2 THE CAROLINA TIMES SAT., NOVEMBER 22, 1880
Emory University Hosting First Conference on
Black South Literature and Art
H.6. WALLACE NAMED VICE CHANCELLOR FOR
UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS AT UNC-CH
ATLANTA - Some
3,000 artists, writers, ac
tors, critics, teachers and
students who are involved
with the black experience
in the South, and the
general public, are gather
ing this week -ion the
Emory University campus --aesthetic,
for the first Conference on
Black South Literature
and Art.
The keynote session on
Thursday, November 20,
at 7:30 p.m. in the Glenn
Memorial Auditorium,
will feature several noted
speakers, including
former U.N.. Ambassador
Andrew '"Young,
playwright Ossie Davis
and
Tyrone Wilkerson
Gloria Mims.
The ' conference . is
designed to emphasize the
important role of the
black south artist in the
development and sustain-
ment of a national Diacn
founded by
those who work to pro
duce literature and art as
well as those who practice
the arts, thus keeping the
folklore tradition alive.
The sponsors of the con
ferccne are Emory Univer
sity, the Southern Collec
tive of African-American
Writers (SCAAW), the
Southern Black Cultural
Alliance (SBCA) and the
and Pulitzer sfcaAJriaj-rfsiCommittee on Black
winning noteHstl Japm Soth Literature and Arts,
Alan McPhersonljAllscOtt'.i in Literature, the con
ference sessions are free to ference will be host to a
the public. : i-C ? dittfj aHkuttibef-: of prominent
i ne opening sesstPtr.wi-.Biafcic south writers,
be followed by a public
receDtion at 9:30 p.m. for
the start of an exhibit of
prints and drawings at the
Woodruff Medical Center
Administration Building.
among them Margaret
Walker, Ishamel Roed.
Ernest Gains (at 'vr
"The Autobiography of
Miss Jane Pittman"),
Alice Walker, Toni Cade
Also beginning Thu:sda'yBaMBara Sonia Sanchez,
following registration at 1 Ethridgc .JKaight, Ruby
p.m., are the Book Fair Dee (Ossie Da,vis and1
and exhibits of interna- A"irray. )tAmong
tional art in the Aftimni fce) workshops, "The
Memorial University -Necessity fr, 1 B,ack
Center gallery and Black' Biography" and , "The
South folklore in the
Candler Library lobby.
Every day of the conn,
ference will feature panel
discussions, workshops,
readings - and' perfor
mances of black theatre.
Friday's events begin at
the Neighborhood Arts
Center at 252 Georgia
Ave., with panel discus
sions, workshops and ex
perimental theatrewith
dance and major leadings
later on the anpuses of
Atlanta I .'mvef sity and
Emory University. The
day concludes with a din
ner theatre banquet at the
Stadium Hotel downtown,
followed by a dance.
Saturday activities in-,
elude the Artists-in-the-SchtKuV
workshops, and
panel discussions, to be
held at Emory's White
Hall, with such educators
as Lorenzo Thomas,
scripts, and impromptu
performances of plays by
conferees will give these
aspiring playwrights a
chance to see their works
performed and critiqued.
Writing for television is
also the subject of
workshops.
Visual Arts will be
shown in a large exhibit,
and there will be discus
sions of various aspects of
Black South art. Many ar
tists have submitted works
for judging by a group of
ar critics.
Folklore will be em
phasized as a thriving art
form, and a panel of
folklorists will discuss
methods -of researching
the traditional and con
temporary rfolk expres
sions of blacks. The Penn
Conference $ Center, a
repository of folk culture',
will have a large exhibit,
and its director, Emory
Campbell, will moderate
workshops on Sea Island
culture. ;'
the conference is fund
ed by grants from the na
tional Endowment for the
arts, the Southern Arts
Federation, the Commit
tee for the Humanities,
the Fulton County Arts
Commission, The City of"
Atlanta Department of
Cultural Affairs, the
Travelers Insurance Com
panies and by Emory
University, including the
university's Afro
American and- African
Studies Program, the
President's Commission
on the Status of Minorities
and the Department of
English.
Chapel Hill
Harold G. Wallace, UNC
CH assistant chancellor
for student affairs, has
been named vice
chancellor for university
affairs at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
His appointment, ap
proved by the UNC Board
of Governors Friday, is ef
fective December 1.
In making the an
nouncement Chancellor
Christopher C. Fordham,
III said an essential and
key part of Wallace's
duties will be assisting him
in enhancing the presence
and experience of minori
ty students and staff at the
University.
Wallace will have ad
ministrative responsibility
for the offices of the
registrar, student financial
aid, records and registra
tion, institution! . .arch
and undergraduate admis
sions. "The vice chancellor
for university j affairs,"
Foru...m sa;d, "will fill
the need for" a high level
administrative officer
whose responsibilities in
clude a new focus on
minority matters during a
critical period in the life of
the University. 1 am
delighted in this appoint
ment. Mr. Wallace is an
excellent University ad
ministrator and an
outstanding human be
ing." Wallace joined the
University staff inJuly
1973 as associate dean of
student affairs and direc
tor of special programs.
Previously he held several
positions at Duke Univer
sity including assistant to
the dean of undergraduate
education and student ad
visor, director of the sum-
South as Content,", deal
ing with recurrent motifs
of famj, church, music
and folklore.
There will be a special,
conference led by some
fifty editors of small black
press journals, and other
discussions will center on ,
bringing black south
literature to the schools.
With this will be presenta
tions by George Reynolds
of the "Foxfire'' group,
Emory Campbell of the
Penn Conference Center
and Ed Cabbell of the
John Henry Memorial
Foundation.
A, number of theatre
companies will come to
campus,, including the
Congo! S9Bar?4fev
ana , v .vug oi-,,,,cw
Orleans, and the "Ml
Ensemble Company of
Miami. Several dramatists
will be on hand to criticize
i 1 m
.
V .
V
ill
.
Wallace
mer transitional program,
and assistant provost and
dean of black student af
fairs. He also was in
se. t.in director of com
munity and field work for
An o--American majors
and seminar instructor for
a course on "Dimensions
of Racism" at Duke.
This year he was
selected for Who's Who
Among Black Americans.
For the past seven years
he has served as faculty
advisor to the Black Stu
dent movement and for
five years he has served as
secretary-treasurer of the
Black FacultyStaff
Caucus at UNC-CH. He
also has beena member of
the board of directors of
the Wesley foundation at
UNC-CH, the Institute of
Desegration at North
Carolina Central Universi
ty and the National Com
mission of United
Ministers in Higher
Education. He was a con
sultant on minority stu
dent programs for the
University of South
Carolina, and Furman
and Wake Forest univer
sities. Wallace', who lives in
Durham, is a native of
Gaffney, S. C. He "arned
a B.S. in education from
Claflin College in
Orangeburg, S.C., where
he was president of Alpha
Kappa Mu National
Honor Society. In 1971 he
received a master of
divinity ue ee from Duke
University.
Delta Receive
Certificate
Mrs. teonaWhichard, president of, the Durham Chapter ole American Cancer Sncwiiu,
(second fromjeft) present a certificate of appreciation for wprjc done by members of the
Durham Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. who distributed information on
cancer at South Square Mall. Accepting the certificate of appreciation for the sorority are
Sorors Sara Pettiford, Cynthia Pearson and Rosiland Wallace.
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