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Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
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MEREVITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, hi. C.
Septe.mbetL 2S, 1972
No. 4
NEW COLLEGE CENTER
IS FINALLY OPEN
View of the recently completed College Center and surrounding
landscape. The new Center is already open for student use.
Language Teachers
To Visit Meredith
On October 6 and 7, foreign
language teachers from the
seven North Carolina Baptist
Colleges will gather at Mere
dith for an important inter
departmental meeting. The
weekend’s program involves
Meredith students and profes
sors from the visiting schools,
as well as the foreign lan
guage department of Mere
dith. Friday’s schedule fea
tures an address by Dr.
George A, Kennedy, chairman
of the Department of Class
ics, UNC-CH, while Saturday
is reserved for discussion
groups and business.
Visiting professors begin
their stay with registration
in the College Center lobby
on Friday afternoon, follow
ed by campus tours, if de
sired. They are honored with
a dinner in Belk Dining Hall
that evening, with entertain
ment from the Meredith Col
lege Ensemble, and later,the
President’s home. The inter
departmental meeting com
mences at 8:00 in the College
Center auditorium, with a wel
come to the visitors from
President John E. Weems and
greetings from the State Bap
tist Convention by Reverend
T. Robert Mullinax.
Dr. George A. Kennedy, to
be introduced by Miss Nona
Short, Meredith foreign lan
guage instructor, is the even
ing’s featured speaker. He
received his A. B. degree
from Princeton University
(1950) and his A.M. (1952)
and Ph. D. in Classics (1954)
from Harvard. Before coming
to UNC-CH in 1966, Dr. Ken
nedy taught at Harvard and
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Work is being rapidly com
pleted on the new 21,000 sq.
ft. Center here at Meredith.
Although a formal opening is
pending a release of contract,
students have already made
use of many of the center’s
facilities, and an informal
“stepping - out’’ took place
during inauguration events
last week. The center provides
many activities and needed
space for students and campus
groups.
The supply store and Post
Office have been in use since
school opened. Also in use on
the first floor is a small au
ditorium - classroom and a
projection room with an office.
Although the SAB will show
movies in this area and other
groups use the auditorium as a
meeting place, its main func
tion is one of a continuing
education center. There,
classes will be held to help
women in our area finish re
quirements for undergraduate
degrees or renew teacher’s
certificates. The rooms are
to be named the Kresji Con
tinuing Education Center for
the foundation which donated
$50,000 toward completion of
the new building. Similar to
grants made by the Ford or
Reynolds Foundations, this
one was given with the stipu
lation that the college raise
the remainder of the money
within a given time, which
was done.
When facing the supply store
from the lobby, there is a
group of offices on the right.
These are to be occupied by
the three student publications,
who will jointly share a lar
ger, and much needed, work
room. Directly behind those
rooms is a panelled one, set
aside as a presidential dining
room or meeting area.
Upstairs, to the right as one
mounts the stairs, is a ping-
pong room with two tables.
After wearing oneself out on
the “courts’’ one can walk
into the large adjoining room
and collapse in a comfy chair,
listening to the beautiful ster
eo system there. This will be
a great study area, especial
ly in the winter, when the
open fireplace will be an add
ed attraction. Walking through
this lounge, one enters a bil
liards room, which might at
tract quite a few male visitors
to the center. It adjoins a tel
evision room full of colorful
chairs facing a unique - de
sign color television. There
is a small balcony off this
area.
On the other side of the
floor is the snack bar, which
is under the supervision of
Mr, Taylor and was to begin
operation at night this week.
The grill is filled with chairs
and tables to give students a
chance to relax and talk over ■
a Coke. Next to this area,
in front of the center, is a
group of offices to be used by
student organizations; SGA,
MRA, MCA.
So our new $900,000 center
will be a place of study, relax
ation, and meetings. Although
the old Beehive will be miss
ed, the new building is a vast
improvement, with its space
and new recreational oppor
tunities, not to mention the
fact that it will be used at
night. The unusual and color
ful decor needs and deserves
everyone’s best care to insure
its use for years to come;
at the same time, we should
take advantage of all its op
portunities to make it truly
a student center.
MEREDITH HAS 3 ART
EXHIBITS AS PART OF
INAUGURAL ACTIVITIES
Three art exhibits opened
on the Meredith College cam
pus here last weekend as part
of the acitivities scheduled for
the inauguration of Dr, John
E. Weems as the sixth presi
dent of Meredith on Friday,
September 22.
The exhibits are in Bryan
Rotunda, the new College Cen
ter and the Joyner Hall Art
Gallery. All three will open
to the public free of charge
for three to four weeks.
An exhibition of work by
Claude Howell, chairman of
the art department at UNC-
Wilmlngton, will be in Bryan
Rotunda, located in Johnson
Hall.
Howell’s work, on loan to
Meredith by the artist, the
N.C. Museum of Art, the Gar
den Gallery of Raleigh, and
private owners will be on ex
hibit for three weeks.
Howell will give a gallery
talk in the rotunda at Mere
dith at 2 p.m. Thursday,(Sept.
28),
The exhibition on the second
floor of the College Center is
by members of Meredith’s art
department faculty. Works by
Joseph Mar on, Judith Saw-
telle, Sally Couch Vilas,Geor
ge Chrest and Leonard White
will be on exhibition for four
weeks.
Included in this exhibition
is a section of drawings by
Meredith President John E.
Weems, which will be located
in the Center faculty lounge.
A ferro-cement sculpture
by Chapel Hill artist Vir
ginia Cary Read has been
placed in front of the Center.
The work is called “Diety,”
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Students Fran Stroud, Susan Hill, and Elaine Williams chat with
Dr. Bernle Cochran as they relax in the “stereo room’’ of the
new College Center. Adjacent to this room is a “T.V. room’’
which offers cablevision for students and their dates.
The third exhibit of work
in progress by Meredith art
students will be in the art
gallery, located on the second
floor of Joyner Hall. It will
be up for four weeks.
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MEKBDITH PRESENTS HARRIS AW HELL
AWARD TO SERY B. .1 ONES OF RALEIGH
Seby B. Jones, Raleigh bus- personal influence and a- “As Chairman of the Board
inessman and developer, was chievements have been of his- ofAssoclates,hispersonalvi-
honored by the Meredith Col- torical significance to the col- tality has generated interest
lege Board of Trustees on the lege. in support of the institution,
campus Friday night, Septem- Jones is the current chair- His influence has benefitted
ber 22, when they presented man of the board of associates, the college because of his re-
Jones with the Harris and has been a Meredith trustee putation not only as a hard-
Bell Award, the only distin- and chairman of the trustee working, successful business-
guished service award given building and grounds commit- man, but also as a dedicated
by Meredith Trustees. tee, and served on the presi- Christian.’’
Jones was presented the a- dential selection committee. Jones is president of David-
ward during the annual joint He has also served the col- son and Jones, Inc. of Raleigh,
dinner meeting of the Mere- lege in many other areas. developers and builders of
dith Trustees and Board of In presenting the award to Crabtree Valley Shopping
Associates at 7 p.m. in Belk Jones, Cameron said, “De- Center. He directs the affairs
Dining Hall by C. C. Cameron, spite responsibilities and of 27 corporations, is a for-
chairman of the boardof trus- commitments that crowd his mer mayor and councilman of
tees. New officers of the board (Jones) over-taxed schedule, the City of Raleigh and is
of associates were also elect- he represents the college on active in various business
ed at the meeting. many important occasions,and civic and religious affairs!
Mr. Seby B. Jones, Chairman of the Board of Associates, The award is given annually his enthusiasm for Meredith He is married to the for-
receives the Harris and Bell Award from Trustee Chairman by the trustees to the extra- has been instrumental in mer Christina Brown of Ral-
C. C. Cameron and donor Victor Bell. ordinary man or woman whose strengthening the college,’’ (Continued on page 4)
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