Faculty Meetings Scheduled for Opening New ECC Term
This article discusses faculty meetings held at the beginning of the 1957/58 school year. This and other articles may be found in the University Archives.
Citation for this article is: "Faculty Meetings scheduled for Opening New ECC Term," Daily Reflector, August 29, 1957.
Faculty meetings are scheduled for two days, Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 2 and 3, for the opening of the 49th session of East Carolina College marking the beginning of the 1957-58 school term.
Meetings of the faculty, to be held in McGinnis Auditorium on the East Campus, feature departmental assemblies in addition to the general sessions, a faculty reception at the home of the college president and the Fall term faculty dinner on Tuesday evening.
Dr. J. D. Messick, president of the college, will deliver the opening address on Monday morning at the first assembly which will be called to order at 9:30. Faculty manuals and other materials are to be distributed and the results of the testing program and guidance will be discussed by Dr. M. Judson White, director of the ECC testing program.
A meeting of the Educational Policies Committee will be held from 11 to 12 o'clock with Dr. Messick presiding while all new faculty and staff members are in session with Dr. Leo W. Jenkins, vice president and dean of the college, with Vice President and Business Manager F.D. Duncan and Librarian Wendell W. Smiley to discuss business policies and library rules.
At the afternoon sessions, Dr. R.R. Lowdermilk, senior specialist in Radio and Television, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, D.C., will address the entire faculty and staff on the new role of radio-television in education.
The first day's program will be ended with a round of departmental conferences.
Five group meetings and a session devoted to faculty business have been scheduled for Tuesday, with a reception at the home of President and Mrs. Messick for members of the faculty and staff and their wives and husbands, at 5:30 o'clock, followed by the faculty dinner in the North Hall of the college cafeteria. Edmund Harding of Washington, N.C., nationally known as humorist, will speak at the dinner.
First of the series of conferences will be related to college and campus activites. Dr. Ralph Brimley, director of public relations and foundations, will discuss Foundations and College Extension; Miss Rosalind Roulston, director of radio and television, will talk on the college radio and television projects; Dr. George Douglass will discuss the Danforth teacher Education-Religion project; Dr. N.M. Jorgensen, director of health and physical education, will describe the college athletics program; and Dr. C.J. Bradner, director of religious activities, will describe the college religious programs.
In the other general conferences of the morning, educational programs relating to student relations will be described. The following persons will speak: Miss Lois Grisgby, English department, Remedial composition; Dr. Woodrow Flanary, Education department, Remedial Reading: Dr. Frances Henry, Special Education department, Speech and Hearing Program; W.W. Smiley, librarian, Library Services; and Dr. J.K. Long, dean of Graduate studies, Graduate Program and Scholarships.
All teachers of Orientation Courses will meet with Dr. Jenkins for the final program of the morning.
A panel on the theme: "What Is Good Teaching?" with Dr. Messick presiding, will feature departmental representatives as panelists Dr. Martha Wolf, English; Dr. Grover Everett, Science; Dr. George Martin, Geography; Dr. David Davis, Mathematics; and Dr. Audrey Dempsey, Business Education.
This panel will be followed by a session devoted to an exchange of summer experiences of faculty members, in which the speakers representing departments will be Dr. Edgar Hirshberg, English; Dr. Frank Hoskins, English; Mrs. Marguerite Perry, Foreign Languages; Miss Beatrice Chauncey, Music; and Dr. Theodore H. Eaton, Science.
The faculty business session will include the election of faculty representatives to the Policies committee and two faculty members to the Discipline Committee, and the election of the college unit officers of the North Carolina Education Association.
