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THE CECIL W. ROBBINS LIBRAR'r
LOUISBURG COLLEGE
LOUISBURG, N.C. 27549
VOL. XXXIV
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N.C.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1974
No. /
What Kind Of Year
Will This Be For You?
By President Cecil W. Robbins
Welcome to the 1974-75
academic year at Louisburg
College!
What kind of year will it be for
you?
In the final analysis, it will be
what you want it to be.
It can be a year of tension and
Editors Selected
For Yearbook
And Newspaper
Editors for the 1974-75 Oak
(yearbook) and Columns
(newspaper) have been selected.
Bert Sigmon and Carol Files will
head the Oak staff, while Dean
Hobbs will edit the Columns.
Miss Files is a graduate of
Bunn High School. She is a
member of the Louisburg
Players and is very interested in
the field of drama. She has no
drastic changes in mind for the
Oak, and claims she simply
“enjoys working with it.”
Sigmon is from Hickory, N. C.,
where he graduated from
Hickory High School. He is
currently Chief Justice of SGA
and an RA for first floor of
Hillman. He worked with his high
school annual staff, serving as
Photography Editor for two
years. Sigmon plans to transfer
to the Brooks Institute of
Photography in California to
major in motion pictures.
“We will not try to cover the
entire year as the 73-74 staff did,”
Sigmon said. “We will try to
cover as much as possible, and
shoot for a delivery date before
the end of the second semester.”
Sigmon also revealed that last
year’s yearbooks are expected
within a few weeks.
Hobbs, a native of Fayetteville,
N. C., served as Features editor
for the 73-74 Columns. He
graduated from Reid Ross High
School in Fayetteville, and was
involved in Key Club, Honor
Society, Math Club, yearbook
staff, and Teen Democrats
during his high school years.
Although journalism is a major
interest of his, he currently plans
a history or political science
major at UNC-Chapel Hill, with
leanings towards law.
strife, of frustration and
rebellion; or it can be a year of
searching and seeking and find
ing purpose and life values that
will make not only the days ahead
but the years ahead fuller and
more creative.
This does not mean that every
day will be calm and even-paced.
There will be times of fear and
doubt, of inner conflict and
perhaps of lashing out. But these
can be a part of the growing
process, an opportunity for in
creasing maturity.
If this year at Louisburg
College is to be a worth-while and
rewarding experience, there are
several things perhaps you may
need to do.
For one thing, give first at
tention to studies. These come
first. If they do not, you are
putting first things second.
Your studies not only increase
your fund of information and
knowledge, but they teach you to
think, to develop self-discipline
and the capacity to be creative
and self-confident.
Again, cultivate friendships
with fellow-students, faculty and
others. Friendships broaden,
inspire and add dimension to life.
Now, you can spend too much
time with others. College life
offers not only social contacts,
but encourages periods of
solitude and quiet meditation.
Select your friends with care.
Let all people count with you, but
none too much.
Dr, Cecil W, Robbins
College offers a unique op
portunity for the cultivation of
transforming and enduring
friendships.
Still again, look for the good
and positive. You can find at
Louisburg College what you look
for. You can pick the faculty and
administration and your fellow-
students to pieces. You can find
all the faults you want to. But the
real fault may be in you.
You can find some of the best at
Louisburg College—excellent
teachers, interesting fellow-
students, a well-rounded social,
recreational, cultural and
spiritual program, opportunities
to become a part of an exciting
and growing venture.
Give your best, and the best
will come to you, full, rich and
overflowing.
With improved facilities and
additional personnel and
programs, this should be a fine
year at Louisburg College. Help
to make it so!
Robbins To Retire;
Successor Is Sought
Dr. Cecil W. Robbins,
President of Louisburg College
since 1955, announced his
retirement at the April 26, 1974
meeting of the Board of Trustees.
The resignation was to become
effective July 1, but Dr. Robbins
agreed to stay on until a suc
cessor is chosen.
Under the administration of
Dr. Robbins 67 the enrollment of
Louisburg has grown to nearly
700. Many improvements and
additions to the physical plant of
the college have also been made.
A selection committee under
the direction of Dr. Leo Jenkins
of Greenville and Mr. John
Church of Henderson is currently
searching for a successor.
Faculty members on the com
mittee are Miss Sarah Foster,
Dr. William R. Rose, and Dr.
Mac L. Ricketts.
When asked for comment on
when the announcement of a
successor might be forthcoming.
Dr. Rose replied, “We are sworn
to secrecy, and I can’t tell you
anything.”
Dean Scott Show
Welcomes Students
To Louisburg
The Dean Scott Show visited
Louisburg College Thursday
night, August 29, bringing with it
a wealth of talent and experience.
With his partner Bobby Brad
shaw and the backup group the
Cosmic Cowboys, Dean Scott
provided almost three hours of
enjoyable entertainment for the
entire student body.
Scott hails from Houston,
Texas. He got his start playing
night clubs in Las Vegas. “The
impersonations all started as sort
of a gag one night. But they went
over well, so they were added to
the act. At the beginning, we
didn’t use costumes or makeup,
just the voices. One day I spotted
the wig like I use for Little
Richard and put it into the act
without the other guys knowing
about it.”
He met his sidekick and part
ner Bobby Bradshaw in 1963 and
has been working with him since.
Bradshaw, also from Houston,
started as a trumpet player, but
decided to give that up to turn to
singing with Scott. The group as
it appears now was put togethei
about 1970 and has been doin^
night club, TV, and colleg
concerts since.
Sergeant Pigg, the daff:
policeman with the Southeri
drawl, was a golf pro befon
joining the show as the roa(
manager. He was worked into thi
show as a cop to bring Elvis onti
the stage, and gradually workec
his way into the act, doing hi:
entire routine. “The dance — thi
motorcycle — is our own in
vention,” commented Bradshaw
“We’re trying to spread tha
around as best we can.”
The group has appeared on th
Johnny Carson show, mos
recently in late August. They wil
do the Mike Douglas Sho\
September 9 and plan to co-hos
that show for a week i
November.
The Dean Scott Show displaye
a talent rarely seen at a schoc
the size of Louisburg. Mor
concerts and shows of this typ
would surely be welcomed by
majority of students.
The Personalities of Dean Svolt