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page 7—Miller resigns
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
September 6, 1979
J
George Lentz, new director of non-traditional student worli and continuing education,
enrolls men and women last Monday for a variety of evening and day courses.
Five full-timers added
Coffee break
Lifetime learning at
Elon attracts students
Volume VI Number 2
Five full-time faculty
members have joined teach
ing colleagues at Elon Col
lege since the end of the
spring term.
Dr. Maurice Whittinghill
comes as the T.E. Powell,
Jr., Professor of Biology.
This professorship was en
dowed last year in honor
of the founder of the Caro
lina Biological Supply Co.
and former teacher of biolo
gy at the college. Dr.
>^ittinghill holds the A.B.
degree from Dartmouth Col
lege and the Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan. He
is professor emeritus of zoo
logy at UNC-Chapel HiU
where he taught for 32 years
as well as serving several
institutions as a visiting
scholar.
All juniors and seniors
who aspire to being listed in
Who’s Who in American
Colleges and Universities
this year should submit lists
of their academic honors,
extracurricular activities and
service to the- adademic
dean. Lists should be in
Dean Chris White’s office,
Alamance 105, by or before
Oct. 1.
“Some students do not
receive this honor simply
because they do not give us
a record of their activities
and academic honors such as
the dean’s Ust,” said Dean
White.
Dr. Wesley G. Brogan
joins the faculty as associate
professor of human services.
He received his A.B. from
Dickerson College, the Mas
ter of Divinity from Duke
University, and the master
of Education and Ph.D.
from UNC-Chapel Hill.
Dr. George A. Taylor
joins the faculty of political
science as an assistant pro
fessor. He was graduated
from the Baptist College of
Charleston with a B.S. and
received his M.A. and PhD.
from the University of Geor
gia.
Dr. Lawrence G. B. Will
son comes to Elon as an
assistant professor of reli
gion. He holds the B.S.
from Birmingham-Southern
cont. on p. 4
Eligible persons will be
considered first by a college
committee comprised of stu
dents and faculty members.
The quota for Elon College
is 36.
Later in the fall a selec
tion will be made by WTio’s
Who in American Colleges
and Universities. Each stu
dent who is selected will be
awarded a certificate suitable
for framing as well as other
benifits such as a lifetime
job-placement service.
“This is an honor that
any student should be
pleased to add to his re
sume,” Dean White added.
Coffee break
An informal coffee
break for everyone at
Elon College is planned
for Thursday mornings,
9:30 to 10, in second
floor McEwen Dining
Hall, according to Presi
dent Fred Young. The
first coffee will be on
Sept. 13^
The half hour over a
cup of coffee or soft
drinic will let students,
faculty and staff get to
know each other better.
Six campus leaders tra
velled to Amherst, Mass.,
this summer to attend a
national meeting of the
United States Student Asso
ciation conference and work
shops. Three of them came
away with regional or na
tional jobs with USSA for
the year.
Bryant Colson, SGA presi
dent for 1979-80, thought
the workshops were the best
part of the conference and
the most useful to the
group. “We discussed var
ious topics of interest to
student leaders—CIA in
volvement on campuses, the
problems of financing inde
pendent colleges, governance
and academics, the power of
student govenments- or lack
of it,” Colson said.
“I came back with several
ideas and questions for
Elon,” the SGA president
said. “We became very
Continuing education or
lifetime learning at Elon
College has taken a leap
forward with some innova
tive courses and their spin
off in adult evening and
extension classes.
The new director of non-
traditional student work and
continuing education is
George Lentz who comes to
Elon from Randolph Tech
nical Institute, Asheboro.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Lenoir-Rhyne
College and a Master of
Education from UNC-Char-
lotte and has had much
experience in this field.
One course, for example,
which is eliciting much inter
est is “Connections: Techno
logy and Change,” taught
by Dr. Thomas Henricks,
sociologist, for three hours
credit. The course will use
self-study based on the BBC-
Time-Life 10-part series
scheduled for this fall on the
Public Broadcasting System
plus a set of newspaper
articles to appear weekly in
ithe Burlington Times-News.
The newspaper articles are
coordinated by Prof. John
G. Burke, University of Cal
ifornia, Los Angeles.
Dr. Henricks, assistant prof-
fessor of sociology at Elon
College, will supervise the
interested in the welfare of
handicapped students, for
instance. I want to discover
what is being do.ne here to
help the handicapped and to
make their student days as
normal as possible. Are we
complying with HEW guide-
Unes?”
Colson said he is also
concerned with student
wages for jobs on campus.
Were students being paid
sub-minimum wages, and if
so, why?
Independent colleges, he
found, had a harder time in
getting some power for their
student governments. The
big universities had it all
right, but the small coUege
student government might be
treated less like adults.
Colson reported that Jean-
nie Hairston, an Elon sena
tor, was made a member of
the USSA Congress Steering
Committee which will plan
course and direct the on-
campus sessions. Registra
tion was held on Monday,
in Memorial Gym. The
course lasts 12 weeks, begin
ning Sept. 18; television
viewing starts Sept. 30 at 8
p.m., and the newspaper
series begins in the Times-
News next Sunday, Sept. 9.
The first class meeting at
Elon will be at 7 p.m. Sept.
18 in Mooney Building,
Room 200, at which time
people may still register for
the course.
Mr. Lentz has appointed a
faculty advisory committee
and asked faculty members
and staff for ideas for
continuing education and ex
tension courses.
Some suggestions for the
spring semester now being
considered include “Com
munication Skills: Assertive
ness Training for Women,”
a 10-session course, one day
a week for one semester
hour credit.
Another course of interest
to women is “Looking Nifty
after Fifty,” meant to rein
force a woman’s self-image
and to give one a lift in four
weekly sessions.
“Being Single” is designed
for single men and women
of all ages: divorced, sepa-
cont. on p. 4
next year’s conference to be
held on the West Coast.
Ken Whitley, treasurer of
the junior class at Elon, was
made an alternate to the
steering committee. John
Reeves, SGA treasurer, be
came an alternate to the
supervisory board of the
Atlantic region, USSA.
J. King White, vice presi
dent of SGA, attended the
conference and thinks it was
helpful to him as speaker of
the Senate, especially a
workshop there on parlia
mentary procedure. White
is representative to the edu
cation committee of the
Board of Trustees of the
college. Colson is a member
of the campus life commi
ttee, and Reeves is on the
development committee.
Board of Trustees.
Senator Lisa Garriques also
attended the Massachussetts
cont. on p. 4
Who’s Who needed by Oct. 1
SGA officers say national meet helpful