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VOLUME xni, NUMBER 23
FINAL Epfe(&
Honors Lonvocation:
FINAL EDITION
TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1972
Wayne Souza, President of Nu Gamma Phi, presents Dr. Allen
Johnson with the Best Profes;5or Award 1972.
Holen Steiner receives the President’s Cup from Dr. Thomas
Collins, President; Helen alsowas awarded the Women’s Leader
ship and Service Award,
A newly established award by the Brotherhood of Sigma Omega,
the Wesleyan Staff Service Award, was presented to Mrs Hagins
by David Cole, Sog-O President,
Graduation Plans
Revealed By Dean
Mrs, Sarah Alexander, As
sistant Dean of Students, has
recently announced the schedule
for the upcoming commence
ment exercises on May 20-21,
The first event of the May week
end will be a party for the se
niors on Friday evening begin
ning at 8:00 p,m. Saturday, May
20, will be a day of rehearsals
for the seniors, and they wiU
also be the guests at an infor
mal party sponsored by the a-
lumni association at Wiggins
Lake at 2:00 p,m. At 4:00
p,m, the seniors and their pa
rents will be the guests of
President and Mrs, Collins
for an informal reception at
the President’s Home, The tra
ditional alumni banquet will be
held at 7:00 on the same day,
Sunday, May 21, is commence
ment day, and it wiU be climax
ed by the graduation of 146
seniors. Graduation will be
gin at 3:00 p.m. in the pines
(in case of rain, in the Gym
nasium). Though the speaker
for graduation had not been de
termined, Helen Steiner, Pre
sident of the Senior class, hop
es to announce the name next
week.
Johnson Named Best Professor;
Steiner Given President’s Cup
Twenty-one Wesleyan stu
dents, a faculty member, a res
ident counselor, and two col
lege organizations were recog
nized with honor awards at the
college’s 11th Annual Awards
Convocation here Thursday,
Dr. John William Kilgore,
Chairman of the Chemistry De
partment, delivered the convo
cation address, “Survival With
Honor,” explaining the changing
role of a private liberal arts
college in today’s educational
process. Student awards were
presented by Dr, Allen F, Cor-
dts. Dean of Students, with spe
cial awards presentations made
by Dr, Macpherson, librarian;
Mrs, Sarah Alexander, assis
tant dean of students; Wayne
Souza, President of Nu Gamma
Phi; and Dave Cole, President
of Sigma Omega,
The President’s Cup Award,
considered the top student a-
ward, went to Helen Steiner, a
senior from Hyattsville, Md.
The rejcipient of this award
is chosen by vote of the facul
ty, Miss Steiner also received
the Leadership and Service A-
ward for Women, which is given
by the Rocky Mount Pilot Club,
The Leadership and Service
Award for Men, given by the
college chaplain, Dr, James R.
Hailey, was awarded to J. Al
len Winter, a senior from Wash
ington Grove, Md. whoispresi-
Editorship Election
Dispute Resolved
The Elections committee,af
ter a conference with the Pub
lications commission over the
validity of the ballot, released
the names of the winners of
the editorships for the three
campus publications: DISSEN
TER, DECREE, ASPECTS,
The problem had arisen since
the Publications commission
had not met to approve the ap
plications of the five candidates.
During the election, this fact
was called to the attention of
the President of the SGA, and
he ruled that the Publications
commission had to meet in or
der to certify the ballot. Last
Tuesday, representatives of the
DECREE and DISSENTER sta
ffs met and ironed out the prob
lem by approving the ballot.
The winners of the election are:
Barton Schaefer, ASPECTS ed
itor; Jay W. Van Hoose, DE
CREE editor; and Ralph Rose,
DISSENTER editor.
The three editors-elect were
asked to submit a statement of
their objective for next year,
Bart Schaefer' stated, “As AS
PECTS editor for the upcoming
72-73 term, it is my intention
to present the literary merit
and achievement of the Wes-
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dent of the Student Government
Association.
A local student, Mary Shan
non Bailey of 216 Hunters Hill
Rd., won the award for Out
standing Academic Achieve
ment given by the Rocky Mount
Kiwanis Club to the senior with
the highest grade average. Her
award was accepted by her
parents, Mr, and Mrs, Millard
Bailey, as Miss Bailey is com
pleting special study in Europe
this term.
The Dean of Students’ A-
ward was presented to Circle
K Club as the organization mak
ing the greatest contribution to
student life and community ac
tivities, Wesleyan’s Circle K,
sponsored by the Rocky Mount
Kiwanis Club, has been a fre
quent winner of this award. Cir
cle K also won an award for
outstanding participation in the
Rocky Mount-Nash County Red
Cross Bloodmobile program, as
did another organization, the
Brotherhood of Sigma Omega,
Sigma Omega supplied the
greatest number of donors in
the recent drive. These two
awards were given by the col
lege’s Public Relations Office.
Two Assistant Dean of Stu
dents’ Awards, given by Mrs,
Alexander, went to Bruce
Wright, a senior from Rich
mond, and Marshall Old, a sen
ior from Moyock, respectively.
These awards are given to stu
dents who make an outstanding
contribution to campus life, and
this year’s winners have served
as editor and associate editor
of the student newspaper, the
DECREE,
The Helen Merriam Thorp
Calendar For ’72- ’73
Music Award, given by the lo
cal First Presbyterian Church
Choir, went to Phyllis L, Sut
ton, a senior music major from
Clinton. The John Paul Jones
History Award, from the Nash
County Committee of Colonial
Dames, was won by a local
student, Mrs, Nancy Bradsher,
a junior of 804 Oakland St,
The Wesleyan Players Award
for excellence in the field of
dramatics, donated anonymous
ly by a Rocky Mount resident,
went to Daniel ShephaFd, asen-
jor from Vinton, Va, The lo
cal Rotary Freshman Writing
Award was won by Cynthia V,
Bergstralh of Gaithersburg,
Md.
The Friends of the Library
cash awards for the best stu
dent research paper using li
brary resources were present
ed by college Librarian Mac
pherson. In the junior-senior
category, David Forrest, a sen
ior from Richmond, Va,, was
the winner; in the freshman-
sophomore division, Martha
Scott Hemingway, a sophomore
from Montpelier, Va, took the
top award, Helen Steiner won
the second place award, which
was composed of an open cate
gory with no class restrictions.
Billy W, Knowles, a senior
of 2913 Wellington Dr., receiv
ed two economics awards: the
Peoples Bank and Trust Co.
annual award to the outstanding
Wesleyan economics major, and
a newly designated honor, the
Barbara Mary Miller and Tru
ong Nguyen Memorial Award for
the highest academic achieve
ment in economics. The Wall
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Arts Series Annoimced
News Bureau: Four entertain
ment events featuring excep
tional talent have been sche
duled for the 1972-73 Rocky
Mount - Wesleyan Performing
Arts Series to be held at N,C,
Wesleyan next season. Dr, Wil
liam G. Sasser, chairman of
Wesleyan’s Music Department,
announced today tliat a two-week
campaign for series member
ship opens April 10 offering tic
kets for the season’s four per
formances.
The Series opens with The
Cosmopolitans, a vocal trio, on
Oct, 16, followed by: the Eleo
Pomare Dance Company, a ver
satile modern dance troupe, on
Nov, . 2; the Preservation Hall
Jazz Band, an orginal New Or
leans group, on Jan, 16; and the
nationally known Tucson Ari
zona Boys Chorus will perform
■ the final concert of the season
on March 7,
A membership campaign
from April 10-30 will be con
ducted in Rocky Moijnt and the
surrounding area, offering re
sidents an opportunity to pur
chase tickets for the Series,
Season memberships are $5,00
each, which covers admission
to all four events. This is a
pre-show cost of only $1,25,
although no tickets will be a-
vailable for individual perfor
mances, Funds from member
ship sales will l)e used to sup
plement Wesleyan’s Calendar
Committee budget to cover the
additional costs of the four
outstanding events.
All performances will begin
at 8:15 p.m, in Everett Gym
nasium on the N. C, Wesleyan
campus. Raised tier seating
will be used when possible, as
suring good sight lines for the
entire audience, and technical
and staging improvements are
planned to enhance the produc
tion of each performance.