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EREDiTH Herald Volume XVI, Issue 1 Educating Women to Excel. August 25,1999 On the inside: □ Residence Hall doors locked 24 hours. Page 2 □ Freshmen elections are approaching. Page 4 □ Find out what to do this weekend In the community events. Page 4 New students design their futures □ Move-in day brings heat, rain for orienta* tion. Christina Holder News Editor Balloon arches. Orientation at Meredith seems to be all about balloon arches—upon arrival, anyway. Sophomore Sarah Pritchard still remembers pulling onto Main Campus Drive a year ago 10 gel her first glimpse of Ori entation Meredith-style. Dri ving past waving and smiling Orientation Crew members and beneath, you guessed it, the balloon arch. Pritchard says she fell “at home at Meredith." The Orientation Crew would breathe a sigh of relief because making freshmen feel “at home" was the goal of the 44 member team last week as Meredith welcomed 544 women, the largest class ever, to campus last Saturday for the Orientation Week themed “Design Your Future.” Blueprints for the week were drafted long before the arrival day of Aug. 14. The offices of Residence Life, Academic Advising, Dean of Students, First Year Experience. Com muter Life and Special Ser vices, and Student Activities and Leadership Development, as well as student representa tives and freshmen faculty advisors, formed the Orienta tion Committee. Their combined efforts pro duced a palette of "design” themed events. The Office of Student Activities and Leader ship Development was respon sible for coordinating many of the activities and the Orienta tion Crew. Dena Price, assistant direc tor of the office, said, “The Orientation Crew was com posed of students who repre sent different organizations and who were in charge of the art coordinating the Orientation Committee and the plans for the Diversity Session, the Women’s Health Session, the Freshmen Survey, and the placement tests. “I think Ori- etation went smoothly. The freshmen seem to be upbeat and ready to go!" said Bum- gardner. While Orientation Crew members were busy attending “crew meetings” that included team building exercises, Resi- Orientation Crew Member Stephanie Parsons, junio gives directions to a father on move-in day. Meredith Herald at Meredith College 3800 Hillsborough Sl Raleigh, NC 27607 (919) 760-2824 FAX (919)760-2869 Email; maxwelH@mwedith£fo and decorations, the tool booth, the picnic, the out-of-state Ice Cream Social, the slide show, the Campus Life Skit, and the Activities Fair with entertainer Roger Day." Carolyn Koning and Chiissie Bumgardner, co-direc- tors of the First Year Experi ence, were responsible for OfSNb A welcoming sign greeted freshmen and tran^'^jr students on Saturday, Aug. 15. '0 Bv Steve Wilson Photo by Stev dent Assistants and Student Advisors were learning about their roles to the new class. Combined, the Orientation Crew, RAs, and SAs. arrived I week to 3 days early to prepare for arrival day. Some falculty also arrived early to help get the Summer Reading Program, a new edi tion to Orientation, implement ed. Faculty have been working since May to organize the pro gram. an ii^ea that originated in the English department. Over the summer, freshmen were asked to read the book Having Our Say. by Amy Hill Hearth. The book records the lives of the Delany sisters, two women who fought the odds of a time that discriminated against their race and gender. The program included discussion groups lead by a faculty advisor and making collages representing the students’ main impressions of the book. The collages will be assembled together and dis- See ORIENTATION, page 4 Hartford makes plans for the year Leslie Maxweli. Editor in chief Although Dr. Maureen Hart ford's tenure as the seventh president of Meredith College officially began on July I of this year, she was a part of Meredith’s campus even before that. July I is the date when Former President John Weems’ retirement began. Hanford came to Meredith from the University of Michi gan where she was vice presi dent for student affairs. Named president on Feb. 26, Hartford came to campus again in April and then in May for Class Day, Graduation and Alumnae Weekend. Her visit in May found her living in the President’s house for about a week. “I really enjoyed being here that week," Hartford said, adding that she had time to begin thinking about issues and meeting with people. She was the Commencement speaker at graduation on Sun day, May 9, Mother's Day. Her speech celebrated the bond between mothers and daugh ters. She will be the speaker at the first Convocation on Monday, Aug. 30 at 10 a.m. in Jones Auditorium. Hartford and husband. Jay, moved into the President’s house in mid-June. “A lot of people helped," she said, including her mother and 92- year-old grandmother. They did not stay in the house long, however, because the Hartfords flew to Seattle, Wash., where their daughter Stacey lives. On July 1. their firstgrandchild Katherine was born. The Hartfords arrived back in Raleigh on July 5. The Hartfords also have a son living in Portland, Ore. Hartford spoke to the fami lies of freshmen on Saturday, Aug. 14, at Family Orientation. Sunday, the Hartfords hosted See HARTFORD, page 2
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