scriptures in the life of
the Church and the
ecumenical movement.
Presenting a historical
prospective on the role of
women in the Church will
be Dr. Elizabeth
McKeown of Georgetown
University. Also from
Georgetown, the Rev.
Richard McCormick of
The Kennedy Center for
Bio-Ethics will discuss
the role of authority and
the formation of con
science.
This is the sixth
theology seminar
sponsored by Belmont
Abbey College which
annually attracts over
100 people from dioceses
in various southeastern
states. The total cost of
the program is $80.00
which includes room,
board and registration
fee. Further information
is available from Rev.
Jerome Dollard, Belmont
Abbey College, Belmont,
N.C. 28012, phone (704)
825-3711.