ALETHEIA
Volume XXVI, Number 16
Montreat-Anderson College
Febmary 16, 1993
MAC
Sponsors
Executive
Dinner
By Alumni Office
Special to Aletheia
Montreat-Anderson College's
Alumni and Career Counseling
Center Offices will co-sponsor an
Executive Dinner for M-AC jun
iors and seniors on Thursday, Feb
ruary 18, at 5:30 pm in Gaither
Fellowship Hall. Faculty and staff
have also been encouraged to at
tend the buffet dinner, which will
feature a number of alumni from
different fields who will share how
they chose their professions and
what steps they took to achieve
their goals. This is the first dinner
of its kind in what is hoped to be an
annual event.
In keeping with the dinner
theme, juniors and seniors are
asked to dress in aprofessional man
ner. Convocation credit will be
, given to those students attending.
The following alumni will be
on a panel to answer selected ques
tions and to also take questions
from the floor:
Jon Brown, Class of 1979,
associate pastor Trinity Presbyte
rian Church in Hendersonville, NC
Brenda Burch, Class of 1979,
morning and noon news anchor of
WLOS-TV, Asheville, NC.
Carole Hoffman Donnelly,
Class of 1979, is a marketing writer/
coordinator with St. Joseph’s Hos-
Academic Competition Team on the Road
Reardon Captains Against Impossible Odds
By Jennifer Gunsch
from M-AC feel that itis fun hying to victory, the agony of defeat, and the
find questions and answers that no confusion of having one's brain
one has ever heard of before. turned into scrambled eggs."
Another reason for the team to When the students were asked
On Friday of this week, the
Academic Competition team will
have the opportunity to challenge
their minds at Methodist College in
Fayetteville, NC. The Montreat-
Anderson team will match wits with
teams such as Elon, Campbell,
Methodist, UNC-Wilmington, and
East Carolina University. The con
test will begin at 4 pm and last until
mid evening.
The team members all are
involved in a round-robin event,
which they all describe to the Jeop
ardy game show. The M-AC stu
dents competing are Naj Alicea, Jeff
Reardon, Kim Trapnell, Scott Ward,
and Mark Wright.
These Academic Competitions
are held so that intellectual minds
can expand their knowledge. Stu
dents must research to find ques
tions and answers to ask each other
before each class. The competitors
go the these contests is to
give the other schools
involved an opportunity
to practice before they
go on the National Col
lege Bowl Competition.
Naj Alicea states her
reason for attending the
competition: "As far as
this coming competition
goes, we're basically go
ing for the experience and
to have a good time in
fellowship with students
from other schools. Basi-
II
cally, we know we're go
ing to die, but we'll have a good time
doing so."
Mark Wright feels that they
are going because of "the thrill of
Jeff Reardon
intellectual god"
■pital-in, Asheville.
Mark ('83) and Jeannie Barnes
Ownby ('84), are both faculty mem
bers at Appalachian State Univer
sity and are a part of a study center
called Bringing it All Back Home.
This program contracts with com
munity boards and agencies that
have group homes. Mark is a trainer
consultant who does training and
initial screening of the study center’s
treatment model called the Teach
ing Family Model. Jeannie is a pro
gram evaluator.
Alpha Chi Inducts New Members
Neil to Present Paper at Chicago Convention
By Jamie King
Tonight at 8 pm, following a Taylor and Democrat Jack Stevens.
Dottie Todd Thornburg, Class of
1951 High School, is a high school
English teacher and has taught at Sylva-
Webster High School in Sylva NC and
NeedhamB. Broughton High School in
Raleigh, NC. She recently took a leave
of absence form teaching to campaign
with her husband, Lacy Thornburg, for
Governor (who was then North Carol
ing Attorney General).
Students were asked to RS VP with
an invitational card by Februaiy 15,1993
in the fiont office, or call the Alumni and
Career Counseling Center for more in
formation.
how they felt they
would fare in the
competition, they
gave several dif
ferent responses:
KimTr^neU
- 'We've done the
best we can to pre
pare ourselves,
now we’re going to
go, have fim, and
hopefully win a
few rounds."
Scott Ward
- "I hope we do
well. I'm person
ally looking forward to possibly com
peting against incredible odds. Per
sonally I think we might do well, but
I won't be disappointed if we do get
killed. I'm happy just competing."
Jeff Reardon has high hopes
for the team. He adds, "Montreat-
Anderson College will be lifted to
stellar heights through the raw ce
rebral power of Montreat's elite
paragon. We will ascend the Mount
Olympus of Academic Competi
tion and we will reign forever as
Montreat's 'intellectual gods'."
When Dr. Risher was asked
how he felt about the upcoming
competition he stated, "I look for
ward to another opportunity for the
M-AC 'intellectual gods’ to unleash
their mental energy."
Valentine's Weekend A Success
dinner in the fellow
ship hall, three juniors,
Mark Bolick, Ann-
Luise Snyder, and Kim
Trapnell will be in
ducted into Montreat-
Anderson College's
Chapter of Alpha Chi.
These three stu
dents have met the re
quirements to become
members by being in
the top ten percent of
their class and by ex
hibiting good charac
ter.
- Alpha Chi, the college's intel
lectual group, recently sponsored,
the areas two district congressional
candidates. Republican Charles
In April, they plan
to bring Montreat
another speaker.
Also this
April, the group
plans to travel to
the National
Conference in
Chicago. While
they are there,
the Alpha Chi
will have a
chance to listen
to the Alpha Chi
person of the
year, Dan Rather of NBC. Mark
Neil, student delegate of Alpha
Chi, will also present a paper
about local environmental con
cerns at the conference.
Mark Nell - Alpha Chi
Representative to Chicago
By Jamie King
The Valentine's Weekend Festivi
ties began on Friday afternoon when the
bookstore delivered approximately 35
carnations. Although the carnations
were a big hit from the people who
received them. Bookstore manager
Sherrie Wilcox said that they did not go
over as well as she had expected and
not to look for them next year.
That evening during the annual
Valentine's DinnCT of steak and shiirrp,
the Celebration Singers sang to a few
extra special valentines whose sweet
hearts had requested them to do so.
Following the Valentine’s Dinna-,
M-A Hall sponsored the King of Hearts
Pageant in Gaither Chapel, featuring:
David Hartman, Phil Parker, Truit
Powell, Justin Ramb, Cameron Tho
mas and Biyan Wilson.
These contestants presaited many
hilarious and crazy antics during the con
test For exanple David Hartman pre
sented a humorous but excellait raidi-
tion of Phantom of the Opera. Truit
Powell did a Hawaiian number and
flaunted his rear for all the women in the
audiaice. Justin Rambput Jen Branham
intoatrancecommandinghertoeatAlpo
Dog Food Fhil Parker took on a more
senousmood dedicatingapoembyEE.
Cummings to his girlfriend
After all the chaos was finished
and the contestants had answered their
triviaquestions,TruitPoweU was named
the King of Hearts.
Concluding the Valentine's Fes
tivities was the annhal Valentine’s
dance, held in the romantically deco
rated cafeteria. The dance was Disc
Jockeyed by Sound Explosion, who
took many requests, in what was a
successful end to the Valentine's
Weekend Festivities.