Rollins College Rollins Scholarship Online Rollins Magazine Marketing and Communications Fall 1981 Rollins Alumni Record, Fall 1981 Rollins College Office ofa M rketing and Communications Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine Recommended Citation Rollins College Office of Marketing and Communications, "Rollins Alumni Record, Fall 1981" (1981). Rollins Magazine. Paper 282. http://scholarship.rollins.edu/magazine/282 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Marketing and Communications at Rollins Scholarship Online. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rollins Magazine by an authorized administrator of Rollins Scholarship Online. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ■■■Hi ■■ Rollins College Fall 1981 Board of Trustees Officers: John M. Tiedtke, Chairman T. William Miller, Jr., Vice Chairman Rollins College Richard F. Trismen, Secretary Winter Park, Florida lohn R. 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Duvall Cover: Vice President- Vice President: Vice President: First days at Rollins: A 96-year old Finance, and Treasurer Academic Affairs, and Provost Development and College Relations. experience that never changes ... or does it? See story page 1. Roll ins College Alumni Association Board of Directors: 1981-82 President Secretary Guy D. Colado'71 Daniel D. Ramey '70 Chris Clanton '68 Lee G. Collison '51 1st Vice President Treasurer Stephen R. Feller '67 Ronald L. Acker '64 Jeanne R. Tauscher '56 Nancy N. Johnson '50 Cynthia F. McCracken '77 2nd Vice President Barbara W. Aufhammer '63 Marjory M. Pickard '30 Morna R. Robbins '67 Karen E. Carow '78 Donald W. Sisson '49 R. Michael Strickland '72 Everything changes . nothing changes! First days at Rollins Forty years ago, the editor of the sweater and there wasn't a corduroy 1941 Tomokan wrote an article hat to be seen. All the roommates entitled "You and Your Neuroses," are talking to one another, and even in which he gave a tongue-in-cheek the cross-country runners who account of his problems adjusting to traverse nine miles a day have Rollins as a freshman. He told of managed to do so without one of coming to Rollins from the North on them tripping over a sprinkler head. the wrong train, arriving in too warm Take Wendell Niles III for clothing, encountering problems example. Dell, as he's called, came with his roommate, becoming all the way from Los Angeles disenchanted with the registration without a hitch. He shipped a bunch process, tripping over sprinkler of cargo including a stereo system, a heads and being generally TV set and a batch of posters disoriented. Out of curiosity, The without difficulty. Alumni Record decided to ask some Dell Niles finds his fellow of this year's incoming students if students friendly. "Everybody says their experiences were anything like hello when you pass on campus." that. One of the main reasons he came to Our survey proved unmistakably Rollins was its size. "This occasion says more that of the freshmen arriving for the "I could have gone to a large eloquently than my words that orientation program at 8 a.m. on college, like USC, but there I'd be Rollins College at this moment is Tuesday, September 8, not one took just a number in a computer," he together — not just physically or the wrong train and wound up in points out. symbolically, but together in spirit Miami. Fact is, no one came by train. Part of Dell's decision to come and in will. I open this year with the Nobody sweltered in a turtleneck to Rollins could be attributed to his sense that we are together in one of those very special moments: a turning point, a watershed, a threshold. It is my privilege, on behalf of all of us, to express the confidence and the pride and above all, the promise represented by this 96th year of the College. On this day, when we have been summoned by herald trumpets, I am reminded of a favorite Biblical quotation from First Corinthians: "If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare for battle?" We are called today by a certain trumpet — loud and clear and true. It is much more than a simple musical tone, for it has a special meaning and a special certainty: that Rollins College is an institution that knows who it is, what it is doing, and, above all, where it is going. And we are prepared. The sound of the trumpet is not only a signal for us but also a signal for that world out there." From President Seymour's Convocation Address September 14, 1981 mother and uncle, both of whom are in their subjects. They keep you graduates. His mother, Nelle busy. I find it pretty hard work." Traveling from Alexandria Longshore Niles, graduated in '60 The next person we talked to and his uncle, George Longshore, in was Ashlie Coffie. She's the cross- A special focal point of Orientation '56. "My mother was enchanted country runner who missed all the Week was a talk about the with the place," he says. His uncle sprinkler heads, even though she'e Liberal Arts by Dean of the College credited the fine arts education with up at 6:30 a.m. to run 2>lh miles and Roland J. B. Goddu. He began his turning him on to literature. The puts in another 5% each afternoon. talk where liberal arts began — focus on liberal arts is something in Ashlie, like Dell, thought the Alexandria, with its great library. orientation program well planned Dean Goddu explained how which Dell places great importance. Rollins continues in that great Dell, like most all of the others, and organized. She also found the tradition, emphasizing four took advantage of the new, square dance and barbeque helpful. approaches to learning: the personalized pre-registration "It gave you a chance to meet a expressive arts, the sciences, the process. He called ahead of time to bunch of people informally all at humanities, and the social sciences. the " hot line" and was able to talk to once." He reinforced the concepts that an adviser who worked on his class (However, no one was seen undergird the liberal arts at Rollins schedule and entered it into the dancing the Zonga, as was reported with slides of the cosmos and the computer file while he was still in on in the 1941 Tomokan article. stars, of ancient Egypt and Greece, California in August. "It was very When asked about it, one freshman and of Oxford and Cambridge, showing how a vision of what the helpful. I was more relaxed when I said "Zonga Who?") world has been developing in all of arrived, knowing that was off my Admittedly, she didn't have the these places is being continued at mind." difficulty getting to the campus that Rollins College in the 1980's. Nowadays, there is a faculty someone may have had in 1941 "Alexander required his soldiers adviser assigned to small groups of since she's from Orlando. And she and chiefs to collect all that was freshmen (in Dell's case it is seven), did know what to expect since her written for the library at Alexandria. and Dell said he has good feelings father is H.