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OkttlforiMan Volume LXVIII, no. 8 Sk jmgGr WP Waterman will speak at Guilford on Nov. 22 Pro-Choice F Turned Down by Council by Becky Gunn Recently, The Guilford College Administrative Council turned down a request by the National Abortion Rights League to rent the Guilford pool for a Pro-choice swim-a-thon to be held on December 11, 1983. This request from NARAL was the first time a request has been made to use the pool for a fund raising event. All requests for fund raisers go to Dick Coe in the business office and then to the ad minstrative council for a consen sus decision. The adminstrative council is made up of both adminstration and student representatives. Among the members are Presi dent Rogers, Sam Schuman, Jim Newlin, Jim Keith, and Dennis Blue. The council saw this pool re quest as having three basic pro blems. The first problem is one that Geoffrey Miller, director of the Ragan Brown Fieldhouse, Jan Earl 2 WQFS Schedule-4 Art Exhibit 2 Quotables 5 N.A.A.G. News— 3 Herpes 5 Smokeout 3 Community Notes-5 Ann Landers 3 Lunar Scopes 8 saw from the very beginning, use of the pool must be coordinated between Guilford and the YMCA. The second one being that any re quest of this sort must be agreed upon by the YMCA, and Guilford must be sensitive to the YMCA's decision. Suzanne Sullivan, 1982 Guilford graduate and NARAL spokesper son said that NARAL has used other YMCA's across the state for their fund raisers. Miller's impression was that this YMCA discouraged the use of their pool for any fund raisers other than the annual YMCA swim-a-thon. The administrative council also had to consider the fact that this was an outside organization wan ting to use a Guilford facility for something that is political. The general opinion of both Dennis Blue and Bill Rogers was that if they allowed this political fund raiser, they would have to Continued on page 8 Guilford College, Greensboro. N. C. 27410 'Excellence' Author To Speak at Guilford Symposium GREENSBORO-Robert H. Waterman Jr., coauthor of the best-selling In Search of Ex cellence, will deliver a free public lecture on "Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies" as part of a day-long Excellence Symposium at Guilford College Nov. 22. The public lecture, at 3 p.m. in Sternberger Auditorium, will focus on techniques used by management in highly successful corporations. Waterman's visit to Greensboro, co-sponsored by Blue Bell, Inc., is an innovative joint effort of a corporation and a college to promote excellence programs. The day includes ses sions for high level business and industry executives in the area. A San Francisco director of McKinsey & Co., an international consulting firm that specializes in top management problem solv ing, Waterman divides his time between client interests and fur ther study of corporations. Research begun in 1978 by Waterman and coauthor Thomas J. Peters led to their highly ac claimed book, published in November 1982, on what con stitutes an "excellent" company. In Search of Excellence, accor ding to Time magazine's Oct. 17 LIFE LOST ON NEW GARDEN RD. By Susan Harvey A Guilford College sophomore, Jim Fingeroff, was struck by a car and killed at 12:20 a.m., Saturday. According to the State Highway Patrol, Fingeroff, 19, was lying in the roadway when he was struck by a vehicle. The accident occur red on New Garden Road, eight feet west of Greensboro city limits, parallel with the middle of Guilford's lacrosse field. According to Dr. H. C. War wick, Guilford County Medical Examiner, the cause of death was "multiple blunt trauma to the head." Guilford community memorial services for Fingeroff were held last night at New Garden Friends Meeting. Guilford's radio station, WQFS, will sign off the air during Jim's show on Thursday from 9:00 p.m. until midnight in memory of him. Fingeroff, a sophomore with an undeclared major was reported to be considering pre-med. He was a disc jockey on WQFS since last spring and was well-known for the "Jim & Bill Show" he shared with Bill Bunten. Accor ding to friends, he was also in volved with the lacrosse team, and intramural volleyball. Jerome James Fingeroff was born January 20, 1964, in issue, is "the second-fastest selling nonfiction hardcover book in the U.S. history, topped only by Alex Haley's Roots." It has been on the New York Times' bestseller list for nearly six mon ths and is in its 26th printing. A "how to" manual for top ex ecutives, the book presents the corporate innovations and opera tions techniques that showed up constistently in the author's research. Blue Bell, Inc., is one of 10 cor porations, and the only one head quartered in North Carolina, designated as "excellent" in the book. The Excellence Symposium begins at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 22 with a workshop for top management executives from about a dozen major companies in the Greensboro area on "Toward Ex cellence: Building It in Your Company." James S. Balloun and Edward G. Michaels 111, direc tors of McKinsey & Co., from its Atlanta office, will assist Water man with the presentation. At 12 noon, Waterman will ad dress 200 local representatives of business and industry, members of the Guilford College faculty and student body as well as other college and university represen tatives on "Corporate Ex Meadowbrook, Pa. His family now lives at 1088 Dixon Lane, Rydal, Pa. Fingeroff was a noticeable figure on campus, known for his "new waves" hairstyle and especially creative attire. sllifP" Iff ,JiK Jim Fingeroff Mike Ronco, a former room mate, considered the many peo ple on campus who did not know him, "Most saw a weird guy, but if you were willing to put up with some bull,...Jim was a good friend." Close friends and acquain- November 16, 1983 cellence." The special "Reaching for Excellence" luncheon at Greensboro Country Club will be hosted by Blue Bell, Inc. After a 2:30 p.m. news con ference, Waterman will deliver his major address in Stern berger. Chief executive officers, board chairmen and company presidents have been invited to Guilford President William R. Rogers' home at 5 p.m. for the concluding session, a business reception and discussion with Waterman of "The Excellence Principles." Waterman holds an undergraduate degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an M.B.A. from Stanford Universi ty. Before joining McKinsey & Co. in the 1960'5, he was a physicists at Marathon Oil Co., a salesman for IBM and a research economist at the University of Denver Research Institute. He has worked with McKinsey offices in Tokyo, Japan; Melbourne and Sydney, Australia; and San Francisco. He has travelled extensively throughout the world and taught at a graduate business school in Lausanne, Switzerland. tances concur on Fingeroff's basic vitality as descriptions in clude, "charismatic," "unpredictable," "energetic," but finally they assert that he was, "hard to explain." Apparently, Fingeroff went to see the movie on campus, "Diva," on Friday evening and was last seen at a party in Bin ford Hall. John LeDuke, a Guilford Col lege freshman from Columbus, Ind., saw some commotion down New Garden Rd. and went to help out. Le Duke recognized Fingeroff as a student, "I did not know him, but had seen him around a million times before." LeDuke together with an uniden tified man, restored Fingeroff's heartbeat through resuscitation. He died later that morning at Wesley Long Community Hospital. LeDuke described an "older, very kind, successful businessman," as the person who responded to the patrolman that his wife was driving the car which hit Fingeroff. "I feel so sorry for her," LeDuke said. Fingeroff will be remembered by many as the one who "played" his trombone late into the night as well as early morning wake-up calls. "He was alot of fun," Ron continued on page 8 Photo courtesy of Mikr Ronco
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