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JT, ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
LAURINBURG, N. C., FEBRUARY 10, 1967
VOL. 6, NO. 11
Robert A. Wallace
To Speak On
U. S. Economy
The State of the National Ec
onomy will be probed by Robert
A. Wallace, assistant secretary of
the treasury, in a speech on cam
pus next Tuesday.
Assistant secretary Wallace will
be meeting with both students and
faculty involved in the Economics
Association. AH students are in
vited to his speech at 8 p.m. in
the choral room of the Vardell
Building.
At the Treasury, Wallace plays
an important role in forming fed
eral economic policies by working
with member of the Council of Ec
onomic Advisers and the Bureau
of the Budget in developing pro
grams. He has policy supervision
of the Bureau of the Mint and is
the departmental employment po
licy officer.
In 1955 he received the Excep
tional Service Award, highest
honor given by the Treasury De
partment, for his work in the de
velopment of national economic
policies, and for preparing pro
grams to overcome the national
:oin and silver shortage.
Wallace came to the treasury in
1961, and had formally come to
iVashington in 1949 as assistant to
Senator Paul H. Douglas. He holds
lis Ph. D. degree from the Uni
versity of Chicago and has written
book, CONGRESSIONAL CON
TROL OF FEDERAL SPENDING.
Assistant Sescretary of Treasury, Robert A. Wallace.
Grants Aid St Andrews In Preliminary
Planning Of New Science Building
SA Sponsors Poetry Contest
Mardi Gras!
A bigger and better Mardi Gras
will be held this year on April 1.
Under the direction of Scott Mc-
Crea and Pete Cook, the festival
will feature displays, booths, and
amusements from many campus
organizations.
A planning meeting was held
Thursday afternoon with repre
sentatives from most campus
clubs.
Last year’s Mardi Gras fea
tured power boat rides on the
lake, a live combo, and announcer
Bill Miller from the Florence TV
station.
Three prizes are being offered
in a general poetry contest to be
conducted by St. Andrews, and will
be open to any poet within a 50
mile radius.
“Originality and effectiveness
in conveying experience” will be
the criteria used by the judges in
selecting the winning and honor
able mentioned poems. Poems are
unliminted in both length and con
tent, but only two previously un
published poems are allowed to an
entrant.
Deadlines for entries is March 1.
Rules may be obtained from Dr.
Forrest Altman or Mrs. Margar
et Moore of the English depart
ment.
Winners will be announced and
prizes awarded at Happening IV
of the freshman English program in
the LAA on Monday evening, March
27. A separate contest is being
held for freshman English stu
dents.
Judges for the contest are Mr.
Andrew Oerke, Richard Lietz,
Mrs. Isabel Carver, and Mrs.
Nancy Fulcher.
Two grants of $6,050 each are
aiding St. Andrews with the cost
of preliminary planning for a radi
cally new type of science building.
Equal shares of financial support
came from Educational Facilities
Laboratories, Inc., of New York,
and from Lunsford Richardson,
Jr., of New York and Greensboro.
Announcement of the gifts came
from the President’s Office with
Psychiatrist
Replies To
Suicide Speaker
A program concerning Suicide
on the College Campus will be
presented Sunday, February 12,
at 8:00 p.m. in the cafeteria.
The principle speaker for this
symposium will be Reverend
Robert Bluford of Richmond, Vir
ginia. He is on the Board of
Christian Education under the di
vision of Campus Christian Life.
A reply to Mr. Bluford’s address
will be made by a reaction panel
composed of Dr. H. D. Horne,
the college psychiatrist, currently
serving at Sand Hills Mental Health
Clinic, Mr. Andrew Oerke, St. An
drews Poet in Residence and Dr.
William Alexander, Associate
Professor of Religion and philoso
phy.
This is the third in a series of
symposia sponsored by the Student
Christian Council in an endeavor to
deal with issues that are or should
be of major concern to St. Andrews
students.
an estimated innovation of the
building set for 1969. Architects
will be the firm of A. G. O'Dell,
Jr., and Associates of Charlotte,
designers of the contemporary St.
Andrews campus.
Instead of the traditional chem
istry, biology, physics, and math
areas, the new building will have
a series of interdisciplanary clus
ters for faculty offices, class
rooms, and labs.
There will be a few, if any, fix
ed walls in the lab cluster. Instead,
a multl-dlsciplanary research
carrel is being designed with stan
dard utilities and a basic table.
Portable units for special uses
could be attached as needed. Fold
ing walls would be used to enclose
areas for special purposes.
The new building will also break
the traditional isolation of science
from non-science studies by being
connected to the main academic
building and by housing facilities
to be used by all students and
faculty.
In making their grant. Educa
tional Facilities Laboratories no
ted, “It is our expectation that
the end product of this grant will
be an exciting science building,
which will be a model of imagin
ative planning for other colleges.”
Coming Events
Feb. 11, The Fabulous Five
Feb. 12, Suicide Symposium
Feb. 13-18, SGA Nominations
Feb. 24, Voting Day
Mar. 20-25, Senate, Dorm, Class
self-nominations.
Mar. 31, Voting Day
Apr. 6, Officer Installations
McCoy Depicts GodlsDead
Theory In Lecture Series
Co-author of THE GOSPEL ON
CAMPUS, Charles McCoy will
■peak on “God Is Dead: The Future
)f an Illusion” Monday, February
‘3, at 8 p.m. in the Liberal Arts
Auditorium. After his public pre-
lentation, which is part of the
'oncert-lecture series, Orange
lall will host a reception in their
nain lounge.
Professor of Religion in Higher
Education at Pacific School of
Religion, McCoy will be on St.
Andrews’ campus Monday through
•riday, February 13-17. During
lis five-day visit, he will speak to
arious classes and individuals.
Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Room
18, he will speak to Dr. R.
Gustafson’s Applied Christianity
class on “Power, Ethics, and Po
licy.”
From 4-5:30 p.m. Thursday he
will speak on “The Divine Dis
guise: Theological Reflections on
Art” in Room 113. At a dinner
Thursday evening he will address
the faculty dinner on “Emergent
Agony of Higher Education.”
Presently professor at Pacific
School of Religion, McCoy has also
taught at Yale and University of
Florida. He contributed to the
writing of PERSPECTIVES ON
THE COLLEGE CHURCH and
RELIGION AND THE SOCIAL
CONFLICT. (See picture, page 8).
Miss Alice Ragland Crowned “Miss Lamp And Shield”
The crown of “Miss Lamp and
Shield” for 1967 was placed upon
Senior Alice Ragland Friday night,
January 27, as students, faculty,
and administration attended the an
nual beauty pageant in the Liberal
Arts Auditorium.
Donna Southers was first run-
ner-up; Shannon Hershberger, se
cond runner-up; Mary Lou Kruth-
offer, third runner-up; and Carol
Bragunier, fourth runner-up.
These five other lovely co-eds
were in the semi-finals: Betts
Hunter, Janice Wells, Carol Hovis,
Lynn Wagner, and Eloise Rlstau.
As elementary education major,
Alice will teach in Princeton, New
Jersey, next year while her hus
band attends divinity school. Alice
and senior A1 Thomas plan to
marry after their graduation this
May.
St. Andrews’ 1967 “Miss Lamp
and Shield” is president of the
Student North Carolina Education
al Association chapter at St. An
drews. She has also been a resi
dent assistant and a member of
Concord Dorm Council. Her
sophomore year she was St. An
drews’ chief cheerleader. Alice
is from Jacksonville, Florida.
The “Miss Lamp and Shield”
pageant is sponsored annually by
the college yearbook.
Starstruck senior, Alice Ragland of Jacksonville, Florida, has been
crowned 1967 Miss Lamp and Shield.