THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOL. XLIX
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N. C.
SEPTEMBER 12, 1974
NO. 1
Meredith appoints
first
V.P.
Dr. Thomas
Meredith President John
E. Weems announced the
appointment of the former
dean of Linwood College,
Saint Charles, Ma. to the
newly created position of vice
president for student
development. She is
responsible to Dr. Weems for
student personnel matters.
Dr. Thomas recently
returned from a travel-study
conference on the changing
world of women in Colombia,
Argentina, Peru, and
Ecuador.
^n conjunction with her
travels in Latin America, Dr.
Thomas completed a research
project titled “Women and
Politics: Ways to Broaden the
Political Participation of
Women in the Americas” for
the Inter American Com
mission for Women of the
Organization of American
States.
Dr. Thomas’ respon
sibilities include coordinating
and directing the offices of
admissions, campus minister,
counseling, dean of students,
financial aid, placement and
career planning, student
health services, and other
activities relating to these
offices. President Weems
said.
A graduate of the
University of Texas at Austin
with a B. A. degree in English
and a minor in Spanish, Dr.
Thomas has done graduate
study at Harvard University
and Colorado University.
She earned her M. S.
degree at Indiana University
in college and university
student personnel ad
ministration and her Ph. D.
degree in higher education
and college and university
administration at Saint Louis
University.
Her doctoral dissertation
was Titled “The Expanding
Role of the University Woman
in Chile and the Education of
Women of Chile for a Con
temporary Societv.” She has
also done independent
research at the Latin
American University.
She has served as
assistant dean of women at
Southern Methodist
University and dean of
students and dean of the
college at Lindenwood
College. Dr. Thomas resigned
from her position at Lin
denwood in the fall of 1972 to
complete her doctoral
dissertation and do research
in Latin America.
New faculty, staff positions announced
(MIS) - Ei^t full-time
and five part-time faculty
appointments at Meredith
College for the 1974-75
academic year have been
announced by Dr. Allen
Burris. Other staff additions
include a resident advisor and
a director and assistant
director of development.
Dr. John Huber, 34, of
Skidmore College, has been
appointed associate professor
and chairman of the
psychology department; Dr.
Joseph A. Browde, 42, of
Columbia College, has been
appointed associate professor
and chairman of the education
department; and Michael
Dodge 29, technical sei-vice
librarian at Meredith, has
been appointed acting head
librarian.
Dr. Nancy Sears, a tex
tiles and clothing specialist,
has been appointed an
associate professor of home
economics and Dr. Lynn G.
Aubrecht, an experimental
psychologist, has been ap
pointed an assistant professor
of psychology.
Also, Dr. George R.
Hoffman, a researcher with
the National Institute of
Environmental Health
Sciences, has been appointed
an assistant professor of
biology and Thomas Ilai-
dison, former minister of
music in Washington, N. C.
has been appointed an
assistant professor of music.
Dr. Burris announced that
Miss Randell Kay Peyser,
former instructor at Wilkes
College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
has been appointed an in
structor of art, and Mrs.
Elizabeth Webb Brewer, a
Meredith graduate and for
mer English instructor, has
been reappointed to the
faculty.
The five part-time ap
pointments announced by Dr.
Burris include instructors
Allen Sharp, business. Miss
Martha Brown, biology, Mrs.
Elizabeth Manning, English,
Mrs. Annie Adams Allred,
home economics, and Mrs.
Anne Walking Mackie, a
graduate assistant in social
welfare.
Dean Burris also an
nounced the appointment of
Dr. John Huber as an
associate professor and
chairman of the psychology
department. Dr. Joseph A.
Browde as an associate
professor and chairman of the
education department, and
Michael Dodge as acting head
librarian.
Paul E. Holcomb of Cary
has been promoted to director
of development and John
Meredith Simms, Jr., has
been appointed assistant
director of development. Lynn
McArthur has been hired as
Resident Advisor for
Stringfield and will in addition
to fulfilling the duties of that
post, be coordinating dorm
activities. Ms. McArthur
graduated from Central
Florida Junior College and
Baylor University and
received her M. S. in Higher
Education from Southern
(Contlnaed on page 4)
Applause cast;musical
set for Nov. 6, 7, 8
Director Linda Bamford
announced earlier this week
the cast of Meredith’s fall
dramatic production .
Margo Channing, the
middle-aged Broadway movie
star, will be played by Erna
Stromsland. Robin Rhodes
will play Eve Harrington, the
two-faced starlet who strives
to unset the popular Margo.
Bill, director of Margo’s
current play and her lover,
will be portrayed by Ron
Davis. Buzz, the playwright,
and his wife, Karen, will be
played by Ron Jones and
Cathy Bland. Michael
Daughtrey has been cast as
Margo’s hairdresser, Duane.
Andra Knott will play Bonnie,
a typical unemployed actress.
Female chorus members
are Trudy Miles, Carol
Burbank, Janine Bradsher,
Deborah Jones, Nancy
Boyette, Janet Michael, Sally
Zeigler, and Cee Bee Banks.
David Barbee, Mike
Weaver, Bill Fletcher, Gary
Yurko, and Benjie Templeton
compose the remainder of the
chorus.
Male dancers are Wade
Rochelle, Allen Furno,
Howard Penny, Anthony
Jordan, and Allen McHugh.
Margaret Phoenix, Gail
Kluttz, Vickie Atkinson, Beth
Leavel, Sally Lomax, and
Susan Eason are the female
dancers.
Mrs. Jane Sullivan, in
structor of music, is the music
director.. Marlene Hart, a
senior, is set designer, and
sophomore Donna Thomas is
assistant director. Sophomore
Beth Leavel is the
choreographer.
Applause, which won
several Tonys in 1970, in
cluding Best Musical, will be
produced November 6, 7, and
8.
The Danish Gym Team will perform in the Weatherspoon Gymnasium at 8 p.m. Thursday,
September 12. The performance is open to the public free of charge.
Included in the performance will he a variety of modern rhythmical gymnastics, artistic vaulting
and tumbling, and a selection of traditional Danish folk dances in native costumes.
Twenty-four Danish men and women, all in their early twenties, will present the program at
Meredith as part of their thirteenth tour of the United States.
The series of gymnastics have been developed by the Danish Gym Team instructors. The
majority of the program is accompanied by music, both classical and modern, and the folk dances
are performed to old Danish folk tunes.