Deans strive for open communication with students Whether conducting student opinion polls. teaching collegeage Bible classes or directing social club activities. the aim of the Deans Is one: an "open door" policy with the students. Dr . Ted M. Altman , Dean of Students, working closely with the Dean of Men , Dean of Women, faculty advisor of the Student Association and directors of various student ac· tivities, coordinated all facets of student life on campus. Taking a low key approach, he stressed and implemented the importance of effective communications in affirming the student personnel policies. He maintained an open door policy to students who sought his counsel and advice. During the year, he conducted a student opinion poll about Harding College that helped him to know where the students were in their attitudes. He attended the Tulsa SoulWinning Workshop in March and supported the various mission groups on campus. Dean Altman served as an elder of the West Side church of Christ and was a member of the World Evangelism Forum Committee. He also served as chairman of the Board of Directors of Camp Wyldewood. At the College, he served on ten committees including the Executive Committee, Student Affairs Committee, Admissions Committee and Public Relations Committee. He served as Foreign Student Advisor , helping students from other countries adjust to college and assisting them with visa problems. During the summer he served as a coach in the Searcy Buddy League baseball program. Seeking the personal and spiritual grwoth of each young man enrolled at Harding College , Eddie Ray Campbell, Dean of Men, spent many hours counseling young men in his office and visiting them in their dormitory rooms. He also served as Director of Harbin Hall, one of the residence halls for men, and advised the sponsors of the men's social clubs. In the fall, Dean Campbell also administered the policies relating to the selection, pledging and induction of new members into the men's clubs. Dean Campbell held membership in the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the American Personnel and Guidance Association and the American College Personnel Association . In February, he attended the Christian Counselors' Workshop in Abilene, Texas. He attended a Region IV NASPA Conference in Joplin, Missouri in March. In an effort to upgrade the orientation programs at Harding, he sought new ideas and insights at the Southern Regional Orientation Workshop at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Serving as an elder in the Downtown church of Christ, Dean Campbell was director of the youth activities. Highlight of the year for Maribeth Downing, Dean of Women , was completing and successfully defending her thesis for the Educational Specialist degree in counseling from Northeast Louisiana University . The title of her thesis was "An Environmental Study of Harding College as Perceived by Faculty and Students ." Dean Downing showed her concern for the spiritual development and personal fulfillment of each young lady on campus in many ways. She Abwe, PASSIVE bystanders, Deans Eddie Campbell and Maribeth Downing laugh at the antics 0/ "Almost Anything Goes." counseled with women in her office and visited them in the dormitories and apartments. Cooperating with Becky Moore, women's counselor for the College church's campus ministry, Dean Downing taught a Sunday morning Bible class for ladies, "Woman Wise." She also supervised the work of the female resident assistants, conferred with supervisors of the resident halls for women and advised the sponsors of the women's social clubs. During February , Miss Downing attended the Christian COJlnselors' Workshop in Abilene, Texas. Speaking on "The Ministry of Single Women," she addressed the ladies of the Southern Hills church of Christ in Shreveport, Louisiana during March and in April spoke to audiences at the York College lectureship. Maribeth Downing, EdS • Eddie Campbell, MAT • Ted Altman, EdD ,..... ~ •••inistration Administration. 179
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