The Collegiate
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, JANUARY 9, 1959
NUMBER TWELVE
Phi Delta Gamma’s Plans
To Go National Approved
By JEVI BISHOP
Collegiate Editor
The nationalization of fraterni
ties at Atlantic Christian College
wUl be completed in the near fu
ture.
Action by the college’s Adnnisi-
istrative Council this week paved
the way for the final local fra
ternity on the campus, Phi Delta
Gamma, to become nationally af
filiated.
At a meeting Monday morning
the Administrative Council acted
on a petition submitted by Phi
Delta Gamma requesting that it
be allowed to affiliate with Sigma
Pi National Social Fraternity.
Fraternity officials were notified
immediately of the favorable ac
tion and members of the Sigma
Pi Chapter at North Carolina State
College were invited to visit Phi
Delta Gamma at its meeting Mon
day night to conduct preliminary
pledging ceremonies.
John Anthony, president of Phi
Delta Gamma, and CoUn Sholar,
president - elect, in a joint state
ment, said the fraternity hopes to
complete its affiliation with Sigma
Pi as quickly as possible.
The chapter at ACC wiU give
Sigma Pi its third chapter in North
Carolina. The national already has
chapters at North Carolina State
College and at Wake Forest Col
lege.
Sigma Pi was founded at Vin-
CMnes University, Vincennes, In
diana, in 1897. Headquarters for
the fraternity are now located at
Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The national fraternity now has
60 chapters with a total member
ship of 14,790.
The affiliation of Phi Delta Gam
ma with Sigma Pi wiU end a story
that has been big news on the
campus of Atlantic Christian Col
lege for more than three years—
the nationalization of its local fra
ternities.
Contractors Given Go Ahead
To Start Work On New Dorm
See Phi Delta Gamma Page 4
h
AT APPROVAL, SESSION—Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, third from
left, ACC President, congratulates Colin Sholar, standing, presi
dent-elect of Phi Delta Gamma Fraternity, just after the Admin
istrative CouncU had voted approval of Phi Delta Gamma’s
plans for nationalization. Others in the picture are Dr. Millard
P. Burt, ACC Dean, left, John E. Weems, Director of Student
Activities, right, and John Anthony, Phi Delt president, second
from right. (Collegiate Photo by Claude Anthony)
Semester Finals
To Begin Monday
Atlantic Christian College stu
dents began scurrying to the near
est study desk this week as exam
ination week loomed large on the
horizon.
Final examinations for the fall
semester will be conducted next
week and a fuU schedule of ex
aminations can be found elsewhere
in today’s edition of The Collegiate.
The exam period will open offi
cially Monday morning at 8 a.m.
with all freshman and sophomore
English exams scheduled at that
time.
Final examination period will be
held Friday with irregular class
exams scheduled on that day.
Following the completion of ex
ams, students will be free until
registration for the spring semes
ter is scheduled on January 20 and
21.
Students Must Visit
Business Office
Students who have pre-regis-
tered for the second semester
must visit the business office
next Tuesday, Wednesday or
Thursday to make arrange
ments about their bills.
When they have visited the
business office in the Admini
stration Building and have
cleared their biUs, students will
be given class admission crads.
Students will not be accepted
in classes until they have clear-
with the business office, it was
explained today.
Seniors Will Be Required
To Take Final Examinations
The Central Committee On In
struction this week acted to re
quire previously exempt seniors to
take final examinations.
In the past seniors with “B” av
erages, in mosD cases, had not been
required to take final exams.
The action- was taken to ease
what the committee termed, “many
problems under the old plan.”
It was pointed out that pressure
has been placed upon the profes
sor in many instances because of
the previous plan. Marginal cases
have always plagued the teacher.
The central committee felt that
exams for all students would be a
wise move. Some students have
been known to ease up on their
studies near the end of semesters
because they knew they did not
have to take exams, it was also
explained.
Caution Urged
In Use Of Heat
"The recent cold weather has
placed a burden on the college
heating plant.
Students and faculty members
were urged today to be careful
about loss of heat in dormitory
rooms and classrooms.
“I have noticed that several
persons have been opening windows
while leaving radiators on full
force,” a spokesman said.
“If it is hot enough to raise or
open a window it would be much
wiser simply to shut off the radia
tor,” he said.
Blinds Will Be Installed
In New Classroom Building
Plans to install Venetian blinds
in 10 classrooms in the Classroom
Building to be used for audio-vis
ual purposes were announced this
week.
James E. Fulghum, Director of
Audio - Visual activities, said the
blinds will be installed right a-
way. “We are installing the blinds
to make it possible to use more
classrooms for audio - visual pur
poses,” Mr. Fulghum said.
He said the blinds will be in
stalled in rooms 107, 109, and 110
on the ground floor of the building
and in rooms 200, 206 , 207 , 208,
209, 210 and 211 on the second
floor.
“This will provide every depart
ment using rooms in the Class
room BuUding with at least one
classroom that has blinds,” Mr.
Fulghum said.
“The blinds will be gray m color
and will cover the windows, tran
soms, and skylights in those rooms
that require them,” he said.
Mr Fulghum said the decision
to install blinds was made by the
Administrative Council this week.
“We have worked for quite a few
weeks in determining what step
we would take,” he explained. At
first we thought about drapes, but
the expense of installing drape^
material was too great,” he said.
Mr. Fulghum said the blinds will
help diminish the glare in the class
rooms as weU as serve audiovis
ual requirements.
“We are hoping that we will be
able to install more blinds next
year so that we can,haye them in,
every classroom,” he said.
The members of the Central
Committee On Instruction are de
partment heads of the various aca
demic departments.
Feeling on the committee was ov
erwhelmingly in favor of requiring
examinations of all students in the
future.
The action was taken at the
meeting held Monday afternoon in
the faculty lounge of the Adminis
tration Building.
Contractors have now received
authorization to begin construction
of Atlantic Christian College’s new
men’s dormitory.
Work is expected to start this
week on the structure which wiU
be built on the corner of Deans
and West Gold Street.
Jones Brothers and Company of
Wilson, will serve as the general
contractor on the four story,
poured in place concrete and steel
building. Wher contractors are Z.
A. Norris, Plumbing and Heating
Contractor of Wilson, for the
plumbing; Kinston Plumbing and
Heating Company, for the heat
ing and ventilation, and Joe Turn
er, Electrical Contractor of Wil
son, for the electrical work.
Authorization for the construc
tion of the building which will
house 144 men students, was issued
by the college architects. Small
and Boaz of Raleigh, on December
30. The contract calls for the dorm
itory to be constructed in 365 calen
dar days.
Plans call for the dormitory to
be ready for occupancy at the
beginning of the second semester
of the 1959-60 college session.
The bid submitted by the Jones
firm for construction of the dormi
tory totaled $286,000. The bid sub
mitted by the Norris firm for the
plumbing was $19,200. Kinston
Plumbing and Heating Company,
is doing the heating and ventilation
at a cost of $30,895. The electrical
contract by the Turner company
totals $20,500.
The total bids ran to $356,595.
With the addition of architect’s
fees and other costs, the building
of the dormitory is expected to re
quire an expenditure of about
$400,000.
Funds for the construction of
the dormitory are being obtained
from the Federal Government. Sev
eral months ago the Federal Home
and Housing Agency approved a
long term loan for ACC so that
the college could plan to construct
the building.
Unusual feature of the building
will be that it will have no inside
halls. All rooms will open into
outside corridors. Furniture in the
dormitory roOms will be built in,
it was explained.
Dormitory Rental Hike
Is Announced For ACC
Atlantic Christian CoUege an
nounced recently an increase in
dormitory room rentals effective
with the stari of the fall semes
ter next September.
Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, ACC Pres
ident, said the action of the col
lege’s board of trustees, is in line
with action by other colleges who
are increasing room rentals.
“Colleges are increasing their
room rentals in order to prevent
housing from relying on tuition
funds,” Dr. Wenger said.
Very few dormitories pay for
themselves, it was pointed out. It
is almost impossible to pay for a
dormitory building and maintain it
out of today’s rentals.
Colleges all over the nation are
raising the rentals to cut down on
the deficit incurred in housing, it
was pointed out.
Cage Queen To Be Chosen
Atlantic Christian College is
scheduled to choose another queen
this afternoon.
Judging for a basketball queen
will be held this afternoon in
Harper Hall parlor at 3 p.m. Those
women students who are entered
in the contest are urged to be pres
ent.
The decision as to the winner
wiU not be made until January 17.
At that time pictures of the local
queen will be forwarded to offi
cials of the North State Confer
ence Basketball Tournament at
Lexington. From the contestants
representing each college in the
North State Conference a queen
will be chosen to reign over this
year’s North State tourney.
The ACC queen will be crowned
at the ACC - Pfeiffer College bas
ketball game here on January 17,
at the Wilson Community Center.
Judges in the local contest are
Norman “Tweetie” Etheridge, Wal
ter Gray, College Librarian, and
John E. Weems, Director of Stu
dent Activities at ACC.
The Collegiate was not able to get
a complete list of contestants pior
to press time. Thursday was the
deadline for entries.
Wednesday afternoon six contest
ants had been entered. They are
Miss Earlene Head, representing
Omega Chi Sorority; Miss Jane
Johnson, representing Phi Sigma
Tau Sorority; Miss Lynne Crews,
representing Delta Sigma Sorority;
Miss Nancy Forbes, representing
Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity, and
Miss Lu Bilisoly, representing The
Collegiate.
“College housing today must be
as near self - sustaining as it is
possible to make it,” Dr. Wenger
said. “We cannot dip into tuition
to make up the difference since
we need these funds for education
al purposes.”
The rent in Harper Hall for wom
en will be increased from $75 to
to $85 per semester, it was an
nounced. This will total $170 per
year. Rental in Caldwell Hall will
be increased from $60 per semes
ter to $70 and to $140 per year.
Rent in the new men’s dormitory
when it is occupied will be the
same as for Harper Hall, it was
announced. This will run $85 per
semester and $170 per year.
At the same time the hike in
room rentals was announced, the
college also announced the begin
ning of an application fee of $10
to be charged to all new students
applying for admission to the col-
See Dormitory Rental Page 4
Opaque Projector
Is Purchased
The Audio-Visual Aids Depart
ment of the college announced this
week that it had purchased a new
Opaque Projector to be used by
faculty members needing the
equipment.
James E. Fulghum, Director erf
Audio-Visual Activities, said the
new projector has now been placed
in the A-V pool and may be check
ed out by faculty members as
other equipment is checked out.
Mr. Fulghum said the new pro
jector is large enough to use an
eight and a half by eleven sheet
for projection.
Church Vocations Conference
Scheduled Here Next Weekend
By RALPH MESSICK
The Fourth Annual Church Vo
cations Conference is being held
on the Atlantic Christian CoUege
campus next weekend, January 16
and 17. The theme of the confer
ence, “Your Discipleship in our
Time” is designed to appeal to
young people to dedicate their lives
to full - time Christian service.
Co-sponsors for the activities are
the North Carolina Missionary So
ciety and Atlantic Christian Col
lege. Dr. J. Daniel Joyce has been
selected as the main speaker. Dr.
Joyce is the pastor of the Hanover
Avenue Christian Church, Rich
mond, Virginia. He is well known
among the ministers of the Dis
ciples of Christ in this state for his
address to the Minister’s Confer
ence held in Wilson last year.
Registration for the conference
will be held in the Classroom
Building lobby next Friday from
4 to 6:30 P. M. The opening ses
sion will be held in Hardy Dining
Hall at 7 P. M. with Rev. Allan
R. Sharp presiding. The Invoca
tion will be delivered by Rev, Eu
gene Purcell, Jr., Assistant Profes
sor of Philosophy. Rev. Ross J.
Allen will present a statement of
the need for full-time Christian
service students. Dr. Joyce will de
liver the address after his intro
duction to the conference by Dr,
Arthur D. Wenger, President of
ACC, Following the address the
conference will adjourn to the
Classroom Building Lobby for a
recreation period. The evening’s
activities will be concluded with a
friendship circle.
The Saturday program will be
gin with a Morning Watch at 7:15
A. M, Breakfast will be served
immediately after the watch in
Hardy Dining Hall. At 8:30 A,
M, a movie will be-shown in How
ard Chapel.
Following the movie group dis
cussions will be held in the Class
room Building. Discussions will be
held in three main categories: The
Ministry, Christian Education and
Missions. Leaders for the discus
sions on the ministry will be Rev.
Eugene Purcell; Rev. Tom Mon
ey, Minister of the Hooker Memo
rial Christian Church, Greenville,
N. C.; Rev. Kermit Traylor, Minis
ter of the First Christian Church,
Winston-Salem, N. C.; and Rev.
Robert Jarman, Minister of the
First Christian Church, Greens
boro, N. C.
Leaders for the discussions on
Christian Education will be Rev.
Bernard Meece, Director of Chris
tian Education, N. C. Christian
Missionary Society, Wilson, N. C.;
Rev. John R. Scudder, Assistant
Professor of Religion, Atlantic
Christian College; Rev. Peter War
ren, Director of Christian Educa-
Church, Kinston, N. C. and Mrs.
Steve Ginn, Senior Religion major
at Atlantic Christian CoUege and
Student Director of Christian Edu
cation, First Christian Church, Wil
son, N. C.
Raders for the discussions on
Mission work will be Mrs. Horace
Settle, Executive Secretary of the
Christian Women’s Fellowship of
North and South Carolina; Rev.
Dr. Vida Elliott, former missionary
See Vocation.^ Conference Page 3