Reprint from The Laurinburg
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March 25, 1968
THE LANCE
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE STUDENT BODY OF ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
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St. Andrews Expanding Campus to Insure Innovation
Master Plan
Covers Future
Division
Of Costs
Related
A goal of $5,000,000 has been
set by the St. Andrews board of
trustees as the means of meet
ing immediate critical needs of
the campus. This Includes en
dowment funds and the finan
cing of badly needed new build
ings.
Of this goal $3 million is
designated for buildings, and
listed at the top is the science
building and teaching auditor
ium. Construction cost is ex
pected to total about $2,125,-
000, of which $1,300,000 is the
finance campaign alloca
tion. The remainder is to be
provided through a grant and
a loan from the federal govern
ment.
It is estimated that the cha
pel will cost $700,000 and the
administration building will
cost another $400,000 for con
struction.
The Library-Learning Re
sources Center, to be erected
beside DeTamble Library, will
cost $525,000, and $175,00 0 is
to be supplied through a govern
ment grant.
The multi-story dormitory
will cost $1,600,000, and St.
Andrews expects to secure a
government loan of $1,470,000.
This leaves $130,000 for the
campaign allocation. This will
be the first of two hlghrise
residence halls and will be for
male students. In later years
the college hopes to match
this with a similar building for
women students.
The Student Center addition
will cost $660,000, and a go
vernment loanof$610,000canbe
arranged for this construction
project.
To renovate the existing li
beral arts building $100,000 will
be needed. Of the total con
struction cost for this job $30,-
000 will be paid by a govern
ment grant, and the remaining
$70,000 is included in the cam
paign.
Construction costs for this
work amount to a total of $6,-
110,000, of which $1,030,00 will
be supplied in the form of go
vernment grants and$2,080,000
will be in the form of govern
ment loans. This leaves $3
million for the campaign objec
tive for construction work.
Included in the endowment
goal of $2 million are distln
guished professorships, student
aid funds, and library funds.
This would mean distinguish
ed professorships In religion
economics, science and other
disciplies at $250,000 each, in
suring annual support of ap
proximately $12,500 for each
professorship.
Student aid funds of $10,000
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One room Is set aside for the
mouse colony, another for the
rat colony.
The 1968 science student at
St. Andrews Presbyterian Col
lege may find this hard to be
lieve.
But there it is in black and
white or, rather, black and
cream; the paper in the “St.
Andrews Moving Forward”
Unique Science Building to Reflect
Development of Strong Curriculum
st aside for the campaign brochure is really campaign platform. Through the college science teaching facili- informal basis. Each scientist Every sti
campaign brochure
cream-colored.
Isolation room, feed and litter
storage, aquatic room, opera
ting room, cold room, growth
chamber room, potting room,
greenhouse are also mentioned
among the exotics to be con
tained in the science building.
The science building is a
major plank in the St. Andrews
campaign platform. Through the
campaigh the college is seeking
$30 million by 1979 to carryout
a creative and far-reaching
program of expansion.
Highest priority in the pro
gram goes to the badly-needed
science building, which college
promoters predict will become
a national model for future
10 Years Ago-Cotton
Ten years ago the campus of
St. Andrews Presbyterian Col
lege was a cotton field, a corn
field, and the scene of other
popular Scotland county ag
ricultural crops. Part of the
land was swamp, woods, and
brush.
The present college site of
several hundred acres was
originally the property of Miss
Mary McKinnon and Mrs. Anna
McKinnon Pegram and the Jack
Murphy estate. It was one of
four major sites on all sides of
Laurinburg secured as pro
spective locations when the
trustees of the consolidated
Presbyterian college were
searching for a community in
which to locate the new in
stitution.
Laurinburg, which raised
pledges totalling $3 million to
ward the college’s construction,
was selected over more than 10
other eager North Carolina
communities, all of which con
ducted vigorous campaigns to
gain the college.
How did St. Andrews come
to be?
In 1952 the Synod of North
Carolina, which supports the
college, decided to review the
manner in which its support to
colleges was being invested.
The Ford Foundation financed
a study to develop a . .pro
totype for higher education
among religious institutions in
America.”
A panel of distinguished ed
ucators was selected to review
the conditions and recommend
guidelines for the future. After
two years of study the report
was submitted. It strongly ad
vised that three struggling col
leges in the eastern part of
the state be consolidated into
one quality four-year ed
ucational institution. These
were Flora Macdonald College
at Red Springs, Presbyterian
Junior College at Maxton, and
Peace (junior) College at
Raleigh.
The Synod Commission on
Higher Education recommended
that the advice be followed with
this comment; “. . . it is our
conviction that the consolidation
of our educational program of
fers the strongest hope for the
future as well as the best
stewardship of our educational
dollar. . The Synod en
dorsed the recommendation In
July, 1955.
For the first years, when the
college campus was under con
struction, it was known as Con
solidated Presbyterian College.
Finally, the trustees decided on
a name--St. Andrews for
Andrew, one of Christ’s dis
ciples and patron saint of Scot
land. This was to provide a link
with St. Andrews University,
Edinburgh, Scotland, a strong
base for early Protestantism in
that country.
St. Andrews opened Its doors
to more than 800 students in
1961,
Where Money Comes From
Economic Touch
Quite Sizable
Since the opening of St. An
drews Presbyterian College in
Laurinburg a significant change
has crept over the community.
By realizing the mere size of
the institution In a community
this size one may expect the
economic Impact to be re
markable. Then there's the vi
gor that is injected because of
the youth aspect, the philoso
phical dent, social change and
the new emphasis that Is re
flected through churches and
their organizations.
Business Manager Silas
Vaughn recently told that it is
almost impossible to measure
the volume of the economic
change that has been brought
about by the coming this col
lege, but there are some in
dicators which may bear watch
ing.
For instance there are over
540 cars registered at the cam
pus, indicating close to one
automobile to each student and
employee. There are over 240
employees and more than 900
students. These students aver
age spending one dollar a day
in the community. This of
course in itself mounts up to
approximately $300,000 which
goes for such items as gaso
line, entertajiment, food, swea
ters, shoes, toilet articles, and
so forth.
It Is easy to see that the
overall college operation re
presents well over a two-mil-
llon-dollar operation. The an
nual college payroll is Inexcess
of $1,300,000 a year, Mr. Vaughn
has stated. And this Is only
a part, through a large part,
of the money paid out In the
operation of this institution.
St. Andrews is the only Pres
byterian college in North Caro
lina owned wholly by the North
Carolina Synod. Other Pres
byterian colleges derive some
of their support from other sy
nods and the General Assembly,
but officially only Presbyteries
is in the State synod support
the Laurinburg college.
This year St. Andrews is re
ceiving approximately $240,000
from the Synod. This repre
sents about the total amount of
money given by this synod to
Davidson, Queens and other
Presbyterian educational Insti
tutions in North Carolina, it
has been explained here.
One of the big reasons for
the upcoming financial cam
paign is the simple fact that
student costs are higher at St.
Andrews than at other private
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college science teaching facili
ties.
To be constructed east of
the liberal arts building on
the south side of the lake, the
science building will feature
a huge open laboratory area,
designed for use in all disci
plines to serve the new inter-
departmental approach to
science teaching. This is a move
away from the more familiar
practice of Isolating each de
partment into one laboratory.
The idea, of course, is the
same one employed in the
Christianity and Culture core
curriculum for the humanities,
which has been the most excit
ing Innovation since the college
was opened in fall of 1961.
In the lab especially-design
ed work tables will serve as
complete units for students and
may be used singly or linked
together as needed either for
individual research or group
projects.
A central stock room is being
designed to serve all sciences.
Seminar rooms will surround
the lab area, and faculty offices
will be utilized as tutoring
rooms.
In keeping with the flexibility
of physical design, plans call
for laboratory hours which will
allow students to tackle indivi
dualized projects at their own
speed at almost any hour of day
or night.
Linking the science building
to the liberal arts building will
be a teaching auditorium with a
400 seating capacity, which will
serve both buildings.
Rooms in the science build
ing are set aside for such
necessities as computation, au
dio-visual, instruments, elec
tronics, glass shop, metal and
wood shop, volatile storage,
chemical storage, among
others.
The building was designed to
accommodate thecollege’sbud-
ding science program, which
relies on development of student
Ingenuity. In the freshman year
students will be Introduced to a
sequence of “open-ended” re
search projects, each running
from four to eight weeks. Stu
dents are given projects related
to their own interests whenever
possible. Some work indepen
dently, others in teams.
A notion of this inter-related
study and work has come to the
local citizen as well as the stu
dent this year through the St.
Andrews Visiting Scientist pro
gram. Supported by the Danforth
Foundation, the program is
bringing to the campus eight
distinguished scientists, who
conduct classes and seminars
and meet with students on ^
informal basis. Each scientist
delivers at least one public lec
ture, and the subject matter so
far has ranged from religion
and science to genetics and the
similarities of art and science.
At the present time science
facilities are situated in the
liberal arts building.
Development of the interde
partmental core program in the
sciences is expected to be
followed by still another in
terdisciplinary program, al
ready in the study stages. This
program would inter-relate
several academic departments.
Including economics, politics,
business administration, and
sociology.
Success of the initial core
curriculum known as Chris
tianity and Culture is more than
likely the reason that the St,
Andrews administration has felt
guided, to pursue additional in
terdepartmental ventures.
Christianity and Culture in-
ter-relates religions, history,
philosophy, litei ature, ar i
social sciences, and the art .
Every student carries this
course throughout his college
career.
The C&C program at St.
Andrews was one of only two
rated by educators as “highly
significant” from among those
offered in 800 church-related
colleges. The study, conducted
by the Danforth Commission on
Church Colleges and Univer
sities, pointed out that St,
Andrews and a midwestern
women’s college were offering
programs which ‘ 'show what can
be accomplished by competent
faculties that put their minds
to the important task of helping
students reach a considered
view on basic issues in the
light of the Christian faith.”
The impression made by
Christianity and Culture has
been expressed by Peg Miller,
a 1967 graduate now in graduate
school at Syracuse University,
who says: “I was guided into
my major, religion and
philosophy, because of my ex-
.>osure to philosophy in Chris-
fContlnupci to Paee 3")
The master plan for expan
sion of St. Andrews Presby
terian College contains seven
structures considered to be cri
tical needs of the immediate
future. The college today made
public plans for a $30 million
campaign to cover expansion
through the year 1979.
These needs are headed by a
science building with attached
teaching auditorium, an admin
istration building, a chapel for
the lake peninsula, an addition
to the Student Center, a men’s
residence, a library-learning
resources center, and a caril
lon tower to be erected’beside
the chapel.
Other needs included in the
master plan are a fine arts
center, a women’s residence,
and a health center.
The learning resources cen
ter will be housed In a twin
building beside the DeTamble
Library, This architectural
complement will allow expan
sion of existing facilities—book
collections, microfilm, and
other reference materials. It
will provide a center for pro
duction and service of audio
visual materials; seminar-con-
ference rooms, offices and spe
cialized study areas will also
be located there.
By 1972 the college must have
at least 80,000 volumes to match
the projected enrollment of 1200
students. The present library
capacity is 60,000 volumes.
Minimum American Library
Association standards require
65,000 volumes to serve a col
lege with St. Andrews’ present
enrollment. This means that
funds are needed not only to
purchase more volumes but to
provide space for them.
Changes wrought by con
struction of the science and ad
ministration buildings will ne
cessitate renovation of the li
beral arts building, which hou
ses all of these needs today.
Campus planners place the
chapel on a peninsula reached
from the causewalk which
straddles the lake. This is to
symbolize the centrality of
Christian faith In all of life.
The structure is to be accent
uated by its elevation and its
reflection in thelake. The sanc
tuary will seat 350 to 400 and
will contain an organ. The col
lege pastor’s office and con
ference rooms will be located
there.
Soaring to more than 100
feet, the carillon will comple
ment the peninsula scene.
The administration building
will be one-story in functional
design with offices located about
a core working center, where
student records and related fa
cilities will be found. The build
ing will include offices for the
president, dean of the college,
and others working in develop
ment, admissions, and general
business operations. There will
also be rooms for board meet
ings and conferences and a re
ception area.
Something entirely different
will be seen in the design of the
nine-story residence building
for male students. Later this
building will be matched with a
similar hlghrise building for
women students.
Another complementary
building will be the Student
Center addition, which will
serve student-oriented activi
ties. There will be offices for
student government, publica
tions, and student affairs and
areas for music listening and
television viewing. To be locat
ed in this building eventually
will be a campus radio station.
Science
Visitors
Popular
A glimpse of the future
science program Is seen at St.
Andrews College this year in
the Visiting Scientist series,
which is bringing eight distin
guished scientists to the cam
pus. Each of the scientists is
conducting some class sessions
and is delivering one public
lecture.
Dr. Ralph T. Overman, who
was the first scientist, deliver
ed two public lectures while
he was here in September, His
topic was “Human Values in an
Age of Science.” Overman, a
scientific consultant, is for
mer chairman of the Special
Training Division, Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies.
Latest speaker In the series
was Dr. Dean B. Cowle, who
wpoke on “Your Genetic In
heritance’’ in a public lecture
last week. Cowle is chairman
of the biophysics sectio, Car
negie Institution of Washing
ton.
Yet to be heard is Dr. J.
Franklin McC o r m 1 c k, whose
specialty is biology. Associate
professor of botany at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Cha
pel Hill, McCormick will lec
ture on “Nuclear War and Na
tural Resources” next month.
The scientists are spending
two weeks in the community.
They live In the Laurinburg
community, meet classes and
confer on an informal basis with
the students. Each scientist
stays here for a period of about
two weeks.
Other scientists who have
participated include; Dr, Ri
chard J. Cokes, associate pro
fessor of chem-istry, Johns Hop
kins University; Dr. Allen L.
King, professor of physics,
Dartmouth College; Dr, Alfred
Novak, chairman. Division of
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Board Chairman Thomas M. Belk
Dr^ Ansley C. >Moore, Pres,^dent