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Volume III, Number VI Montreal, North Carolina 28757 March 28, 2003
Lindberg Discusses Vision for Future
Dr. John S, Lindberg, Montreat College's sixth president, will be sworn in at an inaugural service to be held in Montreat on April 24, 2003
Roxy Mines Memorial Softball
Park Opens to the Public
By Alex Miller, Director of College
Advancement
Montreat College will dedicate
a new softball park April 5. Char
lotte businessman Morris Warino
named the field for his late wife
Roxy Hines, a Montreat College
student in the School of Profes
sional and Adult Studies in Char
lotte, NC, who died from injuries
in a car accident on November 18,
1999.
The Lady Cavalier Softball
program will unveil its new home
field as the Roxy Hines Memorial
Softball Park opens its gates for
the first time to the publie, Sat
urday April
5. Opening
eeremonies
will immedi
ately precede
the Lady
Cavs playing
host to Milligan College in a big
Appalachian Athletic Conference
doubleheader.
The new facility is located
on Montreat College’s Black
Mountain campus on the site of
the Terry Estate know as In The
Oaks off Vance Avenue in Black
Mountain, North Carolina.
The day’s activities will include
comments from both Dr. John S.
Lindberg, president of Montreat
College and John Sullivan, Direc
tor of Athletics. Michael Begley,
mayor of Black Mountain, will
throw the ceremonial first pitch.
Family and friends of Morris
and Roxy will attend ceremonies
hosted by President Lindberg.
“The naming gift for our new
softball park was a significant
part of a successful $5 million
capital campaign to purchase our
Black Mountain Campus,” says
ing softball at the Black Mountain
Primary School and soccer on our
baseball field in Montreat. That
year, we built a competition soft-
ball field on land loaned to us by
the Presbyterian Children’s Home
in Black Mountain.”
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Interview Conducted
by Lindsay Mayer
Dr.. John S. Lindberg will be
sworn in as the sixth President
of Montreat College on April
24, 2003. He has been actively
pursuing his vision for Montreal
College since assuming his duties
in July of 2002.1 recently had the
opportunity to sit down and talk
to Dr. Lindberg and he shared
his thoughts on several topics and
his vision for Montreal College.
Q: What is the significance of
your April 24"' inauguration?
A: It is a celebration. It is the time
when the president is officially
installed by the board [of tmstees]
in a way of high ceremony, and
responds to the board and the gath
ered community, saying, i accept
this role, and let me tell you how I
see the future of this institution.’
Q: Why has the ceremony been
scheduled for April, a semester
and a half into your presi
dency?
A: There are two customary times
that colleges inaugurate their presi
dents. It’s usually done in October,
and sometimes it’s done in April.
Montreal has a history of April
inaugurations; Mr. Hurt was inau
gurated in April of his first year.
We’re following that tradition.
Admissions Rise as
Seeks 100-Student
Lindberg.
She carried herself with
casual elegance combined
with beauty and grace.
“We are
pleased and
grateful for
the gener
osity of Mr.
Warino and
the many others who helped make
this possible.”
John Sullivan, Director of Ath
letics beams, “We’ve come a long
way! When I became the Director
of Athletics in 1997, we were play
By Tim Tyson and Becca Snyder
Admissions have jumped up
from last year’s record-breaking
new-student surge. As of the first
week in March, the college boasts
a 15% increase in applications, a
28% boost in acceptances, and a
300% swell in deposits.
According to college president.
Dr. John S. Lindberg, “We are not
a financially healthy institution
at the size we are.” He hopes for
an increase of 100 students in
the next few years, which would
enable the cabinet to evaluate
plans for institutional growth in
the future.
The Admissions and Financial
Aid offices work together to
encourage students to make Mon
treat College their first choice,
and deposit early. In the recent
past the college has approached
this task from two starkly differ
ent angles.
Last year, the college offered
Q: Has your vision for Mon
treal changed since first learn
ing you were to assume the
presidency?
A: In large measure it has not.
Being in Christian higher educa
tion - theological education - for
the last 18 years, I’ve known of
Montreat. When you’re in educa
tion, you do more than just say
T know of the school.’ You start
to try to understand the differ
ences and unique aspects of each
school. So I’ve known of Mon
treat and what makes it special,
for the last 15-plus years.
When we went through the
search process, I did more study,
tiding to understand the potential
future of Montreat. [In conversa
tion with the board,] I initially
had to create the type of dialogue
where v\e could talk about vision
for the future to make sure that
what 1 was seeing, and the poten
tial that might be there, was con
sistent with where the board was.
It is important that as we move
together in a partnership, it will
be a consistent vision. What has
developed is a clearer strategy to
see that vision come to pass.
Q: What is your five year pro
jected plan for student growth?
A: This is the art and joy of
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College
Increase
a residential rebate, which took
the form of a financial agree
ment between incoming students
and the college that if the stu
dent stays on campus for their
four years the college would
“refund” their room and board.
This arrangement totaled 52,500
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Do not 6e anyions about anything, but in every
thing, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
present your requests to god cpRi[ippians 4:6