JMew Mars Hill Program Brings Quick Results
produced quick results for one
of the flr* students to enroll
K in It. Andy B?hl, freshman
from Springfield, Va? has
>>? ben accepted to work as an
n- athletic trainer at the
v*> Olympic training center in
v.< Squaw Valley, Calif., this
summer.
Andy to one of four students
currently enrolled 4n Mars
g Hill's Sports Medicine
J } Program, which is in its first
year of operation. Dr. John
?<;< Wells, associate professor of
v physical education and
supervisor of the new
program, doean't have any
, apprehensions about Behl's
capabilities at the Olympic
training camp despite his
freshman ranking
"Andy can do anything they
ask him," he states; "in fact,
Andy's problems have been
that he tries to do too much,"
Dr. Wells continues. "He has
been known to promise three
coaches that he'd do
something for each of them on
the same day. He gets so
wrapped up in the training
" , room that he was on the verge
of putting his other classes in
' jeopardy."
Behl began his career as an
athletic trainer at West
Springfield High School. "I
' always liked being around
sports, but I never had the
size or coordination to make
the teams," he states. So he
started as many trainers do,
by managing the team's
equipment. He attended two
Foreign
Investors
Register
Claude A. Cody, chair
person of the Agricultural
Stabilization and Con
servation Committee, states
that all farmland owned by
Foreign Interests must be
registered at the County ASCS
office where the farmland is
located.
Foreigners who owned or
had a S percent interest in
farmland on Feb. 1 must
report ownership to ASCS by
Aug. i. Those who acquire
land after Feb. 1 must report
ft; it within 90 days.
K All ASCS offices have the
necessary papers for
registering foreign owned
Rj farmland.
A study conducted by the
S Senate Committee on
v Agriculture, Nutrition and
5 Forestry revealed that
> foreigners purchased 826,543
? acres of U.S. farmland bet
? ween January 1177 and June
1978, with heaviest activity
y being in the south and south
? east. During this period 15,800
v; acres of North Carolina
farmland was purchased by
foreigners.
| The report of farmland
r* owned by foreigners or
K foreign investors is required
6 by the Agricultural Foreign
E" Investment Disclosure Act of
P 1978.
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j
x Selected For
I
? Symposium
Two high school students
from Madison County have
boon selected to participate in
J-; a week-long symposium at the
J". prestigious Smithsonian
*: Institution in Washington,
; D C.
Stephen Pierce Pish, Mars
?> Wll, is among 46 students
from across the state who was
$ rhoasn by a panel of Judges to
attend one of three special
seminars sponsored by the
; North Carolina Association of
' Electric Cooperatives ?d the
; Smithsonian, and aided by a
; grant from the Z. Smith
Stephen, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James M. Pish, will
attand the ? "The
Planet Earth." to be held
wmmw seasions on athletic
training and then performed
the Job of trainer for hia high
school football, basketball,
and baseball teams his last
two year* of high school
At Mara Hill he has worked
with the football and tennis
teams in the fall, both the
men's and women's
basketball teams during the
winter, and the tennis, track
and baseball teams this
spring. It is easy to see why
Dr. Wells has worried about
his class schedule.
At Squaw Valley he will be
working either in the central
training room where the
athletes come for treatment
of various ailments, or with a
team in the field where they
will be competing. He will
also be evaluated by the
permanent staff at the center,
and these evaluations will
partially determine his
chances of attending the 1980
Olympic games at Lake
Placid, N Y., next February.
"Dr. Wells has been
working with me on the
particular type* of injuries
sustained by skiers and
skaters so I'll know what to
expect and how to treat it,"
be comments. "I feel I have
as good a chance of going to
the Olympics as anyone
there."
Behl has also applied to the
NCAA Track and Field
Championships to be held this
summer at the University of
Illinois and to several
professional baseball teams
that have students trainers
programs, but he has not
heard from them yet.
His ultimate goal is to
become ? trainer with a
professional football team. "I
think you're more useful with
a football team. There are
more injuries in that sport, so
you get more use from what
you've learned."
Before he can reach this
goal however, he'll have to
complete a rash of classes
since the sports medicine
program is not an academic
major but a "concentration"
or second area of preparation.
Theortically, > student can
major in anything he wants to
and also take the sports
medicine program. Because
there are so many physical
education and associated
courses involved with the
program, however, a student
might as well major in
physical education. There are
also 800 clock hours to be
spent in the training room or
on the field with one of the
college's athletic teams.
After graduation the
student must pass the
National Athletic Trainers
Association's certifying
examination.
The sports medicine
program is one of several new
academic programs at Mars
Hill that were funded by a IS
million Advanced Institution
Development Program grant
received in 1976. Dr. Wells
has been surprised at the
speed with which the program
has been established. "At the
last school I worked with, it
took three years to get the
program established, mainly
because we were fighting the
administration. Here, the
administration initiated the
program and we get very
strong support from fee
faculty and administration.
We are starting out much
faster than other schools
because of this support."
There are approximately 80
schools in the United States
offering a sports medicine
program on the un
dergraduate level. Although
four colleges offer a program
in North Carolina, Mars Hill
is the only private school
among them. With four
students currently in the
program. Dr. Wells hopes to
add four or five each year
until there is a total of M to 30
students involved in the
various levels of the program.