Lees McRae College - Ontaroga Yearbook (Banner Elk, NC)

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The coveted Fidelity Medal is awarded to Rudy Cisco by Dr. H. C. Evans. The Fidelity Medal is the highest honor a Lees-McRae graduate can receive. Graduation 1979 Graduation 197

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RECIPIENTS OF HONORS AND AWARDS: Standing (l-r). Donna Byrd, Spanish Award;!, Jack HutcheTson, J. B. Pritchett Memorial Award; Barbara Hutchcrson, Mathematics Award; I Mark Goslen, Coaches Skiing Award; Jeff Knight, Performing Arts Award; Nancy McClaugherty, Drama Award; Alisa Walker, Music Award; Lisa Hayes, Social Science Award! Kneeling: (I-r) Greg Everett, Band Award; Jeff Walker, Performing Arts Award. Don Baker presented three of the athletic awards to. left center. George Homan Award, to M David Allen; above, women ' s MVP, Melrine Stawara; and Coach ' s Award to Danny McCon-H nell. Lois Slmme rman presented the Eleanor Osborne Memorial Hospital Volunteer Award to H Libby Kanupp, and Ruth Greene presented the Spanish medal to Donna Byrd and the French medal to Randy Baxter.

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LEES-McRAE GRADUATION PLATFORM PARTICIPANTS (1-r): Banner Elk Mayor Charles VonConnon; James Stonesifer. Vice President for Academic Affairs; Mrs. Sara Bernice Moseley, baccalaureate speaker; Senator Jesse Helms, commencement speaker; Dr. H. C. Evans. Jr.. college president; Dr. Lawson Tate, who administered the professional oath for medical secretaries; Ms. Patricia White, President. Alumni Association, who inducted the graduates into the Alumni Association; and E. O ' dell Smith, Vice President for Stu- dent Affairs. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD STAY OUT OF SCHOOLS - HELMS Lees-McRae College President H. C. hvans, Jr. and Vice President for Academic Affairs James A Stonesifer conferred 126 degrees upon the 1979 graduation class at the Banner Elk institution. Dr. Sara Bernice Moseley. Moderator, General Assembly. Presbyterian Church. U S ., delivered the Baccalaureate Address at 11:00 a.m. and the Senator from North Carolina. Jesse Helms, delivered the Commencement Address. Helms Tells Grads . . . Helms told the forty-ninth graduating class at Lees McRae that the Federal Government had a poor record in trying to run schools. When I was young most of the good schools were public; now most of the good schools are private, like this one, Helms opened his at- tack against Federal intervention in education It ' s often said that private schools are new, and, as organizations most of them are. But it is the private schools that carry on the permanent traditions of genuine schooling. It is today ' s public schools that are new. Today ' s public schools are the first in America to be run by the Federal Government, the first to use forced busing, the first to outlaw prayer, the first to question the use of tests and measurements of intelligence and achievement, the first to conceal from parents what goes on in school, the first where teachers are in physical danger from attack by students. Federal School Record Poor It is interesting to note that from 1960 to 1974 juvenile delin- quency cases (excluding traffic) increased, per 1,000 population from 10 to 17 years old, by 86 ' 2 percent. During those same years, expen- ditures on public schools — theoretically intended to prevent juvenile delinquency, and adult cnminality which could be expected to follow — expenditures increased from $15.6 billion in 1960 to $56.9 billion in 1974, or 265 percent. During the same years, test scores on scholastic aptitude and achievement tests declined at an alarming rate. In other words, costs were up, juvenile delinquency was up. and juvenile scholastic achievement was down. That ' s the record of our public schools since the Federal Government began running them. And the worse thing about it is that the Federal action was not taken in rdance with the constitution and or the expressed will of the peo- ple of the United States. It was taken in federal courts and by the ral bureaucracy — too often with the silent consent of the Con- gress, but sometimes in direct defiance of laws enacted by Congress — and always against the known wishes of the overwhelming majority of the American people of every religion and all races. You would think 1 ' iH Graduation