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VOL. 7—NO. 5
THE DECREE
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1965
CHRISTMAS A GLOW” AT N.C.W.C.
The Social Commission headed
by B. J. Myers, will sponsor
the third dance of the year with
a Christmas Dance scheduled for
December 11 from 8 until 12;30
p.m. featuring the Ambassadors,
a 16 Diece band from Raleigh.
Highlighting the dance will be
•he coronation of Miss Mistletoe
who will be selected from re
presentatives from each of the
classes. Votes for Miss Mistle
toe will be cast at the dance,
one vote per couple. By using
this new system of election, the
choice of the student body will
not be made or announced until
the dance itself. Those girls
selected from the student body
were; Jo Ann Blow, Linda Pres
ton, Brenda Lewis, Mary Ann
Walden, sally Kullas, Kay Lips-
combe, Judy Addison, Nancy Cru
tchfield.
The theme of the Christmas
.pance is “Christmas A Glow”.
Chairman of the dance and pub
liGity is Katrina Kobalarz, who
•will be assisted by Anne Van
Wagoner on Decorations and Sha
ron Lvnch on Refreshments.
The dance will be held in the
cafeteria due to athletic activi
ties in the gymnasium during
the afternoon.
Wesleyan Singers
To Present
Concert, Dec. 14
The Wesleyan singers will
present the sixth annual Christ
mas concert Tuesday evening,
December 14, in the college gym
nasium. The 85-voice group will
present a program of music ap
propriate for the Christmas sea
son consisting of j. s. Bach’s
Cantata No. 65 with soloists Mel
vin Dowdy and Ted Turner and
a collection of carols from
Europe, Wales and four Negro
Spirituals. The final group of
songs for the evening will con
sist of Christmas courses by
three contemporary composers.
Soloists for the remainder of
the evening will include Barbara
Crawford, Nancy Grider, Mar
garet Poole, Christine Shipley
and Joyce Reynolds, sopranos;
Melissa Huieing, alto; Ted Tur
ner and Jack Breedlove, ten
ors; Chic Ball and Richard
Houck, basses.
The Wesleyan Singers is di
rected by Dr, William Sasser
and accompanied by Miss Jo
Ann Campbell.
A reception will be held in
the' North End of the Student
Lounge for the We^eyan Sing
ers and their parents and friends
immediately following the con
cert.
The Singers will also present
the entire Christmas program the
following evening at a Christmas
ceremony in Tarrytown Mall.,
New Registration
System Adopted
Miss Mistletoe Candidates are, left to right, standing: Kay
Lipscombe, Marianne Walden, Jo Ann Blow, Linda Pres
ton, Sally Kullas, Brenda Lewis. Seated: Nancy Crutch
field, Judy Addison.—Photo by Boothe
Collins Announces
Departmental
Reorginization
Dr. Thomas A. Collins, presi
dent of North Carolina Wesleyan
College, has announced the crea
tion of three departments within
the Division of Humanities and
named chairmen for them.
The chairmen and their de
partments are Dr. William G.
Sasser, music; Dr. Jack E. Tea
garden, English; and Dr. War
ren E. Gates, modern languages.
Dr. C. Edwin Harwood is chair
man of the Humanities Division,
the first academic area to set
up departments.
With the numerical increase
in Wesleyan’s student body and
faculty, Dr. Collins explained
departmental organization was
justified in those curricular
areas having three or more full
time instructors offering a major
program and demonstrating need.
Departments within the Social
Sciences and the Sciences Di
visions will be created as ex
pansion demands.
The department chairmen will
coordinate such activities as sch
eduling classes, assigning in
structors to courses and divid
ing classes into sections. Each
department will originate its own
purchase requests for supplies
and equipment. The chairmen
will work closely with the aca
demic dean and division chair
men in expanding his depart
ment and securing new faculty
members. The appointments are
for three years and may be re
newed upon recommendation by
members within each depart
ment.
Dr. Sasser, associate profes
sor of music, was one of the first
faculty membel-s to come to Wes
leyan. He helped set up the music
curriculum at the college, which
now offers 2 3 courses and has a
faculty of four full-time and two
part-time members. He is a
pianist with wide performing ex
perience both as a soloist and
as a duo-pianist with his wife.
Dr. Teagarden, Professor of
English, joined Wesleyan’s facul
ty in 1961. He has been instrumen
tal in developing the Summer
Session Reading-Writing Im
provement Program. His depart
ment offers 21 courses in Eng
lish and literature. It has
five full-time and one part-time
faculty members.
Warren E. Gates, professor of
modern languages, came to Wes
leyan this fall from Pfeiffer Col
lege, where he had taught for the
past eight years. He has also
taught at the University of Colo
rado from which he received his
Ph, D. Wesleyan’s curriculum
includes 29 courses in French,
German and Spanish, which are
taught by four full-time and one
part-time faculty members.
Mr. Bill Garlow, Admissions
Counselor for Wesleyan College,
announced recently that a new
system of registration will be
used this semester in preparation
for the Spring Semester. This
Early Registration system is
being applied in an attempt to end
the mass confusion which pre
viously has occurred registration
day. It will enable students at
tending Wesleyan Fall semester
to enroll first in classes and avoid
the possible closing of courses
by new students second semester.
The system also allows the
Registration Office to go through
registration cards and try to
compensate for any conflicts
prior to the first day of classes
in the Spring Semester, as all
changes in courses will be made
on the student schedule card prior
to the time that the student re
turns on campus after semester
break.
In addition, Mr. Garlow com
mented on the fact the class
schedule as it stands now will re
main primarily the same with the
addition of several new courses in
the field of Economics, History,
Political Science, and Speech and
Theater.
Early registration was held
December 7, 8, 9. Students com
pleted registration in the records
office prior to 5:00 p.m. De
cember 9 or permission was not
granted to register early.
Failure tp register by Decem
ber 9 places late registration on
February 2,1966 with the addition
of a $5.00 late registration fee.
Mr. Garlow especially stressed
the $5.00 fee for late registration
because of the need to make the
new system completely effective
all students must participate. All
questions concerning Early Re
gistration should be taken to the
Registration Office.
The policy concerning Drop and
Add has remained the same. Stu
dents have 7 days following the
first day of classes to add a
course and 14 days to drop.
$25,000 Grant
Added To Fund
A $25,000 grant toward the
■:ost of N. C. Wesleyan’s new
college library has been made
uy the Z. Smith Reynolds Foun
dation.
Mrs. Nancy Reynolds Verney,
of sapelo Island, Ga., has writ
ten Wesleyan’s president, Dr.
Thomas A. Collins, of a resolu-'
tion recently passed by the trus
tees of the foundation, of which
she is president. It read:
“RESOLVED: That this Foun
dation grant $25,000 to North
Carolina Wesleyan College,
Rocky Mount, North Carolina,
toward the cost of a new library
building.”
In thanking the foundation for
'the award. Dr. Collins said,
“This has been a great stimulus
to our efforts to achieve the
construction in the immediate
future.”
This is the third recent gift
made for the library. The other
two were gifts of $20,000 each,
one from Miss Vivian Braswell
and the other from Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas J. Pearsall, all local
benefactors of the college.
Additional gifts and grants
are anticipated and are being
sought by the college. The Board
of Trustees has authorized the
architects to make ready the
plans and specifications for let
ting of construction contracts
early next v year.
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NEW DEPARTMENTAL HEADS: Dr.
Warren E. Gates.':—Photo by Norton
Sasser,
Teagarden,