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Harding University Scholar Works at Harding Harding Bulletins Archives and Special Collections 4-1-1974 Harding Bulletin April 1974 (vol. 49, no. 10) Harding College Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.harding.edu/hubulletins Recommended Citation Harding College. (1974). Harding Bulletin April 1974 (vol. 49, no. 10). Retrieved from https://scholarworks.harding.edu/ hubulletins/347 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at Scholar Works at Harding. It has been accepted for inclusion in Harding Bulletins by an authorized administrator of Scholar Works at Harding. For more information, please contact [email protected]. speech therapy. A major in Spanish will be offered in the modem foreign language department, beginning next fall. Programs of international studies have been im plemented by the departments of English and modern foreign languages during the summer months. In 1973, the English department conducted a credit-study tour of England. A French work-study tour, led by Dr. Winfred Wright, chairman of modern foreign languages, and Dr. Dorothy Wright, has become an annual seven-week tour of French speaking countries in Europe. The combined faculties of the Humanities Division number 24, with one-third holding the earned doctorate i degree. With additions for 1974-75 and the completion COMMUNICATION: of degrees now in progress, more than one-half wil,l hold the doctorate by the end of the next school year. Members of the humanities staff have distinguished • themselves in various areas. Dr. Gary D. Elliott, COMMUNICATIO • chairman of the department of English, was elected this year to serve as vice president of-Arkansas Teachers of College English. Professor Duane McCampbell is secretary of the Arkansas Philosophical Association and Dr. Evan Ulrey, speech department chairman, is vice president of Pi Kappa Delta, a national speech frater nity. Following the renovation of Ganus Student Center last summer, the speech and modern foreign language departments now occupy one of the most modern and Dr. Dorothy Wrlght [above] instructs French students in KEYNOTE TO HUMANITIES efficient learning centers in Arkansas. Equipped with six one of the modem language classrooms located in the individual learning machines, private booths for in renovated Ganus Student Center. The language lab dependent study and a reading room with language [below] provides modem equipment for effective learning The four departments which comprise the Humanities of foreign languages at Harding. periodicals and games, the language department also has Division (English, Journalism, Modern Foreign a mobile console which transmits simultaneously six Languages and Speech) are committed to two main lesson into two modern classroom-laboratories. objectives: to teach the understanding of man through sour~es Speech department facilities include a 12-room speech the study of his past and present creative experiences, clinic, a newly-equipped carrier current radio station, a and to teach the art and techniques of effective com recording and listening laboratory with 12 sound-treated munication. booths equipped with modem cassette recorders, audio In addition, today's Humanities Division seeks to and video recording equipment and three modern create in students a stronger empathy towards other classrooms. peoples and cultures, to cultivate. in. t~em . a s~nse ~f As in every phase of life at Harding, however, the spirit ON THE COVER - ABC television com values that will help them to be dlscrlmmatmg m theIr and success of students tells the story best. Growth in mentator, Howard K. Smith, spoke to a personal expression, to teach them to thin~ critica~ly ,. overall enrollment has brought a substantial increase in standing-room anly audience in the college's concerning life's problems and populat: solutlOns to Its Main Auditorium March 7. students majoring in some area of humanities. To keep ills, and to motivate them to serve ~heir Lord through pace with this increase, a larger number of humaniti~s their chosen disciplines. EDITOR ......... , .. .. ...... STAN GREEN oriented activities have been added. Harding's debate To achieve these goals, each department within the ASSISTANT EDITOR .. ... ... DAVID CROUCH team participates in intercollegiate forensics tourn Division continually re-evaluates its curriculum and ASSISTANTEDITOR .. ... ALICE ANN KELLAR aments throughout the nation, bringing impressive EDITORIAL ASSOCIATE. KAY SMITH GOWEN makes appropriate revisions. _These changes and ad victories to the -school. The annual Intramural Speech PHOTOGRAPHER ... .... ..... MIKE JAMES ditions fall into four major categories: curriculum, Tournament provides others the opportunity to compete faculty, facilities and student activities. for social club honors. Many students consider a role in HARDING COLLEGE BULLETIN A curriculum study in the English department last VOLUME 49 APRIL,1974 NUMBER 10 year resulted in major revisions to give a more balanced one of the three annual major dramatic productions to be the highlight of their college career. Published monthly by Harding College, Searcy, offering for prospective teachers and a broader choice of Artcansas. Secand class postage paid at Aspiring journalists find expression through three courses for the English major. The speech department Searcy, Arkansas. Change of address notices college publications. The award-winning Bison, the has added two new majors in the area of communications and correspondence should be addressed to student newspaper sponsored by Dr. Neil B. Cope, the Office of Publications, Harding College, - mass media and mass communication. A relatively chairman of the journalism department, is published Box 634, Searcy, Ark. 72143. recent addition to the speech curriculum is a major in [Continued on next page] 2 weekly. Annual publications include Temporo, a compilation of works written by Dr. Cope's creative writing class, and the Petit Jean yearbook, which has received All-American honors for 14 consecutive years. All Harding students are eligible to enter the college's annual Creative Writing Contest which gives cash awards in categories of poetry, fiction, essay and short story. Student activities also include a weekly devotional, conducted in French, at the College Church of Christ. Departmental clubs furnish an even greater variety of activities for students with special interests. Drama students seek membership in Campus Players or Alpha Psi Omega while students in radio and television find value in Iota Sigma Beta. The newly-chartered Pi Mu chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, a national English honor society, serves the student of English. Language students further their cultural experiences in Le Cercle Francais As one team member presents his debate issues, others are and the Spanish Club. They will soon form a local studying in preparation for their presentations in defense chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, the national Romance of the assigned argument. Language Honor Society. Alpha Phi Gamma is the national fraternity for journalism students. The Humanities Division is firmly committed to training students of God's revelation in the un derstanding of man and in the communication of His message to the needs of man. To this end, the Division will contribute to Harding's fiftieth anniversary by conducting a special workshop entitled, The Christian Communicator. Designed for students, alumni and faculty, the workshop will be conducted Nov. 12-16. HARDING'S 1974 EMORY CHAMPIONSHIP: Seated left to right Phil Herrington, Bill Fowler, Phil Eubanks, and Sam Yeager. Standing left to right David Burks, advisor. David House. and Dr. Billy Ray Cox, advisor. A LOOK AT YESTERDAY ... As Harding remembers her past and honors the men and women who founded the college, it is For a third consecutive year a team of five Harding interesting to notice that in 1905 most of them were accounting students has won the Intercollegiate Business on the faculty of an institution called the Western Game sponsored by Emory University in Atlanta. When Bible and Literary College in Odessa, Missouri. It Harding won the 1973 game the students were dubbed English students participate in work-study tour of England. is interesting to remember. too, that Harding 's first with the title, "the Cinderella team." Although the 1974 Campus radio KHCA has new broadcasting equipment. president, J. N. Armstrong, who was a supremely (]()rn~"ie~ competition was similar to the previous year, for the ..,...-----.- inspiring Bible teacher. was also a professor of the Harding students the lyrics "climb every mountain" Latin and Greek classics. His wife, Woodson could best describe their latest championship struggle. Harding Armstrong, wrote and directed plays and From the beginning the team realized 1974 was to be a later was a professor of speech. R. C. Bell, a close very difficult year. Harding had won the game in 1969 associate, was professor ofEnglish. philosophy and (]~~rn~i()ilS and then claimed consecutive championships in 1972 Bible. and 1973. Winning a third consecutive business game carries with it about the same odds as winning three It is plain that these pioneers in Christian By David Crouch education believed the teaching of the humanities consecutive national football championships. to be a very valuable element in the training oj The team did have one asset - experience - and that youth for effective Christian service. This con was to be the pivotal point of the game. Seniors Phil viction has lived on through the years in the work of Herrington of Arkadelphia, David W. House of Delight such men as Dr. L. C. Sears who, while serving as and Sam Yeager of Moulton, Ala., were members of the Dean of Harding College, chaired the department "Cinderella team" and the trio provided the nucleus of of English language and literature and the 1974 team. Joining the three veterans were two distinguished himself as a teacher of Shakespeare knowledgeable juniors, Phil Eubanks of Paragould and and Chaucer. Bill Fowler of Ann Arbor, Mich. [Continued on next page] 5 Emory's 1974 game h~ 26 teams operating dustry level of the game. in the quantitative areas of the game and Dr.