April 1, 1976
Guilford Choir Tour
by Sally McAlister
At about three o'clock on
Friday, March sth (the first
day of Spring Break) bus
driver David Hatcher, Director
Ed Lowe, Gary Farlow's father
Binford (of the Alumni Office)
and fourty-three Guilford
College Choir members
wheeled through Guilford's
front gates down College
Road, not to return for ten
whole days...The occasion?
Their annual Spring Break
Tour! Their destination? The
mighty Mid-West r actually
Ohio and Indiana.
In addition to luggage and
coats stuffed in every
available space, the trailways
bus overflowed with wall-to
wall people, delighted and
half-crazy with the prospect of
no classes or additional
assignment for the next ten
days. Probably no other
Trailways bus in the history of
Trailways busses harbored as
many various activities as this
one did, everything from
playing Rob Mitchell's African
bean game to telling jokes of
all kinds (including Bob Gold's
"Hurburt" jokes and David
Haworth's "Why am I so
Duuumb?" jokes), to card
games to playing and singing
to guitar music, to goosing
people and even yickling them
(Huh, Derick?)! A few of us,
having never been on tour
before, pictured an infinity of
"quiet bus time" and took
plenty of books to keep us
busy. We managed to stay
busy, but needless to say, we
didn't get too awfully
far...with the books, that is!
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Jim Hood leads another round of "Five Hundred Miles as
sister Kathy looks on. Photo by Enos.
As far as the jokes, however,
we're all very well off. At
times though, the laughter
and chatter would die and
people larsed into silence as
they sawed away (zzz)
(wouldn't you get sleepy too,
after singing "500 Miles" for
the third straight time, or after
working the same Calculus
problem for the fourth time
with four different answers?).
We gave our first concert in
Morganton, N.C., on the
Friday night that we left, and
the remaining nine concerts
were given in Ohio (Cincinnat
ti, Wilmington, Leesburg and
Barnesville) and in Indiana
(Carmel, New London and
Richmond). Our "free day"
was spent in Indianapolis,
where we stayed in a
"Squire's Inn", and dined
half of us at a Polynesian
restaurant, and half elsewhere
(this reporter found that
stuffing her face with
Polynesian food was realy fun
but riding around a parking lot
in a shopping basket much
more fun!)
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Choir rehearses before performance in Camel, Indiana. Photo
by Enos
Serendipity Week
SERENDIPITY WEEK is
fast approaching. Serendipity
will be Monday April 5
through Sunday April 11. The
Union has been working hard
for some time now to make
Serendipity a full and fun time
for all. Some of the highlights
are:
TUESDAY
On Tuesday April 6 there
will be two major events. A
super group from Washington
D.C., THE NIGHTHAWKS,
will perform a concert/dance.
They are a powerful boogie
band. Stereo Review in giving
their album "a recording of
special merit" said "They can
do casually what such groups
as J. Geils can no longer do
even when they try." Their
harp player is especially good.
Also that evening will be
Ingmar Bergman's early
classic, THE VIRGIN SPRING
Dana is the location for this
film.
WEDNESDAY
On Wednesday the Guilford
College Arts Series will
present the well known author
Joseph Campbell. He will
speak in Dana.
FRIDAY
Friday the latest film by
famed director Fredrico Fellini
AMARCORD, will be present
ed. This film is his most
accessible film to date.
AMARCORD is full of comedy
and farce, with plenty of
pratfalls, sight gags, and
other craziness. It is a
beautifully made film, but if
you are looking for another
Satyricon you won't Find it
here.
SATURDAY
Saturday will feature a
concert, a number of outdoor
activities, and a dance.
Epicure will host a "pig
pickin"' and all the trimmings
outside for dinner. Among the
many other outdoor activities
will be a Karl Marx look-alike
contest in honor of our
nation's bicentennial. THE
HIGHWOODS STRING BAND
from New York will perform a
concert. They are a superior
band composed of two fiddles,
banjo, guitar, and bass. They
have toured in the U.S. South
America, and Europe. They
have two albums out on
Rounder records, and a third
is on the way. As you'll see
when they perform, THE
HIGHWOODS STRING BAND
is among the very finest of the
string bands in the world.
Saturday will also have several
exhibits and workshops by the
Art Department and The
Crafts Center. Saturday is also
Alumni Day and the Alumni
Office will be having several
events of interest to the
students.
Saturday will also have a
dance by SMOKING, a fine six
piece band from Virginia.
Their name is indicative of
the brand of music they play,
It smokes.
SUNDAY
Sunday will have two major
events going on. LARIAT
SAM will return to Guilford to
do an outdoor concert. On
Feb. 20th they played here
and received standing ova
tions. Their fine country-rock
sound ought to make for a fun
A.C.E. Week
Approaches
A.C.E. would like to remind
all of its members that there
will be a very important
meeting this Wednesday at
2:00 p.m. in the Curriculum
Lab of the Library. Several
exciting projects are planned
during the first few weeks of
April and we will be finalizing
plans and working out details.
One such event which
involves the entire Guilford
community is the annual
Education Week to be held
April 5-10. A more complete
schedule will be in next
week's Guilfordian, but here
is a partial list of especially
interesting programs during
the week: ,
Mon. - Fri. - A display of
teaching aides created and
constructed by members of
the Education Dept. (Library)
Tues. 3:30 p.m. - Guilford
graduates and this year's
student teachers will talk
informally about their exper
iences in the schools (Curricu
lum Lab) Wed. 2:00 - An open
house with members of the
faculty and administration as
special guests to discuss
informally aspects of the
Education Dept. (Curriculum
Lab).
Thurs. 7:30 p.m. A speaker
on epilepsy will present a
program in the Gallery of
Founders.
Refreshments will be served
at all functions. Keep an eye
open for news of other events
during the week.
A.C.E. will also be
sponsoring an Easter Party for
underprivileged children the
week before Easter. If you are
interested in helping or have
some good ideas, please come
to the meeting or get in touch
with Carol Cleaver, Christie
Fletcher, or Judy Herrick.
And while we have the
floor, the club would like to
thank R.R. Paull for his time
spent in presenting the
workshop last week on
Patchwork Pictures. Many
Guilford and community
members attended this infor
mative presentation.
afternoon. Sunday evening
will feature an evening of
comedy shorts and cartoons.
The Pink Panther, Abbott and
Costelle, Popeye, Inspector
Clueseau, The Three Stooges,
and the Roadrunner among
others will be included.
There will also be other
activities going on during
SERENDIPITY These
are some of the highlights of
the festivities going on from
April 5-11.
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