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Volume XXI, Number 6
Informing the Elon College Community
October 5,1995
Trustees meet Wednesday,
evaluate Elon Vision status
Amy Logerwell
Managing Editor
The Elon College Board of Trustees
meet Oct. 11 to discuss the possibility of
faculty membership on the board and to
evaluate the status of the Elon Vision.
The trustees annual fall meeting will be
held in the Moseley Center from 8 a.m. to 3
p.m.
Their tentative agenda includes looking
at the status of the 17-point Elon Vision. The
three-phase vision is the college’s plan for
the future which includes strengthening fa
cilities, providing more resources for stu
dents and faculty and enhancing the qualifi
cations of professors and students. The $40
million plan was approved by the board in
March 1994.
Provost Gerald Francis is scheduled to
update the board members on the status of a
new library being built and a science facility.
In an effort to enhance the science pro
gram, the college is trying to secure a $10.7
million grant to build a science facility. Pro
posals were mailed to the Olin and Donald
W. Reynolds Foundations for the grant.
Francis said he believes the college will
be notified in the spring if it has received the
grant.
He believes it is not realistic to think the
college will get the grant this year.
“It’s not probable right now at this stage,”
Francis said Tuesday. “Usually it takes about
five to six years to develop a working rela
tionship. They aren’t going to give $10 mil
lion to a stranger.
“If we don’t get it this year, then we’ll
apply again next year. It gets better the longer
the people from the foundation know us.”
He said he does not want the college to
have a false sense of expectation, but be
lieves the college has a fighting chance for
the grant in the next few years.
Francis plans to update the trustees on
See Board, Page 4.
A bit of New Orleans ...
Andrew Brickey/The Pendulum
Students and parents line up for food during the Family Weekend festivities. Close to
700 familes attended.
N.C. governor awards
outstanding volunteers
Michelle Cater
Staff Reporter
A total of 209 people from
throughout central North Carolina
will be honored at the 1995
Governor’s Awards for Outstand
ing Volunteer Service awards cer
emony, in the Alumni Gym Oct.
11.
Gov. Jim Hunt, along with his
wife, Carolyn, will be presenting
the awards at 6. p.m.
On Tuesday Gov. Hunt was
out of the country and could not be
reached for comment, according
to a press secretary.
Among the recipients for the
awards are six people and two
organizations in Alamanc®
County.
Though no students will be
receiving awards, about 15 stu
dents in Elon Volunteers! will be
serving as ushers and greeters.
The Elon College Community
Church, however, is receiving an
award for its participation in the
Meals on Wheels program. Crop
Walk and its members’ work with
Elon Homes For Children.
El^ is scheduled to perform at
the ceremony.
Elon College was chosen to
host the ceremony for the central
region because of its location, easy
access to Interstates 40 and 85, as
well as its facilities, said Pat
Thompson, the awards and recog
nition coordinator for the state of
North Carolina.
Twenty-nine counties will be
represented at the ceremony and
about 650 people are expected to
attend.
The awards recipients were
Gov. Jim Hunt
selected by a local committee and
each county can select up to eight
people to be honored.
Coordinator for service learn
ing Kevin Gilmore said, “If s quite
an honor to have Gov. Hunt ask to
use our college.”
Thompson said the ceremony
was a way to thank volunteer ef
fort going on in the state.
Four awards ceremonies will
be held in different regions
throughout the state.
The Governor’s Awards for
See Goveroor, Page 4.
Homecoming theme chosen
Stacey Ward
Staff Reporter
The Homecoming Committee
has made some changes to this
year’s festivities.
Homecoming, which is Nov.
11, boasts a cartoon-mania theme.
Organizations will build floats and
have fund-raisers for the Habitat
for Humanity philanthropy.
Among the changes is the de
cision to have each organization
nominate a faculty/ staff member
to represent them on the field.
Homecoming Committee Chair
Laura Lyerly said.
The faculty/ staff nomination
can’t be the organization’s adviser.
The faculty/ staff person won’t af
fect the points of an organization.
The penny competition, usu
ally counting for points, will strictly
be a fund-raiser, Lyerly said.
Another change is the starting
date of homecoming festivities.
They are scheduled to begin Nov.
7. Traditionally, homecoming
starts the Monday before the home
coming football game.
On Monday Nov. 6, John
Densmore, drummer for the band
The Doors, is scheduled to speak.
The Homecoming Committee
wanted to give students the oppor
tunity to hear him speak, so events
are scheduled to begin on Tuesday,
Lyerly said.
Activities are scheduled to con
tinue throughout the week.
The banner competition will
be held at College Coffee on
Wednesday, Lyerly said.
A student pep rally is sched
uled for Friday at 7 p.m. at the
Fonville Fountain.
The homecoming football
game concludes the week’s events.
Registration flyers were put in
organizations’ mailboxes Wednes
day.
A mandatory meeting is sched
uled to be held this Wednesday at 8
See Homecoming, Page 4.