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THE CECIL W. ROBBINS LIBRARY
LOUISBURG college
LOUISBURG. N.C. 27549
COLUMN
Volume XXII
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, N. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1962
No. 1
R.E. Week Held October 8-12
New Faulty Members Acquired
nr. Holt
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Speaker
Dr. D. D. Holt, President of
Scarritt College, Nashville, Tennes
see, gave a series of speeches from
October 8 through October 12, Re
ligious Emphasis Week, on the
theme, “For the Living of These
Days.”
The title of the theme is a line
from Harry Emerson Fosdick’s
hymn, “God of Grace and God of
Glory.” Services were held twice
daily Monday through Thursday at
10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m.; and Friday
at 10 a.m., ending the series of
talks.
At some morning services, a
question and answer period was
held. Daily meditations furnished
by students were distributed in dor
mitory rooms, and special graces
were placed on cafeteria tables.
A collection of religious books
was on display, and a religious art
exhibit, furnished by the Fine Arts
Department, was presented.
Dr. Holt was present at the
faculty meeting Monday afternoon.
After the Monday evening service,
an informal social was held, giving
an opportunity for students to meet
with and visit Dr. Holt. Early com
munion service was presented on
Friday morning.
DR. D. D. HOLT
Parents'
Day
Oct. 31
The second annual edition of
Parents’ Day will be held at Louis-
burg College on Wednesday, Oc
tober 31.
The chief aim of the Parents’
Day program is to help promote a
better understanding between the
college and the parents of the stu
dents attending. The Parents Rela
tion Committee, whose members
include Dean Nehrig, Dean Richard
son and Mrs. Zealand, and which
is headed by R. E. Horne, has de
voted much time and effort in
making plans for the Parents’ Day
program.
Parents’ Day exercises will of
ficially commence at 10:00 o’clock
Wednesday morning when R. J.
Versteeg will speak to the students
and their parents in chapel. Im
mediately following chapel services
Baldridrige’s Reading Services, Inc.
will present a brief demonstration
in developmental reading. The
demonstration by the Greenwich,
Conn., firm is designed to interest
parents in a developmental reading
course which will be available to
students here during the spring se
mester. This course was offered
here last spring and was a success
with an enrollment of forty-five stu
dents.
All dormitories will remain open
to parents for the entire day. There
will be no formal guided tours be
cause the Parents Relation Com
mittee feels that the parents would
feel more at ease if they were al
lowed to come and go wherever
they pleased. The Committee also
feels that the students will be able
to show their parents all the things
that they would be interested in
seeing.
The first annual Parents’ Day
that was held last year was a great
success when a total of 240 parents
attended, Horne reported. This
number somewhat exceeded the ex
pected attendance. Horne stated
(See DAY on page 2)
The "Fabulous Fourteen'
New Experimental Dorm
Is Set Up In Davis
The Experimental Dormitory, or
the “Fabulous Fourteen” as they
prefer to be called, are now estab
lished on the third floor of Davis
Building for the first time. Rob
ert A. Butler is the advisor for these
fourteen male sophomore students,
who were chosen for academic
standing and potential.
The purpose is threefold: men
tal, spiritual and physical growth.
Ideal study conditions are main
tained, and quiet is voluntarily ob
served at all times. Devotions are
held each week and led by a
student in the dormitory. With this
mental and physical aspect, the
keeping of physical fitness is also
stressed. Individual physical culture
is planned for each member daily.
Butler, who rooms on the floor
with them, is available to the stu
dents for council. The project is
under the direction of H. Meade
Nehrig, Dean of Men.
Careful records will be kept of
each student’s academic standing.
This will involve follow-up reports
from the senior college to which
the student will transfer, and also
to the graduate school level, which
is the goal for this project.
The “Fabulous Fourteen” are
(See DORM on page 4)
New Stall
Members
Also Added
Many new faculty and staff
members have been added to Louis-
burg College for this academic year.
Assisting in the English Depart
ment are Robert A. Butler of Spray
and James A. Williams of Bailey.
Butler holds the A.B. degree from
U.N.C. and the M.A.T. in EngUsh
from Duke, where he studied un
der a Ford Foundation grant. He
is also serving as Associate Direc
tor of Religious Activities. Mr. Wil
liams was graduated from East
Carolina College with the B.S. and
M.A. degrees and has had several
years of experience in high school
work.
The Science Department gained
two new teachers, Mrs. Clara
Wright Frazier, who is the wife of
Mr. Russell Frazier, also on the col
lege staff, and Mr. Seth L. Wash
burn. Mrs. Frazier, class of 1954 at
Louisburg, holds the B.S. degree
from Meredith College. She will
serve as laboratory assistant in
chemistry. Prior to coming to Louis
burg, Mrs. Frazier was employed
by Westinghouse in Raleigh as a
chemist. Mr. Washburn, who is a
native of Cleveland County, will
teach biology. His college days in
clude the institutions of Gardner-
Webb Junior College; Wake Forest,
where he received the B.S. de
gree; and State College, where he
earned the M.S. degree. While
doing post-graduate work, he served
on the faculty of State. He was also
a faculty member of Gardner-
Webb College for several years.
James H. Brown, a retired Naval
captain who received his M.A.
from Duke University in July,
1962, under the Special Program
for Retired Armed Service Of
ficers, has accepted the position of
(See FACULTY on page 4)
Left to right: Brown, Williams, Versteeg, Butler, Mrs. Frazier, Washburn, Guin,
Nixon, Duncan. ’
Ex-College President
Dies During Summer
Concert Series
Is Scheduled
The Everyman Players’ dramatic
version of “The Book of Job” will
initiate the 1962-63 campus con
cert series November 19.
The play “The Book of Job”
comes to Louisburg after four
years of successful appearances. It
opened at the Brussels World Fair
in 1958 and afterwards toured
Great Britain and Canada. New
(See CONCERT SERIES on page 3)
THE EVERYMAN PLAYERS
Just three months short of her
100th birthday, Mrs. Mary Davis
Allen, president of Louisburg Col
lege from 1906-1917, died in War
ren General Hospital, in War-
renton, N. C. August 12, 1962,
marked the end.
Mrs. Allen, whose maiden name
was Mary Madeline Davis, was
born in Louisburg on November
30, 1862. Her family ties with the
college were established before she
was born because her father was
principal of the Franklin Male
Academy at the time of her birth.
She also descended from Green
Hill, a trustee of Louisburg College
in 1802; from Dr. John King,
a college founder; and from
Charles A. Hill, a state sena
tor and headmaster of the Franklin
Academy.
Prior to her sixteenth birthday
when she began teaching in a
one-room school, Mrs. Allen was
taught by her father and also at
tended Louisburg College. For nine
years she maintained her first
teaching assignment before going
to Littleton College to teach for a
year.
In 1889 Mrs. Allen returned to
Louisburg as a faculty member.
The townspeople came to admire
her as a leading personality of the
College.
When the doors were about to be
closed in 1896 because of finan
cial difficulties, she and her father,
Matthew S. Davis, were asked to
operate the institution. Washington
Duke, owner of the College prop
erty, leased the Main Building to
Mr. Davis and his daughter for
$300 per year.
Mary Davis was appointed busi
ness manager and, to the surprise
of many including Mr. Duke, the
College began to thrive. Miss Davis
became Mrs. Ivey Allen in 1900.
Mr. Allen was secretary and treas
urer for a number of years, and
the two brought up their family al
most on the college doorsteps.
When her father died in 1906,
Mrs. Allen succeeded him as presi
dent. Shortly after her tenure was
firmly established in 1907, the col
lege property was presented to the
North Carolina Methodist Confer
ence.
Reorganization as a junior col
lege, additions and improvements
on buildings strained the budget
and created administrative respon
sibilities. Mr. and Mrs. Allen did
not feel capable of assuming these
responsibilities. In 1917 the couple
gave up their positions of manage-
MRS. MARY D. ALLEN
ment. However, Mrs. Allen decided
to remain at the college as dean
and Mr. Allen secured a job at the
Oxford Orphanage. After two
years, she joined her husband and
taught at the orphanage high school.
The Allens moved to Warrenton in
(See PRESIDENT on page 3)
WSLC Will
Return To Air
W.S.L.C., College radio station,
began broadcasting last Monday
evening.
Station Manager Sam Shield is
directing a crew of over thirty stu
dents working for the station.
Several meetings have been held
by the group. Changes from last
year include the possibility of
broadcasting to North Hall and
South Hall, and use of an AP
Newswire.
W.S.L.C., which stands for “We
Serve Louisburg College,” is under
the advisorship of W. F. Wagner.
Shield will be helped out by Frank
Wilson, Assistant Station Manager
and News Director; Stanley Wat
kins, Program Director; and Chuck
Featherston, Technical Director.
Broadcasting at 1010 kilocycles,
W.S.L.C. will be on the air five
days each week from 6 p.m. to 11
p.m.