High Point University - Zenith Yearbook (High Point, NC)

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THE 1984 ZENITH Volume Sixty Prologue 1 Academics 17 Organizations 24 Greeks 56 Student Life 80 Sports 90 Classes 112 Community 146 Epilogue 158 Credits: Translations of Japanese Poetry by R.H. BIyth, A History of Haiku, Volume One. Sudlow Photography, Danville, Illinois. Advertising Design Class of the College. High Point College • High Point • North Carolina 27262

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Classroom and Laboratory Dr. J. Allen Thacker is retiring from the faculty after a 49 year association with High Point College. He graduated from the college with an A.B. in History and English in 1939, was appointed Professor of Education in 1965, and became chairman of the Education Department in 1969. Dr. Thacker received his M.S. from Duke University and his Ph.D. from UNC-Chapel Hill. Prior to his professional association with High Point College, Dr. Thacker taught at Pfeiffer College, as well as at a number of public schools in North Carolina. As teacher, advisor, colleague, and friend to several generations of High Point College students, Dr. Thacker has brought a sensitive and caring spirit, as well as energy and dedication, to his work. He has served the college and its students outside the classroom in many roles, including advisor to the NCAE NAE student chapters and to the education honorary society, The Order of the Lighted Lamp. He has also been active professionally in North Carolina, particularly on the various evaluation and review projects, undertaken by the state, of teacher education programs and students. V Kf if 1 1 M - f --- W All of us at the college have benefited greatly from Dr. Thacker ' s association with High Point College and we look forward to working together in this new relationship. We extend to him, and his family, our thanks for the past, our best wishes for the future, and our continuing respect for his commitment to our students. Dr. J. Allen Thacker

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PRESIDENT ' S MESSAGE To the students, alumni, faculty, administration and staff, High Point College is a special place. Students arrive at the College as freshmen, not knowing exactly what to expect of the four years they will spend here. They are filled with high hopes and plans for the future — and, in most cases, some anxieties. Often they find more work than they had anticipated. Invariably they develop life-long fmendships growing out of their shared experiences of cramming for final exams, working on term papers, spending leisure moments over coffee in the cafeteria and snack bar, and the like. Many of them find their future mates, the man or woman they will marry and with whom they will raise their own families. When, as alumni, they look back on their years at High Point College, the long hours of work and study fade from memory and they tend to recall only the good times. Then they are filled with pride. Then they realize that there was more to being a student at High Point College than just studying and preparing papers. Though they were unaware of it at the time they were students, they now realize, as alumni, the meaning of Alma Mater — the depth of pride in the institution to which they gave their efforts and which, in turn, helped shape them into the men and women they now are. To the faculty and staff and administration of the College, High Point College is also a very special place. It is, of course, where they work. But to these people their work is much more than just the way they earn their livelihood. It is, as probably is the case with most professionals, a commitment to what they believe in. The common thread that runs throughout all our thoughts about High Point College is, of course, a certain idealism about the meaning and significance of higher education. As students, as alumni, as faculty or staff or administrators, each of us believes that the liberal arts experience in a college such as ours has a unique contribution to make to the individual and to society. The faculty and administrators have dedicated their professional lives to this ideal. The students have or will devote at least four years of their lives to this same ideal. As you look back on the College as alumni, 1 hope you will recall chapel services on Sunday mornings, the basketball and soccer games and tennis matches, the opening convocations — in other words, all the memories of the good times this 1984 annual will evoke for years to come. I hope you will also look back with love, humor, pride in Alma Mater, and a certain nostalgic conviction that these were, indeed, some of the best years of our lives. Charles R. Lucht President President 17