The Collegiate
VOL. XXVIII
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 6, 1958
NUMBER EIGHT
Game-Of-The-Year Set Tonight
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Bohunk Bucket
Is Up For Grabs
33 ACC Students Fail To Hurdle
Academic Roadblock; Suspended
By JIM BISHOP
There are 29 ACC students who
are much happier now than they
were last semester and there are
33 not with us any more who are
much sadder.
The two words that created the
combination of sadness and hap
piness are Academic Probation.
At the beginning of the Fall Se
mester there were 62 ACC stu
dents who were on academic pro
bation—were more than 12 quali
ty points down.
With much hard work 29 of them
brought their quality point defici
ency up to par and erased their
academic probation. Unfortunately
the other 33 were not as successful
and had to be suspended from
school.
Dean R. B. Cutlip said, however,
that the situation was much bet
ter than last spring when nearly
65 students were suspended be
cause of academic difficulties.
Dean Cutlip said last semester’s
academic record was the best in .
many years. j
T^is indicates that students are
striving to make better grades
than they have in the past. The
academic probation rule is work
ing successfully, officials point
out.
Students who have questioned
the “excused absence” policy on
the ACC campus also were given
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BOB WHALEY
DICK KNOX
Alumni Will Return Saturday
For Rally Day Celebration
Saturday will be a big day on
the campus. Hundreds of former
students of Atlantic Christian Col
lege will return to the campus to
take part in Alumni Rally Day,
a substitute program for Home
coming which was postponed in
November because of the flu.
Alumni Rally Day will begin
with Open House Saturday after
noon. This will be followed by a
reception honoring Dr. Howard E.
Blake, ACC 1943, and a member
of the faculty in the graduate
school of education at Temple Uni
versity by Phi Kappa Alpha Fra
ternity. Dr. Blake is a member
of Phi Kappa.
At 5:30 p.m. the alumni rally
day dinner will be held in the col
lege dining hall. Dr. Blake will be
the principal speaker. Dr. Millard
P. Burt of Raleigh, President of
the ACC Alumni Association, will
preside at the dinner.
Because the dining hall will be
used Saturday for the rally day
banquet, students will be served
supper in the recreation room of
Harper Hall by Parker’s.
A basketball doubleheader will
be played in the ACC gym Satur
day night as a part of the Alumni
DR. HOWARD E. BLAKE
Campus Publications Award
Established By Local Paper
Officials of The Wilson Daily
Times today announced that plans
have been completed to establish
a permanent award at Atlantic
Christian College to honor a stu
dent each year who is outstanding'
in the field of college publica
tions.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Swindell, pub
lisher of The Daily Times, said
the local newspaper is establishing
the permanent annual award and
it will be known as The Wilson
Daily Times Publications Award.
It will be given annually at the
college’s regular awards day.
Mrs. Swindell said the newspa
per is establishing the award be
cause of the improved quality of
the publications at the college—
The Pine Knot and The Collegiate.
A large plaque is being present-
Rally Day program. In the fea
ture game, ACC will play Guilford
College at 8 p.m. In the prelimi
nary at 6:15 p.m., the ACC junior
varsity will host the Pembroke
College Indians.
Following the games, the Alum
ni Rally Day Ball will be held in
the classroom building lobby. Stu
dents are invited.
Lectures Picture
Modern Russia
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m
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Swindell, publisher of The Wlson
cllese a .p.o{al Je”*p',iSerto t».
legiate each year. Here Mrs. Swindell the plaque Rod
ert Capps, left, chairman of the college Awards Committee, ana
Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, ACC president.
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“Beautiful and well - photograph
ed pictures” of Russia and Switz
erland will accompany the person
al lectures by world-traveler Neil
Douglas in Howard Chapel next
Wednesday.
The Atlantic Christian College
Assembly and Concert Committee
will present Mr. Douglas at a spe
cial student assembly program be
ginning at 10:05. His subject will
be “Switzerland.”
Wednesday evening at 7:30 an
illustrated lecture on Russia will
be open to students and the gen
eral public.
Recommendations from a wide
range of audiences have accom
panied Mr. Douglas’ advance pub
licity sent to the Assembly and
Concert Committee Chairman, Dr.
Vere Rogers. Churches, museums,
theatres, and professional clubs
have commented on the timeliness
as weU as the beauty of the mov
ies.
An Ohio churchman writes: “The
lecture on Russia is one that
should be shown the length and
breadth of this country. I was a-
mazed at the coverage. I would
not have believed it possible that
Mr. Douglas would have been able
to get so much copy and of such
a varied nature. His presentation
is to be commended. He tries to
jive credit where credit is due,
but he did not fail to point out
the limitations of communism and
±e menace it presents.
The morning assembly program
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Social Calendar
February 6- East Carolina—Rocky
Mount High School Gymnasi
um
February 7- Movie in Howard Cha
pel
February 8- Alumni Rally Day
Guilford
February 10- Appalachian away
February 11- Lenoir Rhyne away
February 12- School Concert
February 14- Sigma Tau Chi’s Va-
entine Dance
February 15- Belmont Abbey home
February 18- William and Mary,
Norfolk Division away
February 20- Pfeiffer away
February 20- Bohunk Social by Phi
Sigma Tau
February 22- East Carolina away
February. 26- March 1- North
State Conference Basketball
Tournament at Lexington ,
Spring Tour Set
For ACC Chorus
The Atlantic Christian College
Chorus will make ^its annual tour
during the week of April 13
through April 20.
Tentative plans call for the
chorus to leave the campus early
on Sunday morning, April 13, and
to make an eight-city tour during
that week.
The first appearance will be at
the Christian Church in Belhaven
on Sunday morning, April 13, at
11 o’clock. From there the chorus
will travel on to Elizabeth City
for a prpgram and radio broad
cast at tne First Christian Church
there on Sunday night at 8 p. m.
Monday, April 14, the chorus will
sing at the Frist Christian Church
in Washington, N. C. From there
the chorus will move to New Bern
for a program on Tuesday night,
to Kinston for Wednesday night,
to Goldsboro Thursday night, to
Fayetteville Friday night, and
back to Wilson for a tour - ending
program at the First Christian
Church in Wilson on Sunday night,
April 20.
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Atlantic Christian College will
present its biggest athletic show
of the season tonight in the Rocky
Mount High School gymnasium.
A red hot basketball doublehead
er will attract a capacity crowd
of students and fans from all over
eastern North Carolina.
In the feature e\^nt of the even
ing at 8 p.m. the Atlantic Chris
tian College basketball team will
meet its long time rival East Caro
lina College. In the preliminary
set for 6:15 p.m. the successful
Atlantic Christian College Junior
Varsity cage team will have its
sternest test of the season—the
University of North Carolina
Freshman team.
What was being considered “not
so hot” a few weeks ago has turn
ed into a big attraction this week
thanks to ACC’s four vital North
State victories last week over Guil
ford, Elon, Western Carolina, and
Appalachian.
Atlantic Christian is now defi
nitely a contender for a first divi
sion berth in the North State Con
ference tournament at Lexington,
February 26, 27, 28 and March 1,
and fans can bet they will be fight
ing hard tonight for another vic
tory.
East Carolina also faces a rough
road ahead in a back to the wall
situation. At the first of the sea
son the Pirates were sailing along
as the best in the league. Then
a decision by the conference com
missioner on an unfortunate eligi
bility ruling took three victories
away. The blow did more as East
Carolina lost two in succession on
the road.
The Pirates have a good team
and tonight’s feature will be an
other lof those dog fights that
have characterized this series for
for years.
An added incentive will be pos
session of the “Bohunk” trophy
which traditionally goes to the
winner.
Coach Howard Porter of East
Carolina, has a talented crew
made up of Charlie Adams, Guy
Mendenhall, Hal Ingram, Ike Rid-
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Short And West Selected
yls Graduation Speakers
The two principal speakers for
Atlantic Christian College’s annual
Commencement were announced
today by Dr. Arthur D. Wenger,
ACC president.
He said invitations had been ex
tended and acceptances had been
received from Dr. Howard E.
Short, newly appointed Editor of
The Christian Evangelist as t h e
commencement speaker and Dr.
R. Fred West, Minister of the Hill-
yer Memorial Christian Church in
Raleigh, as the Baccalaureate
speaker.
For the last 12 years Dr. Short
has served as Professor of Church
History on the faculty of The Col
lege Of The Bible, Lexington, Ky.
Shortly after he speaks at the
ACC commencement on Sunday,
May 25, Dr. Short will go to St.
Louis, Mo., to take up his new
duties as editor of one of the na
tion’s outstanding weekly church
magazines.
Dr. West is a former member of
the faculty at Atlantic Christian
College and at Texas Christian
University. He is one of the out
standing leaders in the work of the
Christian Churches of the United
States and has spoken at many of
the Christian Churches’ national
and international meetings.
More details of plans for com
mencement will be given in sub
sequent editions of The Collegiate,
James E. Fulghum, Chairman of
the college’s Commencement Com
mittee, said today.
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DR. HOWARD E. SHORT
ATLANTIC
WILSON, m'tiVA CAROLINA