Special Edition
Spring Week End Preview
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COLLEGE, FARMVILLF. VIRGINIA. APRIL3,
1979
NO.
20
Bobbin, Sprague Are Graduation Speakers By MELODY CRAWLEY Four hundred and seventy-four students will receive degrees from logwood College in May. Of these, 415 will be undergraduate degrees and 59, masters degrees. Dr. Eleanor W. Bobbitt and Dr. Rosemary Sprague will address the graduates at exercises. May 12. Dr. Eleanor W. Bobbitt, a professor of Health and Recreation, has been a member of Iongwood Faculty since 1954. She is a Ixmgwood alumna who received her M.S. degree from the University of Tennessee and her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. Among Dr. Bobbitt's accomplishments include serving a two-year term as National President of Delta Psi Kappa, a physical education fraternity. She is a past president of the Virginia Association of Health, Physical Education and Recreation and received the Distinguished Service Award of that organization in 1975. From 1977-1979. Dr. Bobbitt has served as vice president of the P.E. Division of the Southern district of the American Association of HPER and helped coordinate the convention recently held in New Orleans, IA In 1973, she was presented the Student-Faculty Recognition
Award. This award is presented annually by the College's Student Development Committee to
Photo by Paula Johnson recognize "professional excellence and devote service to Father students." Dr. Bobbitt has also worked with elementary school physical education clinics and has spoken at various functions on the Ixmgwood Campus. Dr. Rosemary Sprague came to Ixmgwood as an associate professor of English in 1962. She
Conservation Program Announced Dr. William J. Peele, VicePresident for Administration, has released the following memorandum to the Ixmgwood employees and students: To comply with the Governor's energy conservation program, to eliminate needless energy costs at Ixmgwood College, and to do our part in the national effort to conserve fuel and electricity, the following provisions will be strictly enforced, effective immediately. Heating Season Set thermostats and other control devices to maintain a maximum temperature in heated spaces of 68 degrees F. Reduce temperatures in heated spaces to at least 63 degrees F. when area is not occupied or during sleeping hours in residential facilities. Blinds, shades, drapes, or other window coverings should be kept closed at night and opened during day to admit sunlight when available. It is imperative that windows and outside doors be kept closed when heating is required. The use of supplemental heating units, such as plug-in electric heaters, should be avoided.
was named Board of Visitors Distinguished Professor of English in May, 1967.
Cooling Season Maintain the temperature of air conditioned spaces at not less than 78 degrees F. When spaces are not in use, space temperatures shall not be maintained below 83 degrees F. by the use of cooling cycle or ventilating equipment. Use lights only when necessary as they add to cooling loads. Do not operate air conditioning equipment in spaces that are unoccupied for several hours. Keep outside doors and windows closed when cooling equipment is in use. Blinds, shades, or other window coverings should be kept closed as much as possible to reduce heat gain through windows. Year-Round lighting and Power Lighting for ornamental purposes will be discontinued or reduced to allow for needed security lighting only. Corridor and lobby lighting, as well as in other areas, will be reduced. Low energy consumption lamps will be substituted in both incandescent and fluorescent fixtures. Persons must turn off lights when leaving their work areas.
She is a graduate of Bryn Mawn College and received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Western
Reserve University. Her postdoctoral work was done at Shakespeare Institute. Stratfordon-Avon, and. University of I-ondon. The author of nine historic novels, she has also done biographies on Robert Browning, and George Eliot, a study of five women poets, and has edited poems .of Robert Browning for the Cromwell Poets Series. The Student-Faculty Recognition Award was presented to Dr. Sprague in 1977. Dr. Sprague is an extensive 'ecturer and recently lectured widely on "The Men Who Were Not Shakespeares." She participates in numerous scholarly and professional organizations. She is a respected leader on campus and in the Farmville Community. The speakers for graduation were picked by a special committee set up by the senior Class and voted on by the class
Burghardt Speaks:
Look, Love And Laugh; A Response To Anxiety
By DEBBIE NORTHERN As Father Walter J. Burghardt looked out over his audience on Thursday, March 29, he remarked, "The students must be too depressed to come." Even though there were relatively few students and more faculty assembled Father Burgardt's talk entitled "Ix>ok. Ix>ve and Laugh; A Response to Anxiety," he enlightened those present as to how they could best relive their pressures. In order to really be alive, one must use three facets, the ability to look, to love and to laugh stated Father Burghardt. He said, "I am not alive just because life is in me." To begin with we must look with our minds. Only if our minds are open can we come face to face with what makes life. We must search for what is real, knowing that the real is profound and mysterious. When we discover the real, we no longer analyse or describe it, but are one with it. Father Burghardt said "you must simply seek and what you see you love." Ix>ve cannot be described by cliches of definitions. Everything stems from love, he added. It towers over faith and hope. Its roots are in God, who shares himself with us. "Love is most itself when it is for others," Father Burg hart stressed. When he looks at the issues of
1979, he finds that there is little love. There is a violation of human rights and injustice. Father Burghardt pointed out that one billion people, one out of four will go to bed hungry at night. He blames this on the fact that we "don't come across as a community of love." One must extend their horizons beyond themselves. "We are not in love if we are not willing to risk," he added. Yet, Father Burghardt admits that love does not conquer all. If all Christians were loving there
would still be problems because man is limited. If you look, love and respond to the real, you will laugh "IÂŤaughter is joy in living.-' stated Father Burghardt. We should delight in ourselves and show with others this delight, he advised. "You will discover life only if you look and love." he said. "Hopefully you will leave here < Ixmgwood) educated in that Ixmgwood has revealed a world which excites you with excitement...and you will leave here laughing," he concluded.
FALSE FIRE ALARMS The number of false fire alarms seems to be increasing. Students are reminded that should someone be apprehended setting a false alarm, that person will probably be suspended from the college. During the week prior to Spring Vacation, many students were disturbed by frequent false alarms. There were no scheduled fire drills that week, and the alarms were not pulled to evacuate guests from the residence hall. The Fire Safety Plan requires that all rooms be checked to assure that everyone is out of a building when the fire alarm is sounded. No student or staff member is authorized to search rooms. The room check must be done to protect all. Student who reside in a hall and who are upset about disturbances caused by false alarms should make every effort to ascertain and report anyone observed pulling a false alarm. David Wall, Fire Warden Mary A. HeinU, Dean of Students
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