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Guilford Group to Visit
by Forrest Hughes
Would you like to spend
four weeks next summer in
England visiting historical
Quaker sites, meeting famous
Quakers, and doing sight
seeing in the country-side? If
so, you might like to look into
Mel and Beth Reiser's
upcoming seminar. That's just
what they're going to be
doing.
The seminar will leave on
May 20th 1976, "to explore
the historical roots and
present vitality of Quakers in
England," Beth Keiser said.
They will stay twenty-eight
days, with the possibility of
those members who wish to
stay longer doing so.
The trip will basically be a
repetition of the seminar the
Keisers led last summer. The
locations will be same, with
the time alloted to each place
spread more judiciously than
last summer.
The group will land on
England soil in London, where
they will stay ten days. Four
days will be spent attending
London Yearly Meeting,
always an interesting event.
Topics under discussion will
include ecology. Third World
countries, and other topics of
social importance. The basis
os the discussions is to "find
the sources of religious
conviction" in the midst of all
these problems. This is also a
good opportunity to see the
wide range of social class rs in
English Quakerism.
Bicentennial Posters
For our country's 200th
birthday, the Guilford College
Art Department, in connection
with the Guilford College
Bicentennial Committee, is
hplding a Bicentennial Poster
Design Contest for everyone
in the Guilford College
community, (faculty, stu
dents, spouses, staff).
The ideas for the posters
must be original. The must be
regulation size (18" x 24"),
color or black and white, any
medium you like. You must
use medium weight poster
board or cardboard (no paper).
Canvas may not be used. This
material must be less than V 4"
thick. All work must be
submitted by Wednesday,
March 3 for the judging. The
entries should be given to Jim
McMillan in the Art Depart
ment, or to anyone in the Art
Department. Their offices are
in the basement of Founders
Hall, near the Arts and Crafts
Center. A suggestion: use the
logo (the bicentennial star) in
your work.
Quakers in England
For the ten days, the group
will stay at Friends Interna
tional Center, similar to a
hotel but larger and catering
specifically to an international
range of visitors. With people
from many different countries
staying just down the hall or in
the next room, the students
and professors from Guilford
will have an opportunity to
meet many nationalities.
The Center is convenient to
the British Museum, the
University of London, and
other places of interest. The
remaining six days can be
spent in any way the group
members decide.
The group will then pile into
VW buses and take a six hour
journey to the village of
Yealand Conyers in Lancaster.
This village is the home of a
renowned Quaker community.
Among the residents are
Elfrida Vipont Foulds, illus
trous Quaker authoress, and
Roger and Margery Wilson,
Quakers with a long history of
service to British Quakerism.
The next 2Vi weeks will be
spent in the picturesque
village, which consists of
sixteenth and seventeenth
There will be 3 rewards -
Ist and 2nd prizes, and one
honorable mention, with SSO,
$25 and $lO award to the
winners, respectively. Those
are pretty fair amounts of
money in return for the
enjoyment of being artistic!
In addition to the monetary
awards, there will be a
publicity award where the
winners' posters will be
exhibited at the Arts and
Crafts Show during Serendip
ity Week (April 5-12) and on
Alumni Day, April 10. The
first prize winner's poster will
be photographer and repro
duced.
Put your feelings about your
country into your work. It's a
great place.
For more information,
contact Jim McMillan, B-9
Founders Hall, Extension 28.
Good luck!
The Guilfordian
stone houses and little
gardens, with sheep on rolling
green hills outside. The time
will be consumed in reading,
talking to the Quaker
inhabitants, and anything else
you feel like. There will be no
set course of study, and the
pace will be quite leisurely.
Evenings will probably consist
of coffee and conversation
with Ms. Foulds.
The weeks will be intersper
sed with trips around the
countryside. One such place
will be Pendle Hill, on which
George Fox had a vision of
many people gathered togeth
er. This vision was realized
several years later. Pendle
Hill is a sizeable hill which
requries work and perseve
rence to climb.
Another plan calls for a trip
to Swarthmore Hall, where
Margaret Fell coordinated the
activities of early Quakers and
did the paper work for them.
After the death of her husband
she married George Fox.
Using Yealand Conyers as a
base, the group will also see
the Lake District and other
areas not associated with
Quakerism. It is hoped,
however, that the main focus
of the stay in the village will
be Quakerism past and
present.
After Lancaster, those
members of the group who
must return to the United
States may do so, while
anyone who wishes to remain
may stay until their ticket
expires.
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The cost of the seminar is
approximately S7BO. This
includes transportation from
New York to London and back,
all transporation in England,
and room and board. Meals '
will be cooked by the group,
which reduces costs greatly.
The seminar is sponsored
by the Guilford Overseas
Seminars. It is possible to get
independent study credit for
the trip. The members can be
as many as twelve, but there
must be at least five for the
seminar to leave the U.S. For
questions, or additional in
formation, contact Beth Kei
ser in Cox 413, extension 73.
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You'll have a chance to see this statue "Hermes" by Praxiteles
if you go to Greece this Summer!
Summer Study In Greece
The Guilford-UNC-G Greek
Summer School sets students
straight on the foundations of
Western Civilization. As a
member of this Western
civilization, the understanding
of Greece is essential to your
education.
j Students who are interested
are invited to Dana Lounge,
Founders Hall, on Thursday,
Feb. 19th at 7:00 p.m.
to meet students who have
been, students who are going
this summer and the two
faculty leaders, John Barrett
and Timothy Smith. Dr.
Barrett has led the group in
two past summers and is
Professor of History at
UNC-G. Dr. Smith is Professor
of Classical Civilization.
As Barrett says: "From my
experience, almost every
student comes back with a
new outlook on life. It
broadens students' interests
and stimulates their academic
life."
The group members will fly
to Paris on June 11th for a look
at the Greek section of the
Louvre Museum. They will
then spend 3 days in Florence
and 4 days in Rome studying
the impact of Greek culture,
art and architecture of these
two great Roman cities. They
will then travel by boat and
train to Athens with a stop at
February 17, 1976
Pompeii to view the ruins of
this earlier Roman city.
The following 4Vi weeks
until July 24th the group will
be based in Athens with
excursions to the Peloponnese
(July 6-10), Crete (July 11-16)
and Mykonos and Delos (July
17-21). From July 24th to
August 13th will be free for
individual travel in Europe.
Two courses will be given:
(1) "The Golden Age of
Athens", a survey of the
political, cultural and social
history of Athens from the
founding of the democracy to
the fall of the Athenian
Empire, and (2) "Greek
Drama", the development of
the Attic Drama covering
selected plays by Aeschylus,
Sophocles, and Euripides, the
foremost Athenian tragedians,
and the comedian Aristo
phanes.
Guilford students who take
part in the program receive
eight (8) hours credit.
The cost of $1,090 for the
summer will include round
trip flight from New York,
travel, hotel, two meals per
day and program for the six
weeks of study.
It is agreed by all who have
taken part that it is the most
rewarding and lease expen
sive introduction to Greece
and Europe that is available to
any student.