Indian Museum
Sponsors Collector's Day
Senate
Update
The Interdonniatory Senate
has been investigating
several issues of importance.
The possibility of once
again acquiring suite phones
has been discussed and is
being acted upon by the
Campus Affairs Committee.
Dean Crossley recently
expressed a desire to form an
informal group of students
who would meet with him on a
regular basis to discuss the
topics and concerns that
students care about. Dean
Crossley enlisted the help of
Student Association President
Jeff Walker, and now the
Dean’s Advisory Group has
been formed.
The eight students on the
Adivsory Group are: Sandy
Baldwin, Pam Pohl, Jan
Donnell, Greg Piccola, Roy
Lander, Austin Seagrave,
Bobby McWhorter, and
Proctor Freeman.
The first meeting of this
group will take place
tomorrow in the President’s
Dining Room during dinner.
Any student who has an
opinion or concern that they
wish to be discussed should
contact one of the eight
Also involved in this action is
the Senate’s request of the
business office to print
campus phone books for
students as well as faculty.
The Senate has acted to
support the Graduation
Comnuttee’s efforts to revise
the St. Andrews diploma. It
has been charged that the
present diploma needs a
revision to include new type
and a higher quality paper.
Both the Administration and
the Graduation Committee
students listed above so that
they may be passed along to
the Dean.
are working cooperatively on
this issue.
An amendment to the
Constitution was introduced
by Senator Kunkle (Gran
ville) which calls for a new
process of choosing the six
student seats on the Student
Life Committee. The Senate
voted unanimously to support
the amendment. The student
body will vote on the amen
dment in the near future.
The Budget Committee
decided to approve a $100
request for the College
Christian Council’s Fast for a
World Harvest on November
16. A request for $450 to aid
the Blue Coot Press was
disapproved; The Senate
accepted and voted
unamimously on the Budget
Committee’s report.
The Indian Museum of the
Carolinas in Laurinburg is
hosting a Collectors Day on
October 28. This program is
one of a series of Saturday
seminars funded in part by a
grant from the National
Endowment for the
Humanities. Space will be
provided for local collectors
of Indian artifacts to display
their collections. A number of
North Carolina Ar
chaeological Society mem
bers are expected to be
present.
Collectors Day will begin at
9:00 a.m. and coffee will be
available during Uie setting
up period. At 9:45 there will
be a film on the manufacture
of stone tools.
Dr. David McLean,
Director of the Indian
Museum, and Mr. Michael
Sellon, Associate Director,
will speak at 10:15 on record
keeping procedures for
The Writer’s Forum at St.
Andrews continues this week
with a student reading hosted
by Steve Allgood. As usual, it
will take place in Granville at
6:30 tonight.
Allgood, who is editor of the
Cairn this year, has been
described as “one of the most
insightful and sensitive young
poets presently writing at St.
amateur archaeologists and
collectors. Both speakers
have taught college ar
chaeology classes and Dr.
McLean is a former president
of the North Carolina Ar
chaeological Society.
A second film will follow,
illustrating how information
gathered during excavation of
a Late Woodland village is
used to interpret and
reconstruct prehistoric Indian
life. The rest of the morning
will be devoted to the various
artifact collections.
This program is designed to
provide collectors a chance to
compare notes with each
other and to view the Indian
Museum displays and
reference collections. It is an
opportunity to talk with one of
the professional ar
chaeologists on the museum
staff and learn what ar
chaeological activities are
going on in the state.
Andrews” by Professor Ron
Bayes, St. Andrews’ writer-in-
residence.
Student readings have
proved very popular in the
past and a large turnout is
expected. Any student who
wishes to read on some future
date should contact Jon
Johnson, student director off
the Forum.
It is not necessary to be a
collector to attend. The public
is invited to all of the events.
If you have found something
out in the field that you think
might be an Indian artifact,
bring it along on October 28
and see what the experts say
about it!
For further information on
Collectors Day, call Ruth Y.
Wetmore, Curator, or Michael
Sellon, Associate Director, at
the Indian Museum (919/276-
5880). The Indian Museum is
open on Tuesday mornings
and every afternoon (except
Monday) from 1:00 to 5:00
p.m. There is no admission
charge.
Judicial Board
Hears Case
The Judicial Board met just
before break to try an honor
code offense. Specifically, two
persons were charged with
stealing furniture from Pate
Hall.
The following is the sen
tence that the Judicil Board
has decided would be ap
propriate;
1) $10 per person to go to
Pate Hall
2) Split fee for the damage
of a table
3) Both people must go on a
work program for 4 weeks at
2 hours a week
4) Not charged with theft of
sculpture, bookend, or brass
ashtray because of lack of
evidence.
Crossley Gets Help From
Walker; Deanes Advisory
Group Formed
Allgood Featured In
Writer’s
Reading Program
Convocation Invests Blackburn With McGaw Chair
Quicker than a photo, THE LANCE has provided these
immediate reaction sketches of convocation. (Sketches by
Steve Newton)
Eight Students
Included
In Who’s Who
The 1978-79 editon of “Who’s
Who Among Students in
American Universities and
Colleges will carry the names
of 8 students from St. Andrews
who have been selected as
being among the country’s
most outstanding camps
leaders.
Campus nominating
committees and editors of the
annual directory have in
cluded the names of these
students based on their
academic achievement,
service to the community,
leadership in extracurricular
activites and future potential.
They join an elite group of
students selected from more
than 1,000 institutions of
higher learning in all 50 states,
the District of Columbia and
several foreign nationas.
Outstanding students have
been honored in the annual
directory since it was first
published in 1934.
Students named this year
from St. Andrews
Presbyterian College are:
Caity Davidson, Richard
Durham, Robin Green,
Sheppard Harden, Nancy
Jackson, Samuel (Butch)
Keller, Pam Pohl, and Cheryl
Shapiro.
By Jon Johnson
Early this morning (10:30)
the St. Andrews community
was treated to its second
convocation of the year. At
Avinger auditorium among
the colorful display of
academic gowns. Dr. Thomas
Blackburn was vested with the
McGaw Professorship of
Chemistry, St. Andrews’ first
named academic chair.
Dr. Blackburn’s ap
pointment is an important
step in the school
s continuing interest in the
development of its faculty. As
Dr. Ronald Crossley, Dean of
the College, pointed out,
“Many colleges have an
impressive array of ‘named
chairs’. It is frequenUy a way
of giving recognition both to
the donor of a considerable
sum of money and to a
professor who has demon
strated special skills in
teaching.
“We would like to think that
as the opportunity presents
itself... we might appoint to
such posts outstanding
members of our own faculty,
or attract to our faculty people
of very special talents.”
Dr. Blackburn’s own
credentials are quite im
pressive. He graduated
magna cum laude and Phi
Beta Kappa from Carleton
College and followed his
studies there to Harvard
University where he earned
his MA degree in 1959 and his
doctorate in 1962.
Dr. Blackburn has received
a Danforth graduate
fellowship, a National Science
Foundation gradfuate
fellowship, and research
grants from Hobart and
William Smith Colleges,
Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Foundation, again the
National Science Foundation,
and the National Aeronautics
and Space Agency.
Professor Blackburn has
also authored one textbook,
co-authored another, had
essays published by
“Science” magazine and the
“North American Review”
and had research papers
published in a variety of
journals.
In choosing their ap
pointment to the Mcgaw
professorship, the college
weighed many factors. The
most important of these were
distinguished teaching,
distinguished research and
publication, and the ap
pearance of a genuine com
mitment to the coUlege and
the college conununity.
Dr. Blackburn was picked
from over 40 qualified ap
plicants. This group was
reduced to a group of three by
a serening committee which
was composed of faculty and
students. From this group. Dr.
Blackburn was finally chosen
after even more interviews.
With his qualifications and
background, it is felt by most
that Dr. Blackburn will be an
important addition to St.
Andrews.
Help Wanted - Business Office
needs student help for filing,
key punching, etc. Workshop
Student preferred - See Kay
or call ext. 223 and ask for
Kay.