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LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1968
No. 5
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Louisburg College Glee Club
Presents Christmas Concert
The Louisburg College Glee
Club presented a Christmas
Concert, under the direction of
Sarah Foster, on December 5,
1968, at 8:00 P.M. in the
Auditorium-Classroom Build
ing.
The sequence of the pro
gram gave the Christmas Story
in Music. The program was
divided into four areas with
each part emphasizing a parti
cular interest in the Christmas
season. The concert began with
the Prophecy and continued
with the Shephard and Angels,
the Nativity, and ended with
the Eternal King. The delight
ful program gave the audience
a religious feeling of Christmas.
Many of the carols sung were
from different language back
grounds and gave an additional
interest to the program.
The Chapel Choir sang four
songs relating to the Nativity.
Solos and decants were sung by
Kathy Fedderson, Allen Mine-
tree, Anne Nichols, Charlene
Thomas, and Glenna Wood.
For the past twenty-three
years, Sarah Foster has been
directing the Louisburg College
Choir. Her ability and interest
has added a great deal to the
Music Department of Louis
burg College. The Louisburg
College Choir and Chapel Choir
tour annually, and both groups
are known for their fine per
formances.
There will be another con
cert presented on May 1. The
public will be admitted with
out charge and invited to an
informal reception in the Art
Gallery immediately following
the concert.
The Sparkle
The first snow of winter
brings with it the sparkle of
Christmas, and that ^arkle
seems to set the world aglow.
The spirit of Christmas reaches
the hearts of all mankind re
gardless of age or location, and
a special kind of love fills the
air. You can almost feel the
tingle when the first carol is
sung. Christmas is a mbcture of
good things: bright lights, de
corations, food, singing, cards,
and presents. Yet these are the
least important. The most
wonderful thing about .Christ
mas is the fellowship that oc
curs among men. We want to
Dr. Winston To Speak Here
Louisbui^ College will pre
sent another outstanding lec
turer for the students and fa
culty on January 21. Dr.
Ellen Winston, the former head
of the department of sociology
at Meredith College, will be on
campus. She is a native of
North Carolina. Her service to
her home state includes many
contributions to the public
welfare field.
Dr. Winston is the first Unit
ed States Commissioner of Wel
fare. This position made her
head of the Welfare Adminis
tration in the Department of
Health, Education, and Wel
fare. The Bureau of Family
Services and the Office of Ju
venile Delinquency and Youth
Development were some of the
organizations under her leader
ship. After four years of ser
vice, Dr. Winston resigned to
devote her full time to the
social welfare policy.
Dr. Winston is a graduate of
Converse College, and received
her Ph.D. In sociology from the
University of Chicago. She has
also been awarded various
honorary doctoral degrees.
Among her positions and
offices held are: President of
Of Christmas
give and to share with those we
love, and at Christmas we love
everyone. All hate is pushed
aside and only goodness re
mains. What a shame this love
and kindness cannot last the
whole year through. What a
pity that the spirit of Christ
mas comes but once a year.
According to popular
thought materialism is casting a
dark shadow over the true
meaning of Christmas. But I do
not believe this is true. Buying
for others and giving them
things to make them happy is
only one way of expressing
love. It gives you a warm feel
ing inside to know that you
have pleased someone and a
grateful smile is all we need in
return. Money is not the im
portant thing. It’s the joy we
get in giving. Christmas is still
alive in the hearts of many, and
its true meaning will never die.
Christmas is a time to be
^ent with your family - a time
to sit in front of the lit Christ
mas tree and to be thankful
you’re together. And as “y’all”
go to your own little corner of
the world,-1 hope you will take
with you the spirit of Christ
mas that has been demonstrat
ed so well here on campus.
Dr. Ellen Winston
the American Public Welfare
Association, member of the
Board of Directors of the
Council on Social Work Educa
tion, and chairman of the
North Carolina Governor’s Co
ordinating Committee on
Aging.
Dr. Winston is the author of
several books. The majority of
her recent publications deal
with the social welfare policy.
Louisburg Teacher Honored
“An overwhelming round of
applause” - these were the
press words and this was the
response when on last May 17,
President Cecil W. Robbins pre
sented an honor plaque to Dr.
Ann Bluminfeld, now emeritus
chairman of the Department of
Foreign Languages at Louis
burg College.
Having become a member of
the college faculty in 1946, she
first made a distinctive contri
bution to the college In its
adjustmanet to the post World
War II era when ex-service men
were the majority of the entire
student body. Born in Essen,
Germany, having earned a doc
torate from the University of
Munich, and having held a re
sponsible post with the League
of Nations In Geneva, Switzer
land, she had a facility In lan
guages and a breadth of world
views that commanded a
unique regard, e^ecially
among her colleagues at the
college and among students
whose experiences had been
broadened by foreign service.
Also, she has expressed from
time to time the challenge of
fered her by eager, capable,
and mature minds of Gl-col'.ege
days. In return her own chal
lenge to them is implied not
only in view of the background
and career mentioned above,
but also of a further breadth of
study and experience: courses
in law and economks at the
universities of Erlangen and
Bonn, Germany; study at the
Geneve Institute of Inter-
(See BLUMINFELD Page 4)
Daily Thought
Walls
There is a wall in Germany
to keep Communism in.
There is a wall in Vietnam
to keep freedom in.
There is a wall in mankind
to keep Christmas in-but only
for some.