THE TWIG
VOL. XLIX NO.^ ''i
Newspaper of the Students of Meredith College
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
APRIL 8, 1976
Seminar explores future family
by Nancy Newton
Meredith College was the
host of the 1976 J. C. Penney
Home Economics Seminar for
North Carolina. The program,
“The Future; Implication For
the Family”, was designed for
the professional enrichment of
all involved in the home
economics field. The seminar
was conducted by Ms. Sandy
Moore, a representative of the
Educational Relations
Department of the Penney
Company.
The primary purpose of
this year’s seminar was to
acquaint the participants with
the necessity of preparing the
family for the future.
“What has been taken out
of the family and community
by society as a whole must be
returned,” said Mrs. Moore.
“By alerting those in
educational fields to the new
trends, they can help preserve
the family unit.”
Through a multimedia
program, Ms. Moore
presented trends which might
endanger future family units.
The changing social elements
she revealed were the
development of the small
American family, the lack of
formal family structure,
divorce, the changing roles of
men and womeij, the family as
an ecQ-system and as a
determining factor in national
decisions.
The program also
examined the family as a
consumer, redress and how it
can be achieved. The topic of
the Family was chosen at the
request of home economics
personnel and general con
cern over current events.
J. C. Penney has been
involved in programs such as
the one hosted by Meredith for
the past fifty years. The
company includes as a part of
its educational program a
magazine. Forum, as a source
of information for the
educators.
Forum, like the program
presented, examines issues
that will be affecting the
quality of life. The magazine
also focuses on consumer
education and is designed “to
assist educators in their ef
forts to help consumers
achieve a fuller, richer life.”
The seminar at Meredith
is simUar to programs con
ducted all over the United
States and Puerto Rico.
Meredith was chosen to host
Phi Alpha Theta initiates eleven
Eleven new members
were initiated into Phi
Omicron chapter of Phi Alpha
Theta international history
honor society Wednesday,
March 31, in the President’s
Dining Room.
The initiates are: Lou
Cocker, Pam Cook, Debbie
Doss, Denise Gaskins,
Saralyn Gillespie, Julie Jones,
Charlyn Logan, Anne Reece,
and Susie Williams.
Two new members, Janet
Fish and Julie Turner, were
initiated in absentia.
Phi Alpha Theta, the
second largest honor society
in the nation, aims to instill in
its members a love and a
study of history and search for
truth through the historical
method.
To be inducted into the
society,'a student must have a
3.0 average in all history
courses completed and must
have an overall average of 3.0
on two-thirds of all college
work.
The new members were
entertained by the faculty and
old members at a banquet
before the initiation
ceremony. President Marla
Tugwell addressed the society
on the activities, aims, and
potentials of Phi Omicron
chapter.
The initiation ceremony
was carried out by Dr. Frank
Grubbs, chapter advisor, Mrs.
Carolyn Grubbs, Dr. Sarah
Lemmon, Dean Allen Burris,
Cathy Bland, Karen Britt, and
Louise Crouch.
this year’s program because
of the interest and concern
expressed by educators in the
Raleigh area. The program
was open to all secondary
home economics instructors
and extension agents. Senior
home economics majors at
Meredith were also invited.
MC hosts psych gathering
(MIS)-Meredith College,
in cooperation with North
Carolina State University, will
host the 1976 Carolinas
Psychology Conference April
9-10 on the Meredith campus.
This is the first such un
dergraduate psychology
Fairchild takes
position at NCSU
by Kim Dale
Dr. Erika Fairchild,
assistant professor of history
and political science at
Meredith, has accepted a
position at North Carolina
State University effective in
August.
Dr. Fairchild’s new
position is an assistant
professorship in the depart
ment of Political Science. She
will be teaching two un
dergraduate courses in
criminal justice and one
graduate course in criminal
justice, as well as courses in
American Government.
Dr. Fairchild remarked
that the decision to leave
Meredith was a difficult one.
“I love Meredith,” she stated.
“Everyone has been won
derful. Dr. Lemmon has given
me so many opportunities to
expand and grow.”
Dr. Fairchild further
remarked that her co-workers
were always “open to
suggestions.” She noted that
her main reason for accepting
the new job was that it
provided “an excellent
portunity to expand in the
field I was trained in.”
Dr. Fairchild has been at
Meredith for four years. “One
whole generation!” she ob
served. During her years at
Meredith she said she had
developed a “family’’
relationship with the Meredith
faculty and community.
Having received her
undergraduate degree at
Hunter College, then a
woman’s college, in her native
New York City, Dr. Fairchild
strongly believes in women’s
colleges. They offer “great
encouragement’’ and a
“superior” education, she
feels.
She received her master’s
degree from Yale University
and her Ph.D. from the
University of Washington in
Seattle.
“She encouraged ex
cellence in her students and
has been an excellent role
model who has been admired
by many women,” remarked
Dr. Sarah Lemmon, Chair
person of Meredith’s history
and political science depart
ment.
Dr. Lemmon pointed out
that Dr. Fairchild put into
effect Meredith’s current
Capital City Semester
program and helped to
establish a new major in
Political Studies. Dr. Fair-
child has also cooperated with
the sociology department in
developing studies in criminal
justice.
“We are really going to
miss her and the contributions
she is making to our campus,”
stated Dr. Lemmon.
conference held in the area.
The conference is open to
the public for a registration
fee of $1.
Sponsored by the
Meredith and NCSU
psychology clubs and the
Meredith chapter of Psi Chi, a
national honorary society for
psychology undergraduates,
graduates, and faculty, the
Carolinas Psychology Con
ference will feature the
presentation of 15 un
dergraduate research papers,
including such topics as
“sexism and role playing”
and “behaviorial approaches
to weight control.”
New films in psychology
will be previewed, including
films on group therapy and
the life of Pavlov, and panel
discussions concerning ad
mission to graduate school in
psycholo^ and possible job
opportunities for the
psychology major will be held.
Registration for the
conference will begin Friday,
April 9, at 7 p.m. in the Cate
College and Continuing
Education Center. A social
hour will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Registration will resume
at 8 a.m. on Saturday, with the
presentation of under
graduate papers beginning
at 8:20 a.m. and the panel
presentations at 3 p.m. A
series of films chosen to be
previewed at the conference
will be shown in 103 Joyner
Hall from 8:30 a.m. until 2:30
p.m. The conference will
dismiss around 6 p.m.
Saturday.
Approximately 300 par
ticipants from colleges and
universities in North and
South Carolina, Virginia,
Tennessee, Georgia, and West
Virginia are expected.
TWIG is
under new
Lynch plays American program management
Dr. W. David Lynch
Dr. W. David Lynch,
chairman ^of the music
department, will present the
Distinguish^ Faculty Recital
for 1976 Sunday, April 11, at 4
p.m. in Jones Auditorium. The
recital is open to Meredith
faculty, students, and friends.
Dr. Lynch will perform a
program of twentieth-century
American organ music.
Featured in the concert is a
world premiere of “The
Hound of Morrisville,” by Dr.
Peter B. Klausmeyer, also of
the Meredith music depart
ment.
Dr. Lynch will also per
form works by Ernest Krenek,
Samuel Barber, Vincent
Persichetti, Charles Edward
Ives, and William Bolcom.
Dr. Lynch received his
B.M. degree from Oberlin
College and his M.M. and
D.M.A. degrees from the
Eastman School of Music. He
has also studied in Salzburg,
Austria; Paris, France; and
at Syracuse University in New
York.
He is organist and
choirmaster at Christ
Episcopal Church and has
presented numerous recitals
across the state of North
Carolina.
The Distinguished
Faculty Lectures and Recitals
were set up about ten years
ago to honor outstanding
faculty members and to give
faculty an opportunity to
share their talents with the
entire Meredith community.
Lecturers and recitalists are
chosen by a committee
composed of students and
faculty.
Beginning with this issue,
the ’TWIG will be edited by
Maggie Odell and assistant
editor Kim Farlow.
The staff anticipates a
more vigorous coverage of
campus events which
frequently go unnoticed.
As with all rejuvenated
endeavors, the TWIG will
need new people to enhance
the good work already being
done. Advertisers, car
toonists, photographers,
reporters, and a business
manager and a circulation
manager are needed.
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working for the TWIG, either
for the remaining three issues
to be published or for next
year, call Maggie Odell at 821-
5766.
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