Go^mns
VOL. -XXXIV
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1975
NO. 6
Alumni Day, Foik Festival Slated For Weekend
First Annual
Alumni Day
A ttractsMany
The Louisburg College Alumni
Association will hold its first
Alumni Day on Saturday, March
22 on the College campus. Among
the highlights of the day will be:
1. Silver Anniversary Reunion
of the Class of 1950
2. Reunion‘of Supply Pastors
3. Reunion of Baseball Players
4. An Alumni-Varsity tennis
match
5. A golf tournament at Green
Hill Country Club
6. A baseball game with
Western Maryland at 2 p.m.
Saturday afternoon
7. An Alumni Association
Business Meeting
8. A reception for the new
President of Louisburg College,
Dr. J. Allen Norris.
9. Group dinner and programs
10. An opportunity to tour the
campus and visit the new C. C.
Cockrell Music Wing, the B.
Everett Jordan Student Center,
the newly furnished science
laboratories, the newly decorated
Victor Small English Lab, and
the redecorated College
Auditorium.
Following the baseball game at
2 p.m., the business meeting of
the As^ciation will be held. This
will be followed immediately by a
reception for Dr Norris in the
Fine Arts Center.
Dinner will begin at 6:45 p.m.,
featuring a Baseball Banquet and
program for the evening meal.
Registration for the day will be
in the lobby of the Duke
Cafeteria. Those arriving Friday
night will be treated to the
Franklin County Folk Festival,
and those staying over until
Sunday can see ^e Hurricanes do
battle with the Western Maryland
team again that afternoon.
The Green Grass Cloggers
F oik F estival Attracts
Multitude Of Local Talent
Paul Baron’s Harmonica Rascals
Paul Baron’s Harmonicats
To Appear On April 12
For over thirty-four years,
Paul Baron’s Harmonica Rascals
have topped all acts in their field.
On Saturday, April 12, the world
famous “Harmonicats” will
appear in the LC Auditorium at 8
p.m.
The Harmonicats continue to
maintain and add to their
reputation as the outstanding
musical novelty act in the en
tertainment field. The Har
monica Rascals have often been
referred to as the “College of
Harmonica Virtuosos” because
of the great number of headliners
that have made their debut with
this group.
Paul Baron, leader and
arranger of the Harmonicats,
directs the group in a variety of
rollicking routines, including
hilarious comedy capers and
dazzling acrobatics. W course,
the Harmonicats also display and
play an amazing number and
assortment of Hohner Har
monicas. The smallest is a
minute one inch and the largest
ranges up to thirty inches.
The musical repertorie of the
group represents another side of
their brilliant showmanship, as
their selections range from
classical pieces to the hits of
today.
The highlight of the Rascals act
is the spirited rivalry between
leader Paul Baron and little
Shorty. Shorty struggles
throughout the evening to win his
rightful place in the spotlight, all
the while being rebuffed by other
members of the g^oup. Win or
lose. Shorty adds hilarious comic
antics to the act.
The Harmonica Rascals
continue to have successful
bookings in Las Vegas, Reno,
Tokyo, London, at State and
County fairs, and on radio and
television. They have recently
released an album, adding
another accomplishment to their
weU-deserved reputation as the
top Harmonica act in the
business.
Admission for adults will be
$3.00 at the door and $2.75 in
advance. Louisburg students will
be admitted for $1.50. at the door
and $1.25 in advance.
For those who enjoy the sounds
of banjo pickin’, guitar strum-
mm’, and just good ole foot
stompin’ music, attendance to
the Franklin County Folk
Festival in the LC Auditorium
will be quite a treat. All per
formers, professional or
amateur, will be of the highest
calibre.
One of the bands playing is the
Blue Grass Experience. The
group was formed by a former
LC student, Thomas Shelton
Edwards, and Leroy Savage of
Louisburg, while both were at
tending Ei^ Carolina University.
The Blue Grass Experience
won the World’s Champion
Bluegrass Band at Union Grove
in 1972.
The band has played at many
colleges and universities
throughout the South and also
appeared in concert with John
Hartford, David Bromberg,
Elizabeth Cotton and many other
folk music greats.
For those who enjoy sights
along with sounds. The Gree>
Grass Cloggers will also b
performing.
Closing is a fast, foot
stomping dance that originated t
accompany the southeri
Appalachian region. The pattern,
are simular to square dancing
The Green Grass Cloggers ar;
from Greenville, N. C. For th
past three years, they havp
performed at concerts, fiddlers;
conventions, and bluegras
festivals up and down the coast c
the Eastern United States.
In 1972 and again in 1974, tl:
Cloggers won the title of Worl
Champion Traditional Clogger
at Fiddlers’ Grove, Nort
Carolina.
These aren’t the only talen?
coming to Louisburg, became
many local townspeople an
college students will be pe*
forming.
There will be an admissic
charge to all for the Friday
March 21 concert. Showtime is
p.m.
Players To Present "^"^Browning Show
The Louisburg College Players
will present “The Browning
Show” on April 7-10 and 16-19,
“The Browning Show” will be a
production of oral interpretations
of Robert Browning and
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s
greatest poems. Theatre
manager SaUy Versteeg feels this
will be the biggest and best thing
the Players have ever done.
The women’s roles in the
monologues will be played by
Lynne Hurysz, a freshman from
Chapel Hill. The men’s roles will
be acted by Bob Versteeg,
Director of the LC Drama
Department. Barry T. Perry, a
commuting student from
Franklinton, will play the part of
The Man.
The production will include the
following of Robert Browning’s
poems: My Last Duchess, The
Bishop Orders His Tombe at St.
Praxed’s, The Pied Piper of
Hamlin, Evelyn Hope, the
Epilogue from Asolando, The
Italian in England, Home
Thoughts from Abroad, Andrea
del Sarto, Youth and Art, Along
the Beach, and Fra Lippo Lippi.
How Do I Love Thee? by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning will
also be given.
The production is designed to
bring Browning’s immortal
characters to life on the stage. By
bringing the poems off the page
and onto the stage, a gripping
theatrical experie»ice is created.
Other members of the Players
will be involved in costuming^
lighting, tickets, and other
phases of production. Sand»
Versteeg, an instrctor of Dramr
in the Franklin County public
schools, will direct the show.
Showtime for all performance
will be 7:30. LC students ar
admitted free through reserve?
seats. Admission for all others j
75 cents for students and $1.00 fc
adults.