News Record
SERVING THE PEOPLE OF MADISON COUNTY
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Mars Hill School
presents citizenship
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79th Year No. 20
PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE COUNTY SEAT AT MARSHALL. N.C.
THURSDAY, May 15, 1980
15* Per Copy
T ^ p ? College Graduates 275 Sunday;
At S Commencement ? Convention Exec To Preach
Dr. Frank R. Campbell,
Statesville First Baptist
Church pastor, and a key
figure in the negotiated settle
ment last year in the dispute
between Wake Forest Univer
sity and the North Carolina
Baptist State Convention, will
preach the baccalaureate ser
mon at Mars Hill College on
Sunday.
A native of Roanoke, Va.,
Dr. Campbell is currently ser
ving as first vice-president of
the North Carolina Baptist
State Convention. He is also a
member of the convention's
general board and has just
completed a two-year term as
president of the convention's
council on Christian Higher
Education. A trustee of
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary in Wake
Forest, Dr. Campbell has been
pastor of the Statesville
church since 1966.
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DR. HYATT GIBBS, center,
presents Mars Hill College's first
Outstanding Teacher Award to
Emmett Sams, a mathematics
professor. Looking on at the left is
R.S. Gibbs Jr.
Commencement weekend
will officially open Friday
with an exhibition of student
art in the Peterson Gallery of
Blackwell Hall. The Board of
Trustees will hold their semi
annual business meeting
Saturday morning, and at
noon, the trustees will meet
with the board of advisors for
a joint luncheon.
That evening, the college
will honor graduating seniors
and their parents as well as
other guests at a banquet In
Coyte Bridges dining hall. In
addition to recognizing the
seniors, the occasion will also
provide recognition of faculty
who are retiring and other
faculty and staff who have
served the college for 25
years.
This year Mrs. Ruby Cox, a
34-year veteran of the Depart
ment of Business Administra
tion and Economics, will be
recognized. She began early
retirement for reasons of
health during the 1979-80
academic year. Retiring from
the general staff of the college
is William R. Hembree, a life
long native of Mars Hill, who
is retiring from the cafeteria
staff after 15 years of service.
The baccalaureate sermon
will be held Sunday morning
at 11 in Moore Auditorium.
The college community is
traditionally joined by the con
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Top Teacher
Award Goes To College Math Professor
Medals, prizes, scholarships
and individual recognitions
were awarded to Mars Hill
College students and faculty
during the school's annual
Honors Day Convocation May
7.
Top honors went to Emmett
S. Sams, professor of
mathematics, who is the first
recipient of the R.S. Gibbs
Outstanding Teacher Award.
The $500 cash award was
presented to Sams by Dr.
Hyatt Gibbs, grandson of R.S.
Gibbs
The award was started by
Gibbs' son, R.S. Gibbs Jr., and
his family to honor his father.
R.S. Gibbs lived his life from
beginning to end in Madison
County, where he owned and
operated a general store. He
was an alderman and a mayor
of Mars Hill, a member of the
school board, a deacon in the
Mars Hill Baptist Church, a
member of the board of direc
tors of the Bank of French
Broad from its organization in
1903 until his death in 1942 and
a member of the college's
Student Honors
The new students in the pro
gram for 1980-81, as well as
other students receiving
awards from Madison County
are as follows:
MARSHALL
Alfred Franklin Dockery,
incoming freshman, accoun
ting major, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer F. Dockery,
President's Scholarship.
Anita Jane Keller,
freshman, music education
major, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Cletus J. Keller, Grayson
Scholar from Appalachia
Lisa Lynn Tweed, junior,
biology major, daughter of
Richard Tweed, Lloyd M. Ber
tholf Biology Scholarship.
HOT SPRINGS
Charles Duckett, freshman,
chemistry ma jor, son of Joe J.
Duckett, Freshman
Chemistry Achievement
Award. Whitehurst Scholar
ship.
MARS HILL
William Richard Anderson,
senior, mathematics major,
san of Mr. and Mrs Oscar
Social and Behavioral
Sciences Award, Dean's
Scholarship, Tomberlin and
Hens ley Scholarship.
Edith Cheek, freshman.
English major, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Cheek,
Grayson Scholar from Ap
palachia.
Holly Jean Hough, incoming
freshman, major undecided,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John
M. Hough Jr., Grayson
Scholar from Appalachia.
Rebecca Susan McLeod,
senior, biology major,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Donald Evans McLeod,
Blackwell Award, honorable
mention.
MARS HILL
Suzanne Powell, senior,
chemistry major, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Powell,
Who's Who Among Students in
American Universities and
College, The Brazil Pre
Medical Scholarship ($500).
Charlene D. Ray, junior,
history major, granddaughter
of Mrs Luanda B Ray,
Whitehurst Scholarship,
Grayson Scholar from Ap
board of trustees.
Emmett Sams has been a
member of the college's facul
ty since 1947. A native of
Yancey County, he holds
undergraduate degrees from
Mars Hill College and Western
Carolina Teachers College
(now Western Carolina
University), and a master's
degree from Pea body College.
He has continued his educa
tion at Cornell University,
North Carolina State Universi
ty and the University of Kan
sas.
Sams has developed many
of the courses now taught by
the math department, and
contributed significantly to
the curriculum both when
Mars Hill became a senior in
stitution in 1966 and when the
college instituted its
competence-based curriculum
several years ago. He has
been the college supervisor for
every secondary mathematics
student teacher at Mars Hill
College. During the coming
year, he will serve as a consul
tant to share with the rest of
the college's faculty his uni
que ability to communicate ef
fectively as well as share his
counseling techniques.
Three other faculty
members' promotions were
announced during the
ceremonies. They are:
William Hutt, named
associate professor of biology-,
Kenneth M. Sane ha grin, nam
ed associate professor of
sociology; and Carolyn
Thompson, named assistant
professor of social work.
Top scholarship winners
were 16 incoming freshmen
who were named J. Wesley
Grayson Scholars from Ap
palachia This program
awards half-tuition scholar
ships to incoming freshmen
and a limited number of up
perclassmen who have
integrity ; and sensitivity in in
terpersonal relationships and
in community issues and pro
blems.
The program is funded by
the largest gift in the history
of the college, $1,123,000 by Dr.
J. WEsley Grayson of Laguna
Hills, Calif., given as an annui
ty trust in 1978. The
significance of the gift cannot
be over-emphasized as Mars
Hill has always made every
effort to assist deserving
students who have financial
needs. Endowed scholarship
provide the resources for
honoring this commitment.
The program is aimed at
providing informed, capable
leaders for the Appalachian
region who appreciate the
history and culture of the
region and are sensitive to the
problems that burden the peo
ple of Appalachia.
gregation of the Mars Hill
Baptist Church for the ser
vice. Finally, the highlight of
the weekend ? the graduation
ceremonies ? will be held in
Moore Auditorium at 3 p.m.
when Dr. Richard L. Hoffman,
vice-president for academic
affairs, presents approx
imately 275 seniors to Dr.
Fred B. Bentley, president,
who will award the diplomas.
Dr. Campbell did his
undergraduate study at
Carson-Newman College,
receiving a Bachelor's Degree
"cum laude," in 1958. He later
earned the Master of Divinity,
Master of Theology, and Doc
tor of Ministry Degrees from
Southeastern Seminary. In ad
dition to his pastoral duties, he
has been extremely active in
various ministries of the
demonination, both on the
state and national levels.
He has served on the board
of directors of the N.C. Baptist
weekly journal, "The Biblical
Recorder", and on the board
of trustees of the N.C. aptist
Hospital in Winston-Salem. He
has served on advisory boards
at Wake Forest Univeristy,
Campbell, and Gardner-Webb
Colleges. In 1975-76, he was a
member of a special conven
tion committee to study the
contractural relationship in
volving Wake Forest, the
Reynolds Foundation, and the
convention. During 1978-79, he
chaired a special commission
of the Council on Christian
Higher Education which
helped formulate the details of
a new relationship between
the convention and the univer
sity. In 1977, he was a member
of the Committee on Boards of
the Southern Baptist Conven
tion.
Dr. Campbell is active in
Statesville's Rotary Club and
the United Fund. He has serv
ed on the mayor's advisory
committee and is currently oil
the board of directors of a day
care center for handicapped
children. Dr. Campbell's mar
ried daughter, Cathy Burgess,
will be receiving a degree Sun
day afternoon.
DR. FRANK CAMPBELL
4 Madison Clubs Enter Annual Contest
Community Development
Four communities in Madison County have
entered the Western North Carolina Community
Development Program, according to Morris L.
McGough, executive vice president of the WNC
Development Association.
They are the communities of Greater Ivy,
Mars Hill, Upper Laurel and Walnut-Brush Creek.
. McGough said a total of 47 communities in 13
counties have entered the competition to date.
Sponsored by the 18-county WNC Develop
ment Association and the N.C. Agricultural Ex
tension Service ? with local sponsors and various
county agencies, this nationally recognized rural
community improvement contest is now in its 31st
year.
The program aims to encourage people to
cooperate and work together on community pro
jects and to promote home improvements. The
major emphasis is on self-help efforts with a
slogan of "There is no limit to what a community
can do, if it wants to."
Aside from the satisfaction of community im
provement, participants have the added incentive
of $10,000 in area awards, along with $15,000 to
$20,000 to be presented in county contests.
In addition to cash awards, communities are
eligible to receive a number of "special recogni
tion awards" presented in conjunction with the
contest.
Participation in a beautification contest is
open both to the rural community clubs, garden
clubs, civic groups, extension homemakers, youth
clubs, churches and others.
Entry deadline for the contest is May 15.
Criminal Court Starts Monday
The May criminal term of
superior court will begin here
Monday morning with Judge
Sam J. Erwin III, presiding.
District Attorney Clyde M.
Roberts will prosecute
One murder case and one
manslaughter case head the
list of trials scheduled to be
heard. The murder case in
volves Veraa Stines Green and
the manslaughter case in
volves Jimmy Bruce Am
nions.
Other cases on the court
calendar include:
Clyde Rath bone, DUI; Dean
Trantham, BE&L; Gary
Miller, receiving stolen pro
perty; Don McCarter, BE&L;
Conley Davis, BE&L; Larry
Allen Doxtater, BE&L; Roger
Ben Roberts, leaving scene of
accident; and driving while
license permanently revoked;
Luther Aikens, failed to ap
pear; John Daniel Norton,
DUI; Ricky Nichols, BE&L;
Sandra Higgins Thomas, driv
ing while license revoked;
Jack Stines, leaving scene of
accident; Claude English,
DUI; Michael Black, receiv
ing stolen property ; Steve Sur
rett, BE&L; Ronnie Dean Sur
rett, BE&L; Dale Roberts,
alias Dallas Roberts; Joe
Ross Chandler, drunk and
disruptive; John Wayne Sher
riil, kidnap; Keith Fowler,
kidnap; Alan Jacobs, BE&L;
Billy Stout, possession of
stolen motor vehicle; Clifford
Warren, kidnap.
A list of jurors follows:
Maude P. Payne, Marshall
C. Wilson, Tootsie Gunter,
Hobert Shelton, Helen K. Rice,
Henry Lamb, Audrey K.
Franklin, Hattie B. Nix, Con
nie E. Reese, Elbert Jackson
Wyatt, Gertrude E. Ball,
Clara Wilde, Dianne Maney,
Barbara S. Haynes, Mrs. Nan
nie Hunter, Bex Ramsey,
Leaner Vaughn Payne, Wayne
D. Roberts, Ella M. Church,
Phillis H. Morrow, Wade
Buckner, Eugene E. Reese
(dee d), Ernest D. Ervin ;
Ronald L. Haynie, Kathleen
S. McPeters, Donna Gay
Anderson, Glen Carver, Alan
David Crowder, Nell Thomas,
Anderson Eugene Wheeler,
Deborah Jean Garrison, Em
ma Shetley Lawson, Teresa
West, Marilyn Hope Reid,
Virgil G. Metcalf, Lucille
Kirkpatick, Larry C. Holt,
Michael L. Fore, Roy
Freeman, Delmar C. Flemm
ing, Ruby Moore Davis,
Ralford K. English, Reta
Jeanne Cantrell, Ms. Janie
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Dr. McElroy Honored For Dedicated Service
DR. CHARLES McCULLOUGH
(center) present! spcci* I citation
to Dr. Lawrenot HcElrey of Mar
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Dr. J. Lawrence McElroy of
Marshall was honored last
week by the North Carolina
Stat* Medical Society for SO
years of dedicated service in
the practice of medicine.
A special citation recognu
ing Dr. McElroy'i profes
sional contributions and ac
complishments was pranoted
during a meeting of the
Madison County Medical
Society in the President's Din
ing Room at Mars Hill CoUege
en May ?. Making the presen
tation was Dr. Charles T. Mc
Cui lough of AsheviUe, who u
the counselor for the 10th
District of the State Medical
Society.
A resolution was aloo
tinuously since 1951.
The two awards to Dr.
McElroy were warmly ap
plauded by about 35 persons
attending the dinner meeting,
including members of the
county medical society, U?eir
wives and other special
Or. McElroy, who wfte
graduated from Washington
University Medical School in
of the North Carolina State
MedieaJ Society in 1W0 and
practice in Marshall In