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Page 12A RANGE RIDER March, 1979
Robinson supplements mathwith liberal
Charles Robinson wants to build a bridge be
two academic worlds and cross over for awhil
the discipline of math and science where he is
established to the discipline of liberal art
literature.
In other words, Dr. Robinson, head of the d
of science at Hardin-Simmons University, is
normal student to be embarking on studies I
to a master's in liberal education.
He has been teaching math for 10 years at
following three years as an associate profess
mathematics at the University of Mississip
took his Ph.D in that area from the Univer
Texas at Austia 14 years ago, has writt
elementary algebra text book, received nine
from the National Science Foundation for s
training projects for outstanding high'
students-the list goes on and on, always with
for his love of math and science.
So why would this 58-year-old professor
back into intensive studies of writers like H
Range ridarts education
tween Plato, Euripides, Chaucer, Luther, Kant,
e from Machiavelli, Marx and Nietzsche?
firmly "The experience at St. John's University in New
ts and Mexico will broaden my education in the liberal arts .
and provide me with a richer background from
division which to teach my own specialization," he said. "I .f
n't the would expect these studies away from my normal
leading routine to help rejuvenate my spirit for intellectual
inquiry and provide me 'experiences from which to
draw as I seek alternatives to my present methods of
t H-SU instruction in order to be more effective in the
ssor of classroom here at Hardin-Simmons."
pi. He Dr. Robinson plans to spend three summers at the
rsity of Santa Fe campus with each of the eight week
ten an sessions devoted to either philosophy and religion;
grants literature and politics and society. He expects to
science receive credit for his proven expertise in science and Looking for fresh persp(
school mathematics. Comfortably established in the world
Dr. Robinson's participation in the studies will be Charles Robinson is about to emba
made possible through the Faculty Enrichment summers of study that will leave
plunge Program of H-SU, partially funded by the Cullen master's degree in liberal arts. He I
Iomer, Foundation of Houston. posure, in depth, to other discipline
him a better all-around professor.
(Worthy
ing: ...here and there on the Forty AcresSpring. head count adds up
Hardin-Simmons University has announced an
enrollment count of 1,660 for the Spring semester.
An increase of 30 students from Spring, 1978 for an
increase of almost two per cent. H-SU followed the
normal, nationwide trend of dropping off from Fall
to Spring after an enrollment of 1,749 last Sep-
tember.
O'Brien discusses foreign missions
BILL O'BRIEN from the Foreign Mission Board
of the Southern Baptist Convention spent a day and
a half on campus discussing a Christian's respon-
sibility toward missions and the various ways that
responsibility can be fulfilled.
He presented a multi-media view of "God's Will In
My Plan" during the chapel-assembly.
At noon he spoke at a luncheon for missionary
volunteers and anyone else interested in missions
on, "How Can I Know Whether I Should Be In-
volved In Missions."
From 2-3 p.m. he screened a film and participated
in a dialogue with interested students and at 5:30
p.m. he spoke at a supper meeting on "Vocational
Options in Foreign Missions."
Devil becomes star at H-SU
H-SU's winter production of "Stackalee", was a
story based on a tall tale from oral folklore and
outlined the exploits of a black man of the Wyatt
Earp era and dealt with the serious idea of a man
who sells his soul to the devil (known in the play as
'ol Scratch).
John Landon, a senior from Kansas City, Mo.,
portrayed 'ol Scratch.
Billy Don Smith, from Grandview, portrayed the
legendary Stackalee.
Poet visits Forty Acres
JACK MYERS, author of three books of poetry
and editor of another, discussed the craft of writing
and read from his own works Feb. 1 at Hardin-
Simmons University.
Myers has written Black Sun Abraxas (1970), Will
It Burn (1974) and The Family War (1977) and has a
new book of poems, Holding On and Letting Go
now under consideration.
Additionally, The Family War was awarded the
Texas Institute of Letters Award for poetry in 1977
and he has edited A Trout In The Milk, a composite
portrait of poet Richard Hugo by over 60 writers.
His poems have appeared in approximately 75magazines and journals including: Esquire, Poetry,
The Nation, The American Poetry Review and
Antaeus and has been anthologized in The
American Poetry Anthology(1975) and in the up-
coming Voices Within The Ark: Modern Jewish
Poets.
Principals, counselors hold meeting
Hardin-Simmons University hosted the fourteenth
annual Principals and Counselors Conference Feb.
22, in cooperation with the Region XIV Education
Service Center and the Cullen Foundation.
Guest speaker for the conference was DR.
BARBARA VARENHORST, current director of
peer counseling and researcher for the Palo Alto
(California) Unified School District. Dr. Varenhorst
is a noted author of numerous guidance and
counseling books. She has taught at California
Polytechnic State University, San Francisco State
University, Harvard and Stanford.
H-SU conference participants included Dr.
Robert C. Barnes, associate professor of guidance
and counseling, Dr. William O. Beazley, executive
vice president, Dr. Rosanna Herndon, head of the
speech and communications department, and Dr.
Lois Martin, head of the department of guidance
and counseling.
LTC attracts 2,000 students
Baptist students from throughout Texas met at
Hardin-Simmons University Feb. 2-4 for a
Leadership Training Conference (LTC).
The Division of Student Work of the Baptist
General Convention of Texas sponsored the annual
conference and participants included about 2,000
student leaders and directors from many of the 96
Baptist Student Unions across Texas.
DR. JAMES FLAMMING, pastor of First Baptist
Church of Abilene, spoke during the closing session
on Sunday morning, and CHARLES BAKER, pastor
of University Baptist Church, Stillwater, Okla.,
spoke on Friday and Saturday evenings.
To England with cheer
Two courses, Marketing in the Commonwealth
and International Finance in London, were offered
on location in England during the Christmas holiday
break from regular classes.
The courses were under the direction of Bill
Curtis, assistant professor in finance and marketing
who was in charge of the finance course (Finance
4309) and Linda Catlett, assistant professor inmarketing who taught the marketing course
(Marketing 4309).
"Course emphasis was on the distinctive
dissimilarties between corresponding British and
American institutions and their effects upon the
business climate of the respective countries," Curtis
explained.
Mass labor yields Adopt-A-Child
With 200 students expecting a child on the same
day, it was logical that Hardin-Simmons University
was excited.
"Due day" was Dec. 12 and the 100 couples
became parents on the same day within the same
hour at the school's annual Adopt-A-Child-Day.
Sponsored by the Freshman Council of the Baptist
Student Union, the activity matched a boy-girl
student couple as parents with a child from one of
the four grade schools surrounding Hardin-
Simmons.
The 100 children were selected by counselors at
the schools and then feted at an afternoon and
evening of cartoons, games, food, presents, ex-
citement and loads of attention from their one-day
parents.
The party included caroling, a puppet show
the Christmas Story told; a visit from Santa
Claus from the North Pole (the only non-H-SU
student on the program) and, of course, the giving of
presents from the parents to their children.
Students respond to tragedy
Behind the headlines of the tragic bus accident in
December that killed and injured almost the entire
student body of McCaulley High School, Hardin-
Simmons student put Christian concern into
practice.
During the evening meal the announcement of the
wreck and a consequent need for blood donors was
made and by the time the night was over, Hendrick
Medical Center was turning away H-SU students
wanting to help.
More than 30 students donated blood during the
night and many others waited until as late as 3 a.m.
before finding out that they couldn't give (the most
common reason was a prior history of malaria
among missionary kids).
"We thank all of them (the students) for their
marvelous help," Mrs. Judabeth Blackburn of the
Meek Community Blood Bank told Dr. Fletcher
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