English-Journalism Department Excels in Publications Taking seriously the responsibility it has to help students improve their writing ability. the English Department continued the writing laboratory which it .had conducted on an experimental basis in the fall of 1979 under the supervision of Dr. Larry Long. Any student who had a writing deficiency was encouraged to use the writing laboratory, but juniors and seniors who had not passed the English proficiency requirement and students enrolled in English 103 and 104 were especially encouraged to use the laboratory. For students with superior ability and achievement in English, a chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, national English honor society, was available . Early in the fall semester, Dr. Dennis Organ and Dr. Larry Long, assisted by Dr . Fred Jewell , Associate Professor of History, conducted an intramural college bowl among Harding students and from these participants selected a team to participate in the regional college bowl competition at Texas A & M University. Dr. Gary Elliott, Chairman of the Department, spent the fall semester in the Harding University in Florence, Italy, Program. He took many slides of literary significance in Italy and Greece which he used to enrich his English 201 classes on campus. Rod Brewer returned from a leave of absence for doctoral study at the University of Missouri in Columbia, lacking only the completion of his dissertation. During the fall semester, Eugene Underwood completed and successfully defended his dissertation for the doctorate from East Texas State University. During the 19S0-S1 school year, members of the English faculty attended and participated in several professional meetings, including the Conference on Christianity and Literature, the Southcentral Modern Langauge Association, the Arkansas Philological Association, and the Midcontinent American Studies Association to which Dr. Elliott was elected to the Executive Committee. "Hemingway' s 'The Light of the World,' " a paper by Dr. Elliott, was accepted for publication in The Explicator. He also wrote a review of Puritan Influences in American Literature for Christianity and Literature. At the 19S0 SCMLA meeting in Memphis, he read a paper on "Theme in Howell's The Rise of Silas Lapham." Dr. Long abstracted several articles as a bibliographer for Christianity and Literature. Betty Ulrey read a paper on Gerard Manley Hopkins' ' Wreck of the Deutschland' " and Dr. Organ read a paper on "Conrad's Use of the Bible in 'The Nigger of the Narcissus' " at the Region IV Conference on Christianity and Rodger Lee Brewer, MS .. Asst. Prof. Jo Cleveland, DA - Prof. Gary Elliott, PhD - Chairman, Assoc. Prof. Michael James, BA .. Assoc. Instructor Alice Jewell, MA - Assoc. Prof. Larry Long, PhD - Asst. Prof. Duane McCampbell, PbD - Assoc. Prof. Dennis Organ, PhD - Assoc. Prof. Cbarl.. Pittman, MA - Assoc. Prof. Heber Taylor, PhD -.Chairman, Prof. Literature in Abilene. Dr. Long published "Thoreau's Portmanteau Biblical Allusions" in the Thoreau Journal Quarterly. In the spring, the Department conducted a creative writing contest which encouraged a number of students to write poetry. short stories, or essays. Highlights of 19S0 for the Department of Journalism were the All-American recognition given to both the Bison and the BeUy Ulrey, MEd - Asst. Prof. 94 Eugene Underwood, EdD .. Assoc. Prof. Betty Watson, MA - Assoc. ptof. Edward While, MA - Assoc. Prof. Arts and Sciences-English and Journalism Petit Jean by the Associated Collegiate Press of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in its regular critical service. Most journalism majors were involved in work on one of these two publications. The chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists promoted journalistic excellence through its membership. During the summer, Dr. Heber Taylor, Chairman of the Journalism Department, was informed that the 1979 Petit Jean
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