January 1970
Chronological File
Methodist College students return to classes after the Christmas holidays (January 1)
Mrs. Tom McLean and Dr. William B. Hall, Jr., named as two of the chairmen for the
Annual Community Loyalty Campaign for Methodist College (January 6)
Kick-off luncheon for the Methodist College Annual Loyalty Fund Campaign (January
10)
Methodist College Chorus begins its fourth annual tour (January 6)
Methodist College students doing their teaching internships (January 12)
Mary Elizabeth Baldwin now engaged in her teacher internship (January 12)
Individual releases for students engaged in teacher internships (January 12)
Methodist College Chorus begins its fourth annual tour (January 14)
Cutline: Methodist College alumnus Walter Turner welcomed back to campus after
serving in the Peace Corps (January 29)
February 1970
Chronological file
Methodist College names 145 to dean’s list (February 5)
Faith and Life Week at Methodist College (February 6)
Individual students on Dean' List [releases for hometown newspapers] (February 6-9)
Faith and Life Week at Methodist College (February 11)
Annual Methodist College Merit Scholarship Examinations (February 11)
Works by Winston-Salem printmakers on exhibit (February 17)
Cutline: Reeves Auditorium Building and Hensdale Chapel
Workshop for the Church Adult Volunteer Choir (February 19)
Miss Carillon pageant [three versions] (February 24)
Cutline: New officers for the Fayetteville Community Chorus (February 26)
Ellen Appelboom elected secretary of the Young Democrat Club (February 25)
Fayetteville Community Chorus rehearsing for spring concert (February 26)
Methodist College delegates attend the North Carolina Student Legislature (February 27)
Warren Southerland chairman of the Methodist College delegation to the State Student
Legislature (February 27)
Jonnie L. Stevens chosen Miss Carillon (February 27)
March 1970
Chronological file
Cutline: Methodist College receives a check for $1,500 from Texaco Petroleum Products
(March 4)
Methodist College receives a check for $1,500 from Texaco Petroleum Products (March
4)
Bobby Hodges, Methodist College basketball player (March 4)
Methodist College students and bill win at the State Student Legislature (March 10)
Spring concert of the Methodist College chorus (March 11)
Spring concert for the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra [two versions; includes program]
(March 18)
Students engaged in teacher internships (March 19)
Thomas H. Jones appointed by Governor Bob Scott to the Advisory Committee on
Economics and Environment [includes news release from the governor’s office]
(March 19)
Sample press release for student teachers, using Elizabeth Boulware (no date)
Laura Byrd appointed Miss Future Teacher of Methodist College (March 31)
April 1970
Chronological File
Paul D. West, Jr., Methodist College Financial Aid Officer, resigns (April 2)
Methodist College to offer major in art (April 3)
Vivian Webb, reigning Miss Fayetteville, named to the dean’s list (April 6)
Miss Terry Self represented Methodist College at the Wilmington Azalea Festival (April
7)
Dr. Terry Walter Johnson, Jr., to be guest lecturer of the Methodist College science club
(April 9)
Hypnotist and mentalist John Kolisch to appear at Methodist College (April 15)
Fourth annual Methodist College student art show (April 14)
Cutlines: fourth annual Methodist College student art show (April 14)
Dr. Maxwell H. Goldberg to visit Methodist College as Danforth Visiting Lecturer (April
19)
Sandy Frazier to play basketball for Methodist College (April 16)
Mark Wilson to play basketball for Methodist College (April 16)
“Earth Day” to be observed at Methodist College (April 17)
Russian language course to be offered at Methodist College (April 24)
Schedule of events for May week (including “Spiral Starecase” in concert (April 23)
Summer session announced (April 24)
Student officers elected at Methodist College (no date)
Individual releases for student officers (April 29)
Seventh annual commencement scheduled at Methodist College (no date)
May 1970
Chronological file
Individual releases for students elected to Student Government positions (May 4)
Janis Daddario crowned May Queen (May 5)
Three Fayetteville music groups present concert (Methodist College chorus, Community
Chorus, and Fayetteville Symphony) (May 5)
Cutlines: for above event (May 5)
Steve G. Collins to play basketball and baseball for Methodist College (May 5)
Class officers elected (May 6)
Methodist College Awards Day (May 7)
Three Fayetteville music groups present concert (Methodist College chorus, Community
Chorus, and Fayetteville Symphony) (May 9)
Individual releases for students recognized on awards day (May 11)
Marshals for Methodist College commencement announced (May 11)
Fifteen Methodist College students to be included in the next edition of “Who’s Who
Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” (May 13)
Methodist College Sports Award Banquet (May 13)
Individual releases for students to be included in “Who’s Who…” (May 13)
Methodist College science and math majors honored (May 13)
Commencement speakers announced (May 14)
Sculpture traveling show of the Associated Artists of North Carolina to visit Methodist
College (May 15)
Virginia Wesleyan College now a member of the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference (May 19)
Roy Henderson named Most Outstanding Athlete at the Methodist College Sports Award
Banquet (May 20)
Russell S. Eaves to play basketball for Methodist College (May 20)
Freddie Puryear to play baseball for Methodist College (no date)
Mike Kinlaw to play baseball and basketball for Methodist College (May 20)
Retirement of O.E. Dowd, Dean of Students at Methodist College (May 22)
Graduation (May 25, May 26)
Charlotte Carmine received Outstanding Alumni Service Award from Methodist College
(May 26)
Newsclipping: Methodist College Students Receive Degrees (Fayetteville Observer, May
27)
John McMillan to play basketball and baseball for Methodist College (May 27)
Dr. L. Stacy Weaver, President of Methodist College, to speak at Clinton High School
commencement (May 29)
Cutline: New officers for the Methodist College Alumni Association (May 29)
June 1970
Chronological file
Methodist College Alumni Association officers elected (June 1)
Individual releases for new Methodist College Alumni Association officers (June 1)
Methodist College summer session (June 1)
Betty Hill candidate for national tennis honors (June 1, June 3)
Methodist College names 182 to dean’s list (June 10)
July 1970
Douglas Nicol to play basketball for Methodist College (July 8)
Barry Dale Willard to play baseball for Methodist College (July 8)
Louis Spilman, Jr., elected to the Methodist College Board of Trustees; three Fayetteville
residents re-elected (July 10)
Cutline: Louis Spilman, Jr.
Thomas Arnold Pope has assumed the position of Dean of Students (July 10)
Stephen Leonard Driscoll to play baseball for Methodist College (July 10)
Annual Conference Session (ACS) of the United Methodist Youth Fellowship to meet at
Methodist College (July 13)
Ray Thomas Gooch elected co-editor of the Carillon, the Methodist College yearbook
(July 17)
Valera Snider elected co-editor of the Carillon, the Methodist College yearbook (July 17)
Leaders of the North Carolina Association of Educators speak to the Leadership
Conference being held at Methodist College (July 31)
News clippings: Leadership Conference (no date)
August 1970
George Fulcher to play baseball for Methodist College (August 11)
Three Methodist College sophomores awarded United Methodist Scholarships (August
19)
Don Howard Dantzler to play basketball for Methodist College (August 27)
September 1970
Chronological file
New staff members in Financial Aid and Student Recruitment announced (September 2)
Methodist College orientation program (September 2)
Miss Jean Hutchinson appointed to the position of Assistant Director of Public Relations
(September 3)
New major, courses, and chairmen announced by Methodist College (September 5)
Methodist College features academic innovations (September 8)
Cutlines: for the above news release
Test dates for National Teacher Examinations announced (September 14)
Community Chorus plans concert (no date)
823 enrolled at Methodist College (September 24)
Fayetteville Community Chorus launches fifth season (September 25)
Methodist College students receive degrees (September 30)
Cutlines: local cheerleaders (no date)
Local girl elected head cheerleader at Methodist College (no date)
October 1970
Chronological file
Summer graduates, individual graduates releases (just a fill-in-the-blank form) (October
1)
Cutlines: Davis Memorial Library (October 6)
Cutlines: New members of the Methodist College Women’s Club (October 6)
Cutline: Dr. L. S. Weaver, President of Methodist College, receives a $300 check for the
Fannie B. Stein scholarship from the Capitol Club (October 7)
Dr. Roman S. Gorski joins the Methodist College faculty as Professor of Economics
(October 7, October 8)
Miss Carol Shepherd voted “Beanie Queen” (October 9)
Dr. Charles M. Weiss to speak on water pollution at Methodist College (October 13)
Homecoming events (October 14)
Cutline: homecoming (no date)
Methodist College soccer team (October 15)
Cape Fear Chapter of the Methodist College Alumni Association elects first officers
(October 19)
Cutline: for above story (October 19)
Marjorie Lynn Hall Roolf elected treasurer of the newly-formed Cape Fear Chapter of the
Methodist College Alumni Association (October 20)
Methodist College receives $2,000 grant from the Sears-Roebuck Foundation (October
26)
Cutline: for above story (no date)
Officers elected by Methodist College Business Woman’s Club (October 22)
Former Methodist College professor (Dr. George A. Dunlap) writes book (October 23)
Fourteenth major added: Art – Personalized at Methodist College (October 23)
Former Methodist College professor (Dr. George A. Dunlap) writes book (October 26)
Methodist College crowns Homecoming Queen (October 27)
Cutline: Homecoming court (October 26)
Two-piano recital presented by Mrs. Jean B. Ishee and Mrs. Barbara Lambert (October
28)
Founders’ Day observance at Methodist College (October 30)
November 1970
Dr. Clarence C. Hulley, author of Alaska: Past and Present, to be honored at autograph
party (November 4)
New Trustees attend Founders’ Day (November 4)
Mrs. M. V. Register (Aida June) donated a 1902 copy of The Decennial which chronicles
the early years of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (November 5)
Cutline: Miss Marilyn Morgan, Methodist College Librarian, accepts the above volume
(November 5)
William K. Quick is new Methodist College trustee (November 5)
W. D. Stedman is new Methodist College trustee (November 5)
Rev. O. L. Hathaway is Methodist College trustee again (November 5)
New Methodist College trustees attend Founders’ Day activities (November 6)
Methodist College freshman announce election results (November 9)
Cutline: freshman class officers (November 9)
High Point freshmen win top offices of class at Methodist College (November 9)
Beethoven in the round at Methodist College -- chamber music presented by Methodist
College faculty members Rowland L. Matteson and Dr. Willis C. Gates
(November 10)
Cutline: for the above release (no date)
Beethoven in the round at Methodist College -- chamber music presented by Methodist
College faculty members Rowland L. Matteson and Dr. Willis C. Gates
(November 14)
Liaison committee of the Methodist College Alumni Association visits campus
(November 12)
Cutline: for the above release (no date)
Methodist College interns train in area schools (November 18)
Students from Goldsboro serving teaching internships (November 18)
Cutline: donation of a “Betsy Ross” flag to the Lafayette Room in the Davis Memorial
Library by Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Shelton (November 23)
Student from Florence leads Methodist College team - - Bobby Hodges, basketball player
(November 24)
Conservation and pollution to be discussed at Methodist College - - Danforth Visiting
Lecturer Dr. John A. McLaughlin to speak (November 24)
Student from Charlotte joins Methodist College squad - - Jerome Wade, basketball player
(November 24)
Methodist College Alumni Association Liaison Committee visits Methodist College
(November 25)
December 1970
Chronological file
Conservation and pollution lecture by Dr. J. A. McLaughlin (December 1)
NCNB art exhibit showing at Methodist College (December 2)
Cutline: for above release (December 2)
Basketball game reminder: Methodist College Monarchs vs. the Greensboro College
Hornets (December 3)
Fill-in-the-blank press release for the men’s basketball team (December 2)
Methodist College accreditation continued (December 4)
Variety of music honors Beethoven; performance by the Methodist College Wind
Ensemble (December 8)
Cutline: for the above release (no date)
NCNB art exhibit showing at Methodist College (December 8)
January-February calendar of events (no date)
Fayetteville’s Methodist College earns continued accreditation (December 14)
Cutline: Students enjoying spring-like December weather (no date)
Methodist College Wind Ensemble to play (December 14)
Koinonia, a Methodist College Christian fellowship group, conducts service project for
retarded adults (December 18)