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Vol. LIII, No. 8, February 29, 1980
|WnC Photographer Presents
Bhow on South America
Co hotographer Judith Angel, who
the first three months of 1979
■ **^8 in Brazil and several months
Veri*’ putting together a multi-
nJ. show of photographs and record-
'J^Pinting her travels, will present
Will follow. Admission is free.
1^0 1 ^ 11C4 iiavcia, wni picaciti
at Mars Hill on Tuesday,
4, at 7:30 p.m. in Belk. A recep-
he ^*^ntion” is the title of the part of
concentrated on the Amazon
-ip Brazil, through the jungle and
north coast. “Remember the
L|^°n” is the title of the portion
^y'°8''aphed and recorded in and a-
Salvador. There will be a
f photographs entitled “Photos
ifg exhibited in the college li-
lJ[. March 3-31.
^ native, studied at East
l.S University and received a
Jpj^'^®8*'ee in interior design from the
of Georgia. After college,
fit r®nt a year in Europe, eight months
6n
|Sh,
*n Paris as a student at the Ameri-
finter for Students and Artists.
ip^ Came home from the year in Eu-
'''ith her heart set on more travel.
£
wanted to drive to South A-
" tavep spend a year working and
fcg ^nt she couldn’t find a travel-
Pth ^P^nion who could spend a year
Nisf Gradually she made the
alone to South America,
I eari: down the Amazon, eventually
** *^®^died for the trip by spending
studying Portugese and reading
every book on Brazil she could find.
She flew to Manaus in January, excit
ed about a boat trip down the Amazon
River. Halway through the boat trip,
she decided she'd had enough, and she
left the boat which she describes as
“looking like something from 100 years
in the past.”
The ship was crowded, and the passen
gers ate in shifts. First class passengers
slept shoulder to shoulder in hammocks
on the upper deck. A trip to the bath
room at night meant edging out of the
hammock and crawling on hands and
knees under the other hammocks to the
bathroom at the end of the boat. And
the Amazon was so wide that Judith
wasn’t really seeing anything of the jun
gle.
So she disembarked and gave up
hammock sleeping for a bumpy ride
through the jungle on the Transmazon-
ica, a narrow dirt “highway" through
the jungle.
Judith carried her camera in an in-
conspicous cloth bag and says lhat
with ber dark eyes and a little suntan,
she looked Brazilian not to attract much
attention - until she had to speak the
difficult Portugese.
Throughout heV trip to the north coast
and travels to Recife and Salvador, she
kept a journal of her experiences and
impressions, made dozens of photo
graphs of people at work and play and
tape recorded sounds of music and mar
ketplace.
Cont. on pg. 7^ ool. 2
Ppalachian Leadership Award
rl^csented to Bob Scott
jj^^PPalachian Scholars Program,
? that ° second year, has announc-
|Ppalg !*, '^>11 present the first annual
nioK, Leadership Award on Mon
oHl, MaroVi Q mon a.,J:
March 3, 1980, in Belk Audi-
, ■> regularly go to a per-
I ^lac'll- ^contributed much to the
® evidg •’^gion and its people,
through a sincere concern
P>eaf,( of Appalachia. JThe award
tf ®ervi'° ^ recognition of outstand-
V '’''ith^ committment to the re-
I ^hg fj ” 3n emphasis on leadership.
^®'c*Piont of the Appalachian
' Skhi/P Award is Governor Robert
co-chair-
'ivvtuu IS vjovern
of (L former federal
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of
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, jj, APP^locbian Regional Com
IgtsQ governor of North Carolina
fj|.^fal *0 1973. Governor Scott, as
■,'Sent! “'.'Chairman of A.R.C., worked
reoj ^he people of the Appala-
h^^’orn his appointment by
la ‘ his Carter on May 26, 1977,
I'^^y
Is *®hod a great deal in the many
tSa, A.R.C., programs such
tCn''^P>en* education, housing,
'''’’'“8 to
and land development,
the A.R.C. magazine.
Appalachia, in water pollution control
alone, the number of facilities was in
creased from 636 in August of 1977 to
847 as of June 1979. Tbe money to be
spent in water pollution control rose
from 139 million dollars to 200.7 million
in the same period. These increases
may be explained from several angles,
but tbe most important reason stems
from the deep-rooted concern that Gov
ernor Scott has for the Appalachian
region.
While he was co-chairman of the
A.R.C., he stressed the need to balance
environmental concerns with develop
ment and tired to include a wide-range
of citizens in the A.R.C.’s decision-mak
ing process, such as women’s groups,
Appalachia magazine reported. For in
stance, it was Governor Scott who help
ed Ms. Jeane Hoffman and others to form
the Council on Appalachian Women.
Governor Scott will accept the Ap
palachian Leadership Award Monday
night at 8:00 and all are welcome to at
tend. Following the presentation.
Governor Scott will make a speech and
entertain questions to end the evening’s
program.
David Perkins
Judith Angel
Brahms Festival
to be Held
The music department of Mars Hill
will present a festival of the music of
Johannes Brahms on March 12-14, 1980.
The faculty and student musicians will
combine their efforts in a program to
give a vivid representation of Brahm’s
life and works; this is one of the first
programs of its kind in WNC.
The program will begin of Wednes
day, March 12, at 1:00 p.m., with a lec
ture by Dr. Anna Hines on the bio
graphical background of Brahms and the
significance of the romantic era in which
he lived. Following at 3:00, there will
be art songs by music students, and
at 8:00 chamber music will be performed
by the faculty and student participants.
On Thursday, March 13, May Jo Gray
will speak on the motivations behind
Brahm’s compositions and the influence
of his contemporaries. This presenta-
Cont. on pg. 8y col. 2
Bob Scott
A Closer Look
at the Infirmary
Mention to a friend that you’re on your
way to the Infirmary, and invariably
he/she will respond with a, “Why, what’s
wrong? Are you sick?” and offer a sym
pathetic look.
Although the Infirmary staff serves
the students and strives to keep us stu
dents healthy, they need, our cooper
ation and consideration for successful
results.
Mrs. Ellen Coomer, Director of Health
Services, assumed her MHC duties in
August, 1973. This friendly and indust
rious woman enjoys her work and is
quite fond of students.
In order to make her job more pleas
ant, perhaps you should reread the rules
and regulations. Remember the orange
sheet (entitled Infirmary Policies) you
received last fall naming the staff, of
fering the operating hours, and stating
other pertinent information? Familiar
izing yourself with the guidelines could
save you and the Infirmary staff some
time.
And who composes the Infirmary
staff? Three of the Mars Hill community
doctors. Dr. Charles Powell, Dr. Ernest
Powell, and Dr. Otis Duck, extend their
service to the Infirmary. All four nurses
are registered nurses (R.N.’s). Aside
from Mrs. Coomer, the other three R.N.’s
are students. However, they are not
students studying nursing. They already
possess nursing degrees and are now
persuing additional degrees. Nurses Jan
Stellman and Sue Shelton are majoring
in Allied Health, while Chuck Van Gord-
er is majoring in Business. Again, they
are not students practicing and prepar
ing to be nurses; they are registered
nurses who have completed their nurses
training and received that degree or
registration.
The Infirmary also employs work
study students. The three of them pre
form such tasks as light office work,
bringing tbe food from the cafeteria to
bed-ridden patients, and making beds.
But, work study students never examine
tbe patients.
For everyone’s well being, Mrs. Coomer
suggested students visit the Infirmary
when they first begin to feel sick. You
will recover faster and reduce the risk of
infecting collegues.
A common misconception concerns
the Infirmary’s medical excuse policy.
The orange sheet entitled INFIRMARY
POLICIES states: “Excuses will be given
to a student to present to his/her profes
sor only if the student was seen and treat
ed BEFORE the class was missed. The
excuse will contain the DATE AND TIME
the student was seen.
However, some students insist on a-
busing the medical excuse. The privi
lege can be a hassle for the students,
the Infirmary staff, and the professor.
Mrs. Coomer hopes Mars Hill College
will follow the example set by some
other colleges: omit medical excuses.
After all, a class absence hurts only the
students who skips the class.
Cont. on pg. S, col. 1