Lenoir Rhyne College - Hacawa Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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In the picture on the opposite page a portion of the large crowd gathered for Election Central is shown. At right, this page. Dr. Lowell Ashman of the LR Political Science Department speaks of the merits of the Carter-IVlondale ticket while President Ford gleams from the poster behind him. Below, left, a group of students gather on the Center Lobby stairs as they await election returns: Walt Cleckley, Andrea Shreve, Margaret Alister, and Fred IVleuter. Below right like Samuels awaits results. « imjuu«nimmm -iii.] !- .iiM Ti v l.»..JIll l- 1 1i |i l lnmililln.]J j i . m,..i,..,,i i.. .

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Election-Central Highlighted Nov. 2 Eve With the passing of November 2, 1976 — Election Day — went the last of the campaign speeches and debates, whistle- stops and fund-raisers which had, for so many months, dominated American po- litical thought. The culmination of the campaign marked for many the realiza- tion of hard-won dreams; for countless others it meant the disillusionment of defeat. For winners, losers, and constit- uents alike, the election heralded change, yet emphatically reminded us of the sta- bility inherent in our system. Vibrant political awareness pervaded Lenoir-Rhyne during the fall of 1976. Visiting state and local office-seekers helped to stimulate this atmosphere, as did the efforts of campus-based groups such as the College Republicans and the Democrats on Campus. An L-R voter registration drive in October, soon fol- lowed by a mock campaign debate, were two of the highly successful ventures sponsored by such student groups. Election Central, the all-night vigil of November 2nd, garnered tremendous student and community support. An es- timated 450 people packed Cromer Cen- ter for the returns-watching party spon- sored by the Political Science-Pre Law Club. On the agendy were candidate in- terviews, question and answer sessions, and a student-faculty panel discussion. The events of the emotionally charged evening unfolded, and the victors became apparent. As they did, the campaign machinery of 1976 came slowly to rest.

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Lenoir-Rhyne Chose New College President Dr. Albert B. Anderson, the director of a three-college consortium headquar- tered in Moorhead, Minnesota, was elec- ted president of Lenoir-Rhyne College at an August, 1976, meeting of the Board of Trustees. He succeeded Dr. Raymond Bost, who left LR to assume the presi- dency of the Lutheran Theological Semi- nary in Philadelphia. Dr. Anderson, who became the eighth president of Lenoir-Rhyne, began his col- lege studies in 1948 at Concordia College in IVloorhead. He graduated cum laude with a degree in philosophy of religion. Following a year of study at the Univer- sity ■ of Copenhagen, Dr. Anderson en- tered Luther Theological Seminary in St. Paul, where he graduated summa cum laude in 1956 with-a bachelor of theology degree. Dr. Anderson continued his education at the University of Minnesota and Har- vard University. He earned a masters ' s in philosophy from the former in 1958 and completed a doctorate in philosophy of religion six years later at Harvard. In 1966 Dr. Anderson became a full profes- sor of philosophy and chairman of the department at Concordia. Left: President Albert Anderson and First Lady Anita Anderson. Below: The Ander- son family, left to right: Thor, Mrs. An- derson, Solveig, Dr. Anderson, Dagny, Berit, and Per. The dog, a family pet, is named Vinje. :3yxi£j( . L