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Bridgewater College BC Digital Commons Bridgewater Magazine Journals and Campus Publications 3-1982 Vol. 57, No. 3 | March 1982 Bridgewater College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.bridgewater.edu/bridgewater_magazine BRIDGEWATER__ March, l982 Terrel Bell To Speak Founders Day Terrel H. Bell, U.S. Secretary of Education, is to be the featured speaker for the 1982 Bridgewater College Founders Day activities April 2. Dr. Bell will speak at a special 3 p. m. academic convocation and at the Founders Day dinner that evening in the Kline Campus Center dining room. Dr. Bell will be honored with a Doctor of Laws degree to be conferred during the academic convocation program. Dr. Bell was sworn in as Secretary of Education in January 1981, following his appointment by President Reagan and confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Prior to his cabinet appointment, Bell had been Utah's Commissioner of Higher Education and Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Regents since 1976, following two years of service in Washington, D.C. as the 21st Commis sioner of Education. Dr. Bell holds a B.A. degree from Southern Idaho College of Education and an M.S. from the University of Idaho. He earned his doctorate in educational administration from the University of Utah. Bell has classroom teaching experience on both the second ary and college levels. Dr. Bell is known for his advocation of increased community Terrel H. Bell, Secretar_J' of Education Continued on page /3 Dr. Ben F. Wade Named College Provost Dr. Wayne F. Geisert, President of away from campus. Bridgewater College, has announced the Dr. Dale V. Ulrich, who has served as appointment of Dr. Ben F. Wade as the Dean of the College for the past 15 Provost of the College. years, has elected to return to full-time Dr. Wade, who has served since 1979 teaching and will chair the Department as Executive Assistant to the President of Physics. Dr. William D. Miracle will at Bridgewater, will assume the duties of continue as Dean for Student Develop Provost July I, 1982. ment with responsibility for student life. As Provost, Dr. Wade will be directly President Geisert anticipates searching responsible to the President. He will for and appointing a person to work carry major supervisory, coordinating, with Dr. Wade in the academic affairs and personnel responsibilities in both segment of the Provost's new responsi the academic and student life areas of bilities. Bridgewater College. He will serve as "The creation of the administrative the President's personal representative post of Provost promotes a very close at any time during which the President is coordination of the academic and stu Dr. Ben F. Wade Conrinued on page 12 B. C. Receives $500,000 Gift Bridgewater College has received $500,000-the largest outright gift ever Left Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin given to the college. Wakeman look over documenrs. Land pledged by Benjamin and Crys Below Presidenr Wa_1•ne F. Geisen tal Wakeman of Manassas has been receives the $500.000 gi/r.fi-om Ben jamin and Crystal Wakeman. Lefr sold, and President Wayne F. Geisert to right: Dr. Geisen, Dr. J. Paul was on hand to receive the Bridgewater Wampler, a11orney C. Lacey Comp College share at the Manassas trans ton, B. 0. Wakeman. Mrs. Priscilla Wakeman Wampler, and Mrs. action. Crystal Driver Wakeman. The parcel of land, a farm purchased by the Wakemans in 1939, was sold to the City of Manassas. The Wakemans originally pledged the property in 1970. It was the final large gift to the 90th Anniversary Fund. The half-million dollars came to Bridgewater following the sale of the 242 acre farm in Manassas. One-eighth, roughly 30 acres, of the property had been deeded to Bridgewater College in 1980. Mr. and Mrs. Wakeman were recog nized by the College in November when Wakeman Hall, the new dormitory, was dedicated. The dormitory was named in their honor. Wakeman Hall, which re places Wardo Hall as a men's residence, was opened in January, 1981. President Geisert has announced that the money will be applied principally to dormitory debt retirement. President Geisert noted that Benjamin and Crystal Wakeman have a long time interest in Bridgewater and have been extremely generous and loyal to the Col lege over the years. "They have done many wonderful things for the college with this gift," President Geisert said. would be happier there than in the more is a senior at Bridgewater. Daughter "We are very gratified by the largess of urban New Jersey. "I knew you could Kathryn, a high school junior, is busy this one family." take the boy out of the country, but you making plans to be a member of the Mrs. Wakeman is the former Crystal couldn't take the country out of the class of '87 at Bridgewater. Driver of Staunton and the niece of boy," he said of his decision to remain in Mabel Lou is married to Dr. Robert Daniel Christian Flory, the founder of Virginia. Weiss. Dr. Weiss, now chairman of the Bridgewater. She attended Bridgewater The Wakemans have two daughters, Department of Mathematics at Mary t before receiving her bachelor's degree Priscilla and Mabel Lou, both of whom Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., was from George Washington University in graduated from Bridgewater College. formerly a member of the mathematics Washington, D.C. She spent 24 years as Priscilla is married to Dr. J. Paul faculty at Bridgewater. They have two a school teacher. Wampler, alumnus and Manassas sur daughters, Cheryl Elizabeth and Valerie Benjamin Wakeman, who describes geon, who is a member of the B.C. Ann. himself as a "country boy" and a "retired Board of Trustees. Their son, Benjamin, dairy farmer," moved to Washington in 1925 and worked several years for the This is a newsletter of the Bridgewater publication series (064-960) published four times a year. October. December. Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. March. and June. by Bridgewater College. Bridgewater. Virginia 22812. Bridgewater College is a member of the Counci I When the company wanted to transfer for Advancement and Support of Education. Second class postage paid at Bridgewater. Va. Volume 57. Number 3. March. 1982. him to New Jersey in 1939, he bought Change of Address: Notices of a change of address should be sent to: Bridgewater Alumni Magazine, Box 33. Bridgewater the farm in Manassas because he felt he College. Bridgewater. Va. 22812. -2- B.C., EMC and MBC Join in Effort College Presidents Lobby Legislators Presidents of three Shenandoah Val rollments. This shift to .the state-sup Assistance Grant program, but cautioned ley private liberal arts colleges met re ported institutions would shortly bring that the presidents must maintain their cently with some of the area's legislators higher costs to the state and limit the contacts with the legislature-f:>rmany to lobby for the interests of students choices available to college-bound stu interests are clamoring for slices of the attending the private colleges of Virginia. dents. budget._ At the forefront of the conversations President Geisert made reference to Senator Nathan Miller, who is an was the matter of adequate funding for the proposed federal student aid cuts alumnus of Bridgewater and a past pres Virginia's Tuition Assistance Grant pro and noted that the money being pro ident of the Alumni Association, pointed gram in the Commonwealth's 1982-84 posed for reduction in the federal budget out that he has long supported private budget. is "money that has helped preserve the education and will continue to do so. He Bridgewater's President Wayne F. breadth of opportunities for our nation's noted the difficulties of the present Geisertjoined President Virginia Lester young people and that has indirectly period which result in part because of of Mary Baldwin College and President helped the private colleges by assisting the fact that the Commonwealth "must Richard Detwiler of Eastern Mennonite many worthy students." meet curtailed federal assistance in many College for a luncheon meeting hosted programs" and face the "old problem of by Dr. Detwiler and Eastern Mennonite balancing equities." College. Legislators who attended in "I think it will be a difficult year for cluded Senator Nathan Miller and dele you," Mill er told the college presidents. gates I. Clinton Miller and Kevin G. "No magician can Delegate I. Clinton Miller opened his Miller. balance the colleges' remarks by saying, "I'm a great believer Dr. Lester presented the case for the in private education." Miller received survival of private education in Virginia books in the years ahead his education at two private colleges, by noting that Virginia offers a diversity if federal money American University and Washington of colleges for young people seeking is withdrawn and Lee University. educations. She cited the all-male and Delegate Miller commented favorably all-female institutions, predominately too drastically." upon the efficiency of the independent black colleges and church colleges-as colleges and said that assistance to pri well as the public universities and col vate schools "is a bargain for the tax leges that exist in Virginia. payers of Virginia." The taxpayer spends "The church-related college is prob "No magician can balance the colleges' "twice as much" for the student in the ably the one that enhances personal books in the years ahead if federal state-supported college, he declared. growth more than any other category of money is withdrawn too drastically and Kevin Miller, the delegate from Har institution," Dr. Lester said. the state fails to make progress in the risonburg and a professor at James EMC President Detwiler emphasized Tuition Assistance Grant program," Dr.