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Page 2 The N.C. Essay May 21,1970 editorial by Mike Fergusor Perhaps the first hope of summer had touched our land. Perhaps a spring mad ness had seized us. Perhaps it was finally time, out of necessity, for us to truly come together. The news from the war was frustra ting. Another attack, a new territory in which our men now fought. The news from the war was always frustrating: many, many dead, more wounded, fur ther attacks. No one understood this war. No one could. Finally, wearied by the long years of war and this latest news, many young people in our land rebelled against their superiors, those who created the wars, but never fought in them. But the children were not strong enough and were hurt. Four were killed. It seemed that the war was now spreading to our land. For a long time we-being the bards of our land- watched this from our small, secluded, but comfortable home, without really seeing what was happen ing in other parts of our land. We were busy with our plays and dances and poems and sweet music filling the air. In fact, we were often so occupied with our dreams, that we sometimes forgot each other. On the Friday of this very strange week, we learned the latest news from the war. We learned of the children kil led. We looked at each other in astonish ment. How had this happened? Why? As the sun grew brighter on this Friday, many of us had gathered in the small square of our home. We talked about the painful war, about the child ren who were killed because they didn’t want war. We decided that we must do something. Many wrote letters to the leaders ol our land. They told them of their sad ness about the war. Some wore black bands on their arms. Many signed a long leafed letter to the chief, telling him to stop the war. In the afternoon, as the wind blew a gentle warmth through the square, some of our older, wiser bards came in and spoke to us. We then brought our music and our dreamy verse and gave it to each other, so that we might better understand the evils of the war. Many people were there. Many faces who were not seen of ten in our home. We were talking to each other, learning about each other, because, for the first time, we cared about each other. It was indeed a strange day at our home. Many did not understand what happened. Many do not understand why. But most agreed that it was a good day, despite the sadness which covered our land. It was a good day because something was gained for what was lost. NIC S/^ : THE N.C. ESSAY STAFF : North Carolina School of the Arts ; P.O. Box 4657, Winston-Salem, N.C, Editor Tony Senter Staff Mike Ferguson Kathy Fitzgerald Sandra Williams Gwen Spear Sam Barcelona Typist Val Parker Advisor Anthony Fragola COMMENCEMENT REHEARSAL Friday, May 29, at 1:30 p.m. in the Main Vuditorium. All High School and College grad- lating seniors must attend. IMPORTANT!!!’ New Deans Appointed Appointments of two deans at the North Carolina School of the Arts are announced to day by Robert Ward, president. Dr. William H. Baskin has been appointed Academic Dean of the School of the Arts, and Ronald Pollock is now Dean of the School of Drama. Both Dr. Baskin and Mr. Pollock have served as acting deans of their schools since last March and June respectively. Dr. Baskin’s major fields of study have been Romance languages, especially French and Italian. As a Fulbright scholar, he studied at the University of Paris and the University of Poitiers in France, and he studied at the Uni versity degli Studi di Milano in Italy under a post-doctoral grant from the Piedmont Univer sity Center. Dr. Baskin’s undergraduate and graduate work was done at the University of North Caro lina at Chapel HiU. He has taught at the Uni versity and was a scholar-in-residence at Duke University. He was chairman of the Romance Languages Department at Milsaps College in Jackson, Miss., and before coming to the School of the Arts, he was associate professor of modern language at Salem College. A num ber of monographs in his major fields of inter est have been published. Mr. Pollock’s entire professional carrer has been spent in the theater, primarUy in produc tion and management. He was connected for five years with the Playhouse Theater Company at Vancouver, Canada, where he served as stage manager and business manager. He was also production manager for the Vancouver Festival Society for Two seasons. (1966 and 1967) He came to the School of the Arts in the summer of 1968 to form a new School of De sign and Production. Students may now major in this field at the School of the Arts. The School of Design and Production is responsible for the staging of all performances given at the School. Mr. Pollock has continued as Dean of the School of Design and Production while ser ving as Acting Dean of the School of Dranta- He will continue to head the School of Design and Production imtil a successor can be found- Mr. Pollock is a native of Calgary^ Alberta, Canada. He has an A.B. Degree from the Uni versity of Alberta and has studied at the Neigh borhood Playhouse School of Theater in NeW York.
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