Chicora College for Women - Nods and Becks Yearbook (Columbia, SC)

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HON OR ARIES 1 I on or does not come without stipulation—the stipulation of continued and even increased responsibility. It is not a gift but a trust, to those who have shown, in exceptional ways, their ca- pacity for leadership, scholasic achievement, character, inde- pendent initiative, creativeness, and quiet, unobtrusive qualities of dependability. QUEENS and DANA SCHOLARS In the three years that the Queens and Dana Scholarship Program has been in effect, approximately seventy students have benefited from a highly singular and meanin gful learning experience. As the Oueens Catalogue states, “Students with high quality may he chosen as honor scholars each year and arc designated as Queens or Dana Scholars. Only freshman applicants for admission to Queens may be chosen to be Queens scholars. Their program involves a spe- cial seminar taken in lieu of English composition. In addi- tion to the seminar, students participate in a series of Great Books” Discussions and work five hours a week as scholar assistants to professors. Related to the seminar, this year, stu- dents did individual projects to find the historical, present, and future implications of subjects such as Socialism, Auto- mation, Hinduism, and Quakerism. Upperclassmen may participate in a similar program, cre- ated by Mr. Charles A. Dana of New York, also, to drama- tize learning. The program is designed to further help the superior student develop her capacity for independent schol- arship in general college work. On the sophomore level, the nature of the seminar was a study of the European Renaissance. The junior seminar w'as concerned w ith science, and individual projects ranged from a study of Cybernetics to the topic, “Relativity, Quantum Theory, and Theology: Some Speculations. At the senior level, the function of the seminar w;as to offer students a particular opportunity to arrive at some synoptic approach of the meaning of their college careers, and was entitled The Philosophy of a Liberal Arts Education. Through the Queens and Dana Scholarship Program, the college obligates itself to do all in its powder to help these students explore the full range of their potentialities and develop methods of critical and imaginative analysis w’hich will help them become self-directing. With this plan students have the possibility of enriching the entire educa- tional system of the school. Page Twenty-six First roiv: Gerry Davies, Caroline Dil- lon, Carol Cole, Brenda Lefler, Betti Lynn McNairy, Cathy von Weller, Sheryl Owens. Second row: Ann Knott, Nell Gentry, Betsy Smith, Peggy Ann Edens, Nancy Holland, Sheila Dickie, Dianne Beard, Mary Ellen Laine, Carol Ann McCormick.

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ITie college is proud also of its newly organized string quartet which is quickly becoming one ol the tinest in the South. Mem hers are Robert Snyder, violinist; Derr Deane, violinist; Roger Drinkall, cellist; Man nne Snyder, iolist. Queens’ curriculum is purposed) comprehensive. Classes are small enough so that each student is known to hei prolessoi and is encouraged to participate in classroom discussions. Not only to teach young women how to learn hut to give them a desire to continue their learning process throughout life is the stated aim of Queens College. In the language lab, Angela Williams records her Spanish exercise. Psychological tests show that students are sticking their chins out more these clays! An enthusiastic practice-teacher inspires her class with her own art-work. These students hope their creations won't “craze in the kiln. ’age Twenty-five

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I irst row: Sarah Adams, Ginger Burch Marne Collins, Marty McDaniel, Ellen Barrier, Linda Privette. Second row: Ginger Powers, Bets Hceseinan Kathryn Brown, Burwell Atkinson C'lelia Stone, Connie Brown, Jo Anne Brown, Abby Little. First row: Ann Aldrich, Carol Robin- son, Kathryn Oehler, Louise Gittings, Kent Anderson, Lou Anne Garland. Second row: Anne McLaughlin, Phoe- be Pierce, Diane Llallman, Glenina 1 lolladay, llison James, Anne Sho- vvalter, Carolyn I awall. First row: Maywood Xisbet, Sue Cam- lin, Becky Garrison, Mary Campbell, Janet Judd, Sula Evans. Second row: Su anne MacBae, Rosanne 1 ubanks, Kay Davis, Margaret Miller, Beth Rivers, Anne Holmead. Page Twenty seven