THE TWIG
VOL. XLIX NO. 10
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith CoUege
MEREDITH COLLEGE. RALEIGH, N.C. NOVEMBER 20. 1975
Group seeks to stop hunger at
its causes
Hunger is the most
serious crisis facing the world
t^ay, a representative of
Church World Service told a
Meredith audience, Monday,
November 17.
Terry Bonnette, an official
with CROP, the Community
Hunger Appeal of the Church
World Service discussed the
goals and activities of that
organization in his talk “Land
of Plenty—World of Need.”
Half of the world’s
population is, he pointed out,
insufficiently nourished. The
western nations which have
twenty percent of the world’s
population consume eighty
percent of the world’s
resources, he said.
Bonnette noted that
around the world 14-15
thousand people a day die
from hunger and that, at least
thirty percent of the children
born in Asia and Africa
become physically crippled or
mentally retarded because of
a lack of protein in their diet.
He noted that even in
America, one-fourth of mental
retardation has been at
tributed to malnutrition.
CROP and other
organizations interested in
relief are seeking to eradicate
the causes of hunger, he said.
Eighty percent of the money
which CROP raises for its
overseas work, Bonnette said,
IS used for development work
in the ‘have not’ countries.
He cited natural
disasters, overconsumption of
foodstuffs by the western
world, absolute poverty, lack
of water resources and the
high cost of oil products as the
chief causes of hunger.
The United States, he
noted, is a prime example of
an overconsuming nation.
Forty-five percent of the
world’s resources are con
sumed by the six percent of
the world’s citizens who reside
in the United States.
He said that while the per
capita income of the United
States can be computed as
being $5523 if the gross
national product is divided by
the population, this same
computation shows a $70 per
capita income in Chad and a
$100 per capita income in
India. Bonnette quoted Robert
McNamara’s statement that
an impoverished quarter of
the world’s population live a
life “below any definition of
human decency.”
At these levels of absolute
poverty, Bonnette said, food is
simply not accessible to the
people.
Lack of water, he said,
hinders the production of food.
Wells and irrigation systems
are a major need in a large
part of the world. Drought, he
noted, is a chief cause of
hunger.
Bonnette pointed out that
the rising costs of oil products
have affected food production
because this inflation has
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Dale Van Horn
Auction is held
The Phi-Astro Auction
Thursday, October 13, 1975
netted $403 for the Cerebral
Palsy center and the Shelley
School. Dale Van Horn, disc
Nine elected to board
The Baptist State Con
vention meeting in Asheville
last week, nine North
Carolinian Baptists were
elected to four year terms on
the Meredith Board of
Trustees.
Dr. Elizabeth Dotterer of
Sanford, Herbert Ledford of
Raleigh and Mr. Joe Savage of
Springhope, are returning to
the Board after the required,
at least one year between
term haitus.
First term members will
be Dr. Lois Edinger of
Greensboro, J.C. Faul of
Wilkesboro, the Reverand
Marion Lank of Henderson,
James Nance of Fayetteville
and Mrs. R. Oliver of
Pinelevel.
Mrs. Oliver is the first
female trustee in Meredith’s
history who has not been a
Meredith graduate.
These nine trustees will
replace nine board members
whose terms expire
December 31 of this year.
Board members who will
be rotate off the Board at the
end of this year are C.C.
Barefoot, Mrs. A.L. Davis,
Senator Jesse Helms, Mrs.
Bland B. Pruitt, Dr. L. Gordon
Sinclair, Jack A. Sneeden,
Claude B. Williams and Mr.
W. Fred Williams.
jockey for local radio station
WKIX acted as the auctioneer
and was himself sold for $47.
Top prices were paid for
NCSU fraternity Si^a Nu
Kappa Sigma which went for
$90 and $75 respectively.
Students paid $48.50 for Delta
Sigma fraternity, and $15
Farmhouse. Two football
players were auctioned for $11
together.
Faculty members Dr.
Huber, Dr. Page and Dr.
Cochran were auctioned for a
total of $38.
Mr. Taylor was sold for $7
and Mr. Ellington went for
$12.
TWIG newsbriefs
Cave will deliver
Thanksgiving address
A Thanksgiving worship
service for the entire
Meredith community will be
held in Jones Auditorium on
Wednesday, November 26 at
10:00 a.m. The service will
feature a guest speaker and
special musical presentations.
Dr. Julian Cave, Senior
Minister at St. John’s Baptist
Church in Charlotte, will be
the guest minister for the
worship service. Dr. Cave
received degrees from Fur
man University, Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary
and Mercer University. He
has done additional graduate
work at the University of
Edinburgh and the
University of Georgia. He has
recently come to North
Carolina and has previously
served numerous pastorates
in South Carolina and
Georgia. His last pastorate
before moving to St. John’s
was at the First Baptist
Church, Athens, Georgia.
Music will highlight the
worship service. The Handbell
Choir from First Baptist
Church, Burlington, directed
by Robert G. Sparks, will
participate in the worship
service. They will present the
prelude and postlude and will
accompany the Meredith
Chorus as they present “A
Canon of Praise” by Natalie
Sleeth. The chorus, directed
by Mrs. Betty Jo Farrington,
will also render a con-
Dr. Julian A. Cave
temporary version of “Prayer
of St. Francis of Assisi” by
Louie White. Students will
accompany the Chorus on
both the organ and cello.
A special offering will be
included in the worship ser
vice which will be given to
CROP, the Community
Hunger Appeal of Church
World Service. The offering is
one Ipart of the pre-
Thanksgiving emphasis which
MCA is sponsoring to make
people more aware of the
importance of hunger relief.
This offering, and the other
events, will enable the
Meredith community to
become involved with the
problem of hunger in the
world today.
Thanksgiving Break
Classes will end for the
Thanksgiving Recess at 1 pm
on Wednesday, November 26.
The dorms will be closed at 6
pm of that day. The dorms will
reopen Sunday, November 30
at pm and classes will
resume at 8 am Monday
December 1.
Bloodbank
One hundred and twenty
four quarts of blood were
donated during the Red Cross
Bloodbank visit at Meredith
on November 12.
Twenty-five potential
donors were rejected on ac
count of health reason.
4th Fair won the Student
Government Association ice
cream party award as the
individual hall with the
greatest percentage of
students donating blood.
The Bloodmobile visit was
coordinated by the Legislative
Board.
Industry
For the twelfth con
secutive year. Western
Carolina Industries, Inc. is
sponsoring “Operation Native
Son”. This one day contact
program to be held on Dec. 23
in Asheville, N.C. brings
together college seniors whose
homes are in Western North
Carolina with representatives
of business and industry from
this area to discuss job
possibilities after graduation.
Contact the Placement Office
for further information.
THE TWIG
The next issue of The
TWIG will be distributed
Thursday December 4. There
will be no issue before then
because of the Thanksgiving
recess. All copy for
publication in the December 4
issue should be turned in by 1
pm Wednesday, November 26.
Stringfield Fund
The Stringfield Fund,
which has been used for
emergency loans will next
revert back to its original
function of being a scholarship
source. The money in the fund
was given by Dr. Stringfield to
Meredith. It was originally
used as a scholarship for a
resident of Stringfield dorm.
Correction
A headline in last week’s
TWIG indicated that MRA
would sponsor CROP ac
tivities on campus. This
headline should have reflected
the body of that front page
article which correctly ob
served that MCA would
sponsor these activities.
Non-Resident News
The Non-Resident
Students organization will
hold a Christmas party on
December 12 in the Fireside
Room of the Cate Student
Center. Mel Williams,
associate pastor of Pullen
Memorial Baptist Church will
lead a discussion at that
meeting. Presents will be
exchanged and refreshments
served. The time of the party
will be announced later.
Non-Resident Students
are reminded to check the
bulletin board in their lounge
on the second floor of the Cate
Center for important an
nouncements and handouts.
Snow Skiing Class
Meredith College is of
fering a physical education
class in Snow Skiing. The
class will be held at the
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Fee does not cover
graduation cost
Seniors have been asked
to each pay a $20 Meredith
graduation fee.
A breakdown of the ex
penditures covered by this fee
has been supplied by college
Business Manager and Vice
President Joe Baker.
He says that ap
proximately $5.00 of the fee is
used for diplomas, $4.50 for
upkeep of the graduation
robes. About $3 of the fee is
used to cover the cost of
graduation speakers, $1.75 is
applied to rental of an
auditorium for indoor
graduations and for the hiring
of an orchestra.
The extra labor needed
for graduation ceremonies
preparation and clean-up
costs approximately $2.20 per
graduate. Food is assessed at
$2.00. Baker notes that this
charge is not for the dinners
for parents and graduates but
rather covers the cost of
feeding other student-invited
guests.
The total cost of
graduation is not. Baker said,
covered by teh graduation
fee; about one-third of the cost
is paid out of other college
funds.