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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTICCHRISTIAN COLLEGE JANUARY 22, 1976
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ACC Building Program
HELPING TO BUY MONET PAINTING: Atlantic Christian College
art students and members of the art faculty recently contributed $50
toward the purchase of a painting by Claude Monet, by the N. C.
Museum. Shown making the presentation on behalf of the ACC
department of Art, is Donna Strickland, left, an art major from
Sanford. Accepting the donation on behalf of the museum is Mrs.
Robert Hadley of Wilson, local representative for the museum.
Monet Money
“By mid-semester the Nursing
Students should be in the new
nursing building." This
prediction is made by Dr. Arthur
Wenger as he anticipates final
completion of a project that has
taken far less than the exf>ected
year-long construction period.
“Progress of this sort tends to
make us optimistic about the
building programs we have
adopted. " Continuing to speak
on the building program at ACC.
Dr. Wenger relates that one full
year of construction work was
predicted in order to finish the
much-needed nursing building.
The president explains that
the present delay is due solely
to a lack of fixed seating in
the lecture hall of the nursing
building. When the chairs are
installed and the interior
polished up, the nurses can look
forward to leaving Tuffy’s and
coming to the campus with their
fellow students. Dr. Wenger
issued an invitation for the
students to lake a preview peek
at the interior of the nursing
building, maintaining that the
nursing building is a b(X)st to
campus morale by being an open
step toward prosperity.
Three quarters of the funds for
the nursing facility were given
in a federal funding trackage,
leaving only one quarter ol the
burden in the hands of Atlantic
Christian College officials. Mr.
Daniell, director of admissions,
explained to the editor of this
paper last fall that much em
phasis is being placed on the
professional services programs
such as Nursing, Psychology,
and Business in order to com
pete for the high quality, high
school graduate who may go to
the technical or professional
school. One needs only to look at
the tremendous growth of King's
College in Raleigh which
specializes in the profession
program to see that the student
today is seeking more than just
Hanging in the lobby of the
N.C. Museum of Art is a
dreamlike painting in soft, hazy
blues and grays that gently
resolve into a water-reflected
dawn landscape.
The museum, hampered by
limited purchase funds, doesn’t
own the painting yet. But
museum visitors have begun
contributing to the $275,000
needed to purchase this 1897
painting by Claude Monet,
“Morning Mists.”
Among the contributors are
Atlantic Christian College art
students and members of the art
faculty, who have recently
contributed $50 toward the
purchase of the painting.
“We receive calls and letters
about it almost daily,” said
Moussa Domit, director of the
museum. “They say ‘Get the
Monet and here’s my con
tribution.’ And they enclose
money — sometimes as little as
$1.25.
“We’re going to be raising
money from art society mem
bers,” said Mrs. Issac V. Manly,
art society president. “This will
be our specific project for 1976.
This year the society will be
celebrating its 50th anniversary,
and in honor of the occasion we
would like to help present the
museum with this important
gift.”
Monet was a French im
pressionist, and impressionism
has long been a popular style of
painting among visitors to the
N.C. Museum of Art. An exhibit
of American impressionist
works in 1973 drew more visitors
than has any other single
museum show.
“Morning Mists” is one of a
series of more than 18 views of
the River Seine near Giverny,
France, that Monet painted in
the 1890’s. He painted the scene
many times to show not only the
lan^caoe, but the effect on it of
'ght, time, and circumstance.
“A landscape, for me, does not
exist at all,” the artist said in
1890, “because the aspect
changes at every moment ....
Light and air vary continually ...
One has to know how to seize the
moment at the right time.
because this moment will never
return.”
“Morning Mists” is almost
abstract; its painted trees are no
more solid than their reflections
in the water. Coolly still and
vaporous, the canvas is so
symmetrical that you could turn
it upside-down without spoiling
the effect.
Domit calls the painting’s
price tag a “bargain,”
especially since it will be cut by
$10,000 if the money is raised by
mid-1976. Works by Monet have
sold to other museums for as
much as $1 million.
Although the museum’s
purchase funds appropriated by
the General Assembly are
almost exhausted for this year,
Domit is encouraged by the
efforts of the Art Society and by
the spontaneous contributions
the museum has received to buy
the painting.
Firestone Gift
I ommenting on the com
mitment, Boettner said, “As a
corporate citizen of the Wilson
community, Firestone accepts a
responsibility to support
significant educational and
cultural enterprises in our area.
Atlantic Christian is certainly
worthy of the investment we are
making.”
Firestone’s commitment
makes a total of $2,135,212 raised
for the college’s $2,730,0(K)
Fulfillment Fund Program.
The Firestone Tire and
Rubber Co., made a com
mitment of $18,000 to Atlantic
Chrsitian College on Friday.
Making the presentation was
John Boettner, local plant
manager, and H. L. Broadfoot,
Firestone comptroller. Accept
ing the commitment on behalf of
the college were Dr. Arthur D.
Wenger, ACC Board of Trustees,
president, andT. J. Hackney Jr.,
chairman of the ACC Board of
Trustees.
Sears Donates
Grants totaling more than
$26,900 were distributed to 12
privately supported colleges and
universities in North Carolina
this week by The Sears-Roebuck
Foundation, a spokesman said.
In the Wilson area, Atlantic
Christian College received a
grant in the amount of $2,800.
The North Carolina colleges
and universities are among
more than 850 private, ac
credited two and four-year in
stitutions across the country
which are sharing in more than
$1,270,000 in Sears Foundation
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funds during the 1975-76
academic year.
The grants are unrestricted
and are to be used by the
colleges and universities in any
manner they consider
necessary.
In addition to its unrestricted
grant program, The Sears-
Roebuck Foundation, in 1975,
invested more than $850,000 in a
variety of other educational
activities, the spokesman said.
This brought the budgeted
education expenditures of the
foundation to more than $2.1
million in 1975.
training in the lilK'ral arts field.
"Whether we like it or not. the
colleges have to compete for the
pre-professional student in order
to survive” Mr. Daniell assurt*s
that the student who desires an
education in the disciplines
say Knglish, Philosophy, or
Science — will still reap full
educational bt>iH>fils. Daniell
assures thiit no depiirtment is
suffering N'cause of extra
emphasis on the professional
programs.
Another long-awaited
building, the new library, will be
started immediately. That is to
say that the bids will be let by
the publication date of this
paper. At the end of a thirty day
period, the bids will be opened
and the college will determine
whether to go with the bids as
they are, or re-issue the call for
bidding. In seeing the artist's
conception of the building and
the blueprints themselves. Dr.
Wenger explains that a wing of
the library is designed to be
added or taken away initially if
the costs demand. The wing
could be added at a later date.
The new library will be located
on Lee Street across from the
administration building where
the faculty parking lot, the
Nursing building, and the empty
frame house are situated.
Dr. Wenger notes that the
funds for the new library
facilities will come entirely from
ACC's fund raising efforts. The
cost is anticipated to run just
over a million dollars. If the cost
is too much higher than that
figure, the college staff can
scrap the construction of the
north wing as mentioned above.
Projected completion date is
July 1977.
Sorry sports fans, but the
auxiliary gym and the indoor
swimming pool are far down the
list. So too is the performing arts
center. In fact, none of these
projects are likely in the next ten
years.
Incidentally, Mr. Daniell
anticipates a standing en
rollment of 1,500 students for
the next ten years. Dr. Wenger
points out the flexibility of the
building program which can
accommodate up tp 3,000
students in the future. But like
Mr. Daniell, Dr. Wenger sees no
increase in enrollment.
Prospective teachers who plan
to take the National Teachers
Examinations on February 21
in Hardy Alumni Hall at Atlantic
Christian College are reminded
that they have less than two
weeks to register with
Educational Testing Service
(ETS) of Princeton, N.J.
Zeb M. Whitehurst III, dean of
students, said registrations must
Irvine Shows
Norbert W. Irvine, assistant
professor of art at Atlantic
Christian College, is currently
having two one-man exhibitions
of his work.
An exhibition of his silkscreen
prints opened on the campus of
Washington and Lee University
in Lexington, Va., on Jan. 6, and
will continue through Feb. 15.
A second exhibition of his
silkscreen prints opened at
Lenoir Community College in
Kinston, on Jan. 6. The show will
be on display until Feb. 3.
be mailed in time to reach ETS
no later than January 29, 1976.
Registration forms and in
structions may be obtained from
Dean Whitehurst at Atlantic
Christian College or directly
from the National Teacher
Examinations, ETS, Box 911,
Princeton, N.J. 08540.
During the one-day session, a
candidate may take the Com
mon Examinations, which in
clude tests in professional and
general education, plus one of 27
Area Examinations designed to
probe knowledge of particular
subject matter and teaching
methods.
Once registered, each can
didate will receive an admission
ticket and notification of the
exact location of the center to
which he or she should report.
Those taking the Common
Examinations will report at 8:30
a.m. on Feb. 21 and finish at
about 12:30 p.m., Whitehurst
said. Area examinations are
scheduled from 1:30 p.m. to
about4:15p.m. the same day.
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Walking to class is a sure way to clear the cobwebs left after a long
night of study. But sleeves pulled up to the elbow take guts, as the
temperature hasn’t risen above freezing for the last few days. But at
least the skies have been blue. (Photo by Doug Hackney)