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ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE MAY 19, 1961
NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE
193 Seniors Graduate May 28
James V. Cobb Jr., standing center, is a member of the University of Illinois’ Collese Musicum.
He’s on leave this year from ^Atlantic Christian College to complete doctoral studies. From left
are Uni Thomas, Robert Smith, Cobb, .laniina N oorman and George Hunter. The Collegium Musi
cum presents authentic reproductions of music written from the 13th to 17th centuries.
, Graduation exercises will be held
on Sunday, May 28, at 7:30 p.m.
at the Wilson Recreation Center.
193 seniors are graduating.
Receiving Bachelor of Science
degrees are Samuel V. Adcock.
Walstonburg; William Robert At
kinson, Kenly; Ri>bert Ray Avent,
Raleigh; Joseph Walter Bailey,
Kenly; Lawrence Gray Barefoot,
Four Oaks; Robert Edward Bare
foot, Benson; Leonard Hall Barlow
Jr., Kannapolis; William Kenneth
Barnes, Grifton; David Barriger
Jr., Apopka, Fla.; Dorothy Jean
Bazemore, Cofiedl; Pegy Liles
Bishop, Bailey; Judith Mae Bis-
sett, Wilson; Ruby Maready Black-
more, Warsaw; Jewel Anne Blowe,
Boykins, Virginia; Nelda Faye
Boswell, Fremont; Billy Wall Boy
ette, Kenly; Charles Marvin Brad
ley, Whitakers; Willie Miltort Bran
non Jr., Zobulon; Lc»n Randolph
Britt, Tarboro; William Hernry
Brockett Jr., Elizabeth City; Julia
Thorpe Britton. Rocky Mount;
Kenneth Earl Bryan, Mt. Olive;
George Luther Bullock Jr., Golds
boro; Louis Edward Burch, Rob-
ersonville and Nancy Jo Buscemi,
Wilson.
Others are Edward Cornelius
Cammer, Wilson; Ruby Ann Carl
ton, Litttleton; Lauchlin Mac
Donald, Hope Mills; Judith Eliza
beth Collins, Charlotte; William
Beverly Cox, Aurora; Lewis Steph
en Creech, Middlesex; Mary Ellen
Creech, Zebulon; Jr. Crumpler,
Goldsboro: Cecil Owens Daughtry,
Faiso'n; William M. Davenport,
James Cobb To Head
AC Music Department
James V. Cobb, a doctoral stu
dent at the University of Illinois
on leave of absence as assistant
professor of music at Atlantic
Christian College in Wilson, N. C.,
has had a unique experience during
the past few months.
Cobb is one of the five members
of the Collegium Musicum, a con
cert ensemble, which has recently
compl'ited a trip to California
where concerts were presented at
Stanford University and at the
Berkeley, Davis, Riverside and
Santa Barbara campuses of the
University of California.
The Collegium Musicum is de
voted to the performance of early
music (13th to 17th centuries for
the most part) and tries to re
produce as nearly as possible the
original sounds and textures of the
music. .
As a member of the group, Cobb
sings tenor in solo and duet with
Jantina Noorman, a mezzo-soprano.
Earlier in the season, concerts
were presented at Wellesley, Vas-
sar, Cornell, Notre Dame and other
Eastern and Mid-Western schools.
A recording of the music of Guil
laume de Machaut, French com
poser of the 1th century, has been
made by the group for Westmin-
stei: Records.
Whlie at Illinois, Cobb has also
recorded through Columbia Rec
ords in the Follette Publishing
Company’s series of children’s
songs along with other singers and
members of the Chicago Symphony.
He was chosen to sing a special
Mother’s concert with the Univer
sity Symphony in its annual Con
certo Concert May 14.
Sounds produced by the Colleg
ium Musicum come from such ren
aissance and medieval instruments
as the krummhorn, rebec, vielle,
recorder and lute. Most of these
instruments are seldom heard to
day. One recent addition is the
portative organ. This tiny key
board instrument, with 28 pipes, is
held on the player’s lap and is
pumped with hand bellows. It
was specially built in Germany for
Miss Noorman and is an exact copy
of an instrument depicted in a 15th
century painting by Hans Memling.
Tucker Discusses AC Leadership
As New Exec Board Moves In
What is the image of Atlantic
Christian College?
This was the question posed to
members of the outgoing and in
coming Executive Boards by Dr.
William Tucker. The scene was
the annual Executive Board dinner
held at Parker’s restaurant on
Monday night.
Dr. Tucker, incoming faculty
representative on the Board, gave
three categories of achievement
for a Christian College. It must
be a good college with academic
excellence, have a sense of com
mitment to the highest and best
that is known and have a Christian
community life, he pointed out. >
Dr. Tucker’s speech was per
sonalized to the occasion by in
clusion of three objectives of a
leader. A leader, he said, must set
an example of academic excellence,
promote intellectual ferment out
side teh classroom, and create a
climate of opinion in the realm of
moral ideas.
Immediately following the cere
monies, the incoming Executive
ward held its first meeting in the
^*®spoom building.
With president Jeff Adams pre-
sidmg, ^ the Board considered
Adams’ proposed student senator
representative system. After de-
the motion to amend the con
stitution in thtis regard was tabled
until nextv fall, when it will be
“fought up for further considera-
n ^t' earliest possible time.
D. L, Warren reported the Ad
ministrative Council has agreed
to furnish house space for Cooper
ative Association offices, provided
the Executive Board accept respon
sibility of furnishing and maintain
ing the house. The Board accepted
the council’s proposal.
Campus
Briefs
Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. Paul
Jones will present his senior piano
recital in Howard Chapel.
Jones, a native of Pottstown,
Penna., will play works by Scar
latti, Beethoven, Hindemith, and
The program is open to the pub
lic as well as the college com
munity. No admission will be
charged.
Students are reminded to re
turn all library materials and pay
all fines by 7:00 p.m, Sunday, May
21 All fines after this date will
be doubled according to thejules
and regulations of the Library.
The North ”^lina Symphony
will present a concert tonight in
Fike High School auditorium to
which all A.C.C. students will be
admitted free.
An Editorial
The Curtain Rings Down,
Seniors Get New Scripts
1 am but one voice speaking for many; and the words 1
could choose, if there were any, would be painfully impotent,
completely incomplete.
However, someone must make the final speech; and so it
is I who move to the center stage to recite the senior goodbye.
All eyes are on the seniors and now the spotlight falls on
me. As I stand here on the brink of graduation, staring into
a dark future which is both confused and uncertain, I ask my
self how does one describe the indescribable? How does he touch
the intangible? How does he speak the unspeakable?
There is no adequate way I can say what I really want to
say, for words themselves limit one’s feelings. I have spent
many years on tour. Much pursuit and preparation have gone
into my performances as I struggled for adequate academic
agility. There have been many places, many books, many per
formances, and many people. At this moment, all of them seem
incomparable and inconsequential to this performance.
others have had longer “runs” compared to my two year
stand. My performance has been far too short to leave a very
lasting impression on the audience, but they have made a last
ing impression on all of the seniors in the cast. We have all
learned; our progress has been significant, undisputable, and
most valuable. I have been made aware of scenery I never knew
existed — whole fields, trees full of ideas and ideals, acres of
experience — enough to overflow the stage and flood the earth.
And I know there is still more. I know I have barely begun;
and while the performance here is ending, I am tense and
excited as I anticipate other roles.
Just as the shepherd obtains new flocks of excitement and
awareness while moving over the earth and throughout space,
so the actor plays new roles on other stages at other times.
Our tour is really only in its baby stages; our careers are still
so very new. We are still amateurs with much to learn, but even
our most severe critics will find themselves forced to admit that
we have already learned much and that we show reasonable
promise. Our coaches and teachers have served us well—with
a good script, proper lighting, excellent scenery, and certainly
fine directing.
I think of Shakespeare’s age old observation as I see gradu
ation motioning from the wings that it’s almost the closing cur
tain. All the world’s a stage and we but actors. We must give
way to the next act, the next play, a new cast.
For all of us seniors, there are new dramas, new scripts,
new performances, and new actors with whom we’ll work.
It is difficult to conceive or accept the dispensation of our
little company. We have worked well together, and I sadly
realize that some of us will never star together again. There
are so many different dramas, so many stages, so many stars.
The people, the play, the crew will never all be together again.
The pattern can never be the same—-similar, maybe, but different.
Some of us will never return to this stage; others may re
turn for occasional guest appearances, but it won’t be the same.
This is the final scene. Soon it will all be scrapbook clip
pings and nolstalgic memories—past dreams; but I am not sad;
for I know it has been a good performance. We have fluffed a
few lines, but the work has been skillful. The audience has
laughed much and cried some and applauded freely. While I
believe there can never be a play quite like this one, there
will be others—maybe, even greater.
The lights are dimming; the music reaches a crescendo
signifying the climax; and the curtain slowly closes; but I
don’t turn back. Instead I peer over the footlights into the
audience—blind to what awaits in the dark but anxious to start
rehearsals for a new event. And so—Goodbye.—AL
Rocky Mount; Emmitt Robinson
Davis Jr., Kinston; Glenyce Lee
Davis, Wilson; Nancy Jones Davis,
Kinston; Nell Simpson Davis, Lu-
cama; Sue Wheeler Denning, Ben
son; Margaret Lee Naylor Dix
on, Rocky Mount; Ronald Sher
man Dorsey, Oxford; Joyce Mae
Dudley, Ayden; William Patrick
Edwards, Pinetops; George Otis
Fagala Jr., Rocky Mount; Julian
William Fields II., LaGrange;
Robert Loyd Fleming Jr., Pike-
ville; Rebecca Jo Flora, Wilson;
James Robert Fulghum, Kenly;
Verna Barnes Gardner, Autryville;
Henrietta Sauls Glover, Wilson and
Suzanne Marie Goudy, Wilson.
Bobbie Jean Grady, Mt. Olive;
John Wesley Gray, Pollocksville;
Pegie Nell Greene, Zebulon;
Frank Odell Gunter Jr., Durham;
■Walter Elijah Gupton, Rocky
Mount; Willie Owen Guy, Beula-
ville; Rodin Paul Harrell, Tar
boro; David Jack Howell, R'aleigh;
Martha Elizabeth Hunter. Wilson;
Nelson Elddy Hinton, Raleigh;
Alice Lou Jackson, Dunn; George
Edward Jackson, Wilson; Suebelle
Faircloth Jackson, Dunn; John
David Jenkins, Newton, Mass.,
Joyce Carolynn Johnson, Sanford;
Lewis Roy Jones, Oxford and Bar
bara Jean Keen, Mt. Olive.
Joseph Weaver Keen, I^ i c h
leigh; Ralph Edward King, Wilson;
Melba Aycock Kirby, Fremont;
Susie Gray Ko.ster, Wilson; Jenny
Lee, Cambodia; Thomas Woodrow
Lamm, Micro; Jane Watson Lee,
Rose Hill; John Sanders Leach,
Wilson; Betty lx)U McLamb, New
ton Grove; Hallie Williford Mar
tin, Princeton; Miles Ray Matthis,
Black Creek: Billy Harold Mayo,
Whitakers; Dorothy Stilley MGr-
cer, Wilson; George Stephen Mer
cer, Wilson; Johnny Floyd Merritt,
Wilson: liinvillo Edward Midgette
Jr., Cary; Judy Christine Mills,
Grant.s'boro; Linda Gray Mills,
Grantsboro; Clyde Morgan, Eliza
beth City; Floyd Taylor Morgan,
Raleigh; Michael Anthony Nance,
Cerro Gordo; Ida Sue Neighbors,
Dunn; William Jordan Newsome,
Kenly and Ernest V. Oden, Zions-
ville, Ind.
Clarence Wright Parsons,
Green.sboro; Zilphia Grey Peacock,
Benson; Dorothy Talton Pearce,
Princeton; Babetta Schroeder Per
sons, Goldsboro; Bette Blanton
Pomfrey, Wilson; Orville Wright
Raper Jr., Lucama; Annette White
Richardson, Dover; Reid Reginald
Rogers, Buie’s reek; Milton Ed
ward Roush, Newport; Lynn
Brooks Sharpe, Elm City; Don
Ray Shirley, Wilson; John Thomas
Bond Shouldice, Miami, Fla.; Clin
ton Lockwood Shuford, Roxboro;
Leon Harace Sikes Jr., Rose Hill;
Donn L. Simon, Wilson; Alma
Ga.; Edward Elliott Smith, Eliza
bethtown; Thomas Calvin Smith,
Seven Springs; George Tony Stal
lings, Sims; Carolyn Jane Stan
ley, Four Oaks; Peggy Jean Stan
ley, Four Oaks; Flora Ross Strick
land, .Nashville; Wen-hsueh Sun,
Taipei, Taiwan, China and Hazel
Hatcher Surles, Micro.
Concluding the list are William
Bobby Swanson, Louisburg; Bobby
Morris Swin, Mt. Olive; Jimmy
Lee Taylor, Robersonville; Tommy
Hoyle Temple, Zebulon; Nancy
Forbes Tetterton, Wilson; Joseph
Earl Thain, Mt. Olive; Julia Theo
dore, Lumberton; Josephine Bak
er Thomas, Wilson; James Earl
Tyndall, Deep Run; Andrew
Branch Tyson, Stantonsburg; Myr-
"LE Ruth Tyson, Walstonburg; Hen
derson Carlyle Upchurch, Green
ville; William Thomas Vick, Wil
son; Vivian Zarelda Walston,
Farmville; Marvin Elwood Ward,
Battleboro; Adrienne Louise Wells,
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