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PAGE 2 — Smoke Signals, Wednesday, January 26, 1977 r ^0' Mrs. Ruth Marks walks through the newly fallen snow on her way to the car. Murfreesboro had approximately two inches of snow at one point during the holidays. THE FOOTBALL PLAYING ADMINISTRATOR — Not to be upstaged by the Super Bowl, Co-Director of Admissions Mark Hurst puts the pressure on the opposing neighborhood quarterback, Ronnie Bridgers. Bridgers’ son Brian holds on to his father’s leg. Library Users Indebted To Frenchman Thousands of Tar Heels and millions of Americans for whom the public library is indispensable are not aware of the beneficence of Nicholas Alexander Vattemore, a French physician who is almost invisible in our history. During Van Buren’s administration (1837-1841) Vattemore, acclaimed as a brilliant, revolutionary surgeon and, oddly, touted as the greatest ven triloquist of the 19th century, brought an exciting idea to America: In ternational understanding and com passion would be dormant unless there was a free, full exchange of books on literature, science, history and government. And these collections should be circulated without cost to patrons from public libraries. At the time no major American city had a large, general ibrary for such collections. President Van Buren and a majority of Congress embraced Vat- temare’s suggestion avidly. Leisure Learning Solution B «. A mm nQQ P -U For Sale 1965 VW Van Contact: Mr. Collins in the Financial Aid Office Disney World Auditions Set LAKE BUENA VISTA, FL.- Singers, dancers and musicians throughout the country will audition, beginning February 11, for the Disney Entertainment Work Experience Program at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. The program puts college entertainers to work for the summer utilizing their entertainment talents and making them eligible for college credits. The Work Experience students perform in several entertainment groups, including the All-American College Marching Band and the All- American College Singers, providing them with valuable work experience, exposing them to top names in en tertainment, and earning them a salary. Since the Workshop’s inception in 1971, more than 1,000 students from all over the United States have par ticipated. Several have returned to work full-time in the Disney theme parks. Selected appl.icants will receive scholarships to the Disney en tertainment Work Experience Program, a grant for housing costs and a $1,000 stipend for the summer per formances. The auditions are open to all freshmen, sophomores and juniors currently in college. The deadline for applications is March 1, 1977. In addition to performing in the parks, students in the Workshop Program will receive training in voice, movement, composition, arranging, acting, and other skills which enrich a performer. Guest lecturers from the Disney organization, plus noted personalities and performing groups from the en tertainment fields will be invited to speak to students. In previous years, Jack Lemmon, Mel Torme and Paul Winfield have addressed workshop participants. Students will also have the op portunity to study privately with selected faculty. The work schedule for the Disney college program is eight hours per day, five days per week. This includes performances, workshops and rehearsals. Auditions will be held in Chicago (Feb. 11-12), New York (Feb. 14-15), Washington, D.C. (Feb. 17), Atlanta (Feb. 19), Miami (Feb. 21, Orlando (Feb. 22), Kansas City, Missouri (Feb. 25), Dallas (Feb. 26), Houston (Feb. 27), Salt Lake City (Feb. 28), Seattle (March 5), San Francisco (March 6), and Los Angeles (March 7-8). Further information and an ap plication can be obtained from Disney Entertainment-Work Experience Program, Entertainment Division, Walt Disney World, P.O. Box 40, Lake Buena Vista, Florida 32830. Telephone: (305 ) 824-4206. Don't Wait for DTs (Reprinted from Ann Landers) Dear Ann Landers: I would like to conunent on the letter from “Too Young to be a drunk.” I’m 22 years old, a student at a top Ivy schi^ol, and have been a heavy drinker for over four years. Although it had crossed my mind that I might be an alcoholic, I never sought help. When I read the letter in your column from “Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired,” I decided to attend my first AA meeting. That was last night. My God, why did I wait so long? True, my experieences with booze were tame compared to some of the speakers, but as one man put it, “You don’t have to let yourself go the whole route-DTs, hallucinations, or lying in the gutter, before you come to us.” I urge all college students who suspect they have a drinking problem to go to AA. You will be welcomed by people who care, people who have seen waste and devastation in their own lives and want to stop it in yours. Please give AA a chance. You have nothing to lose.- A Life Saved. Dear Life: Although this is the first letter I have received from an Ivy student who confessed he’s an alcoholic I’m sure there are thousands of others out there just like you and I hope you have given them the courage they need to get help. Alcoholics Anonymous is in the phone book. I urge all suspect their drinking is out of control to phone and find out when and where their neigh borhood chapter meets, and GO before before the booze washes them out of school and ruins their lives. Contest Date Extended By KAREN MEYERS Early last November there was an article in Smoke Signals about a t-shirt contest that was to go on till Feb. 1. Well, no one has submitted an idea yet. The SGA has 33 dozen t-shirts waiting to be printed. All we need is a slogan and some sort of drawing that could be done in one color to be printed on these shirts of our concert in April. You don’t need the name of the group to think up something. They did not call last year’s concert “April Jam” because there was a group playing call “April Jam”!! The contest wiimer will recieve $25 and 2 free tickets to the concert. The dead line now for the contest if Feb. 8,1977. Please give your entry to your SGA hall representative. Leisure Learning ACROSS 1. physically con fined 6. where letters are numbers 11. Roman household deity 12. ex-UPS competitor 13. opposite of basicity 16. delayed for time 19. to exist by begging 20. college in Virginia 21. flat bottomed con tainer 22. My massacre 23. suspicious 25. Brenda or Ringo 27. compass point 28. string and waxed 31. to the same degree 32. Pope’s forte 33. country songstress 34. "A Bell for " 35. loose fitting tunic 38. gas rating 42. Dpi competitor 43. marine shelter 46. Cojse to be (suffix) 47. their multiples are 81; 729; 6561 50. villain of TV com mercials 52. voter's affiliation (abbr.) 53. pressure (abbr.) 55. beetle or bumble bee 57. loom lever 58. “ on a Jet Plane” 60. Rushmore sculp tor's medium 62. to reach by calcu lation 63 religious trans gression 64. Hillary's quest 65. treat with regard DOWN 1. dry, white wine 2. nourishes or sus tains 3. Coward lyric: “ Dogs and Englishmen” 4. monarch’s seal 5. solid carbon diox ide (2 wds.) 6. "Pride & Preju dice” author 7. takes forcibly 8. electric fish 9. ship's stabilizer 10. firewood support 14. actor’s direction 15. peaceful contem plation 17. ”you' in Spanish 18. Van Gogh’s tragic loss 24. “event■■ in Latin 26. asphalt 28. type of moulding 29. printer's measure 30. cylinder for hold ing thread 35. the Captain's Toni 36. wound covering 37. O’Neill drama: 'The Hairy ” 39. prefix; threefold 40. indigo plant liquid amine 41. a first principle 44. 64 across is noted for it 45. accountant's trademark 48. chemical ending 49. unneighborly fence 50. Whitman's "Leaves of ” 51. wrestling arena 54. tin (abbr,) 56, a coordinating conjunction 59. "to see ” in Span ish 61. shot of liquor courtesy of aap Student service Association of American Publishers To begin rectification, Josiah Quincy, mayor of Boston and a close friend of Monsieur Vattemare’s, obtained legail permission from the Massachusetts legislature for the creation of such a library. Quincy’s request became a happy enduring fact in April, 1848. For the very first time in American history a state legislature passed a statute that provided for a public library. And in March, 1854, Boston became the first major American city to have a tax- supported library. Vattemare would be ecstatic today to behold the nation’s 9,000 public libraries with their 4,500 brancnes. More than 52 million Americans have public library cards, around 842,000,000 volumes are circulated each year. The Latin word for “free” is “liber” and the En^ish word “liberty” is from the “latin noun “libertas.” Thus, the liberal arts are those that befit a free man. Curiously enough, the Latin “liber,” which came to mean a book, was the bark of a tree originally. The English “library” and “librarian” are from the Latin “librarius.” Snow was the big story at Chowan while the students were away on Christmas break. Here, Wanda Sowell photographs Robin Herbin with their snowman. Extinction List Lengthens The list of extinctions lengthens with increasing human exploitation of the worlds natural resorces. Today almost six-hundred forms of mammals and birds are moving toward extinction. Their ulitmate fate depends on a single species; our own. Although human ignorance, apathy, and negligence have led to the destruction of entire spceies, it is also true that man has it within his powers to conserve those that remain, if he is so minded. Deliberate slaughter by man is one of the principal causes of extinction, by excessive, often commericalized ex ploitation. The most significant reason is the destruction or degradation of natural habitats. Deforestration, agricultural and pastoral expansion, and spreading urbanization are some of the factors which have contributed to the sitution. The introduction of exotic animals and plants have also disrupted the long established, and sometimes delicately held, natural checks and balances. Threatened animals, endangered species, these warnings are not new but have long been ignored. Once an animal species disappears it can never be revived, a fact that must be stessed and stressed again and again. We are discribing the sorry end of the many species that have already disappeared, rather the species that are still living, those existence hange on a slender thread which are strengthen or break. Even in apparently hopeless cases, determined men can susta^ life. If we look at the economic expansion attained in this century, often at the detriment of nature, the costly space voyages, the runious wars, is it too optimistic to ask for a few tens of millions for conserving nature? There is still a chance of saving these vanishing species, but the opportunity should be siezed at once since any delay will lengthen the list of those already extinct. What constructive action can be taken to redress the situation, some of which seem almost beyond hope of solution? The ultimate responsibility rest squarely with the government concerned for conservation of wildlife and other living natural resources. Individuals and organizations can assist by drawing a government at tention to a particular situation and advising on suitable measures to meet the iroblem. Let us try to save our most precious natural resource, life itself. Horizons Session Held The second annual “Horizons in Business” program by the Chowan College department of business was held Friday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., in McDowell Columns auditorium. Area high school students and their teachers were invited. According to T. E. Ruffin, Jr., Chairman of department of business, the guest speakers included “an out standing business executive, a certified professional secretary, and a specialist from the world of fashion.” Ruffin called the program an op portunity in career guidance. M. Lebby Boinest, Jr., vice president of Hoemer Waldorf Corp., Roanoke Rapids, spoke on “An Adininistrator Looks at I^ospective Employees.” The topic of Mrs. Ruby B. Evans, ad ministrative secretary in the Cost Department of J. P. Stevens & Co., Roanoke Rapids, was “A Suc cessful Secretary Speaks.” Miss Betty Wrenn, assistant training director with Miller & Rhodes in Rich mond, Va. presented “Merchandising with a Flourish.” Ruffin said, “Students who attended ‘Horizons in Business’ gained the ad ditional benefit of becoming directly acquainted with the opportunities available to those currently enrolled in business programs. Ruffin explained department of business “provides what we believe to be a curriculum to fulfill the need of every student interested in business on the collegiate level.” He named these curricula as accounting, business administration, business education, merchandising management, secretarial one-year diploma, clerical one-year diploma, secretarial ad ministration, medical secretarial administration, legal secretarial ad ministration, church secretarial ad ministration, medical clerical ad- minidtration, and clerical ad ministration.
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