February, 1976, CROSSROADS, page 6
Expanding Job Market For
Environmental Science Grads.
A growing realization
on the part of govern
ment and industry of the
many diverse aspects of
the environmental
problem is creating an
expanding job market for
persons with a
humanitarian outlook,
and a broad educational)
background in science,
business and politics.
Belmont Abbey College
is helping to meet this
need with a newly-)
instituted major in En
vironmental Science. The
program includes
courses in the fields of
biology, chemistry,
f eology, sociology,
conomics and political
science. This in
terdisciplinary
curriculum provides the
Environmental Science
Insight
major with a base of
specialized knowledge in
the many areas which
bear on the en
vironmental problem. By
means of internships,
upper-class students can
enter government
planning agencies at
local and state levels as
trainees, and graduate
into positions where their
education can find ef
fective use.
Graduates can also
expect to find jobs as
environmental analysts
or junior ecologists in
control agencies, such as
the Environmental
Protection Agency; in
industries with en
vironmental problems
such as chemical anc
power companies; with
civic planning groups;
and with financial
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our Centennial Year fund-raising campaign. To you
195 alumni who responded so well we are most
grateful.
It is interesting to me when I consult the records of
particular students who, while at the Abbey had their
college education financed almost 100 per cent by the
Benedictines and who today are successful in their
careers, yet tell us they have little interest in con
tributing to the College. In other words, these alumni,
fortunately very few, have little interest in doing what
they can to help young students today receive the
opportunity that was given to them.
To strike a more positive note, let me take this op
portunity to thank all our alumni who responded so
well to my November letter. So many of you have, I
know, given at significant personal sacrifice, and I
have no hesitation in saying that the Abbey is fortunate
in having a number of alumni whose loyalty and
dedication to the College is unmatched anywhere. We
have, of course, plans for a special alumni celebration
during the Centennial Year, the details of which you
will hear about later, and I look forward to thanking
you personally at that time.
Our fund-raising campaign continues until July 31,
1976. The goal of the campaign is three-quarters of a
million dollars, and there is a possibility that if we Jp
well in this work, we might reach a million dollars. So
far. Abbot Jude and I, assisted by others, have been
giving presentations of the College to various local
business leaders at cultivation luncheons. It seems
that our strongest claim for substantial support is the
excellent reputation built for the College by the per
formance of our alumni pursuing their careers in our
local area. It is certainly a heartwarming experience
to hear civic leaders give high praise to our alumni and
the contribution they are making in medicine, den
tistry, law, education, business and industry. This kind
of experience would convince me, if I needed con
vincing, that all the day-to-day struggle and sacrifice
required to keep Belmont Abbey College in existence is
'j very much worthwhile. And I am quite sure that were
f,,. it possible for us to conduct a similar campaign in
f 'those areas far from the Abbey where we have hun-
i- dreds of alumni pursuing their careers, my experience
would be similar.
Reflectinjg on the fine job so many of our alumni are
doing in many different parts of the country, we can
feel justifiably proud that Belmont Abbey College, now
beginning its second century, has earned a record of
helping its students to build for themselves not only
satisfying careers, but also meaningful lives as a good
human beings and by so doing, is helping our nation to
be ome just a little bit better in those many com
munities where Abbey alumni work and live.
organizations which need
to evaluate the en
vironmental effects of
proposed projects.
Further study in business
administration would
qualify the En
vironmental Science
graduate for a
management position in
industry, dealing with
government en-
vironmental agencies.
“A similar program is
well-established at
several other colleges,”
Dr. Winslow Hartford,
chairman of Belmont
Abbey’s program,
commented. “They have
had a great deal of
success as far as jobs
graduates are con
cerned.” Due to the
newness of the en
vironmental science
profession, no firm
figures on starting
salaries are available.
Dr. Hartford, however,
feels that since about
two-thirds of the training
is in the science area,
salaries should be
commensurate of those
graduates with a
bachelor’s degree in
other sciences (ap
proximately $10,000 per
year). Opportunities for
advancement should be
good, he thinks, due to the
broad scope of education
that the program
provides and the in
creased attention being
given to environmental
problems.
For those students who
may wish to pursue a
career in Environmental
Science, Dr. Hartford
describes the program as
‘‘pretty tough. This is
primarily due to the
many lower-level natural
science requirements
and an equally heavy
load of upper-level social
. science courses. All in
all, it’s a pretty rigorous
major, and we expect it
to produce some very
well qualified people.”
Founded by the
Benedictine priests in
1876, Belmont Abbey is a
coeducational, liberal
arts college located 10
miles west of Charlotte.
With an enrollment of
nearly 700 students, the
College is able to provide
many of the academic
and cultural advantages'
of a large campus
without losing the unique,
personal characteristics
of a small one. A flexible
curriculum allows the
student to put together an
educational package
tailored to his or her
career interests and still
receive the broad, in
tellectual advantages of a
liberal arts program.
AUMNI NEWS
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the University of South Carolina and is now in the Ph.
D. program.
’69 - Bill Ficke is president of Fleet Feet, an
athletic footwear retail store in Aurora, Colorado.
Congratulations to Judi and Bob Hanley on the arrival
of Stephanie Loren on November 21. Donald Walthall is
on assignment from GAO to the House Government
Operations Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations which is considering an extension of the
Revenue Sharing Program. He lives in Dale City, Va.
John Benito is an assistant public defender for
Hillsborough County, Florida, the 13th Judicial Circuit,
and lives in Tampa. Congratulations to Frederick
Sklow and his wife on the arrival of Lisa Marie on
September 8. They live in Flushing, New York.
Richard Frick is an agent with State Farm Insurance
Co. in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. Their second
child, Kristen, was born July 14. Richard Salem has
received a Ph. D. in Sociometrics from the University
of Southern Oklahoma. Congratulations to him and his
wife Scooter (Wildy, SHC’69) on the arrival of their
third son, Edgar. Richard now plans to settle back in
Tampa, Florida, and resume his psychology practice.
’70 - Ryan Condon is loan officer of First Citizens
Bank & Trust Co. in Charleston, S.C., and he and Cathy
live in Mt. Pleasant. Howard “Dlnker” Jones is with
Gerber Foods in Arden, N.C. and he and wife Brenda
and three-year-old Katie live in Hendersonville.
Congratulations to Trish and Don Falato on the arrival
of Wendy Leigh on May 21. Ernest Dwight is co-owner
of F & D Wooden Signs and Embroidery Service Co. in
Charlotte, where he and wife Vicky and son Blaise,
two-and-a-half, and daughter Amy Camilla, four
months, live.
’71 ~ Congratulations to Anne (Agee ’75) and Joe
Graham on the arrival of Michael Charles on January
21 ~ ten pounds, eleven ounces.
’71 - It was good to see Joe Gallagher, his wife Kathy
and four-year-old Kyra, when they visited Kathy’s
family in Belmont during the Christmas holidays. Joe
is service manager for Commonwealth Utility Co. and
they live in Butler, Pennsylvania. Congratulations and
best wishes to Deborah and James Hyland, who were
married October 3 in Our Lady of St. Philip Neri
Catholic Church in Rock Hill, S.C. Jim is with the York
(S.C.) County Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse and
the Director - Manager of the Halfway House operated
by the agency. William Alyta is a Plant Results clerk
for Southern Bell in Charlotte. Robert Shahid has his
own real estate company in Charleston, S.C., where he
and Caroline (Breay, SHC ’70), and one-year-old son
‘‘Studley” live. Bruce Martin is in graduate School
(MBA program) at the University South Carolina.
Michael Holly is a partner in the R.L. Holley and Son
insurance firm and helps his father-in-law operate a
restaurant. He and Sissy live in Portsmouth, Virginia,
and are expecting their first child in March.
’72 - Dan Olllce has joined A.H. Robins Company,
Richmond-based pharmaceutical firm, as a medical
service representative, assigned to the company’s
Capital Division, and will be working in the Richmond
area. Jerome Croan will receive the Master of Social
Work from Howard University in May. Fred Leone is
district service representative with Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Co. in Brooklyn but plans to open his own
Goodyear sfhre on Long Island. He has a son, Sean,
^who is two years old. Congratulations to the Ned
'Carpenters on the arrival of Pamela Gretchen on
August 28. They live in Gastonia.
’73 - Our sympathy to Martin Gass and his wife on the
loss of their infant son Stephen, one of the twin boys
born in Charlotte October 9, and our prayers for baby
Martin, III. StephenXand is an Internal Auditor for
Ineersoll Rand Corporation in Woodcliff Lake, New
.Jersftv. I
'74 - Harry Creemers is business editor of the Lyn
chburg (Va.) News. Bob Mulder has completed his
j^rk at N.C. State for a degree in Horticulture and
Sl^ects to enlarge his already operating business in
the Raleigh area. Douglas Kler is administrative
. assistant at Margaret R. Pardee Hospital in Hen
dersonville, N.C. He completed the residency program
at Charlotte Memorial Hospital -Medical Center in
hospital administration, under the sponsorship of the
Duke Endowment. He and Louise and daughter
Carolina live in Hendersonville. Frank Duggan
completed graduate work at John Jay College of
Criminal Justice in New York City in January.