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VOL XXVII
ATLANTIC C HRISTIAN COIKKHUUAKV 18. laS"
Nl’MHKK 7
New Director
Has Been Chosen
(lYorn the “Alumni News*') — A
29-year-old Christian Church min
ister will become Director of the
Division of Growth and Deve)^
ment at Atlantic Christian College,
it was announced recently.
Dr. Arthur D. Wenger. prt.>.ident '
of ACC. said that Bryon Welch.
Min ; ter of the Central Christian
Cjurch at Elgin, Texas, will come
to the college to begin his dutii '
on March 1.
A native of Missouri, Mr. Welch
has been Minister at Elgin since
Xar^'h, 1354. In addition to holding
several pastorates in Missouri and
Mr. Welch .served a: cam
paign director for a professional
fund raising firm and has directed
funti campaigns in Jacksonville, N.
C., Richmond, Va., and Ironwood,
He also has served as District
Mai:. igcr of Traffic and Sales for
[®ran -Texas Anyways in Houston,
Tfxa.s.
A native of Kansas City, Mo.,
Mr. Welch attended the public.
■^x>:s there and then attended
Sw’arthmore College, Texas Chris
tian University, and the University
of Texas. He held pastorates at
Westllne and Freeman in Missouri,
aod at Bartlett, Rockdale and Q-
giii in Texas.
Ho has served as president of
thr Elgin Ministers' Association
■ikl as president of the Elgin Good
League. He also was
th< organizing minister of the new
First Christian Church at Lesing-
ton. Texas.
Wr Welch Is married to the for
mer Miss Mabel Holmberg of Free-
jnan, Missouri. T^ey have one son
Pictured above engaged in a domextir chore iu thr famliy of Mr. Arthur Wrnger. l*re«iidrn( of At
lantic ( hriMtian ('ollrge. From left to right are Mark. Frank. Mr». Wenger. »nd Jon Mieharl. It
app<*arH that Jon Michael U the tmi>4tlent member of the family.
Medical Schools Twenty Seniors
Recommend May Complete Work
Admission Tests
95 New Students
Enroll At ACC
I By PATT MURRAY
iNinety-five new students have
enrolk^d at Atlantic Christian Col
lege for the spring semester, ac
Ik^din^ to Mrs. Bethany Joyner.
th( college registrar. Due to l^ses
the previous semester, bow
er. the enrollment figure will
<»bibly be about the same as
St September.
Men outnumber the women of
es(‘ new students by a ratio of
most four to one. Only twenty
onien are in this group while
are seventy-five men.
Seventeen of these have attended
C(’ before, while forty-eight are
sferring from other colleges.
"I* are thirty entering college
lor the first time as freshmen.
In addition to the North Caro-
“iaris new students come from
“gima. Florida, Kentucky, and
nnsylvania. Some of the colleges
at the transfer students have at-
nded are North Carolina State,
aiDpbeU, East Carolina. Univer-
ty of North Carolina, Wake For-
St, Louisburg, Chowan. Edward’s
ilitary Institute, and the Univer
sity of Uncle Sam.
Princeton, N. J., January 11:
Candidates for admission to medi
cal school in the fall of 1958 are
advised to take the MtKiical Col
lege Admission Test in May. it was
announced today by Educational
Testing Service, which prepares
and administc'rs the test for the
Association of American Medical
Colleges, “niese test'*, required of
applicants by almost every medical
college throughout the country, will
be given twice during the current
calendar year. Candidates taking
the May test, however, will be able
to furnish scores to institutions in
early fall, when many medical col
leges begin the selection of their
next entering class.
Candidates may take the MCAT
on Saturday, May 11, 1957, or on
Tuesday, October 29. 1957, at ad
ministrations to be held at more
than 300 local centers in all parts
of the country. The Association of
American Mi-dical Colleges recom
mends that candidates for admis
sion to classes starting in the fall
of 1958 take the May test.
T^e MCAT consists of tests of
general scholastic ability, a test
on understanding of modern so-1
ciety, and an achievement test in
science. According to ETS. no spec- ^
ial preparati(Hi other than a review
of science subjects is neces.*tary.'
All questions are of the objective;
type.
Copies of the Bulletin of Infor-
nnation (with application form
Twenty Atlantic Christian Col
lege students completi*d ri*quin>*
ment.«i for degree.s this past semes
ter. TT»ey will receive their diplo
mas at commencement exercises
this June along with the spring
graduates.
The students arc Ctoethe Wil
liam Aldridge. Jr., Grantsboro;
George Ranks. Arapahoe; Carl
Boyd Barrow, Jr., Snow Hill; Le
roy Oglethorpe Batts. Jr.. Kinston;
Judith Beth Boyd, Raleigh; Helen
L. Carter, Rockingham; Lyman
Lewis Edwards, Grimesland;
Ralph Barrow Gray. Kinston; Joan
EdM^-ards Hemby, Wilson; Robert
Cecil H<>me. Wilson; and Romulus
Henry Llewellyn. Jr., Wilson.
Also. Hester D. Narron, Middle
sex; Gloria Bass Newbern, Wilson;
Betty Jean Parker, Four Oaks;
Kathleen P. Pipkin. Wilson; Nor
man L. Polk. Islandton. S. C.; Jes
sie Ann Thomas, BeulaviUe;
Ralph T. WainwTight, Stantonx-
burg; Bernard Franklin Proctor,
Selma; and Willie Ray Batts.
Rocky Mount.
Kaoru Nonaka
Hails From Gifu
Continued on Page Four
College Life As A Hash Slinger
HE\I) COf)K RKTIRE8
For alt the Uudrnts who have
attended A(X) for a year or
more and have eatf'n In the
collf-.r cafeteHA, Tilll/-'*. r<»II^
will bf’ Aomrlhing to rrinetn-
bfc. Matilda F.lli«, better known
a« Tillle, rrtirrd recently at
head ccHik in (hr college eafe- |
terla. Ttllie came to work for |
the college in 19.*M and rreently
received a Iriter ot eommenda-
Uon from Milton L. Adams, col
lege buftioess manager.
Omega Chi Makes
Good Progress As
New Campus Sorority
Wenger Family
Enjoys Wilson
By JOANNF RIVF_NH\RK
"The frietidliot U>wn 1 ha\t* c\’er
I lived in/* -i<»d Mr» Arthur Wef>-
' ger when she wa» ajtktxl how ahe
i liked WiU<»n. "I rji|>eclaUy like the
' way yt>u pe<»ple in CanUtna r“y.
Ilrv. how are ytHj?' ** Tln' Arthur
Wengers returned t*> Wilson early
j this fall, when IV. Wenger was
I named president of Atlantic C'hria-
, tian ColU-Ke
I Mr.t Wrnger. the f«»rm**r Doris
Krlh'nlmrger, gn*w up in Newt*»ii,
' Kaiuan. There she received her en
tire «'dueatinn with thr rxcrptitm
of a year she a(M*nt diking gradu
ate work at I>rnver University,
; She hrt-i a degr«»e In dramatics
«nd public K|M*nklng fr»*m Bethel
Collrtfe She »ix*ttdi a gttod de«l
<»f time telling xlorlrx to clubs and
I organiration.’t In Wilimn.
While att('r>dtng liethrl »he met
Dr. Wengrr. Uit they wrre just
I fri«‘?Klx until her junior year, when
they then starttxl dating stt'adily.
I She and Dr. Wenger wer?« In a play
i togiHhrr at Bethel in which she
played his mother In May. 1W4.
she and Dr. Wenger were mar-
rl«<l.
Dr and Mk-s, Wmger are the
parents of thns* Frank, age
nine, Jon Michael, six. and Mark,
four. Frank and Jon attend W«Mid-
ard School. Frank at the jwesml
I time, thinks he wouM likr to be
i a scientist. Already he U doing
extra chores to earn money to
new buy a microiieo|»e Jon Michael and
Jour- Mark say that tiiey would likr to
Hy ('AROI. AVSTIN
And l.l.VO\ \l<
l.,a5t year on the campus
organization, Slitters of the
neymen. iM'gan. This club was ac- doctors. Their mother states that
ceptt'd and auCiori/cd as a (;reek i gHting much practice
Ii«‘tter St»rorily during Cie week of
spring term examn It l>»*cam«
C^^ega Chi sortirity. Tvkt> who play-
«'d leading roles in accomplishing
this were Ik*tsy Kverett** and Mary
Kva Griffin. Each has hern made
an honorary memU*r of the soro
rity.
In the S)>ring of 19M this l>and
of newly organized girls m.ide cur
tains for the Greek room. T^iey
also helpc'd the Sigma Rho }*hi
I Since they are already *’oi>erating
on’* and giving nhot< Ui the stuf
fed animals and dolls at home.
I One of the family's favorite past-
I Imes is traveling Thr Wmgrr fam-
I ily accompanicvl Dr Wenger to
I Philadelphia for a convention ear
lier this winter On their way t>aek
th<* family toured our natifm’i ca|>-
I Ital. The children enjoyed many
historic sights, but the most im
pressive onr to them wa« the TVimb
By JOHNNY BROWNING
Another foreign stiidfnt on our
fair campus is Kaoru Nonaka. Kao
ru hails from Gifu, twenty miles
south of Tokoyo. Japan. The be
ginning of Kaoru’s interent in at
tending an American college be
gan with an exch inge proh*s!u>r In
Japan. After Meriting various col
leges here in the United States r»‘-
questing scholarship aid Kaoru
eventually enrolli-d at Acc. Ho h«-d
the intention of coming for one
year but ii^ working toward gradu
ation.
Kaoru probably had little tr
boys d<*corate for theh- spring ban- j of the Unknown Soklirr
quet.
When the fall semester began in
September four memberr returned
'Hiey were Sylvia Farmer. Gwen
Stanley. Dora Reason, nnd Linda
I«ee. They, along with their spon
sors. Mrs. H H. Johnson Jr.. Mrs.
G. E. Coker, Mrs. G. A. Constan
tine. and Mrs. J. K. Weems n
cruited eight girls to join the so
rority as chart4»r memU*rs. 'Hiey
were Linda Jones, Martha Raye
Dawson. Unda Nichols. Hilda Po
well. Toni Uzell, Carol Austin.
Thurla lioswell. and Jean Cr«H*ch.
These girls had the initiative to ad
vance forward with an unknrnvn
organization. They had to instill
the spark of interest, the hopes
and aims of Omega Chi. This they
did with the first meeting held in
S<ijtiimb<'r. This lnt4*re»ted group
made plans for runh week. The
wi*<*k proved to lie very surcess-
ful Omt^a Chi n«)w has a good
.‘:trong foothoW on the campus.
Rreognltiftn
In S<*pU*mljer of 1956 Omega Chi
these twr> joined force* and made
the winning float of the Hrmieeom-
ing parad<* 'pje theme of the fUiat
was "Education It T^e Power Of
A Nation." The s<jrorlty and fra
ternity jointly sponsored Mias Sybil
Atkinsf*n from Clayt/m for Home
coming queen. She was among the
five runner-upa.
F^or Thanksgiving, the girls took
as their project a little htry who
ne<*d«'d clothes, money, and friend
ship. T^ey had a party in hli hon
or and present(*d him with a great
deal of each.
As their first social activity Ome
ga Chi lnvlt4»d their brothrr* to a
hay-ridc-weiner roast, which was
held at th<* home of Mr. and Mra.
H Fi. J<»hnston, Jr Sigma Rho
Phi returned the invitation with an
invitation ti> the Elk*s Club Do-
ceml>er 1 f<»r an informal dance.
The girls really enjoy*«d dancing
that night.
Miss IJnda Nichols frr»m Green-
was recognized a<< the siAt4*r w)r^>-j ville was chojien a:» a r^iuljdate
rity of one of the campus' leading ' for Pine Knot queen to re|>re«enl
fraternities > ■ Sigma Rho PhL
When H'»mecoming rolled aniund
Crmtinued cm Page Four
in tAJ.%iness here at ACC. Hi:: plans
f<*r U»e future include working at
the United Natiors.
By MINNIE MARGARET UPTON
Each and every mornini? a certain Kroup of younK
omen in Harper Hall arise at about 6:.'?() A. M. in order
() parade to the Hert Hardy Dining Hall by 7 :1.5 to quiet
the hunger pain.H in the tummie.s of the «tudent« here at
tlantic Christian, Trouble is unavoidable from the be-1 We, 1/*ny at aU with th.- Eneit.h
inning ot the day. If w.Tc « ” '•‘V "J;
oady quite a few cu.stomers will have arrived and are | j,,
eagerly, hungrily, and grumpily awaiting us; while ii we ^ior high, thm- in high »chool and
nake a special effort to be there early, they wait until j two nvjre in coll.-nc-h-for.-n.mlni'
the last ten minutes of sening time to come dashing in to ACr. On top of this K.ioru l.<
Hit. last leii 1I11I1UI.C.-5 malwmit In English and minorlni:
xpecting to find a full supply of e\er>thing. — .
First gripe.s firi»t; silver always presents a problem
ecause the tray holds only a certain amount. On my
counter it is always forks and I am never told that they
are low; it is alway* empty. Then we must explain that
the silver is not dirty (there are exceptions, of course)
but that it Ls only the way in which it dried that causcs
it to look black and that the health in.spector prohibiUt
dning by clotb. An act u.^iuallv similar to that of the
silver occurs with the trays- Added to these difficuUies
that sometimes the napkins mu.nl give out. ^
By lunch time, if I am lucky, the diners wdl have
ini.shed the comparison of dessert ; and, with the
opinion of both the person preceding and the one follow-
'ng, will make a hesitant decision on the meat and re-
Continued On Page Four
u
I^k'tared above, from left to right. Mre Jimmr Harris. June
Young, Jo-Anne Mathews, and (ilfton llollowell. The%e two
couples were recently honored at a King Dance sponsored by
Omega (’hi sorority.