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Traditions — Casey’s Corner — The Swing of Things What’s in a name? Plenty. Everyone seems to know how our College got its name; we were named after Thomas Meredith. Well so what? What'd he ever do? He founded the Biblical Recorder, true, but he did so much more. According to Mary Lunch Johnson’s The History of Meredith College, Thom as Meredith was a brilliant student intent on studying law. At some point he decided instead to focus on ministry and did so with such motivation that he became the valedictorian of his senior class. At this point, Meredith, who was around 22, became a missionary to eastern North Carolina where he found ed the church at Tarboro. After two years of missionary work, Meredith served as pastor at the church at New Bern. It was here that he met the woman who was to become his bride, Georgia Sears, of Edenton. It was said that peo ple came from all around just to see Meredith and his wife, she being as beautifui as he was handsome. Mere dith’s next move was a shcrt one, to Georgia, from where he shortly returned to preach in Edenton. U was here that many of his eleven children were born. It was perhaps during this time that Meredith first entertained the idea of a religious journal, whose purpose would be to provide information to the growing number of North Carolina churches. First came the interpreter, a monthly publication which was shortly followed by the weekly BiblicBl Recorder The headquarters of the Bibiical Recorder was New Bern for the first few years, then it was moved to Raleigh, where it remains today, Meredith was forced to discontinue the Recorder at one point, due to financial problems. But it was not long before the Baptist State Conven tion, of which Meredith was a member, began funding the project. After this, the paper took off and was a huge success. It remained so until in 1850 Thomas Meredith died in a hospital in Pennsyl vania, He is buried in Raleigh City Cemetery where a monument has been erected in his honor. The devotion of Thomas Meredith to his work and stud ies. to the Biblical Recorder, and to all of the churches and congregations in North Carolina is felt here at Meredith. How proud we should be to carry his name! I have been teaching for over three weeks now. I know where the office is, how to use the ditto-master, and where to send students if they are sick. This abundance of information is very com forting to me, especially during those few times when everything is going per fectly. However, when anything that can possibly go wrong does so at the same time, I feel completely ignorant and helpless. Allow me to elaborate. I spent a good portion of one day trying to find the whereabouts of a stu dent who had skipped my class for three consecutive days. After complet ing the appropriate rounds of offices for the third time and fitiing out the neces sary papenA/ork, I found out that the stu dent withdrew from the school lour days earlier. (Someone had forgotten to tell me.) Another afternoon was spent visit ing the library and filling out forms for an overhead projector to be used after lunch the next day. I was assured the machine would be ready to pick up the next morning. It was ready, with a note attached; “Have a student clean off this roll of acetate.” Sure, I had my over head, but I had nothing to write on. (This was easily fixed by begging for some blank transparencies.} Another pleasant OFFICE SOLUTIONS Word Processing • Typing • Writing • sailing • Term Papers • Theses • Dissertations • Resumes • Cover Letters Wardlaw BIdg.. 2008 Hillsborough St., Haleigh, NC . Telephone 919/834-7152 Across from NCSU Bell Tower (Next door to Steve's Ice Cream) experience included a confrontation with the woman who operates the cop ier in the office. We have b^n told we can use the paper in the office for mak ing copies on the ditto-master. While I was opening a new package of paper, she impolitely lectured me on the four cases of paper we have in the English Department for our use, and told me how tired she was of opening new boxes of paper for the office. (She was later lectured by one of her authorities.) What I'm trying to say is that student teaching, like all teaching, is filled with plenty of excitement from every direc tion. These events were maddening when they happened, but they seem almost funny now. The real reason we are in the schools, for the students, is sometimes lost in the paperwork and the red tape of the system. The realiza tion of the problems presented by the system is an Important one. The frustra tion caused by the paperwork is real and needs to be differentiated from our relationships with students. As a teacher, I will need to try to remember the stems of my frustrations ... only blaming the students for the ones they actually cause. Aslww-'bylor PiainI, Inc PAINT AND ART SUPPLIES 110 Glenwood Avenue. Raleigh, NC 27603 Ption«: 834-4497 THE CUTTING EDGE Nexxus and Paul Mitchell Products $2.00 off Haircut — guys and gals $10.00 off Bodywaves and Perms ONE BLOCK FROM NCSU appoir^tn\er\t or walk-in 2906 Hillsborough Street across from Hardees HOURS Mon.-Fri. 8am-9pm Sat, 8am-3pm 832-4901 expires 12/16/88
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