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Douglas Rhodes & Shelia Hawkins, Donna Smith, Dan Christian & Dehhie Hendrix, Mary Ellen Eison & Dave Alexander
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5 NUMBER 5
MARS HILL, NORTH CAROLINA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1974
$2,250 RECEIVED FROM McCURRY
FOR SCHOLARSHIPS
^ars Hill-$2,250.00
Alh”* estate of an
■‘^emarle woman who
in 1971 has been
'iied
® available to MHC
for
^ scholarship
for the spring
^ ester of the cur-
school year,
jj.^^'istees of the
I*. McCurdy Mem-
Scholarship
recently noti-
g President
,,.Jhley that $2.^250
i he available for
asv , spring. They
1 that the col-
V.
ati applic-
^^sv^ for the schol-
Cgg ^P money and pro-
tQ ^ them according
Un ^*'®^iously agreed
rules.
Matthews, di-
of financial
said current
it! ®^ts interested
tg^^f^Piying may ob-
fotn, application
t>,^ tn his office on
9round floor of
He would
hli,
® to have all ap-
'^atio;
ns in hand by
in order
the Financial
tev
f^oitvmi
properly
^fotig^ passing them
the
ittee might
^OriQ 4. ^
Of '-o the trustees
memorial scho-
for final ap-
^he \
agj. trustees have
'^oed
that no stu
dent may recieve more
than $750.00 from the
fund in any single
academic year. This
means, therefore,
that the awards to be
made for the spring
semester probably
will be $375 each,
Mr. Mathews explained.
Mrs. McCurdy was
the widow of D.B.
McCurdy, who was pre
sident of the First
National Bank of Al
bemarle for many
years. In . her will
she left various
small sums to rela
tives and slightly
larger amounts to
several colleges and
other institutions,
including $5,000.00
to Mars Hill. The
bulk of the estate,
which was originally
inventoried at ap
proximately half a
million dollars, went
into the memorial
scholarship fund, out
of which scholarships
are to be provided to
students attending
the seven Baptist
colleges in North Ca
rolina.
Qualified students
from anywhere in
North Carolina may
apply for one of the
scholarships, but
preference will be
given to those from
Stanly County. Awards
are made on the ba
sis of the appli
cant's character, a-
cademic standing and
financial need. The
college may specify
varied amounts for
the scholarships, but
no recipient may re
ceive more than $750
in a single year.
The trustees ap
pointed by the will
to administer the
fund include the
trust officer of the
First Union National
Back of North Caro
lina, the president
of Wingate College,
and the pastor of the
First Baptist Church
of Albemarle. The
latter, the Reverand
Harold L. McDonald,
is also a trustee of
Mars Hill College.
In announcing the
allotment of the
first money from the
fund the trustees al-
■ so indicated to Pre
sident Bentley that
$4,500 has been ten
tatively committed to
Mars Hill for McCurdy
scholarships during
the 1975-76 academic
year. Procedures for
making application
those grants will be
announced later in
the current school
year by Mr. Mathew's
office.
Cheryl Thomas
Karen Caldwell
FAMILY
PLANNING
by Cheryl Thomas
Karen Caldwell and
I attended a Family
Planning Workshop in
Asheville on October
10 and 11, 1974. It
was at the invitation
(of certain interest
ed students) of Mr.
Bill Renfrow, Health
Educator for the
Land-of-the-Sky Re
gion of Health Ser
vices. Our main goal
in attending the work
shop was to possibly
establish an Informa
tion Center with ser
vices dealing in Fam
ily Planning and
Health on the Mars
Hill College campus .
The workshop, which
was held at the Holi
day Inn in West Ashe
ville consisted of
lectures on anatomy
and physiology, con
traceptives coun
seling methods, but
also of smaller group
sessions which invol
ved role playing and
methods of guidance
and counseling. The
total experience
turned out to be in
formative and a very
good review for Karen
and me.
We feel that there
is a need for family
planning information
on our campus with a
setting that is both
confidential and .on a
peer level which is
informal. We now
wish to volunteer our
services to any male
or female persons
whether married, en
gaged, or single.
Karen is a senior
sociology student who
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