PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Tlie Collegiate
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, APRIL 29, 1965
NUMBER TWENTY-THREE
ACC Development Director Resigns
Commencement Will Feature
UNC Chancellor, COB Veep
Dr. Paul F. Sharp, chancellor of
the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, and Charles E. Dietze,
vice president of The College of the
Bible, Lexington, Ky., will partici
pate in Atlantic Christian College’s
63rd Annual Commencement to be
held May 23.
Dr. Sharp will give the commence
ment address and Mr. Dietze will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon.
Mr. Dietze is to be conferred with
the honorary Doctor of Divinity de-
Attends Meet
Robert, E. Bennett, dean of stu
dents of Atlantic Christian College
attended the 1965 convention of the
American Personnel and Guidance
Association in Minneapolis, April 12-
15. Over 6,000 members from busi
ness, industry, government, educa
tion, and community service ex -
plored individuality in relation to
per.sonal values and to changing
ideas in education and vocation.
‘The Individual: Discovery, Re -
newal. Emergence” was the conven'
tion theme. Related to the theme
were more than 200 papers concern
ing file culturally disadvantaged, the
anti-poverty program, delinquency,
and exceptional children. Other
topics dealt with college admissions
policies, testing, automation, re -
habilitaton counseling, junior colleg
es, the older worker, and many
more.
The APGA is the national pro
fessional organization of personnel
ai:d guidance workers in elementary
and secondary schools, in higher
education, in community service or
ganizations and in government,
business and industry. It attempts
to promote and stimulate the ex
change of professional experience
trii'ough national, regional, state,
apd local meetings. It also strives
to coordinate research and other
professional activities.
gree during the commencement ex
ercises.
Before he assumed the UNC
Chancellorship in September, 1964,
Dr. Sharp was president of Hiram
College, Hiram, Ohio. An American
history scholar and professor, he
received a Fulbright award to Aus
tralia as a lecturer at the Univer
sities of Sydney and Melbourne on
American history and institutions.
His book, “Whoop-Up Country: The
Canadian - American West,” earned
him the Award of Merit from the
American Association for State and
Local History. It was cited as the
“most important contribution to
state and local history in western
region for 1955.” “Whoop-Up Coun
try” also earned the Silver Spur
Award from the Western Writers of
America as the best western non
fiction for 1955.
Chancellor Sharp was born Jan
uary 19, 1918, in Kirksville, Mis
souri. He attended high school in
Crockston, Minnesota, and was grad
uated from Phillips Uniersity in
Enid, Oklahoma, in 1939.
He received his Ph.D. from the
University of Minnesota in 1947.
Upon graduation. Sharp was ap
pointed associate professor of his
tory at Iowa State University. He
was chairman of the American In
stitutions program and professor of
American history at the University
of Wisconsin from 1954 - 57. He was
a visiting professor in history at the
University of Minnesota, San Fran
cisco State College, University of
Wisconsin and the University of
Oregon. He was appointed presi
dent of Hiram College in 1957.
Chancellor Sharp was the recipient
of a Ford Faculty Fellowship, John
Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and
the Fulbright Award to Australia.
He was awarded grants from the
Minnesota Historical Society and So
cial Science Research Council. He
earned awards from the Iowa State
4 Constitutional Amendments
Members ofthe Cooperative Associ
ation of Atlantic Crhistian College
voted today and will continue voting
tomorrow on four proposed consti
tutional amendments.
The amendments were passed by
a two-thirds majority of the Execu
tive Board last Monday night and
read before a meeting of the Co-
Op last Thursday. For acceptance
of the proposals, a two-thirds ma
jority of the votes cast by Co-Op-
members must favor the amend
ments.
Last week Co-Op President
Lee Home strongly urged passage
of the amendment which would
change the name of the campus
government from a Co-Op to a
Student Government Association.
The four proposed amendments are
printed as follows:
I. “That the Executive Board
amend the present Constitution of
the Cooperative Association of At
lantic Christian College,” and in-
■serting in its place, “The Student
Government Association of Atlantic
Christian College;” and that only
students who pay the activity fee
established by the Administration of
the college by members of “The
Student Government Association;”
and that the Dean of Students and
one faculty member, chosen by the
Faculty shall serve in a advisory
capacity, without voting privilege, to
the Executive Board of the Student
Government Association. All other
articles and section of the “Coopera
tive Association of Atlantic Chris
tian College shall remain the same
See AMENDMENTS Page 4
Alumni Fund and the University of
Wisconsin Research Committee.
Texas Christian University award
ed Chancellor Sharp with a LL.D
degree in 1961. He was awarded
membership in the Harvard Insti
tute for College Presidents in 1959
and the Intellectual Life Conference
in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, in 1960.
Chancellor Sharp’s publications in
clude “Agrarian Revolt in Western
Canada,” 1948: “Old Orchard Farm:
Story of an Iowa Boyhood,” 1952;
“Whoop-Up Country: The Canadian-
American West,” 1955; and “From
Poverty to Prosperity” in “Heri
tage of the Midwest,” 1958.
His professional activities include
membership in Phi Alpha Theta and
Pi Gamma Mu. He is a member of
te Commission on Liberal Education
of the Association of American Col
leges; International Relations Com
mittee of the American Association
of Colleges for Teacher Education;
and the National Council for Accredi
tation of Teacher Education. He
served as regional editor of the
“Montana Magazine of History” and
was a member of the executive
committee of the Agricultural His
tory Society from 1950 - 54.
Mr. Dietze
A native of Savannah, Ga., Mr.
Dietze attended Transylvania Col
lege where he was awarded the
A. B. degree in 1940. He received
the B. D. degree from The College
of the Bible in 1944.
He has served as pastor of the
First Christian Church, Morehead,
Ky., First Christian Church, Hen
derson, Ky., and North Middletown,
Ky. Mr. Dietze was associate sec
retary - director of the Christian
Churches of Kentucky, 1947; direc
tor of development of The College
of the Bible, 1955-59; and became,
vice president of The College of the
Bible in 1959.
Mr. Dietze has been a member of
the Board of Higher Education of
the Disciples of Christ since 1960
and a member of the Advisory
Board of Hazel Green Academy,
Hazel Green, Ky., since 1963. He
was a founding member of the
American Association of Seminary
Staff Officers of Theological Schools.
He has served as president of the
See COMMENCEMENT Page 4
R. W’orden Allen Jr., director of
development and assistant to the
president at Atlantic Christian Col
lege, has been named a vice presi
dent of the Branch Banking and
Trust Co.
He was elected to the post at
the April 13 meeting of the bank’s
board of directors, according to
WORDEN ALLEN
J, L. S. tchwell, president of the
bank. He will assume his duties
with the bank on June 16 and will
be concerned primarily with busi
ness development in the trust de
partment.
Commenting on Allen’s resigna -
tion. Dr. Arthur D. Wenger, presi
dent of .Atlantic Christian College,
said, “Since joining the staff of
Atlantic Christian College in 1960,
Mr. Allen has played an important
role in helping to develop its finan
cial resources. He gave superior
leadership in the capital campaign
launched in 1963 to raise a mini
mum goal of $750,000 which has
since been achieved.
“Last year he took major respon
sibility for development of a de
ferred gifts program, designed ulti
mately to strengthen the college’s
endowment fund, lie was estensive-
ly involved in planning for the col
lege’s long-range development pro
gram. His service to .Atlantic Chris
tian College has been of a very
high order. His resignation has been
accepte<i with genuine regret.”
Prior to his joining the staff of
the college, Allen was mini.^ter of
the First Christian Church, Hunts
ville, Ala., and was president of the
Alabama Christian Minister’s As -
sociation.
A graduate of Pantego High
School in Beaufort County, Allen at
tended East Carolina College, later
transferring to Atlantic Christian
College where he was awarded the
R. A. degree in 19.52. He earned the
j B. D. degree in 1955 at Brite Divin
ity School, Texas Christian Univer
sity.
He has been a membtir of the
board of director.s of the North
Cai'olina Mental Health Association
and has served a three-year term as
a delegate representing North Caro
lina to the International Convention
of Christian Churches. He also has
been a member of the Board of
Directors of the Wilson Kiwanis Club,
and is currently a member of
the board of directors of the Board
of Higher Education of the Chris
tian Churches (Disciples of Christ),
the board of directors of the Sal
vation Army and the Wilson Cham
ber of Commerce.
Alumni Chapter To Fete
ACC Graduating Seniors
Seniors graduating in May wil
be honored at the Spring Meet
ing of the Wilson Alumni Chapter.
The dinner meeting, which is free
for seniors, will be held in th
Fellowship Hall of the First Method
ist Church, Tuesday, May 4, at
6:00 p.m.
Richard V. Ziglar (class of 1955),
president of the chapter said: “The
Wilson Chapter takes pride and
pleasure in honoring those students
who are about to receive degrees
from Atlantic Christian College. It
is our sincere hope that we, as
alumni of the college, can in some
small way impress upon graduating
training SESSION The new Executive Board met with the current Executive Board last week for
A, nf becoming acquainted with their new jobs, and to learn about student government. Dr.
Weng« and Dean Bennett were invited to speak to the group.
seniors the importance of establish
ing a continuing and life-long re
lationship with both Atlantic Chris
tian and higher education.
The meeting will begin with a
fellowship hour at 6:00 p.m. and
be followed by the alumni-senior
dinner at 6:30 p.m. After the din
ner, seniors in attendance will be
recognized and introduced to Wilson
alumni.
Entertainment will be provided by
the college’s Vocal Ensemble and a
group of local alumni.
Tickets for the dinner may be
secured at the swithboard, located
in the Administration Building. Dead
line for getting tickets will be 5:00
pm., Friday, April 30.
NSF Grant
Warren R. Tait, assistant professor
of Physics at Atlantic Christian Col
lege, has been one of 35 college
physics teachers selected to be
awarded a National Science Founda-
ton grant to attend a summer in
stitute at Ohio University.
The institute will be on “Under
graduate Laboroatory Experiments
in Modern Physics.” The course will
consist of laboratory experiments,
seminars in five experimental areas,
a weekly colliquim, a series of lec
tures to emphasize the basic theor
ies related to the experiments, dis
cussions on report writing, and a
tutorial on computer programing.
Some of the experments will be:
electrical measurements, electronic
circuits of recent design. X-rays
physics, nuclear structure, properties
of the electron, and neutron physics.
The institute will also include tours
of the basic research laboratories
at Ohio University, and field trips
to two nearby research centers.