Methodist College News Releases
January 1973
Chronological file
Rev. Thomas S. Yow III (to temporarily assume responsibilities as executive secretary of the Methodist College Foundation) (January 10)
Instructional materials center (copy for a "Do you want to teach?" section of an unidentified newspaper (in Mount Gilead, NC?) (January 12)
New director of financial aid (John Williams) (January 16)
John Williams appointed director (of financial aid) (January 16)
Dean's list announced (January 17)
Dean's list announced (includes list of names) (January 17)
Foundation directors meeting (Methodist College Foundation) (January 17)
Works by Eleanor Howell, Methodist College art instructor, to be displayed at the
Fayetteville Museum of Art (January 17)
Dick Johnson, photo exhibit (at Methodist College) (January 19)
Alan M. Porter recital (January 20, 1973)
Co-chairmen for fund drive (John Ashford and Von Autry, Jr., to head up Community
Loyalty Fund Campaign) (January 23)
Loyalty Campaign for MC (for Small Talk) (January 29, 1973)
February 1973
Missing
March 1973
Chronological file
Director of admissions resigns (Neil H. Thompson) (March 1)
$5,000 grant presented to college (from the Burlington Industries Foundation) (March 1)
Local student in recital (Cheryl Lunn Olson of Babylon) (March 2)
Local student in recital (Sherry Thompson of Clarkton) (March 2)
Local student gives recital (Cathy Rollins of Franklinton) (March 2)
Local student in recital (Larry Frederick James of Raleigh) (March 2)
Local student in recital (Randy Lee Wall of Burlington) (March 2)
Stage band concert (March 2)
Local student in recital (Barbara Jones of Ellerbe) (March 2)
Local student in recital (Susan Russell of Sanford) (March 2)
Local student in recital (Sarah Edge of Fayetteville) (March 2)
Piano and organ concertos (cutline: Pat O'Briant to participate in piano-organ concerto recital) (March 2)
Piano and organ concertos (students Pat O'Briant, Barbara Jones, and Susan Russell to participate) (March 2)
Dean Samuel J. Womack (TV 12 interview questions) (March 5)
Eleanor Howell art exhibit (at Methodist College) (March 5)

Dr. Willis Gates (TV 12 interview questions) (March 6)
Baseball (preseason preview) (March 7)
Methodist College to present colloquy on "Integration in Higher Education: Problems and Prospects" (letters to local high school principals) (March 9)
Methodist College drama production of "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" (transmitting a
30 second advertising spot) (March 9)
Future Shock (movie based on the Alvin Toffler novel of the same name to be presented at Methodist College) (March 12)
Baseball team members (roster, position, hometown) (March 12)
Donald Green art show (to be held at St. John's Art Gallery in Wilmington) (March 13)
Loyalty Campaign progress report (March 14)
"Integration in Higher Education" (seminar to be held at Methodist College) (March 14)
Joint concert (Methodist College, Reid Ross High School, and Pine Forest High School)
(March 15)
Joint wind ensemble concert (Methodist College, Reid Ross High School, and Pine Forest
High School) (March 15)
Photo exhibit (by student Thomas E. Knott) (March 16)
Chorus tour (planned concerts, list of singers) (March 16)
Chorus tour (short info) (March 16)
Teachers chosen Outstanding Educators (Dr. Sudhakar Gautam and William Motes chosen Outstanding Educators of America for 1973) (March 20)
Former resident chosen Outstanding Educator (former Jacksonville (FL) resident William
Motes chosen an Outstanding Educator of America for 1973) (March 20)
Business Women election (Methodist College Business Women's Club) (March 20)
Professors retire (Dr. King C. Wang, professor of political science, and Dr. Clarence C.
Hulley, professor of history) (March 22)
Dr. Knott - religious aspects (TV 12 interview questions) (March 22)
North Carolina Student Legislature March 28-April 1 (8 Methodist College students involved) (March 22)
College/Community Civic Music Association (1973-1974 concert lineup announced)
(March 22)
North Carolina Student Legislature Convention (8 Methodist College students involved)
(March 22)
Linda Baker Huff presents recital (piano) (March 23)
Charles Barefoot in recital (voice) (March 23)
Dusty Woodbury gives recital (piano) (March 23)
Coach Gene Clayton (TV 12 interview questions) (March 23)
New professor hired: Dr. Robert Colby Perkins (associate professor of history) (March
23)
William (Bill) P. Lowdermilk (TV 12 interview questions) (March 26)
Press conference (U.S. State Department representative Edwin Griffin to hold press conference at Methodist College) (March 27)
Ad to be placed in April 5 issue (of the North Carolina Advocate; short ad about
Methodist College)
April 1973

Chronological file
For North Carolina Christian Advocate (regarding May graduation speakers and schedule) (April, no day listed)
For [unidentified] newsletter (regarding teacher education projects) (April, no day listed)
For [unidentified] newsletter (regarding Methodist College Foundation progress) (April, no day listed)
New president elected: Dr. Richard W. Pearce (April 2)
New president elected: Dr. Richard W. Pearce (April 3)
Dr. Richard W. Pearce elected new president of Methodist College (April 3)
Music students in recital (Brian Cash and Meredith Stone to present junior organ recital)
(April 4)
Local student gets award (Penny George of Marshallberg receives Yolanda M. Cowley
Spanish Award (April 4)
Local student awarded (Wesley Brown of Kinston receives Marie C. Fox Philosophy award and Plyler-Knott Award for rReligion) (April 4)
Local student awarded (Karen Sessoms Poche receives Edna L. Contardi English Award)
(April 4)
Local student to give recital (Meredith Stone of Rowland to present organ recital) (April
5)
Dr. Fred C. McDavid, chairman, Dept. of Education (interview questions) (April 5)
Local student honored (Mrs. Anita Fisher King of Jacksonville named a Methodist
College Scholar) (April 5)
Local student named to honors (John G. Dicks III receives Grace Tobler Award in
Political Science) (April 5)
Patricia Abernathy awarded (of Fuquay-Varina; named a Methodist College Scholar)
(April 5)
Local student honored (Jeffrey Allan Olson of Babylon named "Outstanding Senior
Man") (April 5)
Mrs. Kaye Corbin Bledsoe awarded (of Dunn; named a Methodist College Scholar)
(April 4)
Local student honored (Robert Davis Smith of Oxford receives George and Lillian Miller
History Award) (April 5)
Local student awarded (Kathy Woltz of Sanford named "Outstanding Senior Woman")
(April 5)
Awards day (list of award winners) (April 5)
Thomas S. Yow III appointed Director of Admissions (April 6)
President Emeritus bestowed on Dr. Weaver (April 10)
Beth Ray makes $1500 contribution (for the Hector Eli Ray, Jr., Memorial scholarship fund) (April 10)
Student art contest winners (Annual Methodist College juried student art exhibition)
(April 11)
Paul G. Marshall first prize winner in art contest (Annual Methodist College juried student art exhibition) (April 11)

Local student wins award (Mrs. Janet Ewers Stotts formerly of Ponca City, FL, awarded third overall prize in the (Annual Methodist College juried student art exhibition)
(April 11)
Loyalty Fund Campaign report (April 11)
Chorus concert (Methodist College Chorus to present spring concert) (April 11)
Angelynne Thompson Tracy senior art show (April 11)
Methodist College Chorus to perform (spring concert) (April 13)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Carol Wilson Beckworth) (April
16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Kathy Lynn Hagee of Pulaski, VA)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Vickie Herndon of Columbus, GA)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Janelle Kay Wilder) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Cheryl Charlene McKee of Seaford,
VA) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Mary Neill Mercer) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Elizabeth McKenzie of Dillon, SC)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Jane Canady of Parkton) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Nell Thompson of Goldsboro) (April
16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Sylvia McArthur Townsend)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Kimberly Jean Newman) (April
16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Anne Coin Hancock of
Rockingham) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Jane Arden Stroud of Erwin) (April
16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Helen McLeod Rogers of
Lillington) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Mary White Worrell of Elizabeth
City) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Carrie Pollard Jones) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Susan Dianne Russell of Sanford)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Margaret Kay Corbin Bledsoe of
Dunn) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Christine Lynn Gandy of Selma)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mary Alma Ellington of Swansboro)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Helen Carolyn Daniel of
Elizabethtown) (April 16)

Local student "student teaching" (Education major Mrs. Bonnie Herring Crabtree of
Spring Lake) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Jo Ella Copeland of Tyner) (April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Peggy Jo Bland of Pittsboro) (April
16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Marian Janet Graham of Red Springs)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Jennifer Gray Fann of Roseboro)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Barbara Faye Johnes of Ellerbe)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Annie Laurie Alston of Windsor)
(April 16)
Local student "student teaching" (Education major Patricia Anne Abernathy of Fuquay-
Varina) (April 16)
Student body elections (April 17)
Cheerleaders chosen (April 17)
Local student is elected vice-president of student body (Gayle Edens of Lumberton)
(April 18)
Local student elected secretary of student body (Yvette Rosa of Bayshore, NY) (April 18)
Dr. Sudhakar Gautam to address convention (Social Problems of Water Resources in
Chicago) (April 19)
Mrs. Pauline Longest (elected president of the Higher Education Division of the North
Carolina Association of Education) (April 20)
May activities for "Where the Action Is" (events calendar) (April 24)
Spring Festival - April 26-29 (music groups and a pig pickin') (April 25)
Methodist College piano students to give recitals (Linda Baker Huff and Susan Diane
Russell) (April 25)
Susan Russell to present senior piano recital at MC (April 25)
Linda Huff to present junior piano recital at MC (April 25)
Methodist College Women's Club establishes the Elizabeth H. Weaver Award (April 26)
Elizabeth H. Weaver Award established by MC Women's Club (April 27)
Alumni friendship reunion scheduled May 5 for Methodist College (April 27)
May 1 band concert scheduled at MC (joint performance of the stage band and the concert band) (April 27)
House Joint Resolution 26 (of the General Assembly of North Carolina, honoring
President Stacy Weaver of Methodist College) (April 27)
May 1973
A joint resolution honoring the 1972-1973 basketball team of Methodist College,
Fayetteville, North Carolina (General Assembly of North Carolina) (no date)
Methodist College students win Science Academy awards (North Carolina Academy of
Science convention) (May 1)
Area teachers complete "teacher orientation" at MC (Local teacher orientation held on campus) (May 1)

Methodist College bowling team competes in NAIA national tournament (May 2)
Student senators chosen at Methodist College (Brenda Smith of Elizabethtown and
Marsha Gooden of Clarkton) (May 3)
Two Williamsburg students elected Methodist College senators (Mike Casey and Mike
Platz) (May 3)
Vicky Loose elected Methodist College senator (from Beaufort) (May 3)
Gail Vaughan elected Methodist College senator (from Chase City) (May 3)
Alfred Hare elected Methodist College senator (from Somerville) (May 3)
Michael Twiddy elected Methodist College senator (from Belcross) (May 3)
Alice Stuckey elected Methodist College senator (from Raleigh) (May 3)
Hamlin Landis elected Methodist College senator (from Oxford) (May 3)
Randy Wall elected Methodist College senator (from Burlington) (May 3)
Christine Moore elected Methodist College senator (from Galivant's Ferry, SC (?)) (May
3)
Student senators take office at Methodist College (May 3)
Two senior art exhibits displayed at Methodist College (Regena Helen Brown and
Patricia McLean Harrison) (May 3)
Athletic Awards Banquet (May 4)
Local students win officer elections (Debra Neill of North Cape May elected to dorm office) (May 5)
Local students win officer elections (Tina Gail Seymour elected to dorm office) (May 5)
Local students win officer elections (Jill Ann Jennings elected to dorm office) (May 5)
Local students win officer elections (Glenda Diane Long elected to dorm office) (May 5)
Local students win officer elections (Marion Lee Hawkins elected to dorm office) (May
5)
Local students win officer elections (Laura Leigh Sullivan elected to dorm office) (May
5)
Local students win officer elections (Faren S. Elliot elected to dorm office) (May 5)
Local students win officer elections (Sharon Louise Grant elected to dorm office) (May
5)
Local students win officer elections (Julie Ann Ennis elected to dorm office) (May 5)
Baccalaureate and commencement (May 7)
Letter to Dennis Rodgers transmitting tickets to dinner honoring Dr. Weaver) (May 7)
Local student gets award (Jerry Neal of Durham awarded "most valuable player" in baseball at Athletic Awards Banquet) (May 7
Philip Mullen gets outstanding senior award in sports; Johnny Young gets cross-country honors (May 7)
Elizabethtown student chosen alternate marshal (Pamela Sue Walker) (May 7)
Local student freshman female marshal for graduation exercises (Denisse Rubilee
Thompson of Tampa) (May 7)
Former local student alternate marshal (Lorna Gail Miller, formerly of Bay City, MI)
(May 7)
Local student junior marshal (Marian Wells Williams of Fair Bluff) (May 7)
Former resident receives honors for golf (Joseph P. Bednarz, formerly of Nashville, TN
(?), receives "most valuable player" award) (May 8)

Local student honored (Douglas Kump of Fairfield, PA (?), receives "most valuable player" award for soccer) (May 8)
Local student honored (Whiting Kidwell of Silver Spring, MD, receives "outstanding senior" award for soccer) (May 8)
Local student honored (Vaughn John of Winston Salem receives "most valuable player" award for tennis) (May 8)
Local student gets award (Harry Flipping of Waynesboro receives "outstanding senior" award for basketball) (May 8)
Local student awarded (Leonard Turtora of Lakewood, FL (?), receives "most valuable player" award for track and field) (May 8)
Local student receives award (Greg Jones of Rougemont receives "most valuable player" award for basketball) (May 8)
MC fetes athletes (News clipping regarding Athletic Awards Banquet) (no date)
Karlene Wagner crowned Spring Festival Queen (May 9)
Foundation Board of Directors officers elected (Methodist College Foundation) (May 9)
Dr. Weaver honored with dinner (May 10, 1973) [Text almost illegible; see file entitled
“News Releases transcriptions” for text]
New officers to lead Methodist College alumni (May 10)
Thomas S. Yow III will lead Methodist College alumni (May 10)
Methodist College awards degrees (Kenneth Gergory Bellamy of Supply) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Elizabeth Ann McKenzie of Dillon) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (John Jenkins Sarvis of Galivants Ferry) (May 11)
Local students graduated (Stephen Howard Gibson, Vaughn Llewellyn John, and James
Walter Nading, Jr., of Winston Salem) (May 11)
Local students graduated (Nicky Odell Bullard and Marian Janet Graham of Red Springs,
Ellen Jane Canaday of Parkton, and Jerry Franklin Stone of Rowland) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Heather Lynn Lloyd of Bradenton) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (William Christopher Bryan of Rockville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Harry Holman, Jr., of Haddon Field) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (James B. Wolfbrandt, Jr., of Glassboro) (elsewhere spelled Wolffbrandt) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Clayton Alan Cosner of Chesapeake) (May 11)
Local students graduated (Dorothy Jane Delaney of Williamsburg and Cheryl Charlene
McKee of Seaford) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Rebecca Ann Estes of Richmond) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Kathy Lynn Hagee of Pulaski) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (John Elwood Myers of Alexandria) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Carolyn Ruth Plaster of Patrick Springs) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Jo Anna Walker of Durham) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Henry Westbrook Lee of Dublin) (May 11)
Graduation of local students (Henry Westbrook Lee of Dublin, Ellen Rose Adams and
Helen Carolyn Daniel of Elizabethtown, and Marie Averitte of Tar Heel) (May
11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Linda Deale Kerley of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Bonnie Herring Crabtree of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Cpt. Thomas Clyde Carroll of Fort Bragg) (May 11)

Methodist College awards degrees (Marcia Vernberg Lewis of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Mary Neill Mercer of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Karen Sessoms Poche of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Carolyn Jean Mullenax of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Harold Glen Slaughter of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Gerald Allen Redmond of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Mary Jo White Worell of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Janelle Randle Wilder of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Angelynne Thompson Tracey of Fayetteville) (May
11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Robert Brison Turner of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Drusilla Parker Taylor of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Edward Gilbert Odum, Jr., of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Ralph Harrell Miller of Morganton) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Larry Burton Harless of Fayetteville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Jimmy Ray Elledge of Raeford) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Jeffrey Allan Olson of Babylon) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Mary Alma Ellington of Swansboro) (May 11)
County students graduated (Mary Alma Ellington of Swansboro, Richard Earl Farlee, Jr., and Wayne Christopher Rogers of Beaufort, and Penny Cheryl George of
Marshalberg) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Vickie Lynn Herndon of Columbus) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Jo Ella Copeland Chappell of Tyner) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Ronald Lynn Bishop of Greensboro) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (David McComb Nichols of Hickory) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Earl Davis Leake of Mr. Gilead) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Robert David Smith, Jr., of Oxford) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Barbara Faye Jones of Ellerbe) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Oliver Jerome Wade of Charlotte) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Nell Brown Thompson of Goldsboro) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Eugene Blake Dilman of Conway) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Carolyn Terry Simpson of Pink Hill) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Gary Benjamin Archer of Elmont) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Timothy Kearney Walsh of Arlington) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Wesley Freeland Brown of Kinston) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Anita Fisher King of Jacksonville) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Christine Lynn Gandy of Selma) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Peggy Jo Bland of Pittsboro) (May 11)
Methodist College awards degrees (Jennifer Fray Barnes Fann of Roseboro) (May 11)
Graduation exercises (May 11)
Graduation (TV and radio release; May 14)
Methodist College graduation (Kathryn Elizabeth Woltz and Susan Dianne Russell of
Sanford awarded degrees) (May 15)
Methodist College awards degrees (Mr. and Mrs. Gary Francis Lewis of Fayetteville)
(May 15)
Methodist College awards degrees (Mr. and Mrs. John G. Dicks of Fayetteville) (May 15)

Graduation for local students (Regena Helen Brown, David Brooks James, Carrie Pollard
Jones, Earline Sills, Donald Batson Sykes and Ronald Augustus Sykes, Romulus
William Stephens, and Thomas Frank Sawyer, all of Wake county (individual towns given)) (May 15)
Graduation at Methodist College (Margaret Kaye Corbin Bledsoe, Ralph Wayne
Thompson, Martha Alice White, Danny Waldo Faircloth, Gary Godwin, Patricia
McLean Harrison, Jane Arden Stroud, Patricia Anne Abernathy, Helen McLeod
Rogers, and William Dalrymple Harrington III, all of Harnett county (individual towns given)) (May 15)
Lucius Stacy Weaver Award (presented to Kenneth Williams) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Marsha Gooden of Clarkton) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Elizabeth Gail Vaughan of Chase City) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Earl David Leake of Mt. Gilead) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Robert Willis, William Slifkin, Lillian Catherine Prevatte, Roland
Lamb, Betty Gayle Edens, Marian Janet Graham, and Ellen Jane Canady, all of
Robeson county (individual towns given) ) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (John Mahlon Lang of Babylon) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Yvette Rosa of Bayshore) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Sharon Elaine Robertson of Augusta, SC) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Elizabeth Ann McKenzie) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Vickie Lynn Herndon of Columbus) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Gregory Dennie Roonan of New Shrewsbury) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Harry Homan, Jr., of Haddon Field) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Linda Elizabeth Allvord of Bridgeport) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Faren S. Elliot of Henderson) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Debbie Keeler of Silver Spring) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Sharon Virginia Givens of Georgetown) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Craig Thomas Knight of St. Petersburg) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Heather Lynn Lloyd of Bradenton) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Karlene Regina Wagner of Kings Park) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Denisse Thompson of Tampa) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Jame B. Wolffbrandt, Jr. of Glassboro) (elsewhere spelled
Wolfbrandt) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Joyce Anne Mize formerly of Belton) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Debra Elaine Neill of North Cape May) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Bennie Ernest Peets of Tupper Lake) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Carolyn Jean Mullenax of Fayetteville) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Major Gerald F. Gouge of Fort Bragg) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (John G. Dicks III of Hagerstown) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Lorna G. Miller of Bay City) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Mary Neill Mercer formerly of Wildwood) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Rebecca Estes of Richmond and Evan Lacy III of Fork Union)
(May 18)
Dean's list announced (William Robert Crowe of somewhere near Springfield; he graduated from Technical High School) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Ted Roger Rowe of Newport News) (May 18)

Dean's list announced (David Lowell Russell of Springfield) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Paul Gordon Marshall of Alexandria) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Kathy Lynn Hagee of Pulaski) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Lt. James K. Waters who attended East Juniata High School)
(May 18)
Dean's list announced (Patricia Wilderson Van Dorsten of East Point) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Alan Michael Jones, Sr., of Port Murray) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Carolyn Ruth Plaster of Patrick Springs) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Paul Gordon Marshall of Orlando) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Janelle Wilder of Anthony) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Marilyn Blodgett Cline of Spearman) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Donad Wilfred Charron of somewhere near Hartford) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Doland Francis Lane formerly of Three Forks) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Donald Arthur Bushnell formerly of Newburgh) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (John Steven Bryan of somewhere near southeastern Virginia)
(May 18)
Dean's list announced (Marcia Vernberg Lewis of Columbia) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Janet Ewers Stotts of Ponca City) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Mary Ellington of Swansboro, Penny George of Marshalberg, and
Vicky Barefoot of Newport) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Edwina Barwich of Seven Springs, and Nell Thompson and
Patricia Lewis of Goldsboro) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Marian Williams of Fair Bluff and Cynthia Marlowe of
Whiteville) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Patricia Womack of Carthage and Carrie Jones of Aberdeen)
(May 18)
Dean's list announced (Ronald Sykes, Regena Brown, and Carrie Jones all of Raleigh)
(May 18)
Dean's list announced (Carolyn Harrison and Kenneth Womack of Durham) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (JoAnna Walker Dicks of Durham) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Constance Diane Marlowe of Fayetteville) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Mary Jo White Worrell of Elizabeth City) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Bonnie Jo Crabtree of Mt. Olive) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Cpt. Thomas Clyde Carroll) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Sylvia McArthur Townsend of Red Springs) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Linda Deale Kerley of High Point) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Lee Sloan Kesler of Winston-Salem) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Anne Coln Hancock of Rockingham) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Kathryn Ann Loewen Simmons of Newton) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Dennis Livingston Saylor of Ft. Bragg) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Caridad Iglesias formerly of Lexington) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Lynda Longenecker Bell of Waco) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Margaret Kaye Bledsoe of Dunn) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Cathy Collins and Deborah Dixon of Franklinton) (May 18)

Dean's list announced (Patricia Anne Abernathy, John Coats, Jr., Charlene Phillips, Helen
Rogers, Jacqueline Faye Strickland, Brent and Jane Stroud, and Ralph Thompson all of Harnett county (individual towns given) ) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Brenda Gene Hester of Bladenboro) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Hamlin Alexander Landis of Oxford) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Patricia Marie McLean Harrison of Erwin) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Eugene Blake Dilman of Conway) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (JoElla Copeland Chappell of Tyner) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Annie Laurie Alston of Windsor) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Wanda Lou Moorefield of Pinnacle) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Laura Leigh Sullivan of Wilmington) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Sandra Lynn Sloan of Hamptonville) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Nancy Coleen Shaw of Beulaville) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Evelyn Bonner of Benson and Christine Gandy of Selma) (May
18)
Dean's list announced (Betty Elaine Pulliam of Henderson) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Rebecca Smith, Jonnie Hollingsworth, and Jennifer Fann all of
Salemburg) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Susan Dianne Russell of Sanford) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (Ellen Adams, Helen Daniel, Pamela Walker, and Sherry
Thompson all of Bladen county (individual towns given) ) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (James Clinton Rowlette of New Bern) (May 18)
Dean's list announced (James Walton Nading., Jr., of Winston-Salem) (May 18)
Summer school enrollment largest in five years (May 23)
Local student elected to office (Ronald Hafemeister of Glassboro elected to dorm office)
(May 23)
Local student elected to office (James Richard McDowell of Petersburg elected to dorm office) (May 23)
Local student elected to office (Alice Stuckey of Raleigh elected to dorm office) (May
23)
Local student elected to office (Barbara Bennett of Richmond elected to dorm office)
(May 23)
Local student elected to office (Vicky Dianne Loose of Beaufort elected to dorm office)
(May 23)
Local student elected to office (Susan Githens of Hampton elected to dorm office) (May
23)
Local student elected to office (Mary Jane Gosier of Bay Shore elected to dorm office)
(May 23)
Local student elected to office (Cynthia Lee Woltz of Sanford elected to dorm office)
(May 23)
Local student elected to office (Pamela Walker of Elizabethtown elected to dorm office)
(May 24)
Local student elected to office (Deborah Dixon of Franklinton elected to dorm office)
(May 24)
Local student elected to office (Mary Spilman of Fayetteville elected to dorm office)
(May 24)

Local student elected to office (Suzanne Grubb of New Bern elected to dorm office)
(May 24)
Local student elected to office (Carmen Evans of Lexington elected to dorm office) (May
24)
Local student elected to office (Eugenia Hanson of Cary elected to dorm office) (May 24)
Local student elected to office (Richard Eugene Rickmond of Surry elected to dorm office) (May 24)
Local student elected to office (Danny Fowler of High Point elected to dorm office) (May
24)
Local student elected to office (Linda Allvord of Bridgeport elected to dorm office) (May
24)
Local student elected to office (Wanda Moorefield of Pinnacle elected to dorm office)
(May 24)
Local student elected to office (Philip Jones of Pitman elected to dorm office) (May 24)
Summer school enrollment largest in five years (TV and radio release) (May 24)
Henry Grimsley to graduate school (going to graduate school for MBA) (May 29)
Registration for summer school ends June 8 (May 31)
Sociology professor hired (Eugene M. Rasmussen) (May 31)
Robert Samual Williams on dean's list (May 31)
June 1973
N. C. Annual Conference (June 4)
New instructor at MC (James Barger appointed instructor in psychology) (June 5)
Texaco grant of $1500 (June 6)
Comptroller appointed - O. C. Culbreth (June 8)
Chaplain Garland Knott - Sunday school writer (June 8)
1935 graduate appointed comptroller (Col. Ret. Oliver C. Culbreth) (for North Carolina
State Alumni News) (June 13)
New professor hired (Lt. Col. Ret. Eguene Smith [Eugene?] appointed Assistant
Professor of Mathematics (June 13)
Board of Directors installed (for the Methodist College Foundation) (June 13)
Board of Directors and officers installed (for the Methodist College Foundation) (June
13)
Sports information (Methodist College baseball player Philip Lundy Mullen to pitch for
Chicago White Socks franchise) (June 18)
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company fund scholarship - Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. (two scholarships and an unrestricted grant) (June 18)
Methodist College student Larry White displays art projects constructed with old furniture parts (June 19)
Letter from U.S. Civil Service requesting profile information about Methodist College
(June 22)
Carolina College alumnae meeting (June 26)
Kari Hagan interviews Dr. Richard W. Peace (TV 12 interview) (June 27)

Carolina College alumnae presentation (Mrs. Dorothy Collins receives silver bowl) (June
27)
July 1973
Retiree honored at dinner - Frank H. Eason (former comptroller) (July 2)
Youth fellowship to be at MC (Annual Conference Session of the United Methodist
Youth Fellowship) (July 2)
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company fund scholarship - Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. (two scholarships and an unrestricted grant) (July 2)
Thomas S. Yow III financial aid officer (July 3)
New dean of students appointed (Gene Clayton) (July 3)
Library service to public (library open to the community) (July 9)
State General Assembly votes aid to private N. C. colleges (with copy of legislation and supporting documents) (July 9)
MC Foundation meets (July 11)
New admissions counselors (John G. (Chip) Dicks, III, Melinda Bain, and Ken Williams hired; Paul Sanderford, Jr., promoted) (July 11)
John G. (Chip) Dicks III appointed counselor (admissions) (July 11)
Former Zebulon resident to new post (Paul Lynn Sanderford, Jr., promoted to assistant director of admissions and financial aid) (July 11)
Resource person for U. Methodist youth (Reverend Richard Hunter) (July 11)
College cataloguer Lucile Croom (feature) (July 11)
Carolina College Alumnae Day (July 12)
Letter to Jo-Ann (last name not given), a Methodist College graduate who was "one of the three ordained women in our conference" with interview questions (July 13)
United Methodist Youth Fellowship (meets at Methodist College) (two different releases;
July 16)
Directed study program (240 directed study registrations for the summer term) (July 17)
Dr. Clarence C. Hulley retires / Dr. Robert Perkins joins staff in history (July 18)
United Methodist Youth Fellowship (meets at Methodist College) (July 18)
United Methodist Youth Fellowship has Wilmington teacher (July 18)
Resident wins scholarship (Russell Fordson Harper of Winston-Salem) (July 18)
Local student wins scholarship (Yvonne Bailey Walker of Hillsborough) (July 19)
Local student wins scholarship (Virginia Lenora Moore of Wilmington) (July 19)
Hallsboro student wins scholarship (Rebecca Gayle Stephens ) (July 19)
Local students gets scholarships (Timothy Lee Lloyd, Emory Scott Maultsby, Betty
Joyce Mitchell, Gary Gene Rigsbee, Laura Diane Williams, Shwanda Marie
Williams, and Sherry Elaine Averitt, all of Cumberland county) (July 19)
Local students win scholarships (Debra White Maynard and Deborah Kay Walker, both of Elizabethtown) (July 19)
Wake county students win scholarships (Frank Guy Braley of Garner and Victor C.
Mansfield III of Raleigh) (July 19)
United Methodist Youth Fellowship Officers, Carolina Conference (list of officers elected) (July 24)

R&R conference set July 27 - Aug. 2 (Renewal and Recreation camp for ministers and lay persons) (July 24)
Dr. Sudhakar Gautam to seminar (attending seminar in Chicago) (July 31)
August 1973
Mason Sykes appointed dean of men (August 16)
Joe Gallagher appointed head basketball coach and assistant athletic director (August 16; poor quality photocopy; see file named News_Releases_transcriptions for text)
Freshman orientation (August 16; for release before August 20; poor quality photocopy; see file named News_Releases_transcriptions for text)
Convocation to formally open school August 23 (August 20)
Convocation ceremonies today (August 23)
Jo-Ann Merritt, Methodist minister (August 24, for use in Friday, August 31, religion section of the Fayetteville Observer)
Methodist College Woman’s Club [sic] (August 27)
New college president - Dr. Richard W. Pearce (August 27)
Registration to end Thursday (August 28)
Methodist College Women’s Club (August 30; includes, on a separate page, what appears to be a photo caption)
September 1973
Chronological file
Two residents join Methodist College (Russell C. Crowell and Melville M. Murray, Jr., part-time business instructors) (Sept. 2)
Lt. Gen Seitz addresses MC summer graduates (Sept. 3)
Laverne Blue Womack, Jr., of Carthage receives degree (Sept. 3)
Jon Wayne Tyner of Lumberton receives degree (Sept.3)
John T. Thompson of Bridgeport receives degree (Sept. 3)
Santos D. Tenorio of Amarillo receives degree (Sept. 3)
Kathryn Simmons of N. Newton receives degree (Sept. 3)
Gerald Lavern Royal of Smithfield receives degree (Sept. 3)
Patricia Wilkerson Van Dorsten of East Point receives degree (Sept. 3)
William Riddick of Como receives degree (Sept. 3)
Steven S. Plice of New Brighton receives degree (Sept. 3)
Thomas Howard Phillips of North Wilkesboro receives degree (Sept. 3)
Jeffery Brian Parks of Lewisville receives degree (Sept. 3)
Darry Delain Miller of Erwin receives degree (Sept. 3)
William Charles Harrison of Levittown receives degree (Sept. 3)
Mary Helen Ragsdale of Southern Pines receives degree (Sept. 3)
Danny Ray Fowler of High Point receives degree (Sept. 3)
Roberta Ann Eckley of Alexandria receives degree (Sept. 3)
Andrew Dulaney Ennett III of Swansboro receives degree (Sept. 3)
Cathy Parker Collins of Franklinton receives degree (Sept. 3)
Sonja Kay Berglin of ? receives degree (no city given; name is initialed over) (Sept. 3)

Lafayette room dedication - MC library (September 5)
Summer session dean’s list (September 17)
Exhibit of works by Donald Green (September 18)
Appointment of committee members (MCAA - Methodist College Alumni Association)
(September 24)
NCSL backs school construction (North Carolina Student Legislature) (September 24)
Bluegrass concert at Methodist College (Larry Croce and the Currence Brothers)
(September 26)
James Michael “Mike” Hayes to play baseball for Methodist College (no date)
Alumnus awarded Ph.D. (Kenneth R. Murray) (no date)
Methodist College Alumni Association meeting (no date)
October 1973
Economic trends and future investment opportunities (Marshall B. Wishnack to speak)
(October 2)
Comedy “Cheaper by the dozen” (Methodist College production) (October 4)
Methodist College presents “Cheaper by the dozen” (October 12)
November: Coming events of interest to the community (October 18)
“What price loyalty?” (Dr. S. J. Womack speaks at Loyalty Day service) (October 19)
Methodist College Sociology Club sponsors Big Brother/Big Sister “Fun Affair”
(October 19)
Soccer roster (hometown releases sent to indicated players (October 19)
Conference on religion and race being held at Methodist College (October 23)
Joint Methodist College - Fayetteville State University art show to be held (October 24)
North Carolina Student Legislature Interim Council to meet at Methodist (October 26)
Homecoming (October 30)
“Tasks facing the local government” (panel discussion) (October 30)
Art exhibits (Dr. David E. Drake, photographs, and Mrs. Lee Kesler, paintings, drawings, and sculpture) (October 30)
Methodist College Investment Club to meet (no date)
Patrick Murphy O’Briant to present piano recital on October 23 (no date; poor photocopy)
Louis Spilman Jr. appointed director of the Methodist College Foundation (no date)
November 1973
Mary “Dusty” Woodbury named first runner-up in the Homecoming Queen contest
(November 5)
Linda Elizabeth Allvord crowned Homecoming Queen (November 5)
Margaret Annstarie Stevenson named second runner-up in the Homecoming Queen contest (November 5)
Brenda Hester named third runner-up in the Homecoming Queen contest (November 6)
Gail Johnson Worth named fourth runner-up in the Homecoming Queen contest

(November 6)
Danise Ann Dodd wins second place in the “Sidewalk Drawing Contest” (November 7)
Ray A. Muench, Jr., to speak at the “Tasks Facing the Local Government” seminar
(November 7)
Benefit basketball game for the Day Care Center for the Mentally Retarded to be held
(November 7)
Dwight Lamar Sheppard wins first prize in the “Sidewalk Drawing Contest” (November
8)
Dr. Fred Cortner to present audience participation program about the books “Games people play” and “I’m OK, you’re OK” (November 12)
Chamber music concert (November 15)
Methodist College Sociology Club (Ethos) raises $175 for the Day Care Center for the
Mentally Retarded through benefit dance (November 15)
Methodist College receives $2,000 library grant from Sears-Roebuck (November 15)
“Energy Crisis and You” symposium to be held (November 21)
Methodist College chorus Christmas concert (November 29)
December 1973
Methodist College chorus Christmas concert (December 3)
Student art exhibit (December 3)
Seminar in counseling techniques (December 6)
Teacher workshop (December 10)
Ivan L. Foster, Jr., new assistant to the comptroller (December 11)
Twelve Methodist College seniors elected to the 1973-1974 edition of “Who’s who among students in American colleges and universities” (December 12)
Methodist College star chosen “Player of the week” (basketball player Greg Jones)
(December 13)
Christmas activities on campus (December 18)
December graduation exercises (December 19)
Hometown press releases for the following December graduates: Ted Roger Rowe,
Kimberly Stone Newman, Wallace Whiting Kidwell, Haywood Leon West,
Carroll Wayne Street, James Clinton Rowlette, Annie Laurie Alston Jennings,
William Leon Ellis, Jr., Jimmy Lee Adcox, Bruno Franco Rizzato, Bennie Ernest
Peets, Donald A. Bushnell, Afred Robert Searle, Larry Van Siceloff, James
Richard Nicholson, Joyce Ann Blankenship, (Mrs.) Lee Sloan Kesler, Donald
Wilfred Charron, James Daniel Delaney, Jane Christine Garett, Jerry Ray Ivey,
Walter Joseph Gregory, Gerald F. Gouge (December 21)