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T.IRRARY
OCTO 7
ATLANTIC
CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, 0CT0BER6,1977
NUMBER FIVE
Prepares For Diamond Jubilee
The 1977 HOMECOMING at
Atlantic Christian College will
celebrate the college's 75th
Anniversary — a DIAMOND
JUBILEE! With this in mind, we
must look back on and honor the
events that have made this in
stitution what it is today, and the
greatness it will strive toward in
the future.
The student body is at
tempting to show their genuine
concern and interest by making
our Homecoming activities
creative, colorful, and “fun” for
all involved, and we must por
tray this at our Homecoming.
The tentative schedule of
Homecoming'77 is as follows:
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•‘DIAMOND Jubilee —
75th .Anniversary
FRID.AY, November 4, 1977
8:00 p.m. Homecoming Dance —
Wilson Gym Band to be an
nounced (“Lyrics, Royal
Kings, Alpaca, Sky Jack")
S.ATL'RD.AY, Novembers, 1977
10:00 a.m. Lawn Displays must
be in place (Center Campus)
10:30 a.m. College Band Per
formance (Hines Hall Plaza)
11:00 a.m. Contemporary songs
in sign language by Hearing
Impaired Educators
11:30 a.m. Presentation of
Homecoming Court (Hines
Hall Plaza)
12:00 p.m. Barbecue Luncheon
for students and alumni
(Center Campus) ($2 for
students not on the meal plan)
2:30 p.m. Dedication of the Willis
N. Hackney Library
Dedication Speaker: Mrs.
Elizabeth House Hughey
(Class of 1936) (ACC College
Choir will perform in
dedication services)
4:45-6:30 p.m. Regular dining
hall hours
7:00 p.m. ACC vs. Alumni
Basketball Game Wilson
Gymnasium
Be sure and mark the weekend
of November4 on your calendar.
Concert and Lecture
Calendar Announced
The Concert and Lecture
Calendar for the 1977-78
academic year has been an
nounced. The events are
sponsored jointly by the Atlantic
Christian College Concert and
Lecture Committee and Wilson
Concerts, Inc. For the
remainder of the academic year
the following events have been
scheduled:
Oct. 30, 1977 — The Young
Americans, a performing group
representing a broad cross
section of the young citizens of
the nation, will perform the
popular musical, “West Side
Story,” which opened on
Broadway in 1957. Fike Higji
School Auditorium, 8 p.m.
Nov. 30, 1977 — The Claude
Kipnis Mime Theatre. This
excellent group of mime per
formers, whose repertoire
ranges from the classical to the
dynamic form of today's
theatre, has been singled out as
"one of the finest en
tertainments to be found
anywhere today." Howard
Chapel, 8 p.m.
Jan. 22-Feb. 19, 1978 —
Frederick Wiseman Film
Festival and Lecture.
Wiseman's films have been
called depressing, enjoyable,
controversial, gripping, and
ridiculous. Winner of three
Emmy Awards, he has been
lauded as an outstanding
documentary talent by nearly
every major film critic in the
nation. Films to be shown in
clude “Hospital,” on Jan. 22;
“Essene,” Jan. 29; “Welvare,"
Feb. 5; “High School," Feb. 13
(for this film Wiseman will be
present to deliver a lecture on
his films); “Primate," Feb. 19.
This event will be co-sponsored
by the ACC Department of
English. Hardy Alumni Hall, 8
p.m.
Jan. 28, 1978 — The Eastern
Brass Quintet. A group praised
for its musical virtuosity and
great versatility, performs in
styles ranging from the
Renaissance to the con
temporary. The group will be
sponsored by Wilson Concerts,
Inc. in association with ACC.
Fike High School Auditorium, 8
p.m.
Feb. 22, 1978 — Grant and
Winn, duo pianists. These ex
citing pianists perform the
major two piano literature and
also collaborate on one piano,
four-hand repertoire. Their
programs range from Messaien
and McKinley to Bach, Brahms,
and Busoni. They will be
sponsored by Wilson Concerts,
Inc., in association with ACC.
Fike High School Auditorium, 8
p.m.
April 5, 1978 — The North
Carolina Little Symphony.
Representing one of the best
symphony orchestras in the
Southeast, the North Carolina
Little Symphony will perform a
concert version of the opera,
See CONCERT Page 3
ACC Enrolls 1,658
Atlantic Christian College
has experienced an enrollment
of 1,658 students for the fall
semester of the 1977-78 academic
year, according to Dr, Lewis H.
Swindell Jr., dean of the college.
Some 1,475 are full-time
students while the remainder
are attending on a part-time
basis. Making up the student
body are 398 seniors, 323 juniors,
458 sophomores, 427 freshmen,
and 52 unclassified students.
Female students outnumber
male students by 1,032 to 626.
Students attending Atlantic
Christian come from 26 states
and five foreign countries.
Leading are Tar Heel students
with 1,305. Second is Virginia
with 251. Tied for third are
Maryland and New Jersey with
18 each.
Seventy-seven of North
Carolina’s 100 counties are
represented. Wilson County
leads with 377 students, while
NSF Fellowships
78-79
National Research Council will
again advise the National
Science P'oundation in the
selection of candidates for the
Foundation’s program of
Graduate Fellowships. Panels of
eminent scientists and engineers
appointed by the National
Research Council will evaluate
qualifications of applicants.
Final selection of Fellows will be
made by the Foundation, with
awards to be announced in
March 1978.
The deadline for the sub
mission of applications for NSF
Graduate Fellowships is
December 1, 1977. F"urther in
formation and application
materials may be obtained from
the F'ellowship Office, National
Research Council, 2101 Con
stitution Avenue, Washington,
D.C.20418.
Wake County is second with 98.
Wayne County is third with 87
and Nash County has 78.
Religious affilication statistics
indicate 28 different religious
denominations are represented
in the student body. There are
more Baptists, 603, than any
other denomination. Second are
Methodists with 296, and third
are Christian (Disciples of
Christ) with 132.
The remainder, for the most
part, are shidents designating
the following denominations:
Advent Christian, Assembly of
God, Catholic, Christian
Missionary Alliance, Christian
Science, Church of Christ,
Church of God, Congregational
Christian, Episcopal, Four
square, Free Will Baptist, Greek
Orthodox, Jewish, Latter Day
Saints, Lutheran, Mennonite,
Moravian, Moslem, Nazarene,
Pentacostal Holiness,
Presbyterian, Quaker, Salvation
Army and United Brethren.
Concert Series
The A.C.C. Concert and
Lecture Committee has bought a
block of tickets for P'riends of the
College concerts in Reynolds
Coliseum at N.C. State
University in Raleigh. This year
the tickets will be distributed
from the desk in the Hackney
Music Building. Tickets are free
to A.C.C. students upon
presenting their I D. cards and
signing a ticket list. Each
concert will be announced in the
Green Slate so that students can
obtain tickets in advance. The
first concert this year is the
Milwaukee Symphony on
Saturday and Sunday, October
22 and 23. Tickets for that
program are now available.
Tickets will not be available
after 4:00 Friday, October21.
The other concerts for this
school year are as follows:
Robert Merrill, Faye
Robinson, Lorna Myers —
November 4, 5,1977
Scots Guards and Grenadies
Guards — November 18,19, 1977
Jose Molina Bailes Espanoles
— December 10,11,1977
Boychoir of Princeton —
February 3,4,1978
Buffalo Philharmonic,
Michael Tilson Thomas con
ducting — February 25, 26,1978
Pittsburgh Ballet— March 17,
18,19,1978
Mahler’s Eighth Symphony —
March 31,1978
Janie Bostick
Sec. Concert and
Lecture Comm.
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THK Y()l'.N(; I.OVKRS in ‘'Ten Little Indians" are played by HiieUKy
Cooper as I’hilip Lombard, and Terry Cooke as Vera ( laythorne.
Play Opens Tonight
The murder mystery, “Ten
Little Indians," by Agatha
Christie, will be presented by
Atlantic Christian College's
dramatics organization, Stage
and Script, Oct. 6-8, in Howard
Chapel on the college campus, at
8 p.m.
“Ten Little Indians’ refers to a
cluster of statutes on the mantle
piece of an old Byzantine house.
Each of the Indians represents a
guest, and each time one of the
Indians fall, a guest dies.
Appearing in the play are Jo
Anne Cavenaugh of Wallace,
who plays the role of Mrs.
Rogers; Joseph Thompson of
Carthage, as Fred Narracott;
Terry Cooke of Richmond, Va ,
as Vera Claythorne; Rueggy
C(K)p<‘r of Chesapeake, Va., as
Philip Loml)ard; Kenny Smith of
Wilson, as Rogers;
Gregory Dozier of Stoneville,
as Anthony Marston; Jim Ward
of Wilson, as William Blore;
Robert Traylor of Hopewell, Va.,
as General Mackenzie; Barbara
Snell of Wilson, as Emily Brent;
Jim Poole of Wilson, as Sir
Lawrence Wargrave; and
Walter Knight of Union City,
Ind., as Dr. Armstrong.
The performance is open to the
public. Tickets will be available
at the door. There will be no
admission charge for ACC
students and faculty
NTE To Be Held At ACC
The National Teacher
Examinations (NTE!) will be
given in Hardy Alumni Hall at
Atlantic Christian College on
Nov. 12,1977.
Scores from the examinations
are used by slates for cer
tification of teachers, by school
systems for selection and
identification of leadership
qualities, and by colleges as part
of their graduation
requirements.
Educational Testing Service,
which prepares and administers
the tests, says they are designed
to measure knowledge gained
from professional and general
education and in 26 subject-
matter fields.
Bulletins describing
registration procedures and
containing registration forms
may be obtained from Zeb M.
Whitehurst III, dean of students
at Atlantic Christian College, or
directly from the National
Teacher P'xaminations,
Educational Testing Service,
Box 911, Princeton, N.J. 08540.
The deadline for regular
registration is Oct, 20, 1977. On-
the-spot registration is not
permitted.
Competition For Business
NEW YORK, N.Y., Sep
tember, 1977 — Philip Morris
Incorporated has announced its
ninth annual Marketing-
Communications Competition
for College Students. The pur
pose of the competition is to
provide students with a practical
and realistic business project,
bringing them into direct con
tact with the business com
munity.
A $1,000 grant will be awarded
to the winning entries at both the
undergraduate and graduate
level; runners up will receive
$500 grants, and other finalists in
the undergraduate and graduate
categories will receive special
merit awards. Entries may deal
with any aspect of the broad
areas of marketing-
communications related to
Philip Morris Incorporated, its
operating companies or any of
its non-tobacco products.
For additional information,
please contact Marketing-
Communications Competition,
Philip Morris Incorporated, 100
Park Avenue, New York, New
York 10017.