VOLUME XVII M’MBER !t
N.C. WESLEYAN COLLEGE, ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1977
First in history
Soccer has winning season
by Steve Walker
The Bishop Booters ended
their season Saturday,
November 5th, with a 2-0 win
over the Dixie Conference
Leaders, Methodist. This loss
dropped Methodist all the way
down to fourth place, while
giving the Bishops sole
possession of second behind
Virginia Wesleyan.
Wesleyan finished their
season with a 8-4-2 record. The
best in the school’s history.
This included wins over such
teams as High Point, E.C.U.
and U.N.C. Greensboro.
Of course there are many
reasons for the complete
reversal of this year’s soccer
team as opposed to last years
team. This year brought a new
crop of freshmen who had
made names for themselves in
high school. This coupled with
a more mature returning
squad, gave the Bishoos a
winning formula. However it
was the utilization of this
talent by Coach Horne that
really pulled the season
together.
This year’s front line
provided more scoring power
than ever before. The leading
scorer for the Bishops was
James Lipscomb, a fresh
man from Richmond,
Virginia. Lipscomb scored 6
goals throughout the season,
including many crucial ones
late in the game to either tie or
win the game for the Bishops.
Lipscomb played Center
Forward.
Greco performs
by .Ian Wilson and Lucille
Browning
When I finally got around
to approaching Jose Greco for
an interview, my confidence
had diminished in direct
proportion to the growing
publicity his rather surely
reputation had gained on
Wesleyan’s campus. People
had nothing nice to say about
his personality. He was ac
corded the reputation of a
bossy boor.
I was determined not to
betray my nervousness (he
was rather charismatic, and
from what I could tell, a trifle
bossy,) so with a smart look
on my face and a concise, no-
nonsense introduction, I asked
him if he would be free after
the show for an interview.
Either he hadn’t heard my
question correctly, or he had a
regular routine for nervous
journalists. “Are you with the
press?,” he asked me. I told
him I was, gregariously this
time because I had never been
referred to before in such
sophisticated terms. He
smiled at me. He must be
flattered, I thought. “Good,
you came to iron my clothes!”
I cringed, but arranged a time
before his performance to talk
to him about his life and his
art, flamenco dancing.
Jose Greco was born in
Italy, and with his family
immigrated to Brooklyn, New
York at the age of twelve. He
studied dance, mostly tap,
throughout these early years
and before World War H left
New York to live in Spain. He
performed in Spain until 1951
when he made a tour of the
States. He likes to brag that he
knows “more communities in
the U.S. than any other living
soul,” and he has returned to
the United States regularly in
the last sixteen years to tour
his company, which used to
consist of forty people, and to
make films, one of which was
Walt Disney’s “Around the
World in Eighty Days.” His
wife, Nana Lorca, performs
with him. Jose is almost
seventy and his wife, Nana,
almost fifty years old, which
made me wonder if he had any
special diet to account for his
superb health. He said he
“used to smoke cigarettes, not
pot, but had quit smoking
entirely now.” Other than that
his diet is pretty flexible.
About his dance, Jose
explained that it should
“convey a mood, not a story.
Dances of Spain are very
dramatic, and represent a
confusion of desires.” He
went on to say that most of his
dances are a modification of
the Spanish dance, and that
most original Spanish dances
are “too morbid to bring to the
States.”
When asked if it required
a Spanish mentality or in
fluence to dance flamenco,
Jose restored. “That’s like
saying only a black musician
can play jazz.” He went on to
qualify this with the statement
that a flamenco dancer must
have the “nomadic feeling of a
gypsy. The person who in
terprets the dance must
possess necessary flexibility
and emotion. Technical
perfection shouldn’t matter
but there must be a soulful
feeling in the dancers. The
audience must be “thrilled
and spellbound.”
Jose explained that the
interpretation of the flamenco
dance should not be altered
drastically. “We developed
our dance from basic raw
materials. Take a folklore
dance out of the village, and it
becomes dangerous when
incongruous elements are
added. The dance loses it
self.”
If anyone saw his per
formance in Everett Gym
nasium, he skillfully suc
ceeded in defeating the
dangers he speaks of. I was
thrilled and spellbound.
Billy Maynard, also a
Freshmen, played left wing.
Perhaps the most adept
shooter on the team, Maynard
scored 4 goals and set up most
others, with his amazing ball
handling.Sophomore returnee,
Billy King, played right wing.
King scored 2 goals and
assisted on many others. King
was the best crosser on the
team. Greg Dittman, started
out the season as a substitute,
but with a lot of hard work, he
made his way into the position
of the extra man on the line.
Dittman, an all purpose
lineman scored two goals in
the winning part of the season,
and was very valuable in his
relief role.
The halfbacks were
Eddie King, Robbie Seay, Eric
Matylevich and Jeff Rogers.
These men had to hustle more
than any one else on the team.
They did a most commendable
job.
Fullbacks were Billy Rand,
a freshman, and Seniors Cliff
Sullivan and Stanley Jarrett.
These men picked up con
fidence throughout the year
and were brilliant in their play
in the latter half of the season.
Stanley Jarrett besides
being a defenseman also
rotated into the offense every
now and then and he scored 5
goals on the season, most of
these coming on free kicks.
And finally the man who
pulled this all together, the
Goalie Major Dement.
Dement had 98 saves on the
season and is definitely in
contention for all - conference
honors.
The Wesleyan team is a
young team, however it does
graduate 3 starting seniors.
These are Cliff Sulivan,
Stanely Jarrett - both
fullbacks and Eddie King a
halfback. Their presence will
be sorely missed, however
reserve fullbacks John Faddis
and Greg Allen should be able
to take up the slack.
It was a very good season
and with the talent of this
team and its youthfulness,
there is no reason not to ex
pect just as good or a better
year than this year.
Head
Senior Stanley Jarett jumps to head away a shot near the goal.
Jarett leads the Wesleyan defense throughout the year. (Photo by
Bob Allen)