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Vol. VII No. 2
GASTON COLLEGE, DALLAS, N.C.
February 14, 1972
Gaston's Industrial Building To Be Ready By Spring Quarter
Great Decisions" Classical Guitarist To Perform At Gaston Building To House
Sessions Planned
Dr. Michael Stockstill, Head
of the Department of Social
Studies, has announced that
Gaston College will offer a free
ten week “Great Decisions”
discussion program ' beginning
March 14. The first of the ten
weekly sessions will begin on
Tuesday, March 14, at 7:00
p.m. The program will offer a
unique chance for any
interested citizen to take part
in an open and constructive
debate on the great foreign and
domestic issues facing our
nation in this election year,
according to a letter sent by
Dr. Stockstill to leaders of the
community.
The course will include
sessions in the following topics:
“Guns and/or Butter (Wliat
price national security?),”
March 14; “Japan and the
United States (What will our
future relations be?),” March
21; “The Common Market and
the United States (Is a trade
war brewing?),” March 28;
“Our China Policy (How far
and how deep the thaw?),”
April 4; “Vietnam and After
(What lessons have we
learned?),” April II; “Rich
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Mr. Frederic Hand, classical
guitarist, composer, recording
star, and television performer,
will present a concert of guitar
music for Gaston College
students at 11:00 a.m. on
February 24, 1972, in the
Gaston Learning Resources
Center.
Hand, who has composed
and performed several movie
soundtracks, will play selections
ranging from such musical
styles as Elizabethan to
twentieth century favorites,
including Bossa Nova and
LA PRESSS
MONTREAL
Ford Foundation Grants Won By
Miss Wanda Fewell And Albert James
For the second consecutive
year Gaston College has
produced Ford Foundation
scholarships. Miss Wanda Fewell
and Albert James have been
named as this year’s winners.
The scholarships vary in
monetary worth and are to be
used for completion of a four
year degree.
Last year’s winner was
Enoch Lyon.
. Miss Fewell, who is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin
Fewell of 307 North Rhyne
Street in Gastonia, is a
graduate of Highland Junior
High School and Frank L.
Ashley Senior High School in
Gastonia.
While in high school Miss
Fewell received the Home
Economics Award and she won
the Civics Award in Highland
school. She plans to transfer
from Gaston College to Sacred
Heart College in Belmont,
where she will major in social
welfare.
At Gaston Miss Fewell has
worked as an assistant in the
Learning Resources Center.
The other Ford Grant
recipient is Albert Henry
James, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Wylie James, Sr., of 508 West
Norment Avenue in Gastonia.
He attended Highland High
School, where he was a
member of the Glee Club,
Future Business Leaders of
America, Science Club, and
Library Club. He was named
“Most Courteous” among senior
superlatives. He graduated from
Highland High School in 1966.
James plans to transfer to
the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, where he
will major in Elementary
Education to meet state
certification for Special
Education. He will graduate
from Gaston at the end of the
Spring Quarter.
While at Gaston James has
made the Dean’s List on two
occasions and at Awards Day
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Pre-Registration
Till Fines Are Poid!
Gaston students who have
not paid their parking tickets
will be in for a rude surprise
when they start pre-registration
procedures, says Horace Cline,
Dean of Student Personnel. No
student will be permitted to
register for courses for the
Spring Quarter if he is
delinquent in payments for
parking violations or for any
other type of ticket violation
at Gaston College.
“Students who owe fines
should make necessary
arrangements as soon as
possible,” Cline said. Ticket
fines can be paid through the
business office in the C. Grier
Beam Administration Building.
Since pre-registration dates
differ among the various
divisions of the college,
students should double check
dates and pay fines prior to
that time. If a student wishes
to appeal a ficket, he must do
so prior to pre-registration.
Dates Are Announced
For Pre-Registration
Bruce Trammell, Gaston
College Registrar, has released
the schedule for pre-registration
for returning students. He
noted that, since the dates vary
from division to division,
students should make certain to
take care of making
appointments at the appropriate
times.
Students in the Technical
Division should pre-register on
February 21 and 22. Dates for
Vocational Division students are
February 14-17. Academic
Division pre-registration will be
held February 9-19. Early
payment dates are the same for
all three divisions: February
21-22.
Beatles compositions.
A native of New York City,
Hand began his guitar studies
at the age of nine. The
twenty-five year old artist was
voted by MUSICAL AMERICA
as one of 1970’s most gifted
young performers and has been
labeled as one of America’s
most versatile virtuosos.
Among the numerous mofion
picture sound tracks composed
by Hand is the prize-winning
music from the film “Match.”
He has performed for the New
York Shakespeare Festival, the
New York City Opera and
Ballet, the Little Orchestra
Society, and on Broadway in
John Osborne’s play “A Patriot
for Me.”
A graduate of the Mannes
College of Music, Hand studied
under Leonid Bolotine and was
later selected as a performing
member of Julian Bream’s
Masterclasses in Stratford,
Ontario. He is also the first
guitarist to receive private
tuition by Bream.
In addition to studying in
England under a Fulbright
Grant, Hand has toured North
America and has appeared on
such nationally televised
programs as “Sesame Street”
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Vocational Programs
Gaston College’s latest
building, the Industrial Building,
is near completion and will
hopefully be ready for use at
the beginning of the Spring
Quarter, according to Dr,
George McSwain, Dean of
Instruction, Tentative
completion date for the interior
has been set for February 27,
1972.
Date for completion of
exterior work, such as paving,
will be dependent largely upon
the weather conditions.
However, the classroom space
will be available as soon as the
state inspection is made and
official acceptance of the
building is announced. McSwain
said that it is perhaps possible
for the college to accept the
interior for use before the
entire building, including
exterior work, is completed.
Upon completion, the
Industrial Building will house
the machine shop, welding,
auto mechanics, and air
conditioning programs. There
will be three classrooms
available also. The furniture for
these rooms will be here and
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Creech and Benedict Work
Accepted By Cannes Art Show
Art instructors Dexter
Benedict and Frank Creech
have both been informed of
acceptance of their entries for
the eighth annual Grand Prix
du Cote d’Azur in Cannes,
France, which is an
international exhibition of
paintings and drawings. Their
works will be shown from
February 20-28, 1972.
Benedict’s work, entitled
“Left Mark,” is a figurative
profile drawing which he
describes as giving the effect of
looking through a space
over-lap atmosphere to a figure
in shadows. Impresionistic
rather than symbolic, the work
is an effort to force each
viewer to rely upon his own
judgment rather than
superimposition of standardized
forms upon the observer.
Benedict says that the drawing
is intended to heighten the
visual experience in that it
leads into mental dialogue of
speculation and contemplation.
Creech entered and had
accepted an ink wash conti
charcoal and chalk drawing of
a man, which had been taken
from a detail in an earlier
drawing. Entitled “Something in
His Hand,” the drawing shows
a figure holding a shadowy,
nebulous substance which, like
the symbols in Benedict’s work,
must be interpreted
individually. The earlier work,
Creech said, impelled and
disciplined the current drawing,
primarily because he didn’t
want to enter a work which
had already been shown and he
had to create another drawing.
Creech and Benedict are the
only two artists in North
Carolina whose works have
been accepted for the showing.
Creech feels that he was
invited because of a short
prose work of his which
appeared in the French
magazine “La Revue Moderne:
Des Artes et de la Vie” in the
October 1971 issue.
The Gaston instructors
explained their successful
entries in a modest fashion by
protesting that relatively few
Americans enter the show.
“Economically, it isn’t
encouraging,” Creech said. “But
you have to put yourself on
the firing line if you believe in
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Left, Dexter Benedict; Right Frank Creech