The Lance
A Weekly Journal of Neu,s and Events At St. Andrews Presbyterian College
VOL. 17 No. 1
cat From Anonymous Donor Largest In History Of CoUegi
LATOINBuRG, north CAROLINA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1977
St. Andrews Recipient Of Million Dollar Gift; Will Fund
Chair In Science, More Scholarships
CLAYTOR
New Dean
Named
Robert B. Cla}^or, a native
of Bluefield, WV, and for
merly of the University of
Oklahoma, was appointed
dean of students at St. An
drews by Dean Ronald C.
Crossley announced.
Claytor is the former direc
tor of a scholarship and
leadership enrichment
program for highly talented
undergraduates in Oklahoma.
During his years at Oklahoma
he also served as an instructor
in the College of Education.
As dean of students, Claytor
directs the student life office,
including general supervision
of the residential program,
financial aid and placement
services, career and personal
counseling services, campus
ministry, student activities
and orientation. He also has
responsibility to initiate and
oversee student life policies
and judicial procedures.
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To Edit Review
Dr. William Loftus,
assistant professor of French
St. Andrews, has been
named managing editor of the
“St. Andrews Review”, the
Quarterly literary and arts
roagazine published at the
college.
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This
Week
One of the most important
events in the history of St.
Andrews Presbyterian
College, the receipt of a gift of
$1,000,000, was reported this
morning to the Synod of
North Carolina, meeting at
the First Presbyterian
' Church in Winston-Salem.
Dr. Joseph Mullin, pastor of
the\ First Presbyterian
Church, Greensboro, and
general chairman of a new
church-wide campaign to
raise $3,675,000 for the
Laurinburg liberal arts
college, told the assembly
that the gift had come from a
Presbyterian layman from
outside North Carolina, and
that the gift was the first
major step in achieving the
goal of the new fund drive.
He also reported that
another gift of $100,000 had
come from another
Presbyterian layman outside
the state.
Dr. Mullin reported to
Synod members that it is
anticipated that $575,000 will
be used for the renovation of
dormitories and other
facilities, and for equipment.
The major portion of the total,
$3,100,000, will go into en
dowment and the income
from it will provide for
program development,
scholarships, endowed
professorships and library
acquisitions.
Besides Dr. Mullin, other
members of the fund cabinet
are William F. Hohman,
Winston-Salem executive of
First Union National Bank,
and Lindsay G. Warren, Jr.,
Goldsboro attorney, vice
chairmen; Edward J. Mack,
executive vice president of
Burlington Industries, Inc.,
Greensboro, chairman of the
St. Andrews board of trustees,
and Halbert M. Jones,
chairman of the board,
Waverly Mills, Inc.,
Laurinburg, and chairman of
the college trustees’
development committee.
President A. P. Perkinson,
Jr., in commenting on the
$1,000,000 gift, stated that it
was the donor’s wish that he
remain anonymous. “We are
delighted to have been in
cluded in the group of
distinguished colleges and
universities across the nation
who have benefited from the
concern of this dedicated
Presbyterian layman.”
“This act of stewardship
will have an enormous impact
on St. Andrews,” President
Perkinson replied to the donor
recently. “It will strengthen
the college for the difficult
years which lie ahead. Cer
tainly society never had a
greater need for the kind of
Christian value education
work in which St. Andrews is
engaged, and we are grateful
Public Interest Group Seeks Investigation
Of Drug Company Billing Practices
for your most significant role
in this work.”
This first major gift will be
used for an endowed
professorship in the sciences,
and for a strengthened
scholarship program to aid
students from lower and
middle income families.
Speaking for himself and
his wife, the donor wrote
President Perkinson, “We
sincerely hope this gift will
prove to be a stimulation for
accelerating or perhaps
enlarging gifts that you might
be developing at this time.
Certainly every private
college needs every dollar it
’nn r>o.ssiblv get.”
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Thieves Hit
L.A. Building
Spree Nets $2000
The chairman of a campus
group said yesterday that he
would ask its state
organization to investigate
prescription billing practices
of a drug store chain about to
locate in the college’s new
shopping center. Holly
Square.
Lin Thompson, chairman of
the St. Andrews Public In
terest Research Group
(PIRG) told THE LANCE that
the investigation would seek to
encusre that Revco Discount
Drug Centers, Inc. “will not be
bringing to Scotland County -
with the college’s en
couragement, through
locating in its shopping center
- the kind of anti-consumer
fraud they practice in Ohio.”
Revco pleaded no contest in
late July to charges that it
overbilled the store of Ohio
$500,000 in Medicaid
prescription costs over a five
year period, and was ordered
to repay the state and a $50,000
fine as well. Two Revco
executives were fined two
thousand dollars each.
Ohio state Auditor Thomas
Ferguson called the sentences
and fines “a mere slap on the
wrist” and said that Revco
should be barred from doing
any future business with the
state.
“The firm (Revco) has had
the use of state funds since the
practice of overbilling was
beeun in 1972,” Ferguson said.
“The company does not have
to pay any interest (on the
excess profits) and even gets
to keep doing business with
the state.”
Ferguson said that he had
calculated that Revco owes
Ohio at least $100,000 in in
terest on the money and
should be made to pay. He also
indicated that he would ask
the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare to
investigate Revco’s Medicaid
billing practices inall of the 20
states in which the chain does
business with the government.
In an interview with THE
LANCE, PIRG chairman
Thompson said that his
group’s interest in the case
stemmed from its in
volvement over the past five
years with efforts to legislate
the posting of prescription
prices from common drugs in
drug stores. “According to a
study PIRG did in 1974, the
difficulty consumers have in
determining what
establishment has the
cheapest prescription price
for a given drug - many won’t
even tell you over the phone
how much it will cost you -
creates situatons in which two
identical containers filled with
the same amount of the the
same medicine can vary in
price up to five and six dollars
between two given drug
stores.” He added that it “just
isn’t in the public interest for
the college to bring into
Scotland County a drug store
chain that engages over the
kind of fraudulent activity
Revco is in Ohio without
making every effort to see if
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The morning of Monday,
September 5 proved to be
upsetting for a large number
of administrators with offices
in the LA Building. Earlier
that morning, several offices
were looted. Thieves, ap
parently entering the offices
earlier that morning, filled
several briefcases with such
items as cameras,
calculators, and tape
recorders.
Thurman Anderson,
supervisor of the custodial
staff, arrived at the LA
Building at 5:45 a.m. His
arrival surprised the thieves,
and they disappeared in a
waiting car. A call by An
derson to security resulted in
a call to the Laurinburg
Police. In their haste, the
robbers left most of the “loot”
under a tree outside.
However, after an in
ventory of the offices, it was
discovered that the thieves
did manage to get away with
approximately $2,000 worth of
office machines and cameras.
None of the stolen goods have
as yet been recovered.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15: TTie Thursday Nite Poetry
Series presents Ron Bayes, writer-in-residence, and SA
students, 7:30 p.m., King’s Mountain Conference Center. Free
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: Cross Country Meet - St.
Andrews, Methodist College, and USC Spartanburg, 11:00 a.ra.
Free
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: St. Andrews vs. Belmont
Abbey, 2 p.m., Soccer field. Free.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: Soccer Party - beer under
Mecklenburg dorm with cookout to follow on lakeside, bring
your own cup, 2 p.m. Free
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18: CUB Sunday Night Movie - “The
Front Page,” Avinger (See Review on page 3). Admission 25(.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19: Monday Night Series in the Arts,
Craig Scoggins, photographer, “8 X 10 view camera and
contact printing,” Vardell Building, 6:30 p.m. Free.
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