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$3«5 million goal
Williams leads fund raising drive
Dr. Jo Watts Williams has
been named vice-president
for development at Elon
College. She has served as
director of the development
office for the last two years.
In her new position Dr.
Williams will be responsible
for annual fund raising,
special campaigns, estate
planning, public informa
tion, alumni relations and
foundation research.
Her goal for this year is to
“raise $3.5 million for the
college’s general funds.”
The college has received a
challenge from Dr. James B.
Powell, a member of the
board of trustees, to help
raise the money, according
to Williams. “Powell will
challenge all non-donors and
those giving less than $100
last year by giving $100 for
every new membership of
the A.L. Hook Club.”
When asked how Reagan’s
new tax policy would effect
the giving at Elon, Dr. Wil
liams replied, “The corpo
rate world has benefited
through Reagan’s plan, but
hopefully the corporate com-
mimity will use the tax cuts
to divert funds to other
philanthropists because they
will have more money to
give.”
She then added, “We will
be very aggressive in a solu
tion for funds to compensate
for the possible loss of funds
and continue to rely on the
generosity of parents and
alumni.”
Due to student demand,
both campus dining halls
will begin serving the eve
ning meal from 4:30 to 6
p.m. beginning Friday,
Sept. 18.
Volume ni Number 3
Elon College, Elon College, N.C. 27244
Thursday, September 17, 1981
Elon College has recently
eceived several gifts and
requests, including large
unounts of money, scholar-
ihios, and a pipe organ.
Jefferson-Pilot Corpor-
ition of Greensboro has
;ompleted a $100,000 gift to
;he college to establish a
professorship of economics.
This chair in the Department
3f Business Administration
mil be occupied by Dr.
Martin Shotz^rger, former
president of Catawba
College.
President Fred Young
points out that most of the
students at Elon are
majoring in economics and
business administration.
“For this reason this new
chair will make a signiHcant
impact upon hundreds of
our students.”
Two alumni are also es
tablishing a $75,000 endow
ment fund for the chemistry
department. Mr. and Mrs.
G. Thomas Holmes of Pine-
hurst are funding the endow
ment to improve the facil
ities and/or curricula and to
qualify the department to
better prepare pre-engineer
ing students for admittance
to professional engineering
schools.
Holmes, a chemical
engineer, is a retired execu
tive of the Aluminum
Company of America. He is
10 new faculty members join
1981-82 full-time teaching staff
Elon College has added 10
new full-time faculty mem
bers for 1981-82.
Dr. Cardon Vem Burn
ham, former chairman of
the fine arts department at
Hampden-Sydney College,
has been named associate
professor of fine arts and
chairman of the Elon
College Department of Fine
Arts. A graduate of Br^ey
University, he received his
M.M. degree from the Uni
versity of Illinois and his
A.M.D. degree from the
Eastman School of Music.
Dr. William Hightower
has been appointed profes
sor of computer information
science. He holds a B.A.
degree from Kalamazoo
College and M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from Michigan State
University.
William R. Nowell III has
been named assistant profes
sor of journalism. Nowell
holds a B.A. degree from
UNC-Chapel Hill and a
•M.S. degree from North
western University. He is
currently working towards a
Ph.D. from Indiana Univer
sity, where he has been
teaching part-time.
Dr. Geetha Ramachand-
ran has been appointed
assistant professor of mathe
matics. She holds a B.S.
degree in statistics from the
University of Madras and
M.Stat. and Ph.D. degrees
from the Indian Statistical
Institute, Calcutta. She has
taught at the University of
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania,
and the University of the
Phillippines, Manila.
Dr. Edward E. Oliver nas
been appointed to the
faculty in the accounting
department. He worked in
industry for 16 years and
has taught accounting since
1974 at the University of
North Carolina at Greens
boro and at Guilford
College. He holds A.B. and
M.B.A. degrees from
George Washington Univer
sity and a Ph.D. degree
from UNC-G.
Ms. Pamela Kiser has
been appointed instructor in
human services. Kiser holds
a B.A. degree from Wake
Forest University and a
Master of Social Work de-
conU on p. 4
a 1939 graduate of the col
lege while his wife, the
former Gladys Wright, grad
uated from Elon in 1941.
A former postal employee
from Durham has be
queathed $20,000 to Elon to
fund two annual scholar
ships. Wallace Lincoln
Tuck, according to his lawy
ers, wanted the $20,000 en
dowment “to fund two
scholarships in the amount
of $10,000 each, the income
from each of which shall be
applied to the furnishing of
an annual scholarship to a
needy student.” Recipients
of the Wallace Lincoln Tuck
Scholarships will be selected
by the college.
Homer L. Foster, a retired
Burlington school teacher,
has also left the college more
than $13,000. Foster grad
uated from Elon in 1926,
and taught at the old Bur
bequests
lington High School and in
the county school system
before his retirement. These
funds will be placed in the
college’s endowment.
The Charles A. Frueauff
Foundation, Inc., will pre
sent a grant of $10,000 to
Elon College for resource
materials for the school’s
business department.
This foundation was set
up by Charles A. Frueauff,
a New York lawyer, and
disburses more than $1 mil
lion a year in grants to
higher education, health and
hospital organizations, youth
programs and social service
and community development
groups.
This grant to Elon will be
used for books, periodicals,
and reference materials for
the business administration
and economics programs.
Mr. and Mrs. Wehland G.
cont. on p. 8
LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER— The LRC Elon College offen stodents mmy
research and study aids, such as these computer terminals. See the story on page 4. Photo
by Nader Hamidpour.
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