PUBLISHED WEEKLY
The Coll egiate
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MAY 17, 1963
NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE
192 Seniors Graduating On May 26
Or» Godard
Dr. Godard
To Speak At
Commencement
Dr. James M. Godard, executive
director of the Council- of Protestant
Colleges and Universities, will be
guest speaker at the Sixty-First Com
mencement to be held at Atlantic
Christian College on IVl^y 26.
He is best remembered in North
Carolina for his work with the North
Carolina College Conference and with
the Southern Association of Colleges
and Secondary Schools. During the
many years he was dean of Queens
College he was quite active with the
North Carolina College Conference
and servied as its committee chair
man on Collaboration with the State
Department of Public Instruction.
After leaving Queens College, he was
for five years the executive secre
tary of the Southern Association’s
Commission on Colleges and Univer
sities.
After six years as vice president
of the University of Miami, he be
came the executive director of the
Council of Protestant Colleges and
Universities, the position which he
now holds.
During his graduate work at Duke
L’niversity, where he complete his
Master’s degree and subsequent grad
uate work and taught on the Duke
faculty, he was director of the Duke
Memorial Methodist Church choir.
See GODARD Page 4
DR. JAMES
GODARD
ENVIOUS? Shown above is Scarlet Mills, a rising junior, watching
semor Don Williamson and Alease Willoughby trying cn their caps
and gowns. Williamson, a native of Clinton, is an accounting and
busmess major, and Miss Willoughby of Ahoskie is an elementary
education major. Both will be among the 192 seniors graduating
May 26.
Capital Campaign Tops
75% Of $750,000 Goal
Thomas J. Hackney, Jr., chairman
of tile overall Capital Campaign, an
nounced this week that the fund
drive had received an anonymous
$30,000 piece of, real estate and a
$7,500 pledge from the First Citi
zens Kai’k and Trust Company. With
these and others that were reported
Tuesday night, the Capital Campaign
has reached the $575,00 mark or over
75 per cent of the minimum goal of
$750,000.
The campaign also received a sub
stantial boost last week, when $5,000
was received from both the Atlantic
Savings and Loan and the Wilson
Savings and Loan.
The Alumni Committee is now in
full operation, with workers contact
ing the alumni throughout North
Carolina. This committee still has a
considerable number of pledges yet
to be turned in.
Students Voice Opinion
On Integration Resolution
By JESS MAGHAN
On April 27, a resolution urging
the trustees of Atlantic Christian
College to amend the college’s char
ter to admit students other than
Caucasians was passed by the North
Carolina Convention of Christian
Churches. The following opinion poll
was collected at random from stu
dents on campus. The students were
asked to comment specifically on
integration of Atlantic Christian Col
lege.
Joyce LaCelle, Smithfield: “All
men are created equal.”
Gary Russell, Charlotte: “I have
nothing against it because I have
been to school with Negroes before.
After students have been adjusted
to Negroes in the academic com
munity it will be all the same.
Each group has a tendency to re
main in their own group.”
David Culbreth, Plymouth: “Inte
gration is the best thing to happen
to the South in the last fifty years.
Mary Helen Ragsdale, Smithfield:
“Any church with as strong a Negro
membership as the Christian Church
should allow Negroes to attend this
College.”*
Allen Laxton, Elkin: “Its going to
come. . . .don’t fight it. They are
going to come to Atlantic Christian
eventually.”
Virginia Wright Allen, Farmville:
“I 0m not against integration. I
think it would be good. We must get
quality students, however. Besides,
it might help out our basketball
team.”
Judith Parrish, Winston-Salem:
“If they are going to let foreign
students in I don’t see any difference.
Tlie charter states Caucasian and
we are violating it now.”
Bill Moosha, Wilson: “I don’t see
how Atlantic Christian can call itself
a Christian College, or for that mat
ter any kind of college if it does not
allow any or all qualified students
See INTEGRATION Page 4
FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIPS
Any students interested in ob
taining information about the Ful-
bright" Scholarships for study
abroad, or about Summer or ca
reer jobs in Public Welfare m
North Carolina, are urged to see
Mr. Hugh B. Johnston in the
Department of English. Mr. John
ston is chairman of the scholar
ship committee.
In the top three committees, 183
pledges have been made totaling
over $325,000, for an average pledge
of $1730. Excluding the $100,000
pledge made by Willis Hackney, the
average pledge is approximately
$U&0.
The following pledges have been
received that total over $5000: one
$100,000, one $33,000, two $20,000, one
$15,000, one $12,000, four $10,000,
four $7,500, two $6,000, and nine
$5,000.
Godard And Milner To Give
Main Graduation Addresses
On May 2C, 1963, the sixty-first an-^ ''unin Cum Laude honors are con-
nual commencement ceremonies will i m;iintaincd a 3.8 grade iwint average
be held at Atlantic Christian Col-
lese.. Honore<l will be a hundred
and ninty-two graduating Seniors;
sixty-one v.ill receive the Bachelor
of Arts Degree and a hundred and
tlnrty-one the Bachelor of Science.
The Baccalaureate service will
take place at 2:00 p.m. in the Fike
nigh School Auditorium. The invo-
calion will be by Mr. Daniel J.
Ilansley and tlie scripture read by
Mr. .'Ulan R. Sharp. The sermon will
be delivered by Clyde A. Milner,
president of Guilford College.
The commencement program will
begin at 7:00 p.m. on the terrace of
the Classroom Building, with Presi
dent Arthur D. Wenger presiding.
Tht program v.'ill be opened by a
concert by the ACC band.
Dr. William E. Tucker will give
the invocation and present one of
the awards. The commencement ad
dress will be given by Dr. James
M. Godard, Executive Director of
the Council of Protestant Colleges
and Universities. Dr. Millard P. Burt
will present the graduating class and
President Wenger will confer the
degrees.
Of the 192 seniors graduating, 16
will graduate with honors. Graduat
ing Suma Cum Laude will be: Rob
ert Andrew Allen, Linda Salter Bus
by; Magna Cum Laude: Lula Thorne
Denny, Jean Sunderland Murphy,
Jerry Authur Ridling, Jean Bragg
Daniel, and Evelyn Edwards Whit
ley; Cum Laude; June Elizabeth
Burwell, Sandra Raye Freedman,
Charles Richard Johnson, Sue Caro
lyn Sorrell, Charles Franklin Cock
rell, Donald Wayne Ivey, Peggie La-
Puo Leonard, Betty Etheridge Pelt,
and Panticc Parks Smith.
Pine Knot Is Dedicated
To Dr. Arthur D. Wenger
Miss George Ann Willard, editor of
thf! PINE KNOT, announced last
Tuesday that the 1963 PINE KNOT
will be dedicated to Dr. Arthur D.
Wenger. Miss V/illard, who made the
dedication speech, said, “During the
six years that Dr. Wenger has been
President of Atlantic Christian he
has led the college into an era of
growth and development. Through
his leadership and fostering of the
principles of Christian higher edu
cation, Atlantic Christian has been
able to become one of the best liber
al arts colleges in the area.”
Dr. Wenger made the presentation
of I he Rotary Cup to Mrs. Evelyn
Whitley. The aviard is given each
year to the student who has main
tained the highest academic aver
age fur the previous two semesters.
See DEDICATED Page 4
throui’hout their college career, Mag
na Cum Laude for a 3.5 average,
and Cum laude for a 3.2 average.
DR. CLYDE
MILNER
Dr. Clyde Milner
To Speak At 61st
Coiniuencenient
Dr. Clyde A. Milner, president of
Guilford College, will be guest speak
er at Atlantic Christian College's bac
calaureate service to be held in the
Ralph L. p’ike High School auditor
ium on May 26 at 2 p.m.
A native of Unita, Tenn., Dr. Mil
ner earned the A. B, degree from
Wilmington College, the A. M. de
gree from Ilaverford College and the
B. 1^. dt«ree from Hartford llieolo-
gical Seminary. He was awarded the
Ph.D. degiee by Hartford in 1934
and Ihe LL.D. degree by Wilmington
College in 19,50,
Dr. Milner served as dean of men
and assistant professor of psychol
ogy at Earlham, 1924-1928 and serv
ed as dean of men and professor of
psychology and philo.sophy at PJarl-
ham from 1928-19.30. He became
dean of Gi'.iirnl’d College and profes-
■sor of philosophy from 19.'K)-1934 and
became president of Guilford and
profe.'-sor of philosophy of Guilford
in 1934 and. has .served in that capa
city until this date.
He .served as president, Council of
Church - RIeated Colleges of North
Carolina, 194.3-1944; pesident, N. C.
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Shown above are the nine new members of the Golden Knot Honor Society. The nine, inducted Into the
sc-ciety last Thursday are, front row, left to right, Miss George-Anne Willard, Mrs. Linda Salter Busby,
Mrs. Faye Lee McKinnon, Miss Virginia Wright Allen, and Mrs. Linda Benson Lee. Second row, left
to right, Lennis Brinson, Jr., John Alton Cox, Miss Goldie Douglas, Robert Charles Bishop.