THE TWIG
VOL. LIV, NO. 8
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
OCTOBER 31, 1979
Parents Weekend to be held November 3-4
1^ Diane Baucon
This is iU Earents
Weekend 1979 has finally
arrived, The only, Parente
Weekend this academic year!
We’ve planned lots of new
and different activities-all of
them planned, directed, * and
produced by students. We’re
hoping that you and your
parents will join us for the
festivities.
If your parents have
already registered by mail,
their registration packets
(including their nametags and
meal tickets) will be ready
and waiting for them on
Saturday at Cate Center. If
they are planning to be here
on Sunday, only, stop by and
pick up their packet for them
on Saturday.
Everybody knows how
frustrating it can be to wait in
line. So, why not register for
your parents ahead of time?
Stop by the Advancement
Office on 2nd Johnson (across
from the Admissions Office)
before Friday morning and
register. Don’t wait to register
on the steps of Belk tefore
One Act plays to be presented
by Marlene Debo Barnett
The Meredith College
Playhouse will present an
evening of one-act plays on
Thursday and Friday,
November 8 and 9 at 8 p.m. in
the Studio Theatre (125 Jones,
underneath the Auditorium).
The plays to be presented are
“Adaptation” by Elaine May,
and “Lou Gehrig Did Not Die
of Cancer” by Jason Miller.
Admission is free.
“Adaptation” is being
directed by senior Lynn Dyson
as a part of her drama minor.
The play is a game show and
the audience follows a con
testant around the game
board, which is actually his
life. Cast members include
Melanie Mabry, Jamie Allen,
'and Carol Roser.
Charlie Krebs, the theatre
department’s technical
director, is directing “Lou
Gehrig Did Not Die of Can
cer.” The play deals with a,
married couple whose
relationship has been
destroyed by each partner’s
seeking his own ends and
losing sight of the common
ground they once shared. The
husband is able to relate to
and share himself more with a
stranger who visits him than
with his own wife. Debbie
Taylor, Ed Smith, and
Marlene Debo Barnett por
tray the three characters.
dinner on Saturday or at the
Amphitheater on Sunday. Do
it early and avoid the rush.
And, as you may remember -
from last spring’s picnic, food
got rather scarce toward the
end of the picnic simply
because so many people
waited until the very last
miraate to buy their tickets.
There is just no way the
cafeteria staff »n anticipate
and adequately serve several
hundred last minute guests.
Don’t get stuck. Register
early.
All signs indicate that this
is going to be the best Parents
Weekend yet-lots of parents,
brothers, sisters, and
boyfriencfe have already made
plans to attend. How about
yomrs? See you this weekend.
PARENTS WEEKEND
Saturday
9:00 a.m.-4;00 p.m. Science
Workshop, 203 Joyner,
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Parents &' Granddaughter’s
Luncheon, ALH.
2:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Parents
Reception, Cate Lounge.
2:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Parents
Registration, Cate Lobby.
4:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m. Parents
Show, CEA.
6:15 p.m.-:8:00 p.m. Parents
Banquet, Belk Hall.
6:30 p.m.-ll.OO p.m. Ridge
Road ^ptist Church Square
Dance, Gym.
8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
Meredith Showcase, Jones
and Invitational Golf Tour
nament UNC-CH, (A).
Nov. 4, Sunday
8:30 a.m. Board of Direc-
tors-Parents Association,
PDR.
11:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon
Parents Worship Service,
Jones.
'12:00 Noon-2:00 p.m.
Parents “Pig Pickin’’, Am
phitheater.
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Faculty
Harpsichord Recital, CCH.
Ailtlior of children’s books
to speak at library luncheon
See Special Section
on Cornhuskin’ instdle this issue I
J
Information Services
Suzanne Newton of
Raleigh, author of four award-
, winning children’s books will
be thei^est speakerat the fall
luncheon of the Meredith
College Friends of the Carlyle
Campbell Library, Thursday,
November i, 12;30 p.m, in
Belk Dining Hall on the
women’s college campus.
Mrs. Newton, a native of
Bunn Level, graduated from
Duke University with a major
in English. Since she first
began WTiting in the late 1960s
she has had four books
published, three of which have
received the North Carolina
American Association- of
University Women award for
the Best Juvenile Bodi in the
year of publication, two have
been Junior Literary Guild
Books, and one has been a
Newberry nominee.
Her most recent bode,
‘‘Rubella and the Old Focus
Home,” is the subject of
negotiations with Walt Disney
Productions,
Ms. Newton has served as
a consultant in the Poetry in
the Schools Program in North
Carolina and has visited
numerous schools in the state
working with children and
'Poetry. She is active in the
jPullen Memorial Baptist
Ghiirch in Raleigh and the
Authors Guild, Inc.
She and her husband Carl,
a state government official,
have four children, two of
whom are in college and two
are in high school.
Friends of the Carlyle
Campbell Library provides
various levels of support and
is concerned with the welfare
of the Meredith College
Library.
News Highlights Around Campus
NEW PROGRAM
Information Services
Meredith College begins a
new program for alumnae this
fall entitled “Meredith on the
Road.” Short courses on taxes
and estate planning, China,
personal skills, and women of
the Bible will be offered to
alumnae chapters across the
state by the Office of Alumnae
Affairs and Office of Con
tinuing Education and Special
Programs at the women’s
college.
Courses will be taught on
Saturdays by Meredith
faculty at locations requested
by alumnae, chapters. All
courses are five hours in
length and will cost each
chapter $125 or $156 plus
traveling expenses; : per
course.
For some time Meredith
has been working to develop a
broad program of c0tihuing
education designed
specifically to meet the needs
of alumnae. A sub-comJhittee
of the Alumnae Association’s
education committee
developed the traveling
course presentation which
■was presented at the
association’s May meeting.
SEMINARY REPRESEN
TATIVES
Office of Campus Minister
For those of you who are
interested in church related
work and perhapis going on to
study at a sbmi nary hr
divinity school, Meredith is
arranging to have seminary
representatives on campus.
Interviews will be set up
through the Campus
Minister’s office with
representatives from
Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, (Wake
Forest, NC) Vanderbilt
Divinity School (Nashville,
TN), Duke Divinity School
(Durham), and Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary
(Louisville, KY).
Please call the office,
(Ext. 346 ) 6r fill out a sign up
slip from the Campus
Minister’s bulletin board
immediately if you would like
a bulletin or an interview with
a representative from one of
these schools,
UPCOMBitG RECITALS
Here are the upcoming
recitals in the Music
Department at Meredith:
Nov. 4, 4:00 p.m. Lewis
Brunn, Guest Organ Recital,
Jones Auditorium.
Nov, 4, 8:00 p.m., Brenda
Windham, Faculty Harp
sichord Recital, Carswell
Recital Hall.
Nov. 5,8:00 p.m.. Tom Lohr,
Faculty Piano Recital,
Carswell Recital Hall.
Nov. 6, 8:00 p.m., Ned
Gardner, Guesti Trumpet
Recital, Carswell Recital
Hall.
Nov. 8 and 9, 8:00 p.m., One
Act Performances iDrama),
Jones Rehearsal Hall.
The Sexaal Adolescent:
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Commniiiieatioit and Valde
November 9, 1979
McKimmon Center, N.C.S.U.
Sponsored by; ,
Raleigh Women’s Health
Organization, Inc.
Governor’s Advocacy
Council on Children and 'Vouth
Co-op Campus Ministry,
N.C.S.U. ' ^ '
Wayne County Inner
Agency Council
Youth Involvement Office
For people who work with
and care about adolescents:
tlie focus of this seminar will
be to help caring adults to
communicate helpfully to
teenagers about sexual in
formation, concerns, and
behavior.
PROGRAM
9:00-10:90 A.M. Registration
and Book Sales
10:00-11:15 A.M. Dr. Sol
Gurdon; “The ; Sexual
Adolescent-Communication
Strategies”
11:15-11:30 A.M. Question
and Answer
11:30-1:00 P.M. Lunch-on
your own
1:00-1:30 P.M. Dr. Steve
Shoemaker: “Value
Clarification”
1:30-3:00 P.M. Panel
3:00-3:30 P.M. Dr. Steve
Shoemaker-Group Exercise
in Value Clarification
3:30-4:00 P.M. Break and
Book Sales
4:00-5:00 P.M. Dr. Sol
Gordon: address to Parents
and Teens-“How Can You
Tell If You’re Really In Love”
; FACULTY ■
Dr. Steve Shoemaker -
Presbyterian University
Minister at N.C.S.U.,
President 'of Raleigh
Ministerial Association.
Dr. Robert Senior - Chapel
Hill Pediatrics, P.A,; Past
President of Chapel Hill
P.T.S.A.; Clinical Associate
Professor of pediatrics at
Duke and U.N.C.; and
Member of Adolescent
Medical Society.
Susan Spaltz, R.N. - Health
Co-ordinator with Chapel Hill-
Canrboro Schools.
Molly Boggis - Assistant
Director of Center of ;Early
Adolescents. •
Dr. Paul Fleming. M;d..
FACOG-A.A.S.E.C.T.
Dr. Gary Berger, M.D.,
M.S.P.H. - Medical Director,
Raleigh Women’s Health
Organization, Inc.; Director,
Center of Reproductive
Health, Raleigh, N.C.
+±Deadline for
Registration: Nov. 1.