Founders' Day
Friday
10 a.m. Jones
THE TWIG
Wainwright
Dedication
2:30 p.m.
Carswell Hall
VOL. LI NO. 17
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
FEBRUARY 23, 1977
Elizabeth Dole to speak at commencement
The commencement
speaker for the graduating
class of 1977 has been selected
- Mrs. Elizabeth Hanford
Dole. Mrs. Dole is a noted
North Carolinian who is
presently serving on the
Federal Trade Commission
for a seven year term that will
end in September of 1980.
Previous to her present
job as a Federal Trade
Commissioner, Mrs. Dole was
the Deputy Director of the
Office of Consumer Affairs by
appointment of the President
when this post was created in
1971. Prior to this post, she
was the Executive Director of
the President’s Committee on
Consumer Interests which she
joined in 1968 as Associate
Director for Legislative Af
fairs. Mrs. Dole earlier
practiced law privately,
counseling the poor in par
ticular, whle serving also as
Staff Assistant to the
Assistant Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare.
Commissioner Dole, a
native of Salisbury, N.C., did
her undergraduate work at
Duke University, graduating
3 seniors play
economics game
by Kim Fanuw
If practice does indeed
make perfect, then three
Meredith seniors should be
prepared to serve as joint
presidents of IBM or ITT in a
few years. The girls, all of
whom are business ad
ministration majors, are
currently trying their hands at
big business via a computer
simulation game of business
startegy.
Nancy Boyette, BethCobb,
and Donna Douglass are
participants in an inter
collegiate contest which
exercises the contestants’
knowledge of marketing,
production and finance. The
girls, who are being coached
by Dr. Alden Peterson, make
all business decisions within
an imaginary firm. The
economy is simulated by a
computer and the object of the
game is to make the most
profits.
“The students make
decisions' pertaining to ex
pansion, labor, budget and
resources,” says Dr. Peter
son. “They do in fact, make all
executive decisions within the
corporation.”
The game is being
sponsored by the North
Carolina Educational Com
puting Service at the
Research Triangle Park.
Originally, the contest was
created by Emory University
and is now popular all over the
U.S.
The game is competition
between imaginary forms
within the same industry. A
computer regulates the
economy and each firm tries
to make decisions in keeping
with the changing economy
and competing firms. The
winner is the firm which
accumulates the most profits.
“The advantage of a
game like this is it takes the
students out of textbooks and
lectures,” continues Dr.
Peterson, “and actually lets
them run a business and gain
practical experience.”
The contestants cU’e some
40 colleges and universities in
the Eastern Carolina area.
Strategy, which is submitted
on paper, determines the
winners in six round robin
elimination rounds. The finals
will be held April 29-30 at the
Research Triangle. There will
be four finalists who wiU
receive money prizes.
“We’re entering to win,”
states Dr. Peterson who chose
the participants. The girls are
“highly motivated and in a
winning mood.”
Strategy sessions are
currently being held as
Nancy, Beth and Donna
prepare for their first
elimination match on March 5
and 6.
with a political science
degree. While at Duke, she
was selected as a member of
the Phi Beta Kappa and
elected President of the
Student Government
Association. Mrs. Dole
received an M.A. from the
Harvard Graduate School of
Education and an L.L.D. from
Harvard Law School.
Some of the many honors
and posts which Com
missioner Dole has received
include: the Arthur S.
Flemming Award for out
standing government service,
member of the Nominating
Committee for the American
Stock Exchange, member of
the Board of Trustees at Duke
University, and a member of
the Council of the Harvard
Law School Association.
She is also a member of
the American and District of
Columbia Bar Associations,
an associate member of the
American Newspaper
Women’s Club, and a member
of the North Carolina Con
sumer Council.
Mrs. Dole is married to
the Honorable Robert J. Dole,
United States Senator from
Kansas, and presently lives in
Washington, D.C.
Dr. W. Randall Lolley,
President of Southeastern
Baptist Theological Seminary
at Wake Forest, has been
chosen to speak at Meredith’s
baccalaureate service. A
native of Alabama, he
graduated from Samford
University in 1952, going on to
receive a B.D. and Th.M. from
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, and his
docterate from Southwestern
Baptist Theological
Seminary. Dr. Lolley has also
received an honorary Doc
terate of Divinity from Wake
Forest University.
His pastorates have in
cluded First Baptist Church,
Greensboro, N.C.; Broadway
Baptist Church, Fort Worth,
Texas; and First Baptist
Church, Winston-Salem, N.C.
Within the Baptist
denomination Dr. Lolley has
been a member of the
Executive Committee of the
Southern Baptist Convention,
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by Vicki Jayne
One of the first women
ordained for the Episcopalian
priesthood will visit the
campus March 1-3. Ms.
Carter Heyward, an
Episcopalian priest and
author of her recent
autobiography, A Priest
Forever, will be involved in
various activities while in
Raleigh.
Ms. Heyward will conduct
Wednesday morning worship
service and deliver a com
munity-wide lecture on
Chorale one of ten
by Nancy Newton
The Meredith College
Chorale has been invited to
participate in the Second
Annual Collegiate Choral
Festival and Composers’
Symposium to be held at
Loyola University in New
Orleans, March 24-27, 1977.
Each of the ten colleges
and university chorale en
sembles which were invited
will present a 45 minute
concert.
Each choir will include in
their concert a work by a
composer from their campus.
Dr. Peter Klausmeyer has
composed a work for the
Chorale and will accompany
the group to New Orleans to
attend a composers’ sym
posium to be held in con
junction with the festival.
Meredith was chosen
from a group of over twenty
colleges and universities to
participate. The chorale was
the only female group chosoi
and one of 2 choir from the
east coast.
Wednesday evening, March 2.
Her topic for the evening
lecture concerns the history of
women in religion.
On Thursday, March 3,
Ms. Heyward will be the guest
speaker at a faculty luncheon.
She will speak on her personal
history Thursday afternoon
in Dr. Allan Page’s “Women
in Religion” class.
Her visit is sponsored by
the Meredith Christian
Association Worship Com
mittee and Dr. Page’s
“Women in Religion” course.
The Reverend Carter
Heyward was ordained with a
group of other women into the
priesthood in 1973. The or
dination was later condemned
as invalid by the Episcopalian
Convention denying the
women the right to the
priesthood. This year the
convention reversed its
decision and voted to accept
women into the priesthood.
a member of the Board of
Trustees at Campbell College,
president of the N.C. Baptist
Pastors Conference, and a
chairman of the Resolutions
Committee of the Southern
Baptist Convention.
In addition to the above.
Dr. Lolley has served in
various community services
including: the United Fund,
Rotary Club, Chamber of
Commerce, the Forsythe
Ministers Fellowship, Citizens
Planning Committee, >and
President of the Conference
on Religion, Race, and
Community Life.
He also has written
Crises in Moraiity as well as
imblished sermons and ar
ticles for the Baptist Sunday
School Board. A local weekly
television program, “Parsons
to Persons” is yet another
activity in which Dr. Lolley is
engaged.
Dr. Lolley has traveled
extensively both in the United
States and in foreign coun
tries. He and his wife, the
former Clara Lou Jacote,
reside in Wake Forest with
their two daughters, Charlotte
(a sophomore at Meredith)
and Pam.
Sophomore Connie Floyd admires the many floral bouquets
which were delivered to Meredith students on Valentine’s Day.
Area florists began deliveries at 6 a.m. to fill orders (Photo by
Bill Norton).
0077 set for March
How many Meredith
students seriously investigate
future careers, and how many
blithely assume “something
will turn up” after
graduation? This is just one
question that will be answered
March 17 when the Career
Planning Services sponsors its
“Occupational Outlodk - (W77”
in the cafeteria and Cate
Center.
In an effort to provide
first-hand information to
students from company,
graduate school, and
governmental recruiters, the
office of career services and a
student committee have in
vited over 100 representatives
to this all-day event. This
event will give students a
chance to interview personnel
from companies and
organizations such as IBM,
CP&L, WPTF, Burroughs
Wellcome, U.S. En
vironmental Protection
Agency and many other
equally prestigious com
panies. Though they will not
be hiring at this informal
session, any information and
contacts given by the
representatives will help in
future job searches.
Meredith alumnae are
also coming to talk about what
the working world is really
like, and how best to tackle it
after graduating from
Meredith. Panel discussions
by members of diverse career
areas will be held throughout
the day, and career films are
being planned.
Contrary to some student
opinions, this is not a function
held for the sole benefit of
seniors. It is becoming in
creasingly important that
underclassmen and even high
school students start career
planning early. Believing in
this philosohpy, these
representatives will be here to
describe the background their
companies desire for future
employees.
Career Day 0077 will give
students a chance to explore
new career opportunities or to
expand previously considered
ones. (However, this offer
applies daily to everyone
concerning the Career
Planning Service.) Let’s hope
that on March 17 the student
body will take advantage of
this useful and unique op
portunity so that the career
services staff will continue to
invest their time and our
money in this effort