.... ' Wake Forest Welcomes Parents Vol. LXV . , Wake Forest· University, Winston-Sa~em~ ~~rib Carolina, Friday, September 24, 1982· No.3 I • ~ ;. ; ·'Reynolda House offers a variety of collections ·~· . By Gareth Clement Reynolda House is filled with several Luncheon book discussions; chamber . proach allows each visitor to learn what different CQilections, including the music performances, films on artists· he wants and react to the art on his own The.R. J. ReyDolds summer home, Dorothy Doughty porce.Iain birds that and art and trips are all a part of with personal curiosity as the key. ReyDolda House, is nesUed in Rejnolda were modeled for the Royal Worcester Reynolda House functions that the Reynolds House hours are 9:30 Gardens adjacent to Reynolda Village. Porcelain Company. The figures are · public is invited to participate in. This a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-saturday and Few· in the ·wake Forest community representations of birds native to the fall a group will.travel to Boston where 1:30-4:3Q p.m. Sunday. Admission know .if it is part of the school or what United S~tes. a Reynolda House paintirig will be on goes'on there. · prices for.. the house tour are $4 for exhibit. adults. $3 for senior citizens and $2 for Reynolda House Inc. is not affiliated The house's attic holds a collection of During the summer months Reynolda students and children. Lectures, with Wake Forest Universicy or clothes WOijll by Reynolda . family· House sponsors an intense six-week readings and discussions are free. Reynolda Village. Reynolda House and members. This costume exhibit also American Foundations course in which includes a display of miniature and participa~ts correlate American art, No guards are on duty at Reynolda Wake Forest do share Reynolda House since visitors may freely explore gardens, however. children's furniture. literature and music. The 20 par­ ticipants selected are encouraged to the house whenever the doors are The House originally opened to the .Reynolda House also functions a8 a live at. the house. The group usually . wilocked. "Reynolda House is unique in public iD 1965. In 1967 the American art learning center with concerts, poetry varies in age from high school students its program, offering much more than collection was placed on exhibition. "It readings and lectures. Midnight to college professors. beautiful furniture to visitors," is a significant American art collection lectures, for example, are frequent. A The Reynolda House education Watkins said. and is most a~essible to people in this program on Oct. 7 features a concert by department conducts classes for Volunteers help the professional staff area," .assistant curator of education Louis Golstein followed by a continental students, the elderly and the handicap­ ' in many of the programs. Along with for ReyDolda House Suzanna Watkins breakfast. · Also on Oct.. 7, Richard ped. "Each program differs according tour responsibilities, they research to the group's needs and the time they'll · .. said. This .collection contains works Eberhart, a Pulitzer prize winner, will topics for the art and music libraries at Stoff photo by Stephanie PQwe\1' from . 1775 to the present and is read his poetry. On Oct. 20, noted black spend at the house," Watkins said. the house. These working libraries are accOmpanied by a contemporary print artist Romare Bearden will be a gliest Discovery is the bas!s for . all used in conjunction with the art collec­ Reynoldo House holds a wide exhibition of artwork and offers many educational collection begun in 1976. lecturer. · Reynolda House programs. This ap- tion for study. opportunities. College· Board of· Visitors members influence decisions By Ginger Hef!iit "The Board is an advisory group," Mullen said. The early board meetings issues as what types of loan plans would foundations officer Sandra Connor said. focused mainly on needs of the be most advantageous to the university ·The Wake Forest University College "Obviously they don't have the policy- university and fund raising and to the student, with whom the Board of Visitors, a volunteer advisory making power the Board of TrusteeS possibilities. responsibility of financing an education group consisting of approximately 50 has, but their recommendations are Between 1968 and 1971, the character lies, by what criteria financial aid .members, mee~ twice a year to study regarded very highly and acted upon.'' of the Board and its programs changed. should be distributed,' and what basic educational .issues and submit The Board meets in the fall and the Less emphasis was placed on fund changes should be. made in the Wake recommendations f~r. , c,h<~.pge~ .·or sprjng_ to Jlifi~ll!!f?.. OJ1~ major concern rais.ing and more attention was focused t<'orest ..fina~iaL·ajd. program . to .en­ · improvements in the' Willie' 'Foij:iSt: ··~e.ch meeting.' ···· ·· · on the problems .and" needs of the courage and insure a high 'degree of community. 'The .Board·. deals Witll -The Board is made up of· such university. diversity in the student body. educational and social aspects· of members as nationally known poet· Pre-med syndrome discussed university life. A.R. Ammons, Capitol Hill correspon- Board represents outside reaction Though most students have been, dent for the "Wall S~eet Journal" The spring discussion of the pre-med unaware of the Board's existence Albert R. Hunt, Jr., Du-ector of the "The Board represents a most syndrome was the first in a series of several aspects of the present lifestyl~ Smithsonian Libraries Robert Maloy, worthwhile effort to learn how some spring meetings to focus on how a and opportunities available at Wake chief correspondent for CBS Reports people outside the university would specific profession relates to the liberal Firkusny interprets Bach Forest are direct or indirect results of Bill D. Moyers and NBC News White react to the questions we're facing and arts education. The meeting recommendations submitted by . the House correspondent Judy Woodruff. what kinds of new ideas they could emphasized the value of the general Pionlst RudoH Firkusriy performed Baroque and. Romantic pieces at an Artists' series College Board of Visitors. contribute," Mullen said .. liberal arts education in preparation for presentation Sept. 16. Compositions Included works of Bach, Chopin and Mussorgsky. One-third are alumni· The topic of concern of each meeting a medical career rather than the Past recommendations of the Boar(! is usually developed through the necessity of a structured, traditionally have resulted in the construction ·of the Approximately one-third of the combined efforts of the Board science-oriented pre-med curriculum. Scales Fine Arts Center, the upgrading members are alumni of Wake Forest, chairman, Stanley Frank of This autumn's meeting of the Board of the computer center, 'the though this is not a criteria in choosing Greensboro, Vice President for of Visitors is scheduled for November Carswells attract students· organization of the student· judicial the Board. Most members were chosen development William G. Joyner, Jr., 12 and 13 and will focus on student system, the inclusion of endowed .because of their expert knowledge in a Provost Edwin Wilson, Mullen and residents, student life and the college . professorships and the development of given field. By Betty Bailey Wake Forest students have to Scales. experience. The Board's objective is to the Reynolds Scholarship program, to "The Board was originally conceived reapply each year for the scholarship. The most recent meetings of the find out the relation of campus name a few. in the late '60's as an orgariization to Each year 12 to 15 Carswell These students must have two faculty Board, in the fall of '81 and the spring of residents'. experience to the formation Recommendations of the Board of bring to the campus and to recognize Scholarships awarded to present recommendations. They also have a '82, dealt with the general topics of of student values and educational goals. are Visitors are presented to President some important friends of the Wake Forest students or incoming conference with their Carswell sponsor financing a college education and the Possible topics of discussion include James Ralph Scales and other university who had helped us in various freshmen. The Carswell Scholarship and are required to tum in an apologia. pre-med syndrome. dorm life, the need for a student union university officials for further ways, primarily those giving financial fund is provided by the late Guy T. An apologia is the student's reflection In reference to the cost of a college building and the ongoing issue of consideration. support," Dean of the College Thomas Carswell and his widow Clara. on the year, what he has learned education, the Board discussed such alcohol on campus. The Carswell selection committee academically and personally. The consists of administrative members, committee then makes its decision faculty members and two students. The based on the student's grades relative administrative members on the to the student's major and the student's Course committee are Dean of the College overall campus activities. Thomas Mullen, associate Dean of the The Carswell Scholarship is a $1500 . College Robert Dyer, Dean of Women full-year scholarship. This amount will probes Lu Leake, director of a admissions and be increased to $2000 for the freshman financial aid William Starling and class of 1983-84. The scholarship, assistant director of admissions Tom however, will not increase for those sexuality Phillips. students currently on campus. Members of the faculty on the Jqnior Becky Pratt applied for the By Ginger Heflin committee are assistant professor of Carswell scholarship as a senior in high psyChology Deborah Best, associate school. She has been awarded the This fall's experimental college professor of English Andrew Ettin, scholarship each year she has attended courses cater to a wide variety of .