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

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While you look through the pages of the 1986 Ontaroga I hope the yearbook staff has brought back wonderful memories of your life on 'The Elkf' I would like to thank Tabatha Farmer, Angela Jackson, and all those who helped me with the class section layout and identifying photos. I would also like to thank Phil Teagarden for his help in supplying a number of needed photos, and a special thanks to all the staff in the Public Relations Office, Joyce Baker, Joanne Franklin, Paula Hughes, for their assistance and hard work on the yearbook. I would finally like to thank the man' who is the inspiration and driving force behind this yearbook and all publications at Lees-McRae. Without his diligence and hard work, guidance and inspiration, I would have never been able to produce the 1986 yearbook. To a very good friend of mine, Mr. Don Baker, I say many thanks. Nicole qNikkiy Baker I A Editor and Illustrator Nikki Baker and Angela Jackson identifying class photos, Q , S 1986 v ONTAROGA STAFF :UI ll: ' 'e W Don Baker, Advisor Joyce Baker Joanne Franklin Paula Hughes photographer, layout and design typist and production typist and production production and photography assistant f.. , , ' ' 11 :-f - W i s , V I ii,c 4, 5,1 ws- ' If nl Ffa VF , rlr , N V X K - if S V mv ' ' th i f A ,fi J Yearbook Staff 181

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HISTORIC LANDMARK NAMED FOR THE LOVELLS KL-RI: Ed Lovell, Betty Louell, Dr. Crain, Mrs. Crain The historical 'Rock House, on the Lees-McRae College campus in Banner Elk, has been renovated and refurbished and renamed for the benefactors of the project, Ed and Betty Lovell, of Vero Beach, Florida and Hound Ears, Blowing Rock. In action taken by the Lees-McRae College Board of Trustees at its Feb- ruary meeting, Trustee Chairman John Uackj R. King read the follow- ing resolution by the Board of Trust- ees: Resolved that the campus structure commonly known and re- ferred to as 'The Rock House' be re- named the LOVELL ADMISSIONS CENTER, in grateful appreciation and recognition of C. Edwin Lovell's generous personal financial support and commitment to Lees-McRae Col- lege and his continuing advocacy for and interest in the collegef' The Rock House, completed in 1920, is the first of the buildings to be built of native stone. It has served many purposes throughout the years-an industrial arts center, a summer tearoom, a gift shop display- mg craft work by the students, and a biology laboratory. It was given to the college by Misses Sue, Jessie, and Jane Hall of Wilmington, North Ed and Betty Lovell are extraordi- nary people . . . knowing that educa- tion and opportunity are close allies, they make dreams come true for oth- ers. - Bradford L. Crain 180 Lovell Dedication Q X ii 3 Carolina. Miss Sue Hall was one of the early teachers at Lees-McRae. Mr. Lovell is on the Financial Ad- visory Board of the Indian River County Commissioners. When the Lovells are residing at their summer residence at Hound Ears, they are very active with the programs and events at Lees-McRae College. 'Ed and Betty Lovell are extraor- dinary people, stated Lees-McRae President Bradford L. Crain. 'Know- ing that education and opportunity are close allies, they make dreams come true for others? 'They care deeply for young peo- ple and they care deeply for Lees- McRae College, Crain continued. 'How fitting it is to name our admis- sions and financial aid center in hon- or of the Lovells, for that building is where our future students and their opportunity to succeed in life meet each other. We are most appreciative of their generosity and hope their ex- ample will be an inspiration to many others? Before recognizing Ed Lovell, Dr. Bradford Crain, President of Lees- McRae, read an account of the back- ground of 'The Rock House' pre- served in the Carson Library at Lees- McRae College. 'The little Rock House by the Side of the Road was formally opened Au- gust 3, 1920. This service consisted of a few songs, the reading of a pas- sage of Scripture and a prayer. It is not our purpose to use this building for religious services. But it was fit- ting that the first service be one of this kind, for Lees-McRae is a Chris- tian school and we want every de- partment of it to be permeated with the Spirit of Christ. 'The object for which this little Rock House was erected is of a three- fold nature. 'First, it is to be a kind of ex- change for homemade products, es- pecially the industrial work in the school. Any person who has any- thing to sell can leave the article in the sales room and when it is sold, the owner pays the house fifteen per- cent for handling it. ln this way we hope to encourage the people to make things for sale. We hope that the exchange will be the means of creating a large business in all kinds of homemade products. 'Second, it is to be a place where at certain times visitors can find re- freshments nicely served. In other words, it is to be a kind of 'Tea Room? 'Third, it is to be a room where the Ladies Missionary Society, the Lay- men's Association, and other organi- zations can meet from time to time for social purposes. 'It is centrally located on the cor- ner where the old Industrial Building used to stand and it is the first of the permanent stone buildings that we are planning to erect. 'This department of our work is wonderfully fortunate in having for its head Miss Sue Hall. If anyone has anything to sell or wishes to buy any homemake mountain products, that person will do well to write Miss Sue Hall for particulars concerning the little 'Rock House by the Side of the Road.'

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SCULPTURE U VEILEU AT CEREMO Y PRIOR TO GRADUATIO When President Crain focused on the theme of Roots and Wings' in his inaugural address he did not imagine that those words would become visual in the form of a sculpture. The two greatest gifts, Crain stated, that we can give our students are roots and wingsg roots for un- derstanding our heritage and wings for discovering our futuref' Crain observed, The sculp- ture has a strength and character that makes it fit well into this rugged country of mountain peaks and mountain people. Probably long after a casual observer forgets its title the piece will continue to reflect - and perhaps even stimulate - its symbolic power of making us reach upward for our vision of what Lees-McRae College should be. Sculptor Wayne Tripp stated, Lees-McRae is one of probably only two colleges in the state with public sculpture. I think it's great that Lees-McRae and the Banner Elk community are sup- porting art in this way. Once people know what the sculpture represents, and the idea behind it, they usually come to like it. The entire project, with the landscaping and the placement of puddingstone rocks and shrub- bery, is a focal point for the cam- pus and community activities. A new sign, along with the sculp- ture, invites visitors to the col- lege. The new sign is made of bronze which gives the effect of liquid gold and links the histori- cal past with the present by imaging the traditional college seal next to the new Lees-McRae logo. ln the parting words of Dr. Crain, Together the new sign and sculpture form an invitation for people to stop and linger on a campus that is old but forever newf' ,xx . R f ' ' 3f':'A35i 1 i .ig-iii. fxij Sculptor Wayne Trapp in front of model of Roots and Wings. ,U f - R R U ,f M R ta A ig , wi' Q?-R R U ' . f W-HR, A J , wi,-fm f . 4, . - R X ' W3S,.g5 'fl - 1 if if - ,,,,. , . .ft--2 :R is .Q sl? -s A Y ,K f I ' Ri R R if Riit rf-y-F l L-fx? Hb 4-ii NX? 'R tt,, U, f f I A V , 3 2 1 ff: 0 , A I :WFT 1 9 W' ' Utt it nn.-vii . Q, E J? Dr. Crain addresses audience at unveiling of sculpture me-rf Www if i .Q 1 y, . wav: in?-givin V .. fi.. K ,,, so i 'R-wg, in Riii 5 f- . f ,- R ,i'Fo'5R?f'f , , ' ' ff f -- 1 i . , ,tls ,t,.,,, , , J V- . sg, 4 , wif , ff f 1 p F rgfeifw f' - ' ' ' , 3 ,, if ' A - +R .f ,pf , . , -.fo li J H1',f,,e , ' - - 'if V - ' , 1' 7' ,., '.i K: ffv, . 4 V, ,,,, in 'fr' ' 55 g m A -A K V ,kg V. V '- , 1 1 ,.,, , 2 Z1 W 7: ,'- i S - . . - I ff f' :Ii'ef, ff? .,f' J fn'-r -4, s V, -'F' nik