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Page Two THE MARS HILL COLLEGE HILLTOP Friday, September 14, 1973 Mars Hill Funded For Cooperative Education Program Mars Hill Victorious In First Outing President Nixon signed a grant this week that awarded Mars Hill Col lege $40,000 to develop a coopera tive education program at the Bap tist affiliated school. Dr. Richard L. Hoffman, Vice President for Aca demic Affairs, also announced that an Asheville native, Glenn C. Tranth- am, has been named to head the new program. Trantham is a graduate of Enka High School and the University of Tennessee. While working towards a master’s degree at Tennessee, Trantham served as an Intern with the East Tennessee Development District where he supervised college work-study students placed through the Development agency, assisted the Oak Ridge Associated Universi ties In developing a high school career opportunity program, and served as a resource consultant to colleges interested in off-campus learning programs. Prior to his position In Tennessee, he worked with the North Carolina Internship Office as a regional co ordinator administering over a quarter of a million dollars in grants from the Appalachian Regional Commission to the State of North Carolina. The new program Is designed to give students an opportunity to have on-the-job experience before they graduate. Trantham comments that "This Is a time when the student is making a multitude of crucial de cisions. Under this new program, he will be able to choose work ex perience and gain insight Into that work before deciding that this or that profession Is really what he wants to do for the rest of his life.” Mars Hill College Is well suited for such a program, having con ducted a successful Internship pro gram In all academic areas for sev eral years. However, the Internships were short-term, non-paying exper iences in most instances. The coop erative program, on the other hand, will allow the student three semes ters of off-campus work In whatever business or Industry he desires, and he will be paid. With academic credit being given for this work, a student can still graduate In four years. "We feel that It will be a tremen dous experience,” stated Tranth am. "The students will be able to bring to the job the skills and the ory that they learned In the class room and will bring to the classroom practical problems and changing attitudes drawn from their work ex perience. We also hope that the pro gram will assist in motivating minor ity group and Appalachian students to succeed In their college career and help them toward remedying the Ills of their areas.” As director, Trantham will be re sponsible for all aspects of the pro gram. This Includes recruiting stu dents for the program, developing off-campus positions for the stu dents, placement of the students, supervision while they are engaged in the program, and evaluation of the overall effects of the program and of the students’ progress. Several government agencies have already committed themselves to participation in the program, and Trantham will be looking for bus inesses in the area that are inter ested in participating. Hough Moves COP Into 4th Year The Career Opportunity Pro gram will move into its fourth year with a new director. The new dir ector is Dr. M. Hough, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mars Hill College and one of the authors of the original COP proposal. Hough, an alumnus of Mars Hill College when it was a two-year school, re ceived his bachelors degree from Wake Forest University. He received both his masters degree and Doctor of Education degree from the Uni versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hough formerly was chairman of the Education Department at the Baptist-related college, being named to the Associate Dean’s position last year. As Associate Dean, he ov ersaw the entire admissions opera tions as well as directed the sum mer school and the one-month, one- course January Short Term. Since the program started in the summer of 1970, 27 graduates will have earned their college degrees by this August. "We began the Career Opportunity Program with three goals in mind,” commented Hough. "First, wo needed elementary school teachers. There was a scar city of elementary teachers at the time we began the program. Se condly, we needed people who could relate to the problems of In ner city students and the third area was to provide aid to those who wanted to enter the program and thereby increase their own income as well as help us solve our prob lem." The students are employed dur ing the regular school year as tea cher aides In the Asheville city schools. Buncombe County schools, and Madison County schools, with six students employed at the Ortho pedic Hospital’s school. Model City has been paying the salary of the 32 students-teacher aides in Ashe ville with the rest of the students’ salaries being paid by the Depart ment of Health, Education, and Wel fare. Since the students put in a full day during the regular school term, they carry a reduced academic load. However, they do receive credit for several courses while assisting the classroom teacher, and attend others in the late afernoon and evening. In the summer, the students carry a full academic load and recent changes in summer school allow them to carry more hours than had normally been allowed. Hough was also excited with the addition of Mrs. Logan Delaney to the staff. "She Is well acquainted with the program and its objectives,” commented Hough, "and will bring her experience into the program when it Is needed most.” That the program is working can be seen by he low number of drop outs. "We’ve only had one or two fall by the wayside,” observed Hough, "and none of these were due to academic problems.” Hough at tributes this to the fact that the students are older than most col lege students, more settled, and less likely to leave the program because of the benefits In salary and in the need they see themselves filling in the school systems. Coach Claude Gibson’s Lions took their season opener here Friday night with a 34-7 victory over Mill- saps College. Showing their power only when necessary, Gibson’s charges played a cat and mouse game with the visitors from Mississ ippi. reefing their defense during half time, Gibson’s 11 roared back with a 24 point second half. Improved over last year’s 21-0 los ers, Millsaps exhibited a strong ground attack that caused the Lions some trouble In the first halt. Cor- Ronnle Reeves was high man for the ground game, rushing for 140 yards on 14 carries and two touch downs. Quarterback Danny Robin son showed signs of a sharp pass ing game as he hit on 7 of 13 at tempts for 166 yards. Ronnie Capps, last year’s top receiver in the Car- olinas Conference, connected on four of the tosses for 108 yards. The Lions will face a stiff contest next week as they enter Carollnas Conference play with Catawba Col lege. In last year’s game. Mars HIM exploded In the second quarter to rack up a 24-7 halftime lead. How ever, the Indians riddled the Mars Hill pass defense with tosses for two TD’s In the third period and one in the fourth for a 28-24 win. The game will be played in Salis bury with a kick-off time of 7:30 p.m- Mathews Is Acting Admissions Director Julian Bond To Speak Dr. John Hough, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Mars Hill College, has announced that Charles David Matthews will be Acting Di rector of Admissions at the college. Mathews, Financial Aid Director at the Baptist affiliated school, assumes the responsibilities of the admis sions program following Hough’s appointment as Director of the Ca reer Opportunity Program. A native of Florida, Mathews is an alumni of Mars Hill College when it was a junior college, and received his bachelor’s degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has also received his Bachelor of Div inity degree from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. A member of the Mars Hill Col lege administration since 1967, Ma thews has also taught school in Can ton, North Carolina, and at Clyde A. Erwin High School in Asheville. Prior to returning to North Carolina, Mathews was Assistant Pastor at the First Baptist Church of St. Pet ersburg, Florida. In making the announcement. Hough commented that, "We are extremely pleased to have a per son with Mr. Mathews’ capabilities. He has a tremendous amount of ex perience and knowledge in recruit ing, financial aid, and the total ad missions program of Mars Hill Col lege.” Julian Bond, black Georgia legis lator and civil rights activist, will speak on the Mars Hill Campus Thursday, September 20 in Moore Auditorium at 8 p.m. A founder of the Student Nonvio lent Coordinating Committee in 1960, Bond directed voter registrations and civil rights drives in Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi, and Arkansas un til 1965 when he was elected to a seat in the Georgia House of Rep resentatives. Prevented from taking office by members of the Georgia legislature who objected to his state ments on the Vietnam War, Bond won a second election-to fill his own vacant seat-and was again barred from taking office by a special House Committee. After winning a third election, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Georgia House had erred in refusing him his seat. The prominence gained in this ac tion was swelled when he led an insurgent delegation in the 1968 Democratic Convention. Charging that blacks were being excluded from significant partici pation, the Georgia Loyal Democrats succeeded in winning half of the 42 votes that would have gone to then Governor Maddox’s delegation. Named to second the nomination of Eugene McCarthy, Bond was nom inated for the Vice-Presidency, al- thought he was to young to accept. He is the only black ever to be nominated for this post. Bond will speak on “What Next” at the Baptist aflllated school, and The Hilltop is published by students of Mars Hill College, P. O. Box 1148-C Mars Hill, NC 28754. Telephone: 704/689-1250. Advertising rate is $1.50 per column inch. Subscription rate is $2 p>er year. It will be published 15 times during this college year on a fortnightly basis. Se cond class postage paid. in Lv St fc P€ sv ct pi the public is Invited to attend. There will be no charge. i 0 NEW MAILING ADDRESSES FOR CAMPUS PUBLICATIONS y The Laurel, Hilltop, Cadenza, a and Radio Station WMHC p have new addresses to go a with their new offices In the t Wrenn College Union. To c reach the new offices by mail please address your letters to the following: Editor, The Hill- r top. Box 1148-C: Priscila Can- t nup, Editor, The Laurel, Box i 1153-C; Ken Chamblee, Editor, { The Cadenza, Box 1157-C; and i Roy Gullick, Station Manager, t WMHC, Box 1161-C. y \
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