CCOiSCCACS
Behnont Abbe^ Collese
Vol. V, Number 6
Belmont, North Carolina 28012
August, 1977
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VISITATION!
Your Centennial
Fund Dollars Are
Already At Work!
The Board of Trustees of
Belmont Abbey College
recently made a decision to
grant visitation privileges in the
College’s residence halls every
Friday beginning August 26,
1977.
Visitation hours will be 2 p.m.
until 12 midnight. This new
policy has been implemented by
the Board as an experiment
dependent upon further action
of the Board of Trustees.
In a recent letter to the
student body, Fr. John P.
Bradley, President of the
College, stated, “It is my hope
that our student body will make
responsible use of the privilege,
seeing to it that it will not be
abused, so that I can be in the
position of making a positive
report to the Board when they
require this.”
The first steps toward
renovation of the 96-year-old
administration building were
begun in late July.
Standing structurally sound
for almost a century, the
building has housed dorm
rooms, a cafeteria, “The Lost
Colony,” classrooms, ad
ministrative offices, and even
living quarters for monastery
guests. The building has sur
vived all these with only minor
repairs, but is now demanding
some attention.
The roof especially is in need
of repairs, and deteriorated
sections must be replaced
before more damage is done
through leakage. The labor is
being done by Interstate
Roofing, Charlotte, and the
general contractor is D.C.
Turner.
“When they get through with
the roof, it will be as good as
when the building was built. I
daresay it will last another
hundred years,” commented
of
J.P. Smith, treasurer
Belmont Abbey College.
The initial projects include
sandblasting the front door,
constructing a new sidewalk on
the portico of the main en
trance, reflanging the copper on
the fire walls, replacing slate
tiles on the roof, and fixing the
dormers and windows.
The renovation is being
handled on a first priority basis.
Other projects will be started
as additional funds become
available.
Charlotte mayor
visits Abbey
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MAYOR JOHN
the guest of honor
BELK, center, of Charlotte was
at a luncheon in the Oak Room.
Here he Is pictured Hanked by Fr, Bradley and
Abbot Jude. (Photo courtesy of Belmont Banner).
Mayor John Belk of Charlotte
was recently honored at a
luncheon at Belmont Abbey
College.
Also attending the luncheon
were Fr. John P. Bradley,
President of Belmont Abbey
College and Abbot Jude Cleary,
O.S.B., Abbot of Belmont Abbey
Monastery, as well as other key
administrators of the .College.
At the luncheon Fr. Bradley
presented Mayor Belk with
matching volumes of the Old
and New Testaments that he
had edited, and a copy of The
, First Hundred Years, a history*
of Belmont Abbey College.
After the luncheon Mayor
Belk was given a tour of the
newly renovated Abbey
Monastery and the Abbey
Church.
Inside
Alumnus Run Orphanage
Annual Fund
Basketball Camp Pictures