Radford University - Beehive Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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NEW PRESIDENT PLEDGES SUPPORT Or. Donald D. Dedmon, newly named president for Radford College, is expected to take office on March 20, 1972. We feel that Radford College is very fortunate in securing the services of a man of Dr. Dedmon's wide experience and ability as President of the college. GOING PLACES Mr. John W Stanley, Rector of the Board of Visitors, announced Dr. Dedmon's appointment following a meeting of the board Saturday at Hotel Roanoke. The decision to name Dr. Dedmon President of Radford College was unamious, Mr Stanley said Dr. Dedmon, a native of Mountain Grove, Mo. graduated from High School there in 1949. He rccicved his B.S. Degree with emphasis in English, speech and history from Southwestern Missouri State College and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in public administration and related areas from the University of Iowa His doctorate was conferred in 1961. ;9

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INSIDE THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE . . . CONTRACTS AROUSE CONTROVERSY WHY ARE THEY NOT RENEWED? AIN'T IT THE TRUTH by Dianna Scott One day for lunch angel steaks were served. Somehow they didn't taste a bit like heaven. A random sampling of the Radford College students has shown their definitions of poverty to be: Fating at the cove instead of Say When Shopping in downtown Radford. Finding the only way to listen to the World Series is with a Baltimore Fan. Stealing food .. from the dining hall. Double shifting. Taking in a movie at Preston. Hearing a tape from the Neil Diamond Concert. Getting the current events from the Radford Messenger. Hitchhiking to Tech. Using the college laundry. Displaying your first flowers of the year in a gallon jar. Making your best girlfriend a wedding card. Sleeping on a supplied pillow. Delivering by hand your boyfriends Halloween Card signed guess who. 18

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THE TEMPER OF THE TIMES . . Bravo Company fords the river: Six months without 'bang-bang' A DAY IN THE DWINDLING WAR HOW WILL YOUTH VOTE? A DECADE OF INTENSIFIED COMPETITION THE BATTLE OF THE SUBURBS The dark horses of 1972 are not candidates — they are voters. They are 25 million tantalizing Americans whose party allegiances are mostly unpledged and whose political preferences are untested in any previous Presidential election. They are the mystery factor that beckons most candidates to quest for the key to their affections and clouds every prophesy of who will win. They are, to he specific, the young citizens currently between the ages of 17 and 23, who will be eligible next year to vote in a Presidential election for the first time. Not since 1920, when women won the franchise, have more potential voters been created at a single stroke than by the 26th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified last summer, which lowered the voting age to 18 — and thus very noticeably altered the climate of the election season. 20