U. s. POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 217 Rocky Mount, N. C. Noa-Profit Organization It Is Finished 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- (CJantinued On Page 3) 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 (Continued on Page 3) 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.

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