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''THE VOICE OF GASTON COLLEGE"
Vol. VII No. 4 GASTON COLLEGE, DALLAS, N.C. MAY 11, 1972
Gaston's Largest Class To Graduate May 28
Dr. Ben Fountain To Deliver Commencement Acldress
TWENTY-SEVEN WAGONS FULL OF COTTON- Bob Garrett, left, Elaine Bowen, and Paul Holman
take a curtain call after their highly successful performances in Tennessee Williams’s comedy of plantation
life, arson, and the “Good Neighbor Policy.”
Gaston's First Dramas Rated
For the first time this year
Gaston students had a chance to
see dramas acted by college
students and directed by Stuart
Dunsmore of the college English
Department. The plays, Thornton
Wilder‘s “Happy Journey To
Camden and Trenton” and
Tennessee Wilhams’s “27 Wagons
Full of Cotton,” were well
received by the audience at the
morning performances on April
25 and 27.
“Happy Journey” starred Judy
Mull, Don McIntosh, Evelyn
Davis, Mark Hyde, Beth Shrum,
and Joe Cline. All but Hyde and
McIntosh are Gaston student;
Hyde is a junior at Stanley High
School and McIntosh operates his
Studio of Dance in Mount Holly.
Both plays, despite obvious
Mr. Philip Galanti, of the
Math Department, wiU take an
educational leave during this
coming summer quarter in order
to study at the University of Oslo,
in Oslo, Norway. Mrs. Galanti wiU
accompany her husband on the
trip.
The Galaritis will leave for
Europe around the 12th of June,
since the school begins on June
22. This is a seven week program
with classes ending on the 5th of
August.
The school, which is known as
the International Summer School
at Oslo, is composed of 175
Americans and 175 people from
all over the world. All courses for
this particular summer school will
be taught in English. Galanti will
be taking courses in his minor,
which is education. The subject
matter will deal with a variety of
educational systems, and could be
termed comparative education.
Galanti will receive eight semester
hours of credit, and said that he
expects to have to write between
two to three research papers
during this seven week period.
Two of the eight hours will be
taken up by a compulsory course
in Norwegian culture. It will be
conducted by Norwegians in
English and will deal with
Norwegian history, its
background, and its educational
system.
The Galantis will be staying in
flaws, were highly successful.
In“Happy Journey” Beth Shrum,
who had only a small part near
the end of the production, was
clearly the show-stealer. She
delivered her lines with a natural
theatrical flair as she interpreted
the role of Beulah, the daughter
who had lost a child by
mischarriage, to near-perfection.
The strongest performance
throughout the work was Mark
Hyde’s Pa Kirby. At times his
acting was almost
too-underplayed as he entered the
role of the patiently hen-pecked
husband. The audience
thoroughly enjoyed the Art
Carney-like interpretation. Don
McIntosh pleased the crowd with
his wide-open characterization of
the somewhat brattish teen-age
a dorm for married students
during Mr. Galanti’s time at the
school. Since they have lived in
foreign countries for a total of 13
years, they are not going to sight
see as such but rather will spend
their free time visiting the
educational systems in foreign
countries which they will visit
after the course is completed.
During the three weeks after the
course is completed and before
they return home, the Galantis
will visit Mr. Galanti’s brother
who is president of Wroxton
College in England. Wroxton
College is about fifty mi'es
outside of London.
Since Galanti is fluent in
Italian and French, and English is
the second Language in Norway,
he commented that he did not
expect to experience any
difficulties resulting from the
language barrier.
Big Success
child of the Kirbys.
The major flaws in the
production were characteristic of
amateur productions. At times the
performers lacked sufficient
volume to be heard clearly
beyond the first two rows, and it
was this same lack of volume that
detracted from some of the most
moving scenes of the drama.
The minor defects, however,
did not detract significandy from
the overall impact of the drama.
The students worked hard,
performed well, and genuinely
pleased the audience. One of the
most pleasing elements of the
performance was that
immediately afterwards students
were asking how they could
become part of the college drama
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Campus Studio
Ready By May 3
The Gaston College television
equipment needed for the
operation of an on campus studio
has arrived and will be in use by
May 3, according to Bruce
Trammell, Gaston registrar and
co-ordinator of the program.
Purchased as a result of a federal
grant, the cost of the equipment
was in excess of $19,000. The
equipment will be available for
use by faculty members and
interested students.
The necessary equipment for
operation is on campus with the
exception of the video-tape
recorder, which is expected by the
first week in May. State
inspection of the equipment must
be completed before it can be put
into use. This inspection should
be made by May 3.
Dennis Perry and Mike Starr,
both of the Learning Resources
Center, plan to hold a workshop
for faculty members. At this
workshop, the use and potential
of the equipment will be
explained. It is anficipated that in
the near future a closed circuit
television set-up will be in
operation.
Among the many possibilites
for use of the equipment would
be the ability for f^aculty members
to video-tape regular commercial
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Over 300 Sfudents
Petition To Graduote
Dr. Benjamin Fountain, Jr.,
State President of the Department
of Community Colleges of the
State Board of Education in
Raleigh, will be the guest speaker
at Gaston College’s graduation on
Sunday, May 28, 1972.
The graduation will be held on
the west side of the newly
completed Industrial Building on
the platfrom in the back. If rain
forces the graduation indoors, it
will be held at North Gaston,
which is the old Dallas High
buUding.
The ceremony will begin at
4:00 in the afternoon, and a
reception honoring the graduates
and friends of the college will
follow the graduation. This
reception, to which all are invited,
will be held in the library of
Gaston College.
Bruce Trammell, Registrar of
Gaston College, has announced
that over three hundred students
have applied for graduation. He
noted that this number is the
largest by far of any graduating
class at the college. He said that
his office is now in reports for last
quarter. This new report lists all
of the student’s records, and any
Mills Announces
Exam Changes
Dr. Joseph Mills, Dean of the
Academic Division, has
announced that a new system for
final examinations will be
implemented on a trial basis for
this spring quarter.
At the end of the spring
quarter, no formal final
examination schedule will appear.
Instead The Academic Policies
Committee has voted to adopt an
informal schedule.
The three day period during
which formal examinations were
to have been given, (May 23, 24,
25), classes will meet at their
regularly appointed hours. At this
time instructors will have the
option of either giving no test or
any series of one hour tests/ they
might desire to give.
This means that instructors
have the option of de-emphasizing
final examinations if they want
to. However, Dr. Mills noted that
whether or not examinations were
given, classes must meet everyday
of this three day period.
Night classes will probably
receive their exams during the last
night of class. Monday through
Friday classes may be given
examinations on any combination
of Tuesday, Wednesday, and/or
Thursday, which the instructor
desires. Monday-Wednesday-
Friday classes will probably have
examinations on May 24, but an
instructor may include May 22, if
needed.
The only real difference in this
new system, from the one
previously used, is that final
examinations will be held on
regular class days at the regular
class time.
Dr. Fountain
error should be brought to the
immediate attention of the
registrar’s office. Trammell also
noted that there will be eleven
marshalls who will assist in the
graduation ceremony. These
marshalls are chosen on the basis
of q.p. (quality point) average.
These rising sophomores have the
highest q.p. averages in their class.
Dr. George McSwain, when
reached for comment, noted that
“The students are the ones who
planned this graduation.” The
Committee for planning consisted
of Robert Blanton, of the Social
Studies Department; Richard
Couch, president of the S.G.A.;
Mike Dawley; Mike Brown; Bob
Rhyne; and Bob Howard, Bruce
Trammell, and Dr. McSwain from
the administration.
This committee suggested the
speaker, location, time, as well as
discussing other aspects of
graduation. It was because of the
students that Dean Jones of
Gaston College will dehver both
the invocation and benediction
during the ceremony. Jones has
served as a chaplain in Viet Nam
on two tours of duty.
Richard Couch, president of
S.G.A., and a member of the
Committee which helped in
planning graduation, was
responsible for calling Dr.
Fountain and inviting him to
speak at the graduation exercise.
Dr. Benjamin Eagles Fountain,
Jr. is a native of Rocky Mount,
North Carolina, where he
attended public school. Dr.
Fountain has earned three degrees
from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hil!, including
the Doctorate which was awarded
in 1958.
Dr. Fountain’s entire life has
been spent in the field of
education. He has served as a
public school teacher, a principal,
a superintendent, and a professor
at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
From 1965 to January of
1971, Dr. Fountain was president
of Lenoir Community College in
Kinston. At that time he became
State President of the Department
of Community Colleges of the
State Board of Edcuation in
Raleigh.
Dr. Fountain is active in civic
and educational affairs, and he is a
member and elder in the
Presbyterian Church. Married to
the former Norma Fagan of
Jamesville, he is the father of four
children.
Galanti To Study In Norway