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University of Central Florida STARS The Rollins Sandspur Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida 11-5-1985 Sandspur, Vol 92 No 09, November 5, 1985 Rollins College Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers and Weeklies of Central Florida at STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Rollins Sandspur by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. STARS Citation Rollins College, "Sandspur, Vol 92 No 09, November 5, 1985" (1985). The Rollins Sandspur. 1632. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-sandspur/1632 Volume 92 No. 9 5 November 1985 CENTENNIAL "We love the state to which we have come; Rollins College was founded by New England "We have honered our commitment to remain these genial skies, these clear, sparkling pioneers committed to bringing education, and small and to devote our energies to the liberal lakes, souls of the people who dwell thereby, civilization to the Florida frontier. arts," he said. "We have met challenges of the among the forests. We rejoice in the privilege In 1885, the population of the area, known times without being trendy, realizing as well of laying the foundations for the future." now as Central Florida, was six people per that there is still a 'hunger' for personal square mile. Only 131 families inhabited the educational environments." The Rev. Edward Payson Hooker, tiny village of Winter Park. Eight public high Seymour, who is Chairman of the Independent First President of Rollins College schools and no colleges or universities existed Colleges and Universities of Florida, is opti from his paper, "The Mission of in the entire state. mistic about the health of independent col Congregationalism in Florida" Rev. Edward Hooker, pastor of the Congrega leges. January 1885 tional Church of Winter Park, argued that fami "If you look at colleges of fewer than 3,000 lies from the North would not come to Florida students, you will notice that they are report unless there were appropriate educational op ing record enrollments," said Seymour. portunities for their children. So with the "Rollins had a record enrollment for 1985-^86, same Yankee zeal that inspired them to esta and the number of inquiries is up over this blish institutions like Yale, Amherst and Ober- same period last year." lin, the Congregationalists set out to esta Like the founding fathers of 1885, Seymour blish Florida's first college. believes the College, its faculty, and staff In April, 1885, they obtained the first char have a mission: "to produce good people with ter ever granted by the Florida Legislature for well-intentioned minds, capable of addressing higher education, and on Nov. 4, 1885, classes the problems of an uncertain future." began in the Congregational Church. The first He is convinced that the most successful classroon building, Knowles Hall, and the be graduates are those with a solid liberal arts ginnings of a college campus followed 10 months background, which includes strong writing later. skills, familiarity with computers, Ask how Rollins' founders might react to the quantitative skills, and most of all, "the College today, twelfth President, Thaddeus Sey ability to think critically and communicate mour believes they would be pleased. precisely." •To the extent that we carry on the tradi Seymour sees the modern Rollins as a vibrant tions of the small New England-style educa institution that has been "energized" by its tional institutions," Seymour said, "we carry goal-setting process and the "institutional on the traditions of our founders. agenda" prescribed in 1980. continued on page 7 President Thaddeus Seymour HOLT WINNER of the This Week REMEMBERED HALLOWEEN DINNER The man who came to Rollins in 1925 to be Thursday, the 24th, President was not an edu Sandspur editor, Dino Centennial Weekend cator by profession, yet Londis, picked the win K! MB 1 he launched one of the Schedule p.4 ner of the Halloween * IB 11 most innovative concepts Give-Away from over 150 in modern education. HI m^- • Jj Centennial Timeline entries. ^kM^fl Hamilton Holt was a Surprisingly, 70 of p.5 graduate of Yale. He had the entrants were mem &2t f taken post graduate bers of the Winter Park ^1 1m> courses at Columbia and 0m comrrunity. -^F f^^sl^m^t^ held numerous honorary Pam Collins, a Rol *^ K'-S? degrees. He was, by pro lins sophomore from New fession, a journalist. Jersey, was awarded the > n He had edited arri owned the Independent, a weekly Halloween Dinner for Sk J* magazine. He was, by nature, a man who believed in Two at Chi-Chi's Mex - _T~'mk the possibility of peace. He founded the League to ican Restaurant in Enforce Peace, a member of the Executive Committee Orlando. Pam isn't yet of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, sure who she will take. ^vBH and Executive Director of the Woodrow Wilson If your name was :iot lii * * 8 Foundation. He had been decorated by six nations, picked this time, you and had been called "one of the country's great are not out of luck. 1 practical idealists." The names will be left I Rollins students, he was "Prexy." in the hat for the In the second installment of its history of Tlianksgiving drawing to Rollins College, the Rollins Alumni Record recalls beheldNova er21 the era of Rollins' legend-maker, Hamiliton Holt. * Pam Collins J continued on page 7 $*»MMA'2 5 November 1985 Dear Vibrator: $*>*** We are pleased that you enjoyed our production of "Joseph" and recognize the quality effort that went into it. What bemuses us is that you let your personal prejudices ruin an evening of en tertainment. There are many elitest groups at Rollins and we Editor Dino Londis realize that we took tend to fall into that cate gory. However, it is only out of circumstance and necessity that it appears so. An acting- Photography Editor Lisa Curb /technical troupe must function as a single unit in order to accomplish the tremendous task of staging a production. We work together, live The Sandspur cannot survive with a column together and therefore socialize together. This Staff: like Vibrator - or cannot survive publishing is common in most clubs and Greek organizations. their points of view without publishing their With absolutely no factual justification, Writers Steve Appel names. you've filled your article with opinionated gen Pam Kincheloe Vibrator - or any other columnist - is wel eralities, personal baises and a lack of mature comed to write for the Sandspur if its authors reasoning. It is your preconceived notions of Janet Miller are willing to state their names as boldly as what a Theatre major should be like that hinders their accusations. your ability to be friends with one. We never I must make two apologies. The first of "pretend" to like anyone. which goes to the entire acting troupe. They Each school year we return with O-team to photographer Denis Bourguignon have made the points as well as I ever could. prepare Freshman Show. If we were not truly The second apology I must make is to the interested in welcoming new students in, we would - Yesse Midence people of Pinehurst, a house devoted to the in not make the effort. The Theatre Dept. is tellectual betterment of Rollins College. relatively small so anyone is encouraged to Artist Christine Faas These people have persistently fought for e- audition or work a crew to provide a program for Circulation quality in and out of Rollins. In the same the college and community that is both well liked Eric DeVincenzo arena, they have faught prejudice, the very and highly acclaimed. backbone of the Vibrator article. Vibrator could have been an admirable attempt Contributors: at a student forum, but instead has chosen to steep itself in unprofessionalism and unnecessary Bill Wood slanderous comments. There are many problems of P.C. Varney greater interest and priority on canpus that the • •• petty whinings of someone who may or may not have David Waller, L.A. Correspondent been ignored by an actor. College Press Service I want to invite you to write for Sandspur. Rollins does not need a self-appointed group, If your group club, or organization has an up hiding behind a mask of anonymity to "open the coming event that you want the school to know, eyes." The students are quite capable of making then write a story telling about what it is and. their own observations and decisions. They do what it is going to entail. After the event, not need a column of random, mud-slinging Sandspur, Florida's oldest college write another story about what happened at your journalism to do so for them. weekly, was established in 1894 with event. the following editorial: This way the school knows of the event and Sincerely, "Unassuaing yet lighty, sharp and your organization receives the necessary publi pointed, well rounded, yet aany sided, city to make it a success. Claudia Park Joel Johnson assidiously tenacious, yet as gritty It could be front page material. If you Johnny Harding Sandra Raaen and tenacious as its name iiplies, write well and present the event objectively Barbara Ward Ken Averett victorious in single combat and there there is no reason it could not be Sandspur's Georgia Sattele Rob O'Brien fore without peer, wonderfully attrac lead story. Alice Smetheram Jesse Wolfe tive and extensive in circulation, all All editing is done with the writer present.