The Collegiate
PUBUSHED WEEKLY ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, SEPTEMBER 25, 1959 NUMBER ONE
Record Enrollment Tops 1,200
Thirteen ISew Members
Are Added To Faculty
Chapel, Assembly Plan
Outlined By ACC Dean
Dr.. Millard P. Burt, ACC Dean
this week explained the new cha
pel and assembly procedures that
will be used on the Atlantic Chris
tian College campus this year to
facilitate the largest possible num
ber of students in the best way.
In years past, the chapel has
been used for various assemblies
on Tuesdays and for the religious
services on Thursdays. This year,
religious services will be held on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, with all
other assemblies meeting other
places on the campus.
The Tuesday chapel services will
be for freshmen and Seniors with
the sophomores and juniors hav
ing religious services on Thurs
day. On the day that the groups
are not in the chapel, they will
meet for such activities as class
meetings, assembly programs, ad
visor’s meetings, departmental
meetings, and cooperative associa
tion meetings.
On Thursdays, while the sopho
mores and juniors are attending
religious services, the freshmen
will have orientation meetings, the
seniors, meetings with advisors and
class meetings, Dr. Burt pointed
out.
In discussion of the religious
services, Dr. Burt said, “I hope
the students will recognize the im
portance of chapel as an integral
part of the life of a denomina
tional school.”
On the question cf absences, the
See Chapel, Assembly Page Four
Science Conference
Scheduled On C ampus
Elementary school teachers
from schools all over eastern North
Carolina have been invited to at
tend a special conference in
“Teaching of Science in The Ele
mentary School,” to l>e held at
Atlantic Christian College Friday
and Saturday, October 9, and 10.
Sponsored by the Department of
Education and Psychology at At
lantic Christian, assisted by the
Department of Science and Mathe-
m a t i c s, the conference will
have Dr. Glenn O. Blough, Pro
fessor of Elementary Education at
the University of Maryland, as spe
cial guest lecturer.
Dr. G. A. Constantine, Chairman
of the Department of Education
and Psychology at ACC, is serving
DR. GLENN O. BLOUGH
as conference director.
“Purpose of the conference is to
provide elementary school teach
ers of the area with additional
techniques as they step up their
teaching of science to elementary
grade students,” Dr. Constantine
pointed out.
Dr. Blough is recognized as one
of the top men in the country in
this particular field. He will speak
twice at the conference, once on
Friday night and again on Sat
urday morning.
Dr. Constantine said there wUl
be no tuition charged for the con
ference and any elementary school
teacher is invited to attend.
See Science Conference Pagre Four
Faculty Studies
Plan To Extend
College Schedule
Looking for ways and means for
Atlantic Christian College to adjust
to the pressures it will face during
the next 10 years from rising en
rollments, Dr. Millard P. Burt,
ACC Dean, presented a special pro
posal to the college faculty dur
ing the first week of the fall se
mester.
The plan calls for the establish
ment of a trimester system at the
college. Under the plan the college
would have three equal terms a
year instead of the traditional se
mester system that is now being
used.
Preliminary proposals call for
three 16 - week terms, one
starting in October, a second in
Feburary, and a third in June. Un
der the plan the term starting in
June would be halved into two
eight - week terms so that persons
who wanted special summer school
work could attend one of the two
terms and receive at the comple
tion of the short term a total of
eight hours credit.
The plan was presented to the
faculty for its consideration after
having been studied by the Ad
ministrative Council of the col
lege and by a sub - committee of
the Study Commission that is cur
rently studying the program and
philosophy of the college.
After discussing the plan at
lenth the faculty voted to place the
plan under study for one year be
fore action.
It was pointed out at the presen
tation meeting that such a pro
gram would allow the college to
utilize its buildings to a greater
extent during a period when all
educational institutions will be
See Trimester Page Two
Educators Select
Wenger Chairman
Dr. Arth'ur D. Wenger, President
of Atlantic Christian College, was
elected Chairman of the Board of
Higher Education of the Christian
Churches at the International Con
vention of the denomination held
recently in Denver, Colorado.
Dr. Wenger succeeds Dr. Myron
T. Hopper, Dean of The CoUege
of the Bible, Lexington, Ky., who
has served in that position for the
past year.
The Board of Higher Education co
ordinates the work of the 37 col
leges and universities supported by
the church and located in all
parts of the world.
President of the Board of Higher
Education is Dr. Harlie L. Smith
of Indianapolis, Ind.
Since his appointment as ACC
president in 1956, Dr. Wenger has
been a member of the board and
has been active in the work of its
program.
He also has been active in other
work of cooperative programs
charged to improve college opera
tions such as the North Carolina
Foundation of Church Related Col
leges, an organization that has re
ceived since its founding more than
$1,000,000 to be shared by the col
leges that are members.
Dr. White Will Return
For Progress Assembly
A Second Annual Progress As
sembly will be held at Atlantic
Christian College Saturday, Octo
ber 17, it was announced this week
by Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, ACC
President.
Realizing that friends of the col
lege in the area are seeking an
swers to many vital questions as
education faces its greatest growth
crisis in history, the purpose of
the assembly will be to point out
anticipated happenings in educa
tion during the next 10 years, it
was explained by Dr. Wenger.
Dr. Travis A. White, President
of Midwestern University in Tex
as, and a former ACC president,
headlines the group of speakers
who wUl take part in the program.
Dr. White will speak at the prog-
ress assembly banquet set at the [ p
Wilson Community Center at 6:30 ;
p.m. on October 17. ■ f
Earlier in the afternoon a special |
panel discussion will be conducted |
on the subject, “Education Faces j t
Its Decade of Decision.”
Some of the nation’s top lead-1
ers in the field of education will
serve as panelists. Moderator for
the panel will be Dr. A. C. Daw-
Wf/Mf;
DR. TRAVIS A. WHITE
son, Jr., Raleigh, Executive Sec
retary of the North Carolina Ed
ucation Association and an ACC
alumnus. Panelists will be Dr.
Gordon W. Sweet, Atlanta, Ga.,
Executive Secretary of the South
ern Association of College and
Secondary Schools, Dr. Harold Hut
son, Greensboro, President of
Greensboro College, and Dr. John
W. Shirley, Raleigh, Dean of North
Carolina State College. Dr. Shirley
has recently visited Russia and
will discuss the Russian education
system.
Invitations for the assembly
were mailed this week to alumni,
churchmen and residents of the
Wilson community who have par-
ticpated in the 60th Anniversary
Development Program at the col
lege.
“Since these friends of the col
lege have invested in education,
we feel it is our 6bligation to keep
them abreast of the latest happen
ings in the field,” Dr. Wenger said
See Dr. White Page Three
By BOB COLLINS
Collegiate Co-Editor
Atlantic Christian Colleg’e, pressed by an increasing
number of applications for admission, has admitted a rec
ord of 1,201 students and added 13 faculty members and
two administrative officers to its staff.
Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, President of Atlantic Christian
College, stated that plans had been to admit 1,.150 stu-
—*dents this year, and that it was
JAMES B. HEMBY, JR.
Hemby Receives
New ACC Post
Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, President
of Atlantic Christian College, this
week announced the appointment
of James B. Hemby, Jr., of Ay-
den, to the administrative staff
of the college.
In the post of admissions direc
tor, Mr. Hemby succeeds John E.
Weems who resigned to take a sim
ilar position at Kentucky Wesleyan
College in Owensboro, Ky.
New Position
Dr. Wenger said the religious ac
tivities phase of his work is a new
ly created position. In that post
Mr. Hemby will co-ordinate all
phases of religious activities of the
college other than the Department
of Religion and Philosophy which
is an academic department.
A native of Ayden, Mr. Hemby
was graduated from the high
school there in 1951 and then en
rolled at Atlantic Christian College.
He was graduated from ACC with
an A. B. degree in 1955. While a
senior he served as president of the
ACC student body. He then enroll
ed in the graduate school at Van
derbilt University and was award
ed a B. D. degree in 1958. Since
that time he has been working on
a doctorate at Duke University.
Religion Instructor
Mr. Hemby also will serve as
See Hemby Page Two
necessary to terminate the regis-
(fration period, last Friday.
Last year the record enrollment
for ACC was 1,098. This year, the
anticipated five per cent increase
that had been set Up by the ad
ministration of the college was
exceeded because of the large
number of students seeking admis
sion. Dr. Millard P. Burt, ACC
Dean, pointed out in an interview
that the facilities of the college are
taxed to the limit by the present
enrollment.
In discussing the matter fur
ther, Dr. Wenger pointed out that
ACC is facing an enrollment crisis,
but “We have to do as much as
we can to give the students an
opportunity to attend college.”
Dr. Wenger went on to say,
“However, there are limits to
what you can do, and we have
reached that point.”
Mrs. Bethany Joyner, College
Registrar, in speaking of the rec
ord enrollment, pointed out that a
large number of schedule changes
have complicated the registration
procedures. She also emphasized
that the last day for any schedule
change is tomorrow, September 26.
Expanded Staff
The increased enrollment has
not only brought about registra
tion complications and serious tax
ing of the college facilities, but to
meet the demand for staff mem
bers, the college officials saw the
necessity of adding more faculty
members.
John A. Stair has been added to
the administrative staff as full
time director of student activities.
He is also teaching in the Depart
ment of Education and Psycholo
gy-
Upon the resignation of John E.
Weems, Director of Admissions,
James B. Hemby has been added
to the administrative staff as Di
rector of Admissions and Director
of Religious Activities.
Meet Need
The English department met the
need for expanded staff with the
addition of Mlrs. E. C. Winstead.
Other departments have met the
need in the same way. The art
department has added Edward C.
Brown. The physical education de
partment has added Miss Bulow
Bowman, Edgar Wright Hooks, Jr.,
and Mrs. John Stair as an adjunct.
The business department has
added two members, Mrs. Doris
Privette and Ashton Wiggs. The
religion department has one addi
tion, William Tucker, an ACC grad
uate.
One Addition
The education department also
See Enrollment Page Two
CCA Reveals Program
For Religious Emphasis
By RALPH MESSICK
Collegiate Co-EMitor
“What Means This Way of Life?”
is the title of the Religious Em
phasis kickoff program being pre
sented next week by the Campus
Christian Association, James
Boswell, President of the C. C. A.,
announced today.
Reverend Glenn Blackburn, Min
ister of the Wake Forest Baptist
Church and Director of the Bap
tist Student Union at Wake Forest
College, will be the main speaker
of the three day program.
The kickoff will begin Tuesday,
September 29 at the chapel serv
ice. Mr. Blackburn will speak at
this service and at the closing chap
el service on Thursday, Oct. 1.
Mr. Blackburn will also speak
at the vesper service of the sched
uled kickoff picnic held on Wed
nesday at Recreation Park at 4:00
p.m. 'The picnic will also feature
a recreation program under the di
rection of the C. C. A. cabinet.
One of the highlights of the pro
gram is the discussion groups held
in the dormitories and the fraterni
ty houses. These discussion groups
will be held Tuesday and Thurs
day nights at 7:00 p.m. Ministers
from local churches have been se
lected to lead these groups.
Immediately after the discussion
groups adjourn at 8:00 p.m. a so
cial hour will be held in the din
ing hall where free refreshments
will be served. The program will
conclude each evening with a short
vesper service at 8:30 p.m. These
vesper services will be under the
direction of the various denomina
tions represented on the Atlantic
Christian College campus.
Boswell also announced that
plans were being made to use more
originality in the chapel services
during this program. Miss Mar
garet Walker was appointed chair
man of the chapel committee and
urged to make the programs as
worshipful as possible.