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STUDENTS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS COLLEGE RECEIVES GIFT Climaxing the enthusiasm and excitement of commencement week at Salem College was the Sl 75,000 gift from the Claude Worthington Benedum Fotmdation. Col. Paul G. Benedum, president of the Founda- tion, announced that the Foundation had approved the gift ata dinner given in honor of the commence- ment guests, which was held at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Clarksburg. Benedtun explained that the funds were for salary increases, for library and other needed improve- ments, and for balancing the budget in order to meet preliminary qualifications for North Central Associ- ation rating. President Hurley when thanking the Foundation members present said that the gift will play a very important role in the history of the College. This group of people attending the dinner honoring Senator Kerrwere the first to hear Paul Benedum announce the S175,000 gift to Salem College. Sl
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'--Tv? , is? Senator Kerr received warm welcome on his arrival at Benedum Airport. An, WNV if-l.:,.? .K . President Hurley, Senator Kerr, and Senator Randolph take time out from dinner for serious conversation. 50 Robert S. Kerr, s enior United States Senator from Oklahoma presented the Salem College Commencement address in the Cecil H. Under- wood Armory. He spoke on the subject Uti- lizing Hu m a n and Phy s i c al Resources for Community Building. Kerrwas elected to the United States Senate in 1948 and re-elected in 1954 and 1960. With his Land, Wood, and Water, slogan, his first bill introduced in the Senate set up an Inter- Agency Study Committee for the Arkansas- White and Red Rivers. Other congressional as si gn m ent s for Senator Kerr include chairmanship of the Com- mittee on Aeronautical and Sp ac e Sciences, membership on Joint Committee on Internal Revenue T ax ati on , Joint Committee on Re- duction of Non- essential Federal Expenditures, and the Democratic Policy Committee.
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'e ff' t Y N ,J Gil King, past president of the Salem College Student Federation and graduating business major, was judged winner of the 4th annual Carl C. Byers Public Speaking Contest. King was awarded the S50 prize for a speech of verbal pictures characterizing a student. To beastudent is to learn to love knowledge and desire truth . . . and may be symbolized in three ways: the student is a child, an artist and a traveler. In the child, learning is a quality of the soul, while the artist is taughtby truth and learns from the book of his own heart. The traveler is also a student whose teacher is nature and whose book is experience. 52
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