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Vol. X No. 2
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Friday, September 20. 1968
Mizelle Announces Format
Of London Minimester Tour
Collins Opens Convocations
Mr. Vance Mizelle has
announced a tentative for
mat for the minimester
seminar in London„ The
seminar will be centered
around contemporary
British drama. At pre
sent things are still in
the planning stage, but Mr„
Mizelle hopes to be able
to offer the participants
a course that will be
something like this:
For the first 8 or 10
days the participants will
be on campus for daily
lectures and reading a
group of plays by Harold
Pinter, John Osborne,Ar~
GRINDSTAFF TO
TEACH THEATRE
Mr. Michael K. Grind-
staff is the newest mem
ber of the theatre depart
ment at WesleyaUo A man
of many talents and in
terests. he is well quali
fied to teach Theatre Lab,
Theatre 35^ and Speech IL
After graduation from
Lycoming College in Wil
liamsport, Pennsylvania,
with a B.A, in Art and
Theatre, he went on to
do graduate work at Penn
State where he received
an M.FoA, in Senic and
Lighting design,, Mr.
Grindstaff did some
teaching at Lycoming, but
this is his first perma
nent position as an in
structor.
In the short six years
he has been interested
in the theatre, Mr. Grind
staff has been active in
almost every aspect of
theatre sets and acting.
His major concern is Set
design, a concern in which
he has much past exper
ience. Working for The
Arena in Williamsport,
Pennsylvania, he designed
sets for numerous pro-
luctions.
Working in theatre, Mr.
Grindstaff has had num
erous experiences which
are quite amusing. One in
particular involves “Lit
tle Mary Sunshine” which
Wesleyan Players will do
this year. Playing the part
of Yellow Feather, Mr»
Grindstaff had one line in
the entire play. When the
moment came forhis line,
Mr. Grindstaff drew that
complete mental blank
which all actors fear and
face. For this reason,one
can be assured that Wes-
leyan’s performance Yel
low Feather will have one
sympathizer in the audi
ence.
^way from the theatre,
Grindstaff enjoys
such relaxations as driv
ing his spnarts car, swim-
nold Wesker, Shelagh De
laney, John Arden, for
example — perhaps even
Frank Mareus, Peter Us
tinov, and Tom Stoppard.
The group will then fly to
New York, and from there
will fly to London for a
two-week tour which will
include:
about 8 plays, hope
fully some that the stu
dents have read or some
new plays by authors the
students have studied;
visits and sight
seeing: places of interest
in connection with the par
ticipant’s study, as well
as those of general in
terest;
several visits (if we
can arrange and afford
them) with people well
known in the English thea
tre today.
The price of the tour
is expected to cover jet
flights^ hotel accomoda
tion and breakfast and will
be attractive and in keep -
ing with many similar
tours arranged under the
group fare plan.
Mr. Mizelle is hesitant
to make further arrange
ments, especially with
persons in London, until
he is fairly sure he can
find the 20 people neces
sary to make the tour
possible. He will be hap
py to talk more about
the course, the tour, and
the price, if those inter
ested will go by his of
fice this week.
President Collins for
mally opened the new con
vocations series Septem
ber 12 with a speech on
the relevance of indivi
duals and institutions to
each other and to the
world.
Defining the purpose of
any college as that of ad
vancing and enhancing the
civilization and culture of
PRESIDENT THOMAS COLLINS
Straw Ballot
Favors Nixon
If the September vote
taken in Professor Rush
ing’s political science
classes and Professor
King’s American history
classes were a true in
dication of the possible
results of the balloting
in November, Nixon sup
porters would have cause
for great jubilation.
The results of the elec
tions were as follows:
Rushing’s first class:
Collier’s: New Research Tool
The N. C. Wesleyan
College Library has re
cently added CLolliex’sEiir
cyclopedia to its basic re
ference collection. It is a
scholarly edition that is
systematically and con
tinuously revised to meet
present day needs. Au
thorities from all over
the world are contributors
to the work and are list
ed in volume one of the
20-volume encyclopedia.
The scope includes com
prehensive, in-depth ma
terial for the specialist
as well as more sim
plified material for the
nonspecialist. One special
feature is the career guid
ance offered.
Arrangement of arti
cles in the encyclopedia
is letter-by-letter, and
broad coverage is fa
vored, although there are
many short topics. An ef
fective key to the set is
its exceptionally fine in
dex that promotes quick
fact finding. The bibli
ographies, grouped to
gether in volume 20, are
a means of self-educa
tion into the further com
plexities of the subject
as well as the tradition
al means of documentation
of information.
The illustrations and
maps in Collier’s are di
rectly related to the print
ed matter instead of be
ing grouped together in
one place or volume.
The encyclopedia is not
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ming, and skin diving, do
ing water colors, and
reading novels. He swam
competitively from the
time he was 8 years old
until he was a junior in
college and also managed
swimming pools and gave
swimming instruction to
earn money for college.
As for his reading, his
wife once figured that he
reads about thirty novels
a year. She informed him
of this for budgetary rea
sons, so if any one has
any old Mary Renault nov
els not being used, he may
contact Mr. Grindstaff in
his office, 231~B.
Humphrey - 3, Wallace -
11, and Nixon - 22; and
his other class; Hum
phrey - 11, Wallace -
2, and Nixon - 16. Of the
88 ballots collected in
Professor King’s four
classes, Nixon received
41 votes, Wallace, 12
votes, Humphrey 7 votes,
while 28 students remain
ed undecided.
Professor Rushing
stated that the vote was
taken to emphasize the
fact that 1968 is an elec
tion year and to encour
age all political science
students to take a con
tinuing interest in the
election. He added that he
had also encouraged the
students to read newspa
pers, watch television,
listen to the radiOj, par
ticipate in arguments,and
influence their parents
concerning current politi
cal matters.
In his analysis of the
vote, Mr. Rushing point
ed out that most of the
students voting were from
eastern North Carolina
and Virginia, He noted that
the vote reflected a shift
from the National Demo
cratic Party. However,he
thinks that the Democrats
should be pleased by the
Wallace supporters, who
voted for Goldwater in
1964, because they are
not voting for Nixon. He
mentioned that the in
creased Nixon support is
brought about by those
who supported Johnson in
1964, but are now defect
ing to Nixon,
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which it is a part, Col
lins said that it was to
the profit of the indivi
dual to be relevant to the
institution of which he is
a member.
Collins further defined
a church-affiliated col
lege as inevitably resi
dential, (“the better to see
you with”), and as having
as its over-all goal “aid
ing (the student) in judge
mental and synoptic vi
sion.” The church- af
filiated college, he con
tinued, should leave each
discipline free to inquire
and seek out the truth, be
lieving that “Truth is of
God,...and will make you
free.” Collins said that
the student who chooses
to attend a church-affil
iated college should un
derstand its structure and
orientation and should
seek to be relevant in his
actions and attitudes to
that structure and orien
tation.
The Christian attitude
and beliefs fostered by the
church-affiliated college,
Collin continued, call un
mistakably to humanitar
ian service and concern.
Such concern and involve
ment, he maintained, are
the duty and destiny of all
men of conscience.
Instructor
Gearhart
Studies
Abroad
ROCKY MOUNT — Sara
Gearhart, instructor of
German at N. C. Wesley
an College, received a
grant from the Republic
of Germany to attend the
Summer Seminar of the
Goethe Institut in Munich.
Forty grants, issued
jointly by the Federal Re
public of Germany and the
U. S. Office of Education,
were awarded throughout
the United States based on
recommendations by the
American Association of
Teachers of German.
Twenty of the grants were
sponsored by the Ful-
bright programs and twen
ty by the Federal Repub
lic of Germany.
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^^COMMENTARY’’
By
Catherine Simpson
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