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VOL. 7 - No, 15
THE DECREE
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1966
Elliott, Sturgill
To Become
Division Chairmen
Dr. Philip Elliott, Associate
Professor of English, will be
come Acting Chairman of the Di
vision of the Humanities and
Mack Howard Sturgill, Assistant
Professor of Spanish, will be
come Acting Chairman of the
Modern Language Department at
North Carolina Wesleyan College
according to announcement by
Dean Jack Moore.
Dr. Elliott, a native of Cul-
lowhee. North Carolina, has been
associated with Wesleyan since
September of 1963. He will suc
ceed Dr. C. Edwin Harwood as
Chairman at the end of the cur
rent semester.
Dr. Elliott was graduated from
Gardner-Webb College, Furman
University, the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and earned his Ph.D degree at the
University of Georgia. He has
taught at Gardner-Webb and
Clemson University before com
ing to Wesleyan.
Here he has served on num
erous committees, served as
Chairman of freshman studies,
and shared with Dr. Teagarden
in establishing the highly suc
cessful summer Reading-Writing
Program. He currently serves
as Chairman on the Faculty No
minating Committee and a
member of the Admissions
Committee.
Professor Sturgill, a native of
Marion, Virginia, came to North
Carolina Wesleyan College in
September of 1964 from Green
Mountain College in Poultney,
Vermont. He will succeed Dr.
Warren E. Gates as acting chair
man of the department.
He was educated at Marion
Junior College, the University
of Havana, and earned the B.A.
degree at the College of William
and Mary. He studied at the Uni
versity of Madrid and earned the
M.A. at Middlebury College. He
taught at Emory and Henry Col
lege, Wake Forest College, and
Green Mountain College before
coming to Wesleyan.
At Wesleyan he has been ac
tive in the Modern Language
development and has served on
the Faculty Library Committee.
Classrooms Now
Open As Evening
Study Halls
Dean Jack W. Moore recently
announced that additional class
rooms will be open for study hall
privileges each week-day eve
ning, The hours will be the same
as those applying to the
library. Classrooms 277 and 278
will remain open as well as the
Math Help Lab in the Grave
ly Science Wing,
Newly appointed division chairmen are (1. to r.) Dr.
Philip Elliott, chairmen of humanities, Dean Jack Moore,
and Mr. Mack Sturgill, chairmen, foreign language divi-
Photo by Norton
Sion.
Senate News
Various charges against the
judicial procedure and problems
within the judicial organization
have prompted attempts to re
form the SLA structure at Wes -
leyan. At the May 9 meeting of
the senate, Fritz Smith, chair
man of this years judicial trium
virate discussed some changes
which he felt were needed in the
judicial system.
The primary point that he made
was that, in his opinion, the
number of members of the judi
cial board was to small. He
suggested enlarging the structure
to 7 members with possibly two
of these from the faculty. To
support this change he men
tioned that with only three mem
bers in the board that they tar
gets for pressure from the stu
dents, the administration, and the
faculty. With an increase in size
of the group, and with the in
clusion of two faculty members
this pressure should be lessen
ed, he contended. Furthermore,
this change would lessen the
chance of personal opinion enter
ing the decision making.
The consensus of the senate
appeared to be that an enlarge
ment of the judicial group was
needed. However, there was some
question as to the idea of add
ing faculty members. Katrina
Kobylarz stated that it would be
difficult for a faculty member
to keep his classroom relation
ship with a student separate from
a judicial decision. She pointed
out that it would be very bad for
a student to know that a faculty
member had found a student guilty
of an offense and then have to
have a academic course under
that teacher.
In view of this fact the senate
opinion seemed to be that the
judicial board should be enlarged
but that all the new members
would have to come from the
student body.
Another suggestion was made
to have the Student Life and Ser
vice Committee serve as an
appeal board from the Judicial
Board. At present, the Student
Life and Service group reviews
any case in which a student is
suspended or expelled from
school. The suggested change
would give a student, found guilty
of any offense in which the Judi
cal Board had original jurisdic
tion, would have the right to
appeal the decision to the Stu
dent Life and Services Com
mittee.
No final senate action was made
on any of these proposals at the
May 9 meeting. At the May 16
meeting a written list of the pro
posals were voted upon. If
passed they will be voted on
by the student body next fall as
is necessary when any change
is made in the Constitution,
Library
Groundbreaking
Held Friday
Groundbreaking exercises for
the new College Library were
held on the site at North Carolina
Wesleyan College today at 1:45
p. m.
A spade of earth was broken
by Luther W. Hill of Tarboro,
Chairman of the Board of Trust
ees, Thomas J. Pearsall of Rocky
Mount, Chairman of the Build
ing Committee of the Board of
Trustees, J. Curtis Ellis of Nash
ville, Chairman of the Finance
Committee of the Board of Trust
ees, Ed Washburn of Rocky
Mount, President of the Rocky
Mount Area Wesleyan College
Foundation, President Thomas A.
Collins, Dr. Jack Teagarden and
Librarian Walter Gray, re
presenting the faculty, Guy Tur
ner of Wilmington, president of
the Student Government Asso
ciation, and representatives of
the architectural firm of Lash-
mit, Pollock and Brown of Win
ston Salem.
Following the formal exer
cises, guests and members of
the college community had the
opportunity to turn a shovel of
earth for the long awaited be
ginning of the College Library.
It will cost approximately
$500,000 and is to be complet
ed during May of 1967.
Danieley To Speak
At Commencement
Dr. James Earl Danieley,
president of Elon College, will
address N. C. Wesleyan’s third
graduating class at commence
ment exercises to be held in the
college gymnasium here Sun
day, May 29, at 4:30 p.m.,
according to an announcement
from Dr. Thomas A. Collins,
Wesleyan’s president.
Following graduation from Elon
in 1946, Danieley began a disting
uished career as instructor of
chemistry at his alma mater. He
advanced progressively to be
come dean in 1953 and president
in 1957, the position he now holds.
He received his M.A. degree in
1949 and his Ph. D. in 1954 from
UNC-Chapel Hill, which neces-
Hunt To Deliver
Baccalaureate
Service May 29
North Carolina Wesleyan’s
third baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered by Dr, Earl G,
Hunt, Jr., presiding bishop of
the Charlotte Methodist Area,
in the college gymnasium at 11
a, m. Sunday, May 29, accord
ing to an announcement by
President Thomas A. Collins.
From 1956 to his appointment
as bishop in 1964, Dr. Hunt was
president of Emory and Henry
College in Emory, Va, Ordained
to the Methodist ministry in
1945, he held pastorates in At
lanta, Ga,, Kingsport, Chat
tanooga and Morristown, Tenn.,
before assuming the college
presidency.
In 1956 he participated in the
Protestant Hour, a Methodist
series of nationwide broadcasts.
He has held a number of high
offices within The Methodist
Church, including membership on
the General Board of Education
and as a delegate to the Gen
eral and Jurisdictional Confer
ences.
Bishop Hunt served as trustee
of Emory and Henry, Hiwassee
and Tennessee Wesleyan Col
leges from 1952 to 1956. He is
a member of Pi Kappa Delta
fraternity and a Rotarian.
A native of Johnson City,
Tenn., he received a B. S. de
gree from East Tennessee State
College and a B.D. degree from
Emory University, where he was
a classmate of Dr. Collins. Tus-
culum College conferred upon
him a D.D. degree in 1956 and
the next year the University of
Chattanooga honored him with
a LL. D. degree.
sitated his absence in 1950-52,
his only omission from Elon’s
faculty roster since undergradu
ate days. In 1952 he served as a
lecturer in chemistry and during
the summers of 1953, ’54, and
’56, he was a visiting professor
of chemistry at UNC-CH. He
also has done post-doctoral
research at Johns Hopkins.
In 1957 he was named “Young
Man of the Year” by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce of his
home town, Burlington. TheN. C.
Junior Chamber of Commerce
selected him as the “Young Man
of the Year” in 1958. The Bur
lington Kiwanis Club designated
him “Alamance County Citizen of
the Year” in 1961. He twice re
ceived the “Distinguished Cit
izenship Award” from the
N. C, District of the Civitan In--
ternational.
He is a member of the Execu
tive Board of the United Church
of Christ, and a deacon in
his home church. He is a mem
ber of the American Chemistry
Society, the National Assn. of
Parliamentarians, the N. C.
Academy of Science, Sigma XI,
Phi Delta Kappa, Delta Psi
Omega, and the Rotary Club.
Vespers To
Count As Credit
For Chapel Cut
The Faculty and Administra
tion recently passed an amend
ment which states that a student
of N. C. Wesleyan College
may attend the Vesper Ser
vice, Sunday evenings sponsored
by the Inter-Faith Commission
and the college Chaplain and re
ceive credit for regular Chap
el attendance held each Thursday
morning.
The student is then free to elect
the service which he shall attend
on either the preceeding or fol
lowing Sunday of the missed
Chapel Service.
In addition, no academic sanc
tions will be placed on the stu
dent who takes an excessive
number of Chapel cuts although
sanctions will be established at
a later faculty meeting.
The student is still allowed two
unexcused Chapel absences as
has been the policy in the past.
Dr. Thomas A, Collins, Pres
ident of the College and Chairman
of the Chapel Committee, an
nounced that the amended Chapel
Policy will go into effect in the
fall semester 1966-67.
As of this time, no definite act
ion has been taken concerning as
sembly absences.