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Kandy and Ike Will
Present First Album
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Randy and Ike. the well-known
Guilford College folk singers, have
just finished making their first al
bum. The album will be a long
playing record produced by Cope
land Records, and will hi- entitled
"Presenting Randy and Ike."
The record will have for its
cover the above photograph, taken
in front of Dana Auditorium.
Randy and Ike, both sophomores
;it Ciuutord, met quite accident!)
one afternoon last Septembei
when Ike heard Randy practicing
his guitar. They began singing
together, just for fun, until they
got wind of an intended folk sing
ing concert in Chapel. The two
made their first public appearance
that fall and decided to continue
singing together. Since then they
have given various concerts, most
ly at Woman's College, but also at
Greensboro College, Averette Col
lege in Virginia, and at their own
home Guilford College. Aside
from campus performances they
have entertained for private parties
and have held several jobs singing
on Friday and Sunday nights.
They have also recently appeared
on WFMY-TV.
Ike Wrenn is a native of Greens
boro, N. C., and has lived there
most of his life. He first became
interested in singing in the fifth
grade when he joined the glee
club. The next year he joined the
school orchestra and played and
sang until he graduated from high
school. During his senior year in
high school, he studied voice and
was a member of the Greensboro
Senior High Choir, both of which
he attributes to laying the founda
tion for his musical interests. Al
ter graduating from high school.
Ike attended the University of
North Carolina, where he joined
the Men's Glee Club and also the
professional music fraternity, Plr
Mu Alpha Sinfonia. lie was intre
dueed to the guitar and to fol
music bv his fraternity brothc
and learned all he could froi
them. After spending a year "
Carolina, he worked a year an
the 11 transferred to Guilford
where he has continued his inter
est in music and singing. Ike hope
to studv law at U.N.C. after grad
uating from Guilford.
Randv lhara is a native of Wash
ington, D. C., and has been play
ing the guitar for over three years.
He lias been sinking folk music
for two years. Randy's first experi
ciice with tl)i> guitar was when lie
played the electric guitar in a
rock n roll band in high seiiool.
During his senior year, lie organ
ized a folk singing group winch
played seven nights a week at an
j amusement park in Washington.
| They also appeared at a eotfee
| house, "The Unicorn, in Wash
ington. During the past spring va
cation, liandy was singing at an
other coffee house, '"I lie Ontario
j Place." also in Washington. He
learned to play the banjo a year
ago and also plays the auto-harp
and the twelve-string guitar. Ran
dy is majoring in English Litera
ture with a possible minor in
Philosophy.
Randy and Ike plan future night
club engagements in Baltimore,
Philadelphia and several places in
Washington. The duo enjoys sing
ing all types of folk music, but
prefers the old traditional folk
songs which are now being re
vived. The old ones, they feel, are
the most beautiful and yet the)
still remain buried in the depths ot
time, or isolated, out of the reach
of the modern generation. Even
more beautiful may be the songs
that were never written down and
may be lost forever.
Randy and Ike each play the
guitar and banjo and may be seen
alternating instruments from time
to time to add variety to their
music. They have used their own
arrangements for most of the
music that is heard 011 their new
album. Among other songs, they
I are singing "1 Know Where I'm
Going,' "Gypsy Rover. "Slienan
| doah," "Delia's Gone," and "Five
Hundred Miles." Many Guilford
students will want to keep their
eyes open for "Presenting Randv
md Ike." soon to be pi it out 011 a
Copeland Records label.
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THE GUILFORDIAN
Literary Column
THE FLEETING MEMORIES
OF CHILDHOOD
by Paula Joyce Michalove
| The wind in the willow,
[The woodthrush by the stream.
All recall to me
The memory of a long lost dream.
1 remember when
j The wind would blow our hair,
i For we were two children at play,
The world was not our care.
I remember, also,
\\ hen birds sang for us alone,
j For we could find jov anywhere.
, I here was no reason to roam.
i All these things were once our joy,
\\ hen we were very young.
Hut now that we are very old
Wo have but memories to own.
LOVE LOST
The music played too loudly.
The smoke in the room made vis
ion difficult. He was there. I saw
him all the way across the room.
The light shone in his eves and a
tiny glint of devil came through.
I looked at him and it was wonder
ful. The love showed in my eyes.
Hut lie didn't see. lie turned and
I walked away.
BEAUTY
: Beauty is a thing undefined
By definite line, or proportionate
trace
\ For beauty is a thing eternally
masked
Bv enchanted mysterv
Which few are able to clasp
Beaut) is a thing fragile and rare!
Touch it not for it will vanish
From sight and leave vou with not
but
Despair
Paula Michalove
l'aula is a senior at Grimslcy Senior
High, she will he at Guilford next year.
This poem was written when she was
fourteen and since, she lias won several
national essay contests and written a
novel which will possibly he published
I soon.
A POEM
First came the sun to warm the
earth
Then 011 the earth came txvo
Blessed by Heavens above
And bound by something xvhieh
they called Love.
And, by this love
The two were one
Then the- one xx r as blessed In the
sun
And the one created another.
Then that xvhieh was created
By the two that xvas one,
] And was blessed by the sun
Crexv and lived as the others.
| And yet, when they were gone
I Vnd his sorrow xvas deep
He searched and found another
' In whom his sorrow was steeped.
And those txvo xvere bound by
Love so true
rhev were blessed from above
\nd again, because two xvere one,
A third was created.
EVENTIDE
iylph-like steps go dancing softly.
Duelling lightly clew and dreams,
winkling moondrops sift vague shadows
hrough their web of vespered beams.
j lting notes bespeak the freshness
ited o'er the twilight eve,
iceful swans emit their hell-tones.
>ating on 1 ,ake (Senev ieve.
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On the Political Scene
by The Senator
During the past few years the South has been going through a period
of considerable political unrest. This is evidenced by increased parti
cipation in politics on the part of the public at large; increased internal
controversy within the predominant Democrat Part)'; and a startling
upsurge in the strength of the Republicans.
There are several causes for this unrest. One of the most basic is the
intensification of the old problem ol race. Increased pressure from the
(deral government; greater concentration of population into urban
areas; a rising sense of dissatisfaction and determination for change on
the part of the Negro people themselves: all these factors have played
a part in the intensification ol this problem.
Other causes of political unrest include the question of centraliza
tion ol power in the federal governiiKnt. Federal housing, federal med
ical insurance, federal education, and a host of other federalized
functions are the subject of sharp and deep-rooted controversy in the
South. Increased urbanization in particular has brought this problem
to the fore. Problems in labor relations, unemployment, slums, public
transportation and other fields have followed in its wake.
The main changes wrought by these developments so far have been
within the Democrat Party. We are sec ing in many Southern states,
notably North Carolina, the rise of a conspicuously liberal w ing. In this
itat it is the liberal wing of the Democrat Party that is at present
tenuously in control. Whether or not the Sanford-Hennett organization
can prevail either in the party or in the state remains to be seen.
On the other hand we see a rise in Republican strength, as individ
uals who are more conservatives than Democrats move into the ranks
of the opposition, and as northern immigration introduces previous!}
unsouthern determinants of part} alignment, primarily economic de
terminants.
Political predictions, particularly when the\ concern a populace
in the Southern political scene oxer the next few decates. The gradual
Nevertheless we shall venture to outline the general course of change
in the southern political scene over the next few decades. The gradual
attrition of conservative Democrats into the Republican Party added
to the recent upsurge within the Democrat Part)' of the liberal wing
should eventually lead to a much more progressive Democrat Part)
in the South. The Republican Part) during this period of realignment
can be expected to grow startling!) for a number of years. Republican
electoral successes will increase, very possibly resulting in temporal)
Republican dominance in the South. The newly liberal Democrats,
however, can be expected to retain much of their old strength, and it
is doubtful if Republican domination, even if achieved, can last for
any length of time. Nevertheless it is almost certain that a true two
party system will develop.
The South has for many years been the primary stumbling block to
the establishment of political parties truly national in policy. Not the
'east of the political advantages of this change would be the elimina
tion of this impediment and the establishment of greater unity between
he South and the rest of the nation.
No cord or cable can draw so "The audience sees then that
forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can man passes through suffering pun
ch) with a single thread.—Br/on. Red, that animal though we are in
() j many ways, there is in us all some
divine, incalcuable fire that urges
Only three per cent of the land us to be better than we are."—The
on the earth's surface is useful for Essence of Tragedy. Maxwell An
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