Stetson Reporter

Volume 90 Number 20 Stetson University DeLand, Fla. March 10, 1978 osenfeld Here Next Week As Wilson FelSow By Kussell Schropp Three forums and numerous classroom visits will highlight the schedule of Stephen Rosenfeld, who visits the Stetson campus next week as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. Rosenfeld, an editorial writer for the Washington POST nev/spaper who specializes is U.S. foreign policy, will be on campus March 13-17. The forums, which will be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights, will feature, Rosenfeld in discussion with local specialists in three different areas of U.S. foreign policy. On Monday, March 13, Rosenfeld and Stetson student Marjorie Blair will discuss the Panama Canal treaties. Blair was born and raised in Panama, and recently spent 'Winter Term in the Canal Zone doing a special independent study. On Wednesday, March 15, Rosenfeld and Stetson 19fh Annual Parents Weekend Begins Today Over 230 sets of parents will arrive on campus this weekend as the 19th annual Parents Weekend is held March 10, Hand 12. The figure quoted above was released last Monday by Parents Weekend Committee treasurer George Oliver, and represents a significant increase over the number of parents who attended last year's weekend. According to Committee co- chairman Debbie Barrett, "It is probably one of the biggest Weekends" of all time. "Everything is really going well," commented Barrett. "It all just sort of came together at the end." One of the last minute arrangements of Parents Weekend has been the scheduling of a concert by the Stetson Orchestra, to be held tonight in the First Baptist Church. The concert, a Haydn Mass, will begin at 8:00 p.m. Other activities set for Friday night include a baseball game against Eckerd at Conrad Hall, and Stover Theatre's production of "For Heaven's Sake." The play is also scheduled for Saturday night, but only five tickets remained for the Saturday night performance cont'd, p. 4 ice 'esident Resigns By Mary Lubbers The vice-president of the Stetson Union Board resigned due to academic pressures and illness on Sunday, March 5. Jim Lytton discussed all the alternatives in an unofficial meeting with SUB president Pete Brockway before resigning. Brockway stated that Lytton hoped to remain involved with SUB activities but could not retain ail the responsibilities of the vice-presidency. Dennis Dunn, an experienced SUB member who has worked extensively with Lytton on Happy Hours and Hatter Holiday will replace him until the upcoming election fills the office. professor Harold Minor will discuss the present situation in the Middle East. Minor, a former ambassador to Turkey, has just returned from a seminar on the Middle East in Sarasota which drew over 500 participants. And on Thursday, March 16, Rosenfeld will discuss third world African nations with George Harrington, professor of Finance at Stetson. Harrington is a former resident of Tanzania and has travelled throughout Africa. He has just concluded a Winter Term course on "Trade in the Third World and Europe," taught in conjunction with Ambassador Minor. These discussions will be kept short and concise so that there will be plenty of time for the audience to present views and ask questions, according to Perry White, co- chairman of the Coordinating Committee for the visit. All forums will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the lounge in Allen Hall. Rosenfeld joined the city staff of the POST in 1959, covering local news. He joined the editorial staff in the Summer of 1962, and since 1969 has been a regular columnist for the POST. He has covered Russia, Europe and the Middle East for the POST. Increasingly, he's turned his interests to "soft" problems like food, developments, and poverty, Rosenfeld has studied at the Russian Institute of Columbia University, and has an M.A. in Russian history. He has written for several periodicals, and lias authored a book, The Time of Their Dying, about the death of his parents. Stephen Rosenfeld uncan Inaugurated This Momma As 7th Stetson President Representatives of nearly 200 colleges, universities and learned societies will join over 100 members of the faculty and staff of Stetson University in the formal academic processional which precedes the formal inauguration ceremonies of Dr. Pope A. Duncan as the 7th president of Florida's oldest institution of higher hearning this morning. The inauguration convocation is an ancient academic tradition, but the 95 year old Stetson University waited until 1968 to conduct its first such ceremonial. Dr. Paul F. Genen was inaugurated as the 5th president on January 26, 1968. Dr. John F. Forbes was the first president of Stetson, assuming that office in 1885. Henry A. DeLand, founder of the university which was first named the DeLand Academy, guided the institution from 1883 until 1885. Dr. Forbes served until 1903. The second president of Stetson, Dr. Lincoln Hulley, had the longest tenure in office, 31 years. He died while president in 1934 having guided the flegling school through the turbulent years of World War I and the depression. Dr. HuIIy was succeeded by Dr. William A. Allen whose years of service, 1934- 48, saw the university's standards and scholarship raised and the physical equipment enlarged. Enrollment grew from a few hundred to 2,000. , The fourth president, Dr. J. OIlie Edmunds, assumed office in 1948. He conducted his first convocation in September of that year and also presided at the first formal inauguration of a Stetson president in 1968. Dr. Edmunds was the first, and only alumnus to date, to hold the office of president of Stetson. He had gained prominence both state-wide and nationally as a jurist and public official. Dr. John E. Johns was formally inaugurated on November 15, 1971, over 18 months after his election as the 6th president. He had served as acting president for a year prior to his election and held office until 1978. The six years were a period of enhanced campus beauty, the construction of the Edmunds Center and improvements in the College of Law. It was also a time of close cooperation and high spirit with' the Florida Baptist Convention. The inauguration of Dr. Pope A. Duncan as the 7th president will continue a tradition, of election of presidents with either strong Stetson ties or scholarly attainments which has been breached only once. Dr. Duncan joins both traditions having served on the faculty of the university from 1946 until 1953 and enjoying national acclaim as a teacher and scholar. He has held numerous offices in Phi Beta Kappa, the most prestigious of the learned societies; served as president of three in-1 stitutions of high learning; and on the faculties of five universities and seminaries. He holds the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Georgia and the Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. J. OIlie Edmunds, Chancellor of the university, will preside during the services.