Flying Petrel, September 1967

SEPT. 1967

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On October 2 the Fall trimester will open
its doors to a variety of new faces.
Hearing the tower chimes on the first day
of classes will be a fine group of eager
new students, a new president, and a new
dean, as well as several new faculty and
staff members. To Oglethorpe they bring
new goals and fresh ideas, their enthusi-
asm tempered only by respect for tradi-
tion and the solidity from which it grows .

New Dean Dons Oglethorpe Hat

Dean Hauser
Dr. William R. Hauser has been appointed
Dean of the College. Dr. Hauser, formerly
Dean of Athens College, Athens, Alabama,
and Head of the English Department, is
ciirrently the Education Director for Phi
Garrma Delta, the fraternity for which he
served as Secretary for Graduate Affairs
in 1963, The new Dean received his PhD in
the humanities and I^ in English at the
University of Pittsburgh, and his AB de-
gree at Denison University. He officially
assumed his duties as Dean at Oglethorpe
^on July 24. The presence of the new offi-
cial on caitpus for only a short time this
summer has strengthened in the minds of
all v^o have cane in contact with him the
promise of a bright future for the Col-
ledge.

T The key word for Oglethorpe this year

might be "PLUS" a small word perhaps,

but one that can mean great things for
the institution. In the Oglethorpe 1967-
68 vocabulary it is interpreted as expan-
sion, increase, addition, progress, ex-
perimentation. The list could continue
because limitations need not be placed on
the "PLUS." By its very definition it
incorporates all that has gone before, in
wisdcm and experience, as a foundation
vfnich can be built upon indefinitely. The
word rings of the tried and the untried,
the recognized and the unfamiliar, the

acconplished and the expected indeed,

the old and the new. . . .

I'tbeaminus. ..

ALUMNI RECEPTION
(October 22, 1967
|2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
.Home of Pres. and
rMrs. Paul K. Vonk,
I5355 Timber Trail.
N. E.

Please not
I this date on yoi:
calendar and make
plans to attend.
This is the first
of many function
planned this ye
for alumni sponsor-
ed by

THE EXECUTIVE
Alumni Association.

Campus Continues To Grow

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Expansion and the noisy process of con-
stxuction are the most noticeable indica-
tions on canpus of the Oglethorpe "PLUS."

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New Library Facilities
Lupton Hall basement has been renovated
to shelve over 34,000 of the college's
volurtes. This doubles the library's fa-
cilities.

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New Bookstore Services
To acconrnodate the library expansion the
bookstore has found it necessary to play
hopscotch. First moving to its now tem-

porary location in Phoebe Hearst, it will
later transfer permanently to the new
Student Union, It is enlarging this year
to iteet additional needs,

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Student Union
Construction is progressing rapidly to-
ward a first-of-1968 coipletion date.

Dorms for Men
Two of the five buildings in the long-
awaited housing complex are corplete and
ready for occupancy. Deadlines for the
others are Sept. 1, 5, and 31.

on ti)e bookjstanb

THE FREEDMEN'S BUREAU IN SOUTH
CAROLINA- by Dr. Martin Abbot,
Professor of History. The
Freedmen's Bureau, created in
1866, was the agency that pro-
moted the general welfare of
4 million former slaves. It was one of
the federal government's first attempts
at "social engineering." The book will
be published in November, 1967.

THE IDEA OF REDEMPTION IN THE WRITINGS OF
TOYOHIKO KAGAWA - by Dr. Ken Nishimura,
Associate Professor of Philosophy. The
author discusses the foundations of
Kagawa's idea of redemption, presenting
the philosopher's family background, his
flight into nature, religious background
and conversion. Various influences on
Kagawa's thinking are revealed. The book
concludes with a discourse on Kagawa's
theological methodology and his approach
to the problem of evil. Published 1966.

SUMMER WORKSHOP A SUCCESS
Oglethorpe's Second Annual Teacher Work-
shop, held June 12 -July 14 enabled 59
Greater Atlanta teachers to meet require-
ments for professional certification. The
program was designed to cover all phases
of teaching with special enphasis on re-
cent developments in education.

SCIENCE OGLETHORPE
Science Oglethorpe Comer is a new proj-
ect of Science Oglethorpe to aid the li-
brary. The purpose of the project is to
receive contributions in tlie form of
books (not necessarily in science) , other
items appropriate to library use, or cash.
Books received or purchased through the
canpaign will be inscribed by a bookplate
and the donor's signature.

Booster Club

The Athle-cic Booster Club's primary goal
for the year is to involve a greater num-
ber of young alumni in the activities of
the Booster Club.

Officers for 1967-68 are: Marshall
Asher, President; Carl Clark, Vice-Pres.;
Gunion Heard , Sec-Treas . ; Pasco Tilson ,
Graduating Representative. The Board of
Directors is ccnposed of the following:
Creighton Perry, Chairman, Lamar Adams,
Fred Agel, Tom Bartenfeld, Turner Barten-
feld, Charlie Cash, Bruce Hauck, Otis
Jackson, Justin Jones, John Oliver, Ansel
Paulk, Steve Schmidt, Nappy Thranhardt.

The Booster Club plans to again pub-
lish the programs for the basketball
games and to provide half-time entertain-
ment at the games.

Alumni of all ages are invited to
attend the monthly Booster Club meetings
in the Field House at 8 p.m. on the last
Monday of each month.

BASKETBALL NEWS

notes from the dean

The demand for college-educated iren and
WOTien grows proportionately larger each
year. The progress of industry and the
demands of a corplex society require con-
stantly rising educational acumen for re-
sponsible citizenship.

Colleges, therefore, must continue
to grow in size, quality, and variety of
educational programs. More than this,
colleges must clearly recognize broader
responsibilities in their programs. The
college is responsible for intellectual,
technical and professional training to
meet intellectual and vocational demands.
It must also prepare the student for mor-
al, political, and social responsibili-
ties. The norms of an enlightened soci-
ety must become a part of the total edu-
cation of the college student. On the
college canpus he must become acquainted
with these norms and, by practice, become
comfortable in exercising his moral, po-
litical, and social self so that his
transition to society at large is not an
abrupt one.

An up-to-date program of complete
orientation or education serves well the
institution and its alumni. It reflects
the institution as a valuable training
ground for general citizenship. As it
grows in reputation, the value of its
name to its alumni beccmes enhanced and
association with the institution opens
doors of opportunity and recognition.
The alumni, by daily contacts with and
operation in a society, can assess de
mands and pass the results of their find-
ings to the institution so that it may
continue to adjust to fulfill its role of
education for responsible citizenship.

TOUCHER COMPETITION this year includes 4
major college teams: Brown, Middle Ten-
nessee State Catholic University, and
Southern Illinois. MERCER returns to the
1967-68 schedule.

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6 5 WILLIAM SHEATS, much sought- after
prospect, has signed with Oglethorpe for
1967-68. Sheats is Atlanta's first grant-
in-aid athlete and Oglethorpe's first
Negro player.

THE 8TH AIMJAL BASKETBALL CLINIC, di-
rected this sunmer by Coach Bill Carter,
had an attendance of 300 students, boys
and girls, ages 8-18.

A NEW PHILOSOPHY

This year The Flying Petrel will be pub-
lished monthly. Starting with this is-
sue its editorial policy will be almost
unique in the world of alumni newsletters.
It is the editorial opinion of The Flying
Petrel that an alumni newsletter should

be just exactly what its name irtplies a

publication having the single purpose of
conveying news. The Flying Petrel will
not be an attempt to solicit alumni dol-
lars. Neither will The Flying Petrel be
an instrument by which the institution
may pat itself on the back. The Flying
Petrel will be tlie communicative vehicle
between Oglethorpe and you. It will be
the itajor medium employed to keep alumni
in contact with each other and informed
on activities and developments at Ogle-
thorpe. It will be published with the
sincere hope that alumni will look for-
ward to reading each issue and will bene-
fit from the information it provides.

editors likwell

THE CONTAGION OF OGLETHOPvPE

On the morning of August 14 I made my
first entrance into v^at was to become my
office this year as editor of The Flying
Petrel. I was a newcomer to Oglethorpe
an outsider. I had been told by friends
who were alumni of the school that I
would find that the College has a certain
contagious atmosphere about it, that I
would learn to love it. As I stepped on
one of the creaky boards of the second
floor of Lupton Hall and looked up at the
12 feet high ceiling I began to have my

doubts. This was certainly nothing to
compare to the nodem office building
from which I had cone. Introductions to
faculty, staff and students soon came in
a barrage of names, faces, cigars, shirts,
glasses seme sticking firmly in memory,
others escaping before I could trap them.
Then noon and lunch in the facility rocm
of the cafeteria. It wasn't Fan & Bill's
but the food was good and it offered an
opportunity to try and connect seme of
those narres and faces with departments,
offices, activities, etc. That evening,
attandance as a guest at the alumni board
iteeting. As I listened to enthusiastic
voices expounding on plans for alumni
functions, I stared around the faculty
lounge at the picture of Gen. Oglethorpe,
the coffee cups, the quiet evening out-
side the long, narrcw windows. And I be-
gan to wonder vrfiat is this College all
about? Just v^at is Oglethorpe? Faiiitly
I heard Dean Hauser explaining his phi-
losophy of education, catching such
phrases as "individual, ""responsibility,"
"student." This was most definitely a
far cry from my own alma mater, a multi-
versity vJhere I had received a diploma
that surprised me by stating it^ name
rather than Class and I.D. number. What
kind of a place was this vAiich afforded
such luxuries as the President's door
never closed to a student? .

Caught up in the hectic, hurried
pace of the following week I forgot about
my previous inquiry into the nature of
the institution. Then, the morning of
the graduation breakfast it all came into
view. Seeing proud students presented
the precious, long-worked- for diplomas
and the beaming parents looking on I re-
alized that this was what it was all
about, the reason for the rush and bother.

This was Oglethorpe College. Itiis the ex-
planation of the team spirit of which I
had become aware. This was the goal
education. Education of the finest qual-
ity the total integration of the indi-
vidual.

The prognosis had been an accurate
one. I, too, had caught the enthusiastic
germ of the team spirit, the first synptom
of the Oglethorpe disease. I am beginning
to be proud of the College for the same
reason you as alumni are proud of it. The
reason is not a concrete one. Acccnrplish-
ments and developments enter as ccnpo-
nents of the reason but the greatest part
of it is something vAiich makes explana-
tions futile. There is only one way to
ejq^ress it. Oglethorpe College gets in
your blood.

BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

Jan.

date opponent place

Dec. 2 Wilmington College (H)
Dec. 5 South Carolina (H)
Dec. 8 SouUi Alabama

(Mobile, Ala.)
Dec. 11 Shorter College (H)
Dec. 16 Brown University (H)

Dec. 18-19 Oglethorpe Inv.
Tournament
(Oglethorpe - Athens
- North Carolina College) Feb.
30 Middle Tennessee State

Feb.
Feb.

Feb.
Feb.

Dec.

University (H)
Jan. ^ Georgia Southern (H)
Jan. 8 Georgia State College

(Atlanta)
Jan. 11 Chattanooga University

(Chattanooga. Tenn.)
Jan. 13 South Alabama (H)
Jan. 19 Cathoic University (H)
Jan. 20 Mercer University

(Macon, Ga.)

Feb.

Feb

Feb.

Feb.

Feb

Mar.

25 Valdosta State
College (H)

1 Mercer University (H)

2 South Western Memphis
College (H)

6 Middle Tennessee State
University ^

(Murfreesboro, Tenn.) ^

8 Southern Illinois

(Carbondale, 111.)
12 Georgia Southern

(Statesboro, Ga.)
17 South Carolina

State College

(Orangeburg, S. C.)
21 Georgia State

CoUege (H)
24 Valdosta State CoUege

(Valdosta, Ga.)
26 Chattanooga

University (H)
29 Shorter College
(Rome, Ga.)

2 Asheville-Biltmore

College (H)

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