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THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St, Andrews Presbyterian College
1961 ■ Fifteenth Anniversary Year-1976
volume IS
LAURINBURG, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1976
NUMBER 4
Lance Birthday Celebrations Begin
News Summary
In its continuing effort to refonn to budget process, the
Senate voted this weekend to establish a three member Budget
Request Committee to be charged with hearing supplemental
appropriations request. Elected to the committee by the Senate
were Robin Greai (Albemarle), Betsy Rhoads (Wilmington j.
and David Strasbui^er (Granville), who was designated
chairman.
The Senate also passed an amended version of the Student
Association Budget proposed last week in which $5600 of the
proposed $6700 Senate apisropriation were redistributed among
the organizations frcnn which the funds had been taken.
Yu Suwa Visiting SA This Week
Japanese writer and publisher, Yu Suwa, arrived rai the St.
Andrews Presbyterian Cdlege campus today for his second
fliree^y visit.
Last here five years ago, Suwa wrote lavishly of his St.
Andrews experience in several Japanese publications. “Asahi
Gr^h,” the Sunday siq>plement of Tokyo’s “Asahi Shimbun,”
carried a six-page color secticm on St Andrews. (The Graph’s
circulation is about that of the Sunday New York Times).
Suwa is a poet and essayist, as well as editor of
“Subtwraneans” magazine, and publisher of of “Novakast
Press.
His main 20th Century american literary interests center
about the poet Ezra Pound and more especially the Black
Mountain school of writing. He has recently hosted Robert
Creeley and Gary Snyder in Tdtyo, and has been host to
several St. Andrews faculty members in their travels in the
Orient.
He comes to Laurinburg from an engagement in Memphis,
and will then go on to New Y ork.
THE LANCE was the name
diosen by the St. Andrews
Publications Board after a
contest in 1961. The first issue
had appeared with no name.
The winner of the contest
was Patricia Finch, then a
senior from Wilson, North
Carolina. The Board said it
made the choice because THE
LANCE was in keeping with
the symbols of the College
the Kni^ts’ designation for
all athletic teams, the year
book’s name - the Lamp and
Shield - and the like.
“Tridi” won $5.00 for the
name. The issue of the paper
announcing the choice quoted
her reaction as, “Oh, my good
ness!” (See related story,this
Big Picture Next Week
Today’s anniversary edition
of THE LANCE is just the
beginning of our birthday
celebrations. Next Wed
nesday there’s a major event
idanned - Hie Bigger Picture.
The Bigger Picture is a
sequel to last year’s Big Pic
ture, and the idea is the
same: to photograph in one
place - the entire St. Andrews
College community. Last year
it was a huge success, and we
hope you’ll make it one this
year by craning. Dress up for
it, bring your dog, your horse,
your roommate oc any other
pets you may have.
And there’s more! On Oc
tober 14, THE LANCE will
open “Extra! Extra! The
Mai and Machines of
American Journalism,” and
exhiWtion oi the history of
news reporting in America On
Loan from the Smithsonian
Institution’s National
Museum of History and
Technology it will run in the
College Union through
November 9.
But remember - The Bigger
Picture is next Wednesday!
Don’t miss it!
What Happens
To Old Editors?
Pat Finch ‘62
How The Lance
Was Named
page).
What happens to former
editors once they graduate
and join the real world? This
summer THE LANCE
managed to track down nine
of the fourteen former
editors, and here’s what we
found out.
Elaine Ward ’62, the
paper’s first diief, is now the
wife of James Barnett. A Nor
th Carolina National Bank
vice president in Monroe.
North Carolina. The mother
of two, she is Director of
Christian Eduation at First
Presbyterian Church in
Monroe, and still keeps a
haid in the journalism field
by writing for a county paper
there. The Regional News.
To_ supply the new
office in the College.
UniMi, she recalled for THE
LANCE, “we begged and
borrowed furniture and a
typewriter because nothing
like that was budgeted.” The
paper’s named was Patricia
Findi, she told us (see page
1) who won a $5.00 prize and
said, “Now I’U be able to buy
a pair of Weejuns.”„In those
days the paper was published
by the Red Sfx-ings Citizen,
and was carried to and from
by their typesetta", a Laurin
burg resident. ^
By 1964, when Lonnie Mann
’65 assumed the editorship,
the lance had shifted to
Hamlet. “I can recall oc
casions when it seemed we
would never make the next
deadline,” he says, as we rose
at 4 a.m. to race the copy to
the printer or got punchy
from rubber cement fumes
while agonizing over how to
fit three colunm inches o copy
into two column inches of
space.”
Those were busy years, he
recalls. “At that time we had
a corner on all manner of
issues and problems against
whidi we, as students, could
rebel will uneven degrees of
constructiveness and depth:
Vietnam, racism, poverty,
paternalism in St. Andrews’
administration, and the like.”
Most distressing, he recalled,
was when tuition and fees hit
$1,200 a year.
Presently married to Trish
Sharman ’68, Mann lives in
Tallahassee, Fla., where he
heads ip the state’s 100 men
tal health clinics, presiding
over a $30 million annual
budget. He’s also a travel
bug, having in recent years
hit Japan, Hawaii, Alaska,
Mexico, Europe, and most of
Central and South America.
Mann’s successor was
Meredythe Lawrence ‘66,
who lives in Biscoe (near
Southern Pines) and is
married to an attorney, Harry
Fisher. The mother of two
boys, ages 3 and 9 months,
ready the taught school for a
number of years before
retiring to be with her sons
more. As a frestenan in 1962,
(Continued on page 4)
Musical Group
To Perform
On Sunday, September 28 at
7 pm “Seeds” will be playing
in the sanctuary of the Laurin
burg Presbyterian Oiurch.
According to Dorothy
Fillmore, President of the
College Christian Council, and
Rev. Frank Covington, the
College Pastor. “Seeds is
making an impact! Hundreds
of young people have crowded
into coffee houses, night
clubs, churches and outdoor
festivals across the South
east to listen to a new souM,
only to find themselves be
coming involved as Jesus is
ministered to them through
the lives and music of nine
people.”
Their music is as varied as
the musicians. And as in most
groups this size the people are
from all over and from all
walks of life. Fillmore said,
“this has given the group a
flavor whidi is different from
most groups of this type.”
This
Week
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER »: BSU Dbco. College Union
“SSSS"- cone..,
SnESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: Intram»«l football Grae ■
m Don’t Miss The First Ford-Carter
Granville vs. Winston-Salem. Track fieM, 4 pjn.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: Writers Reading - Lewis
Leary,“Marit Twain’s Sdl-Out”, Granville lounge, 7:30 p.m.,
free. ^
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30: Volleyball Game - Wingate
College, away.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26: Bicycle ride in the area. Meet in
frwit of Student Union at 1:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29: CCC Worship Service.
Chapel Island, 6:15 p.m.
THIS MONTH: A ^oto exhibit by Dorothy Fillmore. Vardell
GaUerv.
Debate Tonight At 9:30 P,M,