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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, OCTOBER 13,1977
OCTl 1
ATLANTIC
Art students eagerly prepare for first showing of permanent collection.
Art Dept. Displays Collection
WILSON, N.C. — An
exhibition of paintings, f>ottery,
prints, drawings and sculpture
from the Permanent Collection
of Atlantic Christian College will
be on exhibit at the Case Art
Gallery. The exhibit started Oct.
4 and will continue through Oct.
29.
The exhibit is open to the
public and free of charge. The
operating hours of the gallery,
located on the ACC campus, are
Monday through Friday: 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday: 1
p.m to 3 p.m. The gallery will be
closed Oct. 15 through Oct. 18.
“This is the first showing of
our permanent collection, and
we think that it will be of special
interest to viewers. A wide
variety of styles, techniques,
and subjects are included,
ranging from the abstract to the
realistic,” was an overview of
the exhibit made recently by Ed
Brown, chairman of the ACC art
department.
The show truly does consist of
a wide variety of art. The works
in the show were either donated
to or purchased by the ACC art
department.
“Some of the works in the
show were donated by ACC
graduates, many of whom are
now practicing artists
throughout the country,”
provided Brown. “Three works,
a sculpture by Paul Van Zandt,
and two paintings, one by Vic
Huggins and the other by Frank
Faulkner, are past award
winners in the prestigeous
Annual North Carolina State
Museum Exhibit, and were
donated to us by the North
Carolina State Art Society.”
It has taken nearly twenty
years to assemble this exhibit.
Through the years pieces have
been selectively acquired and
have now been brought together
to form this fine exhibition.
There are approximately 25
paintings, 5 drawings, 10 prints,
70 ceramic pieces and 15
sculptures.
The paintings are in all styles,
medias, and sizes. There are
several large abstract paintings,
and some non-objective works
done in multi-media. Of special
interest are the two paintings
donated by the State Art Society.
The large non-objective painting
by Frank Faulkner is ex
pressive. Faulkner is a very
prestigeous artist whose work
has been exhibited at the Hir-
schorne Museum. Vic Huggins’
abstract shaped paintings are
unique work. Huggins has
pioneered in his own style,
known as shaped painting, in
which he uses cloth to shape his
paintings.
The drawings are largely done
in black and white variations.
Several are pen and ink
drawings, others are pencil. The
prints included in the show are
etchings and silkscreens.
Different types of stone, wood,
and metal were used in the
sculpture on exhibit. About half
of the sculptures were carved,
whereas the other half was
produced by welding together
metals or found objects. The
massive sculpture by Paul Van
Zandt combines clay and wood.
The largest portion of the show is
made up of ceramics. The
numerous pieces include pots,
vases, bowls, and many non
functional abstract pieces. Both
hand build and wheel pieces are
included.
This permanent art collection
of ACC is truly an exhibition of
professionally executed art
work. Anyone would enjoy
viewing this exhibit due to its
wide variety of art forms.
Mary Ann Barwick
WILSON, N.C. — Dr. David F.
Marshall, associate professor of
English at Atlantic Christian
College, presented a lecture on
“CHAUCER* the Man and the
Myth” at Mt. Olive College, on
Wednesday, Oct. 12, at? p.m.
Invited by Mt. Olive’s
Department of English, Dr.
Marshall presented a film strip
on Chaucer and then explored
the differences between the
commonly-held idea of Chaucer,
as a bawdy and indecent writer
and the more knowledgeable
view of Chaucer as a committed,
concerned Christian, writing
within the nominalistic outlook.
Dr. Marshall was a Lilly
Visiting Scholar in the
Humanities at Duke Univeristy
in 1976-77, where he studied
Chaucer’s writings and his
retraction. Dr. Marshall holds
Professors Active
the B.A. degree in English and
religion from Texas Christian
University, theM.Div. degree in
theology and literature from
Union Theological Seminary,
New York, and the Ph D degree
in linguistics from New York
University.
WILSON, N.C. — Dr. Ronald
Wachs, associate professor of
history at Atlantic Christian
College, delivered the first
lecture in the AAUP Faculty
Lecture Series at the college on
Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 8 p.m., in
the choral room of Roma
Hackney Music Building, on the
college campus.
The lecture, entitled “Law and
Order — SouUiern Styles,” dealt
with a situation in the 1950’s
when three Southern governors
— those of Kentucky, Tennessee,
SGA
Discovers
Deception
The Student Government
Association learned Tuesday
night through a phone con
versation with Wilson Howard of
Beach Club Productions that
Phil Darnell has fraudulently
presented himself as spokesman
for the SGA Entertainment
Committee. Darnell, a member
of last year's Entertainment
Committee, has allegedly
presented himself to at least one
booking agency in order to book
a concert for the college without
Student Government per
mission.
Darnell earlier asked for. but
did not receive, f>ermission from
the SGA to chair the Enter
tainment Committee this year.
However, Darnell has allegedly
booked Kenny Loggins and Dave
Mason for Wednesday, Oct. 19.
The concert would have cost the
college $15,000, which is only
$800 less than the entire amount
allocated to the Entertainment
Committee.
Darnell is not a member of this
year’s committee.
The scandal was uncovered on
Tuesday, Oct. 11. Jones Fuquay,
President of the S.G.A., received
the phone call from Howard who
wanted definite word on next
week's concert. Until then,
Fuquiiy nor anyone else on the
SGA or the Entertainment
Committee, had heard of such a
concert taking place.
It has since been discovered
that Darnell has charged several
long distance phone calls to the
S.G. A. in order to line up this and
possibly other concerts. The
phone company has since been
asked that the charges be
reversed and charged to the
booking agencies.
For the Entertainment
Committee, this could mean
trouble. Unless the problem can
be straightened out, many
agencies may black-ball
Atlantic Christian College which
could make it very hard, if not
impossible, for the school to
convince any big name bands to
come to A C. for the next several
years.
The S.G.A. has asked Fuquay
to send letters to the Dean of
Students and the President of the
College in order to inform them
of what has happened so that
they may reprimand Darnell.
As of this time, no legal action
has been taken agaiast Darnell.
Fred Pierce
SGA RefK)rter
Viewpoint
and Arkansas — sent their
national guard into school
desegregation conflicts with the
mission to “restore law and
order.” Implications ranged
from advocacy of desegregation
through neutrality to defiance of
the federal government.
Relying heavily on interviews
with many of the participants,
the lecture delineated the
diversity of the Southern ex
perience.
According to Dr. Harlow
Head, president of the ACC
Chapter of the American
Association of University
Professors, other lectures in the
series will be delivered by Dr.
Roger Bullard, Nov. 16; Dr. Ted
Foy, Feb. 16 and Dr. Anand
Jaggi, March 15.
The public is invited to attend
all lectures in the series which
will be free of charge.
What do racism, Chaucer, and
the Apocrypha have in common?
They are all subjects of research
by members of the ACC faculty.
In this final article on faculty
research, we encounter two
more Lilly scholars and a
translator in the Religion
Department.
Dr. Jerry MacLean, supported
by a grant from the Lilly
Foundation, is studying the
attitudes of John Quincy Adams
on racism and the anti
slavery movement. Doing much
of his work at Duke University,
Dr. MacLean is exploring the
Adams’ family manuscripts
which fill up six-hundred and
four microfilm reels. He is also
making use of the published
Adams memoirs in our own
Hackney Library.
“The racist attitude of Adams
is hard to pin down,” said Dr.
MacLean. “He corresponded
with anti-slavary leaders, but
did not favor immediate
abolition.” Dr. MacLean noted
that Adams was one of only two
Americans to serve in the
Congress after serving as
President. The other was
Andrew Jackson.
Adams was influential in
rescinding the Gag Rule on the
House of Representatives which
prohibited members from irv-
troducing anti-slavery petitions.
He also forecast the Civil War.
Dr. David Marshall of our
English Department was a Lilly
Scholar last year and has just
completed a final draft of his
project, “The Interrelationship
of Drama, History, and
Theology.” He believes that “the
differences between drama,
history, and theology are dif
ferences of degree rather than
substance. All three attempt to
interpret events, they just use
different methods.”
He is also writing a paper
which challenges John Gard
ner’s contention that Chaucer’s
later Canterbury Tales
represent a conscious creation of
bad art. Dr. Marshall used a
faculty grant from ACC to study
at the Folger Shakespeare
Library in Washington, D.C. last
summer.
Dr. Roger Bullard of the
Religion Department has been
busy on a variety of projects. He
is completing work on a new
translation of the Ap(x;rypha for
the American Bible Society
which will be publishtni as part
of the Good News Bible. A
member of a three man com
mittee working on the tran
slation, Dr. Bullard explained
that translating the Apocrypha
involves working with Greek,
Hebrew and Latin. The com
mittee, which is nearing the end
of its work, will meet in Wilson in
November.
“The books of the
Apocrypha,” Dr. Bullard said,
“are part of the Roman Catholic
Bible.” Although Protestants
generally do not accept them as
sacred scripture, they are found
in some Protestant Bibles.
Interestingly enough, there are
differences in the lists of bcwks
found in Catholic and Protestant
Aprocryphas.
In his newest project, Dr.
Bullard is serving as an
associate editor of the new
Abingdon Dictionary of Living
Religions, scheduled for
publication in 1981. The dic
tionary will be about one million
words in length, and Dr, Bullard
will be responsible for the en
tries on Christianity, Judaism,
and Islam. These will comprise
about one-third of the volume.
For the moment, Dr. Bullard
is preparing a list of topics to be
covered. Once that is completed,
he will search for qualified
scholars to write the articles.
Dr. Bullard was one of the
translators of the Old Testament
of the Good News Bible, a task
that consumed almost ten years.
This Bible was published last
December.