Drinkalls give us first taste of classical music.
String Duo Performs;
Enjoyed During Break
By Sam Lindem an
Our Lectures and Concerts
Committee, in its third presen
tation, gave students who took a
break during the concert on the
13th cause to regret their ac
tions. Those who failed to at
tend this presentation missed an
excellent example of instrumen
tal solo work made interesting,
and a sterling display of skill.
Derry Deane, playing the vio
lin, and Roger Drinkall the
violincello, performed works by
Vivaldi, Gliere, and Kodaly in
a concert that lasted little more
.than an hour, but left the ma
jority of the audience asking
for more by calling the Duo
back for three well-deserved cur
tain calls. Together they make a
great team, and they are home
grown. Miss Deane is Mrs.
Drinkall in real life, and they
are parents of a four-month old
son. They hail from right out of
Charlotte, although they had
just returned from a tour of the
Midwest prior to their appear
ance at Charlotte College. They
are both professional musicians;
Mr. Drinkall is an Assistant
Professor of Music at Queens
College, and Mrs. Drinkall
teaches, in addition to their con
cert work. Mr. and Mrs. Drink
all are exclusively solo perform
ers as contrasted with orchestra
work, although they both play
( with the Queens College Cham-
'ber Quartet and the American
Chamber Ensemble, from New
York City. They have researched
works for the violln-violin-
cello duo, and, so far, they have
found and mastered twenty-five
different works intended by their
composers for this combination
of instruments.
Vivaldi, according to Mr.
Drinkall, is known for his con
ciseness of composition, and this
was evident in his Sonata for
^^iolin and Cello. In the first
^movement of this work, the cel
lo was particularly well dis
played as a solo instrument, al
though it is usually in an ac
companying assignment in the
symphony or chamber orches
tra. Observing Mr. Drinkall at
work, putting his instrument
I through some real solo acroba
tics during the entire concert,
1 this writer got a sense of gen
uine respect for a display of
sheer technical skill. In the fol
lowing pieces, Gliere’s Prelude,
Cradle Song, and Gavotte, par
ticularly the Gavotte, there were
assignments of sustained har
monic accompaniment which
put the instrumentalist to a
test of technique. Mr. Drinkall
met the tests quite well, and
came back for more in the final
work, Kodaly’s Duo for Violin
and Cello, op. 7.
In this work, Mrs. Drinkall,
who had up to now been turning
in a fine performance in the off
hand manner of a real profes
sional, got a chance to display
her skills in the difficult pas
sages of the final movement.
Maestoso e la/rga/mente-Presto.
In this movement, too, the Duo
traded solo parts so smoothly
that at one point this writer was
asked by his neighbor, “Which
one has the melody now?” At
several points in this selection,
Mr. Drinkall was playing at the
design limits of his instrument,
in the same octave as his part
ner’s violin. At no time did the
team appear to be in trouble,
and the false notes that can
plague an instrumentalist when
he plays solo were utterly lack
ing.
Mr. Drinkall studied his mu
sic originally at the famous Cur
tis Institute of Music in Phil
adelphia, and his wife hers at
the equally well-known Eastman
Institute at Rochester, New
York. They met at the Universi
ty of Illinois, where they decided
to make the duo a permanent af
fair, and the performing arts
profited by the decision. The
concert was thoroughly enjoyed
by most who attended, and was
received warmly. Our Lectures
and Concerts Committee, like
nearly everything else here, on
a shakedown cruise, deserves a
commendation for this and the
other two appearances in the
current series. We hope this
work will continue to be as well-
supported by the students and
staff members at Charlotte Col
lege.
Stamey Speaks To CCA
The members of the Charlotte
College Christian Association
were lucky, indeed, on the after
noon of Friday, March 1. They
were treated to a program pre
sented by Rev. Robert Stamey,
pastor of the Hawthorne Lane
Methodist Church.
Rev. Stamey completed his
undergraduate and graduate
work at Duke University. Since
completing his seminar work at
Duke, he served in pastorates in
such cities as Belmont, Pineville,
High Point, and North Wilkes-
boro.
After assuming his present
post in Charlotte, he was one
of twenty-six ministers who
were chosen on a nationwide
basis to spend two weeks doing
missionary work in Alaska.
Each of the twenty-six minis
ters were allowed to bring one
layman along with him and Rev.
Stamey invited WBTV news
caster Doug Mays.
The program which Rev.
Stamey presented to the CCCA
consisted of slides which he took
while in Alaska with a taped
narration by Doug Mays. These
slides gave the members a peek
at the Alaskan terrain in the
general area of the Cook Inlet.
After the program Rev. Stam
ey answered questions which
were posed by the club mem
bers.
Ben Davis summed things up
when he stated, “Rev. Stamey
gave us one of the best pro
grams we’ve had. It’s a shame
that more people weren’t pres
ent.”
Stamey Speaks on Alaska.
Traffic Tickets
In Focus
Many drivers have transgress
ed our traffic rules since the
semester began, and a total of
129 traffic citations in the Busi
ness Office are awaiting either
payment of fines or appeal. Of
these, 74 have been issued to
unregistered cars, either for
non-registration, or for parking
violations. Because of The Traf
fic Committee’s recently an
nounced enforcement policy, the
parking violations are the ma
jority of these offenses. But,
non-registered cars’ State regis
tration numbers (License
Plates) have been sent to the
State Department of Motor Ve
hicles, for identification of the
registered owner. The Commit
tee has already sent 33 violators
to the Registrars’ office; their
grades will be held until the
fines due have been paid. In fact,
the Registrar’s Office can do
nothing for them at all, until
the fine or fines have been paid
off, and the Registrar’s red tab
taken off the individual’s file
jacket in his office.
Now, we come to the for
tunate few. The Traffic Commit
tee has issued twenty citations
as of Wednesday of this week
(March 18). These people have
until Friday to either pay up
or appeal. After Friday, the
20th, they can, like the others,
only pay. The fine is one dollar
per citation, and there is one
individual in the Registrar’s
Office right now, who has five
traffic citations to his debit.
There are three with three a
piece, and several with two. The
Traffic Committee sends the ci
tations which have not been
paid to the Regristrar’s Office on
the Friday of the week in which
they were issued. Staff members
with delinquent citations will not
be allowed to register their auto
mobiles next fall, unless they
pay the fines due.
Samuel 0. Lindeman, Chair
man of the Committee stated, “I
do not make the rules; I merely
enforce them. Students and Staff
members who park in violation
of the rules that the Student
Council made are doing nothing
but running up the price to
themselves, since my salary, and
the pay of my two co-workers,
comes out of Student Govern
ment Association funds. We
have been hampered because of
our lack of STUDENT regis
tration stickers, but we have not
been stopped, and we’ll continue
our work, as a great number of
people will discover when they
try to register for the next Sum
mer Session or for the Fall
Semester next year. Come to
think of it, they’ll get a shock
if they write for a transcript at
any time, before the fine is paid
off. We would like not to have
to pester the students about a
registration sticker this year,
if we can. But we can, only if
people who are driving non-
registered cars will restrict their
parking to the student parking
areas. For the information of
those interested. I’ll list the
parking and traffic rules:
“Stay out of the Loading
zones. Do not park in a driveway
or on a sidewalk anywhere on
the campus. Do not block an
I exit, or a fire hydrant (We have
only one, and it would take a
little doing to block it, but I
expect it any day now). Do not
park on the ends of the oval
spacers in the LA parking lot,
if the spacers are next to the
street. Do not park in any loca
tion where the curb is yellow.
Students and non-registered
faculty members should stay out
from behind the Kennedy Build
ing, and off Faculty-Visitor
Row. A citation cannot be re
voked by the man who issues it,
so don’t gfve him a hard time;
if you want to appeal the cita
tion, say so on the back, sign
it, and turn it in at the Business
Office. Give your reason for the
appeal. If the appeal is allowed,
you’ll get all three copies of the
citation on the College Union
message board, to do with as you
please. If not, you’ll be notified
that you are expected to pay the
fine, and get your records cleared
at the Registrar’s Office.
“Anyone who has one of our
billets-doux should bring it in,
and pay up. It isn’t really that
much, and it’ll save you a great
deal of standing in line, come
registration time, or a trip back
out here to pay a fine, come
time to have the Registrar send
a transcript. If you have lost
the citation, come in anyhow.
You might not have a copy, but
we have two, and one of them
is in the Registrar’s Office right
now. Finally, let me say this;
payment of a traffic fine clears
the record, just as does payment
of a library fine. We don’t have
a point system.”
THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
April, 1964
Salt to Fresh
Visiting Chemist Discusses
Four Conversion Processes
On Tuesday, March 3, Dr.
Keighton, the Chairman of the
Chemistry Department o f
Swarthmore College presented
slides and a lecture on fresh
water from sea water. Mr.
Keighton is the author of sev
eral books and is a consultant to
the Philadelphia Geological So
ciety.
In the lecture Dr. Keighton
explained that although water
is a necessity of life, there are
many places where it is not
readily available. Ninety-seven
per cent of water is in seas
and oceans; two per cent of
water is in rivers and lakes; one
per cent in snow, ice, and gla
ciers; and only .005% in the
atmosphere.
Sea water contains about 35
thousand parts per million of
dissolved solids.
There are four principal pro
cesses for the conversion of sea
water to fresh water; Electro-
dynalysis. Freezing Method,
Zauchin Process, and Distilla
tion.
In the process of electrody-
nalysis salt water is fed into a
tank containing a series of semi-
permeable membranes. The so
dium ions are positively charged
and the chlorine ions are neg
atively charged. Terminals in
the tank are connected to a
source of direct current. The
positive sodium ions are drawn
toward the negative terminal.
In doing so, the sodium ion
passes through the two mem
branes. The negative chlorine
ion is drawn through the semi-
permeable membrane toward the
positive terminal. It can pass
through only one semi-perme-
able membrane and is trapped.
The remaining water after the
sodium and chlorine ions have
passed through the semiper-
meable membranes is relatively
fresh.
The salt content of sea water
is high in relationship to the
salt content of sea ice. From
the observation of that fact, a
process was developed to pro
duce water with a low salt con
tent by freezing. In the process,
20% of the ice is melted and
thrown away. The remaining
water contains about 2,000-3000
parts per million of dissolved
solids. The process is continued
until the number of dissolved
solids is gradually reduced.
The Zauchin process was de
veloped in Israel. This process
involves spraying sea water into
a vacuum where evaporation of
part of the water cools the re
mainder to freezing. The brine
seeps through the belt and is
discarded. The vapor is com
pressed and pumped to second-
vessel when it meets the ice. The
ice is then melted. The chief ex
pense in this method is the capi
tal investment in pumps and
compressors.
The distillation process is the
oldest process.of water conver
sion. The record goes back to
1573 of water being prepared by
this method on shipboard. In
this method a distilling flask of
sea water is heated until it
boils. The vapor is then con
densed into water.
Until ten or fifteen years ago
this was a very expensive pro
cess. Water for Cuba will proba
bly be produced by this distilla
tion process.
Dr. Keighton ended his lecture
by giving some relative cost of
water for cities in our area and
the costs of producing water by
the methods he had discussed.
This talk was sponsored by
the Chemistry Department head
ed by Dr. S. L. Burson. Dr.
Keighton spoke to both day and
night students on two separate
days.
Dr. Keighton converses with amateur scientist