THE LANCE
Laurinburg, N. C., Oct. 26, 1967
Naval Academy Chemist
Discusses Drugs, Organics
Andrews Presbyterian CoUege
Vol. 7. No. 8.
The 'pill” and drugs In general was Dr. Sam Massie’s topic when he addressed the campus
on Tuesday night.
Gross Conveys New Draft Laws
Two emergencies arose this
weekend for Dr. CalvlnVander-
werf, President of Hope Col
lege, causing him to cancel his
visit to St. Andrews for at least
4 week.
As his replacement, Dr. Del
ta W. Gier located Dr. Samuel
p, Massie, Professor of
Ctiemistry at the U.S Naval
Academy. Dr. Massie left his
midshipmen Tuesday and ar
rived on campus about 5 p.m
the same day. That evening he
entertained the students with a
lecture entitled “Will the Key
Fit the Lock?” He discusoed
drugs and the research that is
going on in that field, especiiHy
the “pill”.
Wednesday morning Dr.
Massie reviewed the Chemistry
2-3 class of the basic concepts
of organic chemistry. Later on
that morning he spoke to Senior
C&C students.
Br. Massie briefly explained
his course of instruction at
Annapolis, stating that the mid
shipmen took five course a
semester of which 34 were
common to all males on campus.
Each student then can chose
six course to advance his know
ledge in his special field of
interest. He noted that the size
of classes at the Academy is
smaller than St. Andrews, less
then 20 students. In addition,
the instructor is responsible
for the lecture as well as his
labs. He also said that the
Educator to Speak
Doctor Sam Proctor will ad
dress the Junior and Senior
C&C programs on the 1st of
November. His topic for C&C
302 will be "Urbanization and
The Negro”. “Can America
Survive Unless the Urban Pro
blem is Solved” will be his
topic for the seniors.
Proctor is the author of “The
Young Negro In America 1960-
1980”, published by the As
sociation Press, 1966.
number of chemistry profes
sors at the Academy, 32, far
outnumbers the six th^t St.
Andrews has.
Expanding on his philosophy
of “the College”, Dr. Massie
explained that a college must
teach more than the common
three R's. A good curriculum
stresses three more R’s; Rea
son, Respect, and Responsi
bility. The purpose of education
is “not to make carpenters
out of men, but to make men
out of carpenters.”
St. Andrews, as a small col
lege, has a “great opportunity
at the time in a world in which
there is so much progress. It
can best meet this challenge
by permitting its students to
challenge the future while keep
ing hold of the past, ’ ’ explained
Massie.
He reminded us that “stu
dents must never lose sight of
the fact that before they can
become a lawyer, engineer, or
a housewife, they are first a man
or woman. Therefore, if the
student is to be a good en
gineer, lawyer, or a housewife,
they must first be a good man
or woman.”
Virginia Somerville, so
prano, will be presented in
faculty recital Monday, Octo
ber 30 at 8:00 p.m. in the
Liberal Arts Auditorium at St.
Andrews Presbyterian College.
Mrs. Somerville is a member
of the St. Andrews School of
Music voice faculty and a stu
dent of Radiana Pazmor.
Born in Northwestern Illi
nois, Mrs, Somerville holds
the B M. degree from the
University of Dubuque, Dubu
que, Iowa, and the M M. de
gree from Chicago Musical Col
lege of Roosevelt University,
where she studied voice with
Harvey Rlngel. She has taught
Tonight on radio station
WSAP, Mr. Ed Gross, regis
trar of the college, will discuss
the draft, placing emphasis upon
the new additions to the draft
voice and directed choirs in
Iowa, Puerto Rico, and Chi
cago, and from 1962 to 1965 was
a member of the Chicago Sym
phony Orchestra Chorus, Mrs.
Somerville became a Laurin
burg resident in the fall of
1965, and was appointed to the
St, Andrews faculty one year
later. She has been the re
cipient of many awards and
honors, including “Who’s Who
in American Colleges and Uni
versities” and various music
scholarships and grants.
Mrs. Somerville has per
formed throughout the mid
west, and was selected to re
present her graduating class
of Chicago Musical College with
a performance in Orchestra
Hall. Her previous recitals on
the St. Andrews School of Mu
sic series have included a pre-
sentation of Menotti’s THE
TELEPHONE with her husband,
also a member of our faculty.
The soprano’s recital Mon
day night will begin with an
aria by G. F. Handel and “The
Blessed Virgin’s Expostula
tion” by Henry Purcell. Four
French songs by Faure and De
bussy and an aria from Ros
sini’s “The Barber of Seville”
will conclude the first half of
the program.
Following intermission, Mrs.
Somerville will sing Robert
Schumann’s song cycle, “Fra-
uenliebe und Leben’ (The Life
and love of Woman), The re
cital will end with four songs
by 20th century composers Ro
ger Quilter, Samuel Barber and
Ned Rorem,
Mrs. Somerville will be as
sisted by phillip Clarke of the
St. Andrews School of Music
piano faculty. A reception for
the artists will be held in the
Liberal Arts Building foyer
immediately following the re
cital. The public is invited.
laws.
There are four regulations
that must be met by any under
graduate if he is to be con
sidered for 2-S classification.
He must REQUEST deferment,
must be currently pursuing a
course of instruction that in
volves at least 12 hours, must
be less than 24 years of age
and must have completed a
specified percentage of degree
requirements each year. The
last regulation is new and im
portant.
No longer is a student’s
grade ratio important. What
the last regulation means is that
the student must have earned
at least 25% of the credits re
quired at the end of his sopho
more year and so on.
Yet all hope is not lost if a
student does not have the re
quired percentage. There is
some leeway, according to
Gross. If a student needs 30
hours at the end of his fresh
man year, then he is safe if
he only has 28 or 29 hours.
Another change is that a stu
dent’s academic year is now
considered on a 12 month basis.
This allows the student 12
months to complete his 25%.
If a student does not meet
the criteria for a II-S classi
fication, he may qualify for
I-S (C). First, however, he
will receive a physical, then be
classified I-A and finally re
ceive his induction notice. At
this point he can protest and say
that he is a full-time student.
The draft board will then re
classify him as I-S (C). How
ever no student may be classi
fied as I-S (C) more than once.
State Program
This week a committee rep
resenting the North Carolina
State Department was on cam
pus to examine the progress
oi the teacher education pro
gram at St. Andrews.
The college hopes to be grant
ed approval of the new five year
teacher education program.
The juniors are now in the
midst of the brief teaching pro
gram. This project requires 20
hours this semester of observ
ing and brief teaching for pro
spective teachers.
Gross said.
There have been significant
changes in the laws concerning
graduate school. Anyone who
enters graduate school after
October 1, 1967 is draft bait
unless pursuing studies in
medicine, dentistry, veterinary
medicine, osteopathy or opto
metry, or a course of study
designated to be in national
interest, which there are none
at the present.
Mr. Gross said any student
who does not fill out a request
for the college will not be re
ported to his draft board under
any circumstances. However,
he warned against this policy
because if one does not ask for
the college’s help, then the
board does not know that he is
in school. Obviously, this will
lead to unnecessary complica
tions.
Sen. Seth Tillman
Addresses Campus
Member of the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations,
Seth Tillman will be on campus
for several engagements today.
He will speak in Senior C&C on
the Role of Congress or The
Lack of It in the committment
of the U. S. in Foreign Wars,
Friday afternoon at 3 p.m.
Senator Tillman will give a
public lecture on The Role of
Congress in Foreign Policy.
Seth Tillman, who now lives
in Washington, is an alumus
of Syracuse University ^
Fletcher School of Law
Diplomacy. At Fletcher he was
a member of Pi Alpha Chi of
Theta Alpha.
He has been awarded nu
merous awards Including lec
turer in European Diplomacy
at Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced Inter
national Studies,
As an author he has written
“Anglo-American Relations at
the Paris Peace Conference in
1919”. Tillman is a member
of the American Political
Science Association.
In 1960-61 he was a Con
gressional Fellow, in the office
of Rep. Lindsay and Senator
Fulbright. , ■
Dr. G. Tyler Miller, Assistant Dean of the College for In
struction, attended the Conference on Science and Religion last
week. Drs, A1 Wells. Doubles. Wetmore. Mr. Ludlow and Mr.
Miller attended this conference at North Carolina State
University at Raleigh. Dr. Miller also spent three days at Hope
College as a consultant for th*> Science Cirriculum Conference.
Sommerville Presents Recital,
Soprano Voices on Monday