VOLUME LIII
Student Legislature Proposal
Campus Phones
By PAT ANDREW
The Student Legislature's
proposal calling for installation
of telephones in every room on
campus was approved
Wednesday by the
Administrative Council.
The action provides for the
installation of at least fifty of
the new phones by June and the
remainder by the beginning of
the fall semester of '7O.
The Student Legislature has
an agreement with the Southern
Bell Telephone Company to
waive deposit costs. The firtf
year the phones are in operation,
the legislature will pay all the
installation costs. After then the
costs will be only one half the
regular amount and will be paid
by students desiring the use of a
phone in their rooms.
Guilford Gets
5100,000 Grant
Guilford College has been
awarded a SIOO,OOO grant by
the Charles A. Dana Foundation
for the expansion of science
facilities.
President Grimsley T. Hobbs
announced receipt of the gift
January 6.
Hobbs, interviewed by The
Greensboro Daily News, said
"We are truly grateful to the
Dana Foundation for providing
us the opportunity to expand
our science facilities, thus
advancing Guilford's educational
program. "The addition of a new
wing to King Hall, our present
science building, is one of the
major capital needs of the
college. Though construction is
expected to cost in excess of
$600,000, we anticipate future
sources of support from other
corporations and foundations,
enabling us to proceed with the
project."
Hobbs said a 27,000-square
foot addition to King Hall was
planned That, he said, would
almost triple the present space
now being used for science study
on the campus.
The addition, a three-story
structure, would house
laboratories, classrooms and
faculty offices.
Guilford College has received
previous grants from the Charles
A. Dana Foundation for capital
improvements, scholarships and
endowed professorships. The
latest gift increases the total
received by Guilford from the
foundation to $1,850,000.
NOTICE
Due to exams, The
Guilfordian will not be
published on Thursday
January 24, 1969.
Publications will resume the
following Friday, January 31.
An open meeting for all
persons interested in joining
The Guilfordian staff will be
held Thursday January 30 at
7:30 p.m. Several positions
are available.
The Quiffor&cm
The legislature has an
agreement with SBC to suspend
all monthly rent charged during
the summer months without
removing the phones.
Students will be responsible
for paying the monthly rent of
$6, and are encouraged to take
the service, but by no means are
required to do so.
The apparatus now being
installed to accommodate the
new phone system will
eventually lead to the
installation in a few years of the
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ONE OF THE JUNIOR CITIZENS of "Veterans' Village" on the
campus of Guilford College during the latter years of the 1940's was
Grimsley Hobbs-Junior, that is. In the background are the
makeshift apartments the college bought from Uncle Sam to house
married students and their families. Grimsley Jr.'s parents were two
of the first occupants. Now the family has moved a few hundred
yards away to the President's home. (Photo courtesy of the llohbs
family.)
From Veteran's Village
To Fertile Flats
By EMILY HEDRICK
'Way back in the forties,
when a number of our parents
were college age themselves,
Guilford College pioneered the
establishment of married
students' housing.
The result now stands in the
form of Frazier Apartments, the
site of some of the country's
original buildings used to
accommodate the new and
growing class of students-the
married undergraduate.
Originally known as
"Veterans' Village," the first
Guilford student apartment
consisted of surplus Army
barracks brought from Ft.
Jackson, S.C. This was in the
post-World War II days when
many of the somewhat older
male students were returning to
campus with their wives.
"It was a nationally
recognized innovation on the
part of the college," recalls
veteran Administration member
David Parsons. "They had an
unofficial 'mayor' and quite an
organized little community over
there."
One of the first couples to
Thursday, January 16, 1969
PBX (an intercampus
communications system).
In making the proposal the
legislature listed decreasing
phone congestion and noise in
the halls as prime reasons for
instigating the new service. Also
in the case of emergencies (an
example is the Shore Dorm
burglary when girls had to find a
dime for the phone in order to
call the police) the new phones
will add extra protection.
Tom Simek is chairman of
the telephone committee.
occupy the "Village," which
consisted of three subdivided
buildings, was then Mr. and Mrs.
Grimsley T. Hobbs, who lived
there a year. "We could look
down at the cracks in the floor
and see light coming up! We had
quite a time of it," Mrs. Hobbs
remembers fondly.
Among the present students
here whose parents also lived
there are Lani Lentz, Sally
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Singers Swing South
The Guilford College A
Cappella Choir, in its fifth
decade of existence, leaves
Wednesday on its biennial tour
of the Southern states.
Eldon Moen, in his second
year as director, has announced
that 42 students of the
80- member group have been
selected by audition to go on
tour.
The choir, which on alternate
years travels to the North and
New England states, will give
concerts in Gaffney, S. C.;
Off Campus Seminars
Dec. Group
Lauds Success
"I can truly say I have gained
more from this week than from
any other semester on campus.
This is true education! This must
be increased and expanded at
Guilford!"
This was one of many
glowing comments from
students who participated in
Guilford's initial "Off-Campus
Seminar" held last month in
New York. The dual topic was
"The Social and Political
Problems of the City" and the
United Nations.
A total of 22 students,
accompanied by coordinator
Claude Shotts and faculty
member Dr. Cyrus Johnson, had
met for four weeks in
preparation prior to the
week-long seminar. Seventeen
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Umon to open Sundays
Sun. Night Meal
Spurs Leg. Action
By PAT ANDREW
Beef stew, beef stew, more
beef stew ... fish sandwich,
broiled fish .. . waffles for
Sunday night dinner?
Thank goodness for peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches!
The above describes the food
situation in the cafeteria last
week. The pre-exam menu was
anything but stimulating or
conducive to study. Students
were forced to seek sustenance
elsewhere.
The week started off with a
bang when students were served
cold sandwiches on one of the
coldest days of the year and
concluded when students were
served waffles for their Sunday
night meal. There was no
alternative.
Immediately after the Sunday
night meal, Zack Lowe called a
special meeting of the Student
Legislature cafeteria committee
to act on the cafeteria situation.
Jessup, Ga.; St. Petersburg, Fla.;
Dade City, Fla.; Melbourne, Fla.;
Jacksonville, Fla.; and
Frogmore, S.C.
The concert itinerary includes
Baptist, Unitarian and Methodist
churches; Melbourne College; a
Rotary Club; and an
experimental living community
(in Frogmore), a traditional
concert site for the choir.
Possible side trips for the
chartered busload will be to
Ringling Museum and Cape
Kennedy.
Number 15
Second Group
Leaves Wed.
The second "Off-Campus
Seminar" will get under way
Wednesday when approximately
twenty Guilford students go to
New York to examine "The Arts
in Contemporary Society."
The new dimension to the
traditional classroom-lecture
mode of learning has been
introduced here so students can
study art forms "in action."
I'he areas of drama, music,
and art will be studied. Fritz
Lyon of the William Sloane
House, where the group will
stay, has been co-ordinating the
program.
Events on the agenda include
an evening at the New York
Ballet; walking tours of the
Guggenheim and Frick Museums,
and the Museum of Modern'-Art;
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Lowe met with David Parsons,
Business Manager, and Ramon
Burguillos, Cafeteria manager,
early Monday, and reported to
the afternoon committee
meeting attended by Bouguillos,
Barbara Ilau, Associate Dean of
students, Jim Newlin, Assistant
Business Manager, and
committee members Daphne
Helms, Susan McCrery, Mike
MacMillian, and Steve Bowles.
Burguillos was reportedly
very receptive to the ideas
advanced by the Committee. He
explained the Sunday night meal
as "an experiment", and stated
he was surprised at the cold
reception given it by students.
At the meeting Burguillos
heard complaints most often
reported to the committee. They
were concerned about having
better-than average food during
exams, and always having hot
food on cold days. Burguillos
was also asked to have the
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The group, to be chaperoned
by Moen and his wife, plans to
return Wednesday, Jan. 29, in
time for classes. On Sunday
night they will travel back to
another traditional concert spot,
Monroe.
It was decided to schedule
this year's tour early in the year
at Semester Break, rather than
waiting until Spring Vacation,
during which Easter falls this
year. Moen explained that few
churches have time to schedule
outside choirs during their
already busy Easter week.