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Permit No. 217
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Non-Profit Organization
By Charlie And Tom
VOLUME IV, NUMBER 2
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1972
Aspects Announces
Creative Art Contest
The staff of Aspects, Wes-
leyan’s magazine of the arts, is
pleased to announce that As
pects is sponsoring a Creative
Arts Contest, The contest is
open to all students and faculty
of Wesleyan and the Rocky Mo
unt community. Entries will
be judged in three categories:
art (etchings, drawings, and
photography), poetry, and
poise. Entries in either the
poetry or poise division must
be typed.
$150 was made available for
prize money through a grant
by the North Carolina Arts Co
uncil, The poise division and
the art division will have a first
prize of $25 and a second prize
of $15. The Poetry division
will also have a $25 first and
a $15 second prize. However,
because of the volume of qua
lity poetry submitted in the past,
there will also be three $10 ho
norable mention prizes awar
ded.
The Aspects staff, whichwel-
comes anyone who is interested
in working this year, is now re
ceiving entries to the contest.
All entries must be in the As
pects office or mailed to As
pects, Wesleyan College, Rocky
Mount, North Carolina by No
vember 15 to be eligible for
competition.
All material will be judged by
the faculty of Wesleyan’s En
glish department, Winnerswill
be announced and prize money
awarded during the first week
in December.
This year there will be one
expanded issue of Aspects re
leased in early March, This
issue will include all the con
test winners as well as the
other material that is chosen.
The staff sincerely hopes that
all those interested will sub
mit his or her work and help to
make this the most represen
tative and best Aspects ever.
Wesleyan Student
In Beauty Contest
Martha Scott Hemingway, a
junior at N, C, Wesleyan Col
lege, will appear as a beauty
contestant in the National To-
baccoland Festival pageant in
Richmond, Va,, scheduled for
Oct, 21-28,
Miss Hemingway, daughter of
Mrs, Harold Hemingway of
Montpelier, Va,, won the title
of “Miss Hanover County” over
24 candidates during the sum
mer pageant in Ashland, Va.
The event was Hanover Co
unty’s 17th annual Tobaccoland
pageant, sponsored by the Ash
land Kiwanis Club, and thewin-
ner represents the county at the
National Tobaccoland Festival,
Climaxing the Richmond
festival, a week-long series of
special events, is the coro
nation of the Tobaccoland Que
en, held during halftime at the
Tobacco Bowl football game be-
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Nevins And Watson
Join NCWC Faculty
MR. ROBERT MAXWELL
Maxwell New Dean
News Bureau—N, C, Wesleyan
College President Thomas A,
Collins recently announced the
appointment of Robert Allison
Maxwell as dean of students.
Maxwell, formerly of Boca Ra
ton, Fla,, has served as Wes-
leyans director of development
for the past year,
Mrs. Sarah Cole Alexander,
who has served as acting dean
of students since Aug. 1, has
been promoted to associate
dean of students.
Maxwell, son of an Ohio col
lege professor, has an exten
sive background in college ad
ministration, He served as as
sistant to the vice - president
for Planning and Institutional
Studies at Duke University,
Durham, from 1961-65,
Dr, Collins stated, “Mr. »
Maxwell brings to his new post
considerable experience in
working with students, as he has
served as director of admis
sions here at Wesleyan from
1965-68, at Hiram College, Hi
ram, Ohio, 1968-69, and at Flo
rida Atlantic University, Boca
Raton, from 1969 until he re
turned to Wesleyan in 1971 to
accept the development posi
tion. He and Mrs. Alexander
will make an excellent team
in the direction of student life
activities,”
Maxwell received his B. A.
degree from Ohio Wesleyan U-
niversity, Delaware, Ohio, and
his M.A.T. degree from Duke
University, He holds member
ships inanumber ofprofession-
al organizations, and served as
a representative to Florida’s
State University System Com
mittee on Admissions and Re
cords, and chairman of the
Common Application Subcom
mittee while in Florida.
He is a member of the Rocky
Mount Kiwanis Club; Omicron
Delta Kappa, a men’s honorary
fraternity; Psi Chi, a psycho
logy fraternity: and Phi Delta
Theta social fraternity; and is
a local Boy Scout Commission
er,
Maxwell is married to the
former Dorothy Ann Beckerman
of St, Petersburg, Fla,, and the
couple have two sons. The fa
mily attends the Presbyterian
Church.
News Bureau—Madeline M, Ne
vins joined the language depart
ment faculty at N, C, Wesleyan
on Sept. 1, as assistant profes
sor of French, according to an
announcement by Dr. R. E, Bau
er, acting academic dean.
Miss Nevins, a native of
Marlboro, Mass., graduated
from St, Ann’s Academy there.
Haggard Gets Ph.D
News Bureau — Frank Powell
Haggard, assistant professor of
religion here at Wesleyan, has
received his Ph.D, degree in
historical theology from Drew
University, Madison, New Jer
sey.
Dr. Haggard, who joined the
Wesleyan faculty in 1967, is al
so pastor of both the Hollister
and Bethesda United Methodist
Churches in Halifax County.
He received his B. A. de
gree from Williams College,
Williamston, Mass., his B. D.
degree from Andover - Newton
Theological School, Newton
Centre, Mass., and attended the
University of Edinburgh, Scot
land in 1960-61. He completed
his doctoral work at Drew with
a dissertation on Thomas Aqui
nas. His teaching specialities
are medieval history and
thought, and nineteenth century
philosophy and theology.
A native of West Hartford,
Connecticut, Dr. Haggard is
married to the former Dora
Walston Weaver of Rocky Mo
unt. The couple have five chil
dren and reside in Rocky Mount,
Davis Composes Work
News Bureau—Dr. John S.
Davis, associate professor of
music at N. C. Wesleyan Col
lege, has composed a religious
choral work which was publish
ed recently by Gould-Stuart Mu
sic.
The text, Agnus Dei, was ta
ken from the Episcopal Book
of Common Prayer and Dr. Da
vis’ musical score was design
ed for this text to be sung by a
large choral group with guitar
and bass accompaniment. The
work man be adapted to small
groups composed of soprano,
alto and baritone voices, and
is also suitable for piano or
organ accompaniment,
Agnus Dei was published from
a work, Folk Masss #1, writ
ten by Dr. Davis especially for
religious emphasis week held
each winter on the Wesleyan
campus.
Dr. Davis has composed a
number of works including o-
peras, a cantata comission
ed by the N, C. Music Teach
ers Association and music for
Psalm 57, which was publish
ed in Sept. 1971,
His teaching specialities at
Wesleyan are composition and
Theory, voice and music app
reciation. Dr, Davis directs the
B-voice Chamber Singers, a
group of select voices which
frequently performs at civic
events in this area.
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DR. JOHN DAVIS
and entered Regis College,
Weston, Mass,, where she re
ceived the B, A. degree with
concentration in French lit
erature, and studies in Latin
and Spanish as her related fi
elds. She attended Tufts Uni
versity in Medford and was a-
warded the M. A. degree in
French literature in 1966, re
ceiving a Tufts Honor Scholar
ship, Miss Nevins was a-
warded a Fulbright Research
Grant enabling her to study at
the Sorbonne in Parish, Fran
ce, and to do research at the
Bibliotheque Nationale there.
She has completed her doc
toral studies at Tufts Univer
sity and is expecting to receive
her Ph.D, in February.
Included in her teaching ex
perience are positions in ele
mentary and secondary schools
both full-time and part-
time while completing her un
dergraduate degree. She tau
ght at Regis College in French
language and literature. In
1969-70 and again in 1971-72
she was a teaching assistant
at Tufts University in French
language, literature and culture
and served as co-chaplain of the
Newman Chapter there from
1970 to Aug. 1972.
Her teaching specialities o-
ther than comprehensive stu
dies in French include elemen
tary Spanish, theatre—medie
val, 17th and 20th century —
and the I9th and 20th century
noveL
Miss Nevins is a member of
the Roman Catholic Church and
is residing in Whitakers.
News Bureau—Dr. R. E, Bauer,
acting academic dean at N, C.
Wesleyan College, has announ
ced the appointment of Richard
L. Watson, ni, as instructor
in history, effective Sept, 1.
Watson, a former resident of
Durham, received his B. A. de
gree in history from Duke Uni
versity in 1967. From 1968-
70, he held a teaching fellow
ship at Boston University and
was granted his M, A, degree
there in history. From 1970
until spring of 1972, Watson
was a lecturer at Boston Uni
versity.
His teaching specialities are
African and European history.
Watson has completed his doc
toral studies and is now work
ing on his dissertation for the
Ph.D. degree in African his
tory at Boston University,
He is married to the former
Eileen-Philippa Baschler of
Hamburg, West Germany, and
they are members of the Epis
copal Church. The Watsons re
side at 1305 Gay St. here.