THE TWIG
IVewspaper of the Students of Meredith College
VOL. LIII, NO. 21
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
may 3, 1979
Two teachers awarded for
their outstanding ability
Information Services
Two Meredith College
faculty members, Dr. lone
Knight and Mrs. Evelyn
Simmons, were honored
Saturday evening, April 21,
when they were named
Outstanding Teachers.
The awards, made
possible by support from the
Meredith College Parents’
Association, were presented
during a banquet held in
conjunction with Parents’
Weekend activities.
Dr. Knight, professor of
English, and Mrs. Simmons,
assistant professor of business
and economics, were
recognized during the banquet
as teachers who convey a
Christian perspective in
education and who challenge
students in their academic
disciplines. President John E.
Weems presented the awards.
The two teachers were
selected for the annual award
by the president of the college
from campus nominations
made by student leaders.
Selection is based on a
teacher’s ability to challenge
and excite tudents within lier
discipline and the ability to
communicate to students
from within a Christian
perspective.
Dr. Knight was born in
Greensboro and received her
A.B. at Meredith, her A.M. at
the University of Penn
sylvania, and her Ph.D. at the
University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. She has done
post-doctoral research at the
British Museum, Oxford
University, and the University
of London.
Before joining the
Meredith faculty in 1956, Dr.
Knight taught at Henderson
High School and served as
head of the English depart
ment at Shorter College in
Rome, Ga. She lives in
Raleigh. Her mother, Mrs.
lone K. Knight, is a resident of
Madison.
Born in Cairo, Ga., Mrs.
Simmons received her B.S. at
the Women’s College of
Georgia and her M.S. at the
University of Tennessee. She
has done additional study at
the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, the
University of Florida, and
Duke University.
Mrs. Simmons joined the
Meredith faculty in 1962. She
was previously head of the
business department at Cairo
High School in Georgia and
assistant professor of business
at the University of South
Carolina in Columbia. Her
home is in Raleigh.
Mrs. Evelyn Simmons of the Business Administration Depart
ment.
News and Highlights
Dr. lone Knight of the Engiish Department.
Dance Festival
Special subscriptions to
performances at the
American Dance Festival in
Durham this summer are now
on sale.
The subscriptions offer 25
to 33 percent off the regular
single ticker price and may be
purchased for Weekend
Performances, which take
place on Thursday, Fridays
and Saturdays; Tuesday
Evening Performances and a
combination of Tuesday
Evening-Weekend events.
The Festival’s com
bination series, which allows
subscribers to combine the
Tuesday Evening series with
, one of the Weekend series, is
available for $54. That’s a $27
WKIX to sponsor ‘*50
percent off Fair”
Announcement From WKIX
Some 15,000 people are
expected to attend the WKIX
50 percent OFF FAIR this
Sunday (May 6th) in the
Raleigh Civic Center,
downtown Raleigh: that
would be 10,000 more than
ever kattended an event in the
Civic Center in one day, ac
cording to Bill Lewis, Civic
Center Events Coordinator.
WKIX radio will bring
together more than 20 area
merchants for the “inflation
fighting fair’’ including a car
dealer and a grocery store to
sell $500,000 in brand new-top
quality-merchandise at 50
percent off retail in
“Raleigh’s single largest
retail event.”
WKIX sponsors will be
selling everything at the Fair
for 50 percent off including
stereos, houseplants, jeans,
jogging shoes, smoke
detectors, sleepwear, radial
tires, furniture, men’s and
women’s fashions, waterbeds
and accessories, pianos and
organs, sports coats and
more.
Participating WKIX
sponsors are Charlie Wiygul
Ford, Springdale IGA,
Coliseum Sound, Jerome’s
Footworks, Baggins End,
Modular Sound, Slacks N’
Things, Wrenn Pharr, and The
Club Shop, Raleigh Tire,
Superior Lingerie Outlet, The
Plant Farm, N.C. Waterbeds,
and Fantastic Sam’s.
Also selling their products
or services at 50 percent off
are Key Largo, Tadlock Piano
and Organ, Raleigh Sporting
Goods, Second Sole,
Ridgeway’s Opticians,
Terry’s Floor Fashions,
Protective Equipment, and
Lilypad Waterbed.
A drawing will be held for
the right to buy one fully
loaded Thunderbird - Town
Landau, regularly $9,728 for 50
percent off-$4,864- from
Charlie Wiygul Ford. (Car
price does not include tax,
title, or plates.)
Another drawing will be
held for the right to buy $500 in
meat from Springdale IGA
grocery stores including rib
eyes, pork, ribs, hamburger
for $250.
The eight hour event,
sponsored by WKIX radio,
will last from 10 a.m. until 6
p.m. The radio station is
promoting the event as an
“inflation fighting service of
WKIX.” Admission is free.
For additional information
listen to WKIX radio or call
the station at 851-2711. WKIX,
along with sister station,
WYYD (FM), is owned by
Mann Media, which also owns
WGLD (FM), Greensboro,
Winston-vSalem, High Point;
and W’OKX, High Point.
savings over the single ticket
price.
The Festival is also of
fering one non-subscription
performance for $8 on Mon
day, July 23, by the Paul
Taylor Dance Company.
All performances will be
at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium
on Duke, University’s West
Campus, and subscribers will
be assigned reserved seats.
For further information
about each of the discount
plans, write American Dance
Festival Tickets, P.O. Box
6097, College Station,
Durham, N.C. 27708 or Phone
(919) 684-6402.
Awards Convocation
Awards Convocation will
be held Monday, April 30 at
10:00 a.m. in Jones
Auditorium. Over forty-seven
awards and special presen
tations will be given to
deserving students.
There are several new
awards which will be
presented this year. The TKE
Award will be presented by
fraternity president, John
Smith. This award is a
scholarship in memory of
Susan Gencarelli and Linda
Morgan. It will be given to a
student who has shown active
interest in extra-curricular
activities.
Dr. Jonathan Lindsay will
be presenting the first Out
standing Student Staff
Member of the Carlyle
Campbell Library Award.
This award will go to a library
worker who has shown out
standing dedication in serving
as a student employee of the
library.
■Manpower
The demand for summer
workers is the largest in a
number of years according to
Manpower, Inc., the world’s
largest temporary help ser
vice. The company is
presently seeking 35,000
people to fill assignments in
business, industry and
government throughout the
United States.
Special efforts are un
derway to recruit college
students and vacationing
teachers, particularly those
with office and secretarial
skills.
According to Mitchell S.
Fromstein, Manpower
president, the company plans
summer hiring at levels 20
percent higher than last year.
He said Manpower needed
people for nearly all kinds of
work, but “those posessing
office skills - typing, shor
thand, bookkeeping and
office machine operation - will
have the best opportunity.”
Academic Calendar
Fall 1979
Arrival of new students
August 21
Change Day
24
New Student registration
25
First Class Day
27
Last day to add a course
August 31
Last day to drop with a “W” grade
September 21
Autumn recess begins at5:00 P.M.
October 12
Classes resume at 8:00 A.M.
17
Mid-term reports due
12
Pre-registration and conferences
Oct. 22-Nov. 16
Thanksgiving recess begins at 1 ;00 P.M.
November 21
Classes resume at8:00 A.M.
November 26
Last class day
December 12
Examinations
December 13-19