College Receives Lander Memorial Scholarship
MM Hill College hat
I a grant from Concert
o* the Robert
ofMyera Park
of Charlotte,
wMcfc will be uaed to establish
91,000 scholarship in
r of WlUamS. Lander.
Lecture
Series Gets
83,000
Mars Hill College'* Visiting
Artiste and Lectures Commit
tee, which sponsors most of
the college's larger public con
certs, has been awarded grant
funds from the Southern Arts
Federation, a multi-state
regional agency which allows
member states' arts agencies
to encourage, support, and
share their art resources
beyond the traditional con
fines of state boundaries, for
the 197*40 season
During the season, the col
lege has received approx
imately 13,000 in grant funds
for three events. The first was
the Atlantic Contemporary
Dance Theater who gave a
public performance, a special
children's performance for
1,000 Madison County school
children, and workshops
which were open to the public.
The second program which
utilised grant funds was the
national Theater of the Deaf, .
who gave four workshops for
the college's drama depart
ment in addition to the public
performance of "The Wooden
Boy or The Secret Life of Gep
petto's Dummy." The final
funded program was the
mm j!b Family Band who
gave a public performance,
conducted a "jam session" for
all who wanted to sit in, and
were guests at a dinner for the
college's Appalachian Studies
Program personnel.
According to Robert
Karmer, associate professor
of foreign languages and
chairman of the committee,
the grants made the 1SVM0
season "something special."
The committee has already
signed the Vienna Boys Choir
for the 1960-81 season and an
ticipates signing the Atlantic
Symphony with Robert Shaw
conducting and the Amazing
Kraskin during the year.
Westco
Addition
Completed
Jack Gouge, customer ser
vice superintendent for
Westco Telephone Co., an
nounced the completion of the
Ofrsquare-foot building addi
tion to the company's Mar
shall dial office building
Gouge said that the Moun
tain Shore Construction Co.
from Arden was the successful
Udder for the approximately
$0,000 project. He said the ad
ditional area was required for
a planned dial equipment ad
dition in the near future to
meet the continuing customer
growth in Marshall and the
surrounding area.
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In iwardiif the achoiar
ihlp, priority will be given to
monbars of Myen Park Bap
tiat Church and reakknU of
Mecklenburg County The
?ejection will bo baaed on
scholaatic achievements ?nH
potential, integrity, evidence
of moral character, and a
capacity to load through ser
vice to church and communi
ty. Financial need will be
obeerved, but not to the exlcu
sion o t the other considers
Hons. The scholarship nay be
mewed through the student',
four-year career if ho or ahe
maintain* a 3.1 grade point
average and the ether criteria
rnwttnm to be met. The flrat
recipient will be named during
the college's Honors Day ac
tivites May 7.
"We are especially proud to
be the recipients of this
prestigious scholarship,"
stated James R. Cox, Director
of Development at the Baptist
retotod coBaga. "H will bo of
immeasurable value in attrac
ting the type of student Man
Hill College seeks to serve "
William S. Lander. Sr. was
born In Lincoln ton, served in
World War I in France, and in
1H1 founded the Rulane Gas
Company. He moved to
Charlotte in 1MB and began
organising various companies
throughout the South InlMl,
he began the National Li
quidified Petroleum Company
and shortly thereafter founded
the North Carolina Liquid
Petroleum Gm Association.
He was instrumental in br
inging natural gas to moat of
the South and particularly the
Caroltnas. He introduced and
installed the gas lines at Camp
Lejeune Marine Base sold
gas to Army and Navy in
stallations around Norfolk,
Va. He also installed the first
gas line on Mars Hill's cam
pus, which ran to the
chemistry lab. In 1963, he sold
the gas company and retired.
Even in retirement, however,
he stayed busy, starting the
Southern Business Brokers
Company and working with
the merging of other gas com
panies to install many of the
first gas lines into the South.
Lander was a life deacon in |
the Myers Park Baptist.
Church and was also a
member of the Charlotte City
Club and Myers Park Country
Club. He was active in many
phases of church and com
munity life in Charlotte and
Mecklenburg County.
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