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1989
"Catching Sight ofLongwoodfrom atop the SesquicentenniafMount" VOL. 68
NO. 22
Honors Banquet Was a Success By BETH A- LORD Longwood's annual Honors Banquet was held In Blackwell Dining Hall on Thursday. April 13. from 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Following dinner catered by ARA Services, a musical program was presented by the Longwood College Handbell Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Paul S. Hesselink. In an address given by President Dorrill. the students attending were commended on their achievements and encouraged to accomplish great things in the future. Dr. Donald C. Stuart. III. recognized Longwood Scholars. Who's Who winners. Dean's List students. 1988 Phi Kappa Phi initiates, and 4.0 students. Finally, various awards and scholarships were presented to well deserving seniors and underclassmen.
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APRIL 18, 1989
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Reception Will Honor Outgoing Dean
Don't bring your phones or answering machines back next semester.. The new fiber optic phone system will be complete when you return for classes in August. Some of the features will include the following: - Touch Tone speaker phone In every room - Access to All Computers On Campus (modem Integrated Into every phone) - All Custom Calling Features - Electronic Voice Mailboxes (replaces the answering machine) Pictured is a bulldozer digging a trench on the side of Curry.
On Thursday. April 20. 1989 the students of the School of Business and Economics will have a special reception in the VA room at 5:15 to honor the outgoing dean, Dr. Jacques. The reception will be followed by a short ceremony in which students will have the opportunity to say a few words about Dr. Jacques. "Dr. Jacques always calls us his kids'. Well, his kids Just want to let him know we love him and that we'll miss him." says Ricky Otey. President of the Finance & Economics
club. Also at the reception, the Society for Advancement of Management, will present Dean Jacques with the Frederick W. Taylor Award of ex cellence. which is presented each semester to that faculty or administrator that has displayed outstanding concern for business students. Any students wishing to attend should simply eat their regular dinner and then come into the VA room at 5:15. Anyone wishing to speak at the program should see Ricky Otey.
Photo by Uruce Gantt
Tom Wolfe Will Speak at Commencement Tom Wolfe, the author of 11 widely acclaimed books on American life, will speak Saturday. May 6. at Longwood's Sesqulcentennlal Commencement and receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. Commencement will be held on Wheeler Mall, starting at 9 a.m. The ceremony Is open to the entire college community and the public. Mr. Wolfe is generally regarded as the outstanding literary Journalist of his time and the chief architect of the "New Journalism" that applied narrative devices of fiction to factual reporting and changed the face of non-fiction. His books and articles have focused on and dramatized American social phenomena and cultural revolutions since 1960. His Electric KoolAid Acid Test (1968) Is
widely considered the best account of the counterculture of the 1960s. He has lampooned artists and architects, radicals and socialites, stock car drivers and stockbrokers, and himself. His 1987 novel. The Bonfire of the Vanities, was the nation's best seller for many months and is expected to be made into a movie. Another best-seller. The Right Stuff (1979), was the basis for an Oscar-winning film about the American astronauts. His other best-known works include: The KandyKolored Tangerie Flake Streamline Baby (1965); The Pump House Gang (1968); Radical Chic and MauMauing the Flak Catchers (1970); The Painted Word (1975); Mauve Cloves and Madmen, Clutter and Fine and other stories, sketches, and essays (1976);
From Bauhaus to Our House (1981): and The Purple Decades: A Reader (1982). Some of his more important concerns are included in such stories as "The Commercial." The Intelligent Coed's Guide to America." 'The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening," "Sex and Violence: The Perfect c me," "Pornoviolence," 1f y Chic." and "Honks i. nks." writes frequently for magazines such as Harper's, Esquire, and Newsweek, and he has done several book reviews for The New York Times. An artist as well as a writer, he has exhibited drawings in one-man shows at the Maynard Walker Gallery and the Tunnel Gallery, both in New York City. As a writer he has received such honors as Longwood's
The college bell, the enduring symbol of the community of scholar* resident, at this place for more thsn 150 years, reads the inscription, was put on dlsplsy in "The Rotunds" last week. John Dos Passos Prize; the Front Page awards for humor and foreign news reporting from the Washington Newspaper Guild; the award of excellence from the Society of Magazine Writers; the Frank Luther Mott Research Award; Virginia Laureate for Literature; the Harold D. Vursell Memorial award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters; the American Book Award for general non-fiction; the Columbia Journalism Award; and a citation for art history from the national Sculpture Society.
Born in Richmond In 1931. Mr. Wolfe was graduated from St. Chlstopher's In Richmond, received an A.B. degree In literature from Washington and Lee University, and earned a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale University. He has worked for several newspapers, Including The (Continued on page 3)
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