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Claude Shotts hoto by Weiner*
Fellowships Offered
Inquiries about the Danforth
Fellowships, to be awarded in
March, 1973, are invited,
according to Mel Keiser, whose
office is in Dana £291, the local
campus representative.
The fellowships, offered by
the Danforth Foundation of St.
Louis, Missouri, are open to men
and women who are seniors or
recent graduates of accredited
colleges in the United States,
who have serious interest in
college teaching as a career, and
who plan to study for a Ph.D. in
a field of study common to the
American undergraduate liberal
arts curriculum. Applicants may
be single or married, must be
under thirty years of age, and
may not have begun any
graduate or professional study
beyond the baccalaureate at the
time application papers are filed.
Approximately 100
Fellowships will be awarded in
March, 1973. Candidates must
be nominated by Liaison officers
of their undergraduate
institutions by November 1,
1972. The Foundation does not
accept direct applications for the
Fellowships.
Danforth Fellows are eligible
for four years of financial
assistance, with a maximum
annual living stipend of
$2,700f0r single Fellows, and
$2,950 for married Fellows, plus
BOOKSTORE VANDALIZED
The Guilford College
Bookstore was broken into at
approximately 3:00 a.m. on the
morning of Sunday, Sept. 17th.
A loss of $200.00 has been
estimated by the store manager,
Bob Johnson. The thieves are
said to have gained entrance
through a window following the
removal of an air conditioning
unit.
The Campus Judicial Board
met Tuesday, September 19, to
hear a case of removal of dorm
property without proper
authorization and use. The case
was declared a "no trial" on the
ambiguous nature of the charge.
The Guifforftcm
tuition and tees. Dependency
allowances are available.
Financial need is not a condition
for consideration.
Danforth Fellows may hold
certain other fellowships such as
Ford, Fulbright, National
Science, Rhodes, etc.
concurrently and will be
Danforth Fellows without
stipend until the other awards
lapse.
The Danforth Foundation,
created by the late Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Danforth in 1972, is
a philanthropy concerned
primarily with people and
values. Presently the Foundation
focuses its activities in two
major areas, education and the
city. In these areas the
Foundation administers
programs and makes grants to
schools, colleges, universities and
other public and private
agencies.
Your Kind
Bob Bussey - College Union
Music comes in many
different shapes, forms, and
sounds. Some like it hot, others
like it cold. Some like it hard
and loud, while still others like it
soft and quiet. Whichever way
music is defined or appreciated
most people will agree that
George Riabikoff caters to the
ears of many tastes. Now isn't
that a great introduction to an
article? Read on and find out
whether he is what you want to
stop studying for.
George Riabikoff's life has
been different from most peo
ple; he's experienced some very
tragic events and has also lived
the life of the glorified
performer. Born in the Soviet
Union of a musical family
related to Tchaikovsky and
Rachmaninoff, he began to play
the piano very early in life,
giving his first concert at age
four. His progress continued
until World War two when the
Gestapo arrested him for aiding
Jewish families. Knowing of his
talent, the Nazis drove hot
spikes through his hands,
crushed his fingers, and totally
destroyed his capacity to play.
The doctors and he all thought it
Friday, September 22, 1972
SHOTTS DISCUSSES EDUCA
by John Beede
Want to go to London, Paris,
Athens, New York, Philadelphia,
or Washington, maybe? Well,
believe it or not, Guilford has
seminars to each of these cities
and others. The man behind
them all is Claude Shotts,
Director of Off-Campus
Seminars. Shotts, now in his
eighth year at Guilford, but with
a background of more than fifty
years in planning activities with
college students, feels that
seminars are one of the most
advantageous programs offered
at Guilford.
Shotts arrived at Guilford in
1965, with an impressive
background in leadership and
academics. From his graduation
at the University of Alabama,
Shotts went to Yale to do
graduate work in the area of
industrial personnel. While
studying at Yale, he coached at
an athletic club in a poor section
of New Haven, taught at
Hopkins Grammar School and
took courses with the
reknowned educator, George
Counts. The courses proved
fascinating for Shotts,thus
prompting him to change from
engineering to education. Says
Shotts, "Education came to be
much more than what happened
in the classroom. Education, in
Alfred North Whitehead's words,
has only one subject matter and
that is life in all its
manifestations."
In 1925, while continuing his
studies at Harvard, Shotts moved
to the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology where he worked
of Music?
would be impossible to play
again, but he recovered to
become one of the top pianists
in the United States, if not in
the world.
It is not an easy task
describing Riabikoff's playing
except possibly to quote two
phrases mentioned over and over
again in descriptions of him,
"poetic sensitiveness and
sensitive interpretation." The
many fine comments of
Riabikoff by colleges and
universities where he has
performed are outweighed only
by those of the press. The Miami
Herald comments that he has,
"Rare ability to convey music to
the listeners heart that is
essential to final greatness in
performance." Typical! The
Winston-Salem Journal was
quoted as saying, "George
Riabikoff could have not had a
more receptive audience than
that which greeted him at Salem
College. The young people
showed an enthusiasm almost
like hero worship for the
talented pianist." Typical!* His
playing is great.
Come and hear him speak
about his life. Come and hear
him play.
extensively with the on-campus
Y.M.C.A. In his initial programs,
he emphasized getting off the
campus and getting into the
world. He recruited students to
teach in the jails and study the
tense racial situation then
prevalent in Boston. Already
making a name foi himself,
Shotts moved on to Colgate
University where his programs
received national attention.
From Colgate he proceeded to
Northwestern University where
he remained, directing seminars,
conferences, and educational
projects with students, for
fifteen years. After the Second
World War, Shotts returned to
Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
where he woi ked through the
student Y.M.C.A. In 1964, he
began work with the American
Friends Service Committee, but
ended his service when he came
to Guilford.
Shotts first came to Guilford
in 1965 and woiked as a
counselor for students. That
same year he also helped
students plan seminars to
Washington, New Yoik and
Europe. From that time on, the
off-campus programs at Guilford
have been growing and getting
more and more people excited.
Says Shotts, "Unless there is a
motivation . . . education can be
a very low level activity, with
little joy in it."
Obviously, students feel this
excitement and importance of
the seminar. One person, upon
return from a seminar to New
York, remarked, "For the lest of
my life the results of this trip
will guide my thoughts, my
actions and my will to live."
Another person on an urban
Confrontation Seminar to New
York remarked, "Before I had
always said that when I got out
of college, I would start working
to combat many of society's
evils, but now I see that there
are many activities which I can
undertake now that could make
a difference." And another,
perhaps summing up the
meaning of the seminar program,
"It's too bad that all education
can't be an experience like the
seminar."
Claude Shotts feels that the
seminar program here at
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Guilford has tremendous
significance. In regard to the
off-campus seminais foi this
year, Shotts mentioned seven
that are being planned by his
office. There will be five
seminars foi freshmen, thiee of
which will be to New Yoik to
study urban pioblems and two
to Washington to study the
opeiation of the fedeia!
government. A sixth seminai will
be to PhMadelphia to study
education and a seventh to New
Yoik in conjunction with a
second semester religion course.
Other seminars may be planned
under the authoiity of the
department involved, Shotts
said. In regaid to foieign study
seminars, which aie administeied
in coopeiation with UNC G, two
are approved for London and
Paiis and two otheis are undei
consideration foi Athens and
Columbia (South America).
According to Shotts, student
reaction in the past has been
excellent in lelation to
off campus seminars. He sees
great potential foi the seminar in
the future. Shotis sees education
as needing to move; in a direction
which would break down the
walls between the community
and the college and make il
possible to look at the
lelationships that actually exist
between them. Shotts also sees
the off-campus seminars as being
of gieat potential in teims of
individual giowth. He feels
students need fieedom Imm the
authoi itarian classioom to go to
a city 01 foieign countiy and
make decisions and oigani/e
projects on theii own. This
would give the student a highei
opinion of his capacity to
opeiate in the woild. Says
Shotts, "Seminals cjivc; meaning
to life by seeing what someone is
doing outside of the campus in
the wot Id."
Claude Shott's enthusiasm
ovei the off-campus seminars
can be measured by the feelings
expetienced by those who
attended them. And as many
will testify, those feelings weie
significant. Undoubtedly, Claude
Shotts and the off-campu.-
seminars will remain pait of the
Guilfoid expeiience toi a long
time.