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Hie Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, December 28,1972-PAGE S New to curriculum at Newberry The Newberry College faculty approved two major additions to the College’s curriculum— a Bachelor of Science degree in Technology and a major in Church Music—at its October meeting. The new degree is designed for students who have earned an associate of arts degree from a regionally accredited Technical Educational Center and who desire to continue their studies at a four year liberal arts college. “We will accept Technical Education Center graduates without loss of academic cre dit,” Dr. Glenn Whitesides, aca demic dean commented. “Stu dents enrolling at Newberry and studying for the new de gree will normally be able to earn it after completing two years of satisfactory work,” he added. “The College is making a ma jor breakthrough in combining the values of vocational train ing with the traditional liberal arts program, Newberry’s pre sident, Dr. Fredric B. Irvin, stated in announcing the new degree program, “It is neces sary,” he continued, “that the private church-related college explore new ways and methods of meeting today’s educational challenges. We think that en tering into cooperative pro grams with the Technical Edu cation Centers is one way that Newberry College can meet those challenges.” The major in Church Music was approved to meet an in creased demand for choir di rectors and organists, accord ing to Dr. Whitesides. He went on to explain that the College will be able to offer the major by adding only one course to the curriculum that will em brace humnody, liturgies, and worship practices. The Church Music major is the third one offered in the field of music— the other two are in Music Ed ucation and in Applied Music. The Bachelor of Science de gree in Technology is the ninth one offered by the College. Stu dents may now receive a bach elor of arts degree in one of twenty subject fields or in Ele mentary Education, or they may receive bachelor of science degrees in Accounting, Business Administration, Biology, Che mistry, Medical Technology, and Business Administration and Chemistry. Pre-professional courses of study are also offered in six areas: dentistry, forestry, law, medicine, and pre-osteopathic medicine, and pharmacy. The new programs will go into effect immediately. College payroll one of largest in local area Newberry College—like col leges in hundreds of communi ties throughout the United States has a significant impact upon its hometown. The impact is felt not just as an educational, cultural, and public service center, but as an economic center of Newberry and of New berry County. “The most obvious index of the College’s impact on New berry is its payroll,” Dr. Fre dric B. Irvin, president of the College, said in discussing the college and the community. “In 1971,” he continued, “200 fa culty, administrators, staff, and other employees received over $1.3 million in wages and sa laries; this is one of the larger payrolls in the County. Much of this $1.3 million comes back to Newberry in the form of money spent for goods and ser vices, for real estate, personal property, and sales taxes, or is deposited in savings accounts in Newberry’s banks or savings and loan institutions. But in addition to the money spent in Newberry by the Col lege’s employees, the College itself spent $300,000 with 120 Newberry businesses and mer-- chants and the city for utilities and other goods and services. And the students spend money—and not just for tuition and related college expenses and fees—but for automotive services (over 780 student cars were registered on campus last year) and food and clothes and personal goods and services. Most of the money they spend in Newberry is new money to the community since over 650 of the nearly 800 students are from communities other than Newberry. And 85 of the stu dents are married; they live in the community and create a need for apartments and goods and services that all young mar ried couples need and use. Still another factor of the eco nomic impact of the College on Newberry is its visitors. Thou sands of alumni, parents, friends and businessmen visit the campus each year to attend athletic, cultural or social events, to attend seminars, workshops, and meetings, to bring their children to the cam pus in September or to visit them during the school year, or to conduct business with the college or to interview New berry’s students for jobs. And these visitors to the College have money to spend in Newberry for food, gasoline, lodging, and other commodities. Although ac curate figures are not avail able, if each visitor spends only $5.00 in Newberry on each visit, $50,000 to $100,000 is gene rated by these visits during the year. “In short,” Dr. Irvin added, “the College, its employees, its students, and its visitors are having a terrific economic im pact on Newberry and on New berry County and they are helping to make the area a growing part of South Carolina.” College interim will feature foreign tours The British Isles, and parts of France, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland as well as New York and various sections of the Southeast will be the class room for Newberry College stu dents in January after they re turn to their classes after the Christmas holiday break. The Newberrians will be studying, working, flying, and traveling as they begin the Col lege’s fourth January interim. The College adopted the Inte rim calendar in 1969; it consists of two-four month terms, begin ning in September and Feb ruary and the one month Inte rim session in January. During the short January semester each student takes only one course. “We want the students to take courses as innovative, imaginative, and experimental as possible,” Dr. Glenn White- sides, Newberry’s academic dean and coordinator for the Interim session, said. “The short semester,” he continued, “gives students an opportunity for extended work in an area of their choice that is not usual ly covered during the regular school year. Fifteen Newberrians will par ticipate in a British History and Culture Tour led by Foster Far ley, associate professor of his tory. The trip will concentrate upon the famous landmarks and personalities that have influenc ed the course of British his tory. The history, language, cul ture, and literature of France and Spain will come into sharp er focus for the Newberrians choosing a course that will take them to these countries as well as comers of Switzerland and Italy. Under the direction of Verdan Traylor, assistant pro fessor of French and of Spa nish, the travelers will visit and study in Paris, Geneva, Turin (Italy) and Barcelona along the Spanish Mediterra nean coast. Speech and music students will tour area high schools with a production of “Fiddler on the Roof in late January; they will spend the first portion of the Interim in rehearsing lines, learning songs, building scen ery, and making costumes for the traveling road show. Some of the students will be working by themselves in In dependent Study courses that will involve work off-campus in such widely varied fields as wilderness living, police work, and a project to aid in the revitalization of the Charleston downtown business district. Another group of students will be working as interns for Cer tified Public Accountants in South Carolina while another group will have instruction that will involve ground training and 15 hours of flight instruction applicable to the certification of private pilots. Not all of Newberry’s 775 students will have their class room off-campus in January. Many of them will stay in New berry and work oq special pro jects in the natural sciences, the humanities, of the fine arts. Newberry’s Interim begins Jan. 3 and continues through Jan. 26. Redskin five have 4-0 mark With the first phase of the young 1972-1973 basketball sea son behind them, Coach Nield Gordon’s squad heads into the Christmas break with a 4-0 mark in NAIA District 6 com petition and a 5-2 overall mark. The Indians are tied for first place in the District with the University of North Carolina at Asheville. A veteran senior, 6’6” Mike Barb of Capitol Heights, Md., and a young freshman, 6’9” Moses King of Columbia, have dominated the scoring for Gor don’s hoopsters. Barb has ac counted for 50 field goals and 27 free throws for a total of 127 points while King has net ted 40 field goals and 9 free throws for 89 points enough for a seond place ranking for the squad. Another freshman, 6’5” Larry Weaver of Phoenix, Arizona, has edged out King for second place in the free throw lane with 14 to his credit. Barb and King are also one- two in the number of rebounds with 65 and 64 to their credit out of a total of 261 taken by the Newberrians in their first seven games. As they look forward to the second phase of the long bas ketball season that begins in January after the breaks for final examinations and the Christmas holidays, the Indians will be primed for District 6 competition; 16 of their remain ing 19 games are with District schools. The District is com posed of 16 teams, 14 in South Carolina and two (Mars Hill and UNC-Asheville in North Carolina). The Indians are idle until January 6 when they meet the Erskine Flying Fleet. Last season the squad cap tured first place in regular sea son District play with a 13-2 mark; Newberry has been eli gible for the District playoffs at the end of the season each year since the NAIA reorganiz ed the districts four years ago. New program is approved A seventh pre-professional program of study—Pre-Opto metry—at Newberry College has been approved by the College’s faculty. Although College of Optome try prefer to accept students who have a bachelor’s degree in biology or chemistry, they will accept students who have completed two years of pre-op- tometric studies at a regionally accredited college. The two-year program at Newberry will require the stu dent to take courses in mathe matics, chemistry, biology, phy sics, English and work in either the humanities or the social sciences. “The approval of the new program.” Dr. Glenn White- sides, academic dean said in making the announcement, “is another example of the College’s effort to combine the values of vocational training in a li beral arts setting.” The pre-optometry curricu lum is part of the College’s newly established Pre-profes sional Health and Science pro gram. MOVE A MOUNTAIN... 9 PRAY AT NOON, join the hundreds of Christians here in our own community as well as the thousands, millions all across North America in moving a mountain known as Key ’73. Key ’73 is a cooperative movement of churches of most denomi nations and many Christian groups (both Protestant and Catholic) to bring the message of Jesus Christ to all persons in North America in 1973. THE NOON PRAYER CALL is part . . . the very first part . . . of Key ’73. The Noon Prayer effort is hundreds, thousands, mil- | lions of persons praying, individually and collectively, that mil- ] lions might reach millions more for Christ in 1973, praying for guidance and strength, praying for the success of Key ’73. Won’t you participate with your fellow Christians in church and out of church? Join with us ♦ ♦ * On Behalf Of The Churches In Newjjerry County The Newberry County Ministers’ Association