The Collegiate
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MAY 8, 1959
NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR
Exec Board Will Send
Delegates To Meetings
The Executive Board of the At
lantic Christian College Coopera
tive Association approved the allot
ment of funds to cover the ex
penses of students traveling to
United States National Student as
sociation meetings this summer at
the University of Illinois.
In the regular meeting held Mon
day, the board appropriated funds
to cover the expenses of Bobby
Dunn, Everette Bryant, Miss Emily
Waters and Kenneth Bryan to at
tend the Twelfth National Student
Congress. The board also approv
ed funds for Bob Collins to travel
to a human relations seminar to
be held from August 8 to Septem
ber 3. The student congress wiU
be in session from August 24 to
September 3.
It was decided at the meeting
that the vice-president of the Men’s
Dormitory Association would serve
as a voting delegate on next year’s
Executive Board. This action was
necessary since Everette Bryant,
next year’s president of the Men’s
Dormitory association will also be
the vice-president of the Coopera
tive Association. Both positions re
quire a vote on the Executive
Board.
The board approved the allot
ment of funds to cover the expen
ses of students who traveled to the
Collegiate Academy of the North
Carolina Academy of Science meet
ing at Catawba College last Fri
day. '
In further action the board ap
proved funds for a Publications
Staff banquet. The funds will be
allotted from the emergency fund.
It was announced that the Execu
tive Board banquet for old and
new members will be held next
Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Ship
and Shore restaurant.
George Griswold, President, pre
sided at the meeting.
Brinson Is Elected
Golden Knot Leader
Kenneth Brinson, a rising senior
from Rocky Mount, was elected
President of the Golden Knot Hon
or Society at the society’s annual
picnic held Wednesday morning at
the Wilson County Agricultural
Center.
Brinson succeeds James W. Bish
op as president of the organiza
tion. The only other officer .elected
was Miss Etnily Waters of Ply
mouth, the society secretary.
The purpose of Golden Knot is to
honor Atlantic Christian College
students who have outstanding rec
ords in the classroom and in char
acter and leadership.
Each year the society taps stu
dents for membership. Members
tapped this year were Miss Beverly
Edwards, Jay Prillaman, Miss Za-
relda Walston, Miss Flora Griffin,
Mrs. Eleanor Herring Blake, Miss
Sallie Joe Griffin, Miss Peggy Mit
chell, Miss Bette Pomfrey, Miss
Louise 'Wells, Harold Wayne Quin
ton, Miss Sally Scudder, Joseph
Harris., Miss Frances Herri'ng,
Miss Wilma Hairr, and Miss Emily
Waters.
These new members and old
members of the society attended
the picnic held Wednesday morn
ing. Faculty advisors also attend
ed the event. The retiring faculty
advisors are John Dunn and Miss
Sarah Bain Ward. New advisors
are Dr. J. P. Tyndall'and Dr. Mil
dred E. Hartsock.
Awards To Be Given
Tuesday, Thursday
By JIM Bishop
Collegiate Editor
Atlantic Christian CoUege stu
dents who have contributed their
efforts to the various campus ac
tivities wiU be rewarded for their
contributions next week in two spe
cial awards days to be held in
Howard Chapel.
The awards programs will open
with an assembly in Howard Chap
el Tuesday morning at 10:20 a.m.
At that time the annual Blue-White
day will be held.
On that day dramatics and pub
lications awards will be presented,
science awards will be given, the
winner of The Wilson Daily Times
Publications Award will be an
nounced, the Rotary Scholarship
Cup will be presented, Who’s
Who in American Colleges and Un
iversities awards will be announc
ed, and the Denny Essay Cup wilt
be given.
The second of the two awards
days will be held Thursday at 10:20
a.m. in Howard Chapel.
On that day intramural athletic
awards for both women and men
will be presented in addition to the
outstanding intercollegiate athletic
award —> the Kiwanis Oup.
The dedication of the college an
nual, The Pine Knot, also will take
place at that program.
Miss Mickey Raynor of the ACC
faculty, is serving as chairman of
the Awards Committee.
Miss Raynor today urged all stu
dents and faculty members to get
to the two programs early in order
that they may begin on schedule.
“We have compressed the usual
three awards days into two and the
programs wiU be crowded,” Miss
Raynor said.
The two programs are tradition
ally highlights of the closing days
of the college year.
900 Fulbright Grants
Language Department To Students
To Air TV Program
The final in a series of 14 tele
vision programs presented by At
lantic Christian College during the
current college year wiU be tele
cast this afternoon.
Presented by the Department of
Modern Languages, headed by Dr.
Usther Long, the program wiQ fea
ture the growing need for langua
ges in a shrinking world.
Theme of the program will be
the fact that travel facilities haye
now brought all the peoples of
the world closer together and the
need for communication between
peoples is greater now than ever
before.
Hugh B. Johnston, member of
the faculty in the department, will
serve as moderator of the program
which wiU be presented on Station
WITN, Channel Seven, in Wash
ington, at 1:30 p.m., as a part of
Hospitality House, a daily program
featuring Mrs. Virginia Taylor and
Clint Faris.
Students who are taking part in
the program are Miss Frances
Herring, a senior from Wilson, who
will sing several German and
French songs, 'Celestino Heres-
Garcia, a junior from Cuba, who
wUl discuss the rise of Castro as
Cuba’s new leader, Claude Anth
ony, a senior from WUson, who is
majoring in French, and Miss Bil
lie Magee, a senior from Tampa,
Fla.
Anthony wiU discuss a trip he
is planning this summer to Mexico,
and Miss Magee wUl talk with Mr.
Johnston about her plans to serve
as a missionary in Central Ameri
ca.
Spring Exam Schedule
AnnouncedBy ACC Dean
The schedule for final examina
tions at Atlantic Christian College
was announced today by Dr. MU-
lard P. Burt, ACC Dean.
Dr. Burt said examinations wUl
begin on Monday, May 18, and wiU
be concluded on Saturday, May 23.
Students enroUed in the regular
coUege courses wUl take examina
tions from Monday, May 18, untU
Friday, May 22, it was explained,
with Saturday students taking
exams on Saturday, May 23.
Students enroUed in the evening
college wUl have their examina
tions at the regular class meeting
time during examination week, it
English classes wiU be given exa
minations.
Each morning during the week
examinations wiU begin at 8 a.m.
Irregularly scheduled classes will
have exams on Friday, May 22,
it was announced.
Schedules of the examinations
were to be posted this week. The
Collegiate wiU run a complete
schedule in next week’s issue, it
was announced today,
was explained.
Examinations will open at 8
a.m. on Monday, May 18. At that
time aU freshman and sophomore
Attendance Required
At 2 Awards Days
Atlantic Christian College stu
dents wiU be required to attend
one of the two awards days to be
held in Howard Chapel next week,
it was announced today.
Students may select which of the
two assembUes they wUl attend,
however, attendance slips are to be
taken at both programs.
The two awards days wUl be held
Tuesday and Thursday mornings
at 10:20 a.m., it was announced.
Striking Works
Seen In Exhibit
By ANNE JENKINS
Work representing the various
courses in the Atlantic Christian
College Art Department are now on
display in the lobby of the class
room buUding.
The major work, located just in-
sie the lobby, is a study in paint
ing and three-dimensional form. It
is a plan trying to relate painting
to three-dimensional forms rather
than to a regular two - dimensional
surface.
Design. Class
Other three-dimensional things
come from the design class. The
pieces are problems in work with
materials — trying to make ob
jects that have beauty out of in
expensive materials. 'The students
worked with stresses and tension.
Materials used for these designs
include paper folded, dixie cups,
wood made into springs, and wwxl
See ART SHOW Page 4
Leaders Of Government
Installed Here Today
The formation of the government
al body on the campus of Atlantic
Christian CoUege for the next aca
demic year was started today with
installation of majpr officers in
special ceremonies in Howard
Chapel.
Bobby Dunn of Pinetops, newly
elected President of the Atlantic
Christian College Cooperative Asso
ciation, was installed as head of
the government and immediately
pledged himself to a vi^rous oper
ation of the apparatus for next
year.
Other Cooperative Association of
ficers installed by Dr. Arthur D.
Wenger, ACC President, were Ev
erette Bryant, vice - president.
Miss Emily Waters, secretary, Ken
neth Bryan, treasurer, William R.
Ramsay, faculty representative,
Dr. Daniel M. McFarland, student
faculty representative, Wayne Bur
ton, Men’s Dormitory Council rep-
About nine hundred Fulbright
scholarships for graduate study or
pre-doctoral research in 27 differ
ent countries wUl be available for
the 1960-61 academic year.
In addition to the Fulbright a-
wards, scholarships for study in
Latin America under the Inters
American Cultural Convention are
also offered for 1960-61.
Applications for both the Ful
bright and L^CC awards will be
available on May 1, the Institute
of International Education an
nounced today. HE administers
both of these student programs for
the U. S. Department of State.
The Fulbright scholarships cover
travel, tuition, books and mainte
nance for one academic year. Coun
tries participating in the program
include Argentina, Australia, Aus
tria, Belgium and Luxembourg,
BrazU, Burma, Chile, China, Den
mark, Ecuador, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Iceland, India,
Iran, Italy, Japan, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Phil
ippines, Spain, Turkey and the
United Kingdom. Awards for study
in Ireland are also available under
an arrangement similar to the Ful
bright program.
The lACC program makes one or
more awards available for grad
uate study in the following Latin
American countries: Bolivia, Bra
zil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,
Cuba, the Domican Republic, Ec
uador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Par
aguay, Peru and Venezuela. lACC
scholarships cover transportation,
tuition and partial to full mainte
nance.
General eligibility requirements
for both categories of awards are:
(1) U. S. citizenship at time of ap
plication, (2) A bachelor’s degree
or its equivalent, (3) knowledge of
the language of the host country
sufficient to carry out the proposed
study project and to communicate
with the people of the country, and
(4) good health. A good academic
record and demonstrated capaci
ty for independent study are also
necessary. Preference is given to
applicants under 35 years of age
who have not previously lived or
studied abroad.
AppUcants wiU be required to
submit a plan of proposed study
that can be carried out profitably
within the year abroad. Those who
plan to take dependents may be
resentative, Miss Sally Scudder,
Women’s Dormitory Council repre
sentative, Billy Horne, Town Stu
dent representative, Johnny Strick
land, Senior Class president, Frank
lin Brooks, Junior Class president,
David Mustian, Sophomore Class
president. Miss Sarah Bain Ward,
Dean of Women, John H, Rich,
Dean of Men, and John E. Weems,
Director of Student Activities.
Leaders in other areas of cam
pus activities also were installed.
They included Ralph Messick and
Bob Collins, Co-Editors of The Col
legiate, Miss Bette Pomfrey, Bus-
ines.s Manager of The Collegiate, '
Miss Joanna Huffcr, Editor of the
Pino Knot, and Miss Flora Grif
fin, Business Manager of the Pine
Knot.
Keys were presented to outgoing
campus leaders, headed by George
Griswold, retiring president of the
Cooperative Association.
This morning’s gathering was ra
ther hastily called. It had been
scheduled to take place next Tues
day morning; however, the number
one man, Dunn, has other obliga
tions on that date as a numt^r
one man on the ACC tennis team.
Dunn wanted to participate in the
North State Conference Tourna
ment to be held at Greensboro. To
allow him to do so, college offi
cials pushed up the date for the
installation.
They felt Dunn should be allow
ed to participate with the tennis
team and they wanted him present
when the installation was held.
S^e FULBRIGHT Page 2
BOBBY DUNN
227 ACC Seniors
To Receive Degrees
Two hundred twenty - seven At
lantic Christian CoUege seniors wiU
be awarded Bachelor of Science
and Bachelor of Arts degrees at
Atlantic Christian’s annual Com
mencement on Sunday, May 24.
The final exercises wUl be held
on the college’s center campus at
7 p. m. The speaker wiU be Chan-
ceUor WUUam B. Aycock of the
University of North Carolina. Chan-
celor Aycock and two other lead
ers from eastern North CaroUna
wUl join the seniors as recipients
of degrees. Honorary degrees wUl
be presented by the coUege to
Chancellor Aycock, Rev. Raymond
L. Alexander, Minister of the First
Christian Church, Washington, and
W. A. Lucas of Wilson, prominent
attorney.
The commencement day activi
ties wUl open at 2 p.m. on May
24, with the annual Baccalaureate
Services to be held at the First
Christian Church here. The speak
er wiU be Rev. Jo M. Riley, Min
ister of the church.
At 3:30 p.m. that day the Board
of Trustees of the coUege will meet
in the new president’s home
in Brentwood. This meeting
wiU be followed at 5 p.m. by a buf
fet honoring the graduating seniors
and their parents.
The general commencement com-
rnittee met this week and made
final plans for the events of com
mencement day.
Allan R. Sharp, Acting Ch'airman
of the Department of Religion and
Philosophy, is serving as chairman
of the graduation exercises. Wil
liam R. Ramsay of the EngUsh
Department faculty, is serving as
chairman of the Baccalaureate.
James D. DanieU and Mrs. Irene
Gray are serving as co-chairmen
of the buffet. Several other faculty
members are serving as chairmen
of special committees working on
the program.