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MEET THE FACULTY Is ■ popular activity on Parents Weelcend. Parents are given the chance to meet and talk with professors in the library. Parents Weekend coming up by Lookia Lonlu News Editor Elon College Parents’ Weekend 1982 will be held on Nov. 5-7. This annual event is designed to make parents a part of the college and familiarize them with the faculty and college life. The schedule of events begins on Friday, Nov. 5 with a Talent Show in Whitley Auditorium at 8 p.m. This program features a variety of student- produced acts and is co sponsored by the Student Union Board and the Office of Alumni and Parent Pro grams. Saturday, Nov. 6 begins at 9 a.m. with registration in the Alamance Rotunda. If weather permits, registration will be held outside by the fountain. Parents may pick up their tickets for the day’s events at this time. Prepaid tickets which arc not claimed will be held at the events. Afterwards, Parents Meet ing will be held at 10 a.m. in Whitley Auditorium. Dr. Fred Young, president, will discuss the state of the college and William G. Long, dean of student affairs, will present an over view of student life at Elon. At 10:45 a.m., parents will have a chance to meet the faculty. The event will be held in Iris Holt McEwen Library. Members of the college faculty will be avail able to discuss their classes and departmental objectives. At 11:30 a.m., a picnic lunch will be served outside cont. on p. 2 For Election Night Coverage see page 5. Volume IX Number 10 Elon College, Elon College, NC 27244 Thursday, November 4, 1982 Library funded dorm named A Greensboro family has I contributed $350,000 to Elon I College to endow the ^ school’s library and name “the third wing of the new [Kthree-dormitory complex. Royall H. Spence Jr., president of Canada Dry Bottling Co., his wife Luvene Holmes Spence and his parents Royall H. Spence l(Sr., vice president of the [Company, and Dolly Lewis „SpCTce gave the money, of which $250,000 will endow [the library. The younger Spence, ' along with his sisters and family, gave the college its 47,000 volimie Spence Col lection m 1975 to honor his father. The collection, which is the entire library of Strat ford College in Virginia, has been appraised at $750,000, according to a college news release. Interest earned from the new donation will be about $25,000, Elon President Fred Young said, “That’s going to buy a whole lot of books.” The remaining $100,000 was given by Spence Jr. and his wife to name the new dorm wing in memory of the late George D. Colclough, a Burlington Businessman, Elon trustee and close friend K % Royal H. Spence Jr. Royall H. Spence Sr. of the Spences. Colclough, who died in 1975, was a 1926 graduate of Elon. Young compared Col- clough’s contribution to the college to that of Alonzo Hook, Elon’s dean emeritus and chemistry Professor J. Earl Danieley, a former Elon president. He said that Colclough was very popular with students, alumni and faculty. Spence said Colclough in fluenced him greatly in his decision to attend Elon. He said that he had plan ned to attend another school before meeting Colclough, “when it was all over, I realized he did me a favor.” Of Colclough and Spence, Young said, “Both these gentlemen have provided leadership for Elon College at^ great personal expense and with a sense of dedica tion and loyalty second to none.” Colclough served as George Colclough mayor and alderman of Elon College and was active in the Elon College Community Church. He served as man ager of the Burlington Mer chants Association and Chamber of Commerce com bined. He was also active in a number of civic organiza tions on the local, state and regional levels. Of Colcough and Spence, Young said. “Both these cont. on p. 2 Turnover at Times-News Editor fired, 3 other staffers gone, but paper carries on by Sherri L. Moore, Editor-In-Chief and Doug Norwood, Managing Editor A significant staff transi- j tion has been going on at the Burlington-Times News for several weeks. The editor-in-chief was fired Oct. 20 and three of the paper’s I other 13 staff writers have since quit or been dismissed. Yet readers of the Times- News would have learned few details of the shakeup from reading the Times- News itself; only one brief article about the develop ments has appeared in the paper. The reasons for the changes are still not entirely known. Although replacements for the staffers have not been hired, the Times-News has continued to publish with no apparent diminution of cov erage of local events. The new editor, veteran manag ing editor Don Bolden, and the deposed editor, Ed Book, say they have no lU feelings toward each other and that they expect the remaining staffers to ca^ on in the journalistic tradi tion the Times-News has long had. But others are wondering whether other staffers will also leave soon. Book, news editor Jay Ashley, city editor Tom Oliver and reporter Tim Rodriguez are the journalists who have departed. Book, 44, had been with the paper since February 1979. Before that he had been with the New Bern Sun-Joumal and the Gast onia Gazzette. “The reasons that I can see for my firing were first, for taking a group (of reporters) to Chapel Hill, which created apprehension with the publisher, to deliver the North Carolina Press Association contest entries. This was the fourth year the paper had done this,” Book said. “Afterwards we went to dinner and had a few drinks.” The second reason. Book said, developed from an incident that Book said hap pened on Oct. 12. He said that a Times-News reporter and photographer, on the scene of an automobile wreck about which they were reporting, “were being threatened by some young punks.” Book said members of the Faucette Volimteer Fire Department, also on the wreck scene, had refused to call the Alamance Sheriffs Department to offer assis tance to the Times-News staffers. As a result, Book said, “I called for holding off news on the Faucette Volunteer Fire Department until one of our e^tors or me talked to their chief’ about the incident. Book said that, to his knowledge, no one from the paper had spoken lO the fire chief by Oct. 20. cont. on p. 3
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