The Carolina Joernal
^ifi/icstMn Of The UnirenHf Of North Coroiinm At Charlotte
VOL. 2
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1966
NO. 10
Harry Shaw
BY CAROL HAYWOOD
Harry Shaw, one of the best-
known figures in American book
pubiishing, wili speak in the Par
quet Room of UNC-C on Friday,
November 18, at 11:30. Mr. Shaw
will speak on his publishing ex
periences and tricks of writing.
A 1926 graduate of Davidson
CoUege, Mr. Shaw is a native of
Sumter, S. C. At present he is
an editor of special writing pro
jects at W. W. Norton and Com
pany.
Mr. Shaw is also a member of
the Board of Visitors of David
son College.
Other positirais which he has
held include those of Director of
the Workshops in Composition at
New York University, managing
editor and editorial director
“Look”, editor alHarper and Row,
senior editor andvice-presidentof
E.P. Dutton and Comptuiy, editor-
in-chief of Henry Holt and Com
pany, and director of publications
for Barnes and Noble.
Mr. Shaw has taught classes in
advanced writing at Columbia Uni
versity. He has worked with large
Vietnam War End In
A Year--V an Dinh
Widely Known Book
Publisher Speaks
groups of writers in the Washing
ton Square Writing Center of New
York University. He has also dir
ected or lectured at writers’ con
ferences at Indiana University, the
University of Utah, and the Uni
versity of Colorado.
Mr. Shaw has found time to do
graduate work at both Columbia
University and New York Univer
sity.
His English textbooks have been
adopted by some 800 American
universities and colleges. A COM
PLETE COURSE IN FRESHMAN
ENGLISH by Harry Shaw is one
of the most widely used textbooks
in English in the nation.
A frequent contribution to many
popular and scholarly national
magazines, Mr. Shaw’s most re
cent works are THE HARPER
HANDBOOK OF COLLEGE COM
POSITION, Third Edition (with
George S. WykofO, SPELL IT
RIGHT, and PUNCTUATE IT
RIGHT.
Mr. Shaw handled the contracts
for the last two books of Le
Gette Blythe, who is writer in
residence at this university.
BY PATRICK MCNEELY
Tran van Dinh the Washingtcm
correspondent of the S/iJGON (Eng
lish Language) POST, who spoke
here last week appeared to be
very well educated on the South
east Asian situation and eager to
discuss any and all of the aspects
concerning the war in Viet Nam.
Tran van Dinh is a former
Vietnamese ambassador to the
United States, He now spends most
of his time writing for several of
the newspapers of both Viet Nam
and the United States.
Mr. Van Dinh Is a young man
but after hearing him talk with
much authority, knowledge and wit,
visions of a J. F. K. of the East
are conjured up. In an informal
discourse between Mr. van Dinh,
a few UNC-C instructors, and a
handfull of students, many inter
esting points were brought out
concerning the world situation.
When asked if Americans get
good newspaper and magazine cov
erage of the conflict Mr. van
Dinh responded with a flat “No”
for two reasons: (1) Reporters
are only human and are subject
to emotion just as everyone else;
and (2) Some things are not told
because the general public has not
had enough personalpreparationto
cope with the information.
He stated that the CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE MONITOR was the best
newspaper for reporting on the
war because it was more ser
ious than most. Mr. van Dinh also
expressed his high regard for
PLAYBOY as a literary publica
tion and told the people present
to keep their eye out for an art
icle about Viet Nam in this very
much misunderstood magazine.
In reply to the question of
whether the war in Viet Nam was
a civil war or not, Tran van Dinh
said that it started as a civil
war and developed into an inter
national war. He feels that the
two greatest problems facing Viet
Nam today are the U. S. view of
China and the Chinese view of
Viet Nam.
SNEA Honors Dr. Hurlburt
BY LIBBY HOLSHOUSER
Friday night at a scheduled SNEA
meeting, the Charlotte chapter paid
tribute to three persons who have,
through the years, contributed to
better education in North Carolina.
Dr. Bonnie Cone, Dr. Elmer Gar-
ringer, and Dr. Allan Hurlburt
were all awarded honorary life
time membership certificates in
the UNC-C chapter.
Dr. Allan S. Hurlburt, who is
a professor of Education at Duke
University, was also the guest
speaker. He spoke on the “Heart
of the Teacher.”
He emphasized that learning the
ories in teaching are important,
but the art of acquiring the nec
essary feelings of the heart are
just as important.
Dr. Hurlburt was Director of
the Survey of Public Education in
North Carolina which included stu
dies in curriculum measurement
and community college areas. Dr.
Cone served as a member of the
committee.
Dr. Hulburt was advisor to two
UNC-C professors. Dr. Vairo and
Dr. Revis, when they attended Duke
University,
Members of the Student NEA
chapters at Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity and Queens College were
guests at the meeting. After the
meeting, ali the guests adjourned
for a social hour.
HURLBURT
Charlotte’s Catalinas will play
for the Sadie Hawkins dance Fri
day night, November 18, at
8 o’clock pjn. in the Union Cat-
eteria.
Students are expected to wear
informal attire. “Degpatch” styles
are preferred for this dance.
The Catalinas are a group which
has worked together for more than
10 years. They have appeared be
fore audiences throughout the South
and as far West as the Missi-
sippi. Since all of the members
hail from Charlotte except two,
they are a closely-knit group.
The Catalinas have made two
records. The one most familar to
Charlotte fans is “Hey Little
Girl”, with “Hey Senorita”
on the flip side.
Tran van Dinh
He said, “I believe the war will
end in 6 months or a year”.
The young diplomat has drawn
up what would be his plans for
a good settlement of the war:
1. Negotiation between the Viet
namese factions.
2. One year later negotiations
between the U. S. and China.
3. The third year would have
negotiations in the U.N. Mr. van
Dinh said the biggest need of
South Viet Nam today is tliat of
a civilian government because the
North will not negotiate with Gen
eral Ky.
Tran van Dinh stated that he
felt that the reasons tor the good
relations between tlie United St
ates and Russia were economic
rather than political. He said that
tlie U. S. is tending to be more
and more comunistic and the Rus
sians more and more are turn
ing toward capitalistic thought.
Mr. van Dihn also believes that
witliin the next ten years China
will try to get into a coalition
with the U. S. because of tlie
Russian border-line trouble she
has been having.
RTchard Gray
Mayo Loiseau
Artists Will Call
Coward On Campus
Catalinas Will Play For Sadie Hawkins Day
Richard Gray and Mayo Lois
eau, artists in residence at Duke
University, wiU present COWARD
CALLING, entertainment from the
songs, poems, sketches, and plays
of Noel Coward, in the University
Union Parquet Room today at 11:30.
The two act play, devised and
edited by Mr. Gray and Miss
Loiseau, features such Coward
material as “Rain Before Seven,”
“The Stately Homes of England,”
and “A Lady At a Party.”
Mayo Loiseau, who made fre
quent appearances in the “Father
Knows Best,” “The Burns and
Allen,” and “Ozzie and Harriet”
television shows while still a teen
ager, has spent most of her life
in the theatre. After a year of
college she joined Richard Gray
in his classical repertory company
and devoted herself entirely to
classical roles for a year and a
haH,
Between stints In-Residence and
touring with “Cavier to the Gen
eral”, Miss Loiseau has co
authored a play on the young Chek
hov, recorded two albums of poet
ry from Francis Thompson, and
appeared as Hannah in Tennessee
Williams’ “The Night of the Ig
uana”. She has spent much of this
year researching and writing the
book and lyrics tor the duo’s
first documentary musicai re
views.
Richard Gray also began acting
as a teenager in his homo town.
He made his first film appear
ance with Noel Coward in “In
Which They Serve”.
He made his way from England
to America by way of Johannes
burg in search of a TV co-pro-
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Former C-C
Trustee Dies
BY LOUISE NAPOLITANO
Dr. Thomas Watkins, who atone
time served Charlotte College as
trustee, died on November 7 in
Los Angeles, California. His fun
eral was held at Angelus I'uneral
Home there.
Along with his trustee position,
Dr. Watkins practiced dentistry in
Charlotte for fifty years before re
tiring in 1962. As a pioneer in
dentistry among Negroes in North
Carolina, Watkins had his offices
on South Brevard Street.
He was also the head of the
dental clinic at the former Good
Samaritan Hospital.
Dr. Watkins was born in North
Carolina and raised in Boston,
Massachusetts. He received his
dentistry degree from Howard Uni
versity of Washington, D. C.