THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE
VOLUME 14 - NO. 5
WILKESBORO, NORTH CAROI.INA
APRIL 3, 1985
Happy Easter
Scientists have compared the
size of the earth with all its water
and earth and air and people as but
a single grain of sand on an
immense stretch of beach. The
comparison is made to enable one
to comprehend, if only a little, how
infinitesimally small mankind
really is.
Then consider the tremendous
vastness of space. Consider the
countless suns and planets so many
-EASTER-
light years away that not even the
best computer can provide man
with a true answer of distance, for
the very last planet spinning in its
orbit on the farthest area beyond
imagination occupies its own
infinity of space.
Think further: How far is far?
How far is distant? How infinite is
infinity itself? Finally, is not
mankind insignificant and without
value?
SAMB
TUB
/CkocolAte
RAPBIT
No, mankind cannot measure
infinity; but every man and
woman, each a tiny, seemingly
insignificant breath of life in
relation to the deepest and widest
places in space, is everything, the
whole, the sum total in terms of
importance. For each possesses a
soul and the promise of
Easter . . .
Dr. David E. Daniel
From The
President
One of the most important
events to take place this year at
Wilkes Community College was
scheduled last month, and it was a
tremendous success.
WCC was selected to serve as the
model campus institution for the
National Council for Resource
Development’s annual specialist
training program. NCRD is an
organization of approximately 600
development officers and
presidents from two-year colleges
across the country who plan,
develop and secure resources for
college development.
Our resource development staff
coordinated the two-week
internship program, which
selected 18 representatives from
community colleges from
throughout the United States to
participate. More than 25 well-
known resource development
professionals assisted in the
training program, and representa
tives from several foundations also
made presentations.
Because WCC was chosen as an
exemplary institution for such
training to take place, the first
week of the program was held on
our campus, with the second week
scheduled in Washington, D.C.
The success of the program was
based on the efforts of our resource
development staff: Dr. Bill Davis,
director, Beth Reynolds, officer,
and Brenda Shepherd, executive
secretary. Also to be commended
is the WCC staff and the Walker
Center staff who contributed
significantly to the program.
Truly this was a great honor and
tribute to our school. The only
other colleges selected as model
campuses in the past have been
Santa Fe Community College in
Gainesville, Fla., Snow College in
Ephraim, Utah, Triton College in
River Grove, 111., and The
Community Colleges of Spokane
in Spokane, Wash.
“My Life at
WCC”
by: Steven Dale Triplett
My experience of education at
Wilkes Community College in
Horticulture has been interesting. 1
was graduated at North Carolina
School for the Deaf in Morganton,
N.C., in May 23, 1982. After one
and a half years, I decided to go to
Wilkes Community College for the
horticulture course because 1
wanted to learn more about
horticulture and the college
experience.
My main reason was that I
wanted to try my best to be equal
with the hearing people at the
college. I met Mrs. Barbara
Allison who was a counselor in
Special Services. She helped me
get a registration form in Student
Services. For the first time, I
realized 1 would be with hearing
students and teachers, so 1 got a
little nervous and found it difficult
to communicate with the hearing
students and teachers.
The teachers tried to help me
learn the different facts about
horticulture and other courses,
and it was really difficult without
an interpreter. I became more
interested in the propagation of
plants, hydroponics, field trips,
and other subjects that my
horticulture instructor, B. Townes,
had already learned. He
understood about my feelings and
communication needs. He helped
me get an interpreter.
The interpreter helped me
understand more about the
different kinds of new words and
things. Donna Key, my first
interpreter and Director of Wilkes
Deafness Center, gave me my first
full understanding in my classes.
Also the interpreter came with me
to communicate with me so I could
understand what the teachers and
other students said! My next
interpreter was Martha Dancy,
and she has become proficient in
communication with me.
My hearing friends, the two
teachers, and I went to different
kinds of nurseries in North
Carolina and South Carolina and
visited the Biltmore House and
Gardens near Asheville, N.C., in
two days and one night. We really
enjoyed it and had a good time!
In the winter quarter, some of
my friends and 1 applied to work
with B. Townes to build and
develop the community landscape,
and we traveled in different towns
in North Carolina! I earned some
money and saved it for the airplane
ticket and the supplies I needed for
additional field trips.
On May 4, 1984, we went to
Greensboro-High Point Airport to
fly to Atlanta, Ga., and changed to
another plane for a non-stop trip
to Las Vegas, Nevada. We traveled
through different states and towns
to see the different ways things
grow in different kinds of soil.
The instructors at W.C.C. are
very helpful in their aid to a
hearing impaired student.
Barbara Holt and Diane Harper
have made sure that Wilkes
Deafness Center was contacted to
provide an interpreter for me as
well as for other hearing impaired
students. In my classes, the
students themselves have been
receptive to having a hearing-
impaired student in their midst.
Wilkes Community College is a
very good place for hearing-
impaired students to attend. I hope
there will be more hearing-
impaired students to enroll at
Wilkes Community College. I
hope any hearing-impaired
students will be more eager to learn
more about the different kinds of
new things and education at
W.C.C. I look forward to seeing
more hearing-impaired students
here at W.C.C.
Someday, the hearing people
and impaired-hearing people will
understand and communicate with
each other more easily at Wilkes
Community College!
Also, the hearing people will
learn how to use sign language and
be able to communicate with the
impaired-hearing people.
I hope my presence at Wilkes
Community College will
encourage this.
SGA NEWS
It’s finally Spring and it’s time
again for the SGA elections. We
would like to encourage all
interested students to pick up a
petition NOW.
The SGA will sponsor a talent
show on April 1. If you have any
special talents or just like
attention, come on out.
We have designated April 12 as
Teacher Appreciation Day. All
students are encouraged to be
extra nice to your teachers this and
every other day.
For everyone’s enjoyment, we
have planned to have our annual
SPRING FLING on May 9.
Performing will be Super Grit
Cowboy Band and Harry Deal and
the Galaxies. There will be
refreshments and contests with
prizes. Everyone is invited to come
on out and have a great time!
Food-
Restaurant
Management
Students Wins
A wards
On March 19 and the 20th,
students from the Food-
Restaurant Management program
ventured down to Charlotte, N.C.
for the 12th Carolina Culinary
Salon carrying with them special
foods that they had prepared.
From the group that attended five
won awards for their food
presentations. Two freshmen,
Wanda Atwood and Ted Nichols,
won the Bronze Medal, and three
sophomores, Anita Cockerham,
Donald Gilliam, and Judy
Lambert brought home awards.
Anita and Donald received the
Silver awards and Judy won the
Bronze award.
Each year the students in the
program along with their
instructors attend the Carolina
Culinary Salon, and each year they
bring home the outstanding
awards.
College Loans
RALEIGH, NC—College
Foundation Inc. (CFI) here has
had one of the busiest telephone
systems in the state in recent
weeks, since the news media
started reporting on proposed
changes in the federal govern
ment’s budget for student loans.
Students and parents have been
calling to see who will feel the
effects of change.
Mary Bland Josey, com
munications specialist for CFI,
said that those interested in
applying for student loans should
be aware that there have been no
changes yet in legislation.
“Congress has taken no action
on proposed budget changes,” she
said. “We anticipate having
adequate funds from our North
Carolina banks to assist all eligible
students who apply for
educational loans.”
The final decision on the
proposals has not yet been
addressed by Congress, and any
changes that are passed will have
little effect on the 1985-86
academic year, she said.
CFI is a private, non-profit
corporation which handles
educational loan funding for
North Carolina students, and is the
central lender in this state for N.C.
Banks, other financial institutions,
educational institutions and other
organizations which invest in the
N.C. Insured Student Loan (N.C.
ISL) Program and the N.C. PLUS
(N.C. PLUS) Loan Program.
For the 1985-86 academic year,
a student can qualify for the N.C.
ISL if he is a U.S. citizen, a N.C.
legal resident and accepted for
enrollment in a participating
college or vocational school on at
least a half-time basis. The student
may attend school in or out of
North Carolina. If the adjusted
gross family income for the last tax
year was no more than $30,000, the
student probably will qualify
unless he has campus-awarded
assistance equal to the total cost of
attendance. If the family income is
over $30,000, he may still qualify
depending on the number of
dependents in the family and the
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