CAROLINA JOURNAL April 12, 1967 Page 3 pTes^ts^ Tams And Tempests Lay Down Sounds ^Dream’ This campus has chosen for its first dramatic presentation Ed ward Albee’s “The American Dream.” The play will be presented at 8:30 p.m., April 14 in C 200 of the Liberal Arts Complex during the New Arts Festival. A one-act play lasting about one hour, “Dream” is a comedy about a stereotyped American fa mily which satirizes the false values of the family in American life. The production is free and open to the public. The play will be directed by Dr. Catherine Nicholson, associate professor of English, who came to the University last fall to teach drama and speech. She is having room C 200, a lecture hall seating about 200 persons, converted and equipped for the play. Staging and lights' are being put in place. Seating is already theater type. ^onsoring this first production is a drama group which is just a few weeks old on the campus. Its nucleus is formed by students who took Dr. Nicholson’s course. Theater Workshop, last semester. Members of the cast are Mommy, played, by Jan WasdeU; Daddy, played by Paul Atwell, English instructor;Grandma played by Bill Kinsey (yes, a male is playing Grandma); Mrs. Barker, played by Pat Price, who is president of the drama group; and Young Man, a part unfilled as yet. Barbara Smith of Albe marle is assistant director. Others participating are Bar bara Porter, makeup; Dr. Pat Stewart, assistant professor of English, and Jimmy Price, light ing technicians; Kathy Strohl of Davidson, properties; Raymelle Batte and Richard Lazenby, pro grams; Sue Garrett and Annie Dilling, scenery. The Tams Dunn To Discuss Designing Here, Speak At City Club Malcolm D'onn, a former curator of Colonial Williamsburg, will visit here today to talk to area high school students, here and faculty and representatives of Charlotte arts groups. Mr, Dunn is now resident cur ator of the Design and Decorative Circle K Promotes Car Wash, Extends Invitation To Join BY GAYLE WATTS Circle K, the oldest and one of the most active service organiza tion on campus, is planning a car wash April 14 at the Phillips 66 station on North 29. For $1.75, the wash includes a complete cleaning of the car body and wheels and a thorough vacuuming of the interior. A previous car wash sponsored by Circle K had much publicity and little response from the stu dents. As a .special service for the fac ulty their cars wiU be picked up from the school parking lot to be washed. “Our main project, now that the book store has begun buying used books, is producing the school directory,” says Chip Wright, pre sident of the organization. Mr. Wright said chat Circle K received invaluable help from Dean McKay’s office in putting together the di rectories. The club made 1500 directories and made them available, free, to the student body. Five hundred directories are still in the po ssession of Circle K. This fall the directories will be made and sold as the club’s pri mary fund raising project. Circle K has been active this year in making their purpose — service -- a reality. On AprU 1, the members cleaned up the main parking lot. Marshall Roberson, a member who works for the school, was able to arrange with Dr. Her bert Hechenbleikner, the club’s faculty advisor, to use the school tractor and equipment in cleaning up the lot. Each spring the Mecklenburg Ki- wanis Club holds a meeting on campus and someone from ad ministration addresses the club concerning plans for the campus. On April 3, Dean D. W. Colvard spoke to the Kiwanis members on the present and future plans of our branch of the University. Mr, Wright said that the Kiwanis members are extremely interested in the growth of the school and that they have helped us an awful lot this year with everything they could.” Last weekend, April 7-9, eight members of Circle K from this campus attended the Carolinas •District Convention of Circle K at Mitchell College in Statesville. The purpose of this annual spring meeting is to elect district offi cials and decide who will be in the election of international offi cers. The international convention will be in the latter part of August in Ottawa, Canada. Circle K now has ten members,, From a membership meeting on March 30, to which freshmen boys were invited who wanted to learn about the goals of the club, the club has received applications from nine prospective members. After a person has made applica tion, then follows a four week per iod during which he attends Circle K meetings to become familiar with the organization and to become acquainted with the members. The club meets on Wednesdays at 11;30 a. m. and any boy who is interested in joining is invited to see a Circle K member or to come to one of the meetings. “1 extend' an invitation to join to any male on campus who is interested in Circle K and some hard work,” says Mr. Wright, Arts Council of Sears, Roebuck and Co. As curator he directs research into the design and decorative styles that have left their imprint on the American heritage. He also authenticates the pieces in Sears’ National Treasures Col lection. The collection consists of reproductions of historically im portant furnishings from Amer ica’s past, many copied from mus eum pj eces. The Danville, Kentucky native studied history and decorative arts at Berea and Centre Colleges in Kentucky, the Abbott School of Fine and Applied Art in Washington, D. C., and at William and Mary College in VirgLuia, As a curator on the staff of Colonial Williamsburg for nine years, he assisted in the restor ation, research and cataloging of the collection and lectured in the decorative arts field. He has de signed and executed sets for edu cational films about the 17th and 18th centuries and has served as an advisor for books, magazines and television presentations. His first session will begin at 10 a. m. April 12 in the Parquet Room of the University Union. It will be for art, history and in dustrial arts students of the Char lotte - Mecklenburg Schools. His topic will be the “Richness and Vastness of Our Heritage.” The students will be brought to the campus by bus and will be given refreshments and a tour. The next lecture will begin at 11:30 a. m. in the Parquet Room and will be for students and fac ulty from this campus and neigh boring colleges, representatives of the Mint Museum, the Charlotte Guild of Artists, and officers of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy. A luncheon will be held at 1 P. m. at the City Club, sponsored by Sears for representatives of art groups in the community and the area. Malcolm Dunn Part Of New Arts Festival The Tams, one of the most popular rock and roll combos in the southeast, are slated to return to this campus tomorrow night for a dance and show in the Union cafeteria from 8:00 until 12:00. The Tempests will appear on the same card. Admission for this show is $1.00 per student and $2.00 for the general public. Dress is casual. The Tams are appearing in con junction with the Arts Festival which is in progress throughout this week. The Tams were featured in the first social event of the fall se mester and attracted a record- breaking crowd of over 800 stu dents here. Since then the group has re corded several new hits both on singles and albums. Among these have been “Let My Love Be Your Shelter” and ‘Get Away” as well as their new album entitled “Time For The Tams”. The Tams have indicated that UNC-C students and thoseofNorth Carolina State University are their two favorite audiences. On several occasions, the members of the group have voiced approval of students here. They are almost sure to perform a number which has virtually be come their theme song due to its popularity, “I’ve Been Hurt”. The ABC-Paramount recording artists hav e producedanimpres- sive number of liits during the four years they have been together. “Untie Me” was the first hit for the group which had been per forming in night clubs and at fraternity parties. They quickly followed up with their nation-wide smash hit, “What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am”. Since that time, the Tams have recorded such favorites as “You Lied To Your Daddy”, “I.augh It Off”, “How Can I Un-Love You”, “Better To Have Loved A Little”, “Hey Girl, Don’t Bo ther Me”, and “I’ve Been Hurt”. The Tams have made numerous appearances in Charlotte, Myrtle Beach, and the surrounding area. They always attract a full house audience. The Tams have made singing somewhat of a family affair with Charles and Joseph Pope making up two fifths ofthe five-man group. Their brother, Otis Pope acts as road manager. Robert Smith, who sings bass, Horace Key and Floyd Ashton, who add background har m ony, round out the live. During the course of a personal appearance, every member of the Tams sings the lead at least once. The versatile group hails from Atlanta, Georgia. The group is in great demand for public appearance tours and its members wouldn’t have it any other way. They sav they are most happy when in front of a live audience. Dr. Rhine Speaks Continued from Page 1 he asked. “Because it upsets the basis of science. Everything has come to be physical. We have a dogma to overcome.” “Remember”, he said, “that nobody has any idea, not a germ of an idea, of how you can be con scious while you are sitting here.” “There is a sense of urgency about the field,” he added. “There is a sense of urgency about the field,” he added. “Even the materialistic Communists can’t repress excitement over the concept of a spiritual side of man.”

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