St Andrews Presbyterian College - Lamp and Shield / Bagpipe Yearbook (Laurinburg, NC)

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Having hurdled the admissions re- quirements with consumate ease, and found y our wav through the cotton fields to St. Andrews, the intrepid freshman finds one more endurance test blocking his entrance to the ivy- less halls of academia-south; a three hundred yard line wrapped around the LA auditorium on registration day. If you make it into the auditori- um on the same day, you get to regis- ter, and receive a free bottle of smell- ing salts from Ed Gross, SA ' s registrar. Mr. Gross and his able cohorts are utimately responsible for herding all 900 of us into the right classes at the right time on the right day. He is the one who keeps track of every grade we make, and when Mom gets that little pink slip in the mail, guess whose name is on the return address? Mr. Ed Gross and Mrs. Mary Parker

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wmmmMBBSBummMmmsmmmai Mr. Alan Atwell and Miss Mary McNeil. Before any of this four year trip to the Country Club of the South can take hold of you, there is a major stumbling block to be hurdled; it is called the admissions office. It is for the benefit of these gentlemen that vou produced so much sweat for those A ' s and B ' s all through the sunshine days of high school. You sent off your application, sealed with a kiss and a 15 dollar fee, and laid out your very selfhood for judgment. From that moment on, your fate was in their hands. Sitting in council late into the frosty nights of a Laurinburg winter, these people — Alan G. Atwell, Mary W. McNeil, and Charles E. Parrish — had to decide if you were the type of person that would genuinely benefit from the St. Andrews experience, and, in fact, if St. Andrews would benefit from your presence here. Once that decision was made and the notice in the mail, the choice once again rested with you. ■HH Mrs. McKinnon

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Consider for a moment nine hundred students paying approximately twenty five hundred dollars a year, plus countless trustees and benefactors contributing various sums ranging from fifty to five hundred thousand dollars, and it becomes apparent that St. Andrews is big business. Meet then Silas Vaughn and Lindsey Thomas, SA ' s business managers. If you ever wondered just where your parents ' money goes, these gentlemen have the answers. Mr. Vaughn is re- sponsible for everything from a new science building to fountain pens, and with a school that is experiencing the growing pains that St. Andrews feels, the allocation of funds becomes a highly significant matter for the fu- ture as well as the present status of the college. It is especially significant to those who receive some of that cash as financial aid from Mr. Bob Chaiken, SA ' s answer to Rod Laver. It is increasingly apparent that a great many policy decisions are made by the men with the moneybags, and if their grip is less than secure we get spilled along with the coins. Lindsey Thomas, Bob Chaiken, and Sila s Vaughn. 24 HH SKj« M£ iW