Thursday, September i, 1988
Former student, Oliver, joins faculty in Education Dept.
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Donna Oliver
Donna Hill Oliver, the 1987 Na
tional Teacher of the Year, has ac
cepted an appointment as associate
prtrfessor of education at Elon Col
lege.
According to college officials,
Oliver will teach in the college’s
department of education, supervise
student teachers and serve as assis
tant director of a new leadership
development program, which in
cludes the North Carolina Teaching
Fellows.
Elon is one of two private col
leges authorized to offer the North
Carolina Teaching Fellows pro
gram. The first class of approx
imately 30 Teaching Fellows is ex
pected to enroll this fall.
“Donna Oliver is a gifted
teacher,” said Elon President Fred
Young in announcing the appoint
ment. “Through her considerable
talent and ability she has brought
well-deserved recognition to her
profession and to die Burlington
City School System. We are pleas
ed that she will continue her career
by coming to Elon to help educate
a new generation of teachers, many
of whom will teach in Burlington
and Alamance County.”
Oliver received her bachelors
degree in biology in 1972. She has
also earned a master’s degree in
education from the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and
a master’s in educational ad
ministration from A & T State
University.
Oliver has spent 13 years
teaching biology at Hugh M. Cum
mings High School in Burlington,
where she served as chairman of
the science department, a member
of the curriculum committee and
advisor to the cheerleaders.
“Mrs. Oliver has been a valuable
asset to our school system, and we
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Siiiclaire, superintendent of the
Burlington City Schools.
“However, we certainly unders
tand her desire to work in higher
education and to pursue advanced
studies. We wish her well at Elon.”
Her journey to the national title
included being named Teacher of
the Year for Cummings, The Burl
ington City Schools, the region and
the state in 1986-87.
Centennial Moments
Sepember 2, 1890
The First Students Arrive
Elon College Hotel” houses first students
Despite frantic efforts, the
buildings were woeftilly incomplete
on September 2 when the first men
and women began arriving to
enroll. S.M. Smith, a prospective
student from Auburn, N.C.,
alighted at Elon from a late after
noon train and frankly described
his introduction to what was to
become his alma mater:
I was sent to the “Elon
College Hotel,” run by
Mrs. Walter Smith, wife
of the depot agent. After
supper, the students who
came in on that train met
Dr. Newman at the station,
and with a kerosene
lantern he led us along a
foot path up through the
campus to the college
building, which had not
been completed. I
remember we climbed a
ladder to get in the front
door. Upstairs in the
chapel, we went through
the routine of registering
and getting acquainted with
each other. The only lights
in the chapel were tin
kerosene lamps hanging on
nails driven in the mortar
between the bricks)the
plaster coating had not
been applied to the interior
walls at that time). The
seating was split-bottom
chairs, with an occasional
10 or 12-foot rough board
extending from one chair
to another to increase the
capacity as students arriv
ed. The rostrum was built
of rough timbers which
had been used as scaf
folding around the
building.
An even more serious
disadvantage was that the
(^omitory was not ready, >
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tion posed a problem far
more difficult to solve, but
after considerable frenzied
activity, lodgings were found
for the women in private
homes. Smith and a few
other men arranged to stay
.at the hotel or elsewhere in
the village, but most of
them, unable to find local
accommodations, “camped
out” on the third floor of
the College Building as the
main building was
designated during the early
years.
Half a century later.
Smith vividly recalled the
beginning of his four-year
residency: At the “Hotel”
that first night, I was
assigned a back room. I
shall never forget my feel
ings the next morning. It
was pouring rain. From my
window I could see only
woods with a small cottage
in the distance. It began to
dawn on me that I was 75
miles from home and about
to become a student in col
lege. Homesick - yeah,
that’s what it was.
Nostalgia, they call it now-
a-days, but it’s all the same.
In an effort to cheer the new
rivals amid such depressing con
tions, young Long organized
string band, which included
depot agent, a merchant,
several carpenters to serenade'
females in the evenings,
musical gesture helped mi
homesickness and temporary c^
ditiohs more bearable while af!
ding the musicians an outlet
their talents.
Excerpted from Elon College:
History and Traditions by Dun^,