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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1985 THE BENNETT BANNER PAGE THREE SGA emphasizes ideal Belle by Karen R. Taylor With each year come new ideas, programs, activities and strategies to help im prove the college and form the complete Belle. This year, the Student Gov ernment Association’s main goal is to improve the com munication gap between the faculty and student body. “As a cabinet we’re trying to create a working atmos phere with the administration and student body,” says Evelyn Fulmore, president. The SGA’s main concern, however, according to Ful more, is the faith that many Belles have in themselves and the institution. “We say we have spirit. Why can’t we be Belles until the day we die? We need to key on forming the ideal Belle and having a form of pride in the place we live.” In addition to the corona tion and Labor Day festivi ties, scheduled bingo games, and the like, many new pro grams will be implemented to benefit students socially, spiritually and academically. One such activity will be the “Belle Beauty and Charm Program.” This program will run year long and will be used as a tactic to form the overall Belle. Self-confidence, eti quette class, aerobics, ward robe seminars and a walking class are just some of the features. In the spring, the SGA plans to get each stu dent involved in keeping Bennett clean. “If we take pride in some thing we want to work on, then we can show the school that we care,” says Fulmore. Many pressures arise in college. The SGA plans to relieve some of these pres sures by placing a positive quote in the mailboxes once a week. “It’s a spiritual think- piece of the week,” Fulmore says. “A good saying that will encourage you to feel good today.” The cabinet is still adjust ing to the demands of leader ship. “Right now we’re trying to feel our way through things by organizing our responsibi lities and working hard on our projects,” explains Fulmore. Madonnas needed by Mrs. Mary Scarlette The traditional Living Madonnas, one of the college’s Christmas gifts to the com munity, will be presented Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. in the Annie Merner Pfeiffer Chapel. The Living Madonnas are reproductions of famous paintings depicting the nati vity and related events. Live models recreate the subjects of these paintings while the college choir provides beauti ful Christmas music. The production, an alter nate year event, is a coopera tive effort of faculty, staff and students representing the visual arts, speech, clothing, music, buildings and grounds. It is done in total darkness. The impact of this activity sets the tone for the Christ mas season, and the presen tation is well attended by alumnae and persons from the city. Anyone interested in audi tioning for roles in the line tableaus is invited to attend the tryouts to be held on Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. in the chapel. For further information, contact Dr. Alma Adams, chairperson of the Living Madonnas committee. Hats-as-art show The mother-daughter team of Shirley Barnes Sieber and Deborah Barnes Plummer have combined their handi craft talents to create a new form of wearable art, an “art- cessory” which they call the “Cloche Encounter” collec tion. The hats will be exhibited at the Z Studio-Gallery, 107 S. Dudley St., Oct. 13-31. Shirley has futurized the headhugging cloche of the flapper era into a sculptured headgear made of crocheted ribbon, yarn wire, leather, suede or fabric. Deborah de signs embellishments created from beads, sequins, feathers and semi-p r e c i o u s stones, color-coordinated to the hats. Black play to premiere by Alethea F. Adams The Piedmont will host the world premiere of a play by a local black dramatist when the UNC-G Theatre produces Carolyn Cole’s Mournin’ Nov. 13-17. Only the second student- written script to be presented at UNC-G during the last 29 years, Mournin’ will be per formed at 8:15 p.m. in Aycock Auditorium, with a 2:15 matinee on Nov. 17. The play is a three-act tra gicomedy. The fifth genera tion members of a black family in Newton Grove, N.C. come face to face with their past and future after Grandma Cora, the matriarch, has died. Embittered by child hood memories and jealous ies and tempered by family love, two sisters—Henrietta and Eula Fletcher—confront their differences. On the journey toward re conciliation, there are several surprising twists, but the members of the Fletcher family are survivors who em brace the past and future with determination. Issues of land ownership, generational differences, mixed ancestry and family unity are explored. Cole, a graduate student in theater at UNC-G, based the drama on her childhood sum mers in rural Newton Grove. She started Mournin’ in Dr. Herman Middleton’s play- writing class at UNC-G where she was encouraged to “finish the drama, for the stage awaits it,” according to Cole. She is the author of a story included in The 0’Henry Festival of Short Stories, 1985 collection. The play is being directed by Ms. Karma Ibsen-Riley, and the cast unites actors from UNC-G, A&T and the city. A Bennett alumna will ap pear in a major role. Betty Jean Jones, class of ’71, will portray Henrietta. Tickets can be bought at the box office in Aycock Auditorium. Call 379-5546 for information. Mournin’ is the UNC-G Theatre’s entry in this year’s American College Theater Festival Competition. \ Behind the scenes at a major metropolitan newspaper: Stoney JacKson (left) stars as Macley, the resourMfu. fnend and partner to investigative reporter Nicl Fox, played by Nicholas Campbell, m The Insiders, a series. Will this duo rival the success of the dynamic pair on “Miami Vice ? Only you will decide Mackey and Nick s fate, (photo from ABC) “Mother and I work well together,” says Deborah, “in that we respond to each other’s creative initiative. Mother has often created a design to showcase my appli que rather than the other way around.” The influences of other cul tures such as African, Euro pean, Indian and Caribbean are detectable in many de signs. “This is the result of travel and research,” says Shirley. The collectibles have been shown in New York at the Fashion Accessory Expo, Atlantic City and Atlanta. Thev arp available f^r nrivate showings upon request. I i Alumna Linda Bragg is a prize- winning novelist, (photo from Caro lina Wren Press) Alumna’s novel Goes to Europe In key exhibit by Mary Ellen Priestley CHAPEL HILL — A novel written by a Bennett alumna and published by a North Carolina small press has been selected as one of the 110 titles from 45 U.S. independent presses to be ex hibited at the international book fairs in Madrid, Spain, and Frank furt, Germany in October. Linda Brown Bragg, class of ’61, a lecturer in Afro-American literature and creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of the novel, Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder, published by the Caro lina Wren Press. This novel won the Carolina Wren/N. C. Cultural Arts Coali tion $500 prize as best book-length manuscript by a minority writer in North Carolina and was pub lished in 1984. Bragg’s first novel, the story is based on the life of a black woman who becomes a spiritual healer through her deve loping psychic powers. The char acter is strong, but not a stereo typed figure. Bragg has said that she was trying to portray a three- dimensional character, one with strengths but also with a need for friendship and love, one with a life mission but one who suffers from weakness and pain. The 1985 pilot exhibition in New American Writing at the in ternational fairs is sponsored by the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. Frank Conroy, who directs the NEA Literature Program, says, “Small presses have long been the seedbed of fine American writing. They are becoming the most important source of high quality contemporary writing both by established and by younger authors.” The exlhibition space at both fairs is being provided by the U. S. Information Agency Book Division. Bragg says that she is now working on a second novel which is “about ordinary people who proceed in life with a kind of willfulness that results in the suff ering of other people. I am ex ploring and learning to understand that phenomenon.” She will be on leave from her teaching duties for the spring semester to undertake “an inter esting project, writing the mem oirs of a Raleigh man whose name must remain anonymous now.” Bragg is very pleased with her publisher. “The small press is the savior of most serious writers to day. We would all be in trouble if it were not for these presses,” she says. Teaching at UNC-Greensboro since 1972, Unda Bragg brought out her first book of poetry, A Love Song to Black Men, in 1974. She lives in Greensboro with her two children and her husband. Van Hinnant, a visual artist and practicing craftsman who works in the restoration of houses.
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