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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
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Vol. XLV
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C., SEPTEMBER 17, 1970
No. 2
Weatherspoon Building to
Be Dedicated on Sept. 25
Meredith College’s first perma
nent physical education-recreation
facility, the Weatherspoon Building,
which is named for two Raleigh
business and civic leaders, will be
' dedicated Friday, September 25,
3 p.m., on the northwest campus.
The public is invited to attend the
dedication and a reception which
will be held in the Weatherspoon
Building. The entire campus will be
open to the public from 12 noon un
til 5 p.m. and faculty and students
will conduct tours.
The $800,000 facility is named
in honor of Walter Herbert Weather
spoon and his late brother, James
Raymond Weatherspoon. Herbert
Weatherspoon, a strong supporter
of Meredith, and the family of
James Weatherspoon were large
donors to the building's construc
tion.
Half the construction cost of the
new facility was provided to the col
lege through a $400,000 gift from
the Weatherspoores, “the largest sin
gle gift by any family or individual
to Meredith,” said Dr. Heilman.
The balance of the construction
costs on the Weatherspoon Building
will be provided through other sup
port to the advancement program,
said John T. Kanipe Jr., director
of development.
Designed in an “H” shape, the
structure contains about 37,000
square feet of floor space, an
Olympic size swimming pool, a regu
lation size basketball court, a studio
for modern dance, locker facilities,
a classroom, offices, equipment stor
age area, and a sound system in the
gymnasium, along with lighting in
the ceiling. Seating capacity in the
gym is 650 on the roll-out bleachers
and approximately 400 chairs can
be placed on the floor for additional
seating. Plans call for the gym to be
used at various times for assemblies
Graduates Urged to Apply
For Fellowship, U.S. Grants
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships
• The twenty-fifth annual fellow
ship competition of the Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship Foun
dation was announced recently by
Dr. H. Ronald Rouse, National Di
rector of the Foundation. He
observed that at the present time
■more than 6,000 former Woodrow
Wilson Fellows are serving on the
faculties of more than 900 colleges
. and universities. The Fellowships
were established in 1945 to attract
outstanding young people to careers
in college teaching.
This year the Foundation will
award Fellowships to 250 American
and 50 Canadian students. In addi
tion, 700 candidates will be desig
nated Finalists and recommended
to graduate schools of their choice
'for financial aid. These Fellows and
Finalists will be chosen from an an*
ticipated 10,000 students who are
nominated for this honor by their
professors. The selection is made by
15 regional committees of professors
•representing a cross-section of col
leges in the regions. The committees
receive and read the nominee’s ap
plication materials, interview the
most promising candidates, and
choose those who show the greatest
promise of becoming outstanding
college teachers.
Students in the humanities and
social sciences are eligible, as are
those in the natural sciences and
mathematics who demonstrate a
clear interest in college teaching.
. Candidates must be nominated by a
faculty member no later than Oc
tober 31, 1970.
For more information, see Dr.
L. A. Peacock in 118 Joyner Hall.
Fulbright-Hays Grants
The Institute of International
Education announces the official
opening of its annual competition
for grants for graduate study or re
search abroad, and for professional
training in the creative and perform
ing arts.
TIE is responsible for the recruit
ment and screening of candidates
for U. S. Government Awards under
the Fulbrlght^Hays Act as well as
for grants offered by various foreign
governments, universities and pri
vate donors. The grants, which will
be available for the academic year
1971-72, are designed to promote
mutual understanding between the
people of the U. S. and other
countries through the exchange of
persons, knowledge and skills. It is
expected that there will be at least
554 awards available for 1971-72
although only tentative information
on quotas has been received.
Candidates who wish to apply for
an award must be U.S. citizens at
the time of application, have a
bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
before the beginning date of the
grant and, in most cases, be pro
ficient in the language of the host
country. Selections will be made on
the basis of academic and/or pro
fessional record, the feasibility of
the applicant’s proposed study plan,
language preparation and personal
qualifications.
Preference is given to applicants
between the ages of 20 and 35 and
to candidates who have not had
prior opportunity for extended study
or residence abroad, with the excep
tion of those who have served in the
armed forces.
Creative and performing artists
will not be required to have a bache
lor’s degree, but they must have four
years of professional study or equi
valent experience. Applicants in so
cial work must have at least two
years of professional experience af
ter the Master of Social Work De
gree.
Two types of grants will be avail
able through HE under the Ful-
bright-Hays Act: U. S. Government
Full Grants and U. S. Government
Travel Grants.
A Full Grant will provide a
grantee with tuition, maintenance
for one academic year in one coun
try, roundtrip transportation, health
and accident insurance and an inci
dental allowance.
A limited number of U. S. Gov
ernment Travel Grants is available
to supplement maintenance and tui
tion scholarships granted to Ameri
can students from other sources.
HE also administers certain main-
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and other meetings. With the excep
tion of the pool area, the entire
building is air-conditioned. Clancy
and Theys of Raleigh is the general
contractor, and F. Carter Williams
of Ralei^ is the architect.
The facility has taken the place of
a 40-year-oId temporary gymnasium
which has been removed for con
struction of additional student hous
ing facilities.
Attending the dedication cere
monies will be mem^rs of the
Weatherspoon family, members of
the Meredith College Board of
Trustees and Board of Associates,
college administrators, faculty and
students, state and local Baptist
leaders, business, civic and govern
ment leaders, and MCAP donors
and campaign workers.
Herbert Weatherspoon served on
the Meredith College Board of
Trustees for 40 years and is the
colleK’s only honorary life trustee.
He has served as a member of
Meredith’s Board of Associates, is a
life member of the Board of
Deacons at Raleigh’s First Baptist
Church, and is a member of the
Wake County and American Bar
Associations.
The late James R. Weatherspoon
was one of the founders of Durham
Life Insurance Company and served
as treasurer of the company until his
death in 1950. He was a leader of
Raleigh’s First Baptist Church, serv
ing as a deacon and chairman of
various committees.
Participating in the gift to the
college along with Herbert Weather
spoon, are the daughters of James
Weatherspoon. They are Mrs. Laura
R. Harrill and Mrs. T. A. Up*
church of Raleigh, Mrs. Margaret
Parker of Winston-Salem, and Mrs.
Julius O. Phoenix Jr., of Miami,
Fla. Three of the daughters, Mrs.
Harrill, Mrs. Upchurch and Mrs.
Parker, are graduates of Mere
dith. Mrs. Parker’s daughter, Mary
Stuart, is a senior at Meredith.
Acorn Av/ards
Are Presented
Lyn Middleton, editor of the
Acorn, recently announced that fifty
dollar awards were presented to the
following students for their litera
ture published in the Acorn:
Jane Cromley Curtis (Poetry)
“The Field”
Becky Johnston (Fiction) “The
Blonde Snake”
Nancy Rouse (Essay) “Granny.”
Each year these three awards are
presented to the best selections in
poetry, fiction, and essay. The funds
for these awards are given to the
Acorn by the North Carolina Arts
Council. Dr. Ethel Tilley, Miss Kate
Matthews and Mrs. C. F. Glover
were the judges this year.
Everyone is encouraged to con
tribute to the Acorn because anyone
who has a poem, short story, or es
say published is eligible to wm!
NOTICE
The next issue of THE TWIG
will be published on Thursday,
October 1. Ail contributions
should be brought to 110 Jones or
221 New Dorm by Friday, Scptem*
ber 25.
The Weatherspoon Building, Meredith’s
first permanent gym is named in honor
of W. Herbert Weatherspoon (above) and
the late James R. Weatherspoon (right).
New Faces: Part Two
In the last issue of the Twig, the
new faculty members were pre
sented to the Meredith community.
This week, it is the administration’s
turn.
Mr. Bill Norton is seen regularly
around campus, usually with a
camera in hand. His official title.
Education Editor, means that he
acts as advisor to student publica
tions, works with news releases and
fund-raising publications. Mr. Nor
ton, who is originally from Selma,
received his degree in economics
from North Carolina Wesieyan
where he worked with the yearbook
and was college photographer. He
has also worked with the Evening
Telegram in Rocky Mount and the
Star-News in Wilmington.
Mr. Robert Spinks works as as
sistant to Pres. Heilman. His job,
as he describes it, is taking care of
all the details of the President’s Of
fice, being in town when the presi
dent is not, and out of town when
the president is here. He received
his B.A. at Furman University, his
M.R.E. at New Orleans Baptist
Seminary, and his M.A, in higher
administration at the University of
Iowa. A native of Charlotte, Mr.
Spinks is excited about being at
Meredith College and working with
Dr. Heilman for, as he puts it, he
is “committed to the cause of Chris
tian Higher Education.”
Miss Terry Fuller, a graduate of
Wake Forest University where she
received her B.A. in English in 1969
and her graduate degree in counsel
ing, is in charge of testing for careers
and college major problems for
sophomores. Her hobbies include
decopage, swimming, and tennis.
Miss Fuller lives on first Brewer,
acting as residence counselor for
that dorm.
Miss Jean Chappell, a 1964 grad
uate of Meredith, is responsible for
visiting secondary schools in North
Carolina and the surrounding states
and interviewing prospective stu
dents on campus. Miss Chappell
comes to Meredith from Houston,
Texas, where she was recently en
rolled in graduate study. Since ob
taining her B.A. in chemistry at
Meredith in 1964, she has earned a
M.S. degree in plant physiology at
North Carolina State University and
has been employed in scientific re
search in Texas.
Mrs. Cooper is the residence
counselor in Vann. A graduate of
Georgia Southwestern in Americas,
Ga., Mrs. Cooper taught kinder
garten for 18 years before coming
to Meredith. She has one son who
lives in Raleigh and is Associate
Pastor at Forest Hills Baptist
Church. She says that being at
Meredith and helping the girls is
“something I’ve wanted to do for a
long time.”
The residence counselor in String-
fteld is Mrs. James. A native of
Apex, she graduated from Old
Meredith in the class of 1921 and
attended Southern Seminary in
Louisville, Ky. She taught at the
Baptist Orphanage for several years
and was a trustee of Meredith and
Wake Forest for four years each.
She has three sons and live grand
children. Mrs. James is excited and
happy about being at Meredith as
she remarked to one girl, “I went
to Old Meredith, so I’m a freshman
here, just like you.”
The two rather young girls in
nurses’ uniforms are Jean Merrit
and Ruth Ann Gradt, the new
nurses. Jean, who received her edu
cation from W. W. Holding Techni
cal Institute and Wake Memorial
Hospital, is a native of Franklinton.
Ruth Ann who is from Granite Falls,
attended the Banner Elk Program
of Practical Nursing, Lees McRae
College, and Tusculum College,
Greenville, Tenn. Some of Jean’s
hobbies include reading, listening to
music, and working crossword puz
zles. Ruth Ann’s hobbies include
painting, crocheting, and especially
talking.
Community
Calendar
Dr. Tilley to Speak
Dr. Ethel Tilley, former Meredith
professor in the department of psy
chology and philosophy, will address
the student body on Monday, &p-
tember 28, at the Kappa Nu Sigma
convocation, 10:00 a.m., in Jones
Auditorium.
New Arts Scries
The New Arts Series at State will
feature five concerts in the 1970-71
popular music season. Admission is
by season membership only. Mem
berships are $8.00 for non-State stu
dents. Less than one thousand
tickets are left; these will be sold at
the Union Information Desk while
they last. All concerts will be in the
Coliseum at 8:00 p.m.
The concert dates are: Septem
ber 25 — Brewer and Shipley and
the Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band
October 16 —The First Edition
November 6 — Chicago
January 22 — The Guess Who
February 12 — Richie Havens
Sunday, September 20
10:00 a.m. Contemporary Wor
ship Service, Danforth Chapel
(NCSU)
12:10 a.m. Roman Catholic
Mass, Danforth Chapel (NCSU)
4 p.m. Concert, Ciompi Quartet;
free; Duke Chapel, Duke University,
Durham
5 p.m. Concert, Chorale, spon
sored by AKA; f-ee; B. N. Duke-
Aud., N. C. Central U., Durham.