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LOUISBURG COLLEGE
LOUISBURG, N.C. 27549
VOL. XXVI
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C.,WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1967
No. 6
Glenn Miller Orchestra To Play At Anniversaiy Ball
William Arthur Speaks
On The Change In Youth
william B. Arthur, Editor of
LOOK Magazine, was the 180th
Anniversary guest speaker on
March 16. His topic was “Pat
terns of Change ”, a variation
of his original topic of “Chang
ing Patterns of Higher Educa
tion.”
During the course of his
speech, Mr. Arthur made only
one reference to the recent
serialization of William Man
chester’s Death Of A President.
He said, referring to Cowles
Communications Inc., the owner
of LOOK, that LOOK was “tak
ing Cowles to Manchester’ ’ dur
ing the height of the controver
sy. He mentioned that the cir
culation rose considerably dur
ing this time and read parts of
a letter form a subscriber who
was not getting her copies of the
magazine during this period. It
turned out that the subscriber
was the mother of William Man-
Chester, who was very Interest
ed in reading her son’s work.
From here, Arthur began to
elaborate on his topic of the
changing patterns in the world
today. He says the world Is In
a period of constant change.
There have been changes In
words, new nations throughout
the world have resulted from
this change, there have been
changes In beliefs and In ways
of living, until we now have so
cial changes taking place over
night. But, according to Arthur,
these changes are secondary.
“The greatest change of all is
the change In youth . . .Youth
everywhere is exploding into
action.”
Youth, their aspirations,
ideas, and beliefs is the pri
mary cliange, creating a gener
ation gap between themselves
and their elders. A gap that
parents find hard to understand,
but one that is much wider than
most people think. Students and
young people march alongside
Civil Rights workers and pro
test in Berkeley in an attempt
to get the changes they want.
But, only history will be able
to decide if these methods are
effective. Yet, this generation
gap is not an age gap, it is a
gap between youth and adults,
the way they look at themselves
and the world around them.
Mr. Arthur raised the ques
tion of what youth is really like.
He pointed out that 47% of the
population is under 25. He says
these young people are discon
tent with the way of life in the
U. S. today. They are skep
tics, feeling that it is not hard
work that enables a man to get
ahead. Youth live In a "sweat-
box.” With the launching of the
first Sputnik, we entered an
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The 180th Anniversary of
Louisburg College is being fur
ther celebrated by a formal ball
on March 23rd at 8:00 in the
cafeteria. The music will be
provided by the Glenn Miller
Orchestra under the direction of
Buddy DeFranco.
This orchestra was first es
tablished by the late Glenn Mil
ler over twenty-five years ago
and has been tops In popularity
almost from its start. The
present Glenn Miller Orchestra
has been playing for ten years
with equal success. It has play
ed in the United States from
coast to coast and has made two
concert tours of Europe and
three in Japan and the Far East.
State Fairs, Schools and Uni
versities are Included on its list
of concerts.
Buddy DeFranco, of Phlladel-
DeFRANCO
SHEPHERD
McPherson Resigns
S.G.A. Presidential Post
Arthur Speaking
Garland McPherson, the elec
ted President of the Student
Government Association, re
signed unexpectedly from office
this past Friday, March 17.
He is succeeded in office by
Sam Perry, who takes over the
Presidency of the combined
S.G.A. organization. He will
be replaced as Men’s Council
President by Bill Harles, the
elected Vice-President. De
tails concerning the resigna
tion are sketchy.
Asked to comment on the rea
sons for his sudden resignation,
McPherson said only that it was
the result of personal reasons
combined with the feeling that
he could not justifiably enforce
the rules of the school while
breaking some of them himself.
He preferred not to elaborate
on this. Harles, when asked for
his comments, said he had none,
except that the resignation was
quite a surprise to him. T. A.
Patterson, Dean of Students,
also had no comment to make
concerning the situation. When
asked his reactions to this, he
replied, “I have no reactions.”
McPherson was elected to his
position by the student body in
the spring of 1966. His job
formally began with the orien
tation period for Freshmen at
the opening of the 1966-67 school
year. Since then, the S.G.A. has
sponsored concerts, dances,
and the annual Sadie Hawkins
Day among other projects. He
Is on the Inner-Club Council and
has been Instrumental In getting
the council organized and mak
ing plans for next year.
According to Harles, there
will be no radical changes in
the running of the S.G.A. His
primary concern at the moment
is the upcoming elections for
next year’s officers.
Students Aid
Clothing Drive
For the last two weeks mem
bers of the student body have
been making clothes for child
ren in South Viet Nam. The
project got its start from Tom
King, a young man who worked
with an orphanage in South Viet
Nam. The project called for
300 garments. The group here
at Louisburg has made 17 dress
es and 12 pairs of shorts. The
students worked in Main Social
Hall two or three times a week
in the afternoons.
Those students who participa
ted in the project were: Phil
Mobley, Karen Mitchell, Becky
Willis, Bill Robie, Bonnie Turn-
age, Darlene Bennett, Francis
Guilford, Rodney Flint, Llndy
Anderson, Susan Simmons, Dan
Outlaw, and Nancy Wltherby.
Much credit goes to Mrs. Ste
phenson, Mrs. Ellis, and Mrs.
Mitchell.
phla, is not only the organizer,
but is also a clarinet player.
Clarinet has been the chief ex
ponent of the Miller music, thus
making it so distinctive from
other orchestras. DeFranco is
such an accomplished clarinet
player that he has made tours
from New York to Hollywood
playing as a soloist and has
even been a soloist in many
television and movie back
ground scores. He has also
played jazz at numerous fes
tivals and clubs and has also
served as a teacher for many
clarinet students throughout the
country.
DeFranco began playing the
clarinet at the age of nine, and
at nineteen he won a national
contest.
Although he had played under
such men as Johnny “Scat”
Davis, Gene Kruppa, Ted Flo
Rita, Charlie Barnet, Tommy
Dorsey, and Boyd Raeburn, he
says that Glenn Miller was the
greatest influence on him.
Their philosophies of music are
the same in that they feel that
musicians must “build an elo-
quency, a facility, and then say
something and mean It from the
heart,” and only through this
can good music be obtained.
With this philosophy. Buddy De
Franco has been the best clari
netist in America for the past
fifteen years.
Glenn Miller not only organ
ized the orchestra, but also
played a large part in organ
izing the Dorsey Brothers Or
chestra and arranged the band
of Ray Nobel, England’s top
orchestra leader, when he came
to the states. He soon left the
Dorsey Brothers and began
working with Ray Nobel. This
band, hand picked by Miller,
rose in fame to be equal in
standing to the Dorsey Broth
ers. As early as 1937, Miller
got his own orchestra together.
At the start going was rough,
but it did not take long for their
sounds to spread and become
very famous. In 1942 Miller
entered the Army as a captain,
and in 1944 he and his wife died
in a plane crash over the Eng
lish Channel; however, his pop
ularity remained.
Ten years after his music
stopped being created, as a re
sult of these events, a revival
took place and a movie was put
out called “The Glenn Miller
Story.”
The next leader was Ray Mc
Kinley, who led from 1956 to
1966 when he retired, and then
the Glenn Miller estate chose
Buddy DeFranco to take over
the direction.
It is under the leadership of
this world reknown musician
that the Glenn Miller Orchestra
with its piano, trumpets, bass,
drums, trombones and saxa-
phones Is coming to Louisburg
College.