Thursday, October 30, 1975
COLUMNS
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America RFD ComesTo Louisburg
Jazz Ensemble To Perform
On November 17, the Louisburg
College Guest Recital Series will
present the East Carolina Con
temporary Jazz Ensemble.
This group was formed in 1972
by the current director Paul
Tardif and varies from 3 to 10
players. The present quartet
Classic To Be
Shown Here
On November 10, the Louisburg
College Cinema Art Series will
present the classic film, “The
Best Years of Our Lives.” This
fito, released in 1958, was the
winner of nine Oscars, including
best picture, best actor, best
director, writer, and supporting
actor.
^ovie portrays the
problem vetS' have readjusting
after returning from World War
II. It centers around the
frustrations and adjustments
experienced by three ser
vicemen. The three servicemen
are portrayed by Frederic
March, Dana Andrews and
Harold Russell. Rounding out the
cast are Myrna Loy, Teresa
Wright, Virginia Mayo, Hoagy
Carmichael, and Cathy O’Don
nell.
The movies will be shown at
College Auditorium in the AC
building at 8:00 p.m. Humanities
credit will be offered.
consits of Larry Dowdy-bass,
french horn; Mike Carney-
drums, vibraphone; Oscar
Smith-flutes, saxophone; and
director Paul Tardif-keyboards.
The ensemble has appeared at
UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke
University, the Intercollegiate
Jazz Festival, and the Frog and
Nightgown. In April of 1975 the
group made it’s debut on UNC-TV
educational television.
The group performs both
original compositions and works
of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis,
John Coltraine and Corea.
The concert will begin at 8:00
p.m. in the College Auditorium in
the AC building. Humanities
credit will be offered.
Cinema Art
Series Presents
^The Jazz Singer'
On Nov. 20, “The Jazz Singer,”
starring A1 Jolson will be shown
in the Louisburg College
Auditorium at 8 p.m.
This musical drama is one of
the all-time classics. It was the
first film to make with sound and
won a special academy award for
“marking an epoch in motion
picture history.”
“The Jazz Singer” was in
troduced on Oct. 6, 1927 on
Broadway. It was based on a play
by Samson Raphaelson.
The movie co-stars Warner
Oland, May McAvoy, Eugenie
Besser and Otto Lederer.
On November 19, “America
RFD,” a color film about country
America, will be presented at the
Louisburg College Auditorium in
the AC building at 8 p.m. It will be
presented by William Fran Hall.
“America RFD, a color film
about country America, will
sooon be viewed by local
audiences when photographer-
lecturer Fran William Hall
personally presents his film at
College Auditorium, at 8 p.m. on
November 19, 1975.
Currently, rural mail routes
are merely designated by
number but it all started before
the turn of the century as RF-
D...Rural Free Delivery. Today
no one in the USA need live
beyond the mail service, whether
it be at the bottom of a western
canyon or on an offshore eastern
island. In a unique color film,
Fran Hall goes along with the
rural mailman on his appointed
rounds, recording little known
points of interest and off-the
beaten-path bits of Americian
Heritage.
In eastern Kentucky, Columbus
Smith has delivered the mail
daily by horseback between
Jeptha and Dingus, seven miles
across the mountain and seven
miles back. In thirty-eight years
he wore out nine horses, all
named Bess! From McCall,
Idaho, Fran Hall flew with Bob
Fogg into the precipitious Salmon
River Canyon, bringing mail and
groceries to ranchers living along
the river seven thousand feet
below the canyon rim. At the
head of Deadfall Run in the hills,
of West Virginia, he met Jenes
Cottrill, one of the greatest of the
old time banjo players, who
spends his days making
whammydiddles and bullroarers.
Berne, Minnesota, is a town so
small it barely makes a wide spot
in the road, but each year an
annual Swiss festival is held
there. Native Swiss costumes are
worn and Swiss food is served. On
stage are Swiss singers, Swiss
bell ringers, Swiss food is served.
On stage are Swiss singers, Swiss
bell ringers, Swiss wrestling,
alpine horn blowing, and rock
tossing. At Hayward, Wisconsin,
the International Log Rolling
Championships take place, a
three-day affair with log rolling,
underhand axe chopping, chain
sawing, tree topping, and canoe
jousting. The event draws
loggers from all over North
America and even New Zealand.
Other highlights of the film
include ghost towns, River of No
Retip, glass blowing, Cisco
fishing, country auction,
sorghum mill. And with it all, the
people who live there: ranchers,
hill folk, river runners, string
band players, backwoods artists,
hermits, cowboys and Indians.
Here is the real flavor of
country America at its best...
floating the wild Yellowstone
River, from Livingston to
Billings, Montana; the great
Hambletonian trotting race at
DuQuoin, 111.; famour Wall Drug
Store in South Dakota; and
almost nothing at Podunk,
Iowa...all filmed by Fran William
Hall in his personally presented
pictorial of AMERICA RFD.
Nationally known through his
color films and lectures, Fran
William Hall shares his ex
plorations with platform
audiences across the nation.
After several years with the Air
Force in the field of electronic
engineering, he headed the
Department of Photography at
Carleton College in Northfield,
Minnesota, where he makes his
home. His speaking engagements
have taken him to most of
Canada and to every state in the
Union except Alaska. He has
served as a Walt Disney
photographer, working on the
film “Secrets of Life.” Fran
William Hall knows the world
well, having circled the globe and
having lived and traveled in more
than 50 different countries.
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Chaplain^s Corner |
Chapkiin Sidney Stafford is heading up to the
student branch of the Louisburg College Annual
F und Drive, Students are selling chewing gum
for contributions of one dollar or more a stick.
What’s this gum project we’ve
been hearing about? Well, it is
the participation by a students in
the annual fund drive of the
college for the first time.
Basically, we are trying to an
swer one question—how much
money can we raise on 5,000
sticks of gum.
What we are asking you to do—
is help us out! How—by taking
the gum home with you this week
end, by contacting friends and
church members to buy the
gum—for yes, $1 or more per
stick. Actually you can see the
“Selling” is just a gimmick
designed to get a donation. If you
would like to help out—please see
a member of the distribution
team headed by Linda Sykes in
the cafeteria before you leave
this weekend. Also, the gum may
be picked up in Mr. Stafford’s
office.
There will be a couple of prizes
given—the one who raises the
most money by distributing the
gum—and the one who gets the
most money for one stick of gum
will also receive a prize.
Many of your fellow students
are involved in this project.
Won’t you help out too? Pick up
your GUM before you head for
home this week end—and then be
ready for phase II of the sales
campaign next week—which will
be hitting downtown Louisburg,
Franklinton, Youngsville, and
other places in the county.
The Students on the Gum
Annual Fund are: Harley Dartt,
Bill Terry, Debbie Lewis, Vickie
Joyner, Lisa Wilson, Bryant
Richardson, Lorraine Kimrey, Jo
Anne Gentry, Fran Bridges, A1
Parker, Selma Creech, Susan
Spencer, Jay Cee Sanders, Kim
Ri^h, Carolyn Hawkins, Dianne
Williams, Debbie Tyson Joe Dee
Beasley, Linda Sykes, Sam
Register, Al' Parker, Julia
Stokes, Hank Barker, and Dee
Jay Worley,
We hope that you will help Uo
out!