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Newspaper o1 the Students of Meredith College
Volume XLl
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., DECEMBER 15, 1966
No. 6
Heilman Announces $5 Million Development;
Shearon Harris Heads Board to Secure Funds
New Buildings To Include Library, Student Center, Gym, Dorm
Announcement of plans for a two-phase development progrHin aimed at raising $5
milliou in the next three years and the appointment of a chairman for a rccently>createl
Board of Associates who will help secure the funds has been made hy Meredith College
President Dr. £. Bruce Heilman.
Chosen to head the Board of Associates is Shearon Harris, prominent North Carolina
Baptist layman and president of Carolina Power and Light Company. Harris^ job will be
to help the college administration and trustees raise money to round oiu present and pre*
dictable future physical and program needs aud to place into iiupleinenlation an annual
support program which, by 1970, will provide the college with pledged revenues of at
least a million dollars for every fiscal year.
Harris’ first step on the Board of Associates will be to begin conferring with some
twenty*five men and women in the Raleigh*Wake County area who will join the Board
in providing impetus for the annual support program. By February, when final plans for
the Board^s activities arc to be presented before ihe full Meredith trustee board, the
group will have expanded to all major population centers in the state, with committees
working under area chairmen in Asheville, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, Wilmington,
and Winston-Salem.
This will not be Harris’ first ven-
President Heilman, Mr. Harris, and Mr. Andrews discus development program.
Christmas Banquet,Caroling
Higlilight Season Festivities
The Meredith community will wel
come the Christmas season with fes
tivities tomorrow night; the tradi
tional banquet and caroling will be
held before students go “home for
the holidays” on Saturday.
The 6:00 bullet dmner, always
the highlight of pre-Christmas ac
tivity here, is a product of long
weeks of planning and work by Mrs.
Holler and the Icitchen staff, the
Student Government Association,
the Meredith Christian Association,
and the Meredith Recreation As
sociation. The lavish and delicious
menu, the decorations made by the
art department, and the holiday
dress of the guests have in the past
made the annual banquet one of the
most memorable events of the school
year.
Entertainment for this year’s ban
quet includes President E. Bruce
Heilman’s “One Man’s Family”
singers, who will be making their
first appearancc before the entire
student body. Also on the program
will be carol singing led by the
kitchen staff and selections by the
Meredith Ensemble, \inder the di
rection of Miss Beatrice Donley.
Following the banquet, the tradi
tional Christmas caroling will begin
at 9:00. The MRA has chartered
approximately eight buses to carry
students over a route including the
homes of President E. Bruce Heil
man and former President Carlyle
Campbell, the Governor’s mansion,
and various faculty homes. Upon
returning to the campus, each hall
will hold its own party, highlighted
by “original” entertainment and the
exchanging of “gag” gifts.
An addition to the Christmas fes
tivities this year will be a reception
after the banquet given by President
and Mrs. Heilman for the faculty,
administrative staff, Board of Trus
tees, and Board of Associates. This
will be the first official college func
tion to be held at the new presi
dential home on Glen Eden Drive.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16
6:00—Christmos
Banquet
9:00—Coroling
11:30—Hall Parties
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 17
12:30—Beginning of
Christmas Recess
ture in support of Baptist higher'
education in the state. He is the son
of a Baptist minister and is now a
deacon, trustee, and Sunday School
teacher at Hayes Barton Baptist
Church. He is a graduate of Wake
Forest College where he also re
ceived a law degree. He has served
on the Wake Forest Board of Trus
tees and is now on the Board of
Visitors for the Wake Forest Law
School. He is a director of the North
Carolina Foundation of Church Re
lated Colleges, a group which pro
vides financial encouragement for
some eighteen member schools in
the state. He was named vice-presi
dent of Carolina Power and Light I
Company in 1960, promoted to gen-1
eral counsel in 1962, and elected
president in 1963.
The separate $5 million program
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MEREDITH COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT PLAN FOR 1970
PHYSICAL NEEDS
Library $1,000,000
Student Center 800,000
Physical Education 1,000,000
Dormitory 600,000
Campus Improvements to
Existing Facilities 900,000
$4,300,000
$ 300,000
FACULTY AND STAFF BENEHTS
Salary Upgrading and
Fringe Benefits * 300,000
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
Curriculum Revision, Faculty
Additions, Research, Student Aid 400,000
$ 400,000
TOTAL $5,000,000
■ W'ill be needed annually after 1970.
New FQcilities to Include Resource, Duplication, Art Centers
Groundbreaking DateSetfor Library
The million dollar Carlyle Camp
bell Library, which will be placed
under construction at Meredith Col
lege in April as the first of four
buildings scheduled in a three-year
$5 million campaign to round out
needed physical and program fa
cilities, will be a “learning resources
center” and not merely a building to
provide more space for stacking
books.
College officials say that library
architect J. Russell Bailey of Orange,
Virginia, has done his job to reflect
the desire of the campas planning
committee to help the collcgc keep
pace with the times.
In today’s complex and contin-
oiini
Conslruclloa of the Carlyle Campbell Library, pictured above by archlt«ct J. Russell Dallcy, will begin April IS, 1967
ually changing educational picture,
the college library as an invaluable
source of references is in an intimate
relationship not only with the stu
dent of Chaucer and Einstein but
also with every student who expects
to earn a living in a world where
skills are quickly outdated and “con
tinuing education” is routine termi
nology. The library must contain
many and varied references and be
planned as a flexible facility that
can provide early service on a
myriad of developing references.
Some features of the new library
may have to be explained in detail
to graduates of fairly recent vintage.
For example, there will be a dupli
cating center in the new building, a
room of machines which will reflcct
the age in which they were born.
Roberta Rcsearcher has to plow
through many more piles of infor
mation than her mother did to do a
good }ob on a term paper. Roberta
can use a machine to help her
copy her references and then go to
her dorm to study, leaving her col
league access to the library’s only
coj>y of a new book on cybernetics..
Another feature not usually found
in a college library on a small cam
pus will be a ccnter for art. There
will be space not only to hang the
Picasso an alumna might donate but
also room to file inexpensive copies
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