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VOL. XXVI LOUISBLRG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C„ FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1967 No. 9
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Members of the American Dance Panorama group are left to right, Eric Hampton, James Clouser -
Choreographer, Linda Di Bona, Walter Terry - Producer, Florence Kingsbury, and Anna Maria De
Gorriz.
Barbara Temple
Is May Queen
The May Day dance, sponsored
by the freshman class, will be
held Saturday, May 6, 1967, at
eight o’clock in the gymnasium.
“The Excorts” from Richmond,
Virginia are providing music
for the dance.
Barbara Temple is the 1967
May Queen; and Betty Hofler is
the Maid of Honor. Barbara’s
escort is Dave Adkins, and
Betty’s Is Ronnie Perry. The
other members of the court
and their escorts are; Ardith
Parker and Kent Lawrence, Su
san Steed and Charlie Reynolds,
Lynda Wootten and Bill Stone,
Carolyn Smiley and Jackie Tay
lor, Susan Russell and Wayne
Hegameyer, Mary Jo Laughter
and Busch Enos, Becky Page and
John Warren, Elizabeth Cam
eron and Jim Chandler, Anne
Dixon and Mike Hough, and Iris
Shipp and Vic Creech.
The May Court will present a
Geometric Figure, after which
Barbara will be crowned. Then
the Court will dance the waltz.
The theme of the dance is
“Springtime in the South.”
SGA Officers
For 1967-68
Cabinet:
President - Harry Bryan
Vice-Pres. - Lynda Wootten
Treasurer - Moses Barker
Secretary - Laura Nelms
Men's Council:
Vice-President - Ronnie Hight
Treasurer - Ken Patton
Secretary - Herman Hall
Women's Council:
Vlce-Pres. - Lindy Anderson
Secretary - Gayle Connors
Treasurer - Nancy Campbell
Wright Pres. - Kay Nethercutt
Merritt Pres. - Pam Tuttle
Terry, Clouser Receive
Standing Ovation
On April 27th, Walter Terry,
reknown dance critic for the
World Journal Tribune, pre
miered his AMERICAN DANCE
PANORAMA here atLouisburg.
The performance, directed and
choreographed by James Clous
er, ballet master of the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet in Canada, re
ceived a resounding standing
ovation from the approximately
520 persons in attendance. In
addition to Clouser, the com
pany included Eric Hampton
from the Juilliard Dance En
semble in New York, Linda Di
Bona, leading dancer with the
Boston Ballet, and Anna Maria
De Gorriz and Florence Kings
bury from the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet.
The production, in essence,
acquainted the audience with
the various types of dances
in the history of America from
the Indian gesticulations to the
modern discotheque dances,
with a glimpse at the future
sights and sounds of ballet. Mr.
Terry provided the commentary
and introductions for several of
the numbers. In this com
mentary, marked by humor and
impromptu imitations of va
rious ballet forms, he incor
porated a bit of the history of
Loulsburg College.
In addition to choreographing
and directing the performance,
the versatile Mr. Clouser was
one of the principle dancers.
His tremendous dancing ability
was evident when he performed
“The Young Brave” and “The
Dance of Adam”. The former
was an Indian dance performed
to the thumping of drums to
the rhythm of a heart beat. The
latter being Clouser’s awe-in
spiring rendition of the crea
tion of man.
Other outstanding dances in
the panorama were “The
Swan”, performed by Anna
Maria De Gorriz and “Recur
rence”, a contemporary love
duet danced by eighteen-year
old Linda Di Bona and Eric
Hampton.
According to Mr. Terry, the
idea of this particular dance
panorama resulted from a pro
duction he wrote for a festival
in Boston. This production had
an extremely large cast and In
cluded a symphony orchestra.
The program presented the va
rious dances from 1900 to the
present and was very success
ful. From this specially writ
ten production for the Boston
festival came AN AMERICAN
DANCE PANORAMA, There
i are plans for the Panorama to
' go on tour in either the spring
or fall of 1968. Also, Mr. Ter
ry said that he had been ap
proached by a national tele
vision network interested in
staging the show for T.V.
Walter Terry had an interest
ing story to relate concerning
the beginning of his career.
It started when he was a stu
dent at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill when
he took a dance lesson from
the wife of one of his pro
fessors. This first lesson ul
timately resulted in the forma
tion of Carolina’s first dance
group - thirty male dancers,
many of them being athletes.
From there, Terry went to
New York and studied the va-
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Three Students Confess
To Vandalism Rampage
Late Wednesday night, May 3,
vandals went on a rampage,
breaking several car windows
belonging to faculty and admin
istrative officials of the Col
lege, and windows in the li
brary.
The front doors of the library
were smashed by rocks, and a
Vodka bottle was thrown against
another of the plate glass win
dows in the building. However,
this failed to damage the win
dow. The cars that were hit by
the vandals belonged to T. A.
Patterson, Dean of Students;
Miss Sarah Richardson, Pro
fessor of English; Whit Shea-
rin. Professor in the Business
Department; Butch Stein, a
student here at LC, and Rev.
Wade Goldston. Also hit was
the Louisburg Dry Cleaners,
who had the front, plate glass
windows of their establishment
knocked out.
The Louisburg Police Depart
ment investigated the vanda
lism, and there was some talk of
Investigation. At the present,
three men enrolled in the Col
lege have confessed to the crime
and will be indicted by the
Louisburg Police Department.
Police estimate that the damage
will run somewhere between
$1,500 and $2,000.
These activities seemed to
culminate a continuing pattern
of vandalism that has occurred
over the past three to four
weeks. Apparently it began
with a rock throwing incident
at Mr. Patterson’s home on the
night of April 10. Since then
there has been numerous in
cidents of aerials being brok
en off cars on the campus.
Also, vandals have torn down
the decorations for the Spring
Dance to be held Saturday and
on Monday night. May 1, they
took bricks from the sidewalk
In front of Main Building in such
a manner that formed the word
“hell”.
Duberg Speaks On
Research At Langley
On May 2, Dr. John E. Du
berg, Assistant Director of the
Langley Research Center for
the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration, spoke
here on “The Role of Scientific
Research in the Space Age.”
Dr. Duberg was presented in ac
cord with the 180th Anniversary
Celebration.
Dr. Duberg presented his lec
ture in a unique method, em
ploying various slides to illus
trate his points. He centered
his talk primarily around the
research activities at the Lang
ley Research Center in Hamp
ton, Virginia. Langley, found
ed in 1917, is the oldest of all
the NASA field centers and now
employs a staff of 4300 people.
Duberg noted that Langley has
been doing extensive research
In the field of commercial avia
tion. For the past ten years
they have be^n studying the pos
sibilities of developing a plane
that will travel about 2,000
m.p.h. and another that will
travel at six to eight times
the speed of sound, or about
5,000 miles per hour. Also
being studied concerning com
mercial aircraft are the meth
ods that can be used to reduce
the noise of the large Jets.
On the manned space flight
front, Langley holds a lead
ing position in the training of
the astronauts. In the Gemini
program, the Agena docking
facet was rehearsed at Langley
prior to the flight. Astronauts
also practice the docking with
the Apollo spacecraft that will
be essential on the return flight
from the moon. There is also
a simulator at Langley that
projects the lunar landscape
during a mock-up lunar flight.
In the field of unmanned satel
lites, Langley has done ex
tensive work in identifying the
environment of outer space.
One of their earliest satellites
concerning this was Echo I.
They are also studying the pene
trating power of small parti
cles in space. This aids in the
determining of the type of metal,
and its thickness, for space
craft.
One of the major projects for
the future at Langley, according
to Dr. Duberg, is the project
Voyager. This project will
consist of flights to Mars to
study its atmosphere and its
surface. The spacecraft to be
used in this endeavor is being
designed and built at Langley.
When questioned, following his
speech, concerning the Apollo
and Russian space tragedies.
Dr. Duberg said that his know
ledge of the two matters came
solely from the newspapers. He
said that it appeared the Russian
craft was tumbling in its orbit
due to some malfunction in its
control system. This tumbling
continued when the ship re
turned to the atmosphere, thus
causing the parachute to become
tangled. The Apollo accident
was caused by some kind of
Ignition shorting in the wires.