Meredith Herald Volume XI, Issue 5 September 21,1994 Raleigh, North Carolina Meredith celebrates the end of the Centennial Campaign Noith Carolina Governor James B. Hunt and over one thousand students, &culty, trustees, and fnends will gather at Meredith College on Friday, Septem ber 23, 1994,at 10:00a.m. to celebrate the sucessAil completion of the College's $10.6 million dollar Second Century Camp^ga The college exceeded its goal by laisiong over $ 11.8 million, the laigest amount raised during Meredith's 103- year history over the course of a three- year capit^ campaign, making this a historic campaign. “While many colleges are strug gling to meet their flnanciai demands Meredith is fortunate to continue to obtain sufficient resources to protect the quality of education needed in our modern society, “said Murphy Osborne, vice president for Institu tional Advancement at the college. In an unusual departure from tradi tional fundraising in higher education. all of the participants in the Septem ber celebration will actually see the results of this campaign on that day lather than just hearabout the amount of funds raised. “Sometimes because of pledges, deferred gifts and occasional misman agements, supporters of a major cam paign do not always see the outcome of the campaign's success, buildings, scholarships, etc.” said Osborne. “What Meredith has done is a radical departure from modern day fundraising.” What Meredith has done is forge ahead to use the money as it was raised. During the campaign, the Col lege has built and opened a $2,675 million, 25,000 square foot classroom building. The dining hall and the Noel House (International Program) have been renovated. The 5,000 square-foot addition of the Dance Studio and Fitness Center to the Westtherspoon Physical Educa tion Building is scheduled to be com pleted late this fall. The Challenge also helped double the number of available student scholarships—all withow in curring any debt to the College. “Meredith trustees felt strongly about ^udents not having to pay inter est on the College's debt as part of their tuition,' said Osbome. Nationally, in terest payments on college debt ac count for 17 percent of a student's tuition. Meredith’s debt-free status means that students don't pay for the promises of oUiers. In another unusual twist, the total expenditures to conduct the campaign were only 3 percent of the funds raised. This is in contrast to the national aver age of slightly over 8 percent. Over 5,000 individuals mads contributions to the Meredith campaign. Governor Hunt will deliver the key note address to the Second Century Challenge Campaign Celebration at 10:00 a.m Those invited include legis lators, corporate CEO’s, theCouncilof State, members of the Raleigh City Council, the Wake County Commis sioners, the Chamber of Commerce and many others. Let's celebrate our MEREDITH PRIDE! New president speaks of unity by Marsha'Hitor The new freshman class president, Amanda Ledford is a very energetic youi^ woman filled with new and exciting ideas. She is from Mocksville, NC where she attended Davie County High School. Amanda is veiy involved with mu sic. She loves to sing in the church choir, play the piano, and play the handbells for Meredith. Along with her musical talent, Amanda is also a very talented witer. She is an extremely avid £m of Carolina basketball and football. Be cause of her fondness for basketball, she has coached a recreational basket ball team ^nanda ran for the office of presi dent because of her excitment for the freshman class. She believes that to gether the freshman class can make a place at Meredith. The frtshman year for a class is the most crucial time \^en true friendships are made and the dass can beo)me unified. Amanda feels that unification should be the theme during our freshman year. Though most of the plans for the freshman class are tentative now, Amanda has many new and exciting ideas. Amanda is trying to coordinate a class service project which would allow the freshman to work with the terminally ill patrons in local hospi tals. Also, Amands is planning a new event just for freshman that would allow all of them the opportunity to get oriented. Amandabelievesveiy strongly that her plans will not succeed if each freshman does not get invdved in these activities. She feels that it is the responsibility of each freshman to make their class the absolute best. So, freshman, let’s help our class presi dent and our class become the veiy best class by getting involved. f= Inside the Herald: Editorial 2 Opinion PoU 3 MCTV article/TV schedule 4 Career Connections 4 News Briefs 5 Movie review 5 Staff profiles 6 Concert review 8 Play review 8 J