THE N. C. ESSAY
VOLUME V, NO. XVIU
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
MAY 28, 1071
Henderson SCA Pres.
by Kathleen Fitzgerald
Elections for representatives to
serve on the Student Council next
year were held a few weeks ago
and these are the results:-
President - Steve Henderson.
Vice President - Steve Geiger.
Secretary - Marylin Mclnt^e.
Judicial Board Chairman ^
Richard Kaplan.
Upper Division Drama - Glen
O’Mally, Chris Coan and Henry
Pankey.
Middle Division Drama - Carol
Levinson.
Upper Division Dance - Karen
Gober and Stephanie Ely.
Middle Division Dance - Cheryl
Katy.
L^er Division Dance - Louise
d’Amelio.
Upper Division Music - Dee
Moses and Francis Perry.
Middle Division Music - Joe
Genualdi and John i^errill.
Lower Division Music • Lee
Metcalfe.
Upper Division Design and
Production - Paul Dale and Peter
Girvin.
Middle Division Design and
Production - Kevin Dreyer.
The number of people who
voted in the initial elections was
refreshingly large, 289 students
managed to stop long enough to
make a few pencil marks on a
ballot before rushing into the
cafeteria. 210 students registered
for the run-offs which followed.
At any rate, the representatives
were chosen by a se^ent of the
student body which is concerned
with the S.C.A.’s continued ef
fective functioning and this
segment was larger than in any
previous elections. There were
also a good number of students
running this year, again, more
than in previous years.
Asked what his reactions to the
election results were, Steve
Henderson replied that he had
been “shocked at first but then
happy.” He said that while there
is certainly a lot to be done by the
CouncU next year there are a lot
of people to work with and that
the Student Affairs staff is really
with us. “We’re going to do
everything we can,” he said,
“And then we’re going to be doing
some more!” Right on.
REVOLTIONARIES PLOT THEIR COURSE IN A SCENE
FROM THE recent Drama Dept, production of Albert Camus’ “The
Just Assassins.” From left, Christine Rosania, Joyce Reehling and
Kurt Yaghjian, central characters in the play. For a review of the
play, see Page 2. Photo By Beck
Dance Company Formed
Robert Lindgren, Dean of the
School of Dance of the North
Carolina School of the Arts an
nounced last week the receipt of a
$250,000 grant from the
Rockefeller Foundation for the
establishment of a new
professional dance company. The
Foundation had already made a
$24,300 grant last year to enable
Mr. Lindgren to form the nucleus
of the new company, to be called
North Carolina Dance l^eatre.
The announcement was made
at a press reception, hosted by
Agnes de MiUe, Madame Eugenie
Ouroussow and Jose Limon, all of
whom are members of the Ad
visory Board of the School of tiie
Arts.
Pauline Koner and Duncan
Noble of the School’s Dance
faculty have been named co-
artistic directors and
choreographers in residence for
the new company. There are at
present nine dancers par
ticipating in the pilot project.
Supplemented by outstanding
dancers from the School, this
group has presented 40 per
formances for high school
audiences and 15 for the general
public during its first year.
The Norto Carolina Dance
Theatre will tour initially in
Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia
with a repertoire of classical
ballet and modem dance, in
cluding works choreographed by
Koner, Noble, Sanders, Balan
chine, Lindgren and Tyven,
Bettis, Englund, de Mille, Gib
son, Fisher and Limon.
The grant was secured by Mr.
Lindgren in conjunction with
Roger G. Hall, President of the
North Carolina School of the Arts
Foundation, which will assume
responsibility for raising a
matching $250,000 over the next
three years.
Bill Dreyer and his Acting for
Dancers class presented a
history of musicals to the Little
Theatre Guild at their monthly
meeting. May 12th. This op
portunity arose when Mr. Dreyer
was asked to prepare a lecture on
this topic by the Little Theatre
Guild; he hesitated to accept
because the Guild’s meeting took
place at the same time as the
Acting for Dancers class. As a
solution, we prepared numbers to
tie in with BUI Dreyer’s narration
which ranged from “Flora” and
the musical generally recognized
as the first, “The Black Crook” to
“The Last Sweet Days of Issac”
which closed only a few weeks
ago off-Broadway.
Scenes: “The Black Crook”
Robin Kaplan and Steve Van
Allen. “My Fair Lady” Krishna
Evans and Andy Keyser. “The
Last Sweet Days of Issac” Karen
Gober and Cortland Jones.
•ij Mr. Dirk Dawson, for-
iv merly Director of Public
:j: Relations, has been named :S
•i;: as Director of Alumni for
the 1971-72 school year. His
duties will entail seeking Jx
information concerning
School of the Arts alumni, :$
as well as recruiting. He
will also take over the g
position of Assistant to the
Director of Admissions.The
Director of Admissions, a
g position newly formed by j-J
the state, has not yet been
M filled. ^
Mrs. Donna Jean Dreyer, |S
$5 formerly advisor to the
N.C. Essay and Journalism |^:
instructor, will take over as
Director of Public
Relations. ;§•
% Mr. William King, from
§:• Lynchburg, Virginia, will
be the new advisor to the
Essay and instructor of
English and Joumalsim.
He will assume his duties in
:$ September. iS
NCSA NAMES
MERIT AWARD
WINNERS
The North Carolina School of
the Arts has announced the
recipients of the School’s annual
Merit Awards, given to the top
students in the various depart
ments. The scholarship awards,
ranging up to $1,000, were an
nounced at a School convocation
on Wednes^y, May 5. There
were three categories of awards,
covering the Drama, Music,
Dance and Design and
Production Departments.
Overall Excellence
The Nancy Reynolds Merit
Award was established in 1970 as
a $100,000 gift to the School for the
purpose of honoring those
students whose year-long per
formances indicated overall
excellence. It is designated to be
given to the top student in each of
&e School’s major departments.
Each recipient received $1,000
toward their next year’s tuition.
Winners of the Reynolds Merit
Award were Lynn Keeton in
Dance; Marilyn McIntyre in
Drama; Ed Helbein, a trumpet
major in Music; and Paul Dale in
Design and Production.
Fogle Award
The Jessica T. Fogle Award is
a $500 scholarship awarded to a
student in one department
selected by rotation and honors
an outstanding highschool senior
moving into the college division.
Althou^ the Fogle Award has
been given to an NCSA stjdent
since its inception, it is also
available to outside students.
Tom Hulce, a high school
student in the Drama Depart
ment at NCSA was the recipient
of the award this year.
Gianinni Award
The Gianinni Memorial Award
was established by the late
President of the School of the
Arts, Dr. Vittorio Gianinni, in his
will. It provides for a $1,000
scholarship to music students -
two in Composition, 1 in Violin
and 1 in Voice. (There is also a
provision for further awards - in
piano - if the Giannini estate has
adequate funds from per
formances of his works. Also, if
there are adequate finances and
more than one student deserving
of the honor in the various
categories, additional awards are
given).
The winners this year were
Daniel Foley and Pat Byers in
Composition; Dale Stucken-
bruck. Violin; Marilyn Griffith,
Voice; Polly Crocker, Piano; and
Jim Hoback, Voice.
Joseph Papp
Commencement Speaker
Joseph Papp, founder and
producer of the New York
Shakespeare Festival Public
Theater, will give the com
mencement address at the North
Carolina School of the Arts at
11:00 A.M., Saturday, June 5 in
the Main Auditorium. Papp will
discuss what young performers
face in the arts today as they
relate to the cultural scene in the
United States.
A native of Brooklyn who grew
up during the depression, Papp
learned about theater putting on
shows in the Navy, in the Actors
Lab workshop in California and
as a TV stage manager. In 1957,
he organized the New York
Shakespeare Festival to present
professional Shakespearean
productions at no charge in
Central Park and on the Mobile
Theater touring the boroughs of
New York.
Ten years later, in 1967 the
Festival established a permanent
home in the landmark Theater
building in New York, which
presenUy includes five theaters
where contemporary works and
films are presented on a year-
round basis. Papp’s concept is a
free and subsidized low-cost
theater, making professional
productions availalbe to all
segments of the population.
He has directed many of the
Festival’s more than 60
productions, over 20 of them
Shakespeare, the most recent
being Twelfth Night, In addition,
he directed at the Public Theater,
The Memorandum, Huui, Huui,
Mod Donna and a modern ver
sion of Hamlet which was
published by Macmillan.
In April of this year, the New
York City CouncU purchased the
Public Theater BuUding, which it
will lease to Papp’s Vestival
Theater for $1 a year, thus
subsidizing the operation further.
Much of his $1,600,000 annual
operating income comes from
city and state government.
Unlike the summertime
Shakespeare Festival, the winter
counterpart concentrates on the
contemporary, the experimental
and the avant-garde. The staff,
who read over 500 plays before
choosing a dozen or more to be
product, feel that their first
responsibility is to the
playwright, then to the actors and
directors and finally to the
audience. The Public Theater is
not trying to buUd a reputation on
hits or long nms, but rather on
giving new plays a chance, on
presenting ^ows they consider
worthy.
This approach to the theater
has, however, produced some
hits. Two shows, the long-running
Hair and No Place To Be
Somebody, have carried on weU
beyond the confines of the Public
Theater. Joseph Papp, the Public
Theater and individual actors,
directors, writers and producers
have won 21 awards jwth for
specific plays and general ex-
ceUence since the establishment
of the year-round operation in
1967 and more than 50 awards
since the inception of
Shakespeare in the Park.
Kaplan New Essay Editor
Robin Kaplan, a coUege junior
majoring in Creative Writing,
has been named as the editor of
the N.C. Essay for the 1971-72
school year, aie wiU succeed
Michael Ferguson, the current
editor, who wiU be graduated this
June. A Valdese, North Carolina
native, Robin has been a student
at NCSA for two years and on
Essay staff this past semester.
Robin wiU officially assume her
duties next September.
In addition to having worked on
various other high school and
coUege publications, Robin was
also editor of the temporarily
defunct Artful Dodger, the
literary magazine of the N.C.
Essay. As weU as having been a
frequent contributor to the Essay
this year (her short story, “The
Public Messiah”, was serialized
recently in the Essay), Robin
also edited the Essay’s recent
literary issue.
As a Creative Writing major
under Mr. Peter Stambler,
Robin’s major field has been
poetry and short story writing.
In addition to Miss Kaplan’s
appointment as editor, the Essay
announces that Gavin DiUard, a
high school junior in the Visual
Arts program, has been named
Assistant (or associate) Editor.
He wUl work in conjunction with
Robin as the Essay’s senior
editors. In this capacity, Gavin
will cover high school news in an
effort to give that division of
NCSA more coverage.
Gavin has worked on several
publications in the past, having
edited a publication for a com
munity workshop. He has been an
Essay staff member this year,
having contributed several ar
ticles, art work and assisting in
layout duties.
The Essay is stiU in need of a
Business Manager and a full time
typist. The positions of Business
Manager is a salaried one and
anyone interested should contact
either Mike Ferguson or Robin
Kaplan prior to the end of school.
Student typists wiU be eligible for
work study compensation and
should see either Bob Hyatt or
Sam Stone.
Graduation June 5th
The North Carolina School of
the Arts wiU hold its graduation
on June 5 at 11:00 in the Main
Auditorium of the School.
Thirty-four coUege seniors wiU
be graduated and ninety-one high
school seniors will receive
diplomas. Guests will attend by
invitation.
Joseph Papp, founder and
producer of the New York
Shakespeare Festival Public
Theater, wiU give the com
mencement adress.
The graduation ceremonies
wiU be preceeded by a dinner for
the graduates in the School
cafeteria at 6:30 on Friday, June
4 and a concert at 8:15 which wiU
include dance baUets, musical
pieces and scenes from past
drama productions.
Of the one hundred and
twenty-five graduates, thirty jix
are in Dance, twenty- one in
Drama, forty-five in Music,
seven in Design and Production,
three in Writing and thirteen in
Art.