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The
Collegiate
November 11, 1981 Vol. 52 No. 11
^^American Dame ” Is
Set for Next Week
Stage and Script will be
presenting ‘‘The American
Dame” by Philip C. Lewis in
Howard Chapel Nov. 18-21 at
8 p.m. A survey of the changing
roles of women in American
society, the play blends comic
and serious scenes, both actual
and fictional, to portray women
throughout American history.
Six actors are used to portray
characters from Adam and Eve
to suffragettes, John and
Abagail Adams to modern sub
urban couples. The cast in
cludes Beth Forbes of Wilson;
Stephen Gray of Richmond,
Va.; Karin Hancock of Raleigh;
Dawn Healy of Medford, NJ;
Scott Robertson of Bessemer
City; and Kevin Rouse of Kin
ston.
Designer Dennis McDowell
has designed a unique set that
calls for many slide projections
to be used during the course of
the evening. Three slide project
ors and nearly 200 slides will
furnish historical and literal
background for the scenes. Fac
ulty, students and staff have
been searching out the appro
priate photographs, drawings,
paintings, etchings and titles for
use in this production.
While this activity has been
going on, costumer Sue Arnold
has been creating outfits that
will help the actors convey the
time period in which that partic
ular scene occurs.
“The American Dame” opens
on Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 8
p.m. in Howard Chapel. ACC
students, faculty and staff will
be admitted free. Tickets will be
available at the door for other
theatre goers.
Dr. Paul Crouch, director of
the play, comments: “The chal
lenge of this play for the actor is
that he is playing 20 different
roles during the evening. And
as director, I have to make sure
the actors are individualizing
those separate characters.”
Almond Inducted into Hall
of Fame at Lynchbm’g
Based partly on his efforts as
an athlete at Lynchburg College
and partly on his efforts as a
coach. Dale Almond was in
ducted into the Lynchburg Col
lege Sports Hall of Fame on Oct.
23.
Almond is vice president for
development at Atlantic Chris
tian College.
The ceremony, which took
place in Lynchburg, Va., served
to acknowledge Almond’s con
tribution to the school between
the years of 1953, when he was a
freshman, to 1960, the year he
left Lynchburg to obtain his
master’s degree from the Uni
versity of Tennessee.
Almond said he was quite
pleased with the honor.
“1 really wasn’t expecting it,
but I’m very excited about it,”
Almond said. He was one of
four inductees selected this
year.
The athletic and coaching
career of Almond at Lynchburg
varies to the point that it
includes the sports of track,
basketball, soccer, tennis,
swimming and cross country.
Almond earned seven varsity
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Dale Almond .
athletic letters, one jayvee letter
and one letter for serving as
manager of the track team when
he was injured and unable to
participate.
He played basketball every
year he was in school, including
varsity ball his final three years.
Almond earned two letters for
varsity track, running the mile,
the half-mile and the mile relay.
During the 1956 season Almond
ran on a mile relay team which
set a new school record.
He is also one of only two men
to ever coach soccer at Lynch
burg, for years a national soccer
power on the small college level.
Almond coached soccer only
one year, 1958, when the head
coach left school for graduate
work at L.S.U. During that
season Lynchburg compiled a
9-3 record and won the Virginia
State Championship.
As a coach and an instructor
at Lynchburg from 1957 to 1960,
Almond also coached three
years of swimming, two years of
cross country, and three years of
tennis. The 1958 tennis team
shared first place honors in the
Mason-Qjxon Conference.
Almond has been with Atlan
tic Christian since October,
1979. He has served also at
Culver Stockton College in Can
ton, Mo., the University of
Tennessee and the University of
Alabama.
Married to the former Peggy
Miller of Lynchburg, the Al
monds have three children,
Kelly, Skip and Brad.
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Soccer coach Mike Smith ii carried off the field by the soccer team
after they won the District 26 Championship. (Photo by Russell
RawUngsl
Wiggs Elected to
City Coimcil
Ashton Wiggs, associate
professor of business at Atlantic
Christian College, has been
elected to a two-year term on
the Wilson City Council. Wiggs
joins five other incumbcnts to
make up an all-male council.
Campaigning as “the candi
date who listens,” Wiggs gar
nered 2,298 votes to finish
second out of a field of 15
prospective candidates.
During the campaign, Wiggs
stressed his business back
ground, experience and training
as “what we need in govern
ment today.”
Wiggs spoke out on a variety
of issues during the campaign,
includmg reduction in crime,
downtown redevelopment and
increased utility charges. He
characterized downtown rede
velopment as “an effort that has
to be,” and should be “an
all-city effort to make downtown
Wilson a real success story."
Wiggs also noted that the city
council could do a lot in publi
cizing activities against crime
and in supporting police depart
ment programs as a way of
reducing crime in Wilson.
Brooks to Read Poetry
Gwendolyn Brooks is on cam
pus today. Brooks is a black poet
who has received the Pulitzei
Prize as well as many other
awards. She is the poet laureate
of Illinois and has published
extensively. Today she will be
participating in the Honors Eng
lish class at 10 a.m. in Hardy
Alumni Hall. The class is open
to anyone who would like to
attend.
This evening Brooks will give
a reading of her poetry at 8 p.m.
in Hardy Alumni Hall. This
event is free and open to the
public. Brooks will answer
questions following the reading.
A reception in her honor begins
at 9:15 in the gallery of the Art
Building.
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