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A CAROLINA WESLEYAN’ PUBLICATION
VOLUME XV, NUMBER 8
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
Open Olympic Bicycle Race
Set For Wesleyan Campus!!
Death Scene from WCTs Production of “Murder In The
Cathedral.”
A Review!!!
“Murder In The Cathedral”
NEWS BUREAU—The Rocky
Mount Open Olympic Deve
lopment Bicycle Race—the first
to be held in the Southeast-
sanctioned by the Amateur
Bicycle League of America
(ABLA) is scheduled for Satur
day, March 30, and Sunday,
March 31, here, promoted by
N. C. Wesleyan’s bicycle club.
Co-sponsored by Hardee’s Food
Systems, Inc., and Raleigh
Industries of America, Inc., the
two-day race will be a three-
stage event held under the
rules of the ABLA.
International racing cham
pions John Allis, a graduate
student at Harvard, and John
Howard of Texas, representing
the Raleigh-Century Road Club
of America, will g^ve a free
racing clinic with safety tips on
Saturday at 8:30 a.m. in the N.
C. Wesleyan College Cafeteria
especially for youngsters from
elementary grades through
high school. The two champions
_will hold an evening clinic at
8:30 p.m., also in the cafeteria,
and will discuss training, stage-
racing, tactics and the 1973
Tour of Ireland competition in
which both Allis and Howard
made excellent showings.
Registration for the races
will begin at Northern Nash
High School at 10 a.m. on
Saturday. Stage one will be a
77-mile Road Race on a
seven-mile looping course thr
ough rolling farmland centered
in the Hunter Hill Road area.
Racers will assemble at North
ern Nash High and the road
race begins at 1 p.m.
Stage two will be a Ten-mile
Time Trial at 8 a.m. Sunday
beginning from the Student
Union on the N. C. Wesleyan
campus with a short warm-up
ride to the course. The time
trials wUl be ridden from the
Drake community to Red Oak.
State three is a 50-mile
Criterium Stage on Sunday at 1
p.m. Racers will again assem
ble at the Student Union to
begin the one mile flat course,
with four wide corners, on the
Wesleyan campus.
Trophies and merchandise to
be awarded carry a retail value
in excess of $2,000. At the
conclusion of the third stage,
awards will be made by Mayor
Fred Tumage of Rocky Mount
to the top 20 finishers based on
their total combined times for
all three events. Final awards
will not be presented until one
hour after the completion of the
final stage. In addition to the
twenty final awards there will
be small prizes presented to the
top three finishers in each
stage.
This Rocky Mount Open
Olympic Development Bicycle
Race, scheduled “rain or
shine,” is an open class event
and any licensed ABL rider is
eligible to enter. A limited
amount of advance expense
money is available with pre
ference given to proven
stage-race riders, international
competitors, foreign riders and
members of the U. S. team
which will compete in the Tour
of Britain in May 1974. For
further information write to
promoter Bill Crawford, 921
Carr Street, Greensboro, N. C.
27403.
Seven prominent Rocky
Mount businessmen have form
ed a Steering Committee to
stimulate local participation
and community support for the
upcoming Rocky Mount Open
Olympic Development Bicycle
Race to be held here March
30-31. They are Eddie Baysden,
committee chairman, market-
N. C. Wesleyan College
President Thomas A. Collins
today announced the appoint
ment of Charles A. Hutcheson
of Elon College to the position
of Vice-President for Develop
ment at Wesleyan, effective
March 1, 1974.
A native of Cumberland
County, Va., Hutcheson has
been associated with Elon
College for nearly five years,
and since 1970 served as
Director of Development with
responsibility for all fund
raising and public relations
activities. Under his guidance
the development staff at Elon
successfully established an
annual giving program which
increased from $78,000 in
1969-70 to $412,000 during
1972-73.
During Hutcheson’s years at
Elon, he directed the successful
conclusion of a capital funds
campaign for $3 million. He was
instrumental in the organiza
tion of an effective Develop
ment Council composed of
volunteers from all publics, and
of giving clubs at the $100, $500
and $1,000-plus levels. Hutche
son also directed the establish
ment of a Parents’ Association
and Parents’ Council, set up a
program for encouraging major
gifts to endowment and laid the
g^roundwork for the founding of
a Presidential Board of Asso
ciates.
Wesleyan’s President Collins
stated, “We are very fortunate
to secure the services of such
an experienced and able college
officer. Mr. Hutcheson had
demonstrated his capabilities in
his chosen field of endeavor and
is committed to helping us in
ing representative. Peoples
Bank and Trust Co.; Ben
Singleton, Belk-Tyler’s adver
tising department; Randy An
derson, mortgage loan officer.
Planters National Bank; Joe
Wheless, chairman of the Tar-
rytown Merchant’s Associa
tion; Henry Odom, manager of
Washburn’s Motel; Frank
Shields; an administrative ma
nager of Wachovia Bank and
Trust Co., and Neil Chafin,
executive vice-president of the
Rocky Mount Chamber of
Commerce.
For further information and/
or entry blanks write to Gary
Martin, N. C. Wesleyan Col
lege, Rocky Mount, N. C.
27801.
Spectators and all interested
cyclists are invited to watch the
races and there is no admission
charge.
the growth and development of
Wesleyan in the coming years.”
Hutcheson attended Hamp-
den-Sydney College in Virginia,
then entered King College,
Bristol, Tenn., where he
earned his B.A. degree with
a major in psychology. He
studied at Union Theological
Seminary, Richmond, Va., and
received his master of divinity
degree there in 1958.
Prior to entering the busi
ness field, Hutcheson taught
for two years in the Nansemond
County Schools, Va., served as
supply minister, and became a
full-time minister of both
Brookneal and Roanoke Pres
byterian Churches, Brookneal,
Va., following his ordination in
July 1957.
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CHARI.KS A. HUTCHESON
We.sleyan Position
The adaptation of T. S.
Eliot’s “Murder in the Cathe
dral” presented by the Wesle
yan College Theatre (January
13-16) was, as they say, a real
trip. Eliot purists were no
doubt shocked (as, perhaps,
were some Eliot impurists) by
the liberties director Bruce van
Blarcom took with the original
text of the play.
Traditionally, the play takes
the form of a struggle between
Thomas Becket, 12th century
Archbishop of Canterbury re
presenting the spiritual power
of the church, and the temp
tations of earthly, secular
power, representing King Hen
ry II of England. Becket
refuses to submit to the King’s
power and is assassinated,
Reading Program Set
A four-week reading-writing
improvement program for pre
college students will be offered
during the summer at N. C.
Wesleyan College beginning
June 17 and concluding July 12,
1974.
This course is designed
specifically for high school
students at least sixteen years
old in grades ten through
twelve who wish to improve
their present academic stand
ing. It will be especialy
beneficial to those students
who plan to pursue higher
education following high school
graduation.
The intensive study program
offering groups and individual
instruction is structured to
improve lang^uage facility, in
cluding a good command of the
basic reading, writing, study
and communication skills.
Instructors of the course will
be Dr. Jack E. Teagarden,
chairman of the Humanities
Division and professor of
English and humanities at
Wesleyan, and William E.
Green, assistant professor of
English.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1974
thereby becoming a martyr for
devotees of Catholic Chris
tianity. The play, as Eliot
wrote it, is an “intellectual”
play—forcing one to ponder the
moral dilemma of an indivi
dual forced into Becket’s posi
tion.
The WCT production is far
from this. It is a sensation of
sights, lights, and sounds, sti
mulating not the intellect but
the visual and aural senses. The
lines are spoken in a rhythmic
frenzy; the movements of the
characteristics, especially the
chorus and the three priests,
are exercises in gymnastics and
calisthenics. We are machine-
gunned with words. It is
impossible to consider their im
plications, and we react instead
with our emotions. This is
apparently the effect van
Blarcom sought. (And because
this is so far removed from
traditional Eliot, perhaps “El
liot” is understandable, if not
forgiveable.)
Emotions were indeed af
fected. The allegiance (perhaps
too mild a world) of the women
of the chorus and of the priests
(played also by women; take
that. Catholic Church) to
Thomas stands out clearly, as
does the Machiavellian motives
of Thomas’ assassins. And
Becket’s death scene was stun
ning.
The assumption in Eliot’s
play is that Thomas Becket is a
strong character, well in
control of his acts and aware of
their implications. Only thus
can he be truly a martyr. Gray
Basnight’s interpretation of
Becket w'as in many ways an
exciting one, but it did not
leave the impression of Tho-
meis’ strength—and impres
sions are all we have to go on in
this production.
It is this interpretation that
makes the ending of the play
difficult and, finally, challenges
the intellect. One of the as
sassins (Doug Elder), after
having killed Becket, confronts
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Development Position Filled!!!