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Editorial
The Perkinson Era:
What to Expect?
The new year begins on a note of expectancy and a degree of
apprehension as the college takes its first long look at the new
president of St. Andrews and how he proposes to run the
institution of which he is now head. Prior to now Mr. Perkinson
has been a sort of curiosity, going to one meeting after another
with various constituencies of the school and surrounded by the
aura of an almost magic ability to make enrollment figures
jump. A businesslike approach to everything seems to
characterize the operation of the administration, and
“marketing” seems to be the byword of th? Perkinson Era.
While this approach has won the admiration of many, it has also
aroused fears that the school is to be packaged in plascic and
sold as a commodity rather than to be allowed to be a free and
unique institution. Talk of more restrictions on student life,
though at this point mostly unfounded, have many worried as
well.
Tonight’s convocation address by the president should shed
some light on his ideas about these and other subjects. He will
convey to the college community the philosophy by which he
plans to run the school. No one, though, should expect too much
or try to read into his remarks more than is there. St. Andrews is
a long way from where it ought to be and wUl take sometime to
get there. Rather than rely on hearsay or second hand reports of
what is happening, the student body should make every effort to
be present this evening, as the song goes, to “listen what the
man says.”
Where The Water Went
Thursday, September 4,1975
Letters . . .
Despite the best efforts of
weathermen, and college
pesonnel saying rain prayers
in the hope of filling up Lake
Moore it was still far below its
normal level when students
began to drift in over the
weekend.
The low level of the lake
can be attributed to the con
struction of a new spillway on
the far side of the dam to
there. The lake was drained
to allow construction on the
spillway, which will go work
if the water level nears the
stage it did four years ago,
when heavy rains had water
lapping at the walls of the
science building. Though the
lake has, for the most part,
filled itself, the extremely dry
weather experienced in the
latter half of the summer has
To The St. Andrews Com
munity:
From July 12 to July 18,
Albemarle turned into a haven
for 68 second, third, and fourth
graders. Ten of our elemen
tary education majors turned
Albemarle into a school where
we did our student teaching.
We began with an idea and
developed and coaxed and
pleaded until it grew into a
school where kids were en
couraged to seek out answers
and to grabble with questions.
We decided to team teach
which let us evenly divide into
3 groups of three with Barbara
Whitier serving as our
Physical Education teacher.
We had “The Trains” who
chugged after Steve Chasson,
Deedee Montgomery, and
Hatie Woods. “The Clowns”
fl^o froliced with Gary Smith,
Jane MiDer, and Malia Hill.
The third groiq) were named
The Sunshines who shown with
Bill Bass, Margaret Fox, and
Kim McRae. Dr. Daughtrey
was our overall chief, but we
had another team of three who
gave us supervision. Mrs.
Phylis Fipps and Mrs.
Doloreas Johnson of the
Laurel Hill school system
gave us instructions for lesson
plans.
The community was a great
resource. When studying com
munications, we went to Bill
Evans Print Shop and
received a guided tour into the
world of the printing press.
McDonald’s gave us free juice
for the children. Mr. Dick
Brown gave us a multitude of
children’s books for the
library. Everybody in town
was most receptive to our
requests for anything. We got
telephone wire from Bell
Telephone, large spools from
McKenzie Plumbing Supply,
roll paper from Laurinburg
Exchange, and carpet squares
from two local furniture
stores. I did not get a negative
Admissions
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come from out of state, and
that they cover the full range
of SAT scores. Recom
mendations by Christmas, in
tffief, recommend a reversal
of the input ratio of North
Carolina students (from 40%
to 60%), efforts to maintain
numerical strength of out-of-
staters at current levels, in
creased effort devoted to at
tracting junior college tran
sfers and other transfers
where potential results are
good, concentration of
recruiting efforts in specific
schools and areas where
previous recruitment has
been good, and establishment
of more specific and deman
ding admissions criteria.
Successful implementation,
Christmas noted, should
result in a 1976 freshman
enrollment of 230, with 119 in
state and 115 ^of-state
students, 30 junior college
transfers and as many other
collie transfers as possible.
“The plan,” said OSfi report,
“envisions a highly per-
response from any of the
businessmen or merchants in
Laurinburg who were asked to
help.
I must extend a warm thank
you to the St. Andrews student
body. Your $600 was probably
eaten by some hungry mouths
instead of used for materials
but we saw the children as
more important. The St. An
drews students who loaned us
rugs; thank you. Without the
rugs, we would have had to sit
on hard, cold, dorm floors. For
the materials donated by so
many people whom I can’t
name, I e^end a thank you.
Enrichment Day Camp would
not have been as successful
without your help.
All was not rosy everyday
even though most of the
children thought it was. We
sonalized approadi to each
prospect identified, to be pur
sued until the prospect
clearly makes another dioice
or enrolls. It begins with the
assumption that many studen
ts do not yet realize they are
interested in St. Andrews,
that this interest can be con
verted and developed into
committment,.. . that St. An
drews offers [x-ograms and an
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had almost perfect at
tendance. The neighborhood
youth corp provided two
drivers who drove the vans.
The other children were
picked 14) by sleepy interns
and taken home by the
exhaused interns. We learned
what fatique meant and ex
perienced it. We were
dedicated to a project we had
created so if it had not worked
out, we would have been at
fault. Not one time were any of
us absent. Seeing the kids hap
py and laughing made each
painful moment worthwhile.
Overall the program was
great for the children, and in
my eyes, this was the most im
portant part of the program—
our children.
Thanks again,
Kim McRae
environment that meets
students needs at a
reasonable cost . . and
assumes the same com
mittment from the entire St.
Andrews community.”
In order to increase ac-
cessability to visitors and ac-
conrunodate the larger staff,
the Admissions office has
moved its quarters to the of
fices formerly occupied by
the Business office.
augtnpnf and extend facilities slowed the process.
COLLEGE GULF
Across From South
Entrance to Campus
Free Car Wash With
Fill-up.
Mechanic on Duty
Drive Safely!
GARY SMITH clowns for grade schoolers in Albemarle
courtyard (above). The dorm was the scene of a month-long
student-teaching session this past summer. In the photo below,
youthful participants escape the summer heat during a clash
wide splash. Photos by Kim McRae.