A STUDENT PUBLICATION OF FLORA MACDONALD COLLEGE
V»lume No. 7
Flora Macdonald College, October, 1958
Number 1
Student Council members. Sandra Abbott. Lynda Hill, and Susan Currie greet fieshmen Judy
McCall, Magie Fishbume. Leetta Richardson, and Prissy Thomas.
Former Student Of Dr. Vardell
Among New Faculty Members
Seven new teachers and a new
nurse are beginning the ’58-'59
school year at Flora Macdonald
College.
Offering something new in the
F. M. C. curriculum is Dr. Cor
delia Margaret Birch, who not
only teaches Latin and a course
in classical civilization, but has
organized a Greek class, also.
Dr. Birch, a native of St. Louis,
Missouri, studied for B. A., M. A.,
and Ph.D degrees at Washington
University in St. Louis. She says
her interests revolve around the
Greek and Latin languages.
Finding the college and the town
of Red Springs “a most pleasant
place,” Dr. Birch credits her en
joyment of her stay here to the
many smiles £Uiid cordial greet
ings ^ receives everywhere she
A bdge Volkswagen is likely
to be the trademark of Miss Cat
herine Neylands, F. M. C.’s new
assistant professor of French.
Miss Neylans, of Macon, Geor
gia, recdved her A. B. at Wesle^
yan College there, and her M. A.
at tlw Universdty of North Caro
lina. She has spent a year in
New York at a setretarial job.
One of her most interesting ec-
perienoes, she says, was a sum
mer spent in Europe, five years
ago, when slie lived a month with
a French family. She describes
hersdf as a “dabbler” in photo
graphy.
Miss Neylans occupies the fac
ulty apartment in the home rrian-
agement house.
Although English is her forte,
Misa Virginia Anne Walker is in
terred in Hiuac, for sTifc naiftCd
it as her double major when she
rcceii^ her B. A. at High Point
CoBege.
A native of High Point, North
Carolina, Miss Walker received
M. A. ait Al&biima Poljrtiedi-
Hie Iflsatute, AtAmin, Alabama.
sSie h££ b(!«!n a »>ad^g
mm for the past tm yeaft.
of
The new assistant professor
English lives in Red Springs.
A former student of Dr. Charles
Vardell, Jr., Mrs. Dwis Keith
Cornwell, of Raeford is the new
instructor in piano. Mrs. Cornwell
who studied under Dr. Vardell
at Salem College, where she re
ceived her B. M., has studied at
Julliard in New York City. She
had experience teaching and
coaching while in New York, al
though this is her first time teach
ing in college.
While working at a secretarial
job in Los Angeles, California,
Mrs. Cornwell was introduced to
her husband, a native of Mur-
phey, North Carolina, at church.
They are parents of a son and a
daughter, Mike and Sylvia, ages
thirty months and fifteen months
respectively.
The ComweHs plan to settle in
Raeford. Mr. Cornwell is an auto-
mative supply salesman.
Miss Rebecca RoyaL says she
decided to come to be nurse at
F. M. C. because she thought she
would enjoy working with college
girls, and be^use everything ^e
has ever heard about F. M. C.
has been nice.
Miss Royal, originally of Clinton,
North Carolina, is a 1958 gradu
ate of Highamth School of Nurs
ing in Fayetteville, where die
worked for six months after her
graduation. Since then, she has
worked at Sampson County Me-
mcriai Hospital at Clinton, wh«-e
she was surgical floor and emer
gency nurse.
New Students At FMG
From Various Places
Another of the new faculty
members with an interest in pho
tography is Mr. Ernest St. Jac
ques, associate director of guid-
£mce, who especially likes slides
and develops and makes prints
of some of his own pictures.
Afr. St. Jacques, who tor the
past seven years was a high
school history teacher and guid-
an^ director in Stone Mountain,
Georgia, is a native of Shelburne
Falls, Massachusetts, and re
ceived his B. S. in education at
State Teacher’s College in Wor
cester, Massachusetts, and his
M. A. at George Peabody College
in Nashville, Tennessee.
He and his wife are parents of
two boys, six and five years old
and a one-year-old daughter. Mr.
and Mrs. St. Jacques are counsel
ors to the Baptist Training Union.
One F. M. C. girl says she will
have to change her favorite ejac
ulation, “Dear Gussie”, now that
she is m one of Mr. Robert K.
Gustafson’s Bible classes.
Mr. Gustafson, the new profes
sor of Bible, is pulling up roots
in Wagram, North Carolina, where
he has been pastor of Montpelier
Presbyterian Church for the near
ly two years since completing his
graduate work at Union Theolog
ical Seminary in Richmond, Vir-
^nia. Mr. and Mrs. Gustafson and
their long dachshund, Baron, are
moving to a Scottish Heights
apartment in Red Springs.
In introducing himself to his
classes, Mr. Gustafson explained
that he has always had an in
terest in college teaching, parti
cularly since he became a Chris
tian. He says te is here because
of his inbarest, and h^es his
students are, too.
(Continued on Page 4)
When the doors of Flora Mac
donald College were opened foi-
the beginning of its 1958-59 ses
sion students from many South
ern states and several from the
Northern states entered to begin
their college work. The majority
of the new students were begin
ning college work for the first
time, however, there were quite
a number of students transferring
from other colleges around the
country. Not to be forgotten were
those students who joined our
ranks as day students. These al
so came from near and far. Tliey
number seventy two.
The Southern States as usual
furnish Flora Macdonald with
most of her student body, but
even these were scattered and
long distances were involved.
North and South Carolina still held
the majority, but quite a few other
Southern states were well repre
sented. The Northern states, Cana
da, and Korea sent representa
tives again this yiar.
following a close second with four.
Some of the other states from
which the new students came were
Ala b a m a, Georgia, Kentucky,
Maryland, and New York.
The number of new day stu
dents this- Fall is approxunately
thirty-six coming both from neai'
and far. Red Springs sent quite
a few day students but in the
other extreme two from New York
are attending. Day students also
came from Wilmington, Pembroke,
Fayetteville, Hamlet, Nakina, San
ford, Laurinburg, and many other
places.
The transfers came from many
different colleges and various
sections of the country. Some of
the schools from which they came
are: East Carolina, Greensboro,
Peace, Woman’s College, Mars
Hill, Pineland, High Point, Mi
ami University, St. Mary’s, Mere
dith, Catawba, and P. J. C.
The new domutory students in
cluding freshmen added this year
is about 141.
EXtra
Oreetingili Friends ...
Are ,you feeling down in the
doMps b«ing Hmdoi«»n ani
homesick? Would y6a like a place
to- go to rest and ftel A hotne?
Voa wd^NlI Wffl tiien. i bave jta^
the idsce for yeu. Oune «t tmd
join Epsilon Chi Society and en-
jof our comfortaWe and fq>acious
society haB. There you will find
full, frtendsdnp, and enjojnnent
you can’t find aitywhert else.
FrienAs, be Wis», joia hamd in
ttaod EX)
, , Representing so many different
Among the more distant Soutii- L
we are sure th&
em states Florida led by sending i students will Have t,o
five new students with Virginia j otter FMC.
more of the new students to the
care of one of the junior gi^s.
The junior girl then usually con
tacts her prospective “Little Sis
ters” to let them know who she
is and tliat she will be their aid
in the new year. This is one of
the privileges that the juniors
await with pleasant anticipation.
Finally the big day arrive^.
The “Little Sister” is introduced
to her “Big Sister” and so be
gins the relationship so long await
ed. The “Big Sister” tries to heip
the “Little Sister” understand all
those things about college life
which are not explained in any
handbook or orientation booklet.
The “Big Sisters” watch with prick
the development of their green
“Little Sisters” into good citi
zens of the college campus. The
“Little Sisters” have someone to
whom they can run in need and
who is interested in their welfare.
Who can say which brings the
greater joy? Each has its place
in life at college and each brings
its own rewards. But whatever
may be said, nothing quite re
places the traditicm of “Big Sis
ter”, “Little Sister.”
Big Sister, Liille Sister
Meaningful Tradition
Flora Macdonald College is not
ed for its tradition. In fact there
are so many traditions that a
student may be in school a year
or more before she is aware of
them all. One tradition, however,
with which a Flora Macdonald
girl is familiar almost from the
day she deddied to make it her
college home, is that of “Big Sis
ter”, “Little Sister”.
As a new student enters the
doors of Flora Macdonald, and
even before, she is aware of the
fact that there is someone there
who knows that she is coming
and who will take care of her
in her first crucial weeks and
through the year. Hiat person is
her “Big Sister.” For “Big Sis
ter” there is the knowledge that
she is responsible for one or more
of the new students during her
coming year at ^ool. She is
privileged to introduce to the new
students all those petite and ad
ventures which have become so
cherished by her in her iwo years
at FMC.
J3tiring the summer the Presi
dent of tlie Juniw dass iis given
a list of the new students and
the members of tlie junior class.
It is her job to appoint one or
Dean In West Vir^nia
Dr. Price H. Gwynn, Jr., Dean
of the College, is in Huntington,
West Virginia this week teach
ing in a Leadership ’Tiaining
School. The school began Sun
day night and ends Thursday
night.
Welcome From Zetesian!
Zeta Theta Psi welcomes each new student to Flora
Macdonald College. Vte are happy to have you as a part
of our institution. In “Zetesian”, we emphasize fellowship,
our colors are green and white, and of course, our so
ciety hall is on thfe ri^t. Any Zetesian will tell you that
“Friendship is our motto”, and we, at all times, try to
live up to this. When Decision Night rolls around, “Go
Tight, go Zetesian”. Won’t you join us?