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PAGE 4 THE TWIG REW speaker FEBRUARY 5, 1976 Owens discusses pilgrimage Religious Emphasis Week was a week long in its un folding. On each of the five days, participating students were invited by Becky Ben nett and other members of the student planning committee to examine the unfolding in their own lives by looking at faith by “dancing” in praise of God and in thanks for his gifts to them. Dr. Eugene Owens, pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, brought Wed nesday’s message^ “Sear ching-Discovery of a Real Faith.” Dr. Owens saw faith in terms of a life-long pilgrimage with continual reexamination of one’s beliefs. “That I am I belongs only to me, not to anyone else-not even to God, except through my relationship to him.” This relationship to God is also the context between people and the spirit which makes men human Dr. Owens quoted a Greek writer, Nikos Kazantzakis, who described creation as the result of a great “cry”-the breath of God blowing through everytning and demanding the best. Personal unfolding is the result of a person’s response to that cry. “You keep on unfolding,” Dr. Owens con cluded. “When you stop, you at that point are sterile. If this great ‘cry’ keeps calling us to unfold, then that’s what pilgrimage is all about. It is a journey that is not ended for us.” Volunteers requested by local groups “Our pilgrimage leads us through an exploration,” he said. “We purge our belief of hypocrisy and sen timentality.” The purging is similar to an attic sale, he continued. We are led to “being ruthless with our heritage-we cleared out that heritage, and some of us wept.” The next part of the pilgrimage, said Dr. Owens, was to find meaning in life. The search is a personal one; “Only the hand that erases can write the real thing.” “Faith is a process,” Owens said. “If it’s finished then it’s knowledge, not faith.” The Student Volunteers Office has several requests for students to serve as volun teers in the community. In terested students should contact Mr. Eugene Sumner or Sue Vehorn in 220 Joyner. Some of the opportunities are: United Cerebral Palsy: Volunteers are needed to entertain with music, drama, dance, etc., for handicapped adults at 7:30 P.M. meeting on the third Thursday of each month. They also need volunteer help in bringing physically handicapped adults to the campus for various activities. school age in nearby schools and community centers. The activities consist of tutoring, recreation, and providing a “friend” to drifting young people. Students play with balloons “Childhood - the simple faith preceding Monday’s program. wv JitiiMic lann. ' Placement office newsletter Dr. Owens listed temp tations to quit the process of faith by unfolding. One such attempt is to “encase faith in biblical literalisms.” Such action results in “little more than vain belief to give rousing cheers to Jesus.” Dr. Owens maintained that “The New Testament refuses to footnote our faith.” “Faith is for renegades,” Dr. Owens continued, and explained that a renegade is a person who “refuses to follow suit.” “The New Testament is filled with renegades, people who would not go along with what they were told was the only way.” Faith gives a person knowledge of himself as one of God’s good creations. “God don’t make no junk,” Dr. Owens quipped. “The New Testament calls us to live out of our freedom,” he continued. Girl Scouts: A volunteer is needed to assist in leading a Brownie Scout Troop at Langview Baptist Church from 3^ p.m. on each Tuesday afternoon. Political Campaign: The Hunt for Governor” com mittee has requested student volunteers to assist in cam paign activities. Companionship for Mentally Retarded Adult: A lady in the community has requested a student volunteer to work with her 30 year old daughter. The activities in clude tutoring in reading, taking her on trips to the park’ engaging in sports activities’ and generally providing companionship for a few hours each week. P.H.D.: The Prevent High School Dropouts program needs volunteers to work with underachievers of junior high Engineering Science for Women The University of Virginia is offering an affirmative action program to help in crease the number of women wito training in engineering. This is a Post Baccalaureate program for students with degrees in SCIENCE OF MATHEMATICS. The program combines one full year of academic work at the University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Science, with six months of practical training on the job at a major U.S. industry or government laboratory. The program is sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, the United States Steel Cor poration, E. I. DuPont de Nemours and International Business Machines. A large number of other engineering employers are also par ticipating in the job training aspect of the program. With the present shortages of energy and pressing en vironmental problems, a career in a field of engineering can provide good students considerable per sonal satisfaction. Teaching Opportunities In Turkey The United Church Board for World Ministries of the United Church (rf Christ has specific requests for secon dary teachers in Turkey. Teachers are sought for Turkish Junior and Senior High Schools in Izmir, Istanbul and Tarsus. The Turkish government requires a bachelor’s degree with a major in the subject to be taught and a secondary teaching certificate backed by 15 to 18 hours in education, including a methods course or practice teaching. Areas requested are English language and literature biology, physics, chemistry general sciences mathematics, philosophy psychology, home economics art, music, physical education and business. Round-trip travel is paid for in terms of 3 or more yeare. Further information is available in the Career Planning Office. vices as a source of both employment and advanced technical training. Surgeon’s Assistant Program Information and ap plications for the Surgeon’s Asst. Program at U.N.C.- Chapel Hill, are now available in the Career Planning Center. A copy of the MILITARY CIVILIAN OCCUPA-nONAL ^URCE BOOK is available in the Career Planning venter. This publication gives the Military Counterpart to virtually every civilian job. In addition to emphasizing the commonality between military and civilian oc cupations; it may provide a stimulus to students to in- vestigate the military ser Recruiter Schedule February 10 4-H Camp Director Raleigh-Wake School System February li N.C.S.U. Extension Service February 12 Wachovia February 13 S. D. Kresge February 16 Montgomery Ward February 18 Fauguier County Schools, Va. February 19 Kinston City School System February 24 Winston-Salem Schools February 25 Virginia Beach Schools Moore County Schools +If you are not a senior but are interested in talking to these employers, check with tn6 Care6r Planning S6rvic6s office. jNGWSbriGfS (Continued I There will be a short Players for the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie meeting at 5:30 P.M. on Monday, February 9 before auditions. For the spring production, Ms. Truesdale, Drama Director says she needs people to help with props, publicity, house management, make-up, and set construction. Paris Trip Dr. Katylin Galligan is spoiKoring a spring trip to Paris. The 8-day program will begin on May 17 and will offer one hour credit. This is the sixth semester program and interested students should see Dr. Galligan immediately because group size is limited. Black Awareness Week Meredith will observe Black Awareness Week February 9, Monday through Friday, February 13, ac- from Page l) cording to Black Views in Unity (BVU) President Marilyn Bledsoe. Among the scheduled speakers and participants are Dr. Early Thorpe and Howard Lee. Dr. Thorpe is Chairman of the Histo^ Department at North Carolina Central University in Durham. Howard Lee is the former may of Chapel Hill. The Wednesday worship service will he headlined by the United Heritage Gospel Choir. The members of the choir are students at Shaw University in Raleigh. In addition, Gordon Parks’ movie “The Learning Tree” will be shown Wed nesday night, February ll at 8 pm in the CEA. The film, about a par black family is set in Kansas in the mid-1920’s. The members of the Black Voices in Unity invite everyone to participate in this Bicentennial salute of Black Awareness Week. Am
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