The Collegiate
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, DECEMBER 12, 1958
NUMBER ELEVEN
Annual Christmas Dance Tonight
Invitation To Be Extended
T0 Conference Press Group
The Executive Board of the At
lantic Christian College Coopera
tive Association decided Monday in
its regular meeting to recommend
to next year’s board that the ex
penses of being host to the North
State Conference Press Association
meetings for next year be under
written.
The action was a result of a let
ter from James E. Fulghum, Chair
man of the Publications Commit
tee. Mr. Ful^um asked that ‘the
board underwrite any expenses
which cannot be paid from the
registration fees from the dele
gates.
The request came as a result of
the NSCPA meeting at Guilford
College last Saturday. At this meet
ing. delegates were asked to have
their schools extend ati invitation
for the next'year’s meetings. The
t>ids will be extended at the
sprins meeting. If the bid i,o come
to ACC is accepted, the conference
will convene here once in the fall
and once in the spriiag.
If ACC is host to this conference,
it will be the first time that a
press conference has met on this
campus. In the past, the policy
has been to meet at the more cen
trally located schools.
The tentative program includes
social events on Friday and Satur
day nights, with the conference
meetings on Saturday.
In further action it was reported
that as of Monday, there were still
45 deserving children whose names
have not been taken for the Christ-
’las giving.
It is hoped that the students will
claim the names and furnish the
gifts; however. If it is necessary,
the Executive Board will under
write the expenses of giving these
gifts.
George Griswold reported that
the United States National Student
Association meeting scheduled for
last week was postponed. This ac
tion was the result of inadequate
planning. The meeting will be re
scheduled for the near future.
George Griswold. President, pre
sided at the meeting.
Newspaper Is Praised
For Its News Coverage
The overall quality of newspa
pers in the North State Conference
has improved, it was pointed out
at a meeting of the North State
Conference Press Association held
at Guilford College last Saturday.
A critical analysis of each paper
in the conference was made by
two leaders, David Morrah, Direc
tor of Development at Guilford Col
lege and a columnist for The
Greensboro Daily News and Sat
urday Evening Post, and John
Kee, a former college newspaper
editor and now a printing repre
sentative.
In discussing The Collegiate, the
Atlantic Christian College weekly
newspaper, Mr. Kee said the pa
per’s coverage of caanpus news
was amazing. “Do you really get
this paper out every week,” Mr.
Kee asked the Atlantic Christian
College group attending the meet
ing? “Your staff has done an
amazing job of covering the news.”
Those in attendance from ACC
were Jim Bishop, Editor of the
ACC paper, Billy Horne, business
Manager, two reporters. Bob Col
lins and Ralph Messick, and James
E. Fulghum, Chairman of the ACC
Publications Committee.
Mr. Morrah, in discussing other
papers in the conference, said he
was pleased with the straight news
reporting of the staff members.
“Too many college papers tend to
editorialize in their news columns.
I am glad to see that very little
of that is done in our conference.”
Bill Nobbitt of Appalachian
State Colleie, president of the as
sociation, presided at the business
session.
A plan to allow independent
schools in North Carolina to join
the association was voted down at
the meeting.
It was also decided that the as
sociation would receive invitations
at its spring meeting for the loca
tion of the two meetings for next
year.
The ACC Executive Board, at
its meeting Monday, approved a
recommendation of the ACC Pub
lications Committee to hold the
meetings for 1959-60 on the Atlan
tic Christian College Campus pro
vided an invitation by ACC is ac
cepted at the spring meeting.
See NEWSPAPER Page 3
Snow Brings Halt
To ACC Classes
Snow flakes began swirling in
the Atlantic Christian College area
Thursday morning and before
they had stopped some places had
recorded from 10 to 12 inches of
snow on the ground.
The large snowfall, one of the
largest pre-season blizzards in the
history of the area, played havoc
with transporatation facilities and
called a halt to classes at the col
lege.
Dr. Millard P, Burt, ACC dean,
announced yesterday after
noon that classes for Thursday
night and all day today had been
postponed because of the weather.
Pine Knot Queen To Be Crowned
At Intermission Of Big Formal
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DANCE CHAIRMEN—Miss Sarah Bain Ward, left. Dean of Wom
en at ACC, and Miss Carolyn Miles, right, senior from Dunn, are
the faculty chairman and the student chairman of the Christmas
Dance to be presented tonight in the lobby of the Classroom
Building.
Tu esday Is The Deadline
For Class Pre-Registration
Next Tuesday wiU be the final
day for students to pre-register for
classes for the spring semester,
they were reminded today.
Dr. Millard P. Burt, ACC Dean,
said this week that pre - registra
tion has been going very well.
Dr. Burt said a few changes have
been made in the class schedule
for the spring semester.
Added to the schedule is P.E.
202b, Physical Education for Sop
homore Women at 11 a.m. Monday
and Wednesday.
A change has been made in the
days that P.E. 242b will meet. The
course. Fundamentals of Tennis,-
Badminton and Golf, has been
changed to Monday and Wednes
day at 11 a.m, from Tuesday and
Thursday.
Dr. Burt said the most important
change is that another section of
Music Survey wiU be offered on
Thursday night from 7 p.m. to 8:40
p.m.
It was also explained that New
Testament Greek has been moved
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
If students find need for special
courses they should contact their
advisors as soon as possible. Dr.
Bart said. Dr. Burt said pre-regis
tration can function only as well
as students will allow it to. He
said students should inform their
advisors about conflicts immediate
ly. He also said that students
should pre-register well before the
deadline so that bottlenecks may
be avoided.
The spring semester will open
with registration on January 21.
No schedule changes wiU be made
for students between Dccembej- 16
and January 21. He said, however,
that changes may be made on Jan
uary 21. A charge of $1.00 per day
will be made for registration after
January 21, except for valid rea
sons approved by the Dean.
Schedule changes made after
January 21, will cost the student
$1. The last day for adding courses
will be February 8.
Class cards should be obtained
from the Registrar on January 21.
Financial arrangements must be
made with the college business of
fice before the cards will be re
leased.
By JIM BISHOP
Collegiate Eklitor
The major pre-holiday event of
the Atlantic Christian College so
cial season will be held here to
night when students and faculty
.Tiembers of the college attend the
annual Christmas Dance in the lob
by of the Classroom Building.
The formal dance will begin at
8:30 p.m. and will end at 12:30
a.m.
A highlight of the social affair
will be the crowning of the col
lege’s yearbook queen at intermis
sion. The Pine Knot queen will be
chosen from a group of 14 candi
dates representing the various or
ganizations on the campus.
Since the dance is one of the for
mal occasions of the year, women
and men have been requested to
dress as formally as their ward
robes will permit. The women are
requested to wear formals — long
or short — or cocktail dresses. As
for the men, the Social Commit
tee has requested that all who
have tuxedos wear them and that
others make a real effort to obtaki
them. If a tuxedo is not available,
a man may wear a dark suit.
Music for the dance will be pro
vided by the Moderns of Wilson.
This group, headed by Joe Horton,
a student of Atlantic Christian Col
lege, plays all types of music.
Miss Carolyn Miles is serving
as student chairman for the dance
with Miss Sarah Bain Ward, Dean
of Women,'serving as faculty chair
man.
Others working on the commit
tee include James V. Cobb, Miss
Tucker Uzzell, Miss Ann Bullock,
R. Parker Wilson, William Roberts,
Bob Matthews, Mrs. Jan T. Boles,
Gordon E. Coker, and Bobby Dunn.
The Christmas dance is one of
the biggest social events of the
year on the ACC campus. It is held
annually one week prior to the
start of the Y'ule holiday which
will begin this year on December
19.
Every student and faculty mem
ber today was urged by the Social
Committee to attend the dance.
Contestants in th-e Pine Knot
Queen contest are Miss Leslie Ser-
See CHRISTMAS DANCE Page 3
Survey Shows Debating Interest
By BOB COLLINS
Upon hearing a question as to
why Atlantic Christian College does
not have a debating team. The Col
legiate conducted a survey of stu
dents and faculty members this
week to seek an answer to the
question.
Atlantic Christian College has
had several debating teams in the
past. These teams have met with
a great deal of success. The teams
have debated in national and local
tournamijnts. In 1947 the ACC
team went to the Azalea Festival
Debate Tournament held in Mo
bile, Alabama.
ACC has also had delegates to to
to the Grand National Tournament
held at Mary Washington College
in Fedricksburg, Virginia. This
tournament not only included de
bate, but had contests in such areas
fs poetry reading, dramatic read
ings, extemporaneous speaking,
and others.
It is weU to note that in one of
these tournaments, Cecil WiUis, a
former student, was Grand Nation
al Champion in dramatic reading.
ACC also carried on a local de
bate meeting with East Carolina
College for three years.
Why, then, has debate died on
this campus?
In contacts with the faculty mer6-
bers, it was shown that though
debating teams did function on this
campus, the interest died at one
time and the program was drop
ped, The Hesperian club folded be
cause the president for one year
did not return to school and no
one would take his position.
Mrs. Doris C. Holsworth, Dr.
Mildred E. Hartsock, and Robert
G. Capps aU worked at one tirhe
with the debating teams. Mrs. Hols
worth and Dr. Hartsock both ex
pressed interest in forming another
detating team.
Mrs. Holsworth will offer debate
as a two hour course in the regular
curriculum if there are enough in
terested students who wiU take the
course.
Debate died because of an ap-
parant lack of interest on the part
of the students. However when in
terviewed, nine of 15 of the top
scholars on the campus said that
they were definitely interested. De
bating requires a great deal of
time on the part of the student and
the faculty sponsor, yet several stu
dents said they are interested and
would devote the time required.
Mrs. Holworth pointed out that
the student has to be a capable
speaker, has to have a sharp mind,
and must be willing to devote
the time required.
Mrs. Holswonth pointed out that
the student has to be a capable
speaker, has to have a sharp mind,
and must be willing to devote many
hours to doing research on the
topic to be debated. All debate
tournaments use the same topic.
This topic is chosen by a large
national committee composed of
members of the various national
debating societies. The topic is an
nounced in the early fall and work
must be begun as soon as it is an
nounced.
Since ther^ i| an interest on the
part of the students, and on the
part of the faculty sponsors, one
observer pointed out that all that is
needed now is a combining of forc
es and a debating organization will
once agin be functioning on the
ACC campus.
It was also pointed out that most
debate topics come from the fields
of political science and law. All.stu-
dents interested in these fields
might show great interest in parti
cipating in debate.
White, Anthony Attend
National IFC Convention
Two delegates from Atlantic
Christian College attended the Na
tional Interfratornity Undergrad
uate Conference held in Atlanta,
December 4, 5, and 6.
The ACC delegates were Sammy
White, President of the ACC Inter-
fraternity Council, and John An
thony, President of Phi Delta Gam
ma Fraternity.
Speakers for the 'conference in
cluded Dr. S. Walter Martin, Pres
ident, Emory University; Dr.
George F. Baughman. Vice-Pres
ident, New York University; and
Dr. Willis M. Tate, President,
Southern Methodist IJniversity.
White said the highlight of the
conference was the “How To Do
It Groups’’ held to discuss differ
ent phases ofy fraternity life.
The Glee Club from Georgia
Tech and the Emory University
Women’s Chorale, presented pro
grams of entertainment at the corv-
ference.
ACC Exhibits Get Attention
At Physical Education Meet
Eighteen Atlantic Christian Col
lege students and three faculty
members attended the annual
meeting of the North Carolina
Association of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation held at
the Woman’s College of the Uni
versity of North Carolina in Green
sboro, December 4, 5, and 6.
Highlighting the convention were
addresses by Dr. Charles Bucher,
Coordinator of Physical Educa
tion at New York University, and
Dr. Minnie Lynn, Department of
Physical Education for Women
at the University of Pittsburgh.
Students in the course, Prob
lems in Health Eklucation, taught
at ACC by Gordon E. Coker, pre
sented an exhibit of individual pro
jects made in the course. The
heart model and circulatory sys
tem model made by Russell Carter
and Marie Johnston, respectively.
received many favorable com
ments.
The theme for the annual meet
ing was “A Place In Space With
Health, Physical Education and
Recreation.”
Faculty members attending were
Edward L. Clyd, Jr., Mr. Coker
and Miss Mickey Raynor, all mem
bers of the Department of Phys-*
ical Education.
The students attending the meet-'
ing were all majors in physical
education.
Students attending were Mi.is
Shirley Herring, Lynn Crews, Mike
Wallace, Don Kasmer, Louis Eat-/
on, Ben Creech, Dick Tyson, Paul'
Blake, Mrs. Kay Jeffries, Tommy'
Draughan, Robert Owen, Ivey
Bolton, Rex Jarrell, Everett Pur-'
vis, Fitzhugh Thompson, Jimmy
Trivette, Harold Woodall and Torr»-
my Johnson.