The Belles
VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 2
900 HILLSBOROUGH STREET,
ST. MARY’S COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
of
St. Mary’s
College
OCTOBER, 1982
SWEENY TODD
by Cindy Owen
and Toni Davis
On October 27-30, 1982, a
mixed cast of St. Mary’s
students, community people,
and people from Hillsboropgh
are performing Sweeny Todd,
a modern musical set in
London during the Jack
Ripper era. The play will be
performed in Pittman
Auditorium. The actors range
from actual theatre
professionals to beginners.
Only a few amateur groups
have been allowed to enact
Sweeny Todd.
This musical is based on
the story of a man who has
been unjustly accused of a
crime he did not commit. The
innocent man takes revenge
on the people who sentenced
him.
The book Sweeny Todd
was written by Hugh Wheeler.
The music and lyrics of this
piece are by Steven Sonahein
who also wrote A Little Night
Music, Westslde Story, and
Gypsy. The musical director
is Milton Bliss, the director of
the men’s glee club at N.C.
State University. Bliss has
worked professionally on the
east coast.
Harry Callahan, a drama
teacher at St. Mary’s College,
is directing Sweeny Todd.
Before his teaching career,
Callahan worked
professionally in N.C. theatres
as an actor and a designer.
All the actors actual
names and character names
are in the following list;
Beverly
Mrs. Lovett
Buchanan
Beggar Woman - Elizabeth
Brumsey
Johanna - Libby Rhiner ^
Todd - Don Mason
Anthony - Mike Yionailis
Judge - Da’dd Rhiner
Pierelli - Frank Jeffreys
Beadle - Roy Dicks
Tobias - Scott Ross
Victor Mangum
Lynn Jones
Shelby Credle
Courtney Candler
Julie Nelson
Susan Johnson
Nancy Rear
Michelle Fowler
Stage Managers: Mary
Newsome, Amy Hurka, Ellen
McCallum.
Sweeny Todd is Pittman’s next show.
Seven Summers Ago
Our Gym’s Facilities
One of St. Mary’s best
facilities is our gym. It is one
thing that tour guides stress,
but the whole picture may not
be given on a brief tour. The
pool, of cource, is in the gym.
There is a sauna adjacent to
the .locker room.. Mrs.
Sappenfield, the swim
instrucotr, asks that you
please shower before
swimming if you have been in
the sauna or exercising.
The upstairs gym is used
for basketblal, volleyball,
jogging, and practicing
tennis. Only soft-soled shoes
3re to be worn on the court.
Basketballs may be found in
Miss Alexander’s office
'fownstairs. Eighteen laps
Ground the gym make a mile.
Lifting weights is another
good way to get in shape.
Roinember to stretch out for
®t least ten minutes prior to
lifting and for at least five
Piinutes afterward. To find
®ot how to begin, lift the
hoaviest weight you can. Use
•J®lf of that amount when you
°o repetitions. Weights can be
handled in two ways. To
increase strength, add more
weight over a period of weeks.
To increase endurance, the
weight is kept the same, but
more repetitions are done.
the larger of the
The weight machine is
designed so the actual forced
needed to lift the weight does
not change as you lift, that is,
as the angle of your muscles
changes. The lower number
printed on the weight is the
weight you lift initially. At
complete extension, the
weight IS
numbers.
For further recreation,
the gym has a dance studio.
Street shoes are not worn in
this room. Likewise, in the
bowling alley you must have
special shoes or shoes and a
sock over the shoe on the foot
on which you slide. (If you are
right handed, this will be your
left foot.) The golf practie
room is next to the weight
room. There are also ping-
pong and pool tables
downstairs.
Seven Summers ago I knew a
man
Although I was young and he
was old
He was a friend of mine
Overpowering heat filled the
summer days.
But the man never grew
disgruntled with nature.
His home was called a shack
by some.
But that shack kept him safe
and warm
And he never complained or
asked for more.
Family? This man had none.
He was a loner.
He was not selfish, snobbish,
nor sad,
Everytime I saw him, he
seemed glad.
Years have past since seven
summers ago.
I’ve grown older and I moved
away.
Help Fight Hunger!
Join The CROP Walk
The Raleigh-Wake County
CROP Walk for Hunger will
take place Sunday, October 3.
The 10-mile Walk will begin at
1:30 with registration and a
rally at Meredith College
Amphitheater. Persons
interested in walking or
sponsoring a walker should
call Rev. Don Patty at 828-
6161.
CROP is the Community
Hunger Appeal of Church
World Service, the relief and
development agency of more
than 30 Protestant and
Orthodox denominations in
the U.S. Of the money raised
through the CROP Walk, 25
percent will aid the following
local hunger-fighting
agencies: N.C. Community
Food Bank, Urban Ministry
Center, Meals on Wheels,
Food Pantry, Shepherds
Table Soup Kitchen. The
remainder is distributed
through Church World Sen/ice
to meet critical needs around
the world.
Thoughts of seven summers
ago often cross my mind;
The summer He and I planted
sunflowers in the sun.
The summer he trained a
crow to eat from my palm.
The summer I was young and
he was old.
All these thoughts crossed my
mind that morning ~
The morning someone called
to say
“He shot himself today.”
He was a loner, but never did I
see that he was lonely.
Somewhere in the world,
someone must be there,
somewhere.
He had somebody, and if that
somebody had just said
“I love you so,” Seven
summers ago
Maybe things could be better
now
Things would be better now if
only
Seven summers ago
Someone like me took the time
to say,
“I love you so.”
Toni L. Davis
New Faces At St. Mary’s
Sissy Taylor
2ND in a SERIES)
by Becky Rogers
Sissy Taylor decided to go
*bto teaching while still in high
School. Her math teacher was
®Ren ill and would leave
^®signments for Ms. Taylor to
®^ch to the class. Although it
rather awkward teaching
®udents her own age, Ms.
^ylor said she realized then
JT^uch she liked teaching
decided to pursue it as a
Career.
this year received her MEd.,
also from State. She was also
active athletically, playing
softball for the Unive^i^.
Being involved in college
sports brought to her attention
• _ 1. to 3
SporiS oruugliv w
what she considers to be a
major problem in education -
. • Wltl
athlelics «ilh
academics. She feels that
academics, osk;
many times, good athletes are
‘cheated” out of an
“cneaicu
ed„:atlen. An athlete's raree
IS often not lonpr1
Ms. Taylor, who teaches
Sebra, Business Math and
^ulus, received her B.S.
NCSU in 1980, and only
vearrandifheorshehasnot
received a good education
... nff to fall
have nothing to fall
S on «hen that career
ends.
Sissy Taylor
Mary’s, said Ms.
is, “... great, very
and very busy...”
She is very happy with her
choice of careers, she said,
and with her choice of St.
Mary’s as a place to teach.
St.
Taylor,
friendly.
Summer days at St. Mary’s.... now have become fall days.