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Six graduate
with top honors
Six seniors at Newberry Col
lege graduated. Magna Cum
Laude and 14 graduated Cum
Laude in Commencement Exer
cises at the College on Sunday,
May 28.
Graduating seniors who have
completed at least 56 semester
hours at Newberry College and
whose cumulative grade point
ratio is 3.75 (out of a possible
.4) or higher graduate Magna
Cum Laude, those who gra
duate with a grade point ratio
from 3.25 to 3.75 graduate Cum
Laude.
Those receiving Magna Cum
Laude Honors were James Car-
roll Butt, Lone Star, S. C.;
Susan Yost Gragg, Hickory,
N. C.; John Michael Grant,
Gaffney, S. C.; Patricia Cla
rice Duggins, Greeneville, Tenn.
Sarah Ellen Williamson, New
berry, S. C.; and Jacquelyn
Maurice Wilson, Charlotte, N. C.
Cum Laude Honors were re
ceived by Patricia Lee Baum
gartner, Savannah, Ga., Debra
Helen Beaufort, Charleston, S.
C.; Kathryn W. Foster, Green
ville, S. C.; Sandra Ann Hite,
Newberry; Carole Aline Hut
chinson, Camden; Carolyn Anne
Jenkins, Columbia; Kay Boat
wright Kunis, Leesville; Paul
Stanley Massey, Taylors; Har-
riette Hedgepath Redd, New
berry; David Nickles Rimer,
Great Falls; Milas Yoder Sease,
III, Columbia; Judy Caroline
Shealy, Leesville; Molly Ann
Whitaker, Swansea; and Julia
Mia Williamsen, Hanahan.
Miss Williamson is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. N. K.
Williamson, 1734 Boundary St.;
Miss Hite is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Hite, 1400
Nance St.; and Mrs. Redd is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. H. Hedgepath, 1623 Har
rington St., Newberry.
Vol. 35-No. 58
Newberry, S. C. 29108, Thursday, June 1, 1972
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The Madrigalians, chorale ensemble from Newberry College, boarded a plane at Columbia Airport Mon
day, for the first leg of their three-week tour of six European countries including concerts in Holland,
Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, and West Germany.
Pruitt "Professor of Year
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Laster is new
Admissoins head
William Harold Laster will
assume the post of Director of
Admissions at Newberry Col
lege on July 15, Dr. Fredric
B. Irvin, the College’s presi
dent, has announced.
Laster is the present Assis
tant Director of Admissions at
Maryville College in Maryville,
Tenn., a position he has had
since 1970. He also served as
an Admissions Counselor at
Maryville from 1965-1966.
A native of Alabama, Laster
received his bachelor’s degree
in history from Maryville in
1965, his master’s degree in
education from the University
of Southern California in 1970,
and has completed additional
graduate work at the Univer
sity of Tennessee.
Mr. Laster is a 1967 gra
duate of Maryville College with
her bachelor’s degree in voice.
She has done extensive solo
work and was a district winner
in the Metropolitan Opera Au
ditions.
She plans to teach voice and
piano in her home.
Charles Pruitt, associate pro
fessor of r usic and the direc
tor of bands at Newberry Col
lege, was named the “Professor
of the Year” at the College’s
Commencement Exercises Sun
day afternoon, May 28.
The award, presented by the
College’s Alumni Association, is
given in recognition of his ac-
the Year.” Earlier recipients
were Dr. Frank Hoskins, head
of the department of English,
1969; Dr. James Cummings,
head of the department of edu
cation, 1970; and Kibler William
son, professor of mathematics
and physics, 1971.
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Auxiliary unit
meets today
The American Legion Auxi
liary will meet Thursday, June
1st at 4 p.m. at the home of
Mrs. George W. Heller, 2117
Harper Street.
Area summer
schools begin
on June 5th
Summer school for students
in the Newberry, Mid-Carolina,
and Whitmire areas will begin
next Monday, June 5th at 8
a.m. with registration.
At Newberry and Mid Caro
lina the session ends on July
19. At Whitmire the session will
end July 21. This school will
have one week for July 4th
holidays. Other schools will ob
serve holidays on July 3-5.
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MOVING DAY-Saturday was moving day for the Newberry Aca
demy. Patrons and friends of the academy were on hand early in
the morning to begin transfer of the physical assets of the school
for removal to the new building recently completed. The use of
large trucks as seen above were donated for use in the moving. The
new facility is located on Smith Road. (Sunphoto)
complishments as an imagina
tive and outstanding classroom
teacher and band director.
After graduating from New
berry in 1950, Pruitt taught high
school at York for six years
and at Whitmire for two years.
He joined the College staff as
a part time instructor in 1956
while he was still teaching at
Whitmire; he left Whitmire in
1958 to become a full time fa
culty member. He is also a
bandmaster for the South Caro
lina National Guard, a position
he has held since 1948.
Pruitt is active in several
professional organization in
cluding the Band Masters As
sociation of the United States,
College Band Directors Natio
nal Association, South Carolina
Music Educators Association,
and the Federation of Musi
cians Local of Columbia.
Pruitt has been instrumental
in establishing the band pro
gram at Newberry College;
he directs the 55-piece march
ing band during the football
season, the concert band, and
the jazz ensemble. WAR DEAD REMEMBERED-Members of the American Legion
This is the fourth year the Auxiliary and other volunteers decorated crosses at the World War
Alumni Association has honor- I monument Saturday. Shown are Mrs. W. Roy Anderson, left,
ed a Newberry College faculty Poppy Day chairman and Mrs. Frank Martin, auxiliary president,
member as the “Professor of placing wreath at the base of the doughboy. (Sunphoto)