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4-November-1998 
98358 
    News From Presbyterian-Related Colleges 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
SHERMAN, Texas-Austin College kicked off its sesquicentennial celebration 
the weekend of Oct. 30-Nov. 1 with its 1998 homecoming festivities. 
    The college, established in 1849 by the Presbyterian Church, is the 
oldest liberal arts college in Texas still operating under its original 
charter. 
    The year-long celebration, titled "Learning, Leadership and Lasting 
Values," will continue through Founders Week in October 1999. 
 
TUSCALOOSA, Ala.-On Oct. 17, Stillman College celebrated the inauguration 
of Ernest McNealy as the fifth president of the college. 
    The service capped a week of inaugural activities that included dance 
and orchestral concerts, receptions and worship services, a poetry reading 
by Amiri Baraka and a gala ball. 
 
HASTINGS, Neb.--The Rev. Douglas W. Oldenburg, 210th General Assembly 
Moderator, will be the speaker at Hastings College's 1999 Baccalaureate May 
21, 1999. 
 
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-Johnson C. Smith University has just completed a successful 
capital campaign that "broke all previous records," according to university 
officials. 
    Edward E. Crutchfield, chairman and CEO of First Union and campaign 
chairman, announced that the "Vision Shared" capital campaign raised $63.8 
million in just five years. The drive totaled 127 percent of the original 
$50 million goal. 
    The "Vision Shared" campaign set several records.  The campaign 
completes the largest goal of any nonprofit in the Charlotte metropolitan 
area.  It marks the most successful capital campaign among any historically 
black colleges and universities in the Carolinas. And it records the second 
largest campaign completed among all black colleges in the nation. 
 
MONMOUTH, Ill.-Poet and playwright Derek Walcott, recipient of the 1992 
Nobel Prize in Literature, read from his acclaimed poetry at Monmouth 
College Oct. 15. 
    Walcott, a native of the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, is currently a 
professor of English and creative writing at Boston University.  He is the 
second Nobel Laureate to visit Monmouth College in two years.  Last April, 
Robert Solow, recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics, lectured at 
the college. 
 
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-With historically black colleges known far more for 
football than for other athletic programs, Knoxville College is setting a 
new trend this year by instituting an intercollegiate basketball program. 
    Timothy L. Waller, a veteran of 19 years as a successful college coach, 
has been hired to direct the men's basketball program at the college. 
During a career that has taken him to Idaho State University, Central 
Michigan University, Alabama State University, Howard University, Eastern 
Illinois University, Western Michigan University, Miami (Ohio) University 
and Elmhurst College in Illinois, Waller's teams have won six conference 
championships and appeared in five NCAA tournaments and one NIT tournament. 

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