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September 9, 1981
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Volume 52 No. 3
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Dean F. Mark Davis introduced the new faculty members prior to the openhig convocation address
given by the Rev. Bernard C. Meece on Sept. 3. [Photo by Jeff MacLennan]
Parham Returns
to Tennis
ACC lost an athletic director
and gained a tennis coach last
weelc. Tom Parham stepped
down from the position of
athletic director, and Ed Qoyd,
head of the physical education
department was appointed in
terim athletic director for the
81-82 school year.
Parham said that the role of
administrator did not suit him;
“When the opportunity to go
baclc to being a coach and a
teacher came around, I felt it
would be better for me and the
college to go baclc.” President
Doster, however, said that “los
ing him (Parham) as athletic
director is a substantial loss
to the college.”
Parham instigated several
projects during his two years as
athletic director. Among these
were the decision to move
toward NCAA HI and Dixie
Conference affiliation, balanc
ing the athletic budget, and
l>eginning women’s softball.
Parham thanlced Cloyed for
“his willingness to help out in
this situation.” He is also
grateful to Arlene Page, the
administrative assistant in Ath
letics, and all coaches.
A meeting of the athletic com
mittee in the near future will set
Inside the Collegiate
Page 2 Letters to the Editor
Page 4 Calendar of Events
Page 5 Movie and Music Reviews
Page 6 Culture
Page 8 SpOTts
In next issue: Looic for details concerning the Photo of the
Weelc contest.
0183 ,
Tom Parham
up guidelines for a search
committee to choose a perma
nent athletic director.
Qoyd will have some help
with the AD job, mainly from
Milton Adams, who just recent
ly retired from the position of
business manager here at AC.
“I hope to keep everything run
ning on a full keel,” said Cloyd.
“It will take a little while to get
back into the swing. I’ve been
on the athletic committee for 20
of the 27 years I’ve been with
the school, and been a coach for
25 of those years.”
New Swedes
t Campus
By Mike Nixon
Two new Swedish students
are at ACC this fall, they are
Krister Eriksson of Vasby and
Michael Sodermalm of Gote-
burg.
While both Eriksson and So
dermalm arc members of the
soccer team, Eriksson is also a
member of the tennis team.
According to Sodermalm, soccer
in the United States is very
different from European soccer.
While Sodermalm sees soccer in
the U.S. as being underde
veloped, Eriksson maintains
that American soccer is more
aggressive.
One of the chief reasons that
they came to ACC was that they
were offered athletic scholar
ships. Eriksson learned of At
lantic Christian through Thomas
Linne, another Swede here on
campus. However, Sodermalm
chose AC after writing several
other colleges and universities
in the U.S., including the Uni
versity of Alabama and the
University of California.
Neither of the Swedes are
strangers to the game of soccer.
Eriksson has played soccer since
he was nine years old and
Sodermalm since he was six.
Sodermalm has also coached
soccer at a summer camp for
young boys in Sweden.
Before leaving their country,
both completed their compul
sory military training. Swedish
law requires that all male citi
zens serve a minimum eight-
month term in the armed
forces. After their original term,
they arc placed in reserves and
must return every four or five
years until they arc 45.
Both Swedes are homesick,
but they say that they have
found the students and faculty
at AC to be very friendly and
hospitable. Although they have
not been here long, the U.S. has
seemingly met their expecta
tions.
Eriksson and Sodermalm
have some good ideas for their
future. Eriksson has already
completed a computer program
ming school in Sweden and is
now a qualified computer pro
grammer, but he is undecided
on his major at AC. Sodermalm
dreams of becoming a pro
fessional soccer player, and is
currently majoring in P.E.
With both Swedes so active in
sports and other activities, the
Atlantic Christian campus is
sure to get to know them much
better in the next four years.
Poetry Reading
Award-winning poet R.T.
Smith will present a reading of
his poems in the ACC Choral
Room in the Roma Hackney
Music Building Wednesday,
Sept. 16, at 8 p.m.
Smith was the recipient of the
1981 John Masefield Award for
Narrative Poetry from the Poe
try Society of America, the 1981
River City Arts Festival Poetry
Award, the 1981 Birmingham
Festival of the Arts Poetry
Award, one "Crucible” Poetry
Award and two Sam Ragan
Awards, from the “Crucible.”
His poems have also been
published in “Southern Poetry
Review,” “Hiram Poetry Re
view,” “Kansas Quarterly” and
“Concerning Poetry.”
He is the author of three
books of poetry: “Walking Un
der Snow,” “Good Water” and
“Rural Route.” He is also the
founding editor of “The Cold
Mountain Review.”
Smith has given about thirty
readings, “from Wake Forest to
Davidson to the University of
Alabama to Syracuse to the
Spoleto Festival, and no one has
ever been hurt at one of my
readings,” he said.
Smith has taught English at
Auburn since 1976. He received
his batchelor’s in philosophy
from UNCC and m^n’s in
<'vklanHc Cnriskian C
Wilson, N.
English from Appalachian. He
lives in Opelika, Ala. A recep
tion will follow the reading.
In the Hawk’s Eye
Sam Ragan Prize
Some of us live down here
at the center of his circling.
We watch him caper in the
wind,
intent on something he sees,
his tan and white fletching
always
catching the right gleam of
light.
He has a perfect eye that stalks,
talons whetted for the kill.
While we require clues to
believe
in supernatural manipulations,
he creates a geometry of the kill.
Aloft in his unspun dominion,
the coasting hawk gives us hope
that something undying can
exist.
Watching us, precise but
minute
bdow, be holds us still, resting
as aa image in the center of his
perfect eye. His precipitoDs dive
and siwrtng cry reinind us we
have
something be desires. Inside os,
something furred and
vulnerable
is trembling with secret pride.
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