THE TWIG
Newspaper of the Students of Ifleredith College
VOL. LVIII, NO. 16
MEREDITH COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
FEBRUARY 21, 1980
‘Gamma Rays’ Presented
Marlene Debo (standing) and Deborah Taylor (floor) are on
stage for “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon
Marigolds.” (Photo by Paula Douglas)
Tillie Kneels, ardently
describing the majestic
beauty and grandeur of the
atom, the smallest unit of
matter. As the light increases,
the stage reveals a disarrayed
and filthy apartment that
reflects the shattered lives of
its inhabitants.
“The Effect of Gamma
Rays on Man-in-the-Moon
Marigolds,” presented by the
Meredith Department of
Music and Performing Arts
Feb. 14,15, and 16, is a two-act
play about the influences of a
disturbed and unfulfilled
mother on her two daughters.
Beatrice (Marlene Debo)
unleashes her hatred toward
the. entire world on sensitive
and brilliant Tillie, (Anna
Brown) and Ruth (Deborah
Taylor),.. who has suffered
from mental illness and is.
haunted by recurrent
nightmares. Nanny (Kristy
Beattie), an elderly boarder,
is entwined in the ^ama, but
she is too feeble to com
prehend their tragedies.
Janice (Wendy Stanley),
Tillie’s silly and conceited
competition in a school
science fair, adds the only
tough of light-hearted humor
to flie play.
Tillie’s development
toward adulthood is
beautifully portrayed as she
withstands her mother’s
sadistic verbal abuses without
a revengeful spirit. The
fascinating, yet horrifying,
harshness of the family’s lives
bursts forth into hope as Tillie
expresses her faith in the
beauty of life.
Stage manager Beverle
Weisiger and technical
director Charles Krebs,along
with their crews, assisted in
the production.
Meredith in retrospect:
F4>unders’Day on Friday
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Meredith College will
mark its 89th charter year
with the observance of
Founder’s Day on Friday,
February 22. The public is
invited to attend the day’s
activities.
Highlighting Founder’s
Day will be an address by
William Bennett, director of
the National Institute of
Humanities in Research
Triangle Park, at 10 a.m. in
Jones Auditorium.
A wreath-laying
ceremony at the memorial to
Thomas Meredith, for whom
the college is named, will
begin the day’s activities at 9
a.m. The memorial, located
adjacent to Jones Hall, pays
tribute to Meredith, who was
an early advocate of a Baptist
Turlington returns from Iran
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After nearly two years of
missionary work in Iran,
Helen Turlington has returned
to work at Meredith as a
consultant in social work
education and as a visiting
missionary.
The former assistant
professor of sociology and
director of the social work
program at Meredith left the
faculty in 1977 when she and
her husband. Dr. Henry
Turlington, were appointed
missionaries to Teheran by
the Foreign Missions Board of
the Souttiern Baptist Con
vention. The couple had
served 30 years earlier as
missionaries to mainland
China prior to the Communist
takeover, when they were
forced to leave.
Mrs. Turlington came to
Meredith in 1972 after earning
the M.S.W. degree from the
University of North Carolina
in Chapel Hill. She attended
the College of Chinese Studies
in Peking in 1948 and prior to
that earned the B.A. from
Blue Mountain College and the
M.R.E. from Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary.
In Teheran, Dr.
Turlington served as pastor of
the city’s only English-
speaking Baptist church.
Prior to Iran, Dr. Turlington
was pastor for 16 years at
University Baptist Church in
Chapel Hill.
The Turlingtons lived in
an Iranian neighborhood in
the northern part of Teheran
during their stay. They left
Iran in early 1979 when
political unrest caused the
Americans, who made up 85
percent of their congregation,
to flee the country. Between
then and their return to the
United States in January, they
made several trips back to
Iran and spent some time in
India.
Planning to return to
mission work in July, the
Turlingtons have been
assigned to India for several
years.
Black Emphasis Week in progress
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Black Emphasis Week
will be observed here on
campus February 18-24. The
week, sponsored by the Black
Voices in Unity, will include
an exhibit, a special worship
service, a dance performance,
a special convocation, and a
film showing. All of the week’s
events, with the exception of
the film, are open to the public
without charge.
Dr. Patsy Perry, chair
woman of the English
department at North Carolina
Central University in
Durham, delivered the con
vocation address at 10 a.m. in
Jones Auditorium, Monday,
February 18.
Tuesday, Dr. Perry
hosted an informal dialogue
on the work of Frederick
Douglas, 12 noon, at the Cate
Fireside Lounge. Also on
Tuesday, a reception for
visiting artists James and
Ernestine Rainey Huff was
given in the Johnson Hall
Rotunda, 2-5 p.m., where their
recent paintings and drawings
are on display.
A special worship service
was led by Yvonne Beasley,
the Baptist chaplain at NCCU,
at 10 a.m., Wednesday,
February 20. The service
included special music.
Thursday, the Performing
Dance Troupe from St.
Augustine’s College in
Raleigh will present a
program combining creative
movement and a history of
black dance at 7 p.m. in the
rehearsal hall, 125 Jones.
The film, “The
Autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman,” starring Cicely
Tyson, will be shown Sunday,
February 24, at 7:30 p.m. in
the Cate Center Auditorium.
Admission will be $.75 per
person.
Black Emphasis Week is
held each year on the
Meredith campus to highlight
the views and interests of
America’s and Meredith’s
black community.
Events During Black Emphasis Week
(Februarj^ 18«24)
DATE
DAY
TIME
EVENT
PLACE
Feb. 18
Monday
10 a.m.
Convocation-Dr. Patsy Perry
Jones
Feb. 19
Tuesday
2-5 p.m.
Black Artist Reception
BLP
Feb. 20
Wednesday
10:30-11:30
Coffee-Mrs. Juiius Phoenix,
Mr. Edward J. McGinley
ALH
11:30-12:30
Mrs. Julius Phoenix, Mr.
Library-
Edward J. McGiniey-Speakers
Projection Room
Feb. 21
Thursday
6-8 p.m.
St. Augustine’s Dance Per
formance
Rehearsai Hall
college for women in North
Carolina and the founder of
the Biblical Recorder, the
journal of the Baptist State
Convention of North Carolina.
President John E. Weems
will welcome guests at the 10
a.m. program, and Seby B.
Jones of Raleigh, chairman of
the board of Davidson and
Jones and, chairman of the
Meredith Board of Trustees,
will introduce Bennett.
Dr. Roger H. Crook,
professor of religion, will
deliver the scripture and
prayer.The tribute to an early
founder of Meredith will be
given by Dr. Elizabeth James
Dotterer, a Meredith alumna
who is a physician at the
Dotterer Clinic in Sanford.
Jeanne Grealish, mezzo-
soprano, will sing Schubert’s
“Staendchen” (A Greeting)
for the anthem presentation.
She will be accompanied by
pianist Jane Snow and by the
Meredith College Chorale,
directed by professor of music
Beatl'ice Donley.
Founders’ Day speaker:
William J. Bennett
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William Bennett, who will
deliver Founders’ Day ad
dress is the Director of the
National Humanities Center.
He was born in Brooklyn, New
York, received his B.A.
degree from Williams College,
a Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Texas, and a law
degree from Harvard Law
School.
Mr. Bennett was formerly
Executive Director of the
Center, and before that
Assistant to President John
Silber of Boston University.
He has taught law and
philosophy at the University
of Southern Mississippi, the
University of Texas, Harvard,
the University of Wisconsin
and Boston University. At
present, he is an adjacent
associate professor of
philosophy at North Carolina
State University.
Mr. Bennett writes
regularly for general
audiences on topics that relate
to his fields of study. In ad
dition to a number of articles
in scholarly journals such as
the Harvard Civil Rights and
Stanford law reviews, Mr.
Bennett has written articles
for Newsweek, The Wall
Street Journal, Commentary,
and Encounter. Some of his
recent topics include the
Bakke case, the idea and
limits of “ri^ts,” moral and
values education, censorship
and television, and the politics
of Jonestown. His book,
COUNTING BY RACE:
EQUALITY FROM THE
FOUNDING FATHERS TO
BAKKE, will be released this
November by Basic Books.