PAGE FOUR
THE CAMPUS ECHO
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1955
Bandmaster's Career Has Been Packed With Success
MR. WESLEY I. HOWARD
Probably one of the first-class
prophecies ever to be fulfilled
was the one made about Wesley
Howard of the class of 1913 of
Richmond High School, Rich
mond, Indiana. The class pro
phesied for him a brilliant ca
reer as a violinist and position
as leader of a symphony orches
tra at Hampton Institute.
Mr. Wesley I. Howard, Band
master and teacher of instru
ments at North Carolina College,
during the 1920’s and 1930’s,
played to critical acclaim all
along the Eastern Seaboard in
America and in European cities.
Critics of such news organs as
The Washington Daily News,
The Washington Post, The Phil
adelphia Tribune, The New York
Age and Musical America came
to hear and to praise Mr. How
ard. Musical America said this
about Mr. Howard’s playing:
“Mr. Howard, the violinst, has a
warm and expressive tone, was
weil prepared for Ws perform
ance, and added much to the
artistic pleasure of the evening.”
Mr. Howard also during the
1920’s gave joint recitals with
Roland Hayes, the tenor.
Fulfilling the second part of
the prophecy, Mr. Howard did
lead a symphony orchestra at
Hampton Institute and also at
Howard University, Virginia
State College and Talladega Col
lege.
Mr. Howard studied long and
intensively to master his instru-
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ment. It is a tribute to his ability
that all of his schooling in violin
was paid for by scholarship. He
has degrees from tiie New Eng
land Conservatory of Music, The
Juilliard School of Music,
L’Ecole Normale, Paris, France
and Trinity College, London.
It is characteristic of the man
that, although he has numerous
degrees from the very best
schools, he prefers to be called
simply “Mr. Howard.” Mr.
Howard is so unassuming that it
is difficult to connect the ca
reer with the man. He has four
thick scrapbooks containing
clippings about his artistry and
the programs on which lie has
played. He is the subject of an
unpublished biography by Mr.
H. L. Faggett. Yet he himself
is warm, easily approached, and
is painstaking and patient with
tiie pupils and the groups with
whom he works.
For recreation, Mr. Howard
plays chess and has studied for
sometime the Chinese language.
Mr. Howard is active in music
circles. On April 17, 1955 he
was guest soloist with the Vir
ginia State College Little Sym
phony. On April 22, Mr. How
ard was the guest conductor
with the Lincoln High School
Band for the performance erf
Schubert’s Unfinished Sym
phony. Mr. Howard has also been
selected to serve as a judge of
the N. C. State Band Festival
which will be held at A. and T.
College, Greensboro, N. C. on
May 6, 1955.
Graduate Dean
Discusses Poetry
At CLA Confali
Dr. Richard K. Barksdale, as
sistant dean of the Graduate
School at North Carolina Col
lege, participated on a special
panel on the teaching of Poetry
during the Fifteenth Annual
Meeting of the College Langu
age Association held at Hamp
ton Institute, Hampton, Va. The
conference was held April 22
13.
Other NCC faculty members
attending the conference were
Dr. Ruth Horry and Dr. Charles
A. Ray. The conference theme
was “Cultural Orientation in
the Teaching of Language.”
Among the nation’s foremost
scholars in language and litera
ture who took part in the two
day meeting, were J. Saunders
Redding, author and critic from
Hampton Institute; M. Carl
Holman, dramatist from Clark
College: Mrs. Henrietta Me
Millan of Chicago Teachers Col
lege; and JShies M. Smith of
Emory University.
Dr. Ray is the corresponding
secretary for the Association,
and Editor of the College Lan
guage Association Bulletin.
Mom-Daughter
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NCC’s seventh annual Mother-
Daughter Week-end starts a two
day run tomorrow morning. The
mother of every freshman and
sophomore co-ed has been in
vited.
This year’s special attraction
will be the presentation of Miss
Hazel McCree in a vocal recital
to be held in B. N. Duke Audi
torium tomorrow ni^ht at 8
o’clock.
Registration of mothers will
begin tomorrow morning. At
noon there will be a mother-
faculty luncheon in the dining
hall. At this time, the mothers
will have the opportunity to talk
with their daughters’ instructors.
After the luncheon, a mother-
daughter forum will be conduct
ed. The mother-daughter supper
is scheduled for tomorrow night.
Sunday’s activities for the
visiting mothers begin at 7:30
A. M. in B. N. Duke Auditorixmi
with an organ prelude service.
Immediately following this is a
vesper service at which the Wo
men’s Glee Club will sing. At
8:30, there will be a coffee hour
in McLean Dormitory.
Another vesper service is
scheduled at 4:30 which all
mothers are welcome to attend.
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