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THE CECIL W. ROBBINS llBR/^i^
LOUISBURG COLLEGE
LOUISBURC, N.C. 27549
VOL. XXXV
LOUISBURG COLLEGE, LOUISBURG, N. C.
Friday, March 5, 1976
No.
LC Folk Festival Besins March 26
.OUISBURG - The sixth
LOUISBURG — The sixth
Annual Franklin County and
Louisburg College Folk Festival
is scheduled for March 26 and
March 27, at 8 p.m. each night, in
the College Auditorium. Con
testants are invited to participate
in fifteen categories; the second
night will offer championship
awards to the finalists of the
Friday, March 26, concert.
Special national or world
champions will appear as guests.
Among them are the Southern
Appalachian Cloggers from
Canton, North Carolina. They
have been the NMional Grand
Champions at the Mountain
Dance and Folk Festival in 1973,
1975, and 1976. They won first
place at the Union Grove Fid
dler’s Convention in 1973 and
1975. They also received honors
at the 17th International Folk
Festival in Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, and have been
recognized and endorsed by the
North Carolina Bicentennial
Commission.
Another guest musician will be
Buddy Pendleton, World
Champion Fiddler from Stuart,
Virginia, who for four con
secutive years has won ^the
World Championship at the Union
Grove Fiddler’s Convention. The
Pendleton String Band may also
accompany him. Pendleton has
toured with the Bill Monroe Band
and the Greenbriar Boys of New
York City.
Contestants or participants are
invited to write the Office of
Public Affairs and Publicity,
College Box 845, before March 17
for application forms to enter the
Festival. The categories are
string band, folk dancing, vocal,
guitar, banjo, autoharp, jew’s-
harp, fiddle, harmonica, man
dolin, dulcimer, and
miscellaneous. If you are a
contestant, you and two (2)
members of your family will be
admitted free both nights. All
others will be charged admission.
Advance tickets will be on sale at
the College Main 216 or at C and P
Music Company, downtown
Louisburg, at 209 East Nash
Street.
Schwartz Is
New Counselor
Richard Schwartz, a native of
Henderson, N. C. is Louisburg
College’s new counselor.
Schwartz, 29, did his un
dergraduate work at Stetson
University in Florida and is
currently doing his graduate
work at North Carolina Central
University.
His duties will include group
counseling as weU as counseling
on a one-to-one basis. Along with
his counseling services, he will
give personality tests, in
telligence tests and aptitude
tests.
New Officers
Are Elected
Student elections were held
during the third week of January
to fill the two unoccupied
positions of sophomore class vice
president and freshman class
secretary.
By defeating Greg Moore of
Smithfield, Claye Frank, a
Plymouth native, won the
sophomore vice presidency.
Frank succeeds Lorraine Kimrey
who along with former freshman
class treasurer Lisa Wilson was
removed from office during first
semester.
Stepping into the office of
secretary was Ruth Ann (Rudy)
Parker of Fayetteville. She ran
unopposed.
Want To Contribute?
The Literary Magazine,
published annually by Louisburg
College, is looking for con
tributions in poetry and short
story. If you write and would like
to contribute yours, please
contact Lynne Hurysz, Box 1516,
. Beth Thompson, Charles Hill, or
the advisor, Terry Pettit.
Paved Parking Lot... Just A Rumor
For all of you who have heard
the rumors about the paving of
the parking lot behind Merritt,
Wright, Kenan and Hillman
Dorms, you can assure your
selves that that all you heard
were rumors.
Billy Parrish, business
manager, told the Columns that
the money isn’t available.
Some students are wondering
where the money that they paid
for parking permits went to, as
well as the money they are
paying for fines. Until a year ago
this money was funneled into the
general fund of the College. After
student protests, a special fund
was set up for the excess money
derived from parking permits
and fines. These funds will
eventually be used to pay for the
paving of the lots. However the
salary of the person who issues
parking tickets and any expenses
for the upkeep of the present
parking lots are taken from this
money before it can be put into
the parking lot fund. There is
exactly $3000.00 in the parking lot
fund derived from last year’s
expenses.
According to Harley Dartt and
Steve Bunnell, president and vice
president of the SGA respec
tively, a member of the Board of
Trustees who owns a construction
company in Rolesville agreed to
pave the parking lot for expenses
only. It seems however, that it
could be a long wait. Figures
furnished by the business office
show the circular parking lot in
front of the main building cost
$18,000.00 and the lot behind
Patton Dorm cost $5,000.00. The
lot behind Patton was first paved
several years ago and has sincc
been resurfaced.
Parrish stated that the primar}
area to be paved when the money
is available would be the strip
behind Merrit, Wright and Kenai?
Dormitories. With the tremen
dous increase in the cost ot
materials and labor, one is able
to see from the cost of previous
paving projects that there is little
hope of any student who i£
presently enrolled here to be
using a newly paved parking ot in
the near future.