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Campus News Continues
Early Childhood/Special Education
Mini-Workshop
By Vinecia Bunch
On December 10, 1980, there was
a Early Childhood workshop for
students with majors in the Educa
tion and Early Childhood field. Dr.
Earl Hill, Early Childhood advisor,
stated that his goal is to teach the im
portance of special education in
order to produce more students with
education degrees.
There are two organizations of
Early Childhood, the SNEA
(Student National Education
Association) and the AECE
(Association of Early Childhood
Educators).
The SNEA is opened to all fields,
business education, business ad
ministration, early childhood, and
also English. Ms. Carolyn Wilson is
the president for the 1980-81 school
year.s ^
The AECE’s main purpose is to
instill within the student a' better
understanding of early childhood
education. Clarence Hicks is the
president. He emphasized that
students should follow their student
handbooks as guides to a successful
career.
The speaker for the occasion was
Miss Sheila Frizzell, who is a senior
at the Aug. and also a tutor at
Hunter Elementary. Sheila spoke
about open education, a learning en
vironment in which a student can
have a progressive education move
ment. This is to make the classroom
more enjoyable. She also explained
the methods of teaching and
mainstreaming.
Kappa Episilon Chapter
of Omega Psi Phi
By Fenton Leslie
The members 0f Kappa Episilon
Chapter of Omega Psi Phi, proudly
herlads the induction of four new
members. These four young men
having completed a rigorous pledge
period h^j^e now joined the Kappa
Episilon family.
The new members are: Morgan
Leach, sophomore; Carlton Hollis,
junior; Michael Braswell, junior;
and Randy Judkins, sophomore.
WHATS HAPPENING
IN SPECIAL SERVICES!?!
The Special Services Program, in addition to its enrichment classes, con
tinues to provide for its participants meaningful experiences outside of the
academic classroom.
The Cultural Activities Component seeks to expose the students to cultural
events involving the humanities and the arts. In addition, various academic-
related activities are planned for the purpose of providing the students with
new learning experiences.
The following is a list of activities to be sponsored by the Special Services
Program in February.
February 3,1981 — “The Caucasian Cahlk Circle”: A 13th_century drama.
February 13-14, 1981 - Symposium on “The History of Black Americans
in North Carolina and the South” at the North Carolina Archives and
History Building.
February 21, 1981 ~ North Carolina Symphony performance.
February 23, 1981 - Special Services Writing Contest.
February 25, 1981 - special Services Spelling Contest: Competition bet
ween the Special Services Reading.
fflSTORIC
SAINT AUGUSTINE’S
COLLEGE CHAPEL
CURRENT TRENDS IN
FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
Since the current trends in the area
of foreign languages and interna
tional studies has a considerable im
portance to the educational efforts
of our students, this information is
being published in The Pen to keep
the “Augites” abreast with recent
developments in this field.
Sometime in the middle of 1978, a
group of American leaders expressed
an alarming concern about the
deterioration of the Unites States’
position in the rest of the world,
about the declining prestige and the
negative image which this country
was projecting in international and
cross-cultural affairs.
It^was felt that the decline of
America’s prestige abroad had been
caused, at least partly, by our failure
to be well informed about global
issues and about other cultures. Our
diplomatic corps, the representatives
of our foreign trade, of international
and multi-national corporations,
and even the foreign correspondents
of our media have been ill-equipped
in terms of knowledge of foreign
languages and cultures to carry out
their tasks.
Very often they have remained
rather ignorant about the problems
and frustrations, about the hopes
and aspirations of those nations
where th^ have promoted
America’s interests.
The result of all this has been in
creasing hostility towards the United
States; bombings and burnings of
our embassies and business
establishments, killing or capturing
of our diplomats and other person
nel have become frequent oc
curences of recent years.
And yet, it was felt that our
educational system doesyvery little to
remedy this situation. As a matter of
fact, tlf study of foreign languages
and cultures had been drastically
reduced in the last decade as a result
of a general trend. According to
statistics:
“Many students in schools and
colleges avoid broad intellec(,ual
development in favor of acquiring
immediate job skills. A national
survey comparing attitudes of col
lege freshmen in 1969 and 1979
reveals sharp declines in tl;^ impor
tance they give to two educational
objectives closely related to citizen
ship and individual enrichment-
keeping up with political affairs and
developng a philosophy of life...A
majority of students need remedial
English. Foreign language re
quirements for admission and
graduation have been reduced or
abandoned.” (Report of the Com
mission on the Humanities, pp. 4-5).
Because of this situation, some
leaders in government, business, and
education felt that there was an
urgent need to focus public attention
on the nation’s declining com
petence in foreign languages and for
improved understanding of interna
tional affairs. Thus President
Carter’s Commission on Foreign
Language and International Studies
was created.
Dr. Prezell R. Robinsorf, Presi
dent of Saint Augustine’s College,
contributed to the work of this com
mission as a member of one of its
regional committees. The commis
sion completed its report in
November 1979, recommending,
among other things, that “Foreign
languages and International studies
should be infused at *11 levels of
American education.”
One of the positive developments,
resulting from this , commission’s
recommendations, has been the
establishment of a new National
Council on Foreign Language and
International Studies which held its
first meeting in May 1980.
The council consists of leading
representatives of government,
business, education, labor, and
media who have put their efforts
behind a cause which seems to have
some national urgency. The council
will develop a national agenda for
improving United States perfor
mance in overseas 'markets and in
the conduct of foreign affairs by
upgrading language proficiency and
international studies.
The rapidly growing involvement
of the United States in global, inter-
natiohal, cross-cultural affairs is br
inging with it increasing challenges
in the areas of international business
and technical communication,
cultural understanding, technology
transfer, international personnel
relocation, and basic human
understanding.
This situation presents both a
challenge and an opportunity for
our students in their educational
planning. Administrators and facul
ty of academic institutions are
becoming increasingly aware of the
need for trained l>ilingual profes-
sioifels in the world of global in
terdependence and cooperation, and
this awareness is reflected in recent
curriculum surveys and 1n the pro
fessional literatures.
It is certjiin that the study of^
foreign languages, not as a profes
sion, but as an integral part of other
professions, will open up great
career opportuniti«. Therefore, it is
hoped that our students will pay
serious attention to these
developments.
S.T.D.
A Brief Overview By
Mrs. Lulu H. Robinson
On July 15, 1895, the cornerstone
of the Chapel was laid. The stone for
the foundation and the north
transept was taken from “the grove
near the spring on Saint Augustine’s
ground.” On Christmas day, 1895,
the first service was held in the struc
ture and daily* services began on
Quinquagesima Sunday in 1869. The
north transept, erected in 1904, was
built by the masonry class of the col
lege.
The Bishop’s Chair was placed in
the sanctuary for The Reverend
Henry Beard Delany. He was con
secrated November 21, 1918 and was
the first Black Bishop graduated
from Saint Augustine’s and the only
Black Bishop from North Carolina.
The altar rail, a memorial to the
late Right Reverend Philip Brooks
of Massachusetts, who died in 1893,
and was an American Episcopal
clergyman. The Bishop is best
remembered for his Christmas carol,
O Little Town of Bethlehem.
The stone altar is a memorial to
Daniel Carrington Taylor, who died
in 1887 and his wife, Mary Greenleaf
Taylor who died in 1886. The marble
mensa of the altar contains five
circles, symbolic of the five wounds
in the body of our Lord. These
circles contain stones from the Man-
tine Prison in Rome and from the
Appian Way.
The chapel maintains both a font
and pool for the rite of Baptism.
Several persons who have desired to
use it have been immersed in the
pool. A rubric in the Book of Com
mon Prayer states of an adult “dip
him in water or pour water on his
head.”
A Lich-Gate or Lych-Gate was
dedicated at the entrance walk
leading to the chapel in 1903. “The
Lich-Gate, the entrance to the sacred
precinct, was a roof to shelter the
rood (cross) which was placed above
the gateway to mark the boundary
of consecrated ground.”
Pre-Reformation Lich-Gates are
very rare. A few gates date from the
late Tudor and early Stuart days, but
by far the greater number are subse
quent to the Restoration (1660).
They became very fashionable in
1666, because an act was passed
compelling everyone to be buried in
woolen shrouds.
The clergy had to certify that this
be done, thus the Lich-Gate made
shelter in bad weather desirable and
popular. The Church was thus sad
dled with supporting a political
measure of seeing that all corpses be
clothed in woolen and all caskets lin-
^ with wool right down to 1814.
The only other Lich-Gate that the
author knows of in the U.S.A. is at
Bard College, Annandale On-The-
Hudson, N.Y., that leads into their
cemetery.
Pre-Christmas Service
By Sammie Brown
On Thursday, December Jl, 1981
at 11 a.m. in the College Chapel the
Pre-Christmas service was rendered.
Mr. Budda Shannon, President of
the International Student Associa
tion, presided.
The invocation was by Greg Far-
rison. Following the invocation was
the First Lesson by Dennis Haggray
and Chanetta Lytette.
The sermonette was by the college
chaplain. Father Ronald Fox. Father
Fox emphasized the gift of God be
ing overlooked. “In loving we
become loved, in peace and power
from our Father, Jesus Christ.”
Selections were rendered by the
Harmonic Echoes, who sang tradi
tional Christmas carols. The Gospel
Choir, directed by Robert Lewis,
and also the Brothers of Faith,
representatives Kelvin Whithead and
Earnest Burwell rendered selections.
Presentations were made by. Dr.
Thelmai Roundtree, vice president
for Academic Affairs who presented
the first place Blood Drive award to
the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. She
also presented Hymnals to persons
of high esteem. The recipients were
Ms. Magadalene Johnson, Miss St.
Augustine’s College; and the Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. and the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority who
were also presented ‘ Jiymnals for
their participatioji in tW drive.
The International Students
Association presented awards to Ms.
Mary Myatt, advisor and Mr.
Freeman Eaddy.
The senior class of 1980, presi
dent, Steve Boyette, donated the PA
system and hymnals to the College
Chapel. The Gamma Psi Chapter of
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incor
porated contributed fifty dollars.
Greetings were extended to the
“Aug” family from various frater
nities and sororities, to conclude the