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Greenlee wins first
year writing contest
BEN THORNE
staff writer
Kurt Cobain spoke the truth
when he said, "Teenage angst
has paid off well." Taj Greenlee
discovered this wisdom when he
won the First-Year Writing Con
test.
Awarded to the most out
standing piece of first-year writ
ing, Greenlee's narrative essay
"Water" was recognized last
Tuesday, April 2, as the winner.
Chosen from among roughly 20
entries, a panel of Guilford pro
fessors selected "Water" as de
serving of the award.
The first piece Greenlee
wrote after coming to Guilford,
"Water" was originally a paper
for his freshman English profes
sor, Doug Smith. Smith thought
highly of the essay, as did Rudy
Behar, who reviewed it next.
Both professors encouraged
Greenlee to submit the essay to
the contest, for which he extends
his sincere gratitude.
"Water" is a different kind of
writing from what Greenlee usu
ally creates. "It's about all the
angst in the relationship between
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fathers and sons. Also, it's about
being truthful and authentic with
your interactions with people,"
Greenlee explained.
With this early success,
Greenlee is still unsure of
whether or not he will pursue a
career in writing. "I definitely
would like to, but the actuality
of that is still up in the air."
Nevertheless, Greenlee plans
to pursue his love of writing at
Guilford as an English major.
news
New viewbook to show
'the real Guilford'
A comprehensive search process
many to believe the new book will truly capture Guilford's spirit.
KEIR BICKERSTAFFE
news editor
After an extensive series of photo
shoots held Wednesday, April 3, the
production
of a college
viewbook
aimed "to
better repre
sent the col
lege," is one
step closer to
completion.
JL
The Al Newell
photo shoots
scattered all over campus last
Wednesday were the culmination of
a year-long project which had its
roots planted some time ago.
"The staff [over the past few
years] shared concerns that the ad
missions literature was not accu
rately portraying the richness of
Guilford College," Dean of Admis
sions Al Newell said, "and the fact
of the matter is we're dealing with
a generation that gets more and
more of its information visually. We
needed a fresh look."
Heading up this "look" was an
eight-person Viewbook Selection
Committee, consisting of three stu
dents, a professor, and 4 staff mem
bers, including Newell. Their task
Melton receives award
TERRY HAMMOND
contributing writer
Guilford College alumna Bonnie Melton was recently
granted the Presidential Purchase Award for her paint
ing, Gardening in the South, during the Alumni Art Ex
hibition and Exchange held on the Guilford College cam
pus, March 22. The award was sponsored by Guilford
College President Bill Rogers and the Exxon Founda
tion to honor an outstanding work in the exhibition by
purchasing it for the college's permanent collection. The
exhibition and award were juried by the college's art
department faculty and art gallery director/curator.
Melton's work was selected from nearly 100 entries in
cluded in the exhibition.
Gardening in the South, a five-foot square, oil-paint
ing on wood, depicts sea-like forms, winding and push
ing through warm, richly colored soil to a narrow band
of airy blue at the top of the composition. With its sur
face bearing marks of the artist's palette knife and brush,
this painting strengthens the school's holdings of mod
em painterly abstraction, and its addition to the collec
tion bears witness to the achievements of Guilford Col
lege alumni.
Melton, a resident of Durham, NC, received her B.A.
from Guilford College, and a Certificate from Pennsyl
vania Academy of Fine Arts. She has received numer
ous awards and fellowships including a Foundation
Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, a North
Carolina Arts Council Visual Artist Fellowship, and a
residency at the Millay Colony for the Arts in Austerlitz,
Maiah Sawyer
April 12, 1996
was daunting—to find the company
that could best capture the essence
of Guilford. The group settled on Ri
chard Harrison Bailey, the Agency,
a firm out of South Bend, Indiana.
According to Newell, they were a
great blend of many assets.
"Their relatively small size along
with how they function really im
pressed me, as well as being one of
j the most cost-effective firms. We
met with the creative people that
would be doing the book, which was
the best thing we did. They had a
great sense of capturing the distinc
tiveness of the college," Newell
said.
RHB used a device known as a
"circle of influence" to try to reach
Guilford's distinctiveness. They had
the admissions staff pick eight
people from the student body whom
represented a broad cross-section of
the campus. These eight in turn each
picked eight people around campus
who "had influenced their decision
to come to Guilford."
These circles of nine people met
for two hours with a RHB represen
tative, who recorded the discussions
that followed. It was from these
tapes that the firm gathered a large
portion of the material to be put to
use in the book. This, in effect, threw
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Melton's Gardening in the South
NY. Her work has been shown at the North Carolina
Museum of Art in Raleigh; the Southeastern Center for
Contempoary Art, Winston-Salem; and solo exhibitions
at the Raleigh Contemporary Gallery and the Durham
Art Guild among others.
Melton's painting, along with the works of 48 other
alumni artists, may be seen in the Alumni Art Exhibi
tion, on display through May 31, in the Art Gallery lo
cated in Hege Library. For further information contact
Theresa Hammond, director and curator of the Art Gal
lery, at (910) 316-2438.
any idea of school control over the
project out the window.
"If we had just allowed [RUB]
to talk to the original eight we
picked, then there would be cause
for concern. But allowing each of
the eight to pick others... we
couldn't have controlled the process
if we tried." Newell said.
The publication of this
viewbook, scheduled for comple
tion during the summer, comes at a
time when dropping student enroll
ment is a big concern.
"You do two things when you
have literature that doesn't accu
rately represent the school," said
Newell. "First, you attract students
on inaccurate ideas, and secondly,
you miss out on the students who if
they knew what it was really like,
would come. This should help us.
Clearly articulating who we are
should only be a positive thing"
The Viewbook Selection Com
mittee as well as the Admissions
staff are anxiously awaiting the fin
ished product, but early indications
are that there is a great satisfaction
with the project.
"Guilford is a diverse commu
nity, and when you see all ranks of
people agreeing, you know you
have something," Newell said.