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Registrar
Sue Todd Retires After 35 Years
By
Erin Hege, ’04
After 35 years as a member of the Meredith community, Registrar
Sue Todd will not be taking any more drop/add slips following
her retirement on July 9.
 Todd
first came to Meredith in 1955 as a freshman. She graduated
in 1959 with a major in English. After her graduation, she
was employed by the State of North Carolina and later in the
Department of Archives and History then by the Museum of History
where she worked for eight years.
Since returning to Meredith in 1968, Todd has seen many monumental
occasions on Meredith’s campus. She has immensely enjoyed
hearing from guest speakers such as Sandra Day O’Connor,
Shirley Chisolm, Ben Vereen and former President Jimmy Carter.
One of her favorite memories at Meredith was watching the
steeple placed on top of the chapel.
The faculty is her favorite thing about Meredith. “They
are wonderful teachers, sympathetic advisers and all around
competent people who add so much to the character of the campus,”
Todd said.
Over the past 35 years Todd has seen the registrar’s
office go through many changes. When she began work here all
grades were recorded by hand, all transcripts were typed on
a typewriter and students were given cards by the departments
that they turned into the registrar’s office to show
that they were signed up for a class. The registrar’s
office didn’t even have calculators.
Todd hopes the future of Meredith holds many blessings and
successes. She has enjoyed seeing the growing diversity of
the campus and hopes it will continue recruiting the mix we
have been working for. She would also like to see Meredith’s
reputation expand to exhibit the academic excellence she believes
we have already earned.
Todd cherishes all of her memories at Meredith. Her service
and dedication to the College will not be soon forgotten.
She said, “in some ways, it seems like I have been here
all of my life and in other ways, it doesn’t seem like
35 years have passed.”
Departmental
Spotlight: Carlyle Campbell Library A Busy Place This Summer
By Erin Hege, ’04
 When
students return in August they will see the library in a different
way. This summer the library has been busy renovating old
systems and techniques.
The library is moving to a new library catalog, which will
be a newer version of the current system, ALIS.
According to Laura Davidson, dean of the library, “Ted
Waller is leading the transition from the 10-year old system
to the new one. This system will enhance student use, making
library research easier by having materials available on the
Web. This system will be accessible for off campus students.”
John Kincheloe has been working to improve classroom presentation
technology in the Science and Mathematics Building and with
the Hunter/Harris renovations. He has improved laptop use,
videos, and display data equipment use in the classrooms by
professors and students, Davidson said.
The English department and the library are forming a new relationship
by developing library and information literacy components
for the ENG 111 and ENG 200 courses.
Davidson said “Susan Squires has been hard at work compiling
a library of information to use specifically for research
practices. The main focus of this program is to teach students
how to use Web tools to assist them in their research.”
“Many of the Science and Mathematics Building classrooms
have been shown as models to other Triangle institutions,”
she added.
Amy Gresko became the newest addition to the library’s
staff on July 1 as the new reference librarian. She will be
teaching the new library and information literacy components
created by Squires and the English department.
“With the advent of the Web, methods of research have
changed drastically and it has become increasingly important
to teach researchers to locate and recognize reliable sources
of information and to use those rather than the information
most easily found,” Davidson said.
These new changes in the library will result in more student
and faculty interaction with the library and its resources.
All of these new programs are scheduled to be in place before
the fall semester.
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