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Gardner-Webb College
Thursday, October 31,1974
BOILING SPRINGS, NORTH CAROLINA
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Parents Day Slated
For This Saturday
The United States Marine Band to be here November 4.
Marine Band
“The Red-Coats Are Coming!’
In 1775, that announce
ment was threatening for it
heralded the military ap
proach of the British troops.
Now, “Rally ’Round the
Red-Coats” is good news
and means that the red-
coated United States Marine
Band wiU arrive as a part of
the Presidentially approved
tour, for the more peaceful
purpose of presenting two
thrilling concerts.
The matinee and evening
concerts will be presented
with musical works by the
world’s finest composers,
marches, and solo per
formers which have brought
the Marine Band acclaim
from visiting dignitaries of
almost every country in the
world.
The band will give two
concerts. An afternoon per
formance is designed for
special groups, such as high
school bands, school groups,
residents of nursing homes,
special church groups and
others. This concert will be
held at 1:30 p.m.
The night concert will be
gin at 8 o’clock and will be
open to the public. Tickets
will be $3.00 in advance and
$4.00 at the door. All tickets
sold to the night perfor
mance wiU be reserved seat
tickets. G-W students will
be admitted by presenting
I.D. cards.
Both performances wiU be
held in the Bost Physical
Education Building.
Under the directorship of
Major Jack Kline, the Ma
rine Band is known to mil
lions of Americans through
its annual tours and its con
cert series in the Nation’s
Capital. The annual tours
originated under the direc
tion of John Philip Sousa in
1891 and have afforded
Americans living outside
the Washington area an op
portunity to see and hear the
world-famous band.
Given the title “The Presi
dent’s Own” by Thomas Jef
ferson, the Marine Band has
played for every inaugura
tion since. Created in 1798
by and Act of Congress, the
band has played for all offi
cial functions in theNation’s
Capitol and all important
history-making events in
this coimtry.
The personnel of the Band
includes musicians carefully
chosen from the nation’s
leading conservatories, uni
versities, symphony orches- '
tras and bands. To be ac
cepted in the Band, an ap
plicant must pass a
strenuous audition on his in
strument and be of such
character to pass ridig se
curity requirements of our
government
The Marine Band is the
only American military or
ganization still wearing the
red coats copied from the
British during the Revolu
tionary War. The Marine
Corps itself soon abandoned
the colorful coats because
they were conspicuous and
unsuitable during time of
war, but members of the
Band have worn the tradi
tional scarlet and gold uni
forms since its beginning.
The fuU dress uniform which
wiU be worn during the
Band concerts here consists
of blue trousers and a color
ful scarlet coat, decorated
with black braid, and white
shoulder ornaments. In the
Nation’s Capitol, this is
used during the Band’s
Washington concert pro
grams and for diplomatic
and patriotic occasions.
From that first Presiden
tially approved tour, which
incidentally makes the Band
the oldest professional tour
ing organization in the coun
try, the organization has
utilized everyday of the
time away from its Wash
ington headquarters by nor
mally playing two concerts a
day on weekdays and one
concert a day on Saturday
and Sunday, for forty-five to
fifty days. The tours, which
are made at no expense to
the taxpayer, have taken
them to 48 of the 50 states.
The annual Parents’ Day
at Gardner-Webb will be
held Saturday, November 2,
1974, beginning with a gene
ral meeting for the parents
at 2:00 p.m. and ending with
the home football game with
Mars Hill College at 7:30
p.m. Several informative
events have been scheduled
throughout the afternoon
for the parents.
Mr. Bob Decker, Sr., Pres
ident of the Parents Asso
ciation, will preside at the
parents’ general meeting in
Dover Chapel at 2:00. High
lights of the meeting will be
a student quartet (composed
of Steve Elmore, Rick Mar
tin, Gary Ballard, and
Randy Kirby), a general
business meeting of the Par
ents Association, and a
media presentation of the
Gardner-Webb campus.
Between 3:00 and 4:00,
with professors and college
administrators, or the John
R. Dover Memorial Library
and Craig Classroom Build
ing. There will be an open
house in the dormitories be
tween 3:00 and 4:00 also.
There will be a banquet in
honor of the parents in the
recital hall of O. Max Gard
ner Fine Arts Building at
5:00 p.m. Because of the at
mosphere of the occasion, it
will be a semi-formal affair.
Highlights of the banquet
wiU be music by the cham
ber chorus, and speeches by
Bill Barkley, Dr. E. Eugene
Poston, and Jim Edmonds.
Students will be able to get
into the banquet with their
7-day meal card, and they
are asked to stay for the
whole banquet.
The day’s activities will
end with a home football
game with Mars Hill College
parents will be able to visit at7:30p.n
Movie-'Tomb of Ligeia - Bulldog Room-9:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 31
^ovie-'The Thief Who Came To Dinner - Gym 8:00 p.m,
November 1
Bloodmobile - Bulldog Room
November 14
G-W Professor Receives
Duke Research Grant
Mr. James H. Rash, art
professor at Gardner-Webb
College, received a research
grant from Duke Power this
past summer. Mr. Rash has
been experimenting with
material that at one time
was considered useless.
He uses this material in
pottery, porcelains and
glazes. The material he has
been working with is waste
products and native mine
rals. He first began experi
menting with wood ash in
ceramic glaze, during his
college days at Clemson Uni
versity 15 years ago.
Last year Mr. Rash, Mr.
Max Moser, superintendent
I iissU
Oldtime Mountain Music Show
Dinner Concert 5:15 p.m. —Main Cafeteria—Thurs. Oct. 31
of Duke Power’s Cliffside
Stream Station, and Mr.
Wajme Beaver, a company
chemist, made some encou
raging discoveries by experi
menting with fly ash. Mr.
Rash, through study and ex
periments with the waste
product from the steam
plant, obtained enough evi
dence to request a research
grant to investigate further.
Mr. Rash believes that fly
ash can be used in the devel
opment of new and better
products which could im
prove our standard of living
as well as combat industrial
pollution. Fly ash may have
a potential for development
of petroleum by-products.
Mr. Rash is now working to
develop products such as
glazes, stains and fly ash
compounds which can be
used in ceramic glazes.
T’Ae research, which began
in the fall of 1973, is still ex
ploratory; it has not reached
the stage of proving or dis
proving any of the profes
sor’s basic theories.