CIRCLE K
DANCE
MARCH 25
Vol. 1 No. ,9
The Ridgerunner
The Students^ Right to Information and Expression
PSYCHOLOGY
SYMPOSIUM
MARCH 28
Asheville-Biltmore College, Asheville, North Carolina
March 17, 1966
CIRCLE K TO MEET HERE
MAXWELL TAYLOR
TO SPEAK AT A-B
District
Convention
March 25-26
The Circle K Club of Asheville-
Biltmore is the host club this year
for the District Circle K Conven
tion. According to several Circle K
members these conventions in the
past have been characterized by bad
accommodations and poor parties,
but the effervescent spirit of the
Cirkle K members has prevailed.
This year the accommodations and
partying will be the best yet if the
amount of work done by the local
Circle K is any indication. They
urge all Circle K members in the
Carolinas District, their delegates
and sponsoring Kiwanians to attend
this absolute masterpiece of conven
tion engineering.
President Larry Earwood, and his
fellow members, have been hard at
work making this convention the
biggest and best of them all. The
ball will start rolling Friday night,
March 25 with a school wide dance
in the Gold Room of the Battery
Park Hotel. The survivors of the
dance will attend instructional talks
Saturday in the Student Union audi
torium. Throughout the day enter
tainment for the members, dele
gates, and present Kiwanians will
be provided. Folk singing, organ
music, and possibly the Lee H. Ed
wards Square Dance team will be
presented.
Saiturday evening a banquet is
planned for the purpose of fellow
ship and good unity. Sunday in
spirational and educational meetings
will be held as well as the conven
tions conclusion. John Franklin,
The Ridgerunner^s Circle K corre
spondent has urged us to say that
much praise must be placed on the
President Larry Earwood, and
Treasurer Jim McNeil formed the
entire convention around the unique
plan of pre-registration. The dance
is being planned by a committee
headed by "Chico” Alonzo. Ken
Earwood is in charge of refresh
ments, and the K-ettes will aid in
the blind date section for conven
tioneers. The task of gathering door
prizes for the guests is ably being
handled by David Riddle, Don Brid-
enstine, Gary Ramsey, Jim Cook,
Gary Parrott, and others. Others
who also are to be commended for
their help are Jim Ussery, Stan Huff
man, Calvert Hunt, L^ry Roberts,
Pete Sullivan, Mike Flanagan, and
Tom Hughes. Their crucial deci
sions, probing questions and their
demonstration of good interest and
forward projection of Circle K have
added greatly to the inevitable suc
cess of the convention. Another per
son who must certainly be men
tioned is Joe Lanford whose contact
with the sponsor, the West Ashe
ville Kiwanis Qub, has brought
about a great deal of support from
the parent group.
Girls who are interested in dat
ing out of town Circle K members
are again urged to contact Larry
Earwood as soon as possible. This
is a dance and a convention that
shouldn’t be missed by anyone.
For future plans, the Circle K has
planned an Easter egg hunt for the
children of Eliada Home. Another
project was the recent presentation
of trophies at the Asheville-Bilt-
more Homecoming Ball game.
Last but not least is a final re
minder about the "dance of a life
time" on Friday night, March 25 in
the Battery Park Hotel’s Gold
Room. The price is $2.00 per
couple and satisfaction is guaran
teed by the members of the Ashe
ville-Biltmore Circle K Qub.
STUDIO THEATRE
PRESENTS EXIT”
PSYCHOLOGY
PROGRAM SET
The Psychology Club Symposium
on "Sex Education in the Public
School” will be held on Monday,
March 28 at 8:00 P. M. in the Hu
manities Lecture Hall.
Dr. Jesse L. McDaniel, Director
of Admissions, will prepare and give
a paper on the issue at the begin
ning of the symposium.
Dr. Kenneth Nickerson, head of
the Psychology Department, and ad
visor to the Psychology Qub will be
moderator.
The panel members are Mr. A.
Jack Belt, news director for WLOS-
TV; Mrs. Michael F. Keleher, an
active member of the community,
who will present the views of a
mother; Judge Robert B. Wilson,
Superior Court Judge; a representa
tive from the C^t-Patient Clinic of
Memorial Mission Hospital; Jim
Burnham, president of the student
body at Lee Edwards High School;
and Miss Beth Cartwright, vice-
president of N.F.L. at Lee Edwards.
Dr. Gelolo McHugh, Professor of
Psychology at Duke University and
Director of Family Life Publica
tions, has consented to be the con
sultant in the discussion. Dr. Mc
Hugh is a well-known expert in this
field.
The symposium is not only for
students, and the general public is
urged to attend. Tliere will be time
for questions at the conclusion of
the panel discussion.
HIKE STAGED
TO WHITEWATER
On February 27 the Asheville-
Biltmore Hiking Club staged a trip
to the Whitewater Falls area near
the Toxaway - Cashiers region of
WNC. The hike was participated
in by ten club members under the
direction of their advisor. Dr. Thur
man.
The trek started around 1:30 P.M.
Sunday with the drive to the hiking
area. The club members were
plagued by rain, sleet, and snow for
most of their journey, the last twen
ty miles of which was a backwoods
dirt road in ill repair.
Upon reaching the vicinity of
Whitewater and covering the last
leg on foot, it was discovered that
there was no discernible trail from
the Falls’ headwaters to the bottom.
The total height of the Falls is over
800 feet and any descent to the bot
tom of the gorge into which the
tons of water empty, comprises al
most SK)0 feet straight down. White
water is the highest falls in the east
ern U.S.
However, most of the hikers did
descend the first level of White
water. Later, four more members
climbed down to the intermediate
levels of the Falls, and the club’s
president made the final descent to
the bottom pools of the cascade.
All in all the members had a good
time and have vowed a remrn trip
with suitable mountain climbing
gear when weather permits. All sm-
dents wishing to join this rather
challenging climb are invited by the
Hiking Club to partake.
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor will be
the lead-off speaker for the second
annual Foreign Affairs Forum at
Asheville-Biltmore College starting
April 6.
The former Ambassador to Viet
Nam and chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff will discuss Viet
Nam. Gen. Taylor is now serving
as Special Consultant to President
Johnson on Diplomatic and Mili
tary Affairs.
Seven other specialists in foreign
affairs also will take part in the
forum, which this year takes a long,
hard look at the Far East. Sessions
will continue through May 23 on
the A-B campus.
Other speakers will include:
Former career Foreign Service Of
ficer John Paton Davies, Jr., who
will discuss China April 18.
Oliver E. Qubb, Jr., assistant pro
fessor of political science at Syra
cuse University, who will speak on
Sino-Soviet relations April 25.
Deputy Under Secretary of State
U. Alexis Johnson, who will talk
ACS HEARS
LECTURE
On February 21 the Asheville-
Biltmore Chapter of the smdent af
filiate of the American Chemical
Society attended an ACS lecture in
Greenville, S. C., at the Greenville
Technical Education Center. Nine
Asheville-Biltmore students along
with their sponsor. Dr. Squibb, at
tended the lecture while only two
smdents from Erskine College went.
Dr. Werner Herz, Professor of
Chemistry at Florida State Univer
sity, lecmred on "Abstract Phito-
chemical Smdies of Compositae.”
Dr. Herz, who is senior editor of
the Journal of Organic Chemistry
and a consultant for the National
Cancer Institute and the Wm. S.
Merrell Company, received the Flor
ida Award of the Florida Section of
the American Chemical Society in
1965.
The Asheville-Biltmore Chapter
has now attended two very interest
ing lectures and hopes that it can
interest more A-B students in join
ing the Chapter.
on Japan May 2.
Retired embassy official T. Eliot
Weil, who will discuss India and
Pakistan May 9.
Former U. S. Ambassador and
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Sute
Charles F. Baldwin, who will speak
on Indonesia and Malaysia May 16.
Dr. Bernard B. Fall, former
French underground fighter and
now professor of international re
lations at Howard University, who
will give his views on Viet Nam
May 19. Dr. Fall has made many
trips to Indo-China and Viet Nam
to smdy conditions and combat
there.
Former career diplomat William
P. Cochran, Jr., who will summarize
the forum May 23.
All sessions will begin at 8 pjn.
and are open to the public. There is
a $10 charge for the entire series
or $2 for each session. Students and
faculty at Asheville-Biltmore will
be admitted without charge. Stu
dents from other area colleges and
schools will be admitted at half
price.
Dormitory
Bond Sold
Asheville-Biltmore College trus
tees last week accepted a bid from
Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and
Smith for the sale of $750,000 in
dormitory revenue bonds.
Construction is expected to start
early this summer. The college ex
pects to advertise for construction
bids in April.
Dr. William E. Highsmith, presi
dent, said A-B’s first dorms will en
able the college to serve more out-
of-county students, particularly
those from Henderson, Haywood,
McDowell, Madison, Yancey, Tran
sylvania, Jackson, Avery, Mitchell
and Burke counties.
The dormitories, seven buildings
to house 250 students, are sched
uled to be ready by August, 1967.
Dr. Highsmith said the A-B hous
ing facilities aim to avoid a barracks
atmosphere associated with large
college dorms, providing instead a
small, village-type cluster of build
ings.
A central building will contain
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As hells go, the Asheville-Bilt-
more College Studio Theatre ver
sion of Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit”
has its own devilish charm.
A campus audience gave the pro
duction a warm welcome Thursday
at a matinee performance in the Stu
dent Center Auditorium.
"No Exit” tells the story of a tri
angle which would be trying enough
on earth with some future hope of
salvation. The attempts by Cradeau,
the cowardly journalist; Inez, who
prefers the company of her own sex,
and Estelle, the baby killer, to ad
just to the situation make for a fast-
moving one-act play.
Bob Templeton, as Cradeau, is at-
traaed to Estelle, but too pre
occupied with his pre-death troubles
to do much about it. Nor does Inez,
portrayed by Lani Campbell, help
Asheville-Biltmore Circle K men
for their enormous efforts in the
planning of this convention.
matters. She has her own plans for
Estelle, played by Wendy Ander
son.
There are no flames, no thumb
screws, no torture racks in the Sartre
hell, and the principals obviously
would prefer these methods after
having 60 minutes at each other’s
throats.
Templeton, a veteran of the A-B
stage, does a fine job with the
Qadeau role, while Miss Campbell
and Miss Anderson, both first tim
ers on stage at A-B, prove quite
capable of their roles.
Between the three, they make a
perfectly believable dwelling place
for the damned out of "No Exit.”
Lawrence Lewis, as the bellhop in
Hades, seems far more at home than
the unwilling guests.
Sally Straine and Bob Jones were
scenery and lighting technicians.
Lewis also served as stage manager.