VOL. 7—NO. 13
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THE DECREE
APRIL 22, 1966
Social Commission Presents
Josh White In Concert
The Social Commission of
N.C.W.C. presents Josh White,
Jr. In concert, Saturday, April
30, at 8:00 in the college gymnas
ium.
In 1961, the time came when
JOSH, JR’s talent demanded that
he be presented in his own right,
first as a club performer and then
as a concert artist. Since that
time, he has been acclaimed in
night clubs, folk music rooms,
and concert halls across North
America and Europe. He has been
seen at the Village Gate and
the Bitter End in New York, The
Troubadour in Los Angeles, The
Shadows in Washington, The
Bunkhouse in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada and the world-
famous Playboy club in Chicago.
He has sung in concert at Car
negie Hall and Town Hall in
New York, Orchestra HaU in Chi
cago, Jordan Hall in Boston and at
more than three hundred colleges
and universities in the United
States and Canada. JOSH, JR. has
also appeared in clubs and in con
cert throughout Europe and has
recently returned from an ex
tensive tour of England and the
Scandinavian countries,
JOSH WHITE, JR’s ability to en
tertain is not limited to his musi
cal work. An extremely versatile
performer, he has played dra
matic roles in five Broadway
shows, most recently, “Only In
America”, and “The Long
Dream,” Television audiences
will recall his dramatic and vari
ety appearances on such network
programs as “Hootenanny”,
“Ben Jarod”, “The Armstrong
Circle Theatre”, “The Mike
Douglas Show”, “The Today
Show”, “The Steve Allen Show”,
and “The Mike Wallace Show”,
European viewers have seen his
work on both BBC and Granada
Networks as well as the Scandi
navian Television Network, In
Canada, he has appeared on
CBC’s “Let’s Sing Out”, and
“The Pierre Berton Show”. '
In addition to his ever-increas
ing number of solo appearances,
JOSH WHITE, JR. has been pre
sented in concert with such out
standing attractions as the Henry
Mancini Orchestra, The Glenn
Miller Ban^, as well as many
of the country’s leading concert
groups. His ability to be pro
grammed in concert with others,
be they big band, folk, rock
and roll, comedy or jazz is a tri
bute to his versatility. Evidence
of JOSH, JR.’s entertainment val
ue is indicated by the 1965 Bill
board Poll of Colleges and Uni
versities which placed him as the
eleventh most popular campus at
traction in his field.
In the fall of 1965, JOSH WHITE,
Jr. was selected by six regional
conferences of the Association of
College Unions International to be
their convention entertainment.
JOSH, JR, found this to be one of
his most exciting tours as he was
able to spend time with many of
the delegates from various col
leges and become acquainted with
them on a personal level. The fi
nal conference took place in
Dayton, Ohio where JOSH, JR.,
after doing a one hour concert
which was followed by a standing
ovation, sang for the delegates
until 6 AM. “We should do these
conferences every year,’’was the
indifatigueable JOSH WHITE,
Jr’s cortiment.
Although in recent years his
style has increasingly differed
from that of his father, JOSH, JR,
is quick to admit his debt for the
techniques that were developed
during his years of apprentice
ship. From time to time, their
busy individual schedules meet
and then, to the delight of aud
iences, they are heard together in
concert,
“I’M ON MY WAY,” JOSH
WHITE, JR’S first solo album,
has been recently released by
Mercury Records and presents
the many moods of this versatile
young artist. Members of the Co
lumbia Record Club found it to be
the alternate selection for Jan
uary and is still available through
the club.
Poet Dickey
Speaks On Campus
James Dickey, whose BUCK-
DANCER’S CHOICE recently won
the National Book Award as the
year’s most distinguished book of
poetry, gave a free public reading
from his works at North Carolina
Wesleyan College, Friday, April
1.
Poet, author, critic, soldier,
sportsman and Poetry Consultant
in English to the Library of Con
gress, Dickey is considered “one
of the most important younger
poets of our time”, according
to Joseph Bennett, writing in the
New York Times Book Review.
Dickgy came to Wesleyan on the
Poetry Circuit inNorthCarolina,
in which young poets visit the
campuses of the nine member
colleges. Wesleyan has been a
continuous member since 1962.
Other colleges on the circuit are
Davidson, UNC at Greensboro,
Elon, UNC at Chapel Hill, Duke,
N. C. State and East Carolina.
The circuit was founded in 1961.
His published poetry collections.
which won him numerous awafds
including the Melville Cane
Award from the Poetry Society of,
America, are BUCKDANCER’S
CHOICE, HELMETS, DROWNING
WITH OTHERS, INTO THE
STONE AND OTHER POEMS.
S.L.A.
ELECTIOl^S
TODAY
Elections for the three-man
board of the Student Life Associ
ation will be held today. Voters
will select their choices from
seven nominees of the Senate,
selected last Monday night.
The S.L.A. is the chief judiciary
agency intheS.G.A. with its func
tion “to maintain and enforce the
rules and regulations of the Cam
pus Code. It shall also be an agen
cy to which appeals may be heard
from any other judiciary coun>-
(SEE SLA PAGE 2)
English
Conference
Held
ROCKY MOUNT - About 50 Eng
lish teachers and guidance couns
elors from high schools in seven
area counties met at N. C. Wes
leyan College Saturday, April 2,
for their fifth annual English
Teachers Conference.
Registration began atlO;OOa.m.
in the Braswell Administration
Building, followed by a discussion
of structural grammar at 10:30,
Speakers for discussion were
Wesleyan faculty members,
Vance Mizelle, assistant pro
fessor of English, and Dr. Phil
lip Elliott, associate professor of
English.
Miss Alma Murchison, Rocky
Mount Senior High School English
teacher, and some of her students
presented a “high school lesson
on word magic” at 11:30. The
conference ended after lunch in
the college cafeteria at noon.
Members of the planning board
for the conference were Miss
Murchison; Miss Kate Parks
Kitchen, RMSHS Guidance Couns
elor; Mrs. JaneH. Vester, High
School Supervisor in the Nash
County school System; Mrs.
Gertrude House Goodrich, Guid
ance Supervisor for the Edge
combe County School System; and
Wesleyan faculty members: Dr.
C, Edwin Harwood, chairman of
the Humanities Division, and
Dr. Jack Teagarden, chairman of
the English Department.
wimmim a
Josh White, Jr. will appear in concert at N. C. Wesleyan
on April 30 in the college gymnasium at 8:06 p.m. Tickets
will be on sale in the college bookstore al $1.00 per person.
RELATED READING
Of Human
derator fpr the Panel Discussion.
Copies of Of Hum^n Bondage
are now on sale in the Book-
store.
Somerset Maugham’s Of Human
Bondage will be discussed by a
panel in relation to the Related
Reading Program of N. C. Wes
leyan College, Tuesday morning
May 3, in Assembly. The panel
will be composed of Dean Moore,
speaking on the religious aspects
of the novel, Dean Frye, psy
chological effects of Philit)’s dis
ability and George Watson, per
ennial sexual problems involved
in the novel.
The Related Reading Forum,
which has been discussing the
novel since November is com
posed of Dr. Jack E, Teagarden,
chairman. Miss Margaret Byrd,
Mr. John T. Minges, Mr. Thomas
J. Pearsall, Dr, Donald L. Frye,
Mr. Walter Gray, Mrs. Francis
Danoff, Mrs. Alice Martini, Bob
Curtiss, Julia Barrett, Brenda
Lewis, Maggie Poole, George
Watson and Joe Weatherly.
Dr, Teagarden will be mo
April 29
The Circle K is presenting a
Talent Show on April 29 at 8 p.m
in the gymnasium. Various stu
dents are now preparing a variety
show of singing, dancing, and
comedy skits.
Cash prizes will be given on
the basis of the best talent.
Dr. Donald Frye and Mr, William
Rawls and three members of the
Circle K will judge the show.
Tickets went on sale April 19,
students ,75 and adults $1.25.
According to Melvin Gay, the
talent show is not designed for a
profit but the money will be used
for cash prizes and perhaps a
project for the school. Gay also
added that as of yet there ! has"
been a lot of interest from both
the talent and the ) prospective
audience.