Page Four, THE HILLTOP, May 12, 1978
News In Brief
Around Campus
CADENZA Premiere: The 1978 CA
DENZA premiere was held on May 4,
1978 in the Timberline Coffeehouse.
Approximately 60 students, faculty,
and outside guests attended the pre
miere in which prizes were awarded,
refreshments were served, and prize
winning literature entries were read.
Participating in the Reader’s Theatre
were Donna Stanley, Wayne Crabtree,
Kassandra Jackson, Dr. Pat Verhulst,
and Mrs. Lucille Godwin. Prize win
ners were; Poetry: Cynthia Lewis,
first, Bonnie Holcombe, second, and
Phyllis Sledge, third; Prose: Elaine
McKinney, first, Ren Wiles, second,
and Bobby Burnette, third; Art; John
Gullick, first, Randy Spear, second, and
Ricki Hillis, third: Photography: Kirk
Hall, first, Archis Jones, second and
third. Editor Brenda Frazer comment
ed; “I am proud of this year’s edition,
and I would like to thank all those who
helped, especially my assistant editors,
Robert Hensley and Pat Huckabee.”
Weast-Gehring Award Presented:
This 1977-78 Weast-Gehring award
given by the College Union Board goes
to Charles “Greek” Belissary. The
award is given to a MHC student for his/
her outstanding contributions to the
development of student life here at
MHC. This student must be active in
extra-curricular activities and display
school spirit and concern. The award
was established in 1975 by the College
Union Board in honor of the first union
director and the Dean of Students dur
ing the time of the building of the Union.
Previous winners have been Mickey
McLaughlin and Buzzy Scott.
Alpha Chi News - The Alpha Chi Hon
or Society had its last meeting of the
year on Tuesday, May 2. Dr. Lenburg
gave an excellent presentation concern
ing Japanese and U.S. relations. Elec
tions were held for the office of Presi
dent for the coming year. Cheryl Al
dridge, a Home Economics Major, was
elected the new President of Alpha Chi.
A report was given by the members
who attended the Regional Convention
of Alpha Chi in Atlanta on March 23
through March 25. Miss Winona Bier-
baum, chairperson of the Home Econo
mics Department at Mars Hill College,
was the program coordinator at the re
gional convention this year. Miss Bier-
baum was in charge of selecting the
programs of students that were present
ed at the convention. She has been e-
lected as the new President of Region
III of Alpha Chi for the coming year.
Sally Phillips officially represented
Mars Hill College at the convention.
Ninette Humber and Margaret Doutt
gave musical presentations. Margar
et Doutt played “Prelude and Scherzo
Impetuoso” by Graham Whettan on the
piano, and Ninette Humber played Franz
Schubert’s “Introduktion and Vari-
tionen uber Ihr Blumlein alle. Op. 160”
on the flute. Other members who at
tended the convention were Gus Jenkins
and Linda Wells.
ENGLISH - The Pre-Professional
Major
by Kathy Brock
Union Elects New Committee Chair
men: The Wren College Union Board
had its last meeting of the school year
Tuesday, May 2 in the Timberline Cof
feehouse. New budgets for next fall
were approved and new committee
chairmen were elected. They are as
follows: Board Chairman: Steve Wil-
ent. Coffeehouse Committee: Charles
Whitley, Concert and Dance Committee:
Jeff Wade, Films Committee: Bill
Buchanan, Outreach Committee: Su
san Jordan, Recreation Committee:
John Bennett and Special Events; Sandy
Hamilton.
Spring Fling 78
An article published recently by the
University of Mississippi pointed out
the fallacies of our colleges and universi
ties in over specializing their students,
and crowding out the liberal arts curricu
lum.
In light of the article, the English de
partment set out to survey businesses
surrounding our school, inquiring as to
what would make English majors em
ployable. What courses, we wanted to
know, would benefit the individual in
securing employment with particu
lar companies? Would they consider
English majors with these supportive
courses as possible employees? I served
as an Intern, collecting this data for the
English Department. Personnel direc
tors were interviewed, letters and ques-
tionaires were sent out. The states of
North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Georgia were canvassed. The responses
were, overall, positive.
In Greenville, S.C. Keys Printing
Company’s personnel director Gary Eng
land said that very few of their manage
ment staff were hired on the basis of a
specific major. “Communications,”
he said, “is our main function.”
Walter Baucom, of Blue Cross and Blue
Shield, suggested that an English Ma
jor with supportive courses in manage
ment, marketing, advertising, and ac
counting would be a well-rounded ad
dition to its staff.
During the week that I spent in At
lanta, I was able to interview people
from Aetna Life Insurance, Southern
Bell Tel and Tel Company, IBM, Life of
Georgia, among many others. They were
all fascinated by our project and ex
pressed interest in talking to our Eng
lish majors. Many of these companies
had programs which trained for specific
careers.
This project will not be finished for
quite awhile as there is still much data
to be collected. The findings, however,
are encouraging, and we invite you to
come by the English Department to
look through the information we have
accumulated.
Bj
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