The Belles
VOLUME XLIV, NUMBER 5
900 HILLSBOROUGH STREET
ST. MARY’S COLLEGE, RALEIGH, N.C.
of
St. Mary’s
College
DECEMBER, 1982
F.C.A. Grows
Stronger at SMC
by Cindy Owen
The Fellowship of
Christian Athletes is a group
of individuals who came
together to help each" other
become better persons and to
better understand what God
can do with their lives.
The F.C.A. chapter at St.
Mary’s (F.C.A. is a national
organization) began last
semester and is still going
strong. Its officers are:
Bryant Tanner (Pres.),
Marilyn Rollins (V.Pres.),
Nancy DuBose (Sec.), Ross
Jones (Tres.), and Holly
Fulford, Deebie Durant, and
Pooh Toms (Song Leaders).
The F.C.A. meets each
Wednesday night from 7:00 to
8:00 in &e Student Union
Lounge. Everyone is
welcome. The meetings begin
with singing and follows with
a program. Many times, a
guest speaker or a member of
Uie F.C.A. will share her
experiences and feelings
about her faith.
A variety of speakers
have talked to the St. Mary’s
F.C.A. this year. Connie
Rogers, a former N.C. State
women’s basketball player,
visited the F.C.A. last month,
bringing a film made about
her and stories of her religious
experiences. Members of the
Campus Crusade also came
and spoke, hoping to spark
interest in the Atlanta F.C.A.
retreat that will take place in
December.
The F.C.A. began its year
with a cookout in the backyard
of President Rice’s home.
Over three hundred people
came to enjoy the fellowship
and listen to four members of
the N.C. State F.C.A. share
their experiences. The St.
Mary’s group has also
traveled to meetings of the
UNC-CH F.C.A. on Thursday
nights. Our girls participated
in the UNC group’s beach
retreat to Garden City, where
they heard speakers,
including a former UNC
wrestler, and had huddle
groups in which they shared
stories and experiences.
Presently, the F.C.A. is
helping out Sister Helen
Wright at The Ark. The girls
take turns babysitting during
a mothers’ support group and
volunteering their services in
other ways.
Bryant Tanner is very
excited about the progress of
the F.C.A. at St. Mary’s and
the involvement of the
members. She feels the group
has helped the college as a
whole and is positive this will
continue.
FORUM SERIES:
Dr. Arthur Marks
by Karen Lado
On November 8, St.
Mary’s sponsored its third
speaker in the 1982-83 Fonim
Series: “Focus on American
Culture.” Dr. Arthur Marks, a
professor at University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
came to speak about the
“Panorama of American
Art.” Dr. Marks has a great
deal of experience i art. He
studied art as an
undergraduate and later
received his M.A. from
Columbia and a Ph.D. from
the University of London. He
had spoken at many different
schools before coming to St.
Mary’s.
Dr. Marks feels that
American artists have been
frying over the years, to find a
uietaphor for American as a
place, and as a concept.
Through his speech and slide
presentation Dr. Marks tried
fo show how landscape art,
especially, reflects the
changing views of America.
The first landscapes were
'Vide open paintings which
fried to capture the size and
openness of America. Even
foday, we are still trying to
Come to terms with the
''astness of the United States,
f^radually, early artists also
*‘calized that nature was part
of the uniqueness of America
and included detailed
representations of nature in
fheir art.
fn the nineteenth century.
our attitude towards Amenra
changed - a chang reflec^ in
American art. Dr. Marks
showed contemporary
paintings in which artists
included scenes of both
natural and man-made
landscapes: dense forest
beside cultivated fields, for
example. As people moved
West, ideas of America
expanded and artists b^an to
work on a much larger sea e.
Furthermore, Dr. Marks
believes that the many
bridges and rainbows which
annear in these painUngs
sjrobolize the links be^^n
the East and the new West.
Today, the Brooklyn Bridge,
tbe Golden Gate Bridge, and
the St. Louis Arch still stand
as symbols of America^
Landscape art in the
twentieth century has
changed dramatically.
Painters continue to work on a
large scale, but their works
are^ more abstract.
Pollock created an of
America by using lo^
horizontal lines which caiK^
a viewer to keep moving,
therby creating an illusion of
-nace^ Dr. Marks also Mid
tSt cubism let modern artists
rrSte a fuller portrait of
Srlca by allowing them to
together many images.
New York became the
of America, and
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Rebecca Rogers, Douglas nurrag and IRarg Glenn
Barwick, representatives of The Belles staff, hand
check to Sister Helen Wright.
RELLES COBTTRIRUTE
MOBTEY TO THE ARK
by Mary Glenn Barwick
Thursday, November 11,
was a big day for the Belles
staff. To be included as a club
here at St. Mary’s, each club
has to contribute to the
betterment of the Raleigh
area. Although our bi-monthly
newspaper is itself a large
contribution to St. Mary’s, it is
not a direct contribution to the
area of Raleigh. The Belles
staff decided to begin
advertising and contribute all
profits to a charity.
On November 11, a check
for $69.(W was handed to Sister
Helen Wright, to be given to
the Ark, a Raleigh community
service center. We asked
Sister Helen to outline the
possible destination of our
^9.(X), and she told us the
following story:
A young woman student at
Shaw University was
informed that her mother,
who lives in Virginia, had
become very ill. The young
woman was worried about her
mother, and even more about
her two children, who were
living with her mother while
she attended Shaw. She had no
money to get to Virginia. After
being told about The Ark by
several friends, she asked
Sister Helen for aid. The Ark
bought her a ticket to
Virginia. Sister told Belles
reporters that this was
probably where the $69.00
contribution would come in
handy.
The Belles staff plans to
keep donating these monthly
checks to The Ark. We hope
that they will increase in
value, helping more people
pay rent, utility bills or buy
food.
A front view of the Vrhan ministry Center
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