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Mars Hill, North Carolina
Friday, September 14, 1973
Social Care in
Scandinavia Offered
"Social Care in Action”, a work
shop In social sciences, will be
offered this January during Mars Hiii
College’s “Mini-mester”, a one
oionth, one course term.
Arranged through the Scandina-
vian governments, students enrolled
'0 the course will spend 15 days in
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark stu
dying the goals and policies, the
'oterpiay of national standards and
local initiative, and the organiza-
fion and financing of the whole com-
Plox of health, education, and soc
ial services in Scandinavia.
"We want to get the feel of a
''welfare state,” comments Dr. Don
Anderson, Chairman of the Behav
ioral Sciences Department, “particu
larly as it relates to the rehabllita-
fion of criminals, especially juven-
'las, the strategy of dealing with
phenomenon of poverty, the
affect a welfare state has on moti-
''ation, and the Scandinavian edu-
cation system.”
Divided into seven general areas,
•he students will meet initially with
acuity members of the Norwegian
School of Business Adminisration to
discuss the organization of the
Scandinavian government as well as
hs origin and nature. From there,
•he students will visit several
achools and day care centers, a hos-
P'fal in Stockholm where a compu-
®r has on file over 2 million medical
histories immediately accessible to
doctors in case of emergency, the
wedish Broadcasting studios for a
emonstration of new approaches in
audio-visual education, the experi
mental Volvo plant in Gothenburg,
and the community of Gladsaxe,
where state and local taxes pay for
a wide range of community services
including trips for older people, kin
dergartens and youth centers, and
a high school auditorium which be
comes a repertory theatre six nights
a week.
The students will also meet with
representatives of the Ministries of
Economic Affairs, Health and Educa
tion, the Swedish Board of Edu
cation, the Gothenburg Social Board,
and the office of the Ombudsman.
“Frankly the trip was arranged
through the Scandinavian govern
ments as a way of showing off their
accomplishments,” commented Ro
bert Kramer, Director of Learning
Experiences Abroad. "But it will al
so give the students a preview of
the application of technology In
providing services for the people,”
he continued. The course will carry
four hours of credit for students en
rolled at the Baptist related college.
Students from other schools will
have to check with their registrars
regarding academic credit transfer.
"We are not limiting this to the
students here,” noted Anderson,
“anyone can go with us. We pur
posely did not set a limit to the
number of people we can take.”
Those persons outside the college
community who are interested in
making the trip should get in touch
with Anderson or Kramer before the
cut-off date of October 10 .
Six Added To Faculty
Dr. Richard L. Hoffman, vice presi-
ent for academic affairs at Mars
College, has announced six fa-
appointments at the Baptist af-
'"iated college.
With the additions. Mars Hill will
ave 107 faculty members as the col
lege
opens Its 118th year. The new
aiembers are:
Dr. Joyce M. Bryant, a professor
M i^asic Department, comes to
ars Hill from Florida State Unlver-
^'•y ''vhere she has just completed
Doctor of Music degree in the
flute.
Nlarilyn Joyce Driskell, a native of
^ awrenceburg, Ky., will be the direc-
of the Law Enforcement Assist-
^ace Program and Instructor in the
ocial and Behavioral Science De-
artment. She has completed re-
j i'aments at the University of Ken-
•^oky for a Master of Social Work.
aroy James Lenburg, has been
^amed Assistant Professor of His-
°iy. A native of Indianapolis, he
^aished requirements for a Ph.D. in
^oitical Science at Penn State Uni-
^ersity in June, where he also taught
ourses in Afro-American and Ameri-
'^an history.
•-loyd T. Moore, a Mississippi na-
g''®' is the director of the Upward
ound Program. He will receive a
degree in Education from
e University of South Alabama in
^olJile this August.
Dr. Donald Robert Russell, a
native of Natick, Mass., has been
named Assistant Professor of Mathe
matics. He received bachelor's and
master’s degrees from Clemson
University, where he will be award
ed a Ph.D. this month.
Hubert Robert Vance has been ap
pointed assistant professor in the
Department of Sociai and Behavioral
Sciences. A native of Johnson City,
Tenn., he received his bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from East
Tennessee State University.
Patricia Layman Phillips, a Virgin
ia native, is Director of Special Ser
vices in the Upward Bound Program.
She holds a master’s degree from
Furman in Educational Psychology.
Two former faculty members will
return from leaves. Miss Virginia
Hart, a professor in the Physical
Education Department, has been
completing work on a doctorate in
Education at the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. G. Worth
Booth former director of the Career
Opportunity Program, will return as
an assistant professor in the Edu
cation Department.
Charles Franklin Phillips has been
named assistant professor in the
Department of Physical Educaflon.
For the past four years he has been
director of the Upward Bound Pro
gram at Mars Hill.
Holcombe New
Associate Dean
Of Students
Dr. Donald D. Gehring, Dean of
Student Development at Mars Hill
College, has announced that Jane
Mathis Holcombe has been appoin
ted Associate Dean of Student De
velopment.
Mrs. Holcombe, a native of Hunts
ville, Alabama, comes to Mars Hill
from the University of Alabama at
Huntsville where she was the first
housing officer in the history of the
school. At Mars Hill she will be re
sponsible for all activities relating
to housing.
A graduate of the University of
Alabama at Tuscaloosa, she re
ceived her bachelors degree in 1964.
In 1970 she received her masters
degree from East Tennessee State
University. She has served as Assis
tant Professor of English at Steed
College at Johnson City, Tennessee;
Director of Men’s Housing at the
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa,
as well as Program Director of the
Ridgecrest Area Men’s Residence
Halls there. While a graduate stu
dent at East Tennessee, she con
ducted research into the regional
dialects, mountain music, and folk
tales in the East Tennessee-Western
North Carolina area.
Mrs. Holcombe is a member of
the Association of College and Uni
versity' Housing Officers, and was
the state representative at the 1973
Conference Planning Committee of
the Southeastern Association of
Housing Officers.
She has published articles con
cerning college residence hall op
erations in College and University
Business and the University of Ala
bama Review. Married to Dr. Har
old E. Holcombe, they have one
son, Christopher.
Bob Knott Receives
New Position
Robert E. Knott has been appoin
ted Education Development Officer
and Director of the Kellogg Grant
at Mars Hill College. Knott, a Win
ston-Salem native, recently com
pleted residency requirements for a
Ph.D. at the State University of New
York at Buffalo. Prior to his study
at SUNY, Knott held several posi
tions at the Baptist-related institu
tion including Director of Institution
al Research, Chairman of the Poli
tical Science-Sociology Division, and
Instructor of Sociology. He was Di
rector of the Institute for Teachers of
Gifted and Talented Students of the
North Carolina Governor’s School in
1970 and 1971.
A 1962 graduate of Wake Forest
University, Knott received a Bache
lor of Divinity degree from South
eastern Seminary in 1965. A teach
er 'at R. J. Reynolds High School
in Winston-Salem, he completed a
master’s degree at Wake Forest in
1969. During 1967-68, he was min
ister of Trinity Presbyterian Church
in Winston-Salem.
As Director of the Kellogg Grant
and Educational Development Of
ficer, Knott will be primarily con
cerned with developing the compet
ency-based curriculum recently
funded by the Kellogg Foundation
for $100,000. The first competency-
based course, a drama course, will
be offered this fall. Although chief
ly an administrative officer, Knott
will retain an assistant professor
ship in the Sociology Department.
Knott is married to the former
Brenda Sue Harris of Mooresville
and they have two children, An
drea, 5, and Robert, Jr., 1.
Hilltop Needs Editor, Staff
The Hilltop, student newspaper of Mars Hill College, needs appli
cations for editor, assistant editor, business manager, advertising di
rector, typists, proofreaders, and other staff positions. Hit by grad
uation losses, the newspaper has but one application for editor, and
no definite committments for other staff positions. If you would like
to participate in the journalistic or creative field of writing, get in
touch with John Campbell, Assistant for News and Information at ex
tension 217 or 218.
Lunsford Festival
October 5-6
The Sixth Annual Bascom Lamar
Lunsford Mountain Music Festival,
"the world’s most authentic folk fes
tival” will take on special mean
ing this year following the death of
its founder September 4.
Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the “Min
strel of the Appalachians” died in
an Asheville hospital following a per
iod of declining health. He was 91.
Born on the Mars Hill College cam
pus where his father was president
of the Baptist school and his mother
was a residence hall director, Luns
ford practiced law as a young man,
gradually returning to his first love,
mountain music and dancing. High
lights of his career included a White
House command performance for
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, per
forming for King George VI and
Queen Elizabeth of England, and
recording some 3,000 ballads and
folk songs for the Library of Con
gress and Columbia University.
Those associated with the Mars
Hill festival are proud of the fact
that of all the festivals he founded
this one is the only one allowed to
carry his name. The festival will get
under way Friday night at 9 p.m.
with both smooth and clogging
dancing. Saturday will feature In
formal workshops in the morning
beginning at 10 a.m. in areas such
as clawhammer banjo picking, flat
picking a guitar, dulcimer and au
toharp absics, and ballad singing.
“Jam sessions” will be held all
Saturday afternoon and mountain
crafts will be on display all week
end. The festival will continue info
Saturday night with local and guest
performers presenting music that is
centuries old In its orgins. College
pickers and singers are Invited to
participate in all events and the en
tire college community is urged to
attend.