~---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ Chemistry Club Chemistry .Club. Front row: England - co-sponsor, Gay , Porter, Shzrley , Berry , A shley , Wilson - spo nsor; second row : Green , Stewart , Cox , William s; third row : Howell , Harris , Bowen , Douglas , Duvall , Brock, Bell , Bassett , Hooper , Plumley, Setter; back row: Wood , Ballinger, Dossett , Wagner , Williams , Fletcher, Hobbs , McNutt , Minchey , Scott , Landis. - photo by Bill Tripp. MECA MEC~. Front row: Waldrop , Sloan, Wood , Pipkin , Moshzer , Oldham - .sponsor; back row: Lindstrom , Blair, Saegert , Waltz , Smzth , Mai, Showen . - photo by John Radcliffe . Chemistry is fun. Dr. Don England , sponsor for the Chemistry Club , assists Jack Moore , a sophomore from Huntsville , Alabama , with his chemistry project . England taught courses in chemistry including one dealing with o rganics . While maintaining a high C.P.A. , Moore was named All-AIC f or the Bison football team. - photo by John Radcliffe. 160 MECA, Chemistry Club Ill New organizations born enuring the 1985-86 school year, two very important clubs were founded at Harding. Both new, the clubs received attention and support . The Chemistry Club was formed in the middle of the fall semester by a group of senior chemistry majors who felt that many of those in chemistry-related fields simply did not know the options they had upon graduation. The club gave students a forum for discussing career opportunities, the results of student research projects, and information on furthe r schooling. Composed this year of 40 members, the club was open to all who were interested in chemistry and met roughly once each month. President Bret Shirley said that this was basically an organizational year and that he and others hoped one day to be able to become a part of the American Chemical Society. He also expressed hopes of putting together a library of information on various graduate schools which the club members might find helpful. Faculty members responded well, and, Shirley said, the sponsors, Dr. Don England and Dr. Ed Wilson, had been extremely helpful. "We hope that the club will grow into something useful," said Shirley,"both for chemistry majors and those in related fields." Also founded in October of this year, MECA (Mathematics Education Careers Association) provided students in that fiel d with both information and exposure to current teaching trends . The stated goal of the club was to "provide students who are going to be math teachers with the opportunity to interface with active teachers while still in school." The club had four meetings this year and enjoyed lectures by prominent area mathematicians, some from Harding itself. In April, they helped sponsor the White County Math Contest, a contest open to fift h through eighth graders. Club sponsor Dr. William Oldham said that the club is looking toward a bright future. It seems that MECA is the only club of its kind in the country at the presen t time. 'There is no such organization on any college campus tha t I know of," said Oldham. "There are mathematics clubs for the study of pure mathematics, but as far as math organizations fm future teachers, I don't know of anyplace that has one." For thif reason Oldham hopes that MECA can become the parent-club of a number of similar societies in the near future. He said tha ' he could see the club incorporating sometime within the nexl three years. This year, the club was comprised of 15 members, c:, majority of the math education majors on campus. 111[
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