Above left ASSISTING junior Connie Bates at fall registration , Virgil Beckett listens as she explains her problem. Above : WRITING on the overhead projecter , Registrar Virgil Becke tt informs counselors and students of another class that has been closed. possibility of the Arkansas Association becoming affiliated with the Southern Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. He maintained membership in the national AACRAO organization. Beckett was chairman of the Academic Retention Committee. Wyatt Jones, EdD The growing graduate program was the responsibility of Wyatt Jones, who served as a recruiter as well as director. Through a scholarship program to teachers in the Christian elementary and secondary schools scattered across the nation, Dr. Wyatt Jones , Director of Graduate Studies, explored ways of increasing the enrollment in graduate studies. He also promoted a program that would enable teachers to qualify as elementary school principals. Dr. Jones attended meetings of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools in Jackson, Lefte TAKING his morning coffee break in the office of David Burks, Wyatt Jones talks with fellow faculty members . Mississippi , the Arkansas Graduate Deans in Magnolia , the Arkansas Department of Higher Education in Little Rock and the Arkansas Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Little Rock. Dr. Jones was president of the Arkansas Three Rivers Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa and went to Chicago to the national meeJ,ing of the professional education association. To recruit students for the graduate program, Dr. Jones visited Freed-Hardeman College , Oklahoma Christian Coliege and other Christian colleges to talk with seniors about the graduate program at Harding. Winnie Bell, MALS With the addition of 6,000 new books and a number of new services, Winnie Bell helps students effectively utilize the library facilities_ Winnie E. Bell , MALS, concentrated the 1978-79 year on expanding the resources and services of the library. Augmenting the normal increase of over 6,000 volumes annually, she added the Microbook Library of American Civilization , a microform library of about 19 ,000 volumes covering a ll aspects of American life and literature up to World War I. In an effort to reduce the average loss of about 325 books per year , a Spartan 3M Tattle-Tape Book Detection System, Model 1850, was installed, which promises to reduce book losses by 90 per cent. Miss Bell emphasized the philosophy that the librarians were primarily catalysts for effective use of the library by students and faculty rather than just "guardians of the times." As a result , the library staff instructed more than 100 classes in how to use the library in research and writing of term papers. Active in state and national library organizations, Miss Bell attended the meeting of the American Library Association in Chicago , the AMIGOS Bibliographic Council technical session on computer card catalogs in Dallas, and meetings of the Arkansas Library Association and JI the Arkansas Foundation • of Associated College Librarians in Little Rock. She Above, INTERVIEWING a pro· made plans to attend the bien- spective employee, Winnie Bell ex · nial meeting of Christian col- plains the card catalog system. lege librarians to be hosted this summer by David Lipscomb College. A' member of the Downtown Church of Christ , Miss Bell taught the fifth grade Bible class on Sunday mornings and directed the World Bible School , a Bible correspondence program among the people of Nigeria. She served as treasurer of the Searcy chapter of the American Association of University Women and was a member of Harding Business Women. Miss Bell was the recipient of the 1978 Distinguished Staff Member award presented at the annual faculty-staff dinner. administration Administration ~ 177
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