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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.
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PRAY AT NOON, join
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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
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to bring the message of Jesus Christ to all persons in North
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THE NOON PRAYER CALL is part . . . the very first part . . .
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