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Community Loses a Friend
"Leida Part has done more
to beautify this campus than
anyone." says Pete Moore,
professor of Religion. The
Guilford College Community
lost a true friend and neighbor
when Leida Part died last
week at the age of sixty-six.
Ms. Part was a member of
the Housekeeping staff and
the person we can thank for
the wonderful and refreshing
landscape of this campus. Her
day was devoted to upkeep of
the flowers and shrubs all
about the campus. Her quiet
contributions to tending the
roses around the football field,
the tulips along Founders
Walk, and the circular garden
between Binford and Mary
Hobbs lent to the beautiful
environment we are all so
grateful for.
In addition to her gardening
talents, Leida played a
significant part in the
re-decoration of Founders.
She sewed many of the
curtains and draperies
throughout the building and
aided in the upholstering of
much of the furniture. Her
friends recall the contentment
and pride with which Leida
remembered the appreciation
expressed to her by the
presidential party for her
decoration of Founders Hall
during the presidential visit
over Spring Break of this year.
When it was learned that
President Ford was to hold a
press conference in Sternber
ger Auditorium, Leida went
out of her way to make some
arrangements with "her"
flowers to decorate the
building.
Most of us will remember
her as the "flower lady" who
rode her bicycle around
campus and between here and
her home on Muirs Chapel
Road. Ms. Part was not
married and rented out the
home she had built through
savings from thirteen years of
employment at Guilford. She
lived in a small apartment
sectioned off in the house and
was a familiar figure cycling
her way along Muirs Chapel
and Friendly Avenue towards
the college.
Ms. Part was born in 1909 in
Rapla, Estonia and emigrated
to Canada in 1949 where she
worked for fourteen years
until her arrival at Guilford
College in 1963. She started
otu as a Housemother in old
Founders Hall and served in
several valuable capacities for "
the past thirteen years.
A memorial service was
held for Leida in the New
Garden Friends Meeting
House last Wednesday, April
14, in which her many Guilford
College friends paid their
tribute for her contribution to
the community in service and
in friendship. A Leida Part
Memorial Fund has been
established to continue the
beautification of our campus
carried on by Ms. Part for the
last several years. Contribu
tions should be directed to
Dave Stanfield in New Garden
Hall. We will all miss the quiet
contributions Leida made
towards a peaceful and restful
atmosphere for us to work and
live in.
"Bomb Scare" Scares Few
by Pat Townsend
A bomb scare? What bomb
scare? That's what a number
of people on campus are
asking. The subject of their
question, the so-called bomb
scare, occurredon Wednesday,
April 14th. The call was
received by Nancy Van Arkel,
the lunch hour substitute at
the information desk in New
Garden Hall, at approximately
seven minutes before one
o'clock. The message was
immediately passed on to Jim
Newlin, the college Business
Manager who promptly re
layed the word to Ron Short of
the cafeteria food service. The
bomb was supposedly planted
in the cafeteria part of
Founders. Ron proceeded to
evacuate all the people in the
building. A special banquet in
the west end, at which the
Attorney General, Rufus
Edminsten, was a guest
Caps and Gowns
Seniors MUST pick up their
cap and gown for Commence
ment exercises in the first
floor lobby of Founders Hall
on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday, April 26-28 from
10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Faculty members are urged to
pick theirs up at the same
time!
Nominate Your Candidates!
Excellence in Teaching Awards to be Awarded
by Pat Townsend
The recipients of last year's
Excellence in Teaching A
wards are Ed Burrows of the
History Department and
Richie Zweigenhaft of the
Psychology Department. The
awards were made in amounts
of SSOO, and the stipulation is
that the money be used by the
professor in such a way that
the students of the college will
benefit. In separate inter
views, last year's awardees
commented on what they had
done and were planning to do
with their allotment.
Dr. Burrows has used his
award in two major ways. Last
fall, 2/5 of his allotment was
spent in sponsoring Mr.
Marshall Rosenberg to lead an
speaker, was disrupted and
the guests exited by the back
door. The dining students
were requested to evacuate
the building, and they did so -
but slowly. A bit of humor
among the excitement - the
majority of the exiting
students took the time to bring
their trays to the dishroom
belt before leaving, even as
the one o'clock hour ap
proached. With ample police
force already on campus for
the Criminal Justice Day
Convention, the area was
checked out quickly, and the
diners reentered the cafeteria
not twenty minutes after
they'd left. Obviously enough,
Founders did not blow up. The
call had been suspected as a
hoax by some, but it never
hurts to be careful.
FIRE
A small storage shed on the
football field burned to the
ground last night, despite
efforts by the local fire
department to combat the
blaze.
The flames were reported to
the department at 9:20 p.m.,
and the call was promptly
responded to. There are no
clues as to the origin of the
fire, but it will be investigat
ed.
What you are now holding is
the final issue of the
Guilfordian for this semester.
Next fall, the Guilfordian is
expected to resume publica
tion on September 7th.
—
interpersonal workshop for
members of the faculty. The
goal of the workshop was to
help facilitate communication
from the professor to the
student. The remainder of the
award is to be spend this
summer, when Dr. Burrows
will be travelling with a group
of College Professors to
China. He commented that
this trip "should help
immensely in the teaching of
the China section of his
Non-Western Civilizations
course."
Dr. Zweigenhaft has ap
proached the spending of his
award money in a different
manner. He sees the SSOO as a
fund on which to draw as the
need arises. There is no time
limit on when the amount
must be spent, as of now, a
portion of the award remains.
To date, the award has been
used 1. to purchase a four
volume set of the "Handbook
of Social Psychology", a
reference source which stu
dents have found very helpful,
2. sponsoring a movie about
male sex roles, entitled
"Men's Lives" and 3. the
visitation of a speaker, Bill
Dimhoff. In addition, a part of
the award has gone for
computer work on some
reseach, which at present is
being used in classes for
exemplification. What re
mains of the award will be
spent "as the need arises"
Dr. Zweigenhaft stated.
April 20, 1976
The Excellence in Teaching
Awards Program is sponsored
by the Guilford Board of
Visitors as an indication of
their support of the high
quality teaching at Guilford
College. The members of the
committee on whose shoulders
the final decision rests are:
Kay Steney and Si Boney of
the Board of Visitors,
Academic Dean Cyril Harvey,
Ed Burrows - one of last year's
recipients, and Susan Thomp
son, of the Student Scholar
ship Society.
This week, as the time
arrives for the students to
nominate once again the most
deserving professor, all
should be reminded of the
importance of this award, and
the care that should go into
each of your nominations.
To recognize outstanding
teaching presently occurring
and to stimulate creative
teaching in the future, the
Board of Visitors is again
sponsoring two SSOO Excel
lence in Teaching Awards.
The awards are to be
presented as cash grants to
two full-time faculty mem
bers. The recipients are to use
the awards on projects directly
related to teaching improve
ment, or in other ways to
enrich the educational exper
ience of Guilford's students.
Nominations are solicited by
secret ballots from all
students, faculty and staff. A
Selection Committee of five
persons representing the
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