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VOL. VLI
THE ROTUNDA
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Longdwood College, Farmville, Va., February 13, 1963
No. 11
Carter Leads Religious Emphasis Week Students Present Harpsicord Concerts A concert of harpsichord mu- higher learning offer instruction .-..c will be presented m the Ex- I in the use of this instrument. hibition Room of Lanca: ter Li- and it Is believed that Longbrary on Sunday, February 17. I wood is the fir. t Virg nia colThis program will begin at 4 lege to offer such training. p.m. The fame program will be given tonight at 8 p.m. at Hampde Sydney. Playing in this concert are Elir'abeih Ann Rex, Nancy Oldfield, Helen Weeks, Patr.cia Spies, Sally Pot:age, Elizabeth Howard and Dr. Joanne Curnutt. Rex Opens Concert Elizabeth Ann Rex will begin The Institute of Southern CulKlaine Lohr, president of the concert wih Sonata LI ad ture lectures for this year will Y W C A and Margaret Sonata LIV by D. Scarlatti: ! be given In Jarman Hall at Nancy Oldfield will play Les 11:00 am and 8:00 pm on April Vaughan. chairman of this Ombres Errantes and Les Trico- 26. A lecture will also be given years Religious Emphasis teus. Helen Weeks is to play at 4:00 pm In the lounge of the Susana III sur la chanson "Su- Student Activities Building. zanne Un Jour." The lecturers will be Col. Ach du Feiner Relter < Canto Francis P. Miller. Special AssisBelgicai will be played by Pa- tant, Department of State, trica Spies. Sally Pottage will Washington, D. ft, who has chofollow with Les Fibres and La sen the topic "Has There Been Gemlssante. Elizabeth Howard Progress in Political Democracy will present Pava:'a Hlsranlca. in Virginia?" "Jefferson and Curnutt Performs "Grant us light that we the Art of Politics" is the subDr. Joanne Curnutt, assistant ject to be presented by Dr. M. may . . ." This is the theme professor of music, will close Boyd Coyner, Jr., Professor of for Religious Emphasis Week the harpsichord concert with i held annually at Longwood ColBach's Sinfonia XI, XV, V, and History, Hampden-Sydney Col- lege ard sponsored by the lege. Mr. James J. Kilpatrick, VI. Editor of the Richmond News YWCA. The harp, ichord is a keyboard Leader, will lecture on "Byrd Beginning on Monday Februinstrument which belongs to the The Contemporary Leader In 'ary 11 and continuing through s.ime family as the spinet. This Politics." Thursday. February 14, Reinstrument was prominent from The Institute, established at ligious Emphasis Week is a the 16th to the 18th century. Longwood College in 1956. Is aim- combined effort of the memOnly half a dozen schools of ed at promoting the study of bers of the Y to bring to the traditional aspects of Southern I tudents at Longwood a new civilization through academic and greater understanding of courses, special lectures, and religlo .i. 1 Carter Speaks through the publication of research In the field. All lectures The Rev. John Paul Carter is the speaker for this occasion. will be open to the public. Born in West Virginia. Mr. Car ter graduated in 1944 from the Annice Bailey has been seCollege of William and Mary, lected to represent Longwood at and in 1947 from Virginia Semithe 36th annual Apple Blossom nary. In 1957 he received his Fe.tival. The Festival will be S. T. M. from the Univcr held in Winchester May 1-4. the South. College Work Each year, a faculty comimltMr. Carter is now 39 years tee chooses a senior to repreSusan Brittlngham and Joan sent Longwood at this evert. Meadows, co-chairmen of the old; he is married and has six The girl is selected on the basis Junior Dance, are busy prepar- children. Being Involved in many of beauty, personality and poise. ing the final touches for the as: ects of univer ity life and Annice is a math major from dance which will be held Satur- dealing constantly with college Norfolk. Presently she Is day, February 16, from 8:00 to young people has occupied a ing as pres dent of the Student 12:00 In the Main Rec. The large part of his life. At the Body and chairman of the Legi- theme for this year's dance Is Un.versity of Texas he taught slative Board. She is a member "Ole Man River" and the enter- classes in the New Testament of Alpha Kappa Gamma na- tainment will be provided by The and was Episcopal Chaplain there for seven years. tional leadership fraternity and Chasers from Lynchburg Assisting Susan and Joan arc He is a member of the naKappa Delta social sorority. An ice, along with represen- Shirley Dunavant, Decorations; tional committee on Ecume leal tatives from other colleges and Jane Maddox, entertainment: Voluntary Service Project and universities in V.ryinla will be Alta Stricklln. publicity: Betsy for two years now he ha entertained at the Apple Blos- MacCorkle, tickets; Janet Lacy resented the Episcopal Church >om Festival by tea dances, for- after dance party: Carol Mar- In negotiations <0n the level of mal balls, informal receptions tin, invitations; and Diana Delk, College Work' with the Anglican receiving line. Church of Canada. and by the pageant itself. Serves On Commissions All students and their dates He has served on the Dio are invited to attend the semiformal d°nce. Tickets sell for ce.'an Comm sslon oi C Work in the southern half o! the S2.00 ap: «, Seventh Province, For t h r e e years he ha had the pi. of serving as a preacher summer sta'f member at the Wish.ngton Cathedral, and In
Institute Names Speakers, Dates For ISC Talks
DISCUSS PLANS Week, discuss the week's program with the Reverend John P. Carter.
'Grant Us Light...'
CONCERT REVIEW Hi li n Weeks, seated. Betty Ann Rex, and Sally Pottage rehearse music for harpsichord concert. Pro-
tram will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday, February 17, In I M 'it."ii Room of Lancaster Library.
Players, Jongleurs Select Casts For Play The cast has been announced Mike Couchman as the Old Man. by Longwood Players and the Mary Lynn Lander as the Old Hampden-Sydney Jongleurs for Woman, and Dave Relyea as the spring play, The Power of the Orator. Darkness. Also announced was Lewis Judges Plays the cast for The Chairs, which The Chairs was written by will be taken to the Virginia Ionesco, a modern playwright of Drama Festival in Richmond on the so-called "theatre of the abFebruary 23. surd." When taken to Richmond. Longwood girls cast in T h e the play will be Judgrd, along Power of Darkness ire Carla ! with presentatio; s from eight McNair as Anlsya, Harriet Hunt i other Virginia colleges, by Robas Akulina, Margaret Wright as ert Lewis, one of America's foreAnyutka, Phyllis Duncan as Ma- most directors. Robert Lewis trena, and Mary Lynn Landei I has directed many successful as Marina. Other roles will be ! Broadway shows including Teaplayed by Dotty Cox, Judy . house of the August Moon. Woodyard, Maria Kor.ovaloff Brigadoon, and Witness lor the and Pat Newton. Prosecution. Jongleurs Take Part Written by Leo Tolstoy, the The Hampden-Sydney Jongle: urs are represented by Ed Bak- famous Russian author of such er as Nikita, Mike Couchman as novels as War and Peace and Akini. John McNeal as Petr and Anna Karenina. The Power of the Village Elder, Dave Relyea Darkness is a tragedy about as Mltrich, Bill McGuire as the Russian pea.-ants during the Husband and the Best Man, and nineteenth century- The setting Phil Anderson as the Policeman. is quite elaborate and will be The cast for The Chairs is designed expresslonlstlcally.
Committee Evaluates Co-Curricular Activities ■MrrlD H The report of a student-faculty and 4 committee, formed for tli" p tt Mary Lou Plunkett, M pose of dividing student activl-, Vaughan, and Alice W! ties into the categories of co-1 The recomnuwhich currlcular and extracurricular. were passed, it Is stressed by recently has been accepted by, the committee, do not constitiitthe policies committee of the t a Judgment of the relative college faculty. value of activities and organiza The committee was formed to tions Involved. make these distinctions due to j The recommendations are as the heavy demands made upon follows: the use of Jarman Auditorium: 1. Regularly scheduled meetby various organizations. Co- ings of courses should have pricurricular activities will take ority over any other student acprecedence over extracurricular, tivity, specifically in reference activities in the scheduling of to the following: coming events and in acquiring ai Scheduled classes, the use of Jarman. The comand examinations should not mittee Is composed of chairman be cancelled because tin■■•■ Dr. Carolyn Wells, Dr. Richard | conflict with activities outB. Brooks. Mrs. Kathleen O. aide the curriculum, Cover. Dr R. C. Slmonlnl. Jr., i Continued on page 3)
Theme During Week
Bailey Selected As LC Princess For '63 Festival
Chairmen Plan Final Stage Of Dance
Arts Subject Of Trickett Lecture
Rachel Trickett. English lecturer and author, will speak in Jarman Auditorium on February 14 at 1:00. Her topic will be "Painting and Poetry in the Eighteenth Cmttl Miss Trickett, who is visiting professor of English grammar and literature at Smith College In Massachusetts, was born in England and educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. Her first position was that of an assistant to the Curator of
the City Art Galleries In Man. Englai.d. After thl was named a lecturer in English at the University of Hull. Miss Trickett, besides giving lectures, has writ'.' novels. Return Home r> i the John Llewellyn Rhv mortal Prize. Her new novel is \ Changing Place and was published in England in Nov. Having just oompli book on Dry den, Pope, and ii, Miss Trickett plans to start work on a study of the comic novel during her stay in America.
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1959 Mr. Carter was appointed Provincial Secretary for Collegiate Work in Washingion, D. C. For three years he has served as a board member of the Episcopal Council for Foreign S udents, and in 1955 crgani/ed and led a work camp in Mexico. In the summer of 1959 he led a similar one in Japan. •Sinn' Eadi N ght Each nlStal of Religious Emphasis Week there is an inspirational hymn .^ing in Jarman Auditorium, .it ii 15 p.m.i then an address by the Rev. Carter at 7:00 p.m. And each night a word is added to the :heme "Grant us light that we may. . ." Discuss.on groups led by Mr. Carler are held each night at 9:30 p.m. in the Y Lounge. Tomorrow night he will talk on his Impress! n Of Longwood College and how the g.rls here tin k, e c. During Ills vi.si; at Longwood. Mr. Carter has spoken to several religion and philosophy classes, and he addressed the student body in as. embly Tuesday. He is also available during the day for | ferences.
14 LC Students Receive Degrees Fourteen Longwood College t id' ileted the n q i ments for the I at the end of this Mm I Boykin iH I major; Nancy Lee Bu major; Fra cis G Crowder, English major. Sara 1 I t:on major, Robin M McClana-
han i-i.i u Eli m t.o.i major; i a Hunt, Science major; Barbara Ruth Ma!n major. Also. Clara A' n M KlemaJor; Marilyn I Bllil\I r s. Joyce Brodt. I I icanajor; v. ants, Bocl i tary Educat.on and English major. I Elementary Education major and Donna Jo Tucker, Business Education major.