Cije Eotunba LONGWOOD COLLEGE
1839
1989
"Catching Sight of Longwood from atop the Sesquicentenniaf Mount" VOL. 68 NO. 7
NOVEMBER 1, 1988
Waxing Poetics Attract 600
FARMVILLE, VA.
ZETA's Present Gifts to College
By JACK TYNCH, SCOTT MORRISON and JAN-MARIE JOHNSON In the Spirit of Alcohol Awareness Week, over 600 students attended a concert of the Waxing Poetics, held last Friday on Stubbs Mall. The event was possible through the cooperation of the Longwood Greek system, who supplied the Human Resources and the Financing through a fund designated for Alcohol Awareness. The Waxing Poetics consists of Sean Hennessy. Paul Tiers. Bill Shearin. and David Middleton. The
together for five years and has put out a single and two albums. The single was released In 1985. Hermitage", the first Lp. was recorded at Mitch Easter's Drive In Studio In WinstonSalem. North Carolina. The album comes across with an R.E.M. sound, but also carries its own original sound. RE.M.'s bassist. Mike Mills, produced this first full length Lp for the Waxing Poetics. The second lp recorded by the Poetics in January. "Mahakin Moon." was recorded In Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It is a strong album musically as well as Nelly Shearer (far left) and Sherry Tilley. two (Continued from page 3) representatives of Zeta Tau Alpha, present a bronze band has been marker and announce their plans to Dr. Donald Stuart, a V g~% ATT "C D'V Longwood Administrator; Diane Hocker, ZTA chapter \J|X\XÂŤ/JLyJC/Xv X president; and alumni director Nancy Shelton.
Longwood College Historical Notes By CHERYL JEFFREY During the 1860's. students at Farmvllle Female College followed a strict dally routine. The following is a routine described as "Daily Exercises" in the Annual College Register and Announcement of 1859 to 1860. Family prayers with teachers and students are held one hour after the wakeup bell. Worship is held in the chapel at a designated time after breakfast. After worship, students go to recitation rooms. Each exercise to be held in these rooms is speci-
fied on a study card, which allows a student to know what they have to do during each hour. There are six hours of study in a day. After this time, the students may go to their rooms, the parlors, or the library. After tea. the ladles spend an hour and a half In study hall. The study time is then ended with family prayers. Thirty minutes later, a silence bell announces that it is time for bed. This marks the end of a typical day at Farmville Female College.
By STEVE WILSON Zeta Tau Alpha, a national sorority founded at Longwood College, has strengthened its already close ties with the College. The sorority announced recently that It will fund a display case for the ceremonial mace it gave Longwood 15 years ago, and it presented a bronze marker to the College that is the same as the markers it commissioned and placed on the graves of ZTA's founders recently.
Those actions are In recognition of Longwoods 150th anniversary and the sorority's 90th anniversary. Sherry Tilley. ZTA's national president, of Boca Raton, Fla., and Nelly Shearer, from Memphis, of Crown Development Trust Fund, the sorority's foundation, visited the campus Oct. 14 to discuss their plans. Mrs. Tilley presented the marker and a letter Indicating the sorority's plans to Dr. Donald Stuart, Longwood's vice
president for academic affairs. The display case will go in the library. It will house the 38-inch mace, designed in the form of a lily, that Zeta Tau Alpha gave Longwood in 1973 in commemoration of the sorority's diamond anniversary. The mace is carried by the faculty marshal at official College functions. ZTA recently placed bronze markers on the graves of the sorority's nine founders. On the same day that Mrs. Tilley and Mrs. Shearer visited Longwood. they had gone to Charlotte Courthouse to so honor a founder's grave. The Mast remaining founder. Ruby Leigh Orgaln. died in a Richmond nursing home In 1984. All of the founders are burled In Virginia and North Carolina, said alumni director Nancy Shelton. Each bronze marker resembles a medallion and bears the sorority crest and the Inscription "Founder." The marker given to Longwood will go Inside or on the display case. Zeta Tau Alpha, one of four national sororities founded at Longwood, was established on Oct. 15. 1898. The other sororities founded at Longwood are Alpha Sigma Alpha. Kappa Delta, and Sigma Sigma Sigma.
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Farmville Female College in 1860
Ricky Otey. Dr. Do IT ill and Kelly Cogfs-Dale cut ribbon to offically dedicate Blackwell Plaza.
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